... However,itis worthy of note that whereas formerly it was claimed for vaccination by its advocates that it would stamp out small-pox, the terms of the resolution only claim that it controls that disease, a qualification of the case which would seem to ...

... to pass without comment. I ill put one question to your intelligent readers, including Mr Sheen. Does vaccination prevent small-pox ? I maintain it does not. It is a system that has been fairly tested for a hundred years by the people of this country, and ...

... effect in checking that efficient vaccination which is so necessary to the control of amall-pox. The protection against small-pox is undoubted, but to those who have not yet made up their minds on this point I would recommend a perusal of an admirable ...

... permission to keep children in ignorance ought to be granted for half-a-crown, since ignor- ance is not catching, while small-pox is. It has been said that Ireland and Scotland have no provisions for repeated fines. This is an error. The new law upsets ...

... considerable number of persona have set it openly at defiance, alleging that, not only does vaccination fail to prevent small-pox or mitigate its ravages, but that it often in- troduces into the system the germs of diseases even more fatal, more loathsome ...