Dr. Frances Houghton ‘So many people accept without question the dogmatic opinion and fantastic claims of the patent medicine vendor, ignorant quacks, or even film stars, in preference to the guarded statements of scientists and the experimental evidence which shows that [these] claims and opinions have no foundation in fact…’[1] In 1943, the exasperated Medical … Continue reading Vaccinating Jack Tar: The Royal Navy versus ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ during the Second World War