... sounded a rattle, and after crying the sale, exclaimed:— All goods to be sold are guaranteed to be unvaccinated, and free from smallpox. None need fear contamination. God save the people. This caused great amusement, and many flocked to the sale. The arrange- ...

... scruples. Further, vaccination saved no lives at all. A better class of medical men was now springing up, who strongly held that smallpox could never be stamped out by vaccination, but that it could and would be eradicated by sanitation. A favourite phrase in ...