Historical Quotations!
"Dr. McFarland was "unwise to make the statements [that linked Mulford vaccines to tetanus], in view of the fact that the entire country is threatened with an epidemic of smallpox." He must "overcome the tendency on the part of any physician or customer to believe that the vaccine is in any way responsible for the recent surge in tetanus... every drop of our vaccine is tested and is free of germs of any kind. The highest medical authorities are unanimous in the statement that when tetanus occurs after a vaccination it is always due to the ignorance and neglect of the patient." Mulford Pharmaceuticals, 19th century vaccine supplier.
"pay no attention to the purported links between tetanus and vaccination. Agitation can only injure the cause of vaccination... our newspapers are considered and sensible enough to suppress any reference to vaccination related ailments. Drop the matter. It is dead here." - 19th century Cincinnati Physician, responding to an inquiry by the pharmaceuticals regarding a wealthy patient stricken with fatal tetanus after vaccination.
"What difference does it make to the victim of this horrific disease whether the lockjaw germ was in the virus itself or on the victim's body? To absolve vaccination in either caase would be tantamount to freeing the assassins of Presidents Garfield and McKinley from the charge of murder because, forsooth, the fatal septic infection which killed these victims was not on the murderous bullets when they were fired into their bodies but entered wounds afterward through their own "carelessness" - early 20th century vaccine critic.
