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AMERIGE, C. W. Vaccination A Curse. Springfield, Mass. 1895.
AMERIGE, C. W. Vaccination A Curse. Springfield, Mass. 1895.
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PREFACE.
The
following pages have been written for the purpose
of calling the attention of thinking people to the custom of
custom of such foul origin and dire results that it is a mystery why the practice has not been legally forbidden, instead of legally enforced, among a free and
vaccination, a
enlightened people.
That Jenner's theories regarding vaccination should have been accepted by the credulous and superstitious of his day, is not a matter of surprise. A long period of inoculation had preceded him; and smallpox was the one disease most dreaded by the people, not only because of its fatality, but because of the disfigurement. Jenner promised exemption from the disease and its consequences, and was hailed as an
inventor, and lauded and rewarded as a benefactor.
true that there
It is
was timely and appropriate opposition to the absurd claim and practice, but royalty espoused the cause of Jenner and opposition was silenced; truth was crucified and
error glorified.
1798, than that caused by war, pestilence and famine; and could the dead speak, they would denounce the unclean thing in such uneits
since
introduction by Jenner in
shame.
offered
is
which could be produced, while by far the larger portion of the testimony has been buried from earthly sight. Silent to
earth, the record will
become vocal
in
the confusion of those who have participated in crime against bodily purity, or willingly suffered
tinue unrebuked.
C. \V.
18
to
con-
AMERIGE, M.
D.,
Vernon Street,
Springfield, Mass.
It
they are popularly called, we shall find them to be an outgrowth from theories and dogmas, which the discoveries of
have proven to be baseless, and in many instances pernicious; and no well informed and fair-minded physician will claim that the Medical Profession is an exception to the general rule. The late venerated and honored Professor of Anatomy, in the Medical School of Harvard University, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, while speaking of the popular "system of medicine," as practiced by the past and, to a large extent, by the present generation, once said: "If the entire materia medica were thrown into the sea, it would be all the better for humanity, and all the worse for the fishes." It is true that this remark was not specially applied to our subject, "The Custom of Vaccination," but it goes far to prove the necessity of new schools of therapeutics, founded upon modern science, which shall discard all baseless theories and dogmas, and raise itself above the venality of those vested interests, which have so long preyed upon the credulity of an innocent and long suffering people instead of leading them to those higher lights which science has prepared
scientific
modern
researches
illogical,
mind.
Of all professional dogmas of the past or present, none have wrought greater physical injury to the human race than
the theory and practice of vaccination.
This
is
broad
statement but
the past.
I
it is
dire experiences of
am
still
practitioners
who
emoluments and
their fellowmen.
One typical case of this mental or moral obtuseness may answer for all and is here mentioned only because the party was a lecturer on physiology and hygiene in one of our "Medical Schools" (?) and used his official position to uphold the exploded theories of vaccination. In a communication to a popular magazine, this professor publicly asks for "even one fact, showing that the blood of the race had been corrupted by vaccination." Ignorance of the fundamental principles of health, may be the result of a lack of mental capacity rather than limited reading, but no advocate of vaccination has the moral right to plead ignorance of those historic facts which have been abundant, from the days of Jenner's personal experiences, to These facts, though often suppressed by the present time. pro-vaccinators, have always been accessible to honest investigators.
have shown to those who think, that whenever there has been profit in the promulgation of theories, and loss in the statement of facts, avarice has but too often overruled conscience and controlled the
The experiences
of this
life
individual.
Dr. George W. Winterburn, of New York, in his valuable work on vaccination says he has "found the densest ignorance
among
those
who ought
to this subject,"
and adds
the profession, to
whom
had read the works of Jenner." It will be found to be true that there are many physicians who can talk flippantly of blood-poisoning, who become
dumb when
their
work
of
own
hands.
Before proceeding further, let us be sure of our premises. Let us inquire into the origin and cause of the malady.
The
affection, popularly
its
known
as smallpox
is
supposed
it
to be pre-historic in
origin.
We
only
know
that
was
to be
it
1,000 years
its
Hence
years ago the true nature of the disease was a profound mystery, even to the best educated classes. The people of those days had been accustomed to meet enemies which could be seen, and perhaps, overcome by courage and physical force; but here was an invisible foe whose progress legions could not control and there is little wonder that it struck terror to the hearts of men and nations. In an evil hour, some one conceived the idea that by inoculating an individual before he had taken the smallpox, with the pus exuded from the pustules on those who were suffering from the disease, the violence of the engrafted disease would be It was even claimed that the process was greatly modified. perfectly harmless and the angel of death was thus completely foiled in his work of destruction. We now wonder how such an absurd theory could have been accepted and acted upon, and how even the most credulous, could have been persuaded to surrender the sanctuary of the healthy body to the certainty of foul pollution upon such shallow and unfounded assumptions. The people however, were not only ignorant and credulous, but they were also panic-stricken, and they submitted to the process of inoculation, which was then very appropriatley called "engrafting", without questioning the authority
or veracity of the
One thousand
guardians of health.
the
Lady Mary Wortly Montagu, wife of English Ambassador to the Ottoman Court, became infatuIn the year 1721,
own
more than one hundred years this diabolical practice of spreading smallpox by engrafting the disease into bodies not affected, was quite general with
for
It
had no other effect than to increase the death-rate; the number of smallpox cases, and cause a general physical degeneration which threatened to depopulate whole districts.
years rolled on the evils of inoculation became more and more apparent and could no longer be ignored by the
As
government, but
fore the
it
became necessary
to enact laws
making
misguided people could be made to understand that their system of engrafting disease into a healthy person was a crime against the laws of life and health and the mercenary
practitioners compelled to discontinue their nefarious practices.
In
the year
1798,
theories
Dr.
Edward
attention to his
regarding vaccination.
He
called
them
facts.
propitious; sanitation
known; zymotic affectations unchecked; therapeutics, an empty sound; ignorance and superstition prevailed; reason was baffled before the mystery of disease, and credulity was He who held the word of promthe servant of charlitanism. ise to the ear of hope was not asked for proof. Jenner asserted that " The person who had been thus affected, (by his system of vaccination,) was forever after secure from the infection of smallpox ."
Let us now enquire into this wonderful system for which so much was claimed. The word vaccina is from "vacca," a cow, and was adopted to indicate cowpox, and Jenner laid special stress upon the necessity of using only the cowpox virus. He also announced that there was no such thing as spontaneous cowpox, as he well knew that the disease was communicated to the udder of milch cows, by the filthy hands of men who had been engaged in grooming horses suffering from the disease called "grease;" and it is not known that the disease ever originated in any other way. It is not recognized as a constitutional bovine disease, and bulls have never been known to have it. Cows suffering from this disease often communicated it to milkmaids through some scratch, or other perforations
a matter of country thus affected were less liable to an attack of smallpox during an epidemic. This country
it
became
came
to the ears of
Jenner
in 1768,
act-
It
made
his
first
James Phipps, who subsequently died of pulmonary consumption, and thus became the first victim of Jenner's system for
blood poisoning.
Jenner also vaccinated his own son who also died of pulmonary consumption. After vaccinating his son with cowpox Jenner inoculated him with smallpox lymph and it was
This was claimed to be proof of the prophylactic power of the cowpox lymph. But it only proved the well known fact that whenever one well
said that the disease "did not take."
become thoroughly
is
human
system,
its
course
seldom changed
by other disorders, although the malific influence of the second disease may increase the violence of the one already in full possession and control. Early in the experiments of Jenner, we find that two of his patients died of pulmonary consumption. To the scientist who sought for the truth, this would have been ample proof
of the natural result of the filthy practice, but Jenner only
proclaimed the
pox.
All other considerations were entirely ignored by him, and the general public were kept in ignorance. These facts however become very significant when we learn the true nature of the horse disease called "grease," which is the
origin of the true Jennerian virus.
it
and he strongly urged that there could be "no protection against smallpox in any system of vaccination, where the ichor had not this origin."
To
tices
it
due care and proper feeding. Dr. Collins, possessing the was not satisfied with anything less than demonstration, and in order to learn the facts in the case, made an examination of a horse which had been
true instincts of the scientist,
in
as fol-
wasting of the tissues, an unusual thickening or fullness of the lymphatic glands." 2nd. "Lips, tongue and gums, covered with peculiar cankerous-looking ulcers, and much swollen;
the whole
mucous membrane was much softened and covered with livid spots; ulceration of the larynx and trachea; lungs highly congested, and cavities ramifying through the substance of the organ,
filled
ing in every particular, both in fetor and character, to that exuding from the greasy heels, and which is seen in the last stages of consumption in
human
subjects."
These facts lead us irresistibly to certain conclusions. That Jenner's theories were not the result of scien1st. tific investigations, but were founded upon the gossip of an ignorant and superstitious peasantry. 2nd. That lymph taken from the heels of a diseased horse and introduced into the veins of human subjects, conveys the identical disease with which the animal was suffering, modified only by the physical condition of the human subject, and the passing of the same lymph through the medium of a cow can only result in adding to the virus from
an equine disease, the virus from a bovine affection. The "We do not gather figs result cannot be other than evil.
from
that
thistles."
In this connection
it may be well to mention the fact whenever and wherever gangrenous, animal matter, or
circulation of
the
human
usually characteris-
and often does co-operate with special morbid conditions of body injured, in the promotion of some disease, other than that represented by the matter introduced; when two poisons meet in the human system, the one for which conditions are found to be most favorable will prevail, while the
the
it
investigator desires
to
secure facts
regarding
first
case; that of
James Phipps,
into
unknown
which Dr. Collins has shown to be "pulmonary consumption." Dr. Collins, however, is not alone in his opinion regarding the
true nature of the equine disease called "grease."
If
we
tell
us
Farcy and Grease, are but three varieties of the same disease, and that they are the equine equivalent for the scrofulous or tuberculous affections in man, and their
that Glanders,
sequel, consumption.
have been told that "In the multitude of counsel there is safety." Let us now enquire into the opinions of a few of those eminent men who have had special opportunities to see, and special training by which to enable them to judge
correctly of the legitimate effect of vaccination.
We
Alexander Wilder, Editor of the New York Medical Times, and Professor of Physiology in the United States Medical College of New York, in his pamphlet on vaccination
says: "It
is
made
liable to a
host of ailments.
Consumption follows
it is
in
and wherever
common
to
vaccination
wasan
increase of deaths
from consumption of about 230,000, over the preceding twelve years; and during the same period, there was an increase of
100,000 deaths from measles, scarletina, whooping cough and croup. The Medical Times and Gazette of January 1st, 1854, acknowledges that "consumption had widely spread since the introduction of vaccination; and during the preceding ten years had slain in the metropolis alone, upwards of 68,000." Professor Bartlett of the New York Medical University furnishes some very significant facts which had been brought Out to his knowledge regarding the death of 303 children. of this number, 208 had been vaccinated, 138 of which, died
Of the
95 children that had not been vaccinated, only thirty died of tubercular consumption and 65 of other diseases. Such testimony as this clearly proves the statement of
Dr. Wilder that "consumption
follows
in
the footsteps of
vaccination as certainly and unequivocally as effect follows The law is irrevocable that: "The seed bringeth cause."
its
kind."
Compilers of Dictionaries but seldom assume the responsibility of recording facts or opinions in opposition to popular professional dogmas. It is not their office to lead, but to define, and we may therefore feel assured that whenever such
opinions are expressed, they are the result of carefully considered, cumulative testimony.
We
"It
is
certain
any disease more dreaded than consumption, Let us now enquire what vaccination has done it is syphilis. for the perpetuation of this most disgusting disorder.
If there
is
Ricord said:
lymph
is
we are
in
may permit
the conscientious
language:
"At
the following
first
more
The
doctor,
is
first,
feature of vaccination
of
its
transmission.
To
is
the anti-vaccinator,
it is
a self-evident
"matter"
malignant diseases.
II
It is
no answer to
this
statement to say
all
who
are
vaccinated do not immediately succumb to disease. Once in the system, the poison may work secretly, but none the less
surely,
and sooner or
it
later,
will find a
which
those
may increase the sufferings and who have been subjected to this
process of blood-
pollution.
Chrono-
We know
no fixed
limit of duration;
accustomed celerity, but rest as it were, for a convenient season in which to prove their destructive power. Instances are recorded in which persons bitten by rabid dogs, (Is this canine inoculation?) have suffered no inconvenience therefrom until, in the weaknesses of latter years, the quiescent poison found its opportunity for malignant activity and causing death from rabies.
Dr. Wilder,
whose New York practice gave ample oppor"Syphilis appears oftener as a result of
Inquirer and Health Review, printed
The Vaccination
in
London, reports the fact that: "Fifty-eight French solwere vaccinated in December 1880, by the regimental doctor, the lymph being taken from a Spanish child, and in a few days all of the fifty-eight, without exception, were
diers
practitioner
was communicated by vaccination, for which the was found guilty by a Court of Justice and conto prison for several months.
Cerioli,
demned
Dr.
reports
that:
"In
1841,
a child
born
of
who
were
all
syphilized.
died."
From which
of
eight
children
and two
is
women
In the
London Lancet,
November
12
cination, again
866, the on the 15th day of December, "Lancet" mentions another instance of thirty children syphilized by vaccination, the lymph being procured from the
1
medical authorities.
publishes
statistics
The "Rivalta
cases, the virus
In those
to be
infant supposed
healthy.
one child, forty-six children were vaccinated and one of the forty-six furnished lymph, with which
seventeen others were vaccinated.
sixty-three
From
Of the
total
number
of
communicated it to their mothers and nurses. These cases were investigated by Dr. Henry Lee, a well known authority on syphilis, who said he "Could come to no other conclusion, than that the disease was communicated by vaccination."
and
in turn
Tennessee,
in 1867,
a large
number of eminent physicians, showing that hundreds of soldiers in the confederate armies had died of syphilis and gangrene, caused by vaccination.
"The Confederate
vaccination.
published in
resulted from
Dr. M. Depaul, Chief of the Vaccination Service of the French Academy of Medicine, reports vaccinal syphilis which resulted in the infection of one hundred and sixty children.
In testifying before the English Parliamentary
tee in
1
Commit-
87
1,
Royal Jennerian
Institution.
made
the subject of
and was therefore able to detect indications of that disease which might escape the notice of other medical men, and that he "had seen eleven cases of syphilitic contagion through vaccination."
13
December number
"They owe
their dis-
gusting origin to the foul exudations of that indefinite, nameless, hideous thing, now in active propagation throughout the
land, yclept-syphilis."
"The transmission
be an established
of syphilis
fact."
German
empire, said:
"Above
ly
recommended for the re-vaccination of schools." The report of the German Vaccination Commission
of
to
"Up
known
in
dred and fifty persons." In the month of December, 1880, fifty-eight recruits of 4th Regiment of Zouaves, stationed at Algiers, were vaccinated and syphilized, and after terrible suffering, tliirty died. Regarding this case, Dr. Emile Bertherand, Editor of the Journal "I have seen of Medicine and of Pharmacy, Algiers, says: the infected youths, and the cause of their misery is undispu-
ted."
Academy
of
Medicine," Paris, Bulletine number 31, August 6th, 1889, there is an account of five children vaccinated and infected with ulcerous syphilis.
It is
of the transmission
by
of observation
we
shall
find
ample authority
H
remark of Dr. Winterburn, that: "Medical men are no better, and never have been any better, than the public demand; and the surest, the most reasonable, nay the only way to raise the standard of professional character and achievment is through the demands made by an intelligent and exacting public."
This has the true ring of professional integrity. Here no attempt to pander to special, vested and private interests
is
The
practitioner
who
deserves the
respect or patronage of the public, offers moral, intellectual and social worth, as an equivalent for regard and confidence;
for
patronage.
scientist,
Alexander von Humboldt, who understood the manifold evils which arise from "I have clearly perceived the protainted blood, once said: gressive, dangerous influence of vaccination in England, France and Germany."
It will
fulfilled if
be seen that
this
we examine
being gathered on the subject, notwithstanding the determined opposition of the pro-vaccinators. For these statistics
we have
but
little
space, therefore
must allow
therefrom
a few general
quotations to
tell
suffering resulting
to depict
and must be
left
modes of life and cannot be effectually conquered removing the cause." but by
unsanitary
Like other
soil.
filth
diseases,
is
nourished by
lacking
this, it
This does not necessarily imply that external surroundings must be unsanitary, although they do exert a
evil.
power
for
It is
and supports zymosis; and Jennerism, by its practices of infusing filth into the human system, has done more to promote and perpetuate disease, than all other diseases combined.
i5
London
it
says:
look upon
and firmly believe that it is often the medium of conveying many filthy and loathsome diseases from one child to another, and it is no protection form smallpox." Dr. Robert A. Gunn, Dean of the United States Medical College of New York, in speaking of Medical Dogmas, has said: "Of these dogmas, I believe the practice known as Vaccination to be the most absurd and most pernicious. I do not believe that a single person has ever been protected from smallpox by it; while I know that many serious bodily evils and even deaths, have resulted from its employment. The whole theory is founded upon assumption, contrary to common sense and entirely opposed to all known principles of physiology. Every physician of experience, has met with numerous cases of cutaneous eruptions, erysipelas and syphilis, which' were directly traceable to vaccination, and if these cases could be collected and presented in one report, they would form a more terrible picture than the worst that has ever been drawn of the horrors of smallpox." But these terrible pictures have not been left entirely to Some years since one Dr. the vagaries of the imagination. Ceely made special examinations of the results of animal vaccination and drew from life, several pictures of cases which presented facts having special significance. These pictures were subsequently reproduced on well executed plates in order that the exact condition might be made known
who cared
remark of
and they
Prof.
They represented
who must
Truly, the
enforced by law.
is
the opportunity
Francis
versity has
no right
have been and deadly blunders. A quarter of a century back they rebuked and scoffed at those who informed them that vaccination may propagate any or every disease
to be listened to with deference; for they
guilty of monstrous
:6
To the last moment they hardened is in the blood. themselves against conviction and when no longer able to deny it, they showed no humility, no confession of error, no
that
abashment."
This is a high and disinterested authority, from one whose knowledge of facts cannot be denied, and those who
"advise vaccination"
fence to the charge.
may The
Anti-Vaccinators are
in
no such
dilemma and
be heard.
They
are plead-
Blood-Contamination," and are doing this without fee or reward, other than that of a consciousness of having discharged
that duty which all
men owe
"Self Curability
of
Disease," has said: "I believe vaccination has been the great-
originated in fraud, ignorance and error. It is and impracticable. It has been promotive of very great evil, and I cannot accredit it any good." It must be admitted that Dr. Noyse had a rare opportunity to "Learn the lesson of experience," and the duties of his office required that the standard of health be kept at the highest practicable point, if he would consult his own ease and comfort. A French writer, Verd de Lisle, presents a new point for our consideration, he says: "Vaccination hascaused mental and physical degeneration of the human species, diminished men's stature, incapacitated them for military service or even the exercise of dancing." This French writer has, in a few words, drawn a true
centuries.
unscientific
any toxic
influence,
whether
it
any other poisonous matter, which weakens, suspends or causes erratic action of any of the functions of the body. When nature's law has been inhorse, the pustules of a or
terfered with,
it
cow
is
The
vaccinator ignorantly or willfully takes fearful responsibilities, and the vaccinated must submit to the chances of certain
malific
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Dr. Edward Ballard, in his work on vaccination says: "Surgeon and patient should both carry in their minds the regulating thought that one is engaged in communicating, and the other in receiving into his system a real disease as truly a disease, as smallpox or measles."
Dr. Ballard has thus clearly stated the facts in the case.
Vaccine matter
is
diseased
matter,
possessing no power
God-given birthright of
purity,
by engrafting
its
tender flesh with a malignant poison which checks development and entrammels its every thought and act while life
shall last.
The extent
aginary picture.
Mortality,"
five
is
not an im-
of 1878,
entitled "Vaccination
we
find
greater
injured and
maimed
for life
Alexander Wilder, M. D., editor of the New York Medical Tribune, in a pamphlet entitled "Vaccination, a
Medical Fallacy," says:
"A
thority
Constantine Herring was a widely known medical auwhose works are extensively read on both sides of the
is
entitled to respect,
in
speak-
once plainly
in
robust
Dr. J. E. Coderre, whose position as Professor of Materia Medica, at Victoria University, Montreal, is a sufficient guarantee that he speaks from experience, plainly expresses his
in order to keep it
from
dis-
i8
As early as 1805, Dr. William Rowley, an eminent London physician publicly announced that: "Out of 504 persons There is no vaccinated, 75 died from the consequences.
doubt here, or question of supposition, calculation or probability
it is
truth"
According to the "Report of the Register General,' London, England, the death rate, from zymotic disorders in London, from 1870 to 1880, was less than any preceding decade. The decreased mortality from fevers fell about fifty per cent.; scarletina and diptheria about thirty-three per cent.; but smallpox gave an increase of nearly fifty per centabove its previous average notwithstanding the law which
made
vaccination compulsory.
In the investigation
made by
1871, regarding the results of vaccination, a large list of eminent physicians and citizens appeared and testified. Space forbids the giving of their testimony in full, but the
viz.:
that the lymph lays the foundation throat diseases; that affections of the eyes, tubercular syphilis and mind, have increased with vaccination; that increaspropagated by the lancet of the vaccinators; that causes es scrofular consumption and infant mortality; that of the most painful and dangerous ulcerous sores and caused the appearance of a violent rash character; that death; that a healthy babe on being vacciwhich ended sores, no such nated, the head became one mass of the family; that a healthy babe on being disease being and died eight, the vaccinated, became a great rotten; that a babe of eighteen months body being had a cancer on the chin, the result of vaccination; that a
behind;
ears,
it
it
is
boils
it
in
syphilitic
in
sufferer
at
literally
babe
in
good health before vaccination was never well thererotted on the slightest
scratch
at
of a
pin, fre-
died
twenty months,
who had
in the
this
committee,
as follows:
"There
is
West
nation.
They
often apply to
me
though there would be an equal chance of English lymph being contaminated by syphilis; have seen several cases of leprosy where vaccination seemed to be the only explanation; have a case now, a child from India, a leper, both parents being English. I saw another, a Creole of Trinidad, also of English parents. Sir Randal Martin agreed with me that the leprosy arose from vaccination. I arrived at the conclusion with reluctance in the face of difficulties. I have no doubt death resulted from syphilis, produced by vaccination, in the Rivalta cases. There are two hundred and fifty-eight such cases mentioned by Lancereaux as having occurred in France, Italy and Germany, and I think there are others of which we have no knowledge. Dr. Siljestrom, an eminent scientist and member of the Swedish Parliament says: "I have always felt that if vaccination does not stand against smallpox, it is nothing; if it does not so stand, millions to one, but it imparts other and more powerful disorders into the system. My own coachman's child took erysipelas concurrently with vaccination, and both the child and its mother, who was nursing it, who had had
'
member
of the British
House of Commons,
made murand is followed by blindness der legal, it does not protect and scrofula. Jennerism, is the most colossal humbug which the human race has been burdened with by fraud and deceit."
discussing this question said: "Vaccination has
Prof.
Hamernik, has said that "the practice of vaccinaKoehler, furnishes the facts regarding the inadults, June nth, 1885, with a
Dr.
Von
fection of
lymph ob-
tained from a
government establishment.
that, "the disease
An
expert comdirect
was the
consequence of vacccination." The Lyon Medicate, of June 22nd, 1879, publishes the following item. "On April 26th and 28th, the local doctors vaccinated with animal virus, 38 children, all ages being less
than twenty months. Whilst awaiting the incubation of the vaccine pustules, they perceived that they had inoculated
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one of the most horrible of maladies and that they had been the involuntary authors of a real massacre of the inno-
were reported to the Gazette gentleman who saw the victims. He said: 'it appeared to be an epidemic of glanders?" This statement from an Italian Medical Journal, becomes an added link in the chain of evidence which is very significant when viewed in its true light; a fact which parents
cents.
facts in the cases
d' Italia,
The
by
in the case.
Jenners "vaccine matter" was putrid pus which exudes from the heels of a horse suffering from a disease called
"grease."
2nd.
tations of the
3rd.
is
Grease and glanders are but two distinct manifessame equine disease.
This disorder
known
pulmonary consumption in the human subject. 4th. These babes were endowed by their Creator with health, and were entitled to paternal protectioii in their purity, from that unholy Jennerian rite of blood contamination, called vaccination, against which every physical law of nature rebels. 5th. "Local doctors," under the pretext of "protecting" against a disease which did not, and could not exist in a
that of
healthy body, invade the sanctuary of trustful, helpless purity; and while uplifted, innocent eyes plead for the shelter of
in
shameless, dog-
known
to
man.
plished anything
effects?
Has any mutilator of human flesh ever before accommore diabolical in immediate or ultimate
Epps who
twenty-five years was director of the has expressed the following opinion, viz.:
for
is
Dr.
Jenner
institute,
"Vaccine virus
organic systems.
a poison.
is
As
such
it
penetrates
all
It
it neutralize the smallpox, but only paralyzes the expanpower of a good constitution, so that the disease falls back upon the mucous membranes. Nobody has the right to
does
sive
life
of a child."
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Professor
of vaccination
Ennemoser
has said:
in a
"A more
certainly
The vaccine
its
virus
is
disorder
it
professes to prohibit.
Professor Kranichfield, of Berlin, expresses his opinion emphatic language, he says: "I, too, have vaccinated my children at a time when I did not know how injurious it was.
in
To-day
would
1852,
who was then Medical Director of the London Smallpox Hospital, said: "The idea of extinguishing the
smallpox by vaccination, is as absurd as it is chimerical; it is as irrational as it is presumptuous." His acts were in accordance with his opinion, as he refused to have his children vaccinated. Dr. Stowell, after twenty years' experience as Vaccine Pliysician in England, said: "The general declaration of my
patients enables
me
is
not only
an
illusion,
whose twenty
years of experience
in
give weight to his opinion on the subject has said: "I have
it
According to Dr. Pearce who was Vaccine Physician in Edinburgh and London, the death rate among the smallpox patients of the first thirty years of the last century, was seven
and one-half per cent.; during the last thirty years of the same century, and after vaccination became general, the death rate increased to nine and one-half per cent. Dr. Dongan Bird, an eminent English Physician asserts that: "The blood of the whole British population is saturated with scrofulous and tubercular diseases; which are more de-
22
structive to the youth
J.
Keller,
who was
physician-
epidemic of 18723, and therefore had the general oversight There of 37,000 employees, with their wives and children.
were 2,627 cases of smallpox, of which 469 died. Dr. Keller draws the following conclusions from his experience during
this
epidemic.
1st.
"Generally more vaccinated than unvaccinated persons were attacked by smallpox." 2nd. "Re-vaccination did not protect from smallpox-
and did not lessen the general mortality." "Neither vaccination nor re-vaccination exercised 3rd. any favorable influence upon the mortality of smallpox." This is disinterested testimony from one who was not only competent to judge, but whose experience covered a very wide field, and thus was in possession of all facts necessary to form a correct opinion and whose personal interests required that this vast multitude of men, women and children, be kept in the best possible condition of health.
The opinion
of Dr. Keller
who
that,
tells us in his
"Among
a tribe of Indians,
all
Lancet of ten deaths from erysipelas, caused by vaccination: "Similar cases have been reported from almost every part of
the United States, and the individual testimony of physicians
in private practice,
would
fill
who
has given
and vaccination, in an address delivered before the State Committee on Public Health, at the State House, Boston, May 28th, 1894, said: "Smallpox is one of the four diseases which wrought such havoc some hundreds of years ago; the plague; the black death; the sweating sickness and smallpox. All but small-
23
pox were eradicated, and that would have been, had been kept alive by vaccination."
it
not
At
"The Boston Smallpox Hospital, could be cleared of infection in ten days. That eighty per cent, of its patients could be cured within six hours, and ten per cent,
the committee that,
additional within twelve hours."
The National Board of Health, of Washington, D. C, under date of March 4th, 1882, reports the following from Thomasville, Ga.: "The town authorities appointed a physician to vaccinate all
pose.
cine
who
The
virus
Company, Chelsea,
'bovine
The
Nearly every one vaccinated has suffered severely from erysipelas or erythema; the arm swollen from shoulder to wrist and the point of puncture presenting the appearance of a sloughing ulcer, discharging freely
result has been fearful.
sanious pus."
There
is
early childhood.
To
its
all
crimes.
Verily the
into this
It
sum of all wickedness seems to be concentrated one Jennerian dogma of vaccination. entrammels the vital powers by filling the system with
when nature demands
It
vigorous,
retards and
perverts
fiat
of
the nidus
through this condition of functional inharmony that and in which is provided for the infecting germ,
We have seen that vaccine virus usually develops zymotic affections but its course is always uncertain, and often causes secret, internal disorders to which the stomach and
bowels are peculiarly suceptible. Dr. DeTerze, of Paris, has expressed the opinion that: "Typhus, scrofula and tubercles, are transformed, internal
smallpox."
in
the seven-
highest point in
24
I
at the
beginning of the
more destruc-
than
It is
its
more easily invaded by other destructive elements of disease. Even the teeth are not exempt. Professor Winterburn, in his most excellent work on
vaccination says: "Children vaccinated during the
dentition,
period of
often
suffer
is
tooth-making process
from diarrhoea, and frequently the interfered with and the teeth are
of
Newburyport,
Mass.,
well
known
for
his
labors in
the
"The New-
buryport News," on the subject of vaccination says: "It has been ascertained that in all countries where vaccination is unknown, the decay of the teeth is unknown, and in all countries
where
five
it is
He
further says:
exposed to smallpox, and the only one who took the disease, was the only one who had been vaccinated." This adds one more to the almost innumerable cases which show that vaccination impairs the constitutional integrity and thus provides congenial conditions for the develop-
"My
children were
ment
we
desire to
In 1855, a commissioner
British
Parliament to procure the opinion of eminent physicians regarding vaccination. Out of some five hundredanswers, two
hundred and sixteen subscribed to the following objections: 1st. "It endangers life." 2nd. "It nurses and develops latent diseases."
"Children frequently do not thrive so well after, as before vaccination, especially during teething, change of
3rd.
"It introduces
new
body
of the
patient."
work on vaccination says: "Upwards of nine hundred of well attested cases (of invaccinated
Dr. Winterburn, in his
25
are on record; and when it is remembered with what difficulty even a singlecase can be indubitably sustained, the mind realizes the probability of thousands which have
syphilis),
My own
dispensary experience
investigation
Governmental would revealan undreamt of multitude of cases." But he adds, very significantly: "Such an investigation will
to aver that a systematic, impartial,
me
never be permitted."
we learn of "A smallpox epidemic in the correspondent of the "Homeopathic World," writing from Calcutta, says: "More than six thousand cases of smallpox have already occurred in this city since the beginWhile
writing,
East."
ning of February, 1895, of which seventy per cent, were fatal. Almost all the people are vaccinated from virus of cowpox
this
vaccination
does
not
prevent the
That vaccination, a
la Jentier,
That the blood of "almost all the people," has contaminated, and their constitutional integrity has been
2nd.
been impaired.
3rd.
In this
of the entire
4th.
This weakness of the system is the enemies' opportunity for implanting the germs of disease and the bodyThe a perfect smallpox incubator. is thus converted into
is
further assisted
Enough has been said to show that only evil can result from the introduction of rotten pus into a healthy body, and
it
might
flatter
our vanity
if
we could lay all the blame to the but we cannot thus escape the
condemnation of future generations. Our statute books are still encumbered with infamous laws enforcing blood-poisoning of innocent children, although
we may charge
the fram-
who have no
medical profession than the dollars it may yield to cupidity, we are all responsible for their continuance, and future generations will point to
them
as a blot
26
No
can
investigate this
made
be
compulsory
in this land of
it
may
by
which a law could be enacted which, according to Doctor Mitchel of the British House of Commons, "Has made murder legal."
It
may
be said that
all
men have
true,
if
would be
the question
was of a
pri-
man
an opinion which
known
facts.
is contrary to both common sense and well Such an opinion would be prevarication, pure
and simple.
The
overwhelming
in
their conclu-
Thomas Watson
of
England, called: "An ugly blot." But the contam'ination of the blood of the whole human race is more than this; it is a
crime without parallel against the physical purity of God's
children; a violation of the God-given rights of man, and the
man
God; and
their vio-
lation
rights of God."
That temple
in
soul,
should be a sanctuary not to be invaded by the poisoned arrow of the savage, nor the poisoned lancet of ignorance,
superstition or venality.
Dr. S. B.
ical
Munn,
"If
med-
responsible for
ill
effects,
no physician
and worthy a pracThe statuatory protection which the people need tical test. is not against the ordinary chances of disease, but the certainty of disorders transferred by the lancet of the charlitan. Dr. Winterburn has told us that: "Medical men are no better, and never have been any better than the public demand," and the best way to quicken the professional conto the point
science
is
to
professional acts,
their fruits
ye shall
know them."
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We hold
Is life
more than pecuniary losses. and health less sacred than dollars and cents? Medical men say, and in private conversation, often do exhibit a degree of moral obtuseness, but there are few who would not shrink from publishing to the world the evidence of their moral obliquity.
but his blunders seldom involve
The
following extract
is
from an
article
on "Certificates
in the
of Death," written
January number
The
writer
and to which the public have access, it is scarcely to be expected that a medical man will give opinions which may tell against, or reflect upon himself in any way, or which are likely to cause annoyance or injury to the survivors. In such cases he will most likely tell the truth, and assign some prominent sympus voluntarily,
by
ton of the
disease
tell
as
the
cause
of death.
As
I
instances
will
which may
from the
to
man
himself,
men-
tion erysipelas
first
A death
practice,
in
my
and although
of it
in
child, yet in
I
my
desire
preserve vaccination
from
reproach,
of death." In this statement we have two important facts, viz.: That vaccination caused erysipelas and death. 1st.
certificate
my
2nd.
That
in his
and by so doing betray the confidence reposed in him and the general public. Is this the ethical standard of a learned and scientific gentleman, or the craft of an ignorant tradesman, harrassed by the avarice of some greedy employer? The legal maxim, falstis in uno, falsns in omnibus, might with propriety be applied to those who deceive patrons and deserved falsify records to save a medical dogma from
facts,
by
his patron
reproach.
The author
of the
foregoing
quotation
is
probably no
more blameworthy than many others who are active and unscrupulous promoters of the Jennerian theories, but
mit that this quotation
we sub-
may be
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that class of medical practitioners
who
"desire to preserve
vaccination from
That they have deliberately falsified the records is well known, but their motive for so doing may not be as thoroughly understood by the public as
reproach."
it
should be.
Dr. Maclean, a well
known medical
therefore
part of the
present
century,
contemporary with
Jenner has said: "It will be thought incumbent on the vaccinators to come forward and disprove the numerous facts
decisive against vaccination stated on unimpeachable authority,
or
make
manly
recantation.
But experience forbids us to expect any such nanimous proceeding, and we may be assured
circumstances, will they abandon
until the practice
fair
that, a
and magunder no
practice,
so
lucrative
abandons them."
is
hazards and to
falsify statistics in
and its evils. There are also armies of public vaccinators in every large city all over Europe, who are supported from the public treasury, and every practitioner who does not oppose the practice, derives a considerable income from its continuance." According to the "Herald of Health," "Ten millions of dollars are paid to physicians in England, annually, which would not be paid, if the law did not enforce vaccination." These remarks are equally applicable to our own country.
order to conceal
its
failure
The
capital
invested
in
(poison) would
become
fully
exposed.
We
have
army
vaccinators whose profits from this blood-contaminating process maybe estimated to be fully equal to that paid in England, and our political experience would seem
that a
to
indicate
sum than ten million would tempt the vicious and unscrupulous, when they know that the law will shield them from all personal responsibility.
smaller
much
Notwithstanding the injurious results of the process, we have a large army of legally protected- practitioners who are
strenuously advocating annual vaccination, legally enforced.
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Their motive will be clearly understood when we consider With 60,000,000 of people to be annually vaccinated, even at the low rate of fifty cents per capita, we have the enormous tax of $30,000,000., to be levied annually for the special benefit of impecunious practitioners. They pocket
the fees.
the profits, and the people suffer the consequences.
ter class
the
The
bet-
scientific
class of medical
men
if
as a
rule,
who
do and
to
strictly enforced,
Add
from
this
unwholesome
called
rite,
and we
human
upon
to endure.
have already exceeded our intended limits in this may appear unnecessarily cumulative. The subject, however, is one of vital interest to all, and we have made no quotations we did not
discussion, and the testimony produced
We
deem important. We have by no means exhausted the testimony at command, and, for lack of space, we have been compelled to omit many interesting and important facts For the present we will rest our case against the custom of vaccination on the testimony offered. There is one more modern custom which is so intimately connected with this
subject that
it
we should
feel
it
to be a neglect of
duty
to pass
We
specific, toxic
Prof
Koch was
man
in his practical
consumption by the injection of is "one of the most powerpoisons known" was an error in judgment, fully as conG. Dickson has told us
The
disastrous consequences,
however, were limited by the early discovery of the dangerous and useless character of the experiments, and the Koch mania is fast dying out.
30
Pasteurism, or inoculation for hydrophobia,
of the
is
another
rite
same genesis as Jennerism, and by which many innocent persons have been hurried into eternity. According to statistics published by the "Anti Vivisection Society," of London, sixty-three persons had died in consequence of treatment by Pasteur's system, within the two years preceding March, 1887, and M. Zutland, Editor of the " Journal de Medicine"
says: "Pasteur does not cure rabies, but gives
it
by inoculation"
The
seem
but
to be sufficient to
is
as truly a disease
find that each decade brings into public view men with more physical energy than mental acumen, and who prefer an unsavory
causes,
we
notoriety to
drift into
common-place
obscurity.
When
such people
some
new
At
ance of
far to
treatment
for
diptheria,
recklessness of
many members
born
not made."
The
New York papers of the sudden Brooklyn after one injection of antitoxine. Virchow, of Berlin, had condemned the practice, and the fatal result from the Brooklyn experiment has aroused the public to the dangers of the practice, and those of the profession who have become compromised by the advocacy of the use of anti-toxine have made hot haste to defend
by the recent report
death of a young
the
man
in
themselves.
At
five
men
of
New
York,
praise of anti-toxine.
At
the close
of the reading of the last essay, Dr. Joseph E. Winters arose and said that for three months he had studied its effects carefully in the Williard
single case
where
it
Parker Hospital, but had failed to find a had a healthy influence on diptheria.
"On
many where He
3i
among which he
York Board
New
of Health,
Because
in
fifty-
four cases,
during the months of January, February and March, 1895, in the Williard Parker Hospital, I have failed
I
it neutralized the toxaemia have never found that it exerted the slightest influence for good in a single clinical manifestation of the disease on membrane, pulse, temperature, gland swelling, laryngeal symptoms, etc. Every one of these cases were examined daily, with great care and solicitude, and
with the desire to discover some evidence of the virtues ascribed to anti-toxine
by
others.
its
2nd.
life,
oppose
its
it
on account of
immediate danger to
through
its influence on the blood." Doctors are not miracle workers; cures, if effected, must be through a wise co-operation with hygienic law.
Nothing but
evil
comes through
constitutional impairment.
The Jenner lymph, is diseased matter which transmits disease; the Koch poison has accomplished the deadly work of
its
first inflicted
both
by
inoculation;
in
by and anti-toxine
of God's
now being
life
laws of
defiance
"A
fruit."
In conclusion
recognize the
we would appeal to the people to investiwe feel assured that those who do so, true cause of much of their sufferings, and
To
laws," and
enact more
To accom-
32
plish this
legisla-
ture that
of
reform.