The below is a list of anti-vaccinationist texts written between 1722 and 1960. These can be downloaded or printed to PDF.

Smallpox

Anti-Inoculation Texts

Inoculation was the practice of deliberately infecting people with smallpox. It was introduced in the UK by Lady Montagu and the US by Cotton Mather in the 1720s.

Howgrave, Francis

Reasons against the inoculation of the small-pox. In a letter to Dr. Jurin. Being a full answer to every thing which Mr. Maitland and others have advanced upon that subject, 1724 – at Wellcome Collection

Langton, William

An address to the public, on the present method of inoculation: proving that the matter communicated is not the small-pox, … to which is added, an inquiry into the nature of the confluent pox, and its cure, 1767 – at Archive

Massey, Isaac

Isaac Massey was a cleric opposed to the deliberate spread of disease.

A Short and Plain Account of Inoculation: With Some Remarks on the Main Arguments Made Use of to Recommend that Practice, by Mr. Maitland and Others, 1722 – On Google Books

Remarks on Dr. Jurin’s Last Yearly Account of the Success of Inoculation, 1727 – At Archive

Early 19th Century Criticism of Jennerism

Although Jenner’s method of cowpox inoculation spread rapidly, there were dissenters, many of whom who advocated the previous method of inoculation over the Jennerian method. These are included here although I would not consider those who support any form of artificial infection to be anti-vaccinationists by the modern definition of the term vaccination.

Birch, John

An Appeal to the Public on the Hazard and Peril of Vaccination, 1817 – at Archive

MacLean, Charles

On the state of vaccination in 1810; in a letter to the Right Hon. Richard Rider, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department : with remarks on the Report of the National Vaccine Establishment. Printed by order of the House of Commons, on the 1st of June, 1810 : Forming a guide for parents in deciding for the safety of their children, 1810 – At Wellcome Collection

Moseley, Benjamin

Benjamin Moseley was a notable MD who was the first to seriously oppose the ‘cow pox mania’.

A Treatise on Lues Bovilla, or Cow Pox, 2nd edition, 1805 – at Archive

An Oliver for a Rowland ; or, a cow pox epistle to the Reverend Rowland Hill, “under the wing of the Surrey Chapel”, 1807 – at Archive

A review of the Report of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on vaccination, 1808 – At Wellcome Collection

Rogers, W. R.

An examination of the part of the evidence relative to cow-pox : which was delivered to the Committee of the House of Commons, by two of the surgeons of St. Thomas’s Hospital ; with some remarks on inoculated small-pox, 1805 – At Wellcome Collection

Rowley, William

William Rowley was a prominent inoculator who chronicled smallpox infection after vaccination.

Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection … To which are added, the modes of treating the beastly new diseases produced from cow pox … With the author’s certain, experienced, and successful mode of inoculating for the small pox. Which now becomes necessary from cow-pox failure, &c;, 1805 – At Wellcome Collection

Later Nineteenth Century Critics

Later nineteenth century critics criticised both inoculation and vaccination, and generally advocated sanitation as a solution to disease.

Allinson, T. B.

Extracts from Address at Hackney, 1883 – at Informed Parent

Collins, William

Have you been vaccinated, and what protection is it against the small pox?: an essay, 1868 – At Wellcome Collection

Creighton, Charles

Charles Creighton was a doctor asked to write an article for the Encyclopaedia Britannica regarding vaccination. When he researched the issue he found that vaccination was fatally flawed. Hence the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia contains an article on vaccination by an antivaccinationist.

The natural history of cow-pox and vaccinal syphilis, 1887 – at Wellcome Collection

Encyclopaedica Britannica Article on Vaccination, 1888 – at whale.to

Jenner and Vaccination: A Strange Chapter of Medical History, 1889 – at Archive

A History of Epidemics in Britain, 1891 – at Archive

Crookshank, Edgar

History and Pathology of Vaccination, Vol 1, – at Google books / At Wellcome Collection

History and Pathology of Vaccination, Vol 2 [This is a collection of essays written mostly by pro-vaccinationists such as Jenner, Estlin, Ceely, et al. that elucidates the history of vaccination] – at google books

Nittinger, C. G. G.

Nittinger’s Evils of Vaccination, 1856 – at PubMed

Pearce, Charles

Vaccination : its tested effects on health, mortality, and population. An essay, 1868 – At Wellcome Collection

Vital Statistics: Smallpox and Vaccination in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Continental Countries and Cities, 1882 – At Archive

Pickering, John

Anti-vaccination: the statistics of the Medical Officers to the Leeds Small-pox Hospital exposed and refuted, in a letter to the Leeds Board of Guardians, 1876 – At Wellcome Collection / At whale.to

Ross, A. M.

Smallpox and Vaccination, 1888 – at vaclib

Taylor, P. A.

Liberal M.P. opposed to vaccination.

Current Fallacies About Vaccination, 1881 – at vaclib

Anti-Vaccination, 1882 – at vaclib

Speeches of Mr. P.A. Taylor and Mr. C.H. Hopwood on vaccination : in the House of Commons, June 19th, 1883, 1883 – at archive

Tebb, William

Leprosy and Vaccination: The Recrudescence of Leprosy and Its Causation, 1893 – At whale.to

Tebb, William Scott

A century of vaccination and what it teaches, 1899 – at Wellcome Collection

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Co discoverer of Natural Selection with Darwin and passionate anti-vaccinationist.

Vaccination: Proved Useless & Dangerous from Forty Five Years of Registration Statistics, 1889 – At Archive

Vaccination a Delusion, Its Penal Enforcement a Crime, 1898 – At vaclib

A Summary of the Proofs That Vaccination Does Not Prevent Smallpox but Really Increases It, 1904 – at whale.to

White, William

The Story of a Great Delusion, 1885 – at whale.to

Twentieth Century Critics

Anderson, H. R.

The Facts Against Compulsory Vaccination, 1929 – at vaclib

Bayly, M. B.

The Case Against Vaccination, 1936 – at whale.to

Biggs, J. T.

Leicester rejected compulsory smallpox vaccination after the outbreak of 1871.

Leicester: Sanitation or Vaccination, 1912 – At Wellcome Collection / at whale.to

Deane, Tenison

The Crime of Vaccination: Or Bacteria, X.Y.Z., 1913 – at whale.to

Hadwen, Walter

The Dangers of Vaccination, 1918 – At the Informed Parent

Vaccination A Fraud, 1923 – at whale.to

Serious Results of Vaccination, 1926 – at The Informed Parent

Higgins, Chas

Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated, 1920 – At Yale

Hodge, John

The Vaccination Superstition: Prophylaxis to be Realized Through the Attainment of Health, 1902 – At Archive

Lupton, Arnold

Liberal Party M.P. who opposed vaccination

Vaccination and the State, 1921 – at whale.to

Peebles, J. M.

Vaccination a curse and a menace to personal liberty: with statistics showing its dangers and criminality, 1900 – At Wellcome Collection

Pitcairn, John

The Fallacy Of Vaccination, 1911 – at whale.to

Swan, Joseph

The Vaccination Problem, 1936 – At Informed Parent

Trobridge, Arthur

The Vagaries of Vaccination Propaganda – at VacLib

National Anti-Vaccination League

The Brighton Smallpox Outbreak, 1950-1, at Informed Parent

Rabies

In the 1880s Louis Pasteur developed a hydrophobia or rabies vaccine.

Dolan, Thomas

Hydrophobia: M. Pasteur and his methods: a critical analysis, 1886 – at Wellcome Collection

Pasteur and Rabies, 1890 – At Archive

Hume, Ethel Douglas

Bechamp or Pasteur?: A lost chapter in the history of biology, 1932 – At Archive

Morden, Millicent

Statement during United States Hearings – at Google Books

Rabies Past Present in Scientific Review – at whale.to

Pearson, R. B.

The Dream & Lie of Louis Pasteur, 1942 – at whale.to

Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection

M. Pasteur’s Hecatomb [List of deaths after Rabies Vaccine], 1889 – accessible via VacLib

Diphtheria

Bayly, M. B.

The Schick Inoculation for Diphtheria, 1939 – at whale.to

What is Used in Diphtheria Immunisation?, 1940s pamphlet – at Informed Parent

National Anti-Vaccination League

Why do the Majority of Doctors Support Anti-Diphtheria Immunisation?, 1944, at Informed Parent

Polio

Bayly, M. B.

The Story of the Salk Anti-Poliomyelitis Vaccine, 1956 – at whale.to

Biskind, Morton

DDT Poisoning and the Elusive “Virus X”: A New Cause For Gastro-Enteritis, 1949 – at whale.to

DDT Poisoning A New Syndrome With Neuropsychiatric Manifestations, 1949 – at whale.to

Statement On Clinical Intoxication From DDT And Other New Insecticides, 1951 – at whale.to

Miller, Duon H.

Duon H. Miller was a businessman who opposed polio vaccines in the 1950s.

Various pamphlets – available via VacLib

Sandler, Benjamin

Diet Prevents Polio, 1951 – at whale.to

Scobey, Ralph

Poisoning as the Cause of Poliomyelitis, 1950 – at archive

Is The Public Health Law Responsible For The Poliomyelitis Mystery?, 1951 – at whale.to

The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis And Obstructions To Its Investigation, 1952 – at whale.to

Is the Cause of Poliomyelitis always the Same?, 1953 – at archive

Is Human Poliomyelitis Caused By An Exogenous Virus?, 1954 – at whale.to

Zeisler, Ernest

The Great Salk Vaccine Fiasco, 1960 – at whale.to

National Anti Vaccination League

Connection of Poliomyelitis With Inoculation, 1952 – at The Informed Parent

Tuberculosis

National Anti Vaccination League

Is Mass Vacciantion With BCG Always Warranted in the Scandinavian Countries?, 1957 – At the Informed Parent

Books that Address Multiple Vaccines

Forward, Charles

The Golden Calf, 1933 – At whale.to (Smallpox, Diphtheria, Tetanus)

Hadwen, Walter

Dr. Walter Robert Hadwen’s works [1900-1910 approx] – at Wellcome Collection (Smallpox, anti toxin treatment for Diphtheria. Not all these essays are on Vaccination)

Loat, Lily

Secretary of the British National Anti Vaccination League for 50 odd years.

The Truth About Vaccination and Immunisation, 1951 – at whale.to (Smallpox and Diphtheria)

McBean, Eleanor

The Poisoned Needle, 1957 – at whale.to (Smallpox, Polio)