Ethel Douglas Hume (4 May 1874 – 16 July 1950) was a British anti-vivisectionist, animal welfare writer and traveller.
However high the opinion of the author is on the virtues of Bechamp, he has utilised a fair part of the book to exploit his own antimicrobic and antivaccination views.
"[3] In 1928, William Fearon stated that the book "is written in a somewhat peevish style, and appears to be more concerned with the defects of Pasteur than the merits of Bechamp".
The review concluded that "the emotional basis, the intellectual feebleness, and the anti-scientific and anti-social character of the whole anti-medical movement is superbly illustrated in the motivation and in the pseudo-scientific and ofttimes painfully unintelligent content of this subsidized book of propaganda.
She authored The Mind-Changers, a book which documented the history of the changing public opinion on treatment of animals.
[12] In 1919, Hume lectured on "Hydrophobia and the Mad Dog Scare" for the London and Provincial Anti-Vivisection Society.