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

  • Furnival, W. J. (William James)
Date:
1906
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    ing 320 infants and adults, took place in the Isle of Rugen, North Germany, particulars of which may be found in the third and sixth Reports of Royal Commission on Vaccination We, also, find that “ glycerinized calf-lymph ” is em- phatically condemned by so high an authority as Sir George Buchanan, M.D., F.R.S., as recorded in the Translations of the Epidemio-logical Society ; and by The Indian Lancet as “septically dangerous ; ” by Dr. Wilson in the Journal of the American Medical Association (May loth, 1902,) as causing a “greater tendency to sloughing”; and by German authorities (quoted editorially in the British Medical Journal of July 5th, 1902,) to the effect that these “ bacteriologically sterile ” stocks so boasted are just the ones in which “nine- tenths of all the cases of intense reaction ” are found “ I^ure Glycerine added to vac- cine lymph ” declared Lord Lister, “ Kills all adventitious microbes,” or as Dr. S. M. Copeman terms them “extraneous micro-organisms” . . . . But in view of the fact that the specific micro- organism, if such there be, of vaccine “lymph” has not been discovered, isolated or differentiated, and is therefore only hy])othetical, the use of these terms (extraneous and adventitious) by Lister, Copeman and others, is nothing but pure assump- tion on their part; a mischievous pretence to know- ledge which nobody possessed Cfinsidering that vaccine has no known microscopic or cliemical characters of its own, one is amazed to find men who have professional reputations to lose, making such indefinite assertions.”—(Battle of the Vac- cines; reprinted from Modern Medical Science^ Dec., 1902.)