Doctor’s Quotes Erased from History

Smallpox. It was once believed that this disease could be defeated by repeatedly scratching people’s arms with material from the sores of someone infected with smallpox—a procedure known as inoculation. Smallpox inoculation began in 1721 and was widely celebrated at its introduction as one of the greatest medical discoveries and a well-established fact in medical science. Despite being initially hailed as a completely harmless invention, inoculation had a 2-3% fatality rate.

References:

Frederick F. Cartwright, Disease and History, 1972, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, p. 124.

John Forbes, MD, FRS, ‎Alexander Tweedie, MD, FRS, and ‎John Conolly, MD, “Sketch of the State of American Medicine Before the Revolution,” The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, 1845, pp. 231–242.
John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner, pp. 490–491.

“Smallpox and the story of vaccination,” www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

“Multiple site vaccination of 1898, showing a ‘typically good arm,’” Derrick Baxby, “Smallpox Vaccination Techniques; from Knives and Forks to Needles and Pins,” Vaccine, vol. 20, no. 16, May 15, 2002, p. 2142.

“Hideously sore vaccination arm,” F.G. Attwood MD, “Vaccination,” The New York Medical Journal, December 2, 1899, p. 803.

“About one in ten of all vaccinated have bad arms, with a high grade of fever,” William Scott Tebb, MA, MD, DPH, A Century of Vaccination and What It Teaches, Second Edition, 1899, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., London, p. 373.

Charles Maclean, MD, On the State of Vaccination in 1810, London, pp. 101, 103.

Thomas Brown of Musselburgh, Surgeon, An Investigation of the present Unsatisfactory and Defective State of Vaccination, 1842, pp. 136–137.

Terrible Results of Vaccination: TESTIMONIES concerning Vaccination and its Enforcement: by Scientists, Statisticians, Philosophers, Publicists, and Vaccine Physicians, 1892, Providence, Snow & Farnham, Printers, pp. 13–14.

William Hycheman, MD, “Small-pox and Vaccination,” The Medical Tribune, February 15, 1879, vol. I, no. 4, pp. 172–175.

“Medical Opinion on Vaccination,” Journal of Hygeio-therapy, vol. II, no. 2, February 1888, p. 35.

“John Le Gay Bereton, Esq., MD, MRCS, LAC,” New South Wales, Compulsory Vaccination, Presented to the Parliament by Command, September 20, 1881, Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, pp. 1043–1046.

Robert A. Gunn, MD, “The Truth About Vaccination,” The Sanitarian: A Monthly Magazine, vol. XXVII, 1891, New York, pp. 553–554.

M. Deschere, MD, “Vaccination before the Tribunal of History,” North American Journal of Homeopathy, November 1883, pp. 190, 192.

George William Winterburn, PhD, MD, The Value of Vaccination: A Non-partisan Review of Its History and Results, 1886, pp. 42–43.

J. M. Peebles, MD, MA, PhD, Vaccination a Curse and a Menace to Personal Liberty, Tenth Edition, 1913, p. 8.

Simon L. Katzoff, MD, “The Compulsory Vaccination Crime,” Machinists’ Monthly Journal, vol. XXXII, no. 2, February 1920, p. 109.

Joe Shelby Riley, MD, MS, PhD, Conquering Units: Or The Mastery of Disease, 1921, pp. 883–4.