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An Affront to the Rights of Man

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What do a believer in natural salt therapy, George Bernard Shaw, the professor of statistics in Bern and a distraught mother about to drown her baby all have in common? Answer: they all hated vaccination and cursed Jenner for having brought it into the world.

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    Gareth Williams (Professor of Medicine)

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Williams, G. (2010). An Affront to the Rights of Man. In: Angel of Death. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230293199_11

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