The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review, Vol. 3: The Organ of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination; April, 1881, to ... April, 1881, to March, 1882 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review, Vol. 3: The Organ of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination; April, 1881, to March, 1882

In 1841, while I lived in Dorchester, Mass., we had a baby vaccinated by Dr. Mulliken, the pustules being pronounced by the doctor all right; but she never recovered, and died after three years of suffering, the most pitiable object I ever beheld. The death occurred in Boston, while we had Dr. Walter Channing as our physician. His opinion was clear that the deplorable disease was' caused by the bad lymph used; but as he behaved in vaccination, and thought good and pure lymph could be obtained, we had other children vaccinated, down to 1847, by him. About that time I began to have serious doubts of the value of vaccination, and I think Dr. Channing had some too, for in communicating mine to him he no longer pressed the matter of vaccinating the babies he helped into the world in my famil and the four youngest were not vaccinated. 1860, when we had ten living, in the most crowded part of the city, all the younger and some of the older were exposed to a bad case of small-pox. All the children, except the oldest boy, were taken down at nearly the same time, and the two youngest, twins, at the age of seven, died, within a week of each other. Two of the unvaccinated recovered, one very badly marked and the other not perceptibly.

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