Doctor Therne by H. Rider Haggard
A Story of District Superstition
A respected Victorian doctor becomes drawn into anti-vaccination politics and schemes that undermine public health, and when smallpox returns his decisions help precipitate a devastating epidemic that destroys families and reputations. The story traces his moral crisis and the community’s collapse and struggle to recover, serving as a polemic about the dangers of misinformation, political demagoguery, and the social responsibility of physicians and citizens to science and public welfare.
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- 1898
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