John Pitcairn
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Smallpox Vaccine critics
[Born in Scotland, January 10, 1841. Died at Bryn, Athyn, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1916. President of The Anti-Vaccination League of America when it was organized in Philadelphia, on October 21, 1908. During the last ten years of his life, Mr. Pitcairn was to a great extent the guiding spirit of the anti-vaccination movement in America. It would be impossible to chronicle his activities in its behalf without writing a voluminous history. In 1908 Mr. Pitcairn made possible by his liberality a National Anti-Vaccination Conference, which held its sessions in Griffith Hall, Philadelphia, on October 19, 20 and 21 of that year, and which led to the organization of The Anti-Vaccination League of America. To The Ladies Home Journal for May, 1910, he contributed an article on 'The Fallacy of Vaccination' which has reached several million readers. On December 1, 1911, he was appointed by Governor Tener a member of the Pennsylvania State Vaccination Commission, and in this capacity on March 12, 1913, he rendered his report, which is a clear, scholarly and readable contribution to the literature of anti-vaccination. ref]
Article/booklet:
[1911] The Fallacy Of Vaccination
By John Pitcairn