The Story of a Great Delusion in a Series of Matter-of-Fact Chapters
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
EDWARD JENNER. From the statue by Monteverde.
THE STORY
A GREAT DELUSION
IN A SERIES OF MATTER-OF-FACT CHAPTERS.
By WILLIAM WHITE.
All the world assenting, and continually repeating and reverberating, there soon comes that singular phenomenon, which the Germans call Swarmery, or the “Gathering of Men in Swarms,” and what prodigies they are in the habit of doing and believing, when thrown into that miraculous condition....
Singular, in the case of human swarms, with what perfection of unanimity and quasi-religious conviction the stupidest absurdities can be received as axioms of Euclid, nay as articles of faith, which you are not only to believe, unless malignantly insane, but are (if you have any honour or morality) to push into practice, and without delay see done , if your soul would live!—Thomas Carlyle.
LONDON:
E. W. ALLEN, 4 AVE MARIA LANE.
1885.
William White
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PREFATORY.
VARIOLATION.
THE PRECURSOR OF VACCINATION.
IMMEDIATE TRIUMPH OF VACCINATION.
JENNER’S PROCEDURE.
HORSEGREASE COWPOX.
REJECTION OF JENNER’S PRESCRIPTION.
JENNER’S TRANSFORMATION.
HORSEGREASE COWPOX KEPT OUT OF SIGHT.
SPURIOUS COWPOX.
HORSE VIRUS VINDICATED.
WHICH SHALL IT BE?
SMALLPOX COWPOX.
CONDEMNATION OF SMALLPOX COWPOX.
COWPOX REVIVED.
A COWPOX CHARLATAN.
A DECOROUS UNANIMITY.
JENNER’S SUCCESSIVE DISCLAIMERS.
SMALLPOX MADE MILDER.
PUNCTURES, ONE OR SEVERAL.
MR. RIGBY’S PROTEST.
MR. (MARKS) MARSON.
MR. WHEELER’S RESEARCHES.
MR. ROBINSON’S OPINION.
CRUELTY OF MARKING.
REVACCINATION INTRODUCED.
VACCINISATION.
ABSURDITY OF REVACCINATION.
THE REDUCTION OF SMALLPOX.
HAS VACCINATION SAVED LIFE?
WHO ARE THE UNVACCINATED?
UNVACCINATED DEATH-RATES.
NURSES EXEMPT FROM SMALLPOX.
POCK-MARKED FACES.
VACCINIA A REAL DISEASE.
VACCINAL FATALITIES.
VACCINIA MODIFIED IN ITS RECIPIENTS.
STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF EXTRA DISEASE.
VACCINIA AGGRAVATES DISEASE.
ORIGIN OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION.
RESISTANCE, INFLEXIBLE RESISTANCE.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION AND VACCINATION.
CONDITIONS OF THE CONFLICT.
A WORD FOR THE AUTHOR.
L’ENVOI.
DR. GARTH WILKINSON’S CATECHISM.
VARIOLATION.
POCK-MARKED FACES.
