WCP6540

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Parkstone, Dorset

9 October 1898

…Rinderpest like Small-pox is epidemic, & has a tendency to cure itself by killing off all the most susceptible individuals. And this absence of the disease following an epidemic, is easily imputed to the effects of the inoculation... You cannot upset good evidence by bad. The very best evidence available in the world is that afforded by the statistics for more than 100 years of London and Sweden, and for 60 years by England & Wales; and both these, I claim to have shown, absolutely demonstrate the uselessness of Vaccination as a preventive of Small-pox.