The Essential Vaccine History Mega Collection (ZIP)

The Essential Vaccine History Mega Collection offers an invaluable compilation of ten pivotal texts in PDF format, capturing key perspectives from medical critics and scholars on the history, efficacy, and ethical implications of vaccination. This collection brings together voices from the 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring influential works that challenge prevailing narratives and explore the complexities of vaccination. Included are:

• William Rowley, MD, Cow-pox Inoculation NO SECURITY against Small-pox Infection (1805), where Dr. Rowley critiques the early claims of smallpox immunity through cowpox vaccination.
• Charles Maclean, MD, On the State of Vaccination in 1810, presenting documented failures and the medical community’s entrenched views.
• C. C. Schieferdecker, MD, Dr. C. G. G. Nittinger’s Evils of Vaccination (1856), where vaccination is condemned as irrational and dangerous.
• William White, The Story of a Great Delusion (1885), a thorough critique of vaccination’s origins, inconsistency, and persistence.
• George William Winterburn, PhD, MD, The Value of Vaccination: A Non-partisan Review of Its History and Results (1886), offering a comprehensive historical and medical analysis.
• Charles Creighton, The Natural History of Cow-pox and Vaccinal Syphilis (1887), and Jenner and Vaccination: A Strange Chapter of Medical History (1889), two key texts dissecting the roots and side effects of vaccination.
• J. M. Peebles, MD, MA, PhD, Vaccination: A Curse and a Menace to Personal Liberty (1900), a passionate argument against compulsory vaccination.
• J.T. Biggs, Leicester: Sanitation Versus Vaccination (1912), documenting Leicester’s successful sanitation-based approach to smallpox prevention.
• C. Killick Millard, The Vaccination Question in the Light of Modern Experience: An Appeal for Reconsideration (1914), which questions the necessity of vaccination in light of public health advancements.

Together, these works provide a thorough examination of historical skepticism, empirical evidence, and ethical considerations surrounding vaccination, making The Essential Vaccine History Mega Collection a vital resource for anyone interested in the evolution of vaccination debates and their profound impact on public health policy.