Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination : a special article / [Kenneth W. Millican].
- Millican, Kenneth William, 1853-1915.
- Date:
- [1907]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mr. Elbert Hubbard on vaccination : a critical examination : a special article / [Kenneth W. Millican]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![order to be happy hereafter; and in order to be happy hereafter you must be idle, have all the things that had been withheld from you and which bad people here enjoy, including the idleness. The irrelevance of this proposition is, we imagine, altogether too obvious to need ex- tended comment. The religious opinions, whether sound or unsound, whether credible or absurd, of the men who “invented” vaccination, are a ques- tion of views, and therefore susceptible of argument, not demonstration; whereas the history of the discovery and testing of vacci- nation and the weight of evidence as to its prophylactic value against smallpox are ques- tions of fact to be met by demonstration, not argument. [Erratum. In our first instalment of this ar- ticle. page 19, we stated that “all (save one who lost his own life in the cause) were alive to go into the witness box.” This was an over- sight. Dr. Reed, also is dead. By “actors,” of course, we meant actors, not passive sub- jects, several of whom are dead.] Mr. Hubbard now enters upon the quasi- scientific side of his remarks. He says: Inoculation by cowpox virus as an immunity for smallpox, causes a disease called vaccinia. This proposition is conceded. 1 hat vaccinia is a reduced or mild form of small- pox is a barren [sic! assumption—the germ of small- pox, unlike the typhoid germ, never having been discovered. We presume the author means a “bare as- sumption,” but in any event the conclusion is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2247982x_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
