Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination : with index, distinguishing by an asterisk such as treat of animal (cow, horse, or calf) lymph, without reference to arm to arm vaccination / London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination.
- London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination
- Date:
- [1882]
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Credit: Testimonies of medical authorities on vaccination : with index, distinguishing by an asterisk such as treat of animal (cow, horse, or calf) lymph, without reference to arm to arm vaccination / London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![out to be due to anything but this compulsory vaccination of children in shoals, without discrimination. Such a thing could not happen in France or Ireland, where dispensary men are careful, conscientious, and well-educated ; men who vaccinate half-a-dozen infants, perhaps, in a week,—not a hundred higgledy-piggledy by Act of Parliament. The mere crowding together of the children is a source of disease in itself. We have inspectors, who inspect after the harm is done; but what we want is less inspecting, and better preparation of the children for the operation, and an accurate and good vaccine lymph.—Charles Kidd, M.D., Sackville Street. Anti-Vaccinator, Oct. 2nd, 1869. *Dr. M. G. EVANS, M.D., Public Vaccinator for 16 years. Narberth, 1869. Animal vaccination has been extensively tried on the Continent, and may have many good points about it; but competent judges affirm that the lymph obtained direct from the heifer acts too violently ; and where could parties be found willing to supply heifers to keep up a stock of lymph 1 It is well known that in this country much more attention in general is devoted to the health of those animals, than is bestowed upon the health of the children of their proprietors, and who would not, for a small consideration, permit their stock to be operated on. Again; would it be justifiable to introduce into the system of animals a virus said to reek with the stamp of a curse,, which animals (at some future date) are inevitably destined to become the food of man ? Assuredly not. The idea is as loathsome as it is impracticable.—Anti-Vaccinator, October 23rd, 1869. *Dr. STOWELL. [Twenty-five years a vaccine practitioner.] The nearly general declaration of my patients enables me to proclaim that vaccination is not only an illusion, but a curse for humanity. More than ridiculous—it is irrational to say that any comipt matter taken from boils and blisters of an organic creature, could affect the human body othenvise than to injure it. First, it was asserted that vaccination protected for life. When this proved a failure, re-vaccination in every seventh year was proposed ; but this also failed. Then there was a want of sufficient cow-pox. Well, cows were inoculated with human pox, and the suppurated matter produced by this operation was called pox-lymph, fresh from the cow. This bastard poison is D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22411549_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
