History

Vaccination as Unnatural, Blasphemous, and Murderous (1870?)

“Who shall say that the Creator did not make his work perfect and complete, that He did not place every element or principle in the blood of the child necessary to its health, where the laws of its being are observed? Yet Vaccination stands forth to assert this monstrous blasphemy!” — W. Halket

History

William Wilberforce Implored to Not Mandate Vaccination (1803)

Mandated vaccination is “nothing short of a compulsion on every man to suffer the veins of his child to be impregnated with the disease of a beast, or, to expose its life to the utmost violence of the most furious and most fatal of all human contagions …” — William Cobbett to William Wilberforce, 1803

History, Natural

Nature Hates a Vacuum: Other Diseases Fill the Void of Smallpox (1883)

“What happens is, that other diseases take the place of the small-pox when this disappears: a circumstance worthy of our profound attention. Thus the eminent English Physiologist, Dr. W. B. Carpenter, who for the last year or two has stood forward as the champion of Vaccination with conspicuous zeal … is compelled to admit that at the same time that the mortality of small-pox — through the influence of Vaccination, as he thinks — has declined, the mortality of measles and scarlet fever especially has increased.” — P.A. Siljestrom, 1883