Anti-vaccination movement
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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....
Dates:
circa 1907
Records of the Anti-Vaccination Society of America
Collection
Identifier: 10c 98
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...
Dates:
1879-1898
Records of the Pennsylvania State Vaccination Commission
Collection
Identifier: ZZ10d 1
Scope and Contents
This collection includes meeting minutes, including reports presented by both proponents and opponents of vaccination in general, but especially against smallpox; interrogations; and discussions with a variety of documents. Members of the commission include: Emil Rosenberger, chairman; Henry C. Lippincott, secretary; Edward A. Woods; William M. Welch; Jay F. Schamberg; John Pitcairn; and Porter F. Cope. Reports and discussions address the history of vaccination and smallpox, their nature and...
Dates:
1912-1913
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