Leverson, Montague R. (Montague Richard), 1830-1925

Scope and Contents This collection consists of draft pages, both typescript and manuscript of a proposed book attacking vaccination. Pages detail cases in which patients, often children, were vaccinated and later succumbed to illness. Also present are passages opposing germ theory, citing the work of Antoine Béchamp and other anti-germ theory physicians. One folder of correspondence is also included in the collection. The draft pages in the collection are incomplete and may not be in order....

Scope and Contents The Records of the Anti-Vaccination Society of America consist of one bound volume containing the Society’s certificate of incorporation (1885), their constitution and bylaws, and meeting minutes beginning in 1889. Also included is one folder of correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the Society’s work. This includes an “Act To provide for a commission to investigate the nature and value of vaccination, anti-toxine, seropathy and other alleged prophylactics, and to appropriate...