The Greatest Health Revolution (Charting the Real Reasons Infectious Diseases Faded into History)
“The history of vaccination from its beginning to its present position is a refreshing illustration of the truth that medical science is human first and scientific afterwards... The refusal of the professional leaders to go back upon their mistake, when it was abundantly proved to be a mistake, has become an inherited obligation of hard swearing to successive generations. Things have now come to such a pass that anyone who undertakes to answer for Jenner and his theories, must shatter his own reputation for scientific and historical knowledge. Most of those who have a reputation to lose decline the challenge.” (1890) — Dr. Charles Creighton, MD, Professor University of Cambridge, author of numerous writings, including History of Epidemics in Britain (vol 1 & 2), Bovine Epidemics in Man , Cowpox and Vaccinal Syphilis, Jenner and Vaccination: A Strange Chapter of Medical History , and Vaccination in the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1888 “ More ...