The Golden Age, “Vaccination (by Dr. H. R. Rickards, reprinted from The Quest)”
“Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows the seed of syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccination is a crime, an outrage and a delusion.”
A reprinted anti-vaccination article appearing in the 1 May 1929 issue (issue contents list 'VACCINATION'); the page-502 marker precedes it and the 'May 1, 1929' running head follows within the article.
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Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, Vaccination (by Dr. H. R. Rickards, reprinted from The Quest)
Confidence note. Scan OCR opened; wording, issue date and page position confirmed from page markers in the OCR.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item 'golden-age-1929' (bound volume of The Golden Age 1929; uploader-contributed scan; OCR text file 'Golden Age 1929_djvu.txt' downloaded and searched).
Notes. This is what actually appears at g 1929 5/1 p. 502. The 'filthy pus' sentence widely attributed to this page is in the 13 Nov 1929 issue (see the 13 November 1929 record).
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g-1929-0501-vaccination-crime