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pay a shilling for a certificate that he conscientiously (which 

 only means really) believes what he does not. If he did not 

 he would let them be vaccinated. 



Yours obediently, 



Grimthorpe." 



" F. T. Bond, Esq., M.D., Gloucester." 



This letter is of the more importance, because Dr. Bond 

 was the only medical advocate of vaccination who attempted 

 any extended criticism of my work. He wrote long letters 

 in scores of newspapers all over the kingdom, some of which 

 I replied to, showing in every case of any importance that he 

 had either misrepresented or misunderstood my argument, 

 and had sometimes been guilty of misquotation. The great 

 features of my statistical argument were never dealt with by 

 him or any other critic. The medical journals were content 

 with pointing out minute and quite unimportant slips in 

 medical nomenclature or classification, and though my work 

 has now been before the public seven years, and has been 

 widely circulated, no attempt at rebutting the main statistical 

 argument has been made, no disproof has been adduced of 

 the long series of misstatements of fact or fallacies of reason- 

 ing which I have charged against the whole body of official 

 and medical advocates of vaccination. To Myers's very 

 natural remark, I should like to see what the doctors can 

 say in reply," I can now answer, They have made no 

 reply ; and their single representative who attempted to do 

 so, only succeeded in convincing an able and independent 

 inquirer that they had * no case.' " 



In 1904, in view of a possible general election, I care- 

 fully condensed my pamphlet into a twenty-four page 

 tract, which treats the subject under the following seven 

 headings : — 



(1) Why Doctors are not the best judges of the results of 

 Vaccination. 



(2) What is proved by the best Statistical Evidence 

 available. 



(3) London Death-rates during Registration. 



