A New Year’s Gift to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Glasgow; 1st January, 1874: Being an Essay Shewing that the Delusive Practice of Vaccination is Ruinous to the National Health.

"ANTI-VACCINATOR",.

$2,500.00

Item Number: 129341

Glasgow: John Thomson, 1874.

First edition of this anti-vaccination work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt embossed to the front panel. Laid in is a 1901 circular, one sheet printed on both sides. In very good condition, bookplate from the Glasgow Corporation Public Health Department library, moderate marginalia and commentary to the text, from someone who disagreed with the sentiments of the author. OCLC locates only two copies.

Glasgow suffered a severe outbreak of smallpox in the 1870s and the city leaders attempted to impose a vaccine mandate. Several other outbreaks occurred, and it was not until 1950 that Glasgow's vaccine mandate finally rid the city of smallpox.