Sir Lyon Playfair taken to Pieces and disposed of: likewise Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart.: being a Dissection of their Speeches in the House of Commons on 19th June, 1883, in defence of Compulsory Vaccination. Second Edition. 6th thousand. 1s.
“It is a very dainty pamphlet of two hundred pages, so printed that it is a luxury to read. There are six pages of index, which will give some idea of its fulness of matter. Mr. White does all his work in a workmanlike way, and this work is no exception. He gives the two speeches of Playfair and Dilke in full, and fully answers them. They are literally taken to pieces and disposed of. Read William White on Playfair and Dilke. It is the end of controversy. Reply is impossible.”—Herald of Health.
“Mr. White has done what has never been done before,—that is, he has taken to pieces Sir Lyon Playfair’s speech, analysed his arguments, and exposed much of what is untrustworthy. The book ought to be in the hands of all who desire to understand the question of Vaccination.”—Newcastle Weekly Chronicle.
“This is a clever and most reasonable criticism and overhauling of Playfair and Dilke’s opinions, of which the best idea can be gained from a study of the book itself, which will be found complete in every detail.”—Brighton Gazette.
“The official vindication of vaccination was contained in Sir Lyon Playfair’s speech backed up by Sir Charles Dilke, and Mr. White has taken the various points of both speeches, item by item, and has replied to them with a clearness and effectiveness which must go far to shake the foundation of vaccination itself; whilst, in our view, it effectually disposes of the plea for compulsory vaccination.”—Northamptonshire Guardian.
“Anti-Vaccinationists will gloat over these pages. It is said that anything can be done with figures. We certainly at the time thought that Sir Lyon Playfair showed they were in favour of vaccination. On reading Mr. White’s book we are just as keenly impressed with an opposite view. We recommend the work to our readers.”—Eastern Daily Press.
“A remarkably well-written book by a practised hand. The subject is an unlovely one, and the proverbial ‘both sides’ have much to say; but this book ought to interest, amuse, and inform both sides. It everywhere tells of patient thought, industrious research, and a keen mind.”—The Truthseeker.
Alfred Russel Wallace, LL.D.
Author of The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-Utan and Bird of Paradise, 1869; Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, 1871; The Geographical Distribution of Animals, 1876; Island Life, or The Phenomena and Causes of Island Faunas and Floras, 1880; Land Nationalisation, its Necessity and Aims, 1882; etc.
To Members of Parliament. Forty-Five Years of Registration Statistics; proving Vaccination to be both Useless and Dangerous. 6d.