Doctors, vaccination, and utilitarianism.

  • Constable, H. Strickland (Henry Strickland), 1821-1909.
Date:
1873
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    intellectually, the highest apes are superior to the lowest men, because they do not practise infanticide, nor tell lies. But if Dr. Wilkinson is right, it is not only the lowest men who practise infanticide. I must say I think his mode of computation not an unfair one. He says, that although a few doctors may not know of any fatal case, on the whole, each medical man in the country knows of at least two or three deaths, either directly or indirectly from Vac- cination. From what has come under my own observation, I cannot doubt that he is much under the mark. Now if three be multiplied by the number of doctors who have practised in the country during the last forty years, the resulting figure must be a high one. Dr. Hitchman, formerly a public Vaccinator at Liverpool, said in his evidence before the committee, I have seen hundreds of children killed by Vac- cination. Dr. Collins said that he sacrifices £500 a year, by Evidence refusing to Vaccinate, and that in consequence of Vaccina- the numerous fatal results he had witnessed. I learn from Dr. Pearce, that in 1862, Dr. Marone published an account of many deaths from Vaccina- tion, which he had not dared to publish earlier, asked them for a name that would best represent a being to be reverenced and worshipped, he could get nothing but that of a cele- brated medicine man, who had been dead a hundred years, and who went by the name of crooked-knee. When he came to the other word, and asked what feeling gave them the noblest and most exalted sensation of mind of which they were capable, their answer was The taste of meat in a state of half-decomposition, tion.