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Title:
  • Vaccination tracts.
Call No:
  • RA643
  • .V11 1892
Summary note:
  • A compilation of separately paginated tracts, all with individual title pages indicating publication by Snow & Farnham in Providence in 1892.
Imprint Place:
  • Providence, :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Snow and Farnham, ;
Imprint Date:
  • 1892.
Physical Description:
  • 1 v. (various pagings)
  • 19 cm.
Notes:
  • Preface and supplement. -- Letters and opinions of medical men -- Facts and figures showing that vaccination has failed to stamp out, arrest, or mitigate small-pox -- Opinions of statesmen, politicians, publicists, statisticians, and sanitarians, nos. 1-2 -- Cases of disease, suffering and death reported by the injured families -- The vaccination laws a scandal to public honesty and religion -- Vaccination, a sign of the decay of the political and medical conscience in the country -- The propagation of syphilis to infants and adults by vaccination and re-vaccination -- Vaccination evil in its principles, false in its reasons, and deadly in its results -- Vaccination subverts dentition, and is a cause of the prevalent deformity and decay of the teeth -- Compulsory vaccination a desecration of law, a breaker of homes and persecutor of the poor -- Historical and critical summary in three parts.
  • A compilation of separately paginated tracts, all with individual title pages indicating publication by Snow & Farnham in Providence in 1892.
  • Bookplate indicates that RIHS copy was purchased from the "Estate of Albert W. Brown, 7 February 1910."
    • Reclassed from "RI Imprint, 1892-P" in 2009.
Location:
  • Closed Stacks
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