Excerpt from Information for the People of Pennsylvania With Regard to the Influence of Vaccination on SmallpoxDuring the recent epidemic of smallpox in Pennsylvania a family of four, a mother and three children. Were taken to the Municipal Hospital in Philadelphia, the mother seriouslv ill with smallpox. As there was no one to take care of these children. And as they had all been exposed to the disease and were liable to spread the infec tion, it was absolutely necessary to take them with their mother to the hospital. Two of these children being old enough to attend school had been vaccinated the year before, under the so-called tyrannical law requiring teachers to forbid the admission to school of children who could not present a certificate of successful vaccina tion. The third child being younger, the mother, yielding to the persuasion of foolish neighbors, refused to have vaccinated. The result is shown in the illustration taken from a photograph. (fig.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.