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BIOGRAPHY

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.

He joined the Plymouth Brethren as an adult.

As a frequent speaker for the National Anti-Vaccination League , his opposition to vaccination focused on his view of the deficiencies of Smallpox vaccination.

He was also a member of the London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial (founded in 1896).


MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL

In 1924, having applied his rejection of the Germ Theory of disease, and his refusal to use Diptheria anti-serum produced by inoculation of animals to the treatment of Nellie Burnham, a young girl, she died and he was tried for Manslaughter by criminal Medical Negligence The Times up to and including Oct 30 1924.


QUOTE

  • ''I once believed in Jenner ; I once believed in Pasteur . I believed in vaccination. I believed in Vivisection . But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.''-- Dr. Walter Hadwen, MD



PUBLICATIONS

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  • 1896 , "The Case Against Vaccination"

  • ''The Difficulties of Dr Deguerre''

  • 1902 ''Smallpox at Gloucester.'' A reply to Dr. Coupland’s Report by Walter Hadwen. Reprinted from “The Reformer,” National Anti-Vaccination League : Gloucester


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  • ''Hadwen of Gloucester: Man, Medico, Martyr'', by Beatrice E. Kidd and M. Edith Richards, 1933, John Murray, London



SEE ALSO

Vaccine Controversy


NOTES






REFERENCES

  • The story of Dr Hadwen Biography at Dr Hadwen Trust

  • ''Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Journalist, Reformer'', Sally Mitchell, 2004, University of Virginia Press ISBN 0813922712

  • ''Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907'', Nadja Durbach, 2005, Duke University Press, ISBN 0822334232

  • Obituary, The Times, Saturday, Feb 25, 1933 John Murray, London, 1933



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