Dr. John Henry Tilden said, “Vaccination against smallpox is perhaps one of the most thoroughly ingrained superstitions of the age. Today there does not appear to be any prospect of its growing less popular.”
Vaccine Pandemic: Part 1: The Inoculation Controversy of the 1700s
Williams called inoculation “a Delusion of the Devil; and that there was never the like Delusion in New-England, since the Time of the Witchcraft at Salem, when so many innocent Persons lost their Lives … “