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VACCINATION.
"The Bulletin."
In a discussion on the reliability 6* vac
preventive
of small-pox, the asserclnation aa a
tion wg a.ade that In the three last epidemieV of
thi^t 'disease In England the mortality was gre^Jrt la the last one; necessarily since Jenner's d
Please give some statistics on this su
f covery.
To the Editor
of
Sir:
1ect.
<In 1837 the British Parliament received answers from 542 physicians of all nationalities
to questions which were asked them in reference
to the utility of vaccination, and only two of
them spoke against it. Nothing proves this utilEsltv more than the statistics then obtained.
pecially instructive were the figures compiled In
an epidemic of small-pox at Chemnitz, Germany,
Its population was 64,225, of whom
1870-71.
53.831 were vaccinated. 5.712 were unvaecin
ated. and 4,652 had had the small-pox b
Of those vaccinated, 953. or 1.77 per cent, became affected with the disease; of the unvaccinated, 2.643, or 46.3 per ceu:., suffered frxm
The mortality of the vaccinated was 0/73
it.
per cent.' and of the unprotected 9.16 per
Summary of recent statistics indicates that' 1
general cases the danger of infection is six t!im
as great and the mortality sixty-eight, times u
srreat In the unvacciuated as in the vaccinnti'i',
During the Franco-Prussian war there wp.s jj
epidemic of small-pox in France; the Frety
army, whose vaccination was not carefully c)
ried out. lost 23,400 from small-pox; the
man army, where the men had been thorough
Inoculated, lost only 450 men.)
In
Harvey Cushing
Medical Library
HISTORICAL LIBRARY
Yale University
Gift of
Dr. Alfred Evans
VACCINATION DEFORMITY.
VACCINATION
A CURSE
And
Menace
TO
PersoQal Liberty,
WITH
BY
J.
M. PEEBLES. A. M., M.
D.,
Ph. D.
AUTHOR OK
'THE SEERS OF THE AGES," "DEATH DEFEATED OR THE PSYCHIC SECRET T
TO KEEP YOUNG," "THREE JOURNEYS AROUND THE WORLD." " HOW TO
LIVE A CENTURY AND GROW OLD GRACEFULLY," "THE SOUL'S
PRE-EXISTENCE," "THE CHRIST QUESTION SETTLED,"
"IMMORTALITY AND OUR DWELLING PLACES
HEREAFTER." ETC., ETC.
CO.,
HOW
cc**T
/900
Copyright, 1900
By
j.
m. Peebles.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
I.
....
CHAPTER
41
III.
56
CHAPTER
IV.
VACCINATION LEGISLATION
S9
CHAPTER
V.
CHAPTER
VACCINAL INJURIES AND FATALITIES
VI.
CHAPTER
SYPHILIS
ii
II.
CHAPTER
Page,
....
.....
167
VII.
CHAPTER
123
2IQ
VIII.
259
PREFACE.
No
ity
man, conscious of
and studied
for speech or
his
moral
book
hence
humanity,
will
ever apologize
make no apology
for publishing
efforts to benefit
The
all
oc-
state,
menace and gravest danger to the health of the rising gencrowning outrage upon the personal
liberty of the American citizen.
The immediate occasion which induced me to take up the
pen against this great medical evil of the times, was the closing of the public schools in San Diego, Cal., (February, 1899),
against all children who failed to show a certificate of vaccinaEmerging from that heated contest, with my feelings and
tion.
convictions roused to their highest tension, these pages were
thrown off at welding heat and if they are pervaded with sarcasm and irony as well as sterling fact and solid argument, they
chief
will
serve
all
who
on the point
The general
little
forth this
children,
book
to
it
open
is
their
send
For the
last thirty
years
it
in
Trebizonde, Asiatic
PREFACE.
in
South Africa
countries of Europe
in
New
in
and Ceylon
in British India
in
own United
States.
of the Pacific,
compulsory enforcement
for resistance to
mode
is
England
in
of vaccination,
from "Arm to
Arm"
In
all
mode
This
among
the native
legislatures
which they
rite
West
tion.
for
will
more
stringent
be enabled to
compulsory enactments, by
inflict
and repeat
for the
this
degrading
enhancement of
their
revenues.
Moreover, vaccination
is
a "civilized" practice.
English,
French, German, and American physicians, by means of compulsory vaccination laws which they have lobbied through the
various governments and legislatures, have the masses of the
people, and especially the native populations of the countries
protect themselves.
rule, at their
tropical islanders
to
arm
know
full
mercy.
The
the evil assumes other and equally portentuous forms which are
fully set forth in the
following chapters.
last
century.
Its
pall,
PREFACE.
though
partially lifted,
still
nightmare upon
save
have been
They encouraged
it
just
as
they en-
just
as
And
water, water!
The majority
They may
They are not students.
Many
course.
of the old
"shot-gun"
they
still
and then
that
Of course they
do.
This
natural
theirs.
grow
there
is
is
preferable to cure.
vaccination
is
And
who
against him.
now
The most
contends for
is
that
This
PREFACE.
8
is
On
stoutly denied.
the contrary
now
it
in the
It
is
of
all
and
in
not
kill,
if
it
does
We
monies
have
command
our
at
testimonies
scores
from.
took
These
Time,
at
figures, the
vaccinated
testi-
at different
on the other
most positive
vaccinated
the disease
of
two and
died there-
my
age.
ordinary physicians
is
medical practitioners
me
tell
when laymen or
how-
my
patience.
pox vaccination
do not
if
tell
most infamous
ical
falsifier of facts
men, considering
it,
Such
is
my
position,
and med-
dilemma
to
this
baleful
fire
it
built.
PREFACE.
unfoldment, the
United States.
They
They
and progress.
This
Nature,
is
afire
emwith
better.
The
tims
and enforced
fell
Today
tion.
his edicts,
vic-
before the steel and the flame of a merciless persecuthe state stands behind the commercialized, fee-
little
children.
It is especially for
we have guaranteed
and then
offer, the
if
speak
earnest, impassioned
medical as
adopt
make my
in
matters
common
come
to
know and
it.
J.
M. PEEBLES, M. D.
Battle Creek, Michigan.
From members
of
PREFACE.
IO
are
ble.
force
!"
To
this
CHAPTER
I.
dawn
Since the
of history the
etc.
diseases
In
among urban
populations.
They
are contemplated in
communities stand
approach
The
left in
the path
pox, because
it
is
home
is
small-
in all climates.
it,
is
altogether erroneous.
It is certainly
taken far greater account of since the days of Jenner than during the eighteenth century, and there are strong reasons for
it
of late years,
state
VACCINATION A CURSE.
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soil
Where
ness.
upon
and drinking
is
"filth."
crowded
filth
in
the midst of
and vicious
in their
when
The in-
community
dividual or the
It
that has a
wholesome
diet,
pure
dom from
no more
Now
zymotic diseases,
more
steadily declining, as
is
crowded
rigidly enforced in
mankind.
Alfred Milnes,
by
M.
D.,
M.
A., of
''Small-pox
is
becomes
silly
marks
sanitation
all
one of a group of
London, well
on
re-
17:
ture's
where
punishment for
filth.
filth prevails,
ing away of
filth,
Now,
in the
clear-
cleanliness.
Not so
Filth
terrible as
was
it
universal,
to
make
terrible.
out, but
still
formidable danger."
A. M. Ross, M. D., in his vigorous pamphlet, "Vaccination
A BRIEF SKETCH
FRONf
13
death."
The modes
invented to combat small-pox, have been for the most part em-
pirical
Once committed
to an error,
defend
peal a
sion of
fallibility,
and
lives in
politicians.
it is
lative
and
fallibility is
human
To
it.
re-
tacit confes-
The
earliest
form
of treating small-pox in
Europe seems to
have been imported from the same region the disease came
from, namely, from the far East, which reached England by
way
by way of
the
of dealing
Spain.
This earlier
mode
priest
was wrapped
of red
this
window
curtatins
It
and drapery
was thought
to the surface
in
and as matter of
fact, it
was
sinless
and harmless
14
VACCINATION A CURSE.
'
SMALL-POX INOCULATION.
About eighty years before Jenner's discovery
1721
French physician,
Gatti, a
common
while
in
come
to be styled
from
young country woman who had contracted cow-pox. Smallpox inoculation was derived, not from scientific experimentation,
The
and
tion
fat
bowed
to
it
people
become
as a fetish
common
it
it,
still
the doctors
who
continued
overthrow
That
it
is
and evince
their
means
forefinger of a
of scarification, introduce
sound person.
it
between the
The operation
is
A BRIEF SKETCH
good
tainty the
To
its effect.
secure beyond
15
uncer-
all
about the bed, that being the favorite colour of the Celestial
in-
We
may
well inquire
how
more than
it
all
was
finally
overthrown and
The
plished?
story
may be
briefly told.
One Timoni,
first
Greek
Wood-
notice.
But the
real credit
Mary
small-pox.
in-
72 1.
In
"saved the
Mary
for
having
fetish.
He knew
well
how
France.
cassia
He
were due to
method
of preserving their
So
it
whom
six died.
Numerous
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l6
in
but in 1740
it
it
full
sway.
This revival was largely due to the luck of two doctors, Robert
all
in those days,
credit,
parishes to submit to
it,
be expected to catch
it
vest of
so that
all
having
it
at once,
by subsequent exposure.
none would
The
rich har-
became
a powerful motive in the defence and perpetuation of the system, precisely as vaccination today, enforced by legislators and
nation legislation.
trial of
nearly a century,
it
was discov-
in
their
It
A BRIEF SKETCH
17
SMALL-POX INOCULATION.
Some knowledge
is
allels to
cal
it
furnished so
men defended
it,
made
many
exact par-
light of its
the
it
same
as vaccinators
do today
who took
But at last the real facts tragic and unwelcome though they were confronted both doctor and layman in such a signal and alarming manner, that Parliament was
invoked to put an end once and forever to the inoculating rite.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l8
Nevertheless, as we shall presently see, no sooner was this superstition abandoned, than the medical profession adopted an-
people was
made
far
worse than
their
first,
for
now
the liberty
was cancelled.
Parlia-
to
the
limbs
shall after the passing of this Act proany person by inoculation with variolous matter, or any
matter, potency, or thing impregnated with variolous matter, or
wilfully by any other means whatsoever produce the disease
of small-pox in any person shall be guilty of an offence, and
shall be liable to be proceeded against summarily, and be convicted to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month."
duce
in
Arthur Wallaston Hutton, M. A., makes the following sig"The Vaccination Question," page 14:
nificant observation,
when medical
way.
We
talk of small-
pox
inoculation, as
if
it
men and
might
19
of nurses,
performed
it
still
in isolation hospitals.
It
was the
chief
sent multitudes to
very fountains of
and
life
of incurable diseases.
by a
it
fallacy
its
proved,
still
flattering
it
final
summing up
promises were
was superseded
more monstrous,
which, notwithstanding
laid the
In the
its
at the
its
pledges
unfulfilled.
Yet
hands of Jenner
boasted
civilization,
in 1749, at
He
is
covery that by poisoning the blood with cow-pox, a future attack of small-pox would be prevented. This delusion has been
so completely disposed of by Dr. Creighton and Prof. Crook-
shank that
In the
first place,
Jenner was
little
far
He was
making
in the
fast friends.
VACCINATION
20
Royal Society
in the
biographer, Dr.
A CURSE.
according to
Norman Moor, by
a procedure which
amounted
to a fraud.
field of
natural history,
"The Bird
In
strict truth,
Many
tion.
of the
Egg."
common
fact that
those
;
who took
the
cow-pox
named
Jesty, inoculated
THE COW-POX.
This
is
filth
disease, a
in the
the
dis-
ease," but
of diseased
burn,
whom
A BRIEF
it
and foetid. *
on the dirty hands
flows,
ried
And
deadly virus
sometimes
cow
who
30,000 reward
is
"Whoever
when he
is
Yet
of Jenner's promises,
in spite
civilized
world
is
duein
spite of vaccinationto
we
did dur-
really en-
it
"His theory was that the disease of the horse's hoof, known
was the source of human small-pox and also
of cow-pox
and in this way the relationship was established to
his own satisfaction.
Neither proposition is true
nor indeed
did Jenner care to maintain the truth of either proposition when
the merits of vaccination had once become established in people's minds; but the theory justified or seemed to justify him
as 'horse-grease,'
;
in describing
cow;' and
cow-pox
as variolae vaccinae
or 'small-pox of the
is in
cattle,
truth the nature of cow-pox? It is an ailbut of the cow, as its name implies, exclu-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
22
and of the cow only when she is in milk and it is furIt does not occur when a cow
ther a disease of civilization.
suckles her own calf nor, for that matter, does it occur where
cow-stables are kept decently clean. Jenner observed that it did
not occur when the milkers were women only and hence his
theory that the disease originated in 'horse-grease,' his assertion being (first stated as an hypothesis, and then, a little lower
down, as a thing which 'commonly happens') that the disease
sively,
teats
1865,
but, happily, for the vaccinated, cowrapid evolution, and does not leave virulent remains for so long a time or so frequently as syphilis."
followed up,
In that thorough and carefully written work of Dr. Creighton, published in 1887, he
was the
first
to demonstrate Jenner's
23
He
mistake.
plaints that
of syphilis
set out to find some explanation for the comwere continually multiplying of the communication
by vaccination. The results of his investigations
were embodied
in the
cow-pox
itself,
syphilitic
which
is
parcel of the
sure to
felt
if
inocu-
of vaccination.
How
horrid to contemplate
shank wrote,
man
is
it
medium
of transmission of horse-grease to
from
his
own person
which
is
is
as well.
derived from
alone
Let us be
VACCINATION A CURSE.
24
frank.
lated
taint,
syphilitic
for be
it
beef.
shall hereafter
show
by
When
public,
it
will
We
much
crucified
then
Now,
to return to Jenner.
His
first
vaccination was on a
own
that time
this
and a
circle.
of
pulmonary con-
later
he vaccinated
disgusting
for
which
at
in Tenner's time,
He
wrote
25
ized."
of the aristocracy, a
In this
way
ladies
vacci-
clergy took
it
up, one of
Even the
whom
rite,
that christening
and vaccination
trial for
pox, the king signified to his prime minister his wish that Parliament should award to Jenner a benefaction, and the
mons
When
him 30,000.
life
cessfully vaccinated,"
opponents, viz
of
confluent form, he
his
Com-
new
doctrine to repel
itself."
Remember,
was
VACCINATION A CURSE.
26
"On
all
these grounds,
demur
and hold that small-pox and cow-pox are antagonistic affecthat cow-pox, instead of being, as Dr. Barton maintains,
tions
of a variolous,
Is,
in
fact,
of an anti-variolous nature
that
it
alters
of small-pox.
variety of
low
it,
"cow-pox
is
in its
symptoms."
More
nature of
recentl)
Dr.
its
George Gregory
quoted
A BRIEF
"Experimenters,
entitled
to
respectful
27
have
attention,
whom
and
know
made
in
London,
says
and
He
sion that
that
all
many medical men are under the false impreswe require to do is to inoculate the heifer with
nation
is
neither
really
fact,
We
in
often
Therefore
we
it is,
calves, to
shall
becomes
when we
human
beings again.
admits of no denial.
small-pox
udder
horrible as
it is
it
as proven
secondarily
submit
Cow-pox
is
not
to
the
infected
official
with
syphilis.
vaccinator,
or
VACCINATION A CURSE.
28
calf,
Think of
the
it,
calf.
closes
certificate of vaccination;
of vaccine corruption
May your
home which
requiring
and degradation
the
aye, in pro-
sanctified to liberty;
this
infernal
rite,
down
life
little
of contagion
you have cherished for the future of your posye fathers and mothers of daughters, that
your state and municipality should put you under compulsion
to observe a rite which is liable to taint those daughters with
Think
of
it,
whose home
is
in
whisper
aye,
Is
it
numbered?
SMALL-POX HABITAT.
Small-pox
is
quarters of towns.
It is
towns
country
is
fifty
rate
The epidemic
in
where
England
this
important feature
of 1871-72
was notably
is
is
se-
over-crowded.
A BRIEF
are
and
light
2g
two most
woefully deficient.
In the
premium on these primeby taxing the windows of the poor. Every aperture
that would admit air or light into a dwelling had to pay for the
the self-destructive policy of putting a
essentials
privilege to exist.
Even
window
among
is
it
is
it
fitly
most
named
home
at
all
tricts
badly drained."
In the debate on the Compulsory Vaccination Bill in 1853,
Lord Shaftsbury pointed out "that the small-pox was chiefly
all
but
exterminated."
After the Warrington epidemic in 1873, the Royal
were rated
8 or lower
at less than
;
Com-
at
Dewsbury
the disease
is
stated,
the
manufacturing towns
fell
almost entirely
among
VACCINATION A CURSE.
30
for the
it
was 90 per
was 94 per
In Man.
cent.
In Warrington.
cent.
89 per
cent.,
Hence, in the
1787, 95 per cent.
eighteenth century small-pox was predominantly a disease of
This continued to be the case until the 1837 epidemic,
infants.
when
fell
Since
rate in
Here are
quoted by
W.
Scott
Tebb
Mean annual
Under
5.
15
io9
94
98
25 45 up
66 22
141
173
58
principally
considered
10
5.
337
186
a sufficient
ground
SPREADING OF SMALL-POX.
The
narrow
limits
vaccinators.
much
vaccinated town;
gan to
cmt.
By
number of
down
births be-
to 39 per
1886 to 23 per cent.; in 1887 to 10 per cent.; then to
6 per cent.; and since 1891 has almost entirely ceased. From
;
rapidly decline.
in
Leicester.
Now
in
the
which
report of
its
is
simply
medical of-
A BRIEF
ficer for
1893
tells
of every health
Addressing
his
of cleanliness as
31
civilized world,
a story
officer said
Writing on the
Tebb remarks,
relative
page 93 of
value of vaccination,
his great
work
Dr. Scott
Here
is
If
protection
is
good
for anything
is
just
it
but
should
we
see
filth
prominent factors
spread of small-pox.
frosts over
failure of crops.
The poor
coras:ement.
In 1684 there
in-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
32
among
small-pox mortality
Then
the great
among
some measures
its
for
the small-pox
179(3
temporary
relief.
fatality swelled to
The year
following
an unprecedented
Bills.
Then
the harvest
failure in
figure,
in epi-
demic form.
War may
War
is
Our
tension.
died
disease
of
which
whom
in
side,
round numbers
62,000
;
62,000
in eastern
France,
among
late in the
German army,
it
He
writes
field
Dr.
round Metz.
my
*
smelling
-
salts.
-.-
A BRIEF
33
filled
filthiest state
mud in which they had lain. Their clothes and their blanket
were saturated with mud. Their food for weeks had only been
a biscuit and a bit of horseflesh without salt.
Dysentery was
universal, and typhus and small-pox raged.
Over a wide area
around the camp the carcasses of dead horses were left to rot
and contaminate the air."
Mr. William Jones was
rendered
"The
in
sur-
water was distinctly heard outside the square in which they were
isolated.
and were
*
his
own
sister,
to
nurse him, caught the disease from him and died there, and was
buried in the cemetery at Plantieres outside the walls of Metz."
"There
is,
indeed,
to
Euro-
in 1871-72."
some reason
of the great
England and Wales. Average annual deathrate per million living, from small-pox, fever, typhus fever, and scarlet
fever, in five-year periods from 1838-95.
Typus
Scarlet
Years.
Small-pox.
Fever.
Fever
Fever.
1838-42
576
1,053
1847-50
292
1,246
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34
Small-pox.
248
Years.
I85I-55
Fever.
Typus
Scarlet
Fever.
Fever.
983
1856-60
198
1861-65
219
922
1866-70
105
850
I87I-75
408
81
1876-80
82
599
380
34
759
680
1881-85
$3
43^
16
273
202
23
1886-90
241
1891-95
24
842
982
960
182
4
be found that the small-pox
185
it
will
of the table
the
is
made compulsory."
to 1871
death from small-pox had only abated 29 per cent, while fever
hence, since the commencement of
diminished 43 per cent.
;
registration, there
pox
was
materially diminished.
The cause
of this
abatement
is
very
plainly stated in the forty-second annual report of the Registrar General (1879)
"Had
a mere alteration in name. But as the deaths under each heading have declined, as the fall in the death rate from them has
been enormous 62.4 per cent, in the course of ten years and
as the totals are by no means small, it may be accepted as an indisputable fact that there has in truth been a notable decline in
these pests, and it may be fairly assumed that the decline is due
to
Here
and no
is
common
class
in
sense
this
better than
members
The only
35
rational explana-
is,
that
In Oriental countries
tion
is
it
pays.
futility of
we read
142,
page
fact, that
demic times."
Again, in the
"Memorandum
of the
Army
Sanitary
Com-
"Vaccination
in the
is
more
is
is
villages
must we look
for the
On
follows
this
"At the present time, compulsory vaccination, by paralyzing efforts in other directions, blocks the way towards sanitary
reform. When the laws are abrogated vaccination must, like
all other medical prescriptions and surgical operations, rest
upon its own merits, or, in other words, on its inherent persuasiveness, unaided by the arm of the law. The practice will then,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
36
in
my
doned.
'"This will prepare the way for a new era of improved health
and human happiness, the result of scientific sanitary amelioration in all departments of our social, domestic, and municipal
life."
We
all
and
it
is
is
in peri-
worthlessness of vaccination
London Lancet,
is
brought home to
we
us.
In the
read:
"The deaths from small-pox have assumed the proporOver 10,000 lives have been sacrificed during the past year in England and Wales.
In London, 5,641
deaths have occurred since Christmas. Of 9,392 patients in the
London Small-pox Hospitals, no less than 6,854 had been vaccinate d,
Taking the mortality at 17 1-2
e.j nearly 73 per cent.
tions of a plague.
i.
per cent, of those attacked, and the deaths this year in the whole
country at 10.000, it will follow that more than 122,000 vaccinated persons have suffered from small-pox! This is an alarming state of things. Can we greatly wonder that the opponents
of vaccination should point to such statistics as an evidence of
the failure of the system? It is necessary to speak plainly on
this important matter."
we
after vaccination
form
proportions.
When
one
epidemic
small-pox
predominated
dis-
uni-
as
would be found
uniformity.
and nothing
will
ine,
to year,
When
conditions.
life
37
of
advances.
or intemperance in
its
sum
total.
is
where
3,962;
small-pox
fatality
was only
53,
while
2,
In 185 1 small-pox
72,683.
Then
all
causes were
rose to 2,448, but the total death rate was almost precisely that
of 1846, being 72,506.
The
statistics of
fatality
small-pox
fatality
was
in
32
in 32,
In
when
when
rate
1-3.
among
children, says
Glasgow, of small-pox
To
amount
VACCINATION A CURSE.
fantile
life, I
my
more than
I
utter astonishment,
found that
still
my
To make
senses,
found
STATISTICS.
tc
us bring
let
GLASGOW MORTUARY
and there-
amounted
it
1783-1812.
Whooping-
From Small-pox.
Measles.
1 783- '792
3.466
211
793- 1 802
2,894
398
914
1803-1812
1,013
1,655
1,151
Decade.
Cough.
854
Decade.
Under
Two.
783- I 792
7,293
793- 1 802
6,277
9,050
16,685
1802-1812
7,120
10,913
20,175
Child: ren
To
ascertain
how
Total Deaths
Ten.
All Ages.
9,919
17,607
compen-
GLASGOW MORTUARY
STATISTICS.
1783-1812.
W
Years.
From
Small-pox.
Measles.
hoopiug-
Cough.
1783-1788
19-55
1 789- 1
18.22
1.
18.70
2.10
5-36
794
1 795- 1 800
93
17
4-51
5-13
1801-1806
8.90
3-92
6.12
1807-1812
3-90
10.76
5-57
Children Under
Children Under
Two.
Years.
39
Total Deaths
Ten.
All Ages.
1783-1788
3940
5348
9.994
1 789- 1
794
1 795- 1 800
42.38
58.07
11,103
38.82
1801-1806
33-50
5448
5203
10,034
35-89
55-69
1807- 1 81
Now
9,991
13.354
"Diseases of Children," Glasgow, 1813.
the
false
"It may not be generally known, but it is true, that Jenner has saved, is now saving, and will continue to save in all
coming ages, more lives in one generation than were destroyed
in all the wars of the first Napoleon."
The
small-pox
fluctuations
is
in
the death
rate
strikingly similar:
IN
LONDON,
1604-1651.
Year.
Deaths.
Year.
1604
896
1628
1605
444
1629
1606
2,124
io3
1)317
1607
2,352
1631
1608
2,262
1632
274
8
1609
4,410
1633
1610
1.803
^34
Deaths.
617
1635
64
1636
10,400
1613
16
1637
3,082
1614
22
1638
363
1615
37
1639
314
1616
1640
1450
1617
9
6
1641
1,375
1618
18
1642
1,274
161
1612
VACCINATION A CURSE.
4-0
1619
1643
996
l620
21
1644
1,412
l62I
II
1645
1,871
l622
l6
1646
2,635
1623
17
1647
3.507
1624
II
1648
6ll
1625
35,417
1649
67
1626
134
165O
15
1651
23
1627
In 1878 Sir
mons
Thomas Chambers
House
said in the
of
Com-
Thus
might
therefore
science.
is
utterly
It is
which variations
does not
opposed to the
of medical theories,
The
affect.
in the intensity of
practice of vaccination
dogma
in the
No
in
the healing
symptoms
other and
upon the
whole category
of the contagion
it
Aye, more.
It
it
common
in the
its
last
but not
least,
make
it
CHAPTER
II.
No
titled
Lymph
is
lymph
which
is
is
is
en-
a natural and
All so-
a collection of
The
various frauds of vaccine pus are charged with the same specific
quality, their chief differences consisting in their relative de-
grees of rottenness.
poison, no matter
They
how
a species of septic
all
The
fer-
globular bacteria, of which they are both the active element and
chief factor in
to the
conveying
human body.
Through
this
germ
is
the peaceful precincts of home, and with the connivance and assistance of the politician and legislator, inflicts
now remember,
knew
full
well
He must
when he would
arrive.
Lo
VACCINATION A CURSE.
42
here,
That
so-called vaccine
all
upon us
lymph contains blood
is
cells
has
will
mission said in
its
report
Upon
this
all
blood
(Sec. 430.)
cells."
Dr. Scott
"There
is
Tebb
writes,
(A Century of
nothing necessarily
in the
no guarantee that
it
''the
per-
not
fur-
will
Let us see
how much
is worth.
Mr. Earn, director of the National Establishment in England, when put under examination before the Royal
Commission, furnished some details that would be well to reflect upon
"Q. 4.130. You are a medical man. are you? Xo.
Q. 4,133. Have you made any special study of microbes?
No.
Q. 4,154. With such (microscopic) power as you are able
to employ would you be able to recognize or distinguish any
micro-organisms which might be present? Xo, I should not.
cine pus
Q. 4,155.
identified, or
and so on?
am
afraid
my
depth
as a non-medical man.
Q. 4,159.
Is
there any
disease
identify with
within
your experience
VACCINE STOCK.
as
you employ ?
43
told us, do
Q. 4,173.
it would be possible, from the microscopical examin-
you think
it is
numerous
disasters
beyond
say:
may
"It
all
is
established that
be productive of erysipelas."
(Sec. 410).
It will
lymph "absolutely
free
who
from
all
ador-
Mr. Farn, or
else
material to be used.
"When
virus.
We
VACCINATION A CURSE.
44
cow, viz., that it was a contagious disease transby careless manipulation, from the heels of the horse to
the udder of the cow. Jenner believed that small-pox, swinepox, cow-pox, and grease were merely varieties of the same
He vacidisease, as he implied by the name variolae vaccinae.
He employed the greasellated his own son with swine-pox.
virus (horse-pox) in a large number of cases, and furnished it
Acting on his suggestion, the king of
to other vaccinators.
Spain, in 1804, ordered all the children in the Foundling Hospilai at Madrid to be vaccinated with goat-pox.
Jenner claimed
that the virus of these and various other animals were all
equally efficacious with cow-pox in warding off small-pox. He
also used arm-to-arm vaccination, derived both from the cow
and from the horse. He therefore practiced five distinct things
under the one name of vaccination: (1) Cow-pox vaccination;
'2) cow-pox-child vaccination
(3) horse-pox (grease) vaccination, which he denominated as the equination of the human
subject; (4) horse-pox-child vaccination; and (5) swine-pox
order
in the
ferred,
vaccination.
"Although he asserted that grease, cow-pox, and smallpox were all one disease, he made no attempt to prove it by inoculating the
cow with
variola.
Gunsburg, inoculated with variolous virus eleven cows, producing on one of them vesicles having all the characteristics of
vaccinal vesicles, and from which 'a stock of genuine vaccine
lymph was obtained.' With this small-pox-cow vaccine four
children were inoculated, and from them seventeen other childIn the following year (1802) a
ren were in turn vaccinated.
number of cows were successfully variolated at the Veterinary
of
College at Berlin.
%
^=
$:
:):
%:
>'fi
Equine-pox stock
Swine-pox stuck
;
material
VACCINE STOCK.
d.
e.
45
Goat-pox stock
Variola cow-pox of Ceely, and others
Calf-Beaugency stock
Calf-small-pox-cow-pox."
"The Value of Vaccination," pages 37-39, Winterburu.
"When the Roval Commission on Vaccination was reluctantly conceded by the late (Conservative) government in
Anvil, 18F9, the medical profession was (and still is) in a state
of hopeless confusion as to the merits of the various vaccines
introduced and recommended by rival purveyors. One variety
is used in Germany, another in France, a third in Belgium, and
in England all have been tried more or less.
It was suggested
by the medical press that the Royal Commission should deal
with this much vexed phase of the vaccination embroglio
and after the evidence of Dr. Cory, Dr. Gayton, Mr. Farn, and
other vaccine experts, it was anticipated the commission would
have made a pronouncement on the subject. This professional
expectation has not been realized. To illustrate the extent of
this medical confusion, and for the information of those who
contemplate subjecting their children to the vaccine operation,
the writer subjoins a list of some of these vaccines:
g.
h.
(1)
The
Cow-
pox.
Woodville's
(2)
nated with small-pox.
(3)
his
eldest
VACCINATION A CURSE.
46
son.
'Swine-pox' has no relation to a pig's disease
but is
only an old name for the mildest form of small-pox, called also
the white small-pox, or pearl-pox. (Crookshank, 'History and
Pathology of Vaccination,' Vol. I, page 287.)
Horse-pox or horse-grease passed through the cow.
(4)
Spontaneous Cow-pox the Gloucestershire brand.
(5)
Ceely and Babcock's lymph
small-pox passed
(6)
through the cow.
The Beaugency Virus.
(7)
The
Passy Virus.
(8)
Warlomont's
Calf-lymph, in points, tubes or pots
Dr.
(9)
of pomade as supplied to the Royal Family in England.
The Lanoline vaccine or vesicle pulp invented by
(10)
Surgeon-Major W. G. King, and used extensively in India and
;
Burmah.
Donkey-lymph, the discovery of Surgeon O'Hara,
(11)
and strongly recommended to municipalities in India.
(12)
more
Buffalo-lymph,
recommended
in
India as
'yielding
its
abominable odor.
gium, advises medical practitioners, when families apply for vaccination, to require such families to furnish their
material, thus
pockets the
THE
own
vaccine
fee.
TRUE
CHARACTER
OF
ALL
ANIMAL
"LYMPHS."
Since one form of vaccination after another has been tried
evil effects
which followed,
VACCINE STOCK.
far
47
it
new brand
of vaccine
"Pure Calf-lymph"
elixir
market.
how
Just
is
at present
this
"lymph"
is
manufactured
is
in the
one of those
is
out or not,
know
upon
regarding
We
behavior.
its
pus, which
rograde metamorphosis
but
In other words,
rottenness.
all
vaccine material
is
animal
is
upon the
a small
it is
skin,
and
this putrifying
serum
in-
no matter
in
been induced.
dozen forms
of septic poison,
Nor
is
quent
which
its
production.
transmissions,
it
as
every
additional
its
own
channel
through
ease.
Dr. T. V. Gifford, of
Kokomo,
Ind., in
an address before
have learned
lymph.
He
least
at
says
calf-
"A Boston
reliable
VACCINATION
48
CURSE.
the hair from the udder of the heifer with a razor, then scratch
or bruise the udder with a steel-tiued instrument and leave it to
from the bruising. Now put this with the followhave already quoted form Dr. Spinzig 'Vaccinatantamount to inoculation and is septic poisoning' and
fester simply
ing which
tion
is
this
from the
little
Philadelphia
'that
how
ference
in the sore."
is
when
it
it
is
carries with
been shown
used direct;
and
in
gen-
human,
as has
cination."
On
cite a
this
Wm.
181,
Tebb.
number
who
of authorities
whom
will
summit
I will
of the
"A Century
of Vaccination."
a criticism of Dr.
free
from chances
of syphilitic contamination
is
than the effects which follow the use of a more perfectly hu-
VACCINE STOCK.
49
"
manized lymph.'
"American Medical Times" for March 8, 1862.
"But there is a special vesicular vaccine eruption attending
the acme and decline of the vaccine disease. The Germans have
called it 'Nachpocken.'
I have often, nay almost always, seen
it as a secondary eruption on the teats and udders of the cows
immediately before and after the decline of the disease in them.
The same I have repeatedly seen in children, especially in the
ind still continue at times to wit
early removes from the cow
ness it, to the great temporary disfigurement and annoyance
of the patient, and the chagrin and vexation of the parent. It
is essentially a genuine vaccine secondary eruption.
I have witnessed it in vaccinating the dog. I have colored illustrations of
this secondary eruption in man and animals, and have seen
some severe and a few very dangerous cases in children where
the skin and visible mucous membranes were copiously occupied with it."
Dr. Scott Tebb, page 367.
"Vaccination with bovine lvmph has brought to light a
series of phenomenal symptoms, except to those medical men
who have kept fresh in their minds the descriptions of Jenner
and the early writers. Jenner described the disease caused by
early removes from the cow, and he consequently gave a picture
of only the intensest forms of it, in his 'Inquiry' and 'Further
Observations.' A glance at the colored engravings in Jenner's
great work, in Woodville's, Pearson's, Bryce's, Willan's, and
all others, shows that the vesicle was larger and the areola more
intensely red than in the cases familiar to us up to the time
of the introduction of the Beaugency lymph. The reader of the
early vaccinographers can hardly believe there was not some
exaggeration in their descriptions of the serious constitutional
symptoms, and the bad ulcers which sometimes succeeded vaccination
ulcers so bad, indeed, that they had to be treated
VACCINATION A CURSE.
50
was used.
cold in her
arm
1882.
tinuance."
known."
"In nearly every instance I have mentioned in which spontaneous generalized eruptions followed vaccination, the lymph
VACCINE STOCK.
used was animal lymph, not humanized lymph. What does this
indicate? That, as Dr. Cameron, M. P., once argued before this
society, tha nearer the virus to its original source in the days
of Jenner, the stronger it is, and the more efficient the protection it affords? Without venturing to give any opinion as to
the greater efficacy of calf
lymph vaccination
as a prophylactic
GLYCERINATED LYMPH.
When
harsh in
its effects,
add glycerine to the so-called lymph, which, it is claimed, destroys all micro-organisms except the vaccine germ that is
wanted. In the first place, this is an admission that the lymph
without the glycerine, which had already been in use for years,
really contained micro-organisms in addition to the vaccine
germs, which therefore embraced a real element of danger and
in the second place, the virtues claimed for glycerine are pure
;
it.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
52
Wm. Tebb.
"Dr. Lurman, of Bremen, gives an account of an epidemic
of catarrhal jaundice in 1883-84, in a large ship-building and machine-making establishment in that town, which is of interest
from the fact that the patients had been re-vaccinated with
glycerinated lymph. One hundred and ninety-one persons were
attacked. The disease began with symptoms of gastric and intestinal catarrh, which persisted a week or more, until jaundice
The symptoms comprised epigastric oppression,
appeared.
anorexia, vomiting, faintness. and there was usually constipaYellow vision occurred in a few instances. In one case
tion.
the patient suffered from general dropsy with cerebral symptoms, but none of the cases were fatal. Eighty-seven persons in
the establishment, who were re-vaccinated by other surgeons
and other lymph, remained unaffected.
Dr. Edwards, who relates these cases in the London Medical Record of April 15,
1885. (Vol. XIII, page 142), remarks that the epidemic 'was
causally connected with the re-vaccination, in some way or
381.
other."
"A
it
feature of glycerinated
lymph appears to be
is
that,
when
VACCINE STOCK.
53
vessels.
In
ninety-eight
of
a septic nature
character, they
fatal."
number
Dr. T.
S.
lymph
:"
"Our town
authorities have employed a physician to vaccipersons who present themselves for the purpose. The
virus was procured from the New England Vaccine Company,
Chelsea, Mass., as 'bovine matter.' The result has been fearful.
Nearly every one vaccinated has suffered severely from erythema or erysipelas, the arm swollen from shoulder to wrist, and
the point of puncture presenting the appearance of a sloughing
ulcer, discharging freely sanious pus.
Many of the sufferers
have been confined to bed, with high fever, from five to ten
days, requiring the constant application of poultices to the arm,
and a free use of morphia for the relief of pain. I deem it my
duty to inform you of the result here from the matter used and
from whence it came. It came in cones, each one said to con-
nate
all
VACCINATION A CURSE.
54
enough
to vaccinate
"We
have no known
Thus
indefinitely regarding
rinated
new
all
forms
Glyce-
lymph and
devices to
the chief
suffering public,
is
from
this
ruinous practice.
commerce
and
its
production
is
it
who
is
article of
an
is
here as everywhere
well.
Commerce
the vaccinated
field
knows
stock, either in
its
else,
whether the
from
first
of his
We
latter
know
at
grease-cow-pox-syphilized-vaccine pus
is
is
destined to continue the most damnable stuff that was ever ad-
We
may soon
massed
into
will be
Washington and
one gigantic
trust, with a
lobby
at
VACCINE STOCK.
money
55
more
stringent
com-
"And
their
Every
the scar
the brute-caused
the "beast"
till
death.
on
its
body
CHAPTER
III.
The
flattering
cow-pox
is
an absolute and
we have
repeatedly seen
infallible
is
contra-
all
by the
facts with
which
we are daily confronted, but more especially in seasons of smallpox epidemic. During the last twenty years all the leading
countries of the world have expended every effort to render
vaccination general and complete.
enacted, an
army
who
And
ask,
what
None.
rate
from zymotics has not diminished, except where improved sanitary regulations
it
should
in
if
symptoms
Just in proportion as
of small-pox
will
it
has ag-
be amply shown in
gone
And had
57
of vaccination
far
Sani-
tiplication
Then he advised
and
tion,
made
marked
vaccination.
Its
re-vaccina-
He
finally
distinction
between
and non-efficient
efficient
until the
constitution was unmistakably affected with the vaccine disFinally "due and efficient" vaccination
ease.
amount and
distinct in quality,
disturbing.
As
a matter of
meant great
in
e.,
fact, if
i.
under similar conditions that they usually have the swine, horsegrease, or cow-pox,
all
it
would be scarcely
small-pox
soil for
is
populace
it
is
but like
prepared by
living,
then
less disturbing,
filthy
etc., until
the
Then a
formance of a degrading
miracle
is
rite,
is
never per-
down
its
relied
ence and
common
men
She says
scientific
men and
first
specimen
in the
was a
ignorant wo-
thing, of which
VACCINATION" A
58
CURSE.
LONDON.
YORK.
NO
VACCINATION.
In 1820. that
is.
THE
FASHION.
it
was
said:
"Cases
no conscientious practitioner can recommend vaccination as affording a certain security against the contagion of
small-pox." "Gazette of Health," London. 1820.
tent, that
vaccinated.
In the epidemic of 1831, in Wirtemburg, 955 persons were attacked with small-pox all vaccinated.
5g
this, that while vaccination is not, and from the nature of the
case cannot be, a specific prophylactic against small-pox, yet a
severe attack of cow-pox, or, in other words, vaccination followed by considerable constitutional disturbance, is likely to
24, 1870.
"The
company
ment Reports,
1850.
60
VACCINATION A CURSE.
New York
Ibid.
form
persons
who gave
evidences of having been well vaccinated, and the remarkable susceptibility of people of all ages
to re-vaccinations, are new facts in the history of this pestilence,
which must lead to a re-investigation of the whole subject of
vaccination and of its claims as a protecting agent." Dr. Winterburn, page 73.
in
The
vic-
filthy
to twenty cases
of small-pox epidemic
the
only time
when such
in
times
protection
is
needed.
When
the great
cent, of births
London
hospitals.
At the same
In the French
army during
the
entering a regiment
Sir
is
re-vaccinated
Henry Holland
It is
"The circum-
6l
permanent preventive
told as
it is,
The
of small-pox.
on
truth
this point
must be
have not
been realized."
"From childhood
pox
of scarlatina
and thorough.
effect to
demic.
We
it
becomes
epi-
disease
is
epidemic the
others are in abeyance to the extent that the total death rate
is
says,
editorially:
"Those
and ben-
eficent
of diseases
It
(1871)
VACCINATION A CURSE.
62
In a speech in the
Dr. Bullard
said:
"If
it
with
(1881).
were not
fectly satisfactory."
me
it
of a bankrupt
were not
who avowed
confounded losses."
for his
"Dr. B. reminds
Aye,
is
tested
it
of vaccination
to protect,
it
is
tested.
but
it
If at this critical
if
during a
and
it
is
or total lack
period
it
fails
is
is
it
for
it
not only
its
fails
to yield
any ben-
will
figures
SMALL-POX DEATHS
IN
LONDON.
1851-60
7,150
1861-70
8,347
1871-80
15,551
The deaths
in
last
of small-pox were
Deaths.
1857-9
14,244
1863-5
20.059
1870-2
44,840
This
is
twenty years
last
is
the
first
earlier.
63
emptions from all alike must be sought, not by any one thing,
such as vaccination, but by inquiring into and removing the
causes of epidemic susceptibility generally."
and thoroughly
scientific
men
in
side of reform,
where
tury,"
made
lem as
which
am more
and thoroughly
some
Prof. Wallace
diagramatic form
in
Wonderful Cen-
the results
glance.
"The
is
it
work
in his latest
relates to vaccination
it
"Vaccination
twelve
statistics
show
diagramatic maps
the exact truth at a
and
shall
embody
He
critically
tests
of these tests.
fallacy
and complete
real test
inefficiency
would have
pox.
Then have
dependent experts.
instituted
But such
been
The Board
VACCINATION A CURSE.
64
the Royal College of Physicians, and the master and two senior
Speaking of
this board,
"The successive annual reports of the National Vaccine Establishment give figures of the deaths by small-pox in London
in the eighteenth century, which go on increasing like Falwhile in our own time the late Dr. W.
staff's men in buckram
B. Carpenter, Mr. Ernest Hart, the National Health Society,
and the Local Government Board make statements or give figures which are absurdly and demonstrably incorrect. * * *
The unreasoning belief in the importance of vaccination leads
many of those who have to deal with it officially to concealments and mis-statements which are justified by the desire to
"
'save vaccination from reproach.'
;
Next
Establishment
the
recklessness in
65
posed
later on.
one died."
Page 81
Again,
why
tives
rect
officials of
and
no mo-
the unvaccinated
Of
of "Vaccination a Delusion."
all
fatal cases
visible
vaccination
the
benefit
of
Sweden
is
full
number
number
Hence,
of the un-
of the vaccinated.
Sweden
They
in 1801.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
66
and that from that time to 1810 there was a great and sudden
such authorities as
Sir
William
Dr.
Gull,
summary
of a por-
In the
first
vaccinated in
place, only
Sweden down
The
to 181 2.
first
successful vacci-
And
here
it
is
this small
From
in 1825,
were
By
referring to Prof.
was
all
creased
among
As
first
success-
vaccination
in->
In
in
London during
tury.
Prof. Wallace
as
it
rejates to
Sweden
"There has evidently been a great and continuous improvement in healthy conditions of life in Sweden, as in our own
country and probably in all other European nations and this
improvement, or some special portion of it, must have acted
;
67
vaccination."
opinion that
"Prussia
is
VACCINATION A CURSE.
68
caused a mortality
that of England."
in re-vaccinated
Ibid,
we compare
If
page
Prussia
48.
Berlin with
London
in
1871,
London
and
this,
remember,
is
we
find the
more
than
where vaccination
SMALL-POX DEATH-RATE
PER MILLION.
NAME OF TOWN.
Hamburgh
15.440
14,280
9,600
8,650
7.916
6,980
5.410
4,420
4.330
3.890
3,0O0
Rotterdam
Cork
Sunderland
Stockholm
Trieste
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Portsmouth
Dublin
Liverpool
Plymouth
is
very
in
London during
69
idemic, and
it is quite clear that vaccination can have had nothing to do with this difference. For if it be alleged that vaccination was neglected in Hamburgh and Rotterdam, of which we
find no particulars, this cannot be said of Cork, Sunderland,
and Newcastle. Again, if the very limited and imperfect vaccination of the first quarter of the century is to have the credit
of the striking reduction of small-pox mortality that then occurred, as the Royal Commissioners claim, a small deficiency in
the very much more extensive and better vaccination that generally prevailed in 1871, cannot be the explanation of a smallpox mortality greater than in the worst years of London when
there was no vaccination. Partial vaccination cannot be claimed
as producing marvellous effects at one time and less than nothing at all at another time, yet this is what the advocates of vacBut on the sanitation theory the excination constantly do.
planation is simple. Mercantile seaports have grown up along
the banks of harbors or tidal rivers whose waters and shores
have been polluted by sewage for centuries. They are always
densely crowded owing to the value of situations as near as
possible to the shipping. Hence there is always a large population living under the worst sanitary conditions, with bad drainage, bad ventilation, abundance of filth and decaying organic
matter, and all the conditions favorable to the spread of zymotic
Such populations have
diseases and their exceptional fatality.
maintained to our day the unsanitary conditions of the last century, and thus present us with a similarly great small-pox mortality, without any regard to the amount of vaccination that
may be practiced. In this case they illustrate the same principle which so well explains the very different amounts of smallpox mortality in Ireland, Scotland, England, and London, with
hardly any difference in the quantity of vaccination.
VACCINATION
70
A CURSE.
********
to almost nothing.
"The
first
thing to be noted
is
same time
decline
in
till
it
is
now reduced
maximum
The
its maximum.
was due to sanitary
improvements which had then commenced but the rigid enforcement of vaccination checked the decline owing to its producing a great increase of mortality in children, an increase
which ceased as soon as vaccination diminished. This clearly
shows that the deaths which have only recently been acknowledged as due to vaccination, directly or indirectly, are really so
numerous as largely to affect the total death rate; but they
;
71
The small-pox
object lessons of the past thirty years, for since the small-pox
in revolt
and
system of sanitation as
admit
of.
other
cities in
tice,
lies
It
its
crowded population
rid itself
thorough a
of 180,000
would
all
the
In
1S94 Leicester had only seven vacinations to 10,000 of the population, while
Birmingham had
and between 1891-94 Leicester had less than one-third the cases
of small-pox
and
less
Birmingham
whence it is
numbers and severity the facts are
"Now let us see how the commissioners, in their Final Report deal with the above facts, which are surely most vital to the
"ery essence of the inquiry, and the statistics relating to which
have been laid before them with a wealth of detail not equalled
Practically they ignore it altogether.
Of
in any other case.
course I am referring to the majority report, to which alone the
government and the unenlightened public arc likely to pay any
attention.
Even the figures above quoted as to Leicester and
Warrington are to be found only in the report of the minority,
who also give the case of another town, Dewsbury, which has
partially rejected vaccination, but not nearly to so large an extent as Leicester, and in the same epidemic it stood almost exactly between un-vaccinated Leicester and well-vaccinated Warrington, thus
Leicester had
Dewsbury had
1.1
Warrington had
VACCINATION A CURSE.
72
that
every inquirer should read the summary of the facts given in the
minority report, paragraph 261.
"To return to the majority report. Its references to Leicester are scattered over 80 pages, referring separately to the
hospital staff, and the relations of vaccinated and unvaccinated
while in only a few paragraphs do they deal with
to small-pox
the main question and the results of the system of isolation
adopted. These results they endeavor to minimize by declaring
that the disease was remarkably 'slight in its fatality,' yet they
end by admitting that the 'experience of Leicester affords cogent evidence that the vigilant and prompt application of isola*
*
*
*
tion
is a most powerful agent in limiting the
small-pox.'
spread of
A little further on they say, when discussing this very point how far sanitation may be relied on in place
of vaccination
'The experiment has never been tried.' Surely
a town of 180,000 inhabitants which has neglected vaccination
for twenty years, is an experiment.
But a little further on we
see the reason of this refusal to consider Leicester a test experiment. Paragraph 502 begins thus
'The question we are now
discussing must, of course, be argued on the hypothesis that
vaccination affords protection against small-pox.'
What an
amazing basis of argument for a commission supposed to be
inquiring into this very point! They then continue: 'Who can
possibly say that if the disease once entered a town the population of which was entirely or almost entirely unprotected, it
would not spread w ith a rapidity of which we have in recent
times had no experience?' But Leicester is such a town. Its
infants
the class which always suffers in the largest numbers
are almost wholly unvaccinated. and the great majority of its
adults have, according to the bulk of the medical supporters of
vaccination, long outgrown the benefits, if any, of infant-vaccination. The disease has been introduced into the town twenty
;
73
times before 1884, and twelve times during the last epidemic
(Final Report, par. 482 and 483). The doctors have been assert-
ing for years that once small-pox comes to Leicester it will run
through the town like wild-fire. But instead of that it has been
quelled with far less loss than in any of the best vaccinated
towns in England. But the commissioners ignore this actual
experiment, and soar into the regions of conjecture with, 'Who
can possibly say?' concluding the paragraph with 'A priori
reasoning on such a question is of little or no value.' Very true.
But a posteriori reasoning, from the cases of Leicester, Birmingham, Warrington, Dewsbury, and Gloucester, is of value
but it is of value as showing the utter uselessness of vaccination, and it is therefore, perhaps, wise for the professional upholders of vaccination to ignore it. But surely it is not wise for
a presumably impartial commission to ignore it as it is ignored
"The Wonderful Century," pages 276-7.
in this report."
"Although the commission makes no mention of Mr.
Bigg's tables and diagrams showing the rise of infant-mortality
with increased vaccination, and its fall as vaccination diminished,
they occupied a whole day cross-examining him upon them, endeavoring by the minutest criticism to diminish their importance."
that of the
is
practically
unvaccinated,
in
With seemingly
little
small-pox mortality
is in
exact
in
VACCINATION A CURSE.
74
we
as
all
behaves in the
all
One
have
"Now
if
compared over
alone almost conclusive
and we ask
with amazement, Why did not the commissioners make some
such camparison as this, and not allow the public to be deceived by the grossly misleading statements of the medical witnesses and official apologists for a huge imposture? For here
we have on one side a population which the official witnesses declare to be as well vaccinated and re-vaccinated as it is possible
to make it, and which has all the protection that can be given
by vaccination. It is a population which, we are officially assured, can live in the midst of the contagion of severe small-pox
ami not suffer from the disease 'in any appreciable degree.'
And on comparing this population of over 200,000 men, thus
thoroughly protected and medically cared for, with the poorest
and least cared for portion of our country a portion which the
official witness regarding it declared to be badly vaccinated,
while no amount of re-vaccination was even referred to we
find the less vaccinated and less cared for community to have
actually a much lower small-pox mortality than the navy, and
*
*
*
*
the same as that of the two forces combined.
"It is thus completely demonstrated that all the statements
by which the public has been gulled for so many years, as to the
almost complete immunity of the re-vaccinated army and navy,
are absolutely false. It is just what Americans call "bluff.' There
results, this great test case of large populations
is
infection they
O.oi per
75
facts.
is, to make no comparison whatever with
comparable populations, to show no perception
of the crucial test they have to deal with, but to give the army
and navy statistics separately, and as regards the army piecemeal, and to make a few incredibly weak and unenlightening remarks. Thus, in par. 333, they say that, during the later years,
as the whole force became more completely re-vaccinated, smallpox mortality declined. But they knew well that during the
same period it declined over all England, Scotland, and Ireland,
with no special re-vaccination, and most of all in unvaccinated
Leicester
Then with regard to the heavy small-pox mortality
of the wholly re-vaccinated and protected troops in Egypt, they
say, 'We are not aware what is the explanation of this.'
And
this is absolutely all they say about it
But they give a long
paragraph to the post office officials, and make a great deal of
their alleged immunity.
But in this case the numbers are
smaller, the periods are less, and no statistics whatever ar*e furnished except for the last four years
All the rest is an extract
from a parliamentary speech by Sir Charles Dilke in 1883, stating some facts, furnished of course by the medical officers of the
post office, and therefore not to be accepted as evidence. This
slurring over the damning evidence of the absolute inutility of
the most thorough vaccination possible, afforded by the army
and navy, is sufficient of itself to condemn the whole Final Report of the majority of the commisssioners. It proves that they
"What they do
any other
fairly
VACCINATION A CURSE.
76
But
men
of conscience
and
facts
in a
integrity,
in their
minority report.
who
put the
proper relation
The commission
as
whom
it
was
A
sion
further
may
word
of
its
comment
ablest
is
members
measure of regard
found
One redeeming
Commisfeature of
percentage
operation of politicians
are
accessible, they
Now
official
Compulsory Vaccination
cians
Law
77
became
fully
became
Through
sufficiently enlightened
people
thousands refused to submit, or suffer their children to be vacProsecutions, fines, and imprisonment followed.
cinated.
The
was
really to
become
a "white-washing" commission to
si-
and an army
of the state.
of vaccinators
Not one
States in 1898
also
in
of the fourteen
ostensi-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
/8
army contracts
is
good one
pays,
it
this
body
of trained experts
murmurings.
The
ought to
"taffy" offered
taste
good and
made
its final
report.
It is this
them by
quiet their
its
labors
salaries, before
so unmercifully scores.
What
have said
in the
may
preceding paragraph
likewise
year.
So
Ins party to
their schemes.
failures,
continues
Dr. Scott
:
the hissing heads of such serpents at once but a general manimen of eminence in the profession,
mind
up
again.*'
exchequer)
who gave
in the
''chan-
Kingdom, and
to report their
in its
its
general adoption;
79
made, may be
laid
"The College reported favorably, and the National Vaccine Establishment was founded with a vaccine board of eight,
each having a salary of 100 a year. Although the profession
and Parliament had been practically committed to vaccination
at the time of Jenner's petition (1802), this was the first instance
of the establishment and endowment of the practice, and the
natural tendency was to stifle opposition indeed, it may be said
;
one of the principal functions of the National Vaccine Establishment was to explain away the failures of cow-pox to pro*
*
*
*
*
*
In some towns failtect from small-pox.
ures were such as to lead to a discontinuance of the practice.
that
*******
The
practice afterwards
became more
was' then obpreviously vaccinated, and were supposed to be secure, caught the complaint;
some of them died, and others recovered with difficulty."
"A Century of Vaccination," pages 122-23.
served that
many
of the children
It
"1.
child was vaccinated by Mr. Robinson, surgeon and
apothecary, at Rotherham, towards the end of the year 1799.
month later it was inoculated with small-pox matter without effect, and a few months subsequently took confluent small-pox,
and
died.
"2.
folk,
in Suf-
Seven
died.
80
VACCINATION A CURSE.
Mary
"7.
Baker
No.
Mr. Colson's grandson, at the 'White Swan,' Whiteaged two years, was vaccinated by a surgeon at
Bishopsgate Street, in September, 1803. He died of confluent
"9.
ss Street,
small-pox
in July, 1805.
ber,
1805.
cealed.
The child of Mr. Hindsley at Mr. Adams' office, PedAcre, Lambeth, died of small-pox a year after vaccination."
"14.
ler's
Such
tion, multiplying
effect either
of Physicians.
or tolerated.
No
And
it
8l
are corporation and class ethics, without soul, without conscience, cruel as fate,
what
This
laws
is
statute books,
which, in their
nies
veritable car of
Juggernaut
bearing
down
victims
its
Hertfordshire, were
in
pox epidemic
nine of
whom
The
editor gives a
list
Name.
Age.
William Barton
5 years
Mary Catmore
13 years
Ann Catmore
13 years
Emma
6 months
Prior
Martha Wrenn
Catmore
6 years
William
Charles
3 years
Wybrow
6 months
John Fitstead
James Thoroughgood
year
2 years
Tebb,
page
129.
fail
where the vaccinations were considered perfect. In these cases the fever was violent
the heat was excessive,
the pulse very quick, universal languor, pain in the head and
cases were given
loins,
frequent vomiting
convulsions.
..
.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
82
s 7,
By whom.
two children
Infant
Mr. Harrison
Infant
Mr. Redhead
James
James.
Wm. James.
Wm.
Elizabeth
Jos.
Infant
Parker
Elizabeth Fell
Mr
Maria Stable.
Mr. Carter
Betty Turner.
Alice Turner.
Infant
Infant
Briggs
Mr. Kedhead
Mr. Kedhead
daugh
Rawlin-
Mr.
son's son
Ellen
Mr.
Much
Bri.L'K-
Physac- Infant
Mr. R'.dhcad
lea
Wm. and
Mr. T. Carter
Ben- 5-3
jamin Kirby
Jane
Ellis.
Infant
Mr. Redhead
At Liverpool
Mr
Lodge,
In-
gleton
Mr. Ilarrisoi
Mr Redhead
Mr. Carter
delirium.
Had
Recovered well.
tinct.
Distinct pustules. Was at the height
in eight days, and recovered well.
83
human
lished as anything
could
be.'
Henry Holland
high authority
indulges
in
expres-
sions of disappointment in view of the general failure of vaccination as a protective against small-pox, and particularly
its failure
is
needed.
really
:
vaccinated
years,
though
or not
fully
who
"It
is
resist
small-pox in
common
VACCINATION A CURSE.
84
bering.
It
countries.
all civilized
we most fully realize the utter worthlessness of vaccination if we but use our eyes rationally. Yet with all these facts
before them, boards of health in a great number of cities and
towns in our own country, dogged on by a motley crew of
that
Act from
tion
vaccinated,
parents refuse.
Why
If
that
is
vaccinated?
who
really
their
their protection
own
children
certainly they
own modes
of thinking
And
to a privileged class,
will
and practice.
of revenue
grow
shall
less.
politician
say "professionals"
If this
to accomplish a vast
lawyer, or priest
is
amount
of mischief.
a curse in any
mercenary doctor,
community
high standing
in
Toronto, and
is
M. Ross' pamphlet,
Dr. Ross
is
a physician of
85
proves a golden harvest to the vaccinators. But notwithstanding the conspiracy of silence a few official reports pregnant with
proof against vaccination, and proving beyond question that a
large proportion of the patients admitted into our small-pox
hospitals had been vaccinated, and that many of them died,
some with two and others with three, vaccine marks upon their
bodies.
August
17,
1885:
marks.'
'I refer to the official report from St.
Roch's Hospital,
'Number of vaccinated patients admitdated October 22, 1885
197.'
ted since April
:
November
mitted
first official
to 7. 1885
of these 9
November 28 up
"I
refer
to
to
the
second
official
report
from
St.
Sa-
viour's Hospital, covering a period of 15 days, that is, from October 15 to 31, it was stated there had been in all 67 patients ad-
November 28 up
to
VACCINATION
86
CURSE.
first 15 years after the passing of the Compulsory Vaccination Act, 1854 to 1868, there died of
small-pox in England and Wales
In the second 15 years. 1869 to 1S83. under a more
stringent law, ensuring the vaccination of ninetyfive per cent, of all children born, the deaths rose to
In the
Of
under
to 10 years of age
From
66.447
121. 147
5 years of
age
47 2
16,000
54./0O
Thomas Chambers. Q. C. M.
67.472
P..
London, says:
were vaccinated.
At Hampsted Hospital, up
to
May
13,
1884,
But
must bring
exceeded the
limits I
this
promises of
its
moters.
failures
volume could
but
it is
my
failed to
do
I shall
likewise hold
now doing
87
it
some items
up to
which has made large portions of the general population involuntary and compulsatory victims of this unholy covenant with
disease, death,
and
hell.
The widespread
of vaccination
accomplished
a matter of surprise
the forerunner
when we compare
tellectual
it
self interest of
a privileged class,
its
permanence.
amount
incredible
still
and
of discussion already
It is
continue to vaccinate
they do not confer a benefit, but that they are corrupting the
future
Rome
in the
second century,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
88
relates
"many
Rome
but over
They still
"poisoned needles" armed with a
all
dead.
much per
head, in the
name
enemy
ago
is
and benefit
Look out
and over-ride.
for this
Fifty years
the business
insult
for
it
in those old-time
"Cold
quench the
fire
must refuse
that
this
was
consuming the
life.
fast
like
it
Instead of water
the
in
those days
he
was the
is
sin of ignorance.
his
of today
sinning against the light, and his motives can plead no such
fifty
years ago.
CHAPTER
IV
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
lative
certain limit
persecution
in
True, they
enactments.
will tolerate
encroachments to a
but at
and
fines
and
sure to flame up
made
fully
terest
and
aware whether
at the
though
it
This
erty
been
legislative
encroachments
and
strike
down
are
in the in-
conducting
shall
be
illustrated
of
the
respected
in
three
Saxon
and
notable
that
held
personal
his
inviolate,
instances
in
the
lib-
has
last
movements headed by
The first was a successful
protest against the divine right of the church to rule over both
VACCINATION A CURSE.
go
soul and
body
of the subject;
in his rights
sovereignty from the king to the people, and made the powers of
made
sover-
how
The
by
aced
be
able
ute.
through
by
privileges
special
them
compel
to
continually
is
which,
interests
class
acquire
to
sovereignty
people's
is
pay
to
among
seek
they
may
perpetual
trib-
which
a
men-
being
legislation,
is
the vac-
How
exceedingly grateful
the public ought to feel towards these gentlemen for their con-
tinued
good
remind you
geons,
members
as
me
let
government vaccination
sur-
mu-
nicipal vaccinators,
is
nearly up
let
me
you are
re-
when a
really doing are going to
The people
trifle
get rid of this vile vaccination nuisance and turn you out of the
office you have usurped, disgraced, and run for all the "traffic
would bear." You will then be relegated to your proper station,
put upon your good behavior, and compelled to wait until you are
asked, before you will be permitted to enter our households
with lance and putrid pus and run up a fee from one to three
constitutional right to
com-
tury, than
is
it
now made
had
in the
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
tice
last
gi
generation.
occasions for
little
were
All these
now be
when the state legalizes and enforces the creed of a parmischief bethat the serious and
fatal
No
gins to be manifest.
was ever
granted special recognition and support by the state that did not
forthwith begin to abuse those powers and
human
casion for
common
make
and
oc-
quite
And
as
their
When
as
them an
safety
them.
for
of
oppression.
cleanliness
and wholesome
among
the reme-
living, for
example
common
measures as repeated
vaccination
is
fines
it
is,
all
and then
if
vaccination
is
at least
pox though every unvaccinated gentile falls a victim to the disExcuse us, gentlemen of the lancet, we do not propose
ease.
to jump out of the "frying-pan into the fire" by substituting the
doctor for the priest.
but
when we found
You
are
all
warn you
gentlemen doctors
tion to assist
you
in
if
We
and we
legisla-
shall pretty
your claws
clip
also.
don't
we
object
filthy
VACCINATION A CURSE.
92
books
statute
treme
difficulty
experienced
in
letter
on account
enforcing them.
if
are a flag-
And
of the ex-
They
intelligence.
our statute books, and relegate this vile superstition to the same
obscure retreat to which the inoculation practice of the preceding century has been consigned.
still
In the meantime,
should
for so long as he
would be unable
left free
make
his
own
choice,
to invoke
compulsory
would
in
may
But
pulsory,
it
if
it
Mrs. Eddy's
world
at
any
harm.
legisla-
common
were to receive
it
is
state support
much ceremony.
We
tion.
is
in a state of transi-
century ago.
one
more or
less
a whole
is
now
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
93
in the
tion.
it
its
hun-
their
were excluded
free air
life-blood
the
mouth and
poisons
and
those days.
was drained
off
The
!"
all
From
it
has
all
grew worse,"
it
with the doctors which each generation from that time to the
present has repeated.
nation, backed
Now we
up by the
state,
and an
effort
by
its
promoters
the growing
to
this supersti-
tion would have been short-lived, but for the fact that the practice became allied with the modern commercial spirit and an unscrupulous class of medical men, who forecasted material ad-
constant dread.
The appointment
enforcement of cleanliness
in
crowded and
filthy
quarters
is
sory vaccination.
nation
is
I insist
that
it is
Vacci-
the medical creed of the class, the relative value and the
relative peril of
exists,
both
in the
VACCINATION A CURSE.
94
The
Nobody
necessity.
The
its
propriety and
it.
No
common
enemy.
class or profes-
is
is
as a
Nor do we
it
To
cholera.
insist
on the
identity of these
two procedures
is
an-
No,
devil in."
filth
order.
devil's
with their
own abominable
practices.
how
in excess of this
rumor
is
started which
is
among
As
the populace.
in all
Then
reforms, so
don vaccination;
taken
in this,
is
to
first
to aban-
an interest
in
itself
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
medical creed for the space of a century,
show
;"
it
95
will
not do
now
mon-
its
No,
it
is
Keep
This
told.
is
to
lie
on
when once
to their
When
commons
practically unan-
(1)
That vaccination
is
lation
(2)
health
from
is
risk to
of a benign character
life
and
or
free
peril.
This protection was promised by Lord Lyttleton, the promoter of the Vaccination Bill of 1853, upon the unanimous as-
no person
it
to be absolutely cer-
Today
there
world
is
who
not a director
holds to that
The worst epidemic of the century (1871-72), which ravaged thoroughly vaccinated communities, causing the death of
VACCINATION A CURSE.
g6
Lord Montagu
in
summon
it
is
and
peril,"
I
we have
promise that
already seen
name
victims.
is
abso-
chapters
I shall in later
how
of the law,
There
is
this crime,
now om
record in the
London
archives hun-
sion,
known
were
fully
more
to the profession
pulsory vaccination.
distinguished
for
it
were a pope,
it
and these
of
com-
were
didn't matter
in their
They
way
much
facts
to secure
The Borgia,
their
How
day of judgment?
to prosecute, fine
no person
in
and imprison
all
recalcitrant parents.
True,
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97
but the repeated fines and imprisonment of the poor for refusal
to comply,
is
In Ger-
but after
that date, the doctors having secured a more vigorous law, be-
gan
to
persistence.
the total
number
During the
now being
ment and protest against these outrageous and oft repeated insults against personal liberty.
A house to house census, taken
about this time in a hundred towns and districts by sturdy members of the opposition which had now become organized re-
and 68 per
cent,
opposed
and
is
decidedly against
its
enforcement, and
In Tasmania a
law was on the statute books for some years, but it has finally
it
been repealed.
letter.
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98
emperor
this question
will
At
vaccinated.
Act
yet
it is
signif-
children to be
last in
England, by
compulsory feature
(1898), the
own
in the
in
in charge,
vaccination
yet,
be
it
foul blot
is
now
shame
filth
of America, that
woman's
"embalmed
suffrage,
still
permit this
Shame on
we
And
said to the
from the
Don't forget
beef,"
common
sufficient enlightened
sense not to
like
fanged serpent, strikes the victim from the point of the vaccinator's lance
Not long
not long
will the
parents of the
IN
against this
common enemy,
fought single-handed.
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99
and though they did much in the way of enlightening the general public on the real dangers of the vaccine practice, they accomplished
little
The
effect
"London Society
skillfully
Hence
legislation.
In this later
movement
better,
battle-field.
This
struggle.
little
tary, treasurer,
their enterprise
Every-
and heads.
The London
doctors warned;
bills lest
The
new
but
litera-
around their standard. The follownew and powerful impulse was given to the
ability rallied
adherents mul-
and writers of
the
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IOO
Hundreds
of flags
and
sample
will
here append a
From Horse
Better a felon's
Who
It is
would be
cell
free
human
creat-
ures' lives.
is
The
,"
page
8.
nation practice, but with the most rational method for stamping
VACC4NATION LEGISLATION.
IOI
di-
over other
cities in
England.
springing out of the labors of the society which only the year
before organized with eight members.
In 1888 and 1889 the labors of the
London
society
were
The former
at the
in
"The work
ple, as well as
as a
is
Dr.
a distinguished
professor of comparative
in a critical
Dr. Sir
whole
is
Already, indeed,
it,
continue the idolatry it will simply take its own course, and,
leaving us on our knees will march on whilst we petrify."
Wm. Tebb's Pamphlet, page 10.
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102
and Crookshank
chiefly
vaccination practice
reformers
on the
wrote
first
axiom
of
war
is
to
know
everything about your enemy. It is an axiom we ought to realize about vaccination. If we are to prevail, it is not sufficient to
We
is
we might
that
Such
is
fession.
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The following
in the
letter
in
1892:
The
importance
considerations which, in view of the present state of the question, can hardly be disregarded at this juncture.
When Lord
Lyttleton introduced the first Vaccination Bill, in 1853, ne
stated that the absolute protection from small-pox by Jenner's
prescription was a point upon which the entire profession were
agreed.
Nothing was said about a temporary benefit which
needed renewing by re-vaccination or was effective only when
conjoined with improved sanitation. Nor was there any allusion to the risk of disease and death now admittedly attendant
upon the operation. The evidence disclosed before the Royal
Commission shows that vaccination has been a failure from its
commencement, and this failure, coupled with the mischievous
results of the practice in spreading serious diseases, has caused
a widespread and constantly augmenting opposition to the law.
The feeling is so acute in places like Keighley, Gloucester, Eastbourne, Leicester, Oldham, and other towns, that thousands of
intelligent people declare they would suffer any punishment
rather than expose their children to the perils of vaccination.
A large majority of the people of England (including nearly all
the working classes), are opposed to compulsory vaccination,
as I have found by personal inquiries in every part of the United
Kingdom. Household censuses made in about 100 towns and
districts show that 87 per cent, are opposed to compulsion and
that 68 per cent, have no faith in vaccination whatever.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
104
"It
is
infidels.
Yours,
etc.,
WILLIAM TEBB.
Devonshire Club,
St.
VACCINATION
LEGISLATION.
I05
It is
some redeeming
feature
much
This
that he
too,
is
not
we may con-
in-
structed to ascertain and report the facts upon the whole vacci-
ers
apparently
determined
vindicate at
all
It
in
the in-
the
vaccination
interests
of England, but
hazards.
recommended
the
They
House
of
Not only
all
over the
let
out,
and the
local
government board
left
the
VACCINATION A CURSE.
106
upon
until
hope-
But why
ernment,
this
in
suffering
throats of a long-
corrupt ring of
and by
false
that
of the agreeit
had a thor-
is
certainly the
admit
most
rational explanation
of.
The main
"conscience clause"
is
the
In
land.
all
The
is still
compulsory
in
Eng-
uninformed portion of the community have any interest to continue their connection with the business firm at the "old stand."
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
IC>7
The
in
in
is
by
all
while
the
among
Brahmins, Burmahs,
the
Mohammedans,
according
Nearly every
many
the
vil-
families
es-
known reverence
Mr.
Ellis, of
off
upon them
in the native's
deliberate literary
in Sanscrit litera-
language on vacci-
Some
inhabitants.
made
to deceive the
al-
parchments
"Taking the matter of pustules, which are naturally produced on the teats of cows, carefully preserve it, and, before the
breaking out of small-pox, make with a fine instrument a small
puncture (like that made by a gnat) in a child's limb, and introduce into the blood as much of the matter as is measured by a
quarter of a ratti. Thus the wise physician renders the child
secure from the eruption of the small-pox."
I,
page 557.
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108
Think
of
it
CURSE.
forgery of manuscripts to
What
vaccination.
It is
much
ations long
gone by
namely, that
is
it
in
gener-
lie
In India,
it
scale.
Not only
this,
Sunday
ser-
and notwith-
in that
country,
Yet there
are plenty of English doctors continually plotting to extend coercive legislation and increase the penalties for non-compliance
Bombay
When
legislative council, to
make
vaccination compulsory in
additional
districts,
native
durjee
in
which he writes:
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
log
having regard to the class of men from whom the supply of district vaccinators is to be obtained, the detailed rules will be of
as much use to them as the paper on which they were printed
Syphilitic taint does not necessarily show itself in ill-health
I
at the early age at which vaccination is practiced and demanded
by law. A child may be in fair health, and yet have inherited
syphilis.
Moreover, syphilis does not stamp itself on the face
and arms, so much as on the back and legs parts not generally
examined by the vaccinator, and thus apt to be overlooked.
Only yesterday I was asked to see a case of skin disease in a
child.
On stripping the child bare, I found him fairly healthy
But
to look at, and could see no skin blemish on his person.
closer examination of the hidden parts revealed the presence
of unmistakable condylomata (syphilitic).
These condylomata
unnoticed, I should have passed the child as a very fair specimen of average health, and a fit subject to take the lymph from.
Syphilis, as betrayed in obtrusive signs, is not difficult to recognize, but when concealed, as is more often the case, it is by no
!
means easy
to detect it.
There
In the case of leprosy it is still worse.
is
no such thing as a leper child or infant. The leper
heir does not put on its inherited exterior till youth is
reached. And it is by no means possible by any close observation or examination of a child to say that it is free from the
leprous taint. Surely arm-to-arm vaccination will not help to
stamp out leprosy. On the contrary, it has been asserted, and
not without good reasons, that it has favored the propagation
of the hideous disease.
IV. It is acknowledged that extreme care is required in taking out lymph from the vesicles to avoid
drawing any blood, for blood contains the germs of disease. Extreme care means great delicacy of manipulation, and delicacy
of manipulation with children is not an easy task, and requires
some experience and training. Is this to be expected from the
class of men who are going to act as public vaccinators in the
districts ? Supposing a district vaccinator to acquire it to some
extent after considerable practice, what about the delicacy of
manipulation of one newly put on ?
V. Puncturing a vesicle with such delicacy as not
to wound its floor and draw blood is
one great difIII.
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But the selection of a 'proper' vesicle is another as great if not a greater difficulty. Products of inflammation are charged with the germs of disease, the contagion of
contamination media, as much as the blood itself is. And the
contents of an inflamed vesicle are quite as contaminating as
the blood itself of a subject who, though charged with the poison of (inherited) syphilis or leprosy, has ^none of the obtrusive
signs of the taint for identification. And as here inflamed, i. e.,
angry-looking vesicles are not the exception but the rule, as can
be easily told by personal observation and experience and
equally easily surmised if the habits of our poor be duly considered. Thus, even if no blood is drawn, the danger of transficulty.
method is by no
remembering that leprosy that claims India, and
not England, for one of its homes, does not admit of any detection on the person of a subject from whose arm lymph may be
taken, and that syphilis is more often difficult to detect than
otherwise, and remembering, also, that both these are often met
with largely in some districts."
"Leprosy and Vaccination," Win. Tebb, page 355.
means small
Of
fact
and Ceylon.
who
if
they
to
fail
this I
speak
during
my
wash and rub out the vaccine poison suck it out, cauterize
the wound, and treat it much as we should a rattlesnake bite, or
to
the bite of a
mad
In a future chapter
dog.
VACCINATION
On
IN
THE WEST
INDIES.
is
no compulsory vaccination.
is
The popular
move
in the matter,
and any
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
attempt to enforce
who made
Tebb,
classes
upon
"From
it
Ill
riot.
William
this question
and he writes
all
advocate of compulsion.
but don't force it upon me and
mine, was the general straightforward reply."
to the other,
who want
it
less
it,
Hayti.
nation at bay,
ment
is
and
vacci-
of the island.
being
less
is
enforced with
The following
June
9,
1892
is
from a
local paper,
"During
this week, upwards of thirty or forty of the peashave been hauled before the police magistrate of the
southern district for alleged violation of the vaccination act. In
nearly every case fines of half-a-crown have been imposed, representing almost half of the week's wages which these unfortunates, if they are employed, can hope to earn. In face of the
Royal Commission on Vaccination, we do not see why the old
law, making vaccination compulsory should be still enforced. At
most, it is of doubtful benefit and doctors differ as to the positive good or injury which it does.
The advocates of Jenner's
specific can quote very few cases, if any, in its support
whilst
its opponents point with force and truth to the positive injury it
has inflicted. Here, in Grenada, pure lymph is seldom employed.
As a consequence, many of the children submitted to the process of vaccination contract therefrom fatal diseases.
The
lymph, in many cases, is collected from children inheriting a
taint of the scrofulous disease which prevails amongst the peasantry
and many an otherwise healthy child, after the process
ants
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112
sey patient.
utility of vaccination,
cent report,
e., it
i.
ON THE CONTINENT.
Among
Spain
where
personal liberty
among Anglo-Saxon
is
peoples,
France,
government has
less
far
In France
in
it
England.
The higher thinking classes generally opposed it but new regulations are coming into force which makes vaccination a neces;
sary preliminary for admission into the public schools and into
the army.
The
persons; and this in faee of the fact that large sections of the
Italian population live in the
tions.
midst of notoriously
who view
if
condi-
nowever,
this
point; and
filthy
in Italy,
practice,
so
it
far as legislation is
concerned
to
to
is
now compelled
terrible effects
to be vaccinated.
In Switzerland,
lie
"Vaccination
is
JOHN PFAENDER.
(See Page
113.)
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
II3
Here
is
its
own
repulsive char-
IS
"John Pfaender, child of healthy Swiss parents, born September 23, 1875, was sturdy, beautiful, and healthy until vaccinated, June 16, 1876, by the official vaccinator. Eight days later
his feet began to swell, abscesses formed, his teeth began to rot,
his glands to swell and fistulous sores appeared on his hands
and feet. The foregoing photograph was taken in May, 1882. He
could neither walk, nor stand.
Several of the bones of his
hands had rotted out.
"It was such cases as this that led the Swiss people to overthrow the infamous system of blood poisoning, yclepted vaccination, which a medical clique was seeking longer to impose
upon them. Since its rejection, not only has there been less
small-pox, but the general death rate is the lowest in Europe.
There are thousands of such cases in this doctor-ridden land.
It is time the American people should know the truth in all its
hideousness. Surely the spirit of freedom, the good sense and
parental affection will soon arise and banish forever this murderous outrage and insiduous cause of so much disease and
death."
AUSTRALIA.
New
nated persons.
visits
to
this
country
I fully
and
cent, of vacci-
established during
my
several
stamped out by adopting a vigorous policy of isolating smallpatients and by thorough sanitation in urban districts. Sir'
pox
Richard Thorne,
in his
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114
said
hours
"The evidence
is
so abundant that
in telling of cases in
cases." Sir
first
originally attacked.
COMPULSORY VACCINATION
In nearly
all,
not
if
in
UNITED STATES.
IN
extreme
of
difficulty
enforcing
a dead letter
is
it
The
it.
and
in nine-
on account
of the
reasoning
thinking,
this opposition
is
becom-
Then
all
children
is
is
room
as the
and the doors of the school-
decided to be unconstitutional
111.,
in
cruelly de-
And for
doctors may
how much
longer,
infamous travesty of
sonal rights.
ask
will the
How much
American voter
is
longer
oh,
tolerate this
his castle
and no doctor
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
II5
his children.
The
make
injures nobody,
mon
lot of agitators,
"who
but
is
While the rank and file, go the easy way; and not
danger becomes painfully apparent with swollen arms,
ulcerous sores and perhaps death in their own households, do
servative.
until the
True, no one
is
vacci-
legal,
decision of the
in June, 1874,
to fully re-
state of
New York
which they had previously claimed to enforce vaccination and reThe attempt to compel free-born citizens
vaccination of adults.
commonwealth
of a representative
when
rejects
its
their
it
is
to submit to vaccination
the "greatest
common
good
when
if
on
num-
to the greatest
more
repeat
abhor
to be dreaded' than
will ere
long meet
else
fail
to interpret
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Il6
rightly the quality
Saxon genius.
Humanity
and
rigid
Two
classes in the
United
in this
child,
at Castle
who
would
poisoned
at $1.00 a head.
to every emigrant
Here
ship.
"Be re-vacinated or
who proposes
stay out,"
we
say
to adopt an
Lloyd
German
line
cian writes
in
"The United States law provides that every emigrant without regard to age or physical condition, shall be vaccinated
within twenty-four hours after leaving the foreign port. Many
of those on board were exceedingly ill, and to anyone who has
ever suffered the pains and pangs of "seasickness" it will be apparent that that was not a favorable nor a proper time for vaccination, but it must be done, for the law is clear and peremptory;
there is no evading it, for on our arrival in Xew York, all those
who cannot show a certificate from the ship's surgeon are consigned to Blackwell's Is'and.
"During the three days following our departure from Bremen, vaccination was the order of the day in the steerage. I
was enticed thither by curiosity, and what I there saw was suggestive, to say the least, to me. and may be of interest to you.
The surgeon sat on a box in the storeroom, lancet in hand, and
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117
The following
Dear
Sir
*********
VACCINATION" A CURSE.
Il8
********
VACC
C. S.
Murray.
Surgeon.
Which
PASS.
Keep
this
at quarantine,
L'nited States
VACCINATION LEGISLATION.
Iig
man's sincerity
sincere.
ticed,
it
When
Yours
truth of truth.
truly,
F.
New York
SCRIMSHAW.
Tribune, March
18, 1884, is
trying to
work up a panic among the farmers when some sickness appears among their live stock. These editorial comments apply
so exactly to the vaccination doctors that a paragraph will be
appropriate here.
"Whence, then,
all this
noisy affirmation?
It
emanates from
being
sive
way from
day
It is
in the
120
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bulldozing scheme only brought about one-fourth of the children for vaccination after all, and the professional vaccinators
wish as many of the other three-fourths scared into camp at no
So, look out for another small-pox
distant day, as possible.
Duluth (Minn.) Tribunal.
scare during the coming winter."
A judge of the circuit court of Milwaukee recently decided
that compulsory vaccination of children by order of the board
of education as a preliminary to their admission to the public
schools of Wisconsin, was unconstitutional. The circuit courts
in several other states have rendered similar decisions.
But the noble state of Illinois has given the hardest blow to
compulsory legislation which has yet come under my observaThanks to the pluck and persistent fighting qualities on
tion.
moral grounds of a single man. A test case was brought from
Geneseo in which George Lawbraugh was the plaintiff. Five
years ago the board cf education of that town issued their mandate, that all unvaccinated children after a certain period would
be excluded from the public schools. Mr. Lawbraugh had a
little girl whom he proposed should remain in school, which as
a citizen owning real estate, he had paid his lawful tax to support.
He also proposed that his daughter should not be polluted with the vaccinator's lance and poison pus.
He had already lost a little boy from the effects of vaccination and he declared in terms most positive that his remaining child should not
take a similar risk; and yet, she was peremptorily excluded
from the school. Upon Mr. Lawbraugh's representation the
state superintendent of schools advised the board of Geneseo
not to enforce their mandate against this little innocent girl
but the doctors standing shoulder to shoulder behind the board,
Then Mr. Lawbraugh
the board stood by their mandate.
brought an action in the circuit court on two grounds
That compulsory vaccination was unconstitutional.
(i).
That it was dangerous to the health of the rising gen(2).
erations.
That court decided against Mr. Lawbraugh. He then carup to the appellate court and again lost it. Brave,
honest, cultured, and true to principle, he then carried his case
to the state supreme court, where, after a patient hearing, that
august body rendered a sweeping decision for the plaintiff
decision which declared the vaccination act unconstitutional.
ried the case
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121
This moral contest upon the part of Mr. Lawbraugh was not
only noble and commendable, but it has likewise established a
precedent in this country by which hundreds and thousands of
children will escape the wicked work of the detestable enemies
of our rising generation. It is indeed a sad commentary on the
form of society under which we live, that human interests instead of being mentally helpful, morally up-lifting, and productive of brotherhood, are largely destructive and antagonistic to
health and happiness. Each class thrives, or strives to thrive,
at the expense of every other class, warring not only against its
rivals in the same field of activity but likewise against the com-
mon
social integrity.
The corner-stone
service we do not
modern
of
identify
among
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122
an order in
Calvinist creed for five thousand dollars a year
which corporate interests will include the whole people and
where commerce will bestow its unstinted blessings upon every
member of the commonwealth aye, an order in which the physician, a physician, indeed, from whose ranks the blood-poisonan order in which the
ing vaccinator shall have disappeared
;
whose abundant personality will radiate and How forth the same
quality of health and life and joy which made the Christ dear
to his disciples. Jesus healed both soul and body. This is the
work of the true physician.
SUMMARY OF VACCINATION
ACTS,
OF ENGLAND,
CONSIDERED.
1840.
1
841.
1853.
1861.
1867.
1871.
1874.
1898.
vaccination.
act.
To facilitate prosecutions.
To consolidate and amend the acts.
To amend and more vigorously enforce
To explain the act of 1871.
To insert the "Conscience Clause."
the act.
CHAPTER
V.
D.,
London.
in
many
states
move
of late
lation
on the
is
interests
who drove
legis-
in
Similar pub-
ple
have
at last
the
men
they
will
fees,
though
as business
much longer
As doc-
ask,
how
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124
infamy?
How much
only
in rare instances
These
remembered, have
it
who
They
are
instead of
down
body
As we always
politic is
weighted
upon
in
all
whom
means
to
Not
tice,
else.
The
be a superb thing.
tence
Some
of
public welfare
it
is
a hypocritical pre-
child in the
com-
room
and
last
all
These
all
LOCAL
CONTESTS.
125
M.
Lawrence
of certain localities,
and southwest of McGill and St. Ansaw I will attempt to describe what I
I found ten thousand seven hunsmelt cannot be described
dred cesspits reeking with rottenness and unmentionable filth
many of these pest-holes had not been emptied for years the
accumulated filth was left to poison the air of the city and make
it the seed-bed of the germs of zymotic diseases.
Further, I
found the courts, alleys, and lanes in as bad a condition as they
decaying animal and vegetable matter
possibly could be
abounded on all sides. Everywhere unsightly and offensive objects met the eye, and abominable smells proved the existence
of disease-engendering matter, which supplied the very condition
necessary for the incubation, nouiishment and growth of smallof St.
toine streets.
street,
What
pox.
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126
rapidly subsided.
"The
causes, then, which gives rise to and propagate smallare within our control and are preventable. They may be
summed up briefly as follows
"Overcrowding in unhealthy dwellings or workshops,
where there is insufficient ventilation, and where animal or veg-
pox
is
allowed to accu-
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127
nature."
No money
ing doctor
It
an honorable
lawyer or merchant
thropy, but business
and getting on
one of
his
modes
of
is
not philan-
making a
living
in the world.
Dr. Ross, above quoted, and most of the truly great physicians
whom
bility of
have quoted
in these pages,
the profession.
whom
of the
remove the
is
located, but
It is this class
who
if
tion.
To
the
and unscrupulous
pelf,
firmness and
dead
lie in
small
is
Now,
it
politicians
selfish
are
headway that a
the direction of thorough san-
But
in
who
are trying to
These
little
each parent
vaccinated
if
declare
you allow
if
you submit
this public
enemy
holds with his lancet and putrid pus to imperil the future of
128
The
VACCINATION
CURSE.
legal authority
little
ones commit-
is
do not sanction. You need not submit your children to this accursed rite, nor need you submit to have them defrauded of
school privileges which you have been taxed to provide.
many towns
local
in
In
accordance with
of
is
aroused,
at
is
once precipitated.
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IX
home
in
San Diego.
Early
in
February
if
my
sunny
remember
the
local
emptory order
thai
attendance.
the
to
my
Parker, M. D.
vaccinati' n
guarded.
Daily
Sun
saw
fit
practice,
I
to publicly notice
and
opened the
he
ball
was
>nly erne
doctor
P.
my arraignment
extreme'.',
reserved
h tier
J.
of the
and
to the
"Eciilor
Sun:
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I2Q.
cinating our school children. The consensus of opinion was decidedly against it a majority of certainly nineteen-twentieths
of those present. Further, it was a general expression that the
doctors, lawyers, druggists, and merchants be vaccinated or re-
child-
"While there
is
no epidemic of small-pox
in
our
city,
nor
the likelihood of there being any, it seems not only presumptuous but absolutely appalling that health officers should order
It certainly cannot be for the picayune finances
vaccination.
is
manity
spells
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I30
after a long
and most
his fines
that
And
victor's wreath.
be arrested
in jail
before
I, too, would
would again have
my arm
or into
my
children's arms.
too, vaccinated
ous.'
"P. A. Taylor, a
member
of Parliament, said in a
Com-
mons' speech:
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131
land.
"If necessary
many eminent
of the
the local press teemed daily with articles from indignant citizens
and with
spirited editorials
named
abounded
in expressions of
is
a sample
Among
the
"Editor Sun
I consider that I have a grievance that it is
duty to put before the people of this city.
"My son tells that he is excluded from the schools because he can not show a certificate of vaccination. I sent a note
by him this morning to Professor Freeman in which I desired
the following information
If Jamie, my son, is not allowed to
continue in the school, please, in justice to me, give me a written notice of his expulsion. I added also
I have been a taxpayer for many years, and if I am not to have any of its ben:
my
a pencil, as
fol-
of the law.
We
exclude children
answer ?
have
VACCINATION A CURSE.
I32
yard.
many
from
its effect,
nator, or the
and he
die
'Mysterious Providence.'
"A good
much
inflate
it
as
you
and
definitely
dumb
as the dens of
frozen adders.
About
this
time
early
in
February,
1899
258
children
had been sent home by the teachers for not presenting certificates of vaccination, and many more were kept home by their
LOCAL
parents
result
"tag."
who wished
would be
if
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vice about
my
official
vaccinator's
so accordingly
33
published the
"Editor Vidette: Honoring your moral bravery and admiring the breadth of thought and freedom of expression that
characterize your daily columns, allow me to say that the heads
of twenty-three families have called upon me at my residence
during the past week, saying, 'What shall we do, doctor, about
having our children vaccinated? We think vaccination dangerous. We do not believe in it, and yet we want our children to
attend school and be educated. What shall we do?'
"My invariable reply has been, I am not 'my brother's
keeper.' You must exercise your own judgment. I am frank,
however, to tell you what I should do.
"First I should send my children to school unvaccinated,
unpoisoned with pox-lymph virus, and put the responsibility
upon the official authorities for refusing to educate them in the
schools, for the support of which I had been taxed. I should
then, as they have in Philadelphia, commence legal proceedings.
It should not be forgotten that before the adjournment
of our recent legislature, Senator Simmons introduced a bill providing that if any injury or detriment to health was produced
by vaccination, both the school authorities and the vaccinators
might be sued for damages. This was right. The bill did not
come to a vote. How could it, in a legislature charged and
counter-charged with bribery a legislature neither intellectually nor morally competent to elect a United States senator?
"Second
Or, I should teach my children in my own home,
inviting some of my neighbors' more advanced scholars to come
in and teach them the higher branches.
"Third
Or, I should unite with the citizens of my ward
and organize a private school, employing competent and cultured teachers. For such a purpose I will contribute liberally
in the eighth ward.
"Fourth: Or, I should emigrate from slow, lag-behind San
Diego, to some one of the states east where compulsory vaccination is not enforced or, perhaps what would be more preferable still, bidding adieu to the American flag (the presumed
:
134
VACCINATION A CURSE.
I would settle in
enough not to enact a
and enlightened enough
liberty),
civilized
is
exempt from
arrest or penalty.
All
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I35
the future
vote for no
will
member
of the legislature
till
positively
know
sitting
skeleton of a dead-letter legislative enactment, forbids her children to enter the public schools compels them to remain in ignorance because, forsooth, their intelligent parents refuse to
have brutality cow-pox virus, calf-lymph cussedness, or anything of this nature thrust into their system, believing it to be
unconstitutional, a violation of personal freedom, and dangerous to health. Is this America proud, progressive America,
or old sixteenth century Spain ?
J. M. PEEBLES, M. D."
The following
is
Dr. Parker's
first letter:
among
tion,
themselves as to the
utility
I36
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37
vestigate the question of the effect of vaccination. The commission spent seven or more years in their investigations, held
one hundred and thirty-six meetings, examined about two hundred witnesses and investigated six epidemics, which has occurred in recent years at Gloucester, Sheffield, Warrington,
Devosberry, Leicester, and London. In Gloucester the practice of vaccination had been greatly neglected for some years
prior to the outbreak of small-pox. At Gloucester 26 vaccinated
children under ten years of age were attacked, of whom one
died
of unvaccinated children of like age 680 were attacked,
of whom 279 died. The report of the commission was unanimous in favor of vaccination as the only effective means for the
protection against the ravages of small-pox.
In Germany
where vaccination has been compulsory for years, small-pox is
almost unknown in recent years. Hoping I have not made this
Yours very trulv,
too long, I am,
;
P.
Peebles replies
J.
PARKER,
M. D."
"In expressing an opinion adverse to compulsory vaccinayou doubtless reflected the convictions of a large majority
of the parents of San Diego. That the eighty-nine doctors, or
the most of them, favor it, counts but little. Doctors without
an exception once favored bleeding in fevers. Both Washington and Byron, it is believed, died from blood-letting. Doctors do not bleed men now-a-days
nor will they vaccinate in
the near future.
Much less will they dare, however ignorant
they may be of Jennerism and the dangers attendant upon calfpoison, to compel vaccination. I recommend medical incompetents to weigh well these candid words (published Sunday) by
the leading physician and surgeon of our city
tion,
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138
ber of his family vaccinated, the feelings of such a party are enDr. Remendido.
"Certainly every man's 'feelings,' every man's conscientious
castle,
no vaccination doctor,
tic
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139
I treated or assisted other physicians in treating for weeks and months small-pox patients.
Small-pox is
closely allied to filth, and sanitation, hygiene, pure air, healthy
diet, sunshine, and bathing are much' more efficacious preventatives than vaccine virus, in whatever way manipulated, and
whether called scabs, pus, lymph, serum, or calf-virus words
do not render poisons any the less malignant.
"Speaking of 'humanized virus,' Dr. Parker says
'The old
method of vaccination was a God-send to the human race.' On
the contrary I pronounce it emphatically a death-send, a
scourge, and a most damnable curse. Here are a few of my au-
proving it
"In the English 'Digest of Parliamentary Returns,' No.
thorities
life
estalished
fact.'
of age,
them died.'
"The report
the
of
German
vaccination
'Up to 1880,
fifty
commission of
cases have be-
cinationists
is
false.
If figures
do not
lie
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I40
make them can, and often do. The Gloucester OfReports are decidedly against the benefit of vaccination.
Dr. Parker is no authority.
I have them at my command.
His Ipse Dixit neither counts nor carries weight with either
those that
ficial
The
report of the
British
And
the people.
1859 to 1896, there were one thousand and two hundred and
seventeen admitted deaths from vaccination. There were doubtless five times this number, say the minority reports, but they
were 'hushed up to prevent vaccination from further reproach.'
"Engaged wholly in literary pursuits and depending upon
a livelihood from neither the vaccination business nor local medical practice of any kind, I can find leisure to ventilate the viciousness and villainous consequences of compulsory vaccination, and I shall do it with ungloved hands, and will therefore
say that if Dr. Parker desires a journalistic controversy with me
upon the merits and demerits of compulsory vaccination he will
find me girded for the conflict
and I promise him a "foeman
worthy his steel."
J. M. PEEBLES, M. D.
San Diego, Cal., Feb. 13."
;
I will
(3).
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I4I
November, 1882.
Here is a fact which
is
VACCINATION A CURSE.
I42
But the decline in small-pox has really been far less than in
other zymotics, from which it may be fairly claimed that vaccination instead of mitigating it has kept it alive notwithstanding
the presence of other really mitigating causes. By implication
Dr. Parker assumes that such investigation of the disease as
we have been able to secure, is to be set down to the credit of
vaccination.
Xo other mitigating factor is hinted at. In discussing the causes of small-pox vaccinators stick to vaccination
as Mr. Gladstone stuck to "Mitcheltown." They never pollute
their lips by speaking aloud the word filth
having plenty of
They do not
They
tell
on filth that it
;
istrar
analysis
ful
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143
an allegation
How
ment
utterly misleading
of Dr. Parker
which
am
when he would
is
Noth-
the state-
is
Vaccination
;
neglect of
Dr. Parker must be aware that during the period he refers to, before Jenner's discovery (?)
waxed stronger
now boom
as vaccmation
vaccination.
yet by the
when he
says small-pox
which
same
act in 1840
England made
in-
But
finally,
small-pox deaths
million
population."
the
of
utterly
in
Committee
He
How
in 1802.
did Mr.
Lettsom arrive
at this fig-
London
which,
ure?
first
assumed
in a future chapter
shall
village,
slightest
country
in
The popula-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
144
tion of the
as that of
twelve to yield the 36,000 annual small-pox fatality for the kingDifference in sanitary conditions never was taken the
dom.
slightest account of
by advocates of vaccination.
It
is
such
glaringly false statistics as these that Dr. Parker, and vaccinators generally, are in the habit of quoting.
etc."
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sive
bed of gravel
from which
145
'The
In the language of the medical officer:
free access.
drainage of houses either empties into cesspools constructed
close to them, and leaking into the bed of gravel, or is carried
away in brick culverts, which, whenever they are uncovered,
are found to be faulty, thus allowing their contents to ooze into
the gravel. It is thus absolutely impossible that there can be
any pure water in the district."
In 1889 a flood choked these sewers and caused a back flow,
mixing vast quantities of sewage with the water on the surface.
"This water became so charged
The medical officer reports
with sewage that I feared serious consequences in the houses
:
that
became flooded."
In this pestilence-breeding and foul quarter the epidemic
At
reported, 24 of which
we confined
my
Here,
worthy of mention
nating doctors.
You
You
is
common
fault
with vacci-
were confined to
this
where the
city
Another
St.
Michael's Square,
fact
The
was likewise practically confined to this South Hamlet. Everybody with a grain of common sense knows that this epidemic
was caused by the wretched unsanitary condition at the southeast end of Gloucester.
epidemic originated
in
They know,
These
little
VACCINATION A CURSE.
I46
tion
when a vaccinator
is
handling small-pox
statistics.
"Vac-
was the
species of neglect
What was
is
supposed to
duty here.
Now
the
common
sense of
my
silent
He had
it
the citizens rose to the dignity of the occasion and turned the
vaccinators out of office; then elected boards of guardians who
stop there?
cester
is
set
more thorough
At present
Did they
sanitary regulations.
Now
Lei-
scourge, but the freest from scarlet fever and other zymotics
as well.
It is just as silly
and
illogical to refer
neglect of vaccination, as
it
would be to
small-pox
fatality to
refer fatalities
from
will
in the
tracts
Sun:
from
my
LOCAL CONTESTS.
"We
147
city
wards
California
to cultured
manhood, the
finer instincts of
womanhood, and
the
NEVER
I48
VACCINATION A CURSE.
honor them
lc*t
for
much
fears
as an honest vote.
on.
'will
and they
And
be heard.'
will
"Anti-vaccinationists, anti-compulsionists,
You have
charge you to mark such doctors as seek to enforce this deadmark such doctors as tell
letter compulsory vaccination law
you privately that they are opposed to compulsory vaccination,
yet are too sneakingly cowardly to openly express their honest
mark such school officials and members of health
convictions
and school boards as make themselves unnecessarily offensive
to those who conscientiously differ from them on the vaccinamark such public men, especially politicians as
tion question
hunt with the hounds and run with the hares, and all to catch
votes to get into offices mark such daily newspapers (NEWSjiapers), as are owned, or edited by hunting poltroons, shaped
like men. rather than by brave, fair-minded, royal-souled men,
the worthy sons of this magnificent century
;
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CONTESTS.
I49
thorns
heifers
;'
LYMPHS'
"During
this conflict
we
shall
for this
volume
I failed to
secure
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I50
"I.
This every
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151
social life."
all
his letters
appearing
in the daily
He
my
request.
debate anti-vaccinationists.
convictions.
Statistics
this struggle in
meet me
They
lack the
in
open manly
courage of their
During
my
tors to
This, on his
in public libraries.
in
stitutional,
menace
And
un-American
and
to personal liberty.
arena.
*
*
*
*
Such dastardly cowardice required no comment
Now, in the face of California's compulsory vaccination laws,
!
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152
by
side
if
sults can
be secured
any town or
in
calf-lymph
vac-
cination.
its
fifty
anti-slavery,
in
such movements
the
reform health-
dress,
now
years
temperance, prohibition,
battle
is
fully on,
here
in
San Diego.
some
but now,
And
city,
the threat
is
all
the
ply and have that putrid calf-lymph put into their children's
and
will
have written
articles in
is
on.
My
whole nature
is
aroused
Of
the eight-
the parents.
though the
so, or to
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The
public
meeting
At
thoroughly awake.
is
our
lower room
53
was
in
in
literally
two made their appearance. These spoke in its dewas present, clad in medical war paint, with my left
nation, only
fense.
hand
of
My
onable or not,
pronounced
it
not violent.
if
unconstitutional
and, treas-
arms
prevent small-pox
but does
ishly vaccinated a
was
in 1861, I
losing
my
in
kill
publicly
ness."
San Francisco
arm, and
I felt
the doctors
pronounced
came near
several years.
What
in
Fool-
pure virus
call
filthy,
vile,
"tubes
and points"
nating and poisoning the blood of our clean, sweet-faced children, that the doctors, druggists, lawyers, and preachers of San
Diego
spared.
all be vaccinated
tionists present,
roundly.
and
sisters,
cheered
me
and daughters
IS
THIS VACCINATION
Assuredly not.
The law
LAW CONSTITUTIONAL?
of
God, written
in the
moral na-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
154
ture,
is
their
They are
upon the
I will
And
personal liberty.
vaccination law
is
must be based
absolute principle of
be
my
it
and
a law
politicians, others
not to do
undoubtedly unconstitutional
and
This
it.
is
in per-
fect
cians of their
own
school.
is
to be law,
the
and death
that
Law
speedy repeal.
never
It
Petitions are
The people
will be.
now being
are too
parents.
The
try,
who were
run-
ning for the freedom of Canada, and for safety under the British
would
obey
this law.
flag.
tively
defied
Though comparait,
and
am proud
New
York,
helped several
Wendell
Phillips,
it
was
Cana-
son for
criticising a
government
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petual slavery.
in
They refused
to
obey
in
it.
Garrison was
55
mobbed
Now
finally
repealed
Ab-
and slavery
itself
bie Kelley,
abolished.
and
scarred
their very
soldiers, fighting
in
are
honored,
unfading laurel
names have
merited infamy. Such will
he board of health
due notice.
its
doctor-in-
spired makers.
Justice
one
is
A SMALL-POX SCARE!
During February (1899), as the controversy was waxing
warmer, the doctors of San Diego made a sortie to get up a
The wife of J. O. Hedges came to San Diego
small-pox scare
from Los Angeles, and died Feb. 19th. Before leaving Los Angeles she received a severe strain from lifting a heavy box. This
caused back-ache, headache, vomiting and hemorrhage. The
doctors pronounced it a case of small-pox and further reported
the woman knew she had been exposed to small-pox, and confessed to this. But the husband denied that she had been exposed or that she had made any such confession as he was in
the room during the consultation and heard all that was said.
Nine different persons had been in the sick-room before the
woman died, and everyone of these was quarantined for twentyone days, not one of whom took small-pox. One doctor ad!
VACCINATION A CURSE.
156
woman
the
in the city.
this scare,
Dr. Jones,
who was
board of health.
service."
How
modest the
fee
of $2.50 per day each for three expolicemen for twenty-one days necessitated by this same suspected small-pox case. The pest house, too, has been repaired
at an expense of some $350 to date and small claims for medicine, disinfectants, etc., amounting to $50 will also be presented,
making a total of $767, chargeable to the small-pox scare to date.
The -bill of Nurse Lowe, who escaped quarantine has not yet
been settled nor that of the undertakers, who buried Mrs.
Hedges, but both bills will doubtless bring the amount up to
over $1,000.
" 'A few more small-pox cases and we're a busted community, rain or no rain,' said a city official this morning, and
really it does seem expensive to have these little luxuries.
tra
"By
board of health has power to appoint additional health inspectors and at a conference held yesterday it was decided to appoint
a committee to inspect all passengers coming on trains from
Los Angeles. This will cost a few hundred dollars, but the
health board feels the precaution is necessary."
This small-pox scare when there was no small-pox made
'round about.
LOCAL CONTESTS.
57
to spend
Los Angeles
the vaccination.
The
The school
father of the
trustees ordered
ones is an inmate of
a poor washer-woman."
little
?
Why, the American people of course,
only a small per cent, of such characters
among whom
there
is
VACCINATION A CURSE.
158
as
Wm.
Here
is
"The Banner
clip
as vaccination are
people assert themselves and secure the repeal of this most odious law?"
is
movement
all
along the
line
boards have issued peremptory orders to vaccinate, or otherwise to exclude the children from the public schools.
The taxes
paid by the parents for public school service are not considered.
The
life
LOCAL CONTESTS.
59
"Damn
And
pay
"their province
The
has
form of
come
silly
The
seem
is
the
obey
to
willing to
millionaire classes
but
it
has
may
affirm
and re-affirm on
become obsolete
as a
working
men.
vaccinating syndicate,
who
get the kind of legislation they want, and then proceed to dictate
and
self-sacrificing defenders of
lib-
erty.
lation
in
among our
voting popu-
and which
com-
sell in
the market
ready to buy.
This class
of people, too, will generally turn their children over to the vac-
protecting them.
Civilization breeds curses
itive
and
unknown
to barbarism.
prim-
sectarists
I shall
show
that vaccination
In a later
Indies, Sand-
is
all
the
peoples.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l6o
She
is
now
being
is
it
There, as here,
it
is
finan-
cially profitable.
Down
in
17,
I clip
1899:
"Americus, Ga.,
small-pox exist
here and the local authorities have passed an ordinance making
vaccination compulsory. Half a hundred members of the First
Church of Christ (Scientists) oppose vaccination as against the
doctrines of Christian Science, and the affair will be settled in
the courts.
'"Yesterday Mrs. C. B. Raines, wife of a prominent physiwas summoned to court for refusing to be vaccinated.
She is a Christian Scientist. Upon her refusal to be vaccinated
or leave the city, Mrs. Raines was sentenced to thirty days in
the police barracks. At the request of friends sentence was suspended until today, when the entire Christian Science church
congregation was summoned to court upon the same charge.
Among the number were many young girls, business men,
matrons, and mothers with their babies.
"Attorneys for ihe Christian Scientists secured a continuance until tomorrow. The Christian Science church is an incorporated body and holds a chaiter from the state of Georgia
cian,
row
for
contempt of court."
This appears
no comments
no protest against
Here
a religious
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tific
l6l
The vaccinated
are safe
according to the oft-repeated assertion of the vaccidanger of taking small-pox from the unvaccinators from
anyhow
all
nated.
erty
Then why not leave the unvaccinated to their own libAnswer because the aggregate fees from the whole pop:
ples?"
if
we
up promptly, we were threatened with future damnaNow, having transferred the privilege of compulsion from
didn't pay
tion.
som cut
and now
brings
I clip
ium," Sept. 21
"The
it
to stay
and blos-
home,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l62
is
human
soul,
and must yet command every resource for the carrying out
its
sacred impulses.
Nov.
clip
20, 1899:
title
anti-vaccination.
It is a crime, and no mistake, to infect a
healthy babe with poison of anv kind.
HENRY
C.
STRONG,
letter
now go
from an able
little
Italian physician
Charles
Ruata, M. D.,
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was published
It
in the
in the
63
University
1899:
VACCINATION IN ITALY.
PERUGIA,
To
Italy,
June
21,
189^
blind faith.
"It may be that we anti-vaccinationists are "mad" and "misguided," as Dr. Joseph M. Mathews affirms in his late address,
but I feel that we are far more correct in our expressions, although we do not believe, but are quite sure, that vaccination
is one of the most wonderful and most harmtul mistakes into
which the medical profession has ever fallen. I can assure you
that if I am a madman, my madness is very contagious, because
all my pupils for several years have become as mad as I am, so
that several thousands of the foremost medical men in Italy are
suffering now with the same kind of madness.
"One of the most prominent characteristics of madness is
shown in illusions and hallucinations which are accepted as fundamental truths. Now, let us see what are the main facts about
vaccination and small-pox in Italy
"Italy is one of the best vaccinated countries in the world,
if not the
best of all.
This we can prove mathematically.
"All our young men, with few exceptions, at the age of
twenty years must spend three years in the army, where a regulation prescribes that they must be directly vaccinated. The official statistics of our army, published yearly, say that from 1885
to 1897 the recruits who were found never to have been vacci-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
164
nated before were less than 1.5 per cent., the largest number being 2.1 per cent, in 1893, and the smallest 0.9 per cent, in 1892.
This means, in the clearest way, that our nation twenty years
before 1885 was yet vaccinated in the proportion of 98.5 per cent.
Notwithstanding, the epidemics that we have had of small-pox,
have been something so frightful that nothing could equal them
before the invention of vaccination. To say that during the
year 1887 we had 16,249 deaths from small-pox, 18,110 in the
year 1888, and 13,413 in 1889 (our population is 30,000,000) is
too little to give a taint idea of the ravages produced by smallpox, as these 18,110 deaths in 1888, etc., did not happen in the
best educated regions of our country, but only in the most ignorant parts, where our population live just as they lived a century
ago that is, the mountainous parts of Sardinia, Sicily, Cala.Among the great number of little epidemics which
bria, etc.
produced the 18,110 deaths mentioned, T will only note the following: Badolato, with a population of 3,800, had 1,200 cases
Guardavalle had 2,300 cases with a population of
of small-pox
3,500; St. Caterina del Jonio had 1,200 cases (population,
Capistrano had 450 cases (population, 1,120) Mayerato
2,700)
had 1,500 cases (population, 2,500). All these villages are in
Calabria. In Sardinia the little village of Laerru had 150 cases
of small-pox in one month (population, 800)
Perfugas, too, in
one month had 541 cases (population, 1,400); Ottana had 79
deaths from small-pox (population, 1,000), and the deaths were
51 at Lei (population, 414). In Sicily 440 deaths were registered
at Noto (population, 18,000), 200 at Ferla (population, 4,500),
570 at Sortino (population, 9,000), 135 at San Cono (population,
Can
1,600), and 2,100 deaths at Vittoria (population, 2,600)!
you cite anything worse before the invention of vaccination?
And the population of these villages is perfectly vaccinated, as
I have proved already, not only, but I obtained from the local
authorities a declaration that vaccination has been performed
twice a year in the most satisfactory manner for many years
past.
LOCAL CONTESTS.
165
During the
power. I only give a few figures
sixteen years 1882-97, our army had 1,273 cases of small-pox,
with 31 deaths; 692 cases, with 17 deaths, happened in soldiers
vaccinated with good result, and 581 cases, with 14 deaths, hapleast preventive
the operation
tection given.
among
those in
whom
"Our vaccinationists did not lose their extraordinary courage before these facts, and they objected that they might be accounted for by considering that during the years before 1890
vaccination was not well performed. I can not understand this
objection, but accepted it, and have limited my analysis to the
last six years, during which the only lymph used in all our army
has been animal lymph, exclusively furnished by the governmentinstitute for the production of animal Ivmph.
The results are
the following: The total number of our soMiers during these
five years was 1,234,025, of which 783,605 were vaccinated with
good result, and 450,420 with no result. In the first the cases of
small-pox were 153 that is, 1.95 to every 10,000 soldiers, while
in the others the number of cases was only 45
that is, 0.99 cases
to every 10,000 soldiers. The 'duly protected' soldiers were attacked by small-pox in a proportion double that among the 'un-
protected' soldiers.
As you
extremely trust-
where and
to raise
try,
at a time
we have no league
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l66
is
one of the
first
duties
tistics.
but
wish to
call
facts,
small-pox
making these
%n
among our
we have
100.000,
army
and
the
three years in the army, it happens that after the age of twenty
years, men are by far better vaccinated than women, and, if vaccination did prevent, after the age of twenty small-pox should
fewer men than women. But in fact just the reverse has
happened. I give here the statistics of the three years 1887,
1888 and 1889 as the ones of greatest epidemics, but all the other
kill
Woman.
Man.
Woman.
Man.
Woman.
Man.
Woman.
5.983
i-8io
7.349
7.353
1.418
5.625
1.296
5.631
18.972
18.968
1990
863
4091
5749
"After these facts I would most respectfully ask Dr. Joseph
M. Mathews if he can show that in considering them I have lost
my mind. At any rate, I do not consider it correct for a medical
man to make use of such language against other medical men,
who have the only fault of considering facts as they are, and
not as one wishes they should be.
"The progress of knowledge has for its principle base, truth
and freedom, and I hope that in the name of truth and freedom
vou will publish these observations, badly expressed in a language that is not mv own, in your most esteemed journal.
CHARLES RUATA,
M. D."
CHAPTER
VI.
conditions of foul
WIN CHADWICK,
C. B.
it
was the
intelligent
first
to rise in
open
which the
harmless.
The
it
same
now, through
legislation,
It
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l68
tice of vaccination
thesis as
in the
But few
bid agent.
baleful effects.
way
its
its
slowly, perhaps,
up
sets
its
kingdom
inversive
to
and
extends
it
This malignant
spirit,
all
intrenched
the arts
poisonous
influ-
come
has
It
to
we may employ
to exercise
it.
life
Some
destructive
its
later
is
syphilis,
ises
tion
and
will
one year,
no matter, death has a mortgage on the premclaim his own and receive it on demand. If vaccina-
major portion of
set
down
at
all
like a
bastard bundle of
dis-
its terri-
And
live flesh
the
is
legislation
shall
official
reports
of
AND
INJURIES
And
boards of health.
among
may
l6g
the upper classes are far less frequent than those re-
The
life.
good
clothing,
result of
able
FATALITIES.
where
filth
forced
Nor
among
crowded
They never
city.
call
them
filthy
quarters in a
Cess-pools have no
vaccination en-
is
is
a "focus of con-
Even
have
town
among
How
is
menaced by the
fortunate that
who
( ?)
thrill
we
with dis-
small-pox epidemic
is
to
vaccinate
to
on.
is
everybody.
vaccinate
forth
motley crowd of
mothers with their children from among the poor gather at the
No mother is asked by the doctor in
vaccination station.
charge
at
home down
fering from any disease, the virus of which floating about in the
air
may
taint the
skin?"
quences
may be
considered
to be lightly considered.
and
it is
The
it is
first
business.
case
I shall
is
to vaccinate.
The prospect
later.
The conse-
of the fee
to be done.
is
not
It is law,
is
a marked one
reproduce
it
most
17
VACCINATION A CURSE.
page 159.
England
:
"I proceeded to Colne to investigate the circumstances surrounding this impotent lad early in March, 1890. My visit at-
tracted
some
attention,
and on
its
furnish a
full
above-named
report.
periodical, dated
March
26, 1890,
it
will
and as
it is
from
INJURIES
AND
FATALITIES.
171
at different times,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
172
the mother that neither he nor any other doctor could cure
him.
'The child's blood,' he said, 'is poisoned from head t3
foot.'
"Questioned as to how long the child had been in that conmother said that from the time the child was vaccinated it had never been healthy, but not until two years after
the operation had been performed did the sores break out iv.
the manner described. The child then had endured nearly ten
years of this 'living death,' as his condition has been described.
Many people had done their best to relieve him, the woman told
us. T had him at one doctor and he said that if he did not cure
him he would not charge anything. He gave him fifteen bottles.
at 2s. a bottle, and he was just as far off when he had got it as he
was before he began, and he said, Til give him up.'
dition the
"The mother of the boy said she had had twelve children,
and had always been a hearty woman. Her husband was also
a healthy man, and she could not think that the lad had taken
any disease from them. They had always lived in Colne, in
Chapel Fold 15 years, and in Colne Lane 20 years. After describing the various treatments to which the child had been subjected, the woman went on to speak of the manner in which his
life was spent.
He had never learnt to read. Pie had been sent
to school when he was able to get about, but he had been ordered back, as it would not do for him to sit with the other
children.
When he was better than usual he was able to run
about a little and on fine days he would wander about the street
on which they lived and on one occasion he was even able to
walk as far as the station. The other children in the street
would not play with him, and directly he went into the thoroughfare their parents called them into the house until the boy
had gone. Thus the poor lad was shunned like a leper and at
that early age, experienced one of the greatest trials to which
;
INJURIES
AND
FATALITIES.
173
No
shudder.
This poor boy died while Dr. Pickering's book was going
terrible a
some poison
to send
the vaccinator,
who probably
felt
as
little
me
Many
unknown
diseases
so malignant as to suggest
them
new
rules of
an order
in
which the
last
ized
human organism. Those who wish to experipoisons on their own person, by all means leave
established in the
day
if
situation.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
174
nous advocates, being perfectly novel, of a nature unknown before the introduction of vaccination, and peculiar to those who
have been vaccinated, and often so inveterate as more than
to counterbalance ihe trivial advantages that we were first led to
"It must be
expect from its introduction." Again, he says
allowed that the local inflammation excited by the inoculation
with this matter, is of a very unfavorable nature, and often ends
in a deep sloughing, frequently producing such an adhesion of
the muscles of the arm. as very much to confine its motions;
and some instances have occurred of the mortification spreadan instance of which
ing, so as to destroy the life of the child
happened in St. George's Fields. The child was inoculated at
:
In
Charles
the
"Medical
McLean
Observer"
gives a
list
Septemebr,
for
1810,
Dr.
with the names and addresses of ten medical men, including two
from vaccination.
"A Century
of Vaccination,"
page 282
8, 1882,
on the body
of
Williams, born in St. Pancreas Workhouse, and vaccinated on the seventh day after birth, the jury found 'that he
death was caused by suppurating meningitis, following ulceration of vaccine vesicles on the arm, and they were of opinion
from the results of the post-mortem examination that the vacciLilian
Ada
II,
in a
leading article.
Vol.
INJURIES
AND
FATALITIES.
175
is a belief
it may be denounced as a prejudice, but
not the less a deeply-rooted conviction, and one not conthat if the vaccine disease
fined to the poor or the ignorant
may be transmitted by inoculation, other diseases less beneficial
may be propagated m the same manner, and by the same operation. Many a parent of high and low degree dates constitutional
disease in her offspring to vaccination with 'bad matter.' Who
shall say that this etiological conclusion is always false?"
In
the number for October 28, 1854, (vol. ii., p. 360), it is stated:
"The poor are told that they must carry their children to be
vaccinated by medical men who may be strangers to them.
They apprehend and the apprehension is not altogether unfounded, or unshared by the educated classes that the vaccine
matter emp^yed may carry with it the seeds of other diseases
not less loathsome than the one it is intended to prevent."
That cow-pox disease is sufficient to cause death in a
weakly child, is shown by a case where calf lymph was employed, recorded b\ Dr. Farrar British Med. Jour., Oct. 13,
1894: "I consider her death to have been due to a constitutional malaise, induced by vaccine virus in a poorly nourished
"There
it
is
child."
"A
to by the Vaccination
Rugen
in
1885
seventy-nine children
were vaccinated on June 11 with humanized thymos-lymph obtained from a government establishment at Stettin
all, with
three exceptions, were attacked with impetigo contagiosa, and,
by infection, the disease was spread to 320 out of a population
of 5,000 inhabitants.
A commission of inquiry was appointed
by the German government, who reported that they were unanimously of opinion that the outbreak of the disease had been a
direct consequence of calf-lymph vaccination."
;
In Prof. Wallace,
details of a
VACCINATION A CURSE.
176
It is
Thomas
Skinner, of Liver-
pool:
'Q. 20,766.
of the case
A young lady,
INJURIES
AND
FATALITIES.
177
my
p3tient
The
tion.
who came
doctor's
bill
was paid
and a
woman
6s.
been injured or
quashes
killed
this indictment,
not having already exposed his second child to the same danger.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
178
We
were
case
is
admit
for while
we can
readily dis-
would be difficult
the corporation.
Here the
it
vaccinator had already killed one child, and not only collected
his fee for inoculating the
One would
sioned.
But no, the vaccinator was not going to stop with any half way
Mr. Whiting had failed to show due respect for the
sacrifices.
all
And
it
upon
therefore, notwithstand-
ing the day's wages were barely sufficient to keep the family
from hunger, he
is
"Sanitation
or Vaccination," pages
73-74:
In a census organized by the A. V. Leagues in Scarbro,
about four \ear ago (1888), the results as to cases of injun-, the
experience of the householders of a certain district were certiCases of injury 7+, and of death 37; total
fied to as follows:
in. An analysis showed them to be composed of skin diseases,
more or less severe, 24; scrofula, 2; abscesses, 13; convulruined health, 16; erysipelas and other forms of bloodsions, 3
'
poisoning, 18;
These
results,
it
in detail.
"Other answers,
in various towns, have yielded similar reScarbro, a health iesort, gives such convicting evidence as to the baneful effects of the complications and sequelae
of vaccination, what would 'Whitechapel' say?"
sults.
If
"Look
at.
that
little
child the
mother
is
fondling on her
INJURIES
knees.
AND
it
FATALITIES.
'tis
179
the loveliest of
all
earthly
Its skin is
"Here is another case of vaccine injury, unique and harchild was vaccinated, and a short time
rassing in its details.
afterwards it developed sores over the whole body. Infirmaries
and their medical staffs were helpless to relieve the sufferer, and
but the skin shrivelled up and
it survived for nearly two years
resembled that of a mummy. Prior to its decease the parents
covered up the
Here
is
face,
a case,
common
it
is
nevertheless so
full
of sug-
page 65
"During the epidemic years 1871-2, I had the most singular
requests made to me. I was sent for to see patients young and
old, in all stages of the disease and at all hours of the day and
night, both in Leeds and the suburbs. One morning when I was
gestiveness and
it
here
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l8o
about to leave my house a note was brought from Miss H., the
daughter of a soldier, saying that the husband of a sister of her
maid, living at Armley, was very bad with the small-pox, and
would I kindly go and see him. After reading my letters at the
office, I took the train up to Armley, and proceeded to the house
of a Mr. Skinner, at the address furnished me by my correspondent. He was in a bad condition truly. I never saw a worse case.
The wife was in a state of mind bordering on distraction. She
said to me, 'The doctor says my husband can't recover.
He
came yesterday and said he should not go into the bed-room
again, as it was the severest attack he had seen.' I answered,
'You may perhaps save your husband's life if you are prepared
to carry out my injunctions with a woman's will.' 'Sir,' she replied, 'tell me what I am to do, and it shall be done.' 'Go, then,'
I said, 'at once to the nearest shop, and purchase a piece of
mackintosh two yards by two, and some soft soap place the
mackintosh under him, and wash the body well with wash
leather, using the soft soap and tepid water
do this five or six
times during the day and, when the fever symptoms abate, you
can reduce rhe washings to three or four per day, but the ablution of the body must be continued morning and night for a
fortnight. After the second day you can use a bed-room towel
;
can drink. Have the windows and doors open, but keep him
warm with extra blankets. In a few days two or three
sponge the body with cold water after the tepid wash, and with
this treatment put an additional blanket over him, so as to encourage a healthy re-action. Do this, and you have done your
best to save your husband's life.' I repeated my orders again
where necessary, and left the two, wife and husband, in charge
of the good angel of Sanatory Science.
"In tlvee weeks time that man was at his work, 'sound,
wind and limb.' He and his wife have since emigrated to Australia, and I heard, only a month ago, they were doing well in
their adopted country. This man had been vaccinated."
That small-pox
popular ignorance.
is
is
chiefly
due to
AND
INJURIES
151
its
FATALITIES.
formity with the physiological laws and rise above the depress-
Dr.
afflicted
in his organization.
&
Co., p. 508,
we
tor
any of our
and
in
many
common
fevers.
We
is
simply to con-
writers End
is
This work
compendium
it is
not
is
the product of
many med-
of physic up to date.
my
sim-
modes
to perfection.
If
it
"bull's
horn
word
'
and phys-
the Indian's
the
in
other words,
if
the
it
in teaching
wampum,
to use
atti-
do mischief to
own
my
St.
Saviour's
my
VACCINATION A CURSfii
j82
wrote to some members of Parliaasked them to come here and see for
I lately
in cases of paraly-
in the
human system
itself for
prophesying structure.
teriorate
and
die, often
it
it
is
somewhat analagous
grows
fastens.
cells
at the
its
own
its
work
which
it
inversive death-
It is
burst forth in
in
may remain
its
immediate
life
It is
the growth of
In
to the
expense of the
of destruction.
It
may be propagated
is
free
from
not wanting the highest medical authorities who believe vaccination is the principal cause of the alarming increase in cancer
AND
INJURIES
FATALITIES.
183
Hospital, Leeds, formerly public vaccinator to the city of Liverpool, stated in 1883, that "syphilis, abdominal pathisis, scrof-
ula,,
tion.'
Vac.
Inquirer, p. 31.
ment," says
New
Cancer Treat-
my
"In
it
it is also
man
tissue,
namely,
in their relative
infancy to adult
life
is
human
owing
however
pure
would
to difference in rate of
fur-
of cansets of
VACCINATION A CURSE.
184
plasmic
The
cells.
pense of the
member
cells in
that
all
become
vaccine matter
is
grow
and when we
a degenerate form of
the
it
re-
lymph
in
putri-
will occa-
greater than
pose of
it
if
is
is
comprised
and
in the veins
is
that finds
is
Now,
and ramify
in these
its
little
gates"
many
we may be
of the skin,
and when a
We
in these
the poison
arteries,
of small-pox
is
which vaccination
''miti-
in
those coun-
where vaccination is well nigh universal Germany, EngIt has been stated,
land, New Zealand, and the United States.
re-stated and never denied so far as my knowledge extends, that
tries
the
medical wayside
weed-patch, on
New
Treatment," writing
INJURIES
exciting causes
"Numbers
of
tight
my
AND FATALITIES.
etc.,
says
185
smoking, drinking,
lacing,
had the
submitted to re-vaccination.
Let
all
truly scien-
men
now
evident.
Those who adopt so blindly the brutal practice
calf-lymph vaccination are but too surely sowing the wind
which they must inevitably reap as the whirlwind, a whirlwind of
corruption, disease, and national deterioration. Where the so-
human lymph
employed, syphilis, leprosy, and tubercuand wherever calf-lymph is used, tuberculosis and cancer spread like a conflagration."
Erysipelas is one of the most frequent as well as serious
effects that foliow vaccination.
But of late years the deaths resulting from this cause have been classed under different headings. In England and Wales, between the years 1859 and 1880,
379 deaths from erysipelas were directly traceable to vaccination.
Indeed the usual inflammation excited by cow-pox virus
called
is
erysipelatous in character.
The following table, from Dr. Scott Tebb's work, page 346,
gives the number of deaths for each of the intervening years
is
Deaths from
Yettr
Deaths from
erysipelas after
vaccination.
Year.
1859
1860
1870
1871
1861
l8 62
1863
l864
1865
1866
l86 7
1868
i869
11
13
10
10
4
9
19
1872
1873
1874
T875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
erysipelas after
vaccination.
20
24
16
19
29
37
21
29
35
32
39
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l86
In the
"Am.
medical men.
fatal,
on by
Of
fatal.
May
phlegmonous
31, 1863,
who was
Mr.
J.
re-vaccinated.
Symptoms
and
in four
of
days
The "Lancet of Nov. 24, 1883, relates the cases of two children named Elliston and Griggs, who were vaccinated October
'
16,
and
in
child Elliston.
last
tion.
inquiry at Gainsborough by
Local Government Board, into
cases of erysipelas following vaccination, of which six died; a
searching investigation failed to dissociate the operation from
Mr. Netten
official
Radcliffe, of the
Netherlands army.
"Before Ire South Wales and Monmouthshire branch of the
British Medical association, on Nov. 15, 1883, Dr. C. T. Vachell,
INJURIES
AND FATALITIES.
On November
vaccination.
i,
187
November 9."
--'A Century of Vaccination," page 348.
older records of the Local Government Board
Among
the
from vacci-
at
Appleby,
in 1873.
Sudbury, in 1883.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
l88
"Between the ist of November, 1888, and the 30th of November, 1891, one hundred and thirty-two cases of inflammatory or septic disease (mostly erysipelas) following vaccination
fatally, were the subject of inquiry by the Local Government Board.
Numerous cases have also been investigated by the Royal Commission on vaccination, and are cited
and terminating
:n
"Dr. H.
'
He
died.
l8g
their direct
amount
is
of serious
istrar-General
effects of
1881
58
65
1882
1883
1884
J885
1886
1887
1888
55
53
52
45
45
45
1889
1890
58
1891
1892
43
43
58
1893
1894
1895
1896
59
50
56
42
DR.
S.
TEBB.
"This shows that in England and Wales, according to medical death-certificates, one child on an average dies every week
from the effects of vaccination. This fatal record, however, does
not by any means represent the damage done by the operation,
as for every death there must be a very large number of children who are injured; but survive for years with enfeebled constitutions.
Ibid pp.
360-61.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
19
obtained.
word
the
Ibed
p.
'vaccination'
364."
is
not calculated to
schools of which sanction a species of blood-poisoning with concentrated animal virus in a manner that contravenes the prin-
of an ignorant age.
profession
All
knows
this to
The
make
false
raise false
and irrevelent
issues,
vaccinators as pestilent agitators, lobby for compulsory vaccination, persecute the true psychic
medicine, and do
many other
who
In this domain
they invert the order of nature by creating disease with the pretence of preventing disease
name
of health
scrofula,
No
It is
be comparatively harmless
The venom
in
of the rattlesnake
would
it is
swiftly fatal,
AND FATALITIES.
INJURIES
igi
may
lie
Note
is
and then
to
throw out
much
to take in
it is
not so
all
substances
of leprosy.
blue bottle
fly
wasp stung a
developed lock-jaw
months
since
in
on her arm.
delicate child
Only
Forth of July,
various parts of the country re-
last
in a
read accounts
in
of
whom
not
many
all
And
ten by a red ant, and another child was stung by a bee, in both of
whom
is
death.
through the skin the opium fiend injects the agent of his
venom
aye,
through the skin the vaccinator pushes his lance, dipped in the
virus that
diseases
may have
on the wav.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
192
if
still
and physicians
sick
;"
still,
is
in
fear.
officially distributed
cards to parents at
"For
fifty
years
nurses in small-pox hospitals had wholly escaped small-pox, owing to their re-vaccination."
"Nurses at the
made
a syphilitic child
who
out.
By dropping
much stronger
in his
But
its
person.
possibility
The sad
it
was duly
sequel need
not be related.
I will
illus-
in the hospital
nal cd?'
INJURIES
AND FATALITIES.
193
gave
confluent
small-pox!"
London
Soc.
Tract,
p.
6,
Hospital
Nurses.
"At the Fulham Hospital, three of the re-vaccinated attendants under Dr. Makuna took small-pox." Small-pox and Vaccination. Dr. W. T. Iliff p. 10.
"At the same hospital, Dr. Sweeting states that four of his
re-vaccinated nurses had taken the disease."
Journal,
May
7,
1881.
*******
addressed to Mr.
Wm.
letter
W.
J.
Workhouse
Infectious Hospital."
p. 5.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
IQ4
sation with Mr.
Amos
it
impossible
"
for
the disease.
this
connection, attention
certain persons
al-
INJURIES
AND
FATALITIES.
195
had a
staff that I
small-pox.'
tal,
"
"Mr. Thorpe Porter, M. R. C. S., of the Small-pox HospiSouth Dublin Union (see 'Medical Press and Circular,
March
2,
1872), says:
"
and general.
The pig
Here we
Toussaint's ex-
is communicable through vacand as cows are subject to the disease, both in its latent and active form, we can never be certain that the calf-lymph
VACCINATION A CURSE.
ig6
is
free
from
this subtle
and insiduous
own
he
family history
presents
some
"Sanitation
significant details
from
his
AND FATALITIES.
INJURIES
197
showed symptoms of some unaccountable yet disastrous change. By a sort of instinct peculiar to woman, the wife
insisted that her husband should go to Barnsley to inquire into
the antecedents of the parents from whose child the lymph had
been abstracted. He went, when, to his dismay, he found that
both parents were the offspring of families subject to hereditary
stitut'.on
consumption
girl,
due time, but the sister only had a family she had three boys
and a girl.
"To cut a long story short, the parents died of consumpand of the second
tion before they reached 46 years of age
generation two of the three boys and the sister died of consumpthe other boy, by emtion before they attained their 26th year
igrating to a warmer climate (Springfield, La., U. S.), added ten
more years to a weary and painful existence
he died of con;
"The
first
If
knew
the
full
meaning of "Vacci-
nation," of the misery and death for 92 years last past, of which
it
if
igS
VACCINATION A CURSE.
a vaccinator
ject in
who would
It is
bad enough
recommend
sion
his days.
medical profes-
is
a piece of
human
folly
which deserves
The
the
way
to
of disaster
them
life
and health
and death
most
even
forcing,
compulsorily
as guardians
physi-
little
way
forcing
Professing to stand
children in seasons of
danger, he cuts off every avenue of escape by the device of politic-compulsory laws
may atone
would abandon
was
on horses
rite that
were not
it.
their pecuniary
when
money" is, indeed,
the root of this "evil" as of every other, and we must be very
watchful if we are not caught compounding with error when our
all
bank account
is
The
"love of
steadily increasing.
If it
my
In the
evil
it
is
would
it.
we have
fallen,
each individ-
INJURIES
ual should strive to
AND
FATALITIES.
become "wise
I99
as serpents
and harmless as
Against
tion,
it
this
massed
is
integrity
combine.
class-interests
all
in great trusts
which are
The grocer
ments
and
am
whom
describe.
every direction
It is
my
child
whithersoever
Unfortunately,
human
it
more
manner
is
approach
must.
especially
of the average
We
at his
it
From
of disease
little
it
assail
therefore, be alert
other sinners,
feeds the
enemies arise to
it is
Produc-
in
creature to
leads.
If it
for
it
is
will
avoid and
flee
know
it
from the
Persecu-
ceived in error, but they are hated and persecuted because the
and
self-
interest.
BLOOD POISONING.
It is
no exaggeration to assume that nine-tenths of the disafflict mankind have their origin in some species of
eases that
VACCINATION A CURSE.
200
General's
istrar
office,
afflict
human body,
the
medical
men had
its
Moreover,
productive cause.
now have
in
In
the
discussion
vaccination
of
as
form
of
They
claim.
work upon
must know neither cures nor prevents disease. In order to promote these interests, the registration department increases
death-causes in general, and others in particular, which are
definite
in-
The
movement must be
perfectly
value
it
first
its
money
and
thirdly, they
vagination
when
in
would
Disease
them
kept
to account for
"booming"
In-
"way
faring
man
God
is
just.
AND
INJURIES
fails
them
from the
to readily eliminate
in the blood,
call
201
FATALITIES.
forth,
such
as deteriorated vital
Any
etc.
or
all
of these
may be
vaccinated into
a family
lion
may rouse
cancerous poison
Syphilitic, leprous, or
may
usurp the
of these will
lie
dormant
term of years
for a
soil in
all
fif-
night.
the
We
may
first dis-
puncture he
it
inflicts
on our
ment
later
in
dren
in
work
of final ruin.
its
ones.
its
Our
eye
may
not follow
through the children and children's chilthat blood taint will deploy and accomplish its
life
whom
little
through
It is
life
at
future danger;
is
the
life
forces
same
body possessing weight and form, a germ, an egg
thing;
is
it
it
the property of
life,
which
will
of a small-pox patient,
cells
desquamating
sporules
or,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
202
The presence
less,
is
blood-poi-
effects
become
Yet
or third generation.
in the
hands of an
may come
not rubbed
in,
or
if it
but
may be known
vital tone,
if
in-
to follow.
mouth or thioat
surfaces of
and cau-
jurious results
depressed
intelligent
comparatively harmless.
is
whom
the
mucous
then there would be danger; the deadly virus might then find
specific disease.
known
animal poison
on
his
found
But even
puerperal fever.
ceive
is
but
would be an inevitably
fill
is
in
far
fatal
filthy
it;
all
active.
season arrives or
soil is suitably
who
prepared.
from
re-
human
may
remain inert
operator
procedure.
will
clip
the air of
in the
is
but they
in
other
healthy per-
positive, free
the skin.
fountain of
life
INJURIES
AND
FATALITIES.
dangerous, because
it
is
203
is
more than
ordin-
When
whole people
laws
ethical
as well as physical
these
zymotic scourges
now
which
odically devastated
of
Europe were
of plague
peri-
the plague
proper, the sweating sickness, the black death, and the small-
pox.
in the
filth.
During the
most
last
at
home
century, in
known.
In the
left,
which should
have departed with the other three, and would have departed
state
brought to the
altar the
same
dis-
home
It
is
VACCINATION A CURSE.
204
where
filth
abounds
but cleanliness.
It
and
its
To
proper antidote
among
woman's
life
account of
full
is
not vaccination,
says
it
its
and dissipation.
dirt
mortgage on
it moves
shadow fall upon
"I have a
!"
pestilent
and so
Of
dained harvest.
of dirt
its
pre-or-
up these
hells
member
of these dirty
dens to be vaccinated.
Circumcision so long practiced by 'he ancient Egyptians
and
all
later
up to
this
countries as well as by
and health
many
Phimosis
inspiring.
is
in
is
considered cleanly
certainly
Orientals,
Why
vice.
It
why not,
And
law?
as
it
could also be
made
make
it
compulsory.
And
fur-
revenue.
San Francisco,
Cal.
provided one of the clauses compeled the doctors by way of example, to be the
first
Would
Dr. Pickering,
in
visits
among
page 47 :
"Epidemics, and,
is
in-
tion,''
in
fact, all
2ymotic diseases,
may be
said
AND FATALITIES.
INJURIES
There
to be filth-diseases.
The
do they attack?
visit ?
The
is
unclean.
What towns do
filthiest.
2C>5
Those where
they select?
most neglected. Note the last smallpox epidemic, and take Leeds as an example. Who were the
victims? The very lowest classes of society, children that were
sanitary conditions are the
filthy,
neglected, and
ill-fed,
where sanitation
is
a term
wanderers,
with
sections of
who
in courts
and
who
are
adults,
the working
the patients
unknown
classes
Tame houses,
the
If
first
streets,
in the
fallen
they had not yielded to the small-pox they would have suc-
cumbed
If
the unsanitary
resent,
and the
result cannot
fail
to be disastrous.
But
if
The strong
pox
to enter.
twelve years
'
field
VACCINATION A CURSE.
2o6
of Local Guardians
no.
sir,
we were
all
It hits
statistics.
Why
"Oh,
Because children
vaccinated?"
worth more
the truth,
tell
was a spontaneous utterance which in one brief sentence gave the facts, the law and the philosophy. "We lived in a
and
this
When
front street."
front street, and
all
all
when
shall
shall
pox
will
this better
would become
will
its
accustomed haunts?
this
when
all
if
For
that city
and no
class
about
unto
like
vaccination stations
small-pox epidemics
know
made
streets shall be
fifty
years,
is
chiefly
due to improved
than good.
I
find;
difficult to
these
When
am
Were
never
What
acat-
INJURIES
mosphere
is
foul.
AND FATALITIES.
The house
is
in a
207
crowded quarter.
fills
know
It
was
was
It
hands.
2.
Because the
air in the
waiting
2o8
VACCINATION A CURSE.
Many
vaccination.
supervening fever, or
annum
here
"I called
is
its
thousands
of blood-inoculation."
And
is
Pickering, page
upon the
chief constable of
go with me
per
danger
72.
of the
viz:
T want
a detective
common
lodging houses.
I
wish to see how people live, in the small hours of the morning.'
'It shall be as you require.
If you call here at 1 a. m.. the detective will be in waiting.'
I went home and tried to obtain a few
hours sleep, but the prospect of my novel undertaking was too
engrossing. I slept not. At midnight I wrapped myself in the
folds of a Scotch plaid and started for the police office. Arriving there a few minutes before the appointed time, I found my
detective ready for business.
Of course we took an easterly
direction.
Detective observed, 'We shall have to be discreet
told off to
to the
as to the representations
we make
we
was
in the
moon shone
fashion as
month
brightly,
we kr.ocked
of
December, a
and the
7,
museums
20g
In turn
we woke up
of uncleanliness.
cious for that class of house, perhaps 15 by 13 feet. Half a century ago the houses were respectably tenanted, no doubt, but
they ^.ad come down in the world's esteem. The kitchen, which
served as a living room for twenty-eight or thirty people from
5 p. m. one day to 10 a m. on the next day, was in a filthy condiessentially filthy. Pots and pans of all patterns and sizes
tion
upon
chairs, tables
their exterior
arms'
given
addition?
in
The
latter don't
in.'
syphilis,
for
life
unfit
in the
Dr. Barry and Dr. Buchanan as the 'unvacciand whose deaths, thus basely certified go to prop the
cranky columns on which Jennerism is sustained, and to throw
doubt on the veracity of the leaders in the anti-vaccination envital statistics of
nated.'
terprise
who adhere
to that representation.
bedroom
to return to
VACCINATION A CURSE.
2IO
if I had remained in that room inhaling the mefumes at an elevation of five feet from the floor, there
would have been an end of me and my fads in fifteen minutes.
I could only account for life
1 feel quite certain on that point.
maintaining itself eight inches from the floor on the principle
(hat some little fresh air crept into the apartment under the door.
The inmates lay feet to feet, covered with the clothes they wore
>ober sadness,
phitic
den.
why
all
the
filth
disease, connected
"And
yet there are Simons, Playfairs, Barrys, and Buchanany number, diffused in space, saying, 'Small-pox is not a
disease due to unsanitary conditions,' thus lying in the face of
facts, in the face of Nature, and of God.
ans
in
INJURIES
Your
for ever?
AND
211
FATALITIES.
made
to
sell.
page
74.
"To show
that small-pox
to hurl at an
statistics to
is
filth
disease
I call
Sheffield
Mr. Gladstone
a big broad fact
cling to Sheffield, as
pages 73-74.
If one will read a description of the
city of
London during
the early part of the eighteenth century, he need not look any
further for the causes which insured a periodical return of the
VACCINATION A CURSE.
212
'Though expedition
Where no ranged
And throughout
side,
The
ef-
by
heavy shower
Swift
in his
Filths of
What
all
INJURIES
AND FATALITIES.
213
"The numerous small streams which flowed through London from the northern heights Langbourne, Wallbrook, Fleet,
Tybourne, and Westbourne which were in earlier times a
source of health and water-supply, gradually became noisome
open sewers, and one after another were arched over. There
were many wells in London, indicated by such names as Holywell, Clerkenwell. and .Aldgate Pump, and there were also conbut it is certain that, from the
duits in Cheapside and Cornhill
filthy streets and house-cesspools, all the water derived from
them must have been contaminated, and thus helped to produce
When we remember
that
either
shops and living rooms were always full of foul air, bad smells,
and poisonous gases, how can we wonder at the prevalence of
VACCINATION A CURSE.
214
"Many
whose houses were exceptionally wholesome were often exposed to a dangerous atmosphere when they went to church on
Sundays.
"The general food of the poor and the middle classes added
greatly to their unhealthiness, and itself caused disease. Owing
to the absence of good roads, it was impossible to supply the
large population of London with fresh food throughout the
year, and, consequently, salt meat and salt fish formed the staple
For the same reason fresh vegetables
diet during the winter.
were unattainable so that meat, cheese, and bread, with beer
as the common drink at all meals, was the regular food, with
chiefly salted meat and fish in winter. As a result, scurvy was
;
very common. Dr. Cheyne, in 1724, says, 'There is no chronidistemper more universal, more obstinate, and more fatal in
Britain, than the scurvy.' And it continued to be common down
to 1783, when Dr. Buchanan says, 'The disease most common
in this country is the scurvy.'
But very soon afterwards it decreased, owing to the growing use of potatoes and tea, and an
increased supply of fresh vegetables, fruit, milk, etc., which the
improved roads allowed to be brought in quantities from the
surrounding country.
"Now it is quite certain, that the excessively unhealthy conditions of life, as here briefly described, continued with very
partial amelioration throughout the middle portion of the cencal
INJURIES
AND FATALITIES.
215
came
we
tions.
In 1766 the
were found so
first
beneficial
In
all London was thus paved.
1768 the first Commissioners of Paving, Lighting and Watching
were appointed, and by 1780 Dr. Black states that many streets
had been widened, sewers made, that there was a better water
supply and less crowding. From this date onward, we are told
in the 'Encyclopoedia Britannica' (art. 'London'), a rapid rate
of progress commenced, and that since 1785 almost the whole of
the houses within the city had been rebuilt, with wider streets
and much more light and air. In 1795 the western side of Temple Bar and Snowhill were widened and improved, and soon
afterwards Butcher's Row, at the back of St. Clement's church,
Was removed. Of course, these are only indications of changes
that were going on over the whole city
and, coincident with
these improvements, there was a rapid extension of the inhabited area, which, from a sanitary point of view, was of far
greater importance. That agglomeration of streets interspersed
with spacious squares and gardens, which extends to the north
of Oxford street, was almost wholly built in the period we are
discussing. Bloomsbury and Russell Squares and the adjacent
streets, occupy the site of Bedford House and grounds, which
were sold for building on in 1800. All round London similar extensions were carried out. People went to live in these new
suburbs, giving up their city houses to business or offices only.
Regent's Park was formed, and Regent street and Portland
Place were built before 1820, and the whole intervening area
was soon covered with streets and houses, which for some considerable period enjoyed the pure air of the country. At this
time the water supply became greatly improved, and the use of
iron mains in place of the old wooden ones, and of lead pipes
by which water was carried into all the new houses, was of inesthe next half-century almost
2l6
VACCINATION A CURSE.
"Then, just
ment
in
A.
owing
to the
suburban parishes of
fifty
increase of population,
in 1821 this
whole
area had only a million inhabitants, and therefore enjoyed semirural conditions of
which
life.
diseases.
Then
and
tatoes were
Now,
dicated
ter
first
used
marked change
in the
death rate.
Po-
much wider
area;
all
oc-
which oc-
Royal Commissioners
on the connection
of
"I have now supplied the last piece of confirmatory evidence which the commissioners declared was not forthcoming;
not because I think it at all necessary for the complete condemnation of vaccination, but because it affords another illustration
of the curious inability of the commission to recognize any
causes as influencing the diminution of small-pox except that
AND FATALITIES.
INJURIES
217
ity
as well as the
London during
well-known
gether overlooked."
With
filth
cination.
vaccinate
is
at
your own
dirt
peril
It is
if
you neglect to
in
is
It is
Not
good thing
to
When
run."
It
met with in the streets, in the same haunts and amongst the
same people. Vaccination has no more effect to mitigate one
than it has upon any other member of the group of zymotics.
We shall never stamp out small-pox, cancer, consumption, or
leprosy, so long as we continue to stamp them in through the
idiotic rite of a vicious cow-pox vaccination.
The Germans endeavored to stamp out syphilis by stamping it in with syphilized
vaccine pus. They have abandoned that now, and later they
will abandon vaccination altogether.
It should be a question
is
know
Sanitation
is
is in
per-
2l8
ble
VACCINATION A CURSE.
agency
fidelity.
Let us turn from the idol which the "King" commanded us to worship
"And a tempest arose, thunders and waves and lightenings,
and the moan of winds and the dome of the Temple was rent
:
and the whirl and the rains rushed in. And behold! a flash, and
it rolled down like a God
and grappling the Image it smote
it from head to foot, and dashed it in fragments
its crown of
jewels was broken
its scepter was a ruin
its law as lies a
blackened corpse it was stricken into small pieces, and the rain
roared and buffeted its remnants." Knock.
;
CHAPTER
SYPHILIS
VII.
VACCI-
NATION.
The
if I
Some
fasten
grate
for a
of
lie
dor-
and the
work
mant
their
tissue
like
down
The
others
disinte-
like leprosy
Still
falls
VACCINATION A CURSE.
220
specific disease
its
but
at the
concealed within
lie
its
substance.
up on
way micro-or-
its
human
when sown or
being.
operation
All vegetable and animal poisons inoculated through the
skin
is
Some
blood-poisoning.
of these
may be
physiologically
imum
of mischief, a truce
the other.
Syphilis,
it
were
The savages
of
far better to
Lamas
prove
fatal
fatal in
a few days.
it.
subtle vegetable poison by fire from divers plants, and with this
when they
Mous
Academy
of Science, Paris,
de
that
is
not
la
etc.,
and
in nearly
every case
pierce an ani-
their flesh
Yet
It is
inert also
when
applied
where
are manifested.
it
can
The
SYPHILIS
AND LEPROSY.
221
of a rattlesnake, or puncture
each and
all
blood-poisoning
inflicted,
tion
is
is it
from a
is
permanently
affect the
Vaccina-
How many
fee.
blood
is
deliberately
murderous operation.
The poisons
concealed in calf-pus
cal
When
removes
fect
but the
when
ef-
the physi-
that
it is
Syphilis,
cancer, scrofula, or tubercle, borne into the blood with the vaccinal virus,
may
lie
dormant
when
it
will
its vic-
tim.
VACCINO-SYPHILIS.
In 1862, M. Ricord, one of the most eminent authorities on
syphilitic affections,
during a lecture
in
19,
same
"At first I repelled the idea that syphilis could be transmitted by vaccination. The recurrence of facts appearing more
and more confirmatory, I accepted the possibility of this mode
of transmission, I should say, with reserve, and even with repugnance but today I hesitate no more to proclaim their reality.
*
*
*
Who, pray, will run such risks to escape the small:
pox?"
VACCINATION A CURSE.
222
ESSAY ON VACCINATION.
During the same year (1868) Dr. Cornell, president Homeopathic Society of Pennsylvania, said in his annual address: "To
no medium of transmission is the wide spread dissemination of
this class of disease so largely indebted as vaccination."
Dr.
ncim, public vaccinator, Wurtemburg, declared: "I have myself planted syphilis from a child winch seemed at the time perfectly healthy."
26.
patient was brought to the class room of the Clinical Soand exhibited to Dr. Hutchinson, when he said : "We have
now c nerged from the reign of doubt to one of belief in the pos*
*
*
sibility of such an untoward occurrence.
The facts
new before the public will tend to rouse them, if they have not
been roused already, from the false security into which they
have been lulled." "Med. Times and Gazette," Feb., 1872.
ciety
Here
is
The teaching
of the medical
is
last
degree
fullest
ified a
second attack.
The
all
it
It is false
Inoc-
in practice.
been
tried,
far
worse
is
fails
mod-
to mit-
SYPHILIS
igate small-pox, but
it is
AND LEPROSY.
223
communimore to be
if
compul-
Prof.
cination of schools."
In 1877, Brundenell Carter, surgeon to St. George's Hospi"I think that a large proportion of the
cases of apparently inherited syphilis are in reality vaccinal;
and that the syphilis in these cases does not show itself until the
age of from eight to ten years, by which time the relation between cause and effect are apt to be lost sight of." Med. Exam.,
tal,
London, observed:
May 24,
1877.
Dr. G.
W.
came
under
his observation.
twenty-one months
old.
little
of pneu-
Poor but
The arms
of
all
in
a house to
neat, they
According
weeks
house
previvisita-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
224
For about a week before calling at the hospital she had noticed
ulcers on the body of one, and applied salve from the drugstore
but the child grew worse. The day before she noticed
places breaking out on the second child the little girl twentyone months old and had brought it to find out what was the
matter. Dr. Winterburn says
;
"On examining
the child,
filled
of
with a dirty
day, and
previously.
disorder."
this
of
130.
was twice as
fatal
Its
in
most
fatal
The following
"Syphit
was
in chil-
lation
1881.
SYPHILIS
Vesr>
AND LEPROSY.
Successful
Vaccinations
at the ex-
Deaths
pense of the
Poor Rates.
I85I
1852
1853
.1854
1855
I856
1857
I858
1859
i860
l86l
1862
I863
I864
1865
1866
I867
1868
I869
I87O
I87I
l872
1873
1874
1875
I876
1877
1878
1879
I88O
1881
Thus
225
397,128
366,593
677,886
448,519
422,281
411,268
Desthn
from
from
Smallpox.
Syphilis
6,997
7.320
3.i5i
598
623
622
2,808
964
947
879
957
2,525
2,277
3.936
6,414
455.004
445,020
485,927
425.739
437.693
646,464
3.798
2,713
1
,290
i,i77
.245
[,386
[.55o
2,547
23,062
19,022
2,303
2,084
849
529376
5,891
1,994
1 ,482
513.575
5I9.7I5
[,067
2,977
2,467
493.285
498.952
566.587
,089
1.579
7.624
6,361
529.479
578,583
454.885
490,598
513.042
524.143
472,881
693,104
699,320
501,189
,006
]
[.647
[,662
[,698
,886
[,859
.858
,742
,831
f.843
f-997
i j, 1
42
2,408
2,141
4,278
1.856
2.085
2,191
2.036
513.283
536
648
533.005
3,098
i j, 1
:
62
2,069
its
producing cause.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
226
Dr.
"And
'child's
page 373 :
I at once announce at the outset
Syphilis,"
syphilis
G.
J.
"Constitutional
my
communicated by means of
vaccine lymph.' This opinion I have deliberately formed
is
in very
many
instances
and as firmly defend. The evidences of such being the case have,
in my practice, been numerous and well-pronounced; so distinct, indeed, that no doubt whatever could exist as to the nature of the eruptions, and the certainty of transmission."
Dr. Scott Tebb, of London, publishes a table giving 700
The
England, were
Out
Man-
tions which subsequently appeared. Among these Dr. Whitehead found thirty-four children suffering from vaccinal syphilis.
I subjoin cases 2, 11 and 56 from Dr. Whitehead's Third Clinical
Report:
When
medium
habit
seen, there
SYPHILIS
feeble,
AND LEPROSY.
227
taint.
An
"Case
56.
habit of body.
I select
25, 1871,
among
the
numerous
the following:
"A mother and her two children, one an infant and the
other a child of two, were found to be suffering from secondary
syphilis. The children were vaccinated in September, 1875, and
their vaccination sores had re-opened and for a long time remained unhealed. The mother had contracted a sore on her
nipple from the younger child, and her symptoms were two
months behind those of the children. The husband subsequently contracted syphilis from his wife."
Scott
Tebb
"The
disease that
writes
VACCINATION A CURSE.
228
dence that the child died from vaccino-syphilis, and the verdict
of the jury was that she 'died from syphilis acquired at or from
vaccination.'
"If
it
"
be a
phenomena
Ibid.
fact, as
simulating syphilis.
"The
described in an earlier
number
SYPHILIS
AND LEPROSY.
22Q
necessitating amputations.
"Dr. J. T. Gilmore, in a letter to Professor F. Eve, referring to three hundred cases in the Georgia brigades, remarked
'The cases presented the appearances that are familiar to those
of us who were connected with the Confederate army large
generally several on
rupia-looking sores, sometimes only one
the arm in which the virus was inserted. In a number of case?
these sores extended, or rather appeared on the forearm, and
in two cases that I saw, they appeared on the lower extremeties.
The men suffered severely from nocturnal rheumatism.
Several cases had, to all appearances, syphilitic roseola. I saw
enough of the trouble to convince me thoroughly that the virus
owed its impurity to a syphilitic contamination.
In
some
Many
were so situated
and in these secondary
symptoms appeared, followed in due time by tertiary symptoms.
The chancre was followed successively by axillary bubo, sore
throat, and various forms of eruption (syphilis dermata), while
the system fell into a state of cachexia.'
integuments of the arm.
of the cases
eral
VACCINATION A CURSE.
230
know
was made
to
me
as to the char-
manufacturing town
in
The
They
year of age.
all
from
cases comprised
fifty
down
to
The
the disease
ages,
all
one
in all
was with virus obtained from a man whom it was later learned
was suffering from primary syphilis, and one was vaccinated
from the other, and so
were formed
the
arms
in
in
some
it
spread.
weeks.
contained in
iii.,
p.
in
off.
The usual
summary, is
Dr. Jone's work, "Med. and Surg. Memoirs," vol.
this is a brief
478.
Now, with
contempt
this entire
mass of evidence.
The people
practi-
yet a majority of
at hand.
is
syphilis
is
So
and
SYPHILIS
tion
discreetly hidden
is
ters.
is
AND LEPROSY.
The average M. D.
secretive
231
and mysterious
of medical reform
medical mat-
in
is
ineffective,
gifts of healing
such
as Schlatter
and
lastly,
the most destructive, poisonous, outlawed, and infamous feature in the whole range of medical practice with a jealousy and
craftiness
politician or
government
contractor.
the authorities
All
have cited
in
came under
their opinions,
and detailed
most con-
inasmuch as
their testimony
pillar of
what
is
Seventeen school
by pure,
lymph
official,
tinues to repeat
girls syphilized at
"Not the
slightest danger."
"Our
from a well-known source, absolutely pure, glycerinated, sterilized, all germs but the 'vaccine sporule' destroyed,
is
who
St.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
232
Multitudes of
You
fathers
you
lives will
posterity,
statute
litico
that
books
this
It
it.
you would be
ponder
next be blighted
home and
it
hands of the
home to
may be
and I know if
Think of
children
little
syphilis at the
calling
mass meetings
you would
raise
compulsory curse
this
you
heaven and
off the
forever
dissolved.
extremely cautious
that
the vaccinator
'est
but
life
hundred
and welfare of
more than
fold
from a rock
something concealed
carries
ones;
little
in
his
their children
all
vest
and
the rattlesnakes
Rattlesnake
venom
thousand
state
compulsory
vaccination.
tried
Very
to
arm; we
well, gentle-
and convicted
in the
lymph, resulted
in three
weeks
w-ith
Dr. H. also describes other well marked cases which were directly traceable to the
much vaunted
calf-lymph.
Moreover,
SYPHILIS
cess of
arm
to arm, with
AND LEPROSY.
humanized
Sandwich
officials
Islands,
and to
Humanity
many
West
is
one,
all
There
When
species.
in India
journing
among my
If torrid
feel that
our-
am
so-
Brahmanic brothers.
it
higher planes of
our shores
one human
Ayran descent.
They
notably the
in recent years.
minds.
is
selves are of
This
virus.
233
and
life
all
profoundly practical.
of
human
life.
synonomous terms.
irritating,
re-
mammon
human
is,
race.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
234
be wondered
unhappy
at,
is
sufferer
is
from a
It is
life
not to
19, 1887.
Leprosy has claimed the serious attention of a large number of thoughtful minds of late years and a considerable amount
One could easily
of literature has accumulated on the subject.
volumes which have appeared
collect fifty
twenty
in the last
made
of health
and discussions
in the
medical journals.
London
as a
a phil-
To him more
ent type.
is
in
England
make
a personal investigation
Ceylon,
British
Guiana,
Venezuela,
all
West
aspects,
Indies,
Xew
its
India,
Norway,
Zealand. Aus-
A^ia Minor,
etc.
The
Upon
facts
his
thorough researches
presented
chief claims
shall
mainly
in this section.
at
the present time, are the dangers which confront the civilized
world by
its
rapid spread
among
all
classes
of
society.
It
and
is
victim
ten-fold
it
more
to be dreaded, for
an inevitable
doom
SYPHILIS
Sir Morell
ening.
AND LEPROSY.
Mackensie said
235
in a lecture in 1889:
it
is
of
must be
certain they
counted by millions."
"It is
number
the
in all
Nor
secret.
knows
since he
demned
when
in
Hawaii
a dangerous business, as
itate to
shoot their
last re-
exhausted,
is
roundings.
is
that
in
third tour
rangement
at
Honolulu,
in the
hideous forms.
during
sad
my
in India,
my
hes-
exe-
ar-
in this city
One
The
investigations.
sights seen
Some from
in
me
utter hopelessness
com-
mit suicide.
will
Wm.
ing work
this
Tebb observes
experience with
"Leprosy
is
it
is
one of the
VACCINATION A CURSE.
236
is
usually preserved.
In consequence of
the great alterations in the skin of the limbs, which are coverd
symptoms
of
SYPHILIS
AND LEPROSY.
237
is
who
spent a
number
of years in British
Guiana,
is
jointevil of the
to
affection
we have
to deal
with."
Dun Asylum,
dure
to describe.
suffering
It is
some
of
!"
indicate
namely,
its
close connection
VACCINATION A CURSE.
238
isles,
Islands,
spite of severe
:!
AND LEPROSY.
SYPHILIS
239
The second
to prevent disease.
class
upon
anti-
dotes and drastic specifics, the main article of their creed being
Sanitary regulation, hygiene, and obedience to the immutable
The members
laws of nature.
our bankers,
who urge
money should be
rel-
left
all
exclusively to them.
people
how
to preserve health
They have no
No no
and thorough
air,
and
still
more mysteri-
and
buy;
if
Schlatter, or a psychic
like
our midst as of
clad,
old,
curing the leper, making the deaf to hear, the blind to see,
condemn, and
not dead.
is
him
The
There is if
!
the land.
tured, conscientious,
jail
is
and inspired
man
teaching them
or
in the
woman
that treats
meantime how to
VACCINATION A CURSE.
240
The second
class,
and
scientific
mode
of
promoting
They
it.
Where
centers of
They
sympathetic. They
purify.
common
welfare.
organism to
may
pa}-
more
The
vacci-
stringent compulsory
them
tribute.
sanitary organization
and
is
They
full
well
if
gone., for the native population are a unit against the practice,
ments
inflammation and
tion therefore,
is
illness.
is
common
instru-
source of serious
in
officials
condensed and much abridged summary of the conclusions to which Mr. Tebb arrives concerning the relation of leprosy to vaccination, in the following:
i.
Leprosy
is
its
or abrazed skin-surface.
The most frequent opportunities of inoculating this
2.
SYPHILIS
AND LEPROSY.
24I
cination
3.
This fact
In
some
is
neither ques-
as
of these
is
and
whom
Leprosy
is
all
man
discovered
his large
t>7
is
spreading.
In 1893 the
to 100.
it is
its
environs.
In Bokhara
year round.
full all
the
VACCINATION A CURSE.
242
was
out of a population of 120,000; and in 1892, the increase was estimated to be four times more rapid than that of population.
is
of the hour,
and
is
b>
suc-
homes
many
This
is
why
is
It
of isolated lepers
is
admitted here
it.
article
186, says:
On March
number
officially
reported to be at large
SYPHILIS
AND LEPROSY.
243
made during
them
at
Molokai."
Win. Tebb,
amounted
concealed cases
42-43
p. 40.
Wm. Tebb
On
the
writes, pp.
May 26, 1864. In 1863 Dr. Baldwin received reports from the deacons of his church at Lahaina
with the names of 60 people who were believed to be affected
with this disease. In a very few years leprosy increased to an
enormous extent, and in 1868 Dr. Hutchinson reported 274
to the Minister of the Interior,
There
Hawaii until
nation.
in
is
vaccine virus.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
244
Xew
In
until
it
1853,
when
unknown
among
This
in con-
In India leprosy
is
Wales
stated in a speech in
were
13, 1890.)
The Prince
in India at least
afflicted.
some
The
leper
Bombay, where
lect
'.n
where
rats
17,
In
250,000 lepers.
In the
they col-
Whether leprosy
is
SYPHILIS
opinion exists
question
more
among
much
weight.
He
245
medical men.
carefully
AND LEPROSY.
mode by which
it is
skin, that
communicated
is,
by inoculat-
ing the blood through the skin with the leprous virus.
ing needle or pin from the garments of a leper
these penetrate through the skin.
is
sew-
sufficient,
if
my
on every hand by
is
tlfe
the causation of
The contagionists, when pressed, I
question of contagion.
found invariably included virus inoculation, and interpreted the
word in that sense. They admitted that the leprous discharge
might be touched with impunity, when the integument is intact,
Every nurse, doctor, attendant, or launbut not otherwise.
dress, in the hospital, is bound to come in repeated contact with
pus from ulcerated tubercles. It is only by the insertion of the
leprous virus into the blood, through a sore, prick, or abraded
surface, that the disease is communicable.
This view is now
held by the highest authorities in all parts of the world. At the
same time, there are others who hold that the disease is transferable in a lesser degree by inhalation, heredity, and cohabitation.
"From
cination."
The
first
VACCINATION A CURSE.
246
leprosy
is
Bakewell
He was
He
writes
be,
rosy is a constitutional disease, in many respects singularly resembling constitutonal syphilis; like it, attended by stainings
and diseases of the skin like it, attacking the mucous membrane of the nose, throat, and month like it, producing falling
off of the hair, diseases of the nails and bones; and, like it,
hereditary."
Why should not the blood of a leprous child,
whether the leprosy be developed or not, contaminate a healthy
;
one?
"It seems to me not merely a popular opinion, but a medione also. In returning to Europe in the spring of this year,
I met several medical men from Demerara and other tropical
countries, and they all considered that leprosy might be, and is,
propagated by vaccination."
cal
summoned on
behalf of the
government
SYPHILIS
committee
in 1871,
Report)
Official
and
AND LEPROSY.
testified as follows
247
(Answer 3563,
p. 207,
"There
in the
is
West
135-
11, 1887,
Dr.
university,
W.
T.
Glasgow,
As this
make an abridged stateconfidential one and hence names
ment
of
it.
The
case was a
I will
VACCINATION A CURSE.
248
and
localities are
in
is
little
who made
As
horrified.
the child
husband on
down
in
England where
advice.
in the little
of the extremeties
on the occasion
boy,
whom
he found in the
degree of emaciation.
It
was
On
the island
who
later
devloped
the
developed
it
still
alive,
and as a matter of
The
in
latter died
soon
how grave
after.
veals
of a na-
and leprosy
son was
arm
This case
It
and
is
re-
who submits
is
likewise an
AND LEPROSY.
SYPHILIS
249
popular belief
among
medical
lilliputian
murderous
not
practice, but
the
is
continually plotting to
its
geon general
fact
with
Still,
literally
is
"The
age, acquired a
most loathsome
disease,
A
British
West
Indies, in 1890.
The
little
isle,
Kitts,
St.
daughter of a Wesleyan
it
lit-
made her
The missionary
re-
but a
new
skill
for
The
it
unfortunate
his
lives.
is
not
down
his victims
and
inflict
VACCINATION A CURSE.
250
curse of
all
curses
then he compassionately ( ?)
which to increase his revenues
began to "protect" him.
"While in Trinidad, I made inquiries of a highly intelligent
;
merchant,
who
West
Indies,
He
says the belief is general in the islands that leprosy is being extensively disseminated by vaccination, and he furnished me
with particulars of a number of healthy families where leprosy
and other diseases have broken out after vaccination, of others
who, in spite of a law enforcing vaccination, have preferred to
SYPHILIS
it is
difficult to distinguish
AND LEPROSY.
a leper; and
25 I
when you
amongst pathologists.
"The belief, also,
in the British
West
know
of.
fact, and in face of such a terrible danconscientious opinion that every physician should
hesitate before subscribing to such a doctrine, as compulsory
vaccination."
Extract from a letter from Dr. Chas. E. Taylor,
of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, read before Vaccination
ger,
it is
my
Commission, Jan.
Now,
Kimberly
2,
1890.
sent
these islands,
sponded to
Lord
this circular
amount
of leprosy.
Their evi-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
252
What
Lord Kimberly
did this
Did they
at the leprous
taken policy?
who
say which
is
hypocrisy, or cold-blooded
at
ple
the
thinking,
thusiastic
It is difficult
enough
the
people
brotherhood of thieves
populations of
will
be wise enough
to protect themselves
bald
human beings
day soon dawn when the peothe blood of
traffic in
May
toiling
the
to
en-
the
native
all
Each
the money
make them instrumental in returning to them. All
philanthropic motives. The commercial sharper wants
in a different
way, but
all
value they
profess
"protecting" him
alarmed
power
lest
of the state
and
all
all
the lawyer
all
is
as
the others in
tenderness
is
so
mighty
anxious to assist
is
SYPHILIS
civilize,
AND LEPROSY.
253
Gold
dicate
it
is
formed
for
it
it
however
ill-gotten.
the treasure-safe
is
in hand,
of doctors
and for the hungrier, leaner
for compulsory vaccination.
persistently and
train
politically
When, oh v\Vn,
just, that all,
that
will the
fight
compensation
is
God
is
Christlike
will fight
class
it
is
that
attained
life.
dated Sept.
6,
"During
1889, he says
my
Sandwich Islands
and
in a letter to
Wm. Tebb
rise to
*****
good authority
new crop
of leprosy cases
VACCINATION A CURSE.
254
sprang up
on the
at Lahaina,
Dr. F. B.
Sutliff, of
Sacramento,
Cal.,
who
disease as
books."
"Occidental
It is
all
Alarmed
arm
and
as physicians
vaccination, soon
syphilis.
of
both leprosy
in 1868.
vaccination,
parts of
known.
Lahaima
in
a general vaccination.
ity
at
which up to that time had been almost entirely free from the
disease.
When
Capt.
Cook
was
AND LEPROSY.
SYPHILIS
255
a race
literally
swept
murderous practice
may
continue to
of professedly civilized
men on
the pretence
Notwith-
and on every
tion of
pushed with vigor," and that "the board would recommend the
passage of a more stringent law, imposing heavier penalties and
giving vaccinating authorities
is
necessary authority."
all
If this
men have
And who is
nent white
married,
example.
it
ing
it?
doctors
Who
is it
who run
who seemingly
it
urging on
this
infamous work?
or Afrikander, or Hindoo.
How
we suppose
body
West
the legislature
for a
more
that th legislature
is
;"
are the
doctors
on
can
They
India native,
must be "im-
when he
is
so per-
"stringent law."
quite so "verdant"
Nor
when
self-
who
large
number
made compulsory
in 1882.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
256
been vaccinated
be appointed, or
shall
if
children.
of
neglect,
mud
commonest
As a
What
instincts of decency."
real
"long continued
foul,
ignorant of the
the
did
in
wholesale vaccination of 1882-3, there was an epidemic of smallpox, and leprosy was increasing at a fearful rate.
medical officer for Herbert reported:
In
the
The
last
still
prevailing
to an alarming extent."
In
summing up
observes
arm
its
SYPHILIS
AND LEPROSY.
257
House
of Assembly,
his views,
From
am
chiefly
Law No. 3 in
Penalties for non-vaccination
In a communication from Archdeacon Colley, (I have the
5.
honor of personally knowing Archdeacon Colley, meeting him
not only in Natal and Cape Town, South Africa, but later, fre"The Colony
1882,
and
Law No.
10 in 1885.
quently in London. The Archdeacon is not only a most rebut personally a most scholarly, broad-minded
English clergyman,) dated Natal, August 25, 1885, I learn that
hundreds of summonses were issued in vain upon the colonists,
one operator
but the natives were vaccinated by thousands
would get through two hundred a day.
liable witness,
"While the vaccination laws for several years have not been
enforced against the white population in Natal, all the natives
are vaccinated either under persuasion or threats, the operation
being carried out in the usual careless manner, with arm to arm
virus taken from native children without previous examination,
and not the slightest attempt is made to clean or disinfect the
lancets after each operation. Hundreds of natives, as I am informed on unimpeachable authority, have died of blood-poisoning and of inoculated diseases.
"A member
John
Bisset, re-
ported in Parliament that many were 'blood-poisoned, presenting a horrible sight, and dying masses of corruption.' In January, 1891, leprosy disseminated in this way was discovered in
fifty
The
natives in their
VACCINATION A CURSE.
258
it
was the
'In-
(King) that ordered it, and this was the way the white man
secured himself against the plague of small-pox.
"As the government of Xatal does not publish reports from
the district surgeons, and appears to be indifferent as to the
suffering and mischief caused by the vaccinators, I found it difcosi'
ficult
PP- 273-75-
"Leprosy
and Vaccination,"
CHAPTER
VIII.
we know
that purity of
life is all-sufficient
is
not."
Sir.
B.
remove what
exists,
Richardson, M. D.,
to
W.
and
And
is
as
in direct
I
I will
dis-
of qualification.
I
ethical law in
life.
The
in
which
all
and commercial
is
so-
one
in
Every form of
VACCINATION A CURSE.
260
force
self-interest,
is
competitive
strife,
fraud,
deceit,
sion,,
human
which jealousy,
intense "love
the
is
rivalry,
etc.,
This
in
money."
of
The age
is
culminating;
are converg-
all lines
must
die
bound
in
final destruction.
its
truth alone
is
an apocalyptic "bun-
Error
strife,
mortal and
is
immortal, eternal.
is
one
competi-
of
tem, general menstrum, or social environment prompts the groceryman to water his syrup, the manufacturer to put shoddy in
his
It
it
is
life
unto
;"
life
to put an
game"
mankind
strife
to
it
The
far easier to
abandon them
where
adopt these
so they take
of
I fear,
"rules of the
any
it.
class of reformers to
like a
mighty ava-
The
it
in the
old order
is
it
is
While
a broad
highway which
is
crowded
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
261
grass
is
not
my
integrity.
crit-
who
icise
feels
To
am
each of these
It is
am
aiming
at,
whom
you
will
will
in a corporate capacity
money and
man
know
know
wholly indifferent to the disease, poverty, suffering and widespread disaster you
may
occasion.
golden eggs.
troduce to
critical,
my
It is
is
readers.
want them to
realize
VACCINATION A CURSE.
262
cate in particular.
endeavor to
minish
its
Now,
It shall
clip the
be with
me
a purpose
a persistent
committed themselves to vaccination as an unquestioned prophylactic against small-pox, and having induced Parliament to
award Jenner 30,000 from the public treasury, and also to ena National Vaccine Establishment at 3,000 a year, hence-
dow
forth reputations
at stake,
and so the
In this
way
stitutions,
tively
race.
It
was there-
tism
fines
far
more so
and imprisonment
was mercifully
left
in this
To
The
handful of reformers
who
lit-
at first
this
little
band
in
the
same
Boston, headed
coterie in
were regarded
much
as insane fanatics,
its way
For them contempt, misrepresentation and persecution by the corrupt ring of feed and salaried professionals
and officials who "stand in" with the state to reap their monthly
and annual harvest at the expense and pain and protracted misery of the poorly informed and crucified public.
We
know somewhat
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
263
spoils
how
how
conthey
and twisting
in
statistics
crushing those,
hot, cruel,
whom
are,
with
craft
It is
usiness.
is
behind the
Vaccination as a therapeutic
which
fcr
is
tice.
cial
When
who
;"
when
refuse to sub-
mit;
practitioners,
stock
is
then business
at par.
To
is
is
to run
up
medical profession.
The medical
more promi-
rite as persistently as
all
attacks
to
a hard-shell Bap-
infallibility.
Not only
will
the profession carry the fight to the last ditch in defence of their
vaccine dogma, but they will push their disgusting practice un-
der our noses, in season and out of season, with a standing prospect of a small-pox cyclone just ahead!
principle
means
The vaccinating
"trust"
VACCINATION A CURSE.
264
whose slimy
trail
marks a path
the masses
to
make
few reformers
conscientious
fellow
sufferers with
royal-souled reformers
are
the
trying
parents and
from
tion
disease,
is
really a disease-breeder
vitals,
parasite fas-
Be assured dear
readers, vaccination
is
which prosecutions,
Martyrs
in the
fines,
you submit
light penalties.
It is far
better that
school slammed
in
It is
number
less
adopt
it
think
vaccination a
valid,
or any
If
if
the claim
their
the majority
act.
good
It
Bushmen
choose
do,
if
form of protection.
of Australia,
they choose
but
may
eat
if
they
as they
may
if
eat
they
market-hung fowls
if they choose
not do
it,
and
I insist
no such un-
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
265
Once
ence,dirt
syphilitic sores.
motive to
live, as
American
citizen
class privilege
discover a sufficient
will
and
efficient
and power.
He
means
But the
his liberty to
enter his household and plant the most filthy diseases in the
whose only
is
the
Our
fathers
who
laid
the foundation of
scendants, and
own
weak
de-
compulsory vaccination was ever permitted, and once permitted and proved to
it
is
the voter's
it
is
fault that
The
general community have not informed themselves on this question which vitally concerns their welfare
readers,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
266
nclean birds
home
sanctuary.
ANTI-VACCINATION LITERATURE.
The amount
put
lar protest
of anti-vaccination literature
in circulation, is
fair indication
catalogue of anti-
Writers.
Publications.
100
British
American
205
36
104
29
17
German
39
8
4
7
169
Since 1882 both the
number
now
385
and publications
of writers
it
may
be assumed that
fairly
against
vaccination
the
delusion,
and
The uniform
cir-
particularly
attitude of the
was
fifties.
When
abuses cry to
mode
of writing
primarily to the
work
in
re-
It is quite
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
1880 but few medical
men from
them
to
do
members
so.
would be
It
who
cure appointment to
for;
to expect
folly
of a privileged class
267
among
the
a class moreover,
official positions,
who
readily se-
of.
Popular
ieforms are generally espoused for the benefit of the poor, since
com-
new
schools of medicine
in this field.
"Conscience Clause"
more
London
made
recently
to anti-vaccine literature,
which
United States.
Progressive
ous
in this
new
more numer-
man
health boards close the public schools against unvaccinated children, these progressive, broad-minded physicians. open the fight
to secure their rights
anti-vaccination leagues.
in the organization of
268
VACCINATION A CURSE.
who
press.
is
way
of those
The great dailies, and to some extent, the popular magowned and managed by pivotal minds who represent
azines, are
class interests
is
for the
promotion of these
wealth.
common
tion to the
all
interests
Their existence
place,
interest
and,
if
necessary, sac-
We
know
and
power,
mockery and
Their
hypocritical pre-
and further than they can turn them to lucrative and popular
am
the corner, in a
But the
printer.
writing about
is
it
located
owns.
What
to
fanatic, a
is
modern
society
it is
part and
parcel of that
;
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
269
it is
It
This was the case with the San Diego "Union," and the "Tribune," both water syndicate sheets. The "London Times," as
another for example, displayed gross unfairness two weeks before the report of the Royal
"Professional Criti-
under a
work
of a medical
mem-
name, of the Commission and designed to prejudice the public in advance in favor of vaccination,
ber, hiding
fictitious
This article
came before
no
printed pages;
being by
been made.
not
difficult to find
for
testors
who send
pro-
As
not deign to notice the terrible indictment of vaccination contained in Prof. Crookshank's evidence, the legislators and justices
Then magazine
will
never trouble
the evidence.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
270
trivial
portion of the public that gives patronage and offers pelf are
matters of
vital
concern.
its
No
come
is
in the existing
order
to regard
it
man who
Had not
who
dares to offend, or
it is
member
of
one of the
There are thousands of innocent men under conwho are wronged and defrauded whom
in his behalf.
demnation
thousands
work
for.
Millionaire press-cor-
may abound on
the
all
Moral con-
is
anonymous
is
compositely infernal
the world.
employed
It
its
is
backing
;
its
is
editorial
Its
aggregated wealth
purpose
persistently,
is
its
character
and dominate
to possess
deliberately
page
and systematically
It
and
this
very
never cham-
It is
business can be
made
to serve
its
purpose.
As
well ex-
pect to gather figs from the thistle stalk, as to find a candid conscientious
class
encroachments
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
liberties
2JI
It will
knows by
oft
The reformer
in the millionaire
newspaper
high places,
in
does
it
moreover, that
in its daily
task
difficult
lies
this
knows
has but
it
ally
popular
in the
is
deavor to reach the masses with the facts and the truth which
vitally
MAMMON AND
I
VACCINATION.
"Mammon"
many
the
more
reflect
have made
on the history
it
too prominent
of legislation
but
the
sphere in
adapted to
different
life.
its
Moreover, each
class
from that of
practical
life.
War,
stances.
wholly
is
modi-
manner to conform to local circumThe Golden Rule is good doctrine to profess and
Sunday worship, but in practical life it is construed in
adapt to
is
if
VACCINATION A CURSE.
272
While modern
and explosive
bullets,
arrows
is
it
shells,
is
to be subserved.
is
pledged
If
view
in
is
The
do which he
is
nocent or guilty.
If
he
is
guilt.
No man
when
a final decision
is
reached,
if
sary.
The medical
profession, perhaps
is
or power to mitigate
will
human
in
further-
and
thrift
rude nature.
Dr. Pickering
(Xew
School),
than almost any other writer, says in preface to his large work:
is
purely a
money
question..
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
I
home
requisitioned, finds
There
observance.
is
it
at every point
273
is
inspiration in the
its
money
statis-
value of the
ond to
know
vaccination stand or
let
fall
own way
left
to fight
and
debility' within a
its
it
perils of
an open sea."
is
in the
its
I allege.
it
and
own
If
challenge
merits.
They
vaccination were
would
die of 'atrophy
medical
men know
it
in the city of
whom
on
world
twelvemonth
hence
make, then
Per-
methods
When
in business affairs.
passed on the
is
in-
terest in vaccination.
estly.
me
ten guineas
20
nation?
The thing
vaccinators
who
is
called.
took
absurd.
hate "cant."
annum by
home
Can
in vacci-
may
obtain
a bonus of 100 to 300 a year for supplying charged vaccination points to the authorities, and they
may
further gain 50 or
VACCINATION A CURSE.
274
Have
be thrashed out,
I
admit,
by
all
means
these
men no
If
let
be done on
it
pe-
is
to
fair principles.
a factor in
is
p. 44.
money product
is
com-
the
is
Medmy-
self I
to be
done
a law, and
many
serious injuries.
icine,"
wrote
in 1872:
it
is
legal enactment."
We
we
faculty,
is
what
viewed by us as a thing
carry
it
(Pickering,
for the
p. 30.)
say for
when using
justice
nor does
army scout admit responsibility when he succeeds in inveigling the enemy upon the mine prepared for his destruction.
the
ports
my
modern
es act with a sense of personal
life
conscience
is
do not consider
it
any
If their acts
affair of theirs.
involve
Their
not troubled.
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
time and money.
$7$
in
state
their
goods.
But
taken,
is
will
which no account
The
is
profession
The
hundred years
civilized
all
and uncivilized
to the
extent of hun-
long catalogue of
among
diseases
filthy,
toward
final
extinction;
tecting people
There
no
who
among
the na-
and
this
is
in their efforts to
craft,
warrant of
being
is
human
but the instincts of humanity revolt and for which every victim
is
liable to
pay a
fearful penalty.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
276
of cruel suffering.
in London estimates that his income from
increased by 400 every year, dependant upon
vaccination, it would be an interesting statistic if we could ascertain how many surgeons there are in London, and throughout
the country, who derive similar advantages 'from public and
!"
Dr. Pickering, p. 338.
private vaccination
"If
one surgeon
his practice
is
millions,
of a royal
commission on Vaccination
and Parliament (1889) has played so important a part in discusEngland, upon the continent,
sions of the
subject,
in
and
some
in
the
further
United
States,
comments on
its
that
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
While
this
who
it.
It
277
way to dispose of the interminable series of queswhich came before Parliament as to the administration of
provide a
tions
vaccination laws.
those
Its
who had an
men were
interest
and stake
in the
hands of
in the practice.
Medical
Of
of vaccination.
none of them
its
character.
perpetrating
the
evil
of,
to
sit
shares to
sit
nor one
on Railway Committees.
who
has railway
it
may
affect
VACCINATION A CURSE.
278
"A Commission or committee of enquiiy into this momentous question should have consisted wholly, or almost
wholly, of statisticians,
who
as
and independent evidence, would have all existing official statistics at their command, and would be able to tell us,
with some show of authority, exactly what the figures proved,
and what they only rendered probable on one side and on the
other. But instead of such a body of experts, the Royal Commission, which for more than six years was occupied in hearing evidence and cross-examining witnesses, consisted wholly
of medical men, lawyers, politicians, and country gentlemen,
none of whom were trained statisticians, while the majority
officisl
came
to the enquiry more or less prejudiced in favor of vacThe report of such a body can hive but little value,
hope to satisfy my readers that it (the Majority Report)
cination.
and
In their eagerness
as
Prof.
A. R. Wallace
interested parties
to
defend vac-
The
conditions, etc.
ness and
filth
other forms of
and poor, or of
Vaccination alone
The Commissioners
say
"Those,
is
cleanli-
the qualtherefore,
be so
So
distinctions of rich
ifying factor.
who
all
far as
from, small-pox
is
made according
of,
or the mortality
months.
Small-pox
is
liable to
it
Many
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
children have their vaccination delayed
279
on account
of ill-health.
chosen
at
liability
to small-pox
Again, any
tilla
man
far as
with a grain of
commonsense and a
scin-
is
vastly in-
Take the
which
ply,
any
concerned.
is
crowded, poor,
filthy,
prejudiced medical
man
the facts?
and the
South
extremely deficient
in
Would
in its drainage.
Hamlet
water sup-
What were
line
St.
As we saw
in
this
District?
in a previous chapter,
The northen
Drouth
number
both
half
had
of fatal cases in
the
filthy
too,
These
City.
facts
The most
of these,
them too trivial and unimportant to even mention. Well, the medical members ot the Commission were the "attorneys'' on the defense, and saw only
what would contribute to the acquittal of the accused.
mission, but were considered by
much
whom
they
knew
to be
as President McKinley's
VACCINATION A CURSE.
280
scandal treated
all
who complained
witnesses
of
if
its
bad
quality.
possible, render
way, the general public, which should have been instructed re-
before.
The Commission
degree be appeased.
in their
in
some
Final Report,
it,
Slates
Boards continue
dose
to
the
Public
that
forefathers in
stalwart spirit
1776,
to infuse
new century
Oh, for a
of liberty
into
the
i'ttle
of
that
spinal
weak-kneed
house-
American citizenship the feeble folk whose once vigorous young sap has
been contaminated, poisoned, and rendered well-nigh worthless
dawn
of a
file
of cur
by a century of vaccination
MISSTATING FIGURES.
vast
amount
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
tion promoters,
in vaccination,
28l
handle
facts,
and
From
figures.
the
first
the
tion.
it
mons.
House
was stated:
it
number
of
Com-
"Previous to
of deaths by
small-pox with the (London) Bills of Mortality were 2,000 annually, whereas, in the last year 751 persons
disease."
"But when we
average
4,000,
was repeated
in 1834;
in
"The annual
loss of
life
by small-pox
course of
this lie
last
was
In 1838
by the Government.
for his
own
good
will of
the
adopted a system of "paternalism" toward the vaccinator unheard of before, giving him
goods, and guaranteeing
offices
their
and
prompt and
ready
sale
by
We
282
VACCINATION A CURSE.
alleled
in the
last
is
No
cination.
regard
down
the average
is
to the credit
of vac-
is
character of small-pox
to 5,000, so
to the
when
nually.
lie
above
and
lence,
London epidemic
of 1838.
time, at least,
were ashamed of
their misstatements.
4,500.
Vaccinationists for a
public vaccinator
Commission
vio-
in 1802, that
London was
testified
before
before vaccination
3,000,
and
in
Great
The population
In this way:
Britain
Britain
Assuming small-pox
London, he multiplied by
London death
12
36,000.
fatality to
He
first
of
be 3,000
takes the
its
average, and then assumes that the town, vi'lage, and country
over-crowded and
here once
cate,
more
superlative
filthy
amount
of small-pox
London.
We
have
in
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
contract small-pox.
many
Sir
is
283
made
Gilman Bianc
to turn
on the
us that in
tells
Dr.
W.
B. Carpenter
word no
be induced to swear by
88 1, says:
its
of a well-known
literary
man
in
work on
England could
"A hundred
alone, with
to say
author
London
if
is,
the facts,
Now
that
known
is in
1871
(See
it
reached 7,912
Won.
Cen.
p. 226.)
in a
I
this
amaz-
it
publicly.
in his
in forty
London was
figure multiplied
by nine, and
this
rates,
VACCINATION A CURSE.
284
country.
language
is
greater than
tors
"Before
from small-pox
"official" figures,
dishonesty as
this
in
in
its
discovery (vaccina-
London was
forty times
now."
it is
such
It is
persons annually
slightly modified:
killed 40,000
have here
cited, that
our
that his
evil results
therefrom.
Interested
men have
wonderful power and aptness of not seeing what they have decided should not interfere with their business.
see the sun while he resolutely shuts his eyes.
true,
result except
One need
not
Public vaccina-
Those
by accident.
tors,
it is
who
is
Medical men,
In strategy, a
lie
in-
vaccinator
The
The end
in
view
"Wonderful
Century,"
p.
228
gives
list
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
2&J,
left.
Dr. Henry May, in an article published
Birmingham "Medical Review," January, 1S74, says:
conscience
in the
it
from
my
certificate of death."
which resulted
Among
mentioned
fatally;
in
connection
with
vaccination.
their
VACCINATION A CURSE.
286
account.
all
And
this is the
all
If
and make a
full
now
temples which
ical
a gen-
God made
divinely fair
syphilis,
among them.
Mr. Alfred Milnes, a
statistician
who
h'is
the
the actual
number
it
if
would
of deaths
them
"The facts and figures of the medical profession and of
Government officials, in regard to the question of vaccination,
must never be accepted without verification. And when we
consider that these misstatements, and concealments, and denials of injury, have been going on throughout the whole of the
century; that penal legislation has been founded on them; that
homes of the poor have been broken up that thousands have
been harried by police and magistrates, have been imprisoned
and treated in every way as felons and that, at the rate now
against
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
287
The
(p.
Wonderful Century,
The mere
faintest
method
justifies this
making
of
when no
scar,
who
and a
upon
whom
statistic
sary, to class
Dr.
mark.
tic
p. 232.
it is
better,
Individ-
point of view,
them
Gayton's
no
"I have
presum-
and
think, neces-
as unvaccinated."
Report for
87 1 -2-3.
This method, which
Homerton
the
Hospital
for
versal, is
such a
is
render them
is
much
who
am
VACCINATION A CURSE.
288
'whilst in practice in
London
cates of children as
Marasmus,
frequently
up death
filled
Debility, etc
when
certifi-
felt
per-
vaccination."
"When
Pickering's
know
Sanitation or Vaccination,
p.
165.
debility,
itself.
of an independent authority.
of Allopathic practice."
Ibed,
p.
194.
some andidote, or some violent national expenditude, counteracting the conditions which give rise to this
fever.
No, it is too sudden to be real. It is, on the whole,
entirely a change in certification. Instead of being found under
the heading 'Typhus,' the deaths have been transferred, I should
say, by authority, to other death-causes which are similar or
symptomatic. It was necessary to show a change somewhere
in the dull, continuous, mortality from fevers, and typhus was
of the discovery of
selected.
fashion
in
certification.
Query,
Is
it
"Sanitarians
know
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
becoming epidemic
"We
289
again.
startling assertion
is
made by an expert
in inebriety
morphinism
is
being spead
among
the people
whom
are
now opium
of
the United
men
themselves,
drunkards.
The
asser-
and deductions of the author, Dr. T. I. Crothers, of Hartand thus summarized in the Memphis "Appeal." (Dec. 4,
1899):
in five
per cent, of
VACCINATION A CURSE.
2gO
Physicians have
the reputation of being very strict in the observance of the etiquette of the profession, and very rigorous in their hostility
against the quacks, whose capacity of harm is readily underCertainly then it w ould seem that the medical profession
ought to protect itself as well as the people at large from the
r
stood.
If
every doctor
who
is
an opium fiend
will
but since
be instrumental
in fast-
At
morphine
try
is
much
disease, with
of the
drunkenness
opium, the
in this
coun-
Whom
could
tor?
W. Hodge. M.
D., at
Xiagara
Falls,
N. Y., contributes a
issue of
lowing
September
16th, 1899,
from which
"To
affirm that there never has been any scientific warin the alleged protective virtues of vaccination
and that
is
its
practice
a sorry charge to
is
make
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
2gi
is
of the people,
and more to
my own
was
VACCINATION A CURSE.
2g2
pox.
patients,
all
of
ogy
collected
was treated to
snother great surprise, namely, the world's greatest statisticians on small-pox and vaccination fully corroborated the experience that I had met in the Lockport epidemic. Previous
to this disappointing experience I had read only orthodox literature as is usually found in the medical libraries of physicians.
I had heard only the exparte testimony of the provaccinists.
I knew (?) but one side of the question, and was like
him of whom John Stuart Mill said
'He who knows only his
own side of the case knows little of that.' After a careful study
of the history of vaccination and an extensive experience in
its use, I am thoroughly convinced that it is utterlv useless
as a preventive against small-pox, that millions of vaccinated
persons have died of small-pox that the practice of this degrading rite is enforced by doctors as a dogma without being
understood. That like that other infamous dogma (inoculation)
it is only good for 'fees."
That inoculation was unanimously
believed in and practiced by the 'regular' doctors for 100 years
in multiplying small-pox cases by spreading the contagion.
That small-pox epidemics were checked by the cessation of inoculation, not by the introduction of vaccination. That smallpox continued to increase under vaccination until sanitation
came into more general use. That sanitation and isolation have
controlled small-pox, and vaccination has claimed the credit.
:
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
293
Prof.
Thomas D. Wood,
"Tuberculosis
is
It is
five
VACCINATION A CURSE.
294
years.
human
It effects
when crowded
beings, especially
to-
gether in large cities of big buildings. It is partial to the domesticated animals, but rarely attacks the horse, and more
rarely the dog.
Swine are most affected. Next to these are
cows and
heifers."
in
cows and
heifers;
and from
these
into
It is
generally admit-
It is said that
you know?
Did the
the pulse?
Cows,
officials
How
dumb.
do
feel of
you
whether they have a kidney complaint, or indigestion, or any
other disease.
heifers are
And
then
think
fields,
of
it
they
them
confine
in
take
tell
supposed
'sterilized sta-
irritation,
up to the point
healthy, do you?
if
half
thirst, the
of puss-rottening
Would you
poison,'
increasing inflammation
and
consider your
Then watch
little
rather
impure poi-
son!
LITTLE
PURE CATARRH
LYMPH?
"How
would
it
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
295
it
up to
compulsorily into
the school children's arms as a preventive, say against the grip,
erysipelas, or some kind of eczema?
it
Here
is
some
Alma O.
Peihn, daughter of L.
First National
Bank
of
Nora Springs
less
a beautiful
little girl
six
spots.
No
pains or expense
all
to
no
purpose.
lar spots
was spared
all
his
saw a case of
says:
from vaccination.
The
St.
New York
contracted
VACCINATION A CURSE.
296
"The New York 'Medical Journal' of March 26th last, records an epidemic of syphilis in which the disease was introduced into the family, according to the history, by vaccination,
and in which every member of the family of eight was ultimately
infected. The first case was a child of two years then the moththen two girls aged 9 and 14 respectively then a
er, aged 32
boy of 4 then a girl of 7, and then a nursling, aged 6 months.
The father escaped until the last, but late in the spring he came
The
to the clinic with a characteristic eruption, alopecia, etc.
;
all severe.
There were several irites, all had obstinand some very extensive mucous patches, and the two-yearTiie site of inoculation was
old child had syphilis pneumonia.
discoverable in two cases only, probably on account of the lateness and irregularity with which patients were brought to the
clinic.
In the other it was upon the center of the cheek, and
in one girl it was upon the eyelid."
cases were
ate
The Board
of Health, of
a vaccina-
P.
Yon
After
been furnished him and proved he had used pure cream instead.
He
also
showed
small-pox, and that the general health was good, while in the
many
many
"Von Lackum's"
I
presume
deaths.
repealed,
is
we
will
much
Until the
may be excused
Anti-Yacccinators.
It
is
It is
if
I refer
champion
city in the
world for
its
and
in finding a better
serting
year
its
position, a
moved
"that this
way.
For the sake of once more reasof its Boa d of Guardians last
member
Board resolve
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
y eas
no
nays.
vaccination and
297
is
We
saw
result,
in
not by a
a preceding
many
It
in
open defiance of
sum
equal to $50,000.
Seventy
"Where no monuments
common
Where
Where
Where
Where
and prudence
is
in its place,
The Atlanta
"At Americus (Ga) several Christian Scientists, who refused to be vaccinated, were sentenced to an imprisonment for
thirty days, and a fine of $15.
"This in free America, sounds like autocratic rule in Russia,
or the semi-barbaric methods of China. The despatches tell us
VACCINATION A CURSE.
298
that
many
in the place.
movement
movement
that
is
surely
let
the day,
cultured Dr. E.
Ripley, of Unionville,
New
Britain,
Conn.
"Never
in the history of
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
whole
corrupted by
"The
civilized
practice.
its
thrown
299
poured the
off
of vac-
too
vile
of decency,
homes
of the innocent
and the virtuous, and there the blighting curse has been left to
consummate a work of disease and death, wi^h consequent suf-
man
When
mad dog
whole people
desire that
enters a
to depict."
community and
rise
all
ate from the system of the child the virus that has been so
cruelly inserted.
The
me
tell
in
you
one
that
where the
mad
case, the
is
a very
bite of a
mad
mar
It is
the works of
God
that has
most im-
been attempted
it
arise in their
ought, and
it is
all
this
whole blood-poisoning
business.
"It
is
a sorry charge to
make
but so
it
is.
know whereof
posing that
it
is
backed by ignorance,
I affirm, for
I,
too,
must plead
VACCINATION
300
my
A CURSE.
what
murderer, and
in
my own
family, too.
crisis
me
virus,
would
live,
and
From
poison another
have kept
that time
my
on
all
I
human being
life;
and
God would
with vaccine
vow.
studied the subject, as
should have
was appalled to
find
how
fearfully I
had
been deluded."
In consonance with Dr. Ripley's above address,
all
the
sanitary science,
sanctities of
it
is
the
human
Masquerading
life.
champion harlequin
of our time,
and stingeth
The English
may be
invading
it
like
physician, Dr.
it
as
and
"biteth
an adder."
John Pickering.
F. R. G.
S.,
F.
health.
small-pox;
The
it
may
be generated
And here
a strong indictment is again furnished against both 'calf-lymph'
and 'arm-to-arm' vaccination. Cancer," says Dr. Hitchman,
are present.
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
3OI
To
lymphatic system
is
So
that,
lymph
human
to use
is,
purer
man
owing simply
to the
mere
differ-
respectively formed.
W. H.
years ago
C,
New York
:"
Epidemic of
1857-58-59
1863-64-65
1870-71-72
Deaths.
14,194
19,816
44,631
VACCINATION' A CURSE.
302
"It
is
'
"The
W.
his 'pen-gatling.'
The Chicago
Ocean
from Fort Wayne,
Inter
ing special
of vaccination
H BURR.
concerning the
evil effects
to suffer seriously.
In the Transvaal,
says Dr. Bond,
soldiers
if
is
where war
is
now
raging, vaccination,
In Algiers
illy
vaccin-
ation for a long time; but seeing the bad effect he became disDr. Wurtz reports the followinggusted with the results.
"A rich Abyssinian refused vacsee p. 124 Life in Abvssinia
:
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
303
and one
The
syphilitic
symptoms."
New
The doctor further says that Lorenzo Dow was once challenged to preach from a text to be given him by a minister just
as he was about to begin. The text assigned was from Num"And Balaam rose up in the morning and sadbers xxii., 21
dled his ass."
"This text," said Dow, "embraces three distinct ideas,
which I will explain. First, Balaam, the wicked prophet he
denotes your minister. Second, the saddle, which is the salary
which he receives. Third, the ass this means the people of his
congregation. The improvement is this that your minister has
his saddle fastened upon you, and is riding you to inevitable
:
destruction."
and
"her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone,"
in the
mad
charge of teaching
tude
the
majority
illegal
rose
caught
cupidity,
agora,
under
The
the
multi-
Doctor-craft
It
is
about as
VACCINATION A CURSE.
304
During the
Civil
War,
1863-4-5,
San Diego,
Mr. C. C. Watkins, a
Grand Avenue,
Soon there
Cal., 125
And
including Mr.
Seven
Tennessee.
of
one of them died, while C. C. Watkins, who had not been vac-
cinated,
And
disease.
or impudent enough, to
is
fully
declare
a preventive of small-pox.
that
It is
enough
calf-lymph vaccination
them had
become
smiths or daily
tillers of
the
Many
black-
soil.
children,
all
of
whom
Every
intelligent
reader knows
that
the
best
preventive
of
The Washington
an appropriation of $100,000 to be
expended
in
made
an effort to ex-
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
terminate tuberculosis
What
losis
among
appropriation will
imparted
strenuously,
children's
virus
or
selfishly
make
it
305
cow-pox
the
virus
and compulsorially
that
doctors are
putting
our
into
prevent
will
it
small-pox?
very
to be
(says
Public Opinion, Jan. 14, 1891), "on a farm in this district, was
animals infected
its
and a few
it
true
is
These
Government
exposed from
to a sense of the
this source.
to
An
the animal
in
the
industry
laboratory
same direction
of alarm.
he Capital that
it
itself
bacilli
and, sure
contained in
and develop
in his sys-
Concur-
virus manipulated,
how long
will
How
The following
is
this
is
forced
long
oh
outrage!
VACCINATION A CURSE.
306
It is
He
on Vaccination
"The
young woman.
but of
grit,
first
extreme nastiness of
more
clearly
when we remember
its
filth start
of vac-
filthiness will
appear
on the cow's
Persons attend-
It
almost
first
hog-pox.
own son
Kr
further by
way
of experiment
and
his
it is
list
ating
wonder
by taking
that
filth
Some
all
claim that
it
is
dog-pox.
same
Jen-
origin.
it is
is
itself in
the cow.
without foundation.
The
In-
it
can be proven that the good Lord, through special regard for
the ladies,
made
the
cow
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
307
the pox develops in her, and her only, so that the nice term
"cow-pox" could be used, instead of the gross term "bull-pox."
*
*
*
there will rise up a well-inFifty years from ik
v\
formed generation,
who
will
tion
who
themselves as
if
much
filthy,
pity.
Let those
it
on
What becomes
of the heifers
and calves
is
after they
have
Lymph?
what becomes of them? Are they killed and their shaven, sore
and pus-scarred bodies buried from human gaze? This would
be a waste of beef, not "embalmed beef," but rather veal from
Such
kets.
facts the
moie deeply
vegetarianism.
The
condensed:
"Some more
lowing
trifle
coming
by
the
Anti-Compulsory
Vaccination
interesting
Society
facts
of
are
America
against the law which was passed at the last session of the Legislature,
is
willing to
tell
his
will
"We
said
Attorney Beasley,
from the people who have seen the calves, after they
had been used fcr the purpose of producing the virus, taken
from these farms full of poisonous vaccine matter and sold.
"direct
VACCINATION A CURSE.
308
''Naturally,
everyone interested
you
of these
is
this
in
matter wants
to
poor animals.
have been sold to the public as veal after the virus has been
put into them.
We
I,
if
at least,
such action
would
like to
is
pre-
be
in-
Now,
the question
is,
'What
will
is
which
of mattters
concluded, and
will
TO MAKE A TEST
be brought out
tell
you.
CASE.
He was immune
who were
detailed
by the Archbishop of
all
last rite of
is
the church.
MISCELLANEOUS FEATL
RES.
309
It
best a
at
is
The
virus,
he says,
is
system.
These are
still
the
"David Mackay, M.
Army
D.,
Surgeon General
Grand
of the
of the Republic, in sending a subscription to Vaccinais only one of the horriand from a false dietary, fleshUntil that ceases man will go on his crazy method of
"
a disease, by creating a worse one.'
tion says
eating.
'curing'
from
filth,
HASTENING TO A CLIMAX.
As
to
my
write January
15th,
the
1900
cago:
"A
tion
Now, dear reader, I shall have to "take back" the asserI made in the fourth chapter that "no person has yet been
The Chicago
actual
physical
makes
VACCINATION A .CURSE.
3IO
We now
stand
The
in the
1 clip
mode
fact.
mobbed
a preacher
cago as he returns
is
many
if
caught
citizens
says they
late
And why
"sent up."
occasionally and
may do
vaccinate
is
At
them,
this sea-
about played
city.
surprised to learn that they are arming with the lancet, with
tubes, or a phial of calf-pus and taking to the street, physically
They
enforce vaccination.
lature gave
them
leave to vaccinate
it
all
up to the point
of efficiency.
common
shall
carry
out
their
would suggest
(seriously) that
in
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
3II
this
of rising en
legislatures
that are
bought
MILITIA.
paragraph
it
speaks for
the
the
itself:
of militia, ninety
men
strong, went
against a
number
of persons
who have
refused to be vaccin-
ated.
"An epidemic of small-pox has prevailed among 500 colored brickyard laborers at Walsh & Company's yard, Stockport, for some time.
About fifty, white and colored, refused
to submit to vaccination, so a company of the State Militia
was ordered to Stockport to enforce the quarantine rules."
And
sonal liberty,
No it
is
is it?
America,
is
it?
rather an oligarchy
manned by
is it?
certain "professsional"
There's
not
in
America but that knows, and if honest, will frankly admit that
cow-pox vaccination is not an invariable preventative of smallpox. They know from the most unimpeachable testimony that
thousands vaccinated and re-vaccinated have died and
every year of small-pox.
And
yet in
Hudson
still
the militia
die
is
tion
it
Think
VACCINATION A CURSE.
312
American
of this, freedom-loving
citizens,
country
Soon
The Steamboat
Company,
to
bestirring
Worcester and
itself,
after
when she
New
of
left
it
came
when
was it took too well, producing "a new disease," said the
Rockland (Mass.) Independent, "worse than the small-pox."
This
is
creates
what we have
new
all
along contended
diseases, as well as
for, that
vaccination
lays the
festering diseases
filthiest,
known
to the
human
race.
M. Leverson,
He
said:
Association
on
in
"Should small-pox
your doctor or any other one who would notify the Board
well,
this talk
some
call
it
Health.
Do
easily treated
and not
in
is
exaggerated.
is
All
It is
The importance
many
sections.
It
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
who opposed
vaccination.
313
we say
Scientifically
the
cow-pox
less
specific disease."
New
a sporadic form, of
is
York Tri-Weekly,
Jan. 15th,
1900.
The above
a note of warning
is
world has
we must now
past.
is
fullv
reap.
It
prepared the
soil for
bonic plague
will
is
first
tieth century.
the
will
soil there,
and as
write
January,
1900
summer.
At any
rate,
sooner or later
it
is
bound
to
come and
exact a sterner
mode
of teaching".
The
may have
most virulent in
home is where filth
India, and in the city of
abounds.
It
all
zymotic diseases,
continues to spread in
its
is
VACCINATION A CURSE.
314
Bombay
it
The
natives refuse
little
filthy
in
the suburbs,
used by
is
by the
city
will
sounded.
All
Its
death knell
for
is
already being
pronouncing vac-
is
one of
Here
is
May
2nd,
says
in Britain
and
anti-toxin will
is
a bubonic-plague scare in
among
San Francisco,
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
On my
and
filth.
It first
appeared
in
is
a disease of dirt
Bombay among
the underground
rats
lower caste.
seldom
It
315
and
if it
did,
it
would
be comparatively harmless.
generally died.
lived.
glandular
the
Women
first
May
Franisco Press
of
bubonic plague
in the city
20lb, says:
it.
The San
city occu-
The San Diego Sun of May 24th pub"A great number of Japanese have vol-
is
in
The Chronicle
been no real
cases of bubonic plague, and said the cry was raised by the city
army
of guards
sum
of
money
to hire an
is
political conspiracy."
No doubt, this scare and scheme was "a conspiracy" between the politicians and physicians for selfish ends, all of
which is painfully deplorable, in this boasting, self-assertive age
of civilization and moral enlightenment.
3l6
VACCINATION A CURSE.
who
citizen,
took"
him quarantined
developed
The
in the category of a
into
"This
unaccountable
is
had actually
pronounced small-pox.
of
unaccountable
Niagara
Falls,
said:
!"
J.
W. Hodge, M.
D.,
"According to
last
office at
Manila
fatalities
June.
this
wounds received
in action,
9 killed accidentally, 23
died of typhoid fever,
By examining
(all
of
deaths from
all
this
coun-
diseases.
The Courier
vaccination find a
good argument
in this
"Opponents of
condition of affairs at
Manila."
In
many
tried long
and
faithfully, its
Switzerland no soldier
is
now
obliged to be vaccinated.
is
The
vaccinated
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
who
317
small-pox patients in
its
is
These were
hospitals.
all
vaccinated
and re-vaccinated."
And
rather
non-studious
They
medical
who
per-
Do
they think
do they observe do they investigate do they study and reason? It has been wisely said that he who will not reason is a
bigot, he who dare not is coward, and he who can not is an idiot.
Each back-chapter
of small-pox, vaccination
positions, Physicians
The people
Take your
above trilemma.
AN INSISTENT FALSEHOOD.
"He who said the age of myths was psst was surely unacquainted with the suspicious ways of certain doctors in sustaining the tottering vaccine idol. Perhaps the most remarkable
of the many fables invented by the advocates of vaccination to
bolster up the Jennerian dogma, surely the basest and most
insistent
is
Along
that
in
known
as the
"Franco-German war
first
statistic."
appeared
in
In June, 1883,
Physician General of the French armv," but he did not, for investigation
showed
it
was not
in the
VACCINATION A CURSE.
318
it
ity of
In the
German
new
report of the
St.
Petersburg."
line of investigation
So here
official
in
fig-
This started
an Austrian journal.
we have a fanciful tale involved in the imagan unknown newspaper man, through an Aus-
in brief
inative brain of
sta-
in truth.
to rest here.
Earl Granvillle in
unknown,
was too great for registry, thus effectually
disposing of the French part of it. The story was publicly retracted in the London News, August, 1883.*
And the German part tared no bettei for Herr Lisouke, in a letter to Geo.
loss
it
down
to 261
it
1898
it
had
dropped to
ated
in
our
Dr. Oidtmann.
staff
is
This general
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
against
Dr. Colon,
it."
Bicetre, says
in
in Gei
man camps
all
who
in the regular
vaccinatecl."
in
319
among them
arrival,
but small-pox
after they
measures to repress
it,
were placed
re-
The
took sick."
soldiers
Jl.,
It is
rapidly
declined.
1873).
of vaccination.
ment
in
is
re-
Early
in
"Evidence as to
re-
civil
had
five
times
population of the
mon.
Nor
So true
is
this that in
1896 the
German
uncom-
Imperial Health
VACCINATION A CURSE.
320
growing
no column
is
children
all
pyemia,
etc.,
that
it
that the
German
;
mortality
and that
such
is
Even
over 40,-
forcible vac-
at
from vaccination
for deaths
is
is
tion,
As
for the
ists,
influence, issued a
is
contained
list
such deaths
all
as
army
erysipelas,
that even in
in service, testified to
hearing
from
some "appropriate
Dr.
J.
illness."
A. Henscl,
address delivered
brief:
surgeon
late
Salt
in
in the
German army,
cessfully-
time.
myself,
was
laid
in
an
up
months
before,
the
for
third
had been
In 1898
wit-
men from
the
army
am
all
from vaccination.
is
no
demic."
German corespondent
in
all
the
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
"We
must not
German doctors
Fine sounding new names,
making
are experts at
statistics.
die,
So
as stamped out."
small-pox
321
is
German army
is
men
small-pox; these
and can
is,
be,
no small-pox
in the
Ger-
man army.
a too
It is
figures
common
for
them
in favor of vaccination.
lie
same old lie, and it began the round of the American press.
From Maine to California has it circulated, appearing in all state
health bulletins, including the Government bulletins and quoted
as gospel by Surgeon General Sternberg in defense of his frequent poisoning of the poor soldier boys in the far East, who
continue to die of smali-pox, despite the assertions of Surgeon
Lippincott, that our
army
is
in the field.
There
but there
some excuse
is
is,
F.
this
falsehood
"But the
mongers
"and
with
fearful,
malicious
upon
falsehood
published or
should,
if
pro-
this
and
all liars"
and brimstone
And why
who have
(the abortionists)
fire
facts,
D. Blue.
mouthed
knowing these
which
terrible
is
mark these
in the lake
last
words
which burnetii
doom?
(cow-
VACCINATION A CURSE.
322
pox lymph)
before
upon
vaccine virus
and further,
(i.)
nor
scientific
discovery,
its
is
Vaccinanon with
philosophical.
sphilitic virus to
prevent the
"bad" disease would be jast as rational; but that has been tried
and abandoned.
Dr. Koch's
much vaunted
worse than
tion
is
useless.
(2.)
while
is
its
form of putrefy-
invariably a
may
nevertheless declares bv
cies
its effects
therefore that
its
is
that
it
in
it
and
human being
is
always attended with grave danger and often plants in the body
the most loathsome anc incurable diseases
Vaccination
virus
is
is
known
to
men.
of disease
which
powers of detection.
More-
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
323
if
in-
ach.
(3.)
"protect."
rite
of Vaccination fails to
especially
modes
of liv-
clean,
The quarter
ig.
in a great city
even
epidemic years.
in
home
On
its
wretchedness,
in-
in filth, poverty,
small-pox
All that
a
is
fact
is
Then
when one
is
thus forti-
a rational procedure
Then
air,
water
never pass even into the confluent form. Generally, if people had
small-pox under the same circumstances that induce cow-pox,
it
its
is
expression
and
effectually
become
ripe for
scientifically anticipated
desolating as
it
has proved to be
destructive and
has become the curse par-ex-
No man
its
will.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
324
It is
by law.
It is
un-American.
It is
No
unconstitutional.
It
is
dan-
Compulsory vaccination
the
thing as Rome's
a pretty
is
fall
some-
fell,
ileged classes.
(5.)
aroused
in
how
becoming
various towns and municipalities where Boards of
populace
the
is
bear but
little
fruit
compul-
of the
real status
peal of
and respect
in this
country belongs to
ent and
list
vile par-
rosy, boils, tumors, and other diseases for which science has not
r iom
enough, however, to
and deaths,
incl.cate the
list
of vac-
ought to be
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
325
be.
be imprisoned
rather than
if
in the dust,
Money
is
of
all
man
women, unholy
this vaccination
money"
of
of
fines,
life.
tyranny centers
lust for gold.
pay
do anything
it
the
It is
mad
the sym-
desires,
and
will
privilege, office,
flattery,
The
gratifications, etc.
love of
money im-
the citizen,
i.
e.,
to plot against
the liberty of
may be exacted
of him.
from an attack of small-pox (?) Reader, friend and fellowcitizen, your protection never occupied the smallest corner in the
vaccinator's heart.
He sows calf-lymph virus to reap a harple
vhich their
died.
remove
this
Let us
compulsory
for
Henceforth
Your homes
toil
on
vote
for
men, not
politicians.
VACCINATION A CURSE.
326
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morning
io
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