The following reading list contains many books that served as foundational references for creating both Dissolving Illusions and the Dissolving Illusions Companion and Reference. These books, organized chronologically, offer an extensive starting point for gaining deeper insights into the intricate tapestry of disease history, the progress and stagnation of medical practices, and the complex discourse surrounding inoculation and vaccination. Exploring these texts will undoubtedly invite a more nuanced perspective that challenges prevailing narratives.

Delving into this meticulously selected reading list, you will embark on a challenging journey through the annals of time. This comprehensive collection will serve as an indispensable resource for those seeking to broaden their perspectives and engage in constructive dialogues that transcend conventional viewpoints.

1. John Pechy, MD, The Whole Works of that Excellent Practical Physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham, MD, 1696
2. Isaac Massey, Apothecary to Christ’s Hospital, A Short and Plain Account of Inoculation, 1722
3. Francis Howgrave, Apothecary, Reasons Against the Inoculation of the Small-Pox, 1724
4. Isaac Massey, Remarks on Dr. Jurin’s Last Yearly Account of the Success of Inoculation, 1727
5. William Langton MD, An address to the public on the present method of inoculation: proving that the matter inoculated is not the small-pox. To which is added an inquiry into the nature of the confluent pox, and its cure, 1767
6. Benjamin Rush MD, Professor of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania, Medical Inquiries and Observations, Second Edition, 1789
7. Robert Walker MD, An Inquiry into the Small-Pox, Medical and Political, 1790
8. William Rowley, MD, Cow-pox inoculation NO SECURITY against Small-pox infection, 1805
9. W. R. Rogers, Surgeon, An examination of the Part of the Evidence Relative to Cow-Pox, 1805
10. John Brich, Esq, Surgeon to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, &c. A letter Occasioned by the Many Failures of Cow-Pox, 1805
11. Charles Maclean, MD, On the State of Vaccination in 1810
12. Gilbert Blane, FRS, Elements of Medical Logick, 1821
13. Xavier Bichat, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, Paris, France, General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, vol. 1, 1822
14. Samuel Thomson, Botanist, A Narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson, 1825
15. John Gideon Millingen MD, Curiosities of Medical Experience, vol. 2, 1837
16. Thomas Brown of Musselburgh, Surgeon, An Investigation of the present Un-satisfactory and Defective State of Vaccination, 1842
17. R. G. Latham, MD, The Works of Thomas Sydenham, MD, vol. I, 1848
18. Wooster Beach MD, The American Practice Condensed: Or, The Family Physician, 1850
19. Samuel Dickson, MD, Glasgow, The “Destructive Art of Healing;” or, Facts for families, Second Edition, 1855
20. C. C. Schieferdecker, MD, Dr. C. G. G. Nittinger’s Evils of Vaccination, 1856
21. Russell Thacher Trall, MD, Water-cure for the Million, 1860
22. Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing—What it Is, and what it is Not, 1860
23. Samuel Dickson, MD, The Principles of the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine, 1861
24. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science With Other Addresses and Essays, 1861
25. John Mason Good, MD, The Study of medicine: Empyesis Variola Smallpox, vol 1, 1864
26. Charles Julius Hempel MD, A New and comprehensive system of materia medica and therapeutics, 1865
27. Dr. Eliphalet Kimball, Thoughts on Natural Principles, 1867
28. William Job Collins, MD, Have You Been Vaccinated, and what Protection is it Against the Small Pox? 1869
29. Dr. Schieferdecker, MD, Horrors of Vaccination, 1870
30. R. T. Trall MD, The True Healing Art or Hygienic vs. Drug Medication, 1872
31. Edmund Procter, Important facts on vaccination urgently demanding public attention, 1873
32. Dr. John Pickering, Anti-vaccination—The Statistics of the Medical Officers to the Leeds Small-Pox Hospital Exposed and Refuted, 1876
33. Henry Strickland Constable, Our Medicine Men: A Few Hints, 1876
34. Thomas R. Hazard, Civil and Religious Persecution in the State of New York, 1876
35. C. Spinzig MD, Variola, its Causes, Nature and Prophylaxis and the Dangers of Vaccination, 1878
36. Charles T. Pearce MD, Vital Statistics. Small-Pox & Vaccination in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1882
37. William White, The Story of a Great Delusion, 1885
38. George William Winterburn, PhD, MD, The Value of Vaccination: A Non-partisan Review of Its History and Results, 1886
39. Charles Creighton, The Natural History of Cow-pox and Vaccinal Syphilis, 1887
40. Charles Creighton, Jenner and Vaccination. A Strange Chapter of Medical History, 1889
41. Edgar March Crookshank, History and Pathology of Vaccination Volume I: A Critical Inquiry, 1889
42. Emmet Densmore MD, How nature cures, comprising a new system of hygiene, 1892
43. Vaccination Tracts. Letters and Opinions of Medical Men, 1892
44. Terrible Results of Vaccination: TESTIMONIES concerning Vaccination and its Enforcement: by Scientists, Statisticians, Philosophers, Publicists, and Vaccine Physicians, 1892
45. William Tebb, The Recrudescence of Leprosy and its Causation, 1893
46. Charles Creighton, MA, MD, A History of Epidemics in Britain, vol. II, 1894
47. Duncan Turner, Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Is Consumption Contagious? 1894
48. C. Wardell Amerige, MD, Vaccination a Curse, 1895
49. William Scott Tebb, MD, A Century of Vaccination and What It Teaches, 1898
50. Alfred Russell Wallace, LL. D, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures, 1899
51. Matthew Joseph Rodermund, MD, Fads in the Practice of Medicine, and the Cause and Prevention of Disease, 1901
52. John W. Hodge, MD, The Vaccination Superstition: Prophylaxis to be Realized Through the Attainment of Health, not by the Propagation of Disease, 1902
53. Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer, MD, PhD, Vaccination Brought Home to You, 1904
54. J.T. Biggs, Leicester: Sanitation Versus Vaccination, 1912
55. J. M. Peebles, MD, MA, PhD, Vaccination a Curse and a Menace to Personal Liberty, Tenth Edition, 1913
56. Tenison Deane, MD, The Crime of Vaccination or Bacteria, X. Y. Z., 1913
57. Robert Emmette McNamara, B. Sc., F. T. S., Professor of Physiology, Chemistry, Histology, Universal Chiropractic College, Chiropractic, Other Drugless Healing Methods With Criticism of the Practice of Medicine, 1913
58. C. Killick Millard, The Vaccination Question in the Light of Modern Experience: An Appeal for Reconsideration, 1914
59. Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard, 1916
60. Charles M. Higgins, Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated, 1920
61. Henry Lindlahr, MD, Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics, 1921
62. Simon Louis Katzoff, PhD, MD, Timely Truths on Human Health, 1921
63. Joe Shelby Riley, MD, MS, PhD, Conquering Units: Or The Mastery of Disease, 1921
64. Emmons Rutledge Booth, History of Osteopathy, and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice, 1924
65. Eleanor McBean, The Poisoned Needle: Suppressed Facts About Vaccination, 1957