Vaccination tracts
1877, First Edition. London : William Young. Good copy only in gilt-blocked brown cloth over bevelled boards, now slightly dust-dulled. Corners and endbands somewhat rubbed, with spine sun-faded. Front hinge broken, with the covers pivoting on the rear joint. Text block remains tight, with some scattered foxing and sparse annotations. A very serviceable copy overall. Provenance: copy of the Gainsborough & District Liberal Club. Item #461627
Physical description; 1 volume (various pagings) ; 17 cm. Notes; Sixteen parts, each having special title page and separate pagination, except the last tract which has caption title only. Contents: Preface and supplement (1879) — No. 1. Letters and opinions of medical men (1877) — No. 2. Facts and figures showing that vaccination has failed to stamp out, arrest, or mitigate small-pox (1877) — No. 3. Opinions of statesmen, politicians, publicists, statisticians, and sanitarians. No. 1. 2nd ed. (1879) — No. 4. Opinions of statesmen, politicians, publicists, popes, statisticians, and sanitarians. No. 2. (1877) — No. 5. Cases of diseases, suffering and death reported by the injured families (1877) — No. 6. The vaccination laws a scandal to public honesty and religion. 2nd ed. (1879) — No. 7. Vaccination, a sign of the decay of the political and medical conscience in the country (1877) — No. 8. The propagation of syphilis to infants and adults by vaccination and re-vaccination (1877) — No. 9. Vaccination evil in its principles, false in its reasons, and deadly in its results (1877) — No. 10. Vaccination subverts dentition, and is a cause of the prevalent deformity and decay of the teeth (1877) — No. 11. Compulsory vaccination a desecration of law, a breaker of homes and persecutor of the poor (1878) — Nos. 12-14. Historical and critical summary in three parts (1878) — The fable about the hospital nurses saved from small-pox by re-vaccination (1880). Subjects; Vaccination Great Britain History 19th century Sources. Anti-vaccination movement Great Britain History 19th century Sources. Smallpox Vaccination Great Britain History 19th century. Public health Great Britain History 19th century Sources. Medical ethics Great Britain History 19th century.
Price: €125.00