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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    ADVERSE TO VACCINATION; AMERICAN’, COLONIAl, €~ CONTINENTAL. UNITED STATES. OP AMERICA. ].)r. Martix Frikdrich, M.D., (Upaltii Oppict-r OP tup: City op Clp:vi:lani), ()., I'.S.A.) — “'I'wo years ago tliere was a general complaint among medical men that the (yaccine) virus did not take, and a clamour was raised by the pro- fession for (vaccine) points that would take, d'he manufacturers seem to have yielded to this pres- sure, and sent out points which arc active. Last year I was offered saniples of points with a ver- bal guarantee that every one woidd work. I tried one of them. It “took,” but oh, what an arm! I had to console the poor mother with the usual subterfuge that it was a splendid “take,” that her boy surely would have had smallpox if he had come in contact with it, and that he would have had it badl}-. ■