Excerpt from Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review, Vol. 4: The Organ of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination

Dm 'ever witchcraft itself, in its most extrava gant development, impose such a nightmare upon humanity Danger, disease, and death lurking everywhere, with a doctor at hand bearing salva tion in periodical and systematic inoculations! Such is the last revelation and prophecy of Science. In a world haunted with such terrors there would be a summary answer to the ques tion, Is life worth living P Nor health, nor length of days would have any charm on terms so despicable. The entire course of zymotic disease in any conceivable severity would be infinitely preferable.

Tim basis of this marvellous speculation, as to the new and multiplex salvation from a host of ailments, is vaccination, the preventive of small pox. It is the egg from which issues the men strous brood. Mr. Proctor assumes the claim made for vaccination as indisputable, and with such notes of ignorance that we are inclined to conjecture that his knowledge of the matter in question commenced with writing about it. For' example. He charges anti-vaccinators with un concern for the terrible mischiefs which have followed the attempts of their followers to escape from what they call legalised poisoning. Will Mr. Proctor specify the terrible mischiefs, giving place and date? Again, he charges some with arguing that vaccination has done more. Mischief than good, because so many weakly lives, which would otherwise have succumbed to the unmodified disease, have been saved. Will Mr. Proctor adduce evidence either of this saving of weakly lives, or of any one having questioned the good of saving them? Again, he is pleased to say that when there are outbreaks of malig nant small-pox, those who have seemed to agree with the anti-vaccinators are found singularly ready to seek the protection which vaccination afiords; and in America they are not only willing to be vaccinated themselves in such cases, but eager to pass municipal enactments for compulsory vaccination. It is not for us to answer for those who may object to vaccination out of indolence, but it is simply incredible that any who have dis covered the inutility of vaccination °and its perils, can surrender themselves to the superstition, and still less assist in subjecting their fellow-citizens to the cruel imposture.

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