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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40

Letter From F. W. Newman, Emeritus Professor

Letter From F. W. Newman,

Emeritus Professor.
Dear Sir,—Thanks for your letter of information. The medical vaccinationist men, either ignorantly or basely, always neglect to notice:—
1.Our arguments from Moral Bight;
2.Our arguments from Constitutional Right;
3.Our arguments of a decisive character from their own statistics. Under the last I specify—
(a)Years of prevalent small-pox are not years of increased mortality. This one fact settles the controversy against them;
(b)Illness and Death by small-pox has increased since they made Vaccination compulsory;
(c)Vaccination, so-called, induces other diseases, and they are helpless to prevent it;
(d)They, themselves, recommend vaccination to be repeated, and cannot tell how often it is needed, for their own statistics force them to admit that its preventive force may not stand out against an Epidemic next year. When to this we add
(e)That they refuse even to experiment the methods of treating small-pox, which are alleged by actual trial to make the disease very tractable by certain herbs, by hot baths of water, or by hot air, persisting themselves in the old methods, which lead them to believe small-pox to be an awful danger instead of a salutary event of evil;
(f)They take no means to investigate the vera causa of small-pox with a view to prevent it in the only common-sense way;page 23
(g)That their predecessors who spread small-pox by Inoculation, and Jenner, who believed that small-pox after vaccination was impossible, have alike been proved wrong by fact.

My belief is that the present Parliament will condemn compulsion if the whole case be laid before it.

We must refuse all compromise. I enclose a cheque of £1 1s, as contribution of Paris International Anti-Vaccination Convention.—Signed,

To William Tebb, Esq., Dec. 25th, 1880.

Vignette

P. W. Newman.

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