It Took Two Months and Nearly a Million Dollars to Save an Unvaccinated 6-Year-Old From Tetanus

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36. One of Gutenberg.org recent acquisitions in e-books was an anti-vax book from that era...

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I didn't download it so can't recall the title, but it's out there all right.*

Nonetheless, Smallpox vaccinations of a sort have been around a couple of centuries, afaict. I remember reading of a British family (stationed somewhere in the Near East) in which the wife availed herself of treatment given by a local midwife who used a sewing needle scratch to transfer matter from a pustule to the healthy woman. She became pretty sick with a fever, but did not get full-blown smallpox, and was thereafter immune. It was risky, but not as risky as falling sick in an epidemic.

* Found it.


Vaccination a Delusion
Its Penal Enforcement a Crime:
PROVED BY THE OFFICIAL EVIDENCE IN THE REPORTS
OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION
BY
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
LL.D. DUBL., D.C.L. OXON., F.R.S., ETC.
1898

I love the Transcriber's Note from 2019:

Transcriber’s Note: Vaccination is not a delusion. Thanks to vaccination, killer diseases such as small-pox, polio and tetanus have been more or less eliminated. The supposed link between vaccination and autism comes from one fraudulent study which actively falsified its data (BMJ 2011; 342:c7452). If you’re reading this with the aim of justifying not vaccinating yourself or members of your family, stop right there and go and read some modern-day science instead.