Draft of proposed book attacking vaccination

Collection

Identifier: Z10d 5

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. Attribution of the draft to Leverson and the approximate date of the draft is based on the correspondence included in the collection.

Dates

circa 1907

Creator

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

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Biographical / Historical

Montague Richard Leverson (1830 March 2-1925 September 26) was a British lawyer and homeopathic physician known for his controversial opinions. He emigrated to the United States in 1867 and obtained his medical degree in 1893 from Baltimore Medical College. He was strongly opposed to vaccination, serving as the secretary for the Anti-Vaccination Society of America and the President of the Brooklyn Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League. Leverson also denied the germ theory of disease and was an anti-vivisectionist. He published “Inoculations and the Germ Theory of Disease” and Pasteur the Plagiarist: The Debt of Science to Béchamp, both in 1911. Leverson returned to the United Kingdom in 1900 and died in 1925.

Extent

0.2 Linear feet (1 half document box)

Language of Materials

English

Subjects

Related Names

Creator

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

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin
Sponsor: Conservation and digitization of this collection was supported in part by a Federal Save America's Treasures grant administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.