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1 Government Prosecutions for Medical Heresy: A Verbatim Report of the Case, "Regina versus Tebb" 1 (1879)

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MEDICAL HERESY:
A VERBATIM REPORT OF THE CASE,
REGINA                            RSUS T EBIB
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W1ITH AN
INTRODUCTION        AND APPENDIX         OF ILLUSTRATIVE          MATTER.
SIR RODSRT PSEL,   L some one parjcl   t l i1t:Lku Theilnation eoimlulsc'ry, as in soeIn
despotic countries, objected, rrnmarkiwdr that SUCh L jirQ1c1U(ithg would be so opIKNsito to the
mental habits of the British pcrple. and the fruecorm of oprhion in which they so rightly
gloried, that he woulh be no party to s01h l piisi.-Avy&  Jcnnearian nlxsW4i
Report, January, L4.
The Right loi. W  E. GuknAthrOn:, MT., has writton
I regard all compulsory Acts, Like that of VaccinAtion, with m istrustd m isgiving.
Again- The inequality of the Law is a stronmg rcasin for doing what we can to
mitigute its severity ; and it is inoniably much icre severe on the pOtr than on the rich,
for it iriipdes flues whi-h in the one c. e are trivial, but on the other crushing.
Professor FASCIS W. NFw MA testifiQs:
I To punish parents for struggling to keep their childriis bltwnl inviolate, is a form of
tyranny unheard of until cuuihlerim Litlai, and WLmJpha tiekly tlisgraceful, as it is impious.
HERBERT SPRscHR writes-
# I wish I had known  vn'o timn since Ihat the VYieinatioii IrseuLdoi had in any t's e
been carried so far as yoU desribe, as I MinLht have nade use of tme (act. It wouhl JHavo
served faher to eirmrcc the jianlilel betweLm this. medial popury which Inwi think so
defeusile, and the religious Ippury which they think so indcfenilde.
LO NDON:
EDWARD W. ALLEN, r AVE MARIA LANE, E,.;
WARREN HALL & CO., 88 CAMDEN ROAD, -NW.
I879.

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