Written in anger after Parliament’s 1898 concession to anti-vaccination campaigners, the novel is the confession of an ambitious doctor who rises in an English town by championing the anti-vaccinators in whom he does not believe. When smallpox returns to the unprotected population, his choices come home to him and to his own family.
A short, forceful polemic for vaccination from the author of King Solomon’s Mines, startlingly current today. Download the free EPUB.