Anti-vaccine history

For those of you who believe the anti-vaccine movement begun in the last few decades, think again. Find below the non-exhaustive list of historical publications, written by esteemed doctors, surgeons, scholars, researchers and scientists. Vaccination failure had been observed since 1818 and the anti-vaccine movement begun shortly after compulsory vaccination laws became enforced. Despite this, it is only since the late 1980s, early 1990s that adverse effects began to be officially registered through a centralised system.

Do your own research and don't be fooled into thinking that every anti-vaxxer is anti-science.

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

– Dresden James (1931-2008)

1885
The Story of A Great Delusion / 324 pages
William M. White

"The promise of vaccination, its absolute security and harmlessness, was speedily belied (disproved). The vaccinated caught smallpox; they fell sick after the operation; they were afflicted with eruptions and swellings; they died. These mishaps were at first denied—stoutly denied; and when denial was no longer possible, it was attempted to explain them away."

https://archive.org/details/storyofgreatdelu00whitrich


1875-1889
Encyclopaedia Britannica – 9th edition – Vol XXIV 
Charles Creighton M.A., M.D.

"The risks of vaccination may be divided into the risks inherent in the cowpox infection and the risks contingent to the puncture of the skin. Of the latter nothing special requires to be said;; the former will be discussed under the five heads of (1) erysipelas, (2) jaundice, (3) skin eruptions, (4) vaccinal ulcers, and (5) so-called vaccinal syphilis."

http://www.whale.to/a/creighton4.html

1893
Leprosy and Vaccination / 124 pages

William Tebb

"Dr. John Murray, Inspector- General of Hospitals London, in a communication to Dr. P. 5. Abraham, Secretary of the National Leprosy Fund, June 9th, I 890, says: “I consider that it (leprosy) is communicable from the sick to those that are well, probably through a broken surface, as an ulcer or wound, and that it may be communicated by inoculation.”

http://www.whale.to/v/tebb/tebb.html



1889
Jenner and Vaccinations – A Strange Chapter of Medical History / 376 pages
Charles Creighton M.A., M.D.

"When vaccination was passing through a storm of adverse criticism during the smallpox epidemic of 1805, Jenner wrote to one of his friends, that nothing of that kind ever shook his faith in cowpoxing."

https://archive.org/details/b21357067




1889
Vaccination – Proved Useless & Dangerous from 45 years of registration statistics / 54 pages
Alfred Russell Wallace LL.D. D.C.L. OXON., F.R.S.

"On careful inspection it will be seen that on three separate occasions a considerable increase in vaccinations was followed by an increase of Small-pox. Let the reader look at the Diagram, and note that in 1863 there was a very great number of vaccinations, followed in 1864 by an increase in Small-pox mortality."

https://archive.org/details/b2136140x

1889
History and Pathology of Vaccination – Vol I & II / 1000+ pages
Collection of essays edited by Edgar M. Crookshank, M.B

“I found that both official and unofficial vaccinators were completely occupied with the technique of vaccination, to the exclusion of any precise knowledge of the history and pathology of the diseases from which their lymph stocks had been obtained.”

https://archive.org/details/historypathology02crooiala

1895
The Vaccination Question 
Arthur Wollaston Hutton M.A.

"Here is a question which even the Lancet admits to be "difficult and momentous." There have always been medical men disbelieving in vaccination, and their number to-day is rapidly increasing all the world over."

https://archive.org/details/b20398554

1898
A Century of Vaccination and what it teaches / 466 pages
Scott Tebb, M.A., M.D., D.P.H.

"....the efficacy of this operation has been called in question by competent men, while its risks, so long denied, are now on all hands admitted. Can it be said that the Jennerian doctrine of vaccination has ever been placed on a truly scientific basis?"

https://archive.org/details/39002011125979.med.yale.edu

1898

Vaccination A Delusion – Its Penal Enforcement a Crime / 47 pages
Alfred Russell Wallace LL.D. D.C.L. OXON., F.R.S.

"....a large portion of the medical profession accepted, as proved, that vaccination protected against a subsequent inoculation of small-pox, when in reality there was no such proof, as the subsequent history of small-pox epidemics has shown."

https://archive.org/details/b21356336

1900
Compulsory Vaccination: a curse and a menace to personal identity / 344 pages
J.M. Peebles M.D., PhD

“The vaccination practice, pushed to the front on all occasions by the medical profession, and through political connivance made compulsory by the state, has not only become the chief menace and gravest danger to the health of the rising generation, but likewise the crowning outrage upon the personal liberty of the American citizen.”

https://archive.org/details/vaccinationcurse00peeb

1902

The Vaccination Superstition
John W. Todge

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/hodge_b.html

1904
The Protest of an Anti-vaccinist
Edwin Cox

1905
A Summary of the Proofs That Vaccination Does Not Prevent Smallpox but Really Increases It
Alfred Russell Wallace LL.D. D.C.L. OXON., F.R.S.

http://www.whale.to/a/wallace.html








1911
The Fallacy of Vaccination / 16 pages
John Pitcairn

https://archive.org/details/39002086344604.med.yale.edu








1912
Leicester: Sanitation Versus Vaccination / 141 pages
J.T. Biggs

https://archive.org/details/b28056176














1913
The Crime of Vaccinations
Dr. Tenison Deane

"Bacilli are the product and not the cause of any disease. To claim that a bacillus is the cause of a disease, that it is the specific bacteria producing a special disease, is preposterous. Bacilli are found everywhere in every kind of dead and decomposed organic matter. "

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/deane_b.html

1923
Truth – Sanitation v. Vaccination
Dr Walter Hadwen J.P., M.D., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.

"I should imagine that he (Jenner) was one of those unscientific researchers who, like the spiritualists, are on the look out for facts to fit their theories, instead of first making sure of their facts. His methods were those of the quack, but of the self-deluded quack. But how any real scientist can accept his theories to-day seems astounding, except under the supposition that they have been supported by later and more conclusive experiments."

http://www.whale.to/v/hadwen1.html

And that is just a selection from before 1930!

"It is pathetic and ludicrous to say we ever vanquished smallpox with vaccines when only 10% of the population was ever vaccinated."

– Glen Dettman A.M.M., BA, Ph.D.

Professor McIntosh remarked in the Lancet in 1926:

"Scientifically it cannot be disputed that from every point of view the injection of virus capable of multiplying in the body of the individual is bad."

A BIG THANK YOU to archive.org, the internet, medical journals and all the first-hand account testimonials.