Professional opinion adverse to vaccination : American, colonial and continental / [W.J. Furnival].

  • Furnival, W. J. (William James)
Date:
1906
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Credit: Professional opinion adverse to vaccination : American, colonial and continental / [W.J. Furnival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Ch.\rlks E. I’agk, M.D., Boston, r.S./V;— “Of all the stran<j^e things, humorous, pathetic and vile, in the history of medicine, many of them almost inconceivable, except, one would imagine, as the product of lunatic brains, there has never been anything more absolutely absurd, 1 nor anything nearly so harmful, so far-reaching, i in its evil effects on the public health, as vacci- I nation, which means under compulsory laws, the j poisoning of the life-blood of an entire race, f because, forsooth, a few indi^•iduals, here and f there, are bound to become so bodily-foul as to i have small-pox, a disease which such j)ersons [ will have, tho re- and re-vaccinated an indefinite ; number of times.” From the article on Vaccination in the h'ncyclopcedia Britannica we ‘ quote the following ;—“ Notwithstanding the fact that Prussia ^^'as the best re-vaccinated country ; in Europe, its mortality from smallpox in the f epidemic of 1871 was higher (69,839) than in any ' ()ther northern state. f V, “ .\t Cologne in 1870 the first unvaccinated • ])erson attacked with smallpox was the 174th ; that, is 173 vaccinated {)ersons had smallpox l)efore any unvaccinated person was attacked. . At Eeignitz in 1871 the first unvaccinated ]:>erson to have smallpox was the 225th ; 224 vaccinated ])ersons were attacked before the first unvacci- nated one was stricken.” “ 'There is not a single student of statistics of smallpox and waccination in this country or ’ Ifuro[)e but hold with the writer, that vaccina- j tion has absolutely no raison d’etre, except in the