The Case Against Vaccination (1896) by Walter Hadwen

Walter Robert Hadwen MD MRCS MRCP (3 August 1854, Woolwich - 27 December 1932) was a Gloucester GP and pharmaceutical chemist, president of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), and an anti-vaccination campaigner known for his denial of the germ theory of disease.Hadwen began his career as a pharmacist in Clapham then Somerset, then subsequently trained as a doctor at Bristol University. After qualifying, he moved to Gloucester in 1896. Hadwen was recruited as a member of BUAV by its founder and then president Frances Power Cobbe who hired a private investigator to assess his credentials (he was a vegetarian and total abstainer, had a reputation as a "firebrand" orator and was held in "high local esteem"). She subsequently selected him as her successor.

Author: Walter Hadwen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 11/30/2016
Pages: 46
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d
ISBN13: 9781540727930
ISBN10: 1540727939
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General

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