Finally, let him consider how it comes about, if vaccination is a fraud, that some nine hundred and ninety-nine medical men out of every thousand, not in England only, but in all civilised countries, place so firm a belief in its virtue.

Are the doctors of the world all mad, or all engaged in a great conspiracy to suppress the truth?
These were my real views, as they must be the views of most intelligent and thoughtful men; but I did not think it necessary to promulgate them abroad, since to do so would have been to deprive myself of such means of maintenance as remained to me.

Indeed, in those days I told neither more nor less than the truth.

Evil results occasionally followed the use of bad lymph or unclean treatment after the subject had been inoculated.
Thus most of the cases of erysipelas into which I examined arose not from vaccination but from the dirty surroundings of the patient.

Wound a million children, however slightly, and let flies settle on the wound or dirt accumulate in it, and the result will be that a certain small proportion will develop erysipelas quite independently of the effects of vaccination.
In the same way, some amount of inoculated disease must follow the almost promiscuous use of lymph taken from human beings.