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diff --git a/old/69965-0.txt b/old/69965-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d96122d..0000000 --- a/old/69965-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8395 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of Horrors of vaccination exposed and -illustrated, by Chas. M. Higgins - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Horrors of vaccination exposed and illustrated - Petition to the President to abolish compulsory vaccination in - Army and Navy - -Author: Chas. M. Higgins - -Release Date: February 6, 2023 [eBook #69965] - -Language: English - -Produced by: MFR, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from - images generously made available by The Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HORRORS OF VACCINATION -EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED *** - - - - - - - HORRORS OF VACCINATION - EXPOSED AND - ILLUSTRATED - - PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO - ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION - IN ARMY AND NAVY - - BY - CHAS. M. HIGGINS - - - PUBLISHED BY - CHAS. M. HIGGINS - BROOKLYN, N.Y. - 1920 - - - - - Copyright, 1920, by - CHAS. M. HIGGINS - - _Published April, 1920_ - - - THE DE VINNE PRESS - NEW YORK - - - - -DEDICATION - - -THIS EARNEST EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF OUR BASIC -AMERICAN PRINCIPLE OF “UNALIENABLE” PERSONAL RIGHTS, THE ESTABLISHMENT -OF MEDICAL FREEDOM AND THE ABOLISHMENT OF ALL MEDICAL COMPULSION, IS -DEDICATED TO OUR UNPRECEDENTED PRESIDENT, WOODROW WILSON, WHOSE NAME -WILL SURELY BE PLACED IN THE HIGHEST NICHES OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AS ONE -OF OUR GREATEST EXPONENTS OF IDEAL AND PRACTICAL AMERICANISM, FOR OUR -OWN COUNTRY AND THE WORLD. - - - - -[Illustration: PLATE 1 - -WISDOM AND LAW - -“EVERY LAW NOT BASED ON WISDOM IS A MENACE TO THE STATE”] - - - - -WISDOM AND LAW - -“EVERY LAW NOT BASED ON WISDOM IS A MENACE TO THE STATE” - - From the Statue of Wisdom and Law, at entrance to Appellate - Court, Twenty-fifth Street and Madison Avenue, New York - City. Statue and motto by F. W. Ruckstull, Sculptor. See - Frontispiece, Plate 1 - - -A SCULPTURED REBUKE TO COMPULSORY VACCINATION - - Compulsory Vaccination is an instance of a law which inflicts - actual disease and possible death on the human body and - propagates and disseminates deadly infections widely upon - animals and mankind. This is surely a glaring instance of a law - which is not based on Wisdom or Sanity and is a Menace to the - Health and Security of Humanity and the State. - - “This amazing act is the homicidal insanity of a whole - profession. This is blood assassination.” - - Dr. James J. Garth Wilkinson, 1876. - - “It is unwise for the physician to force the operation upon - those who are unwilling, or to give assurances of absolute - harmlessness.” - - Dr. Osler’s “Modern Medicine,” 1913, Vol. I, page 848. - - “Vaccination is not always a harmless procedure; it must be - looked upon as the production of an acute infectious disease.” - - Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, 1914. - - “Against the body of a healthy man Parliament has no right of - assault whatever, under pretence of the public health.” - - Professor F. W. Newman, of Oxford. - - “Vaccination is a delusion, its penal enforcement a crime.” - - Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, in “The Wonderful Century,” 1899. - - - - - - -PUBLIC CHALLENGE TO HEALTH DEPARTMENTS - -DEATHS FROM VACCINATION DENIED AND CONCEALED - -MORE DEATHS FROM VACCINATION THAN FROM SMALLPOX - - -IN order that there shall be no misunderstanding about the serious -charge which I bring against vaccination, as being now actually more -dangerous to public health and human life than natural smallpox, -and the equally serious charge which I make against vaccinating -doctors--who now control our Departments of Health and Vital -Statistics--of denying and concealing these facts from the people, -I now issue this special challenge to the Departments of Health of -the City and State of New York, which cover a population of eleven -millions, and with whose records I am more familiar, that I will -undertake to prove from their death certificates and vital records, -now concealed and withheld from the public, that there have been more -deaths from vaccination than from smallpox _in every year_ for the past -fifteen years in the City and State of New York. If they deny the truth -of these charges I further solemnly challenge them to open their now -concealed records to public examination and I will prove the truth of -my charges from these records. Will they now dare to deny these charges -or will they dare to refuse to open their heretofore hermetically -concealed records to give the full medical and statistical truth to the -people on these most important points? - - CHAS. M. HIGGINS. - - Brooklyn, New York, - September 17, 1919. - - - - -FOREWORDS FOR MEDICAL FREEDOM - -AND - -KEYNOTES OF AMERICAN RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES IN MEDICAL MATTERS - - -KEYNOTE NO. 1: INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. - - All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable - rights, among which are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of - Happiness. _Declaration of Independence, 1776, more properly - called Declaration of Rights._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 2: RESERVED RIGHTS AND POWERS RETAINED AND POSSESSED BY THE -PEOPLE. - - “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall - not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by - the people.” “The powers not delegated to the United States - by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are - reserved to the States respectively or to the people.” _U. S. - Constitution, Articles IX and X, 1789._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 3: SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. - - Under our Basic Charters, just quoted, the sovereign right and - power rests in the People, and the Government has no rights or - powers, whatever, except as conferred by the People. QUESTION: - Where have our State or National Governments obtained the - right to force any medical remedy or operation upon citizens - against their will and consent? Where have these governments - obtained the right or power to force an infectious and deadly - disease upon the human body in defiance of the will and the - right of the citizen? Have the people ever given up their - most sacred essential and unalienable right to the sanctity - and security of their own bodies and to their free choice and - right of selection in the medical treatment of their bodies? - This is surely one of the great “unalienable,” “reserved” and - “retained” rights which the people have never given up to any - government, and which the Legislature or police power has no - right to invade. _C. M. H._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 4: PREËMINENT RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL DECLARED BY U. S. -SUPREME COURT. - - “There is, of course, a sphere within which the individual may - assert the supremacy of his own will, and rightfully dispute - the authority of any human government, especially of any free - government existing under a written constitution, to interfere - with the exercise of that will.” _U. S. Supreme Court in - Vaccination case of Jacobson, 1904._ Note: This decision also - held that vaccination could not be legally forced upon any - persons who could show that it was dangerous to their health or - life. - - -KEYNOTE NO. 5: COMPULSORY VACCINATION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. - - “It may be conceded that the Legislature has no constitutional - right to compel any person to submit to vaccination.” _Judge - Woodward, of New York Appellate Court, in Viemeister case in - 1903._ - - “If the Commissioner of Health had the power to imprison an - individual for refusing to submit to vaccination, I see no - reason why he should not also imprison one for refusing to - swallow a dose. But the Legislature has conferred no such power - upon him, if, indeed, it has the power to do the like.” _Judge - Gaynor in Supreme Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1894, case of Smith - vs. Emery._ This decision was fully sustained by the Court of - Appeals. - - -KEYNOTE NO. 6: MEDICAL COMPULSION AND DOMINATION JUDICIALLY REBUKED AND -MEDICAL FREEDOM ASSERTED BY NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS. - - “I concur in Judge Chase’s construction of the statute. But I - would go farther. I deny the power of the Legislature to make - it a crime to treat disease by prayer.” _Decision of Chief - Justice Willard Bartlett, of New York Court of Appeals, in - “Christian Science” case of Willis Vernon Cole, 1917._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 7: GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO FORCE A MEDICAL DISEASE OR -OPERATION UPON THE PEOPLE. - - From these decisions it would seem to be obvious that it cannot - be made a crime to refuse a medical operation to which the - patient does not consent or approve, and which is dangerous - to health or life, and that this is the “sphere,” as stated - by the U. S. Supreme Court, “within which the individual may - assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute - the authority of any human government ... to interfere with - the exercise of that will.” And, furthermore, this “sphere,” - surely means the “Unalienable rights” of the people asserted - in the Declaration and the “reserved” rights and powers - retained by the people as expressed in Articles IX and X of the - Constitution. _C. M. H._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 8: THE JEFFERSONIAN OATH OF RATIONAL AMERICAN LIBERTY. - - “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against - every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” _Thomas Jefferson, - Author of Declaration of Independence, to Benjamin Rush, Signer - of the Declaration._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 9: MEDICAL FREEDOM IS AN INALIENABLE AMERICAN RIGHT. - - The right of the individual to select any preferred system - of medical treatment, whether with or without prayer and - faith, with or without drugs and medicines, or with or without - vaccines or serums, and the right to accept or refuse any - medical remedy or operation, is surely a clear inherent and - reserved right, under our basic American Charters of Rights - and Liberties, and cannot be legally or morally denied, but - must be respected, defended and enforced by all Governments. - Indeed, our first and Basic Charter--The Declaration of - Rights--clearly and emphatically asserts that the essential - purpose of Government is to secure these inalienable rights - of the individual. Jefferson taught that Liberty, in all - essential needs, is not a “privilege” granted by Government, - but an inherent right possessed by all men, and naturally or - divinely conferred upon them; hence the chief function of all - Governments is to secure and enforce these human rights, not - to invade or violate them to satisfy medical dogmas or other - oppressive, dangerous, and illegal theories. _C. M. H._ - - -KEYNOTE NO. 10: CONCLUSION: ABOLISH FORCED VACCINATION. - - All Compulsory Vaccination should be abolished as being illegal - and unconstitutional and more dangerous to public health and - human life than natural disease, and therefore a medical - outrage and crime upon the people. - - The Declaration of Rights distinctly asserts that: “Whenever - any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is - the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” - - The “ends” here referred to are the natural “unalienable” and - “reserved” rights of the people, which are grossly violated - by Compulsory Vaccination, and it is therefore the moral, - legal and constitutional right of the people to demand the - abolishment of this medical evil of compulsory disease which - obviously violates their most sacred and essential personal - rights, viz.: Sanctity of Body, Medical Liberty and Choice, - Health and Life. - - -TEXT OF PROPOSED LAW TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION. - -“No form of vaccination or inoculation shall be compulsory on any -person or be made a condition for the exercise of any right, privilege, -or duty, of any person.” - - - - -CONTENTS - - - PAGE - Statue and Motto of Wisdom and Law. A sculptured rebuke to - Compulsory Vaccination _Frontispiece_ - - Dedication to President Wilson iii - - Public Challenge to Health Departments. Deaths from Vaccination - greater than deaths from Smallpox. Now denied and - concealed by Doctors and Health Officers vi - - Prelude:--Forewords for Medical Freedom and Keynotes of - American Rights and Liberties in Medical Matters vii - - Introduction xxiii - - Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated 1 - - Petition to the President, Commander-in-chief of Army and - Navy, to abolish Compulsory Vaccination and pardon all men - condemned by court-martial for refusing vaccination 3 - - Death of George Washington from Medical Malpractice in 1799 - a warning against Modern Malpractice 5 - - Compulsory Vaccination greatest malpractice of to-day, kills - many persons 6 - - Vaccination most dangerous and repulsive remedy ever devised, - is a form of blood poisoning with an inflicted disease and is - often more deadly than natural disease 7 - - Compulsory vaccination as a condition for Public Schooling, or - admission to Army and Navy, medically and legally wrong - and should be abolished 11 - - Doctors of Various Schools of Medicine should be represented - on all medical and health boards 11 - - Imprisonment for refusing vaccination in Army and Navy condemned - as “cruel and unusual punishment” forbidden by - Constitution 12 - - Military obedience to bad law commended. The great example - of Socrates cited 15 - - The President quoted in asserting the rights and dignities of soldiers - and condemning military despotism and “Medical Hoggery” 17 - - Compulsory vaccination not necessary and not effective for - health of armies or populations. Examples cited. Failure of - vaccination in U. S. Army 18 - - Vaccination not compulsory in English Army 19 - - Medical authorities admit dangers of vaccination and condemn - compulsion. Sanitation superior to vaccination. The sanitary - unvaccinated City of Leicester, England, cited 20-22 - - Deaths from vaccination greater than deaths from smallpox. - Statistics given 23 - - Great epidemics of deadly disease in animals and man caused by - vaccination 25 - - Grave nature of recent epidemic of Influenza and Pneumonia and - possible relation of vaccination thereto 26 - - Vaccine factories a possible and proved source of epidemics and - should be investigated by Congress and the Government 30 - - Epidemics and high death-rates in the Army probably caused - by wholesale and repeated vaccinations. Death-rate of Army - from disease much greater than that of civil population 31 - - Wonderful work of the Army and Navy Departments in the late - war gratefully acknowledged and commended 34 - - Compulsory vaccination condemned as un-American and a violation - of our great American Charters of Rights and Liberties, - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution 35 - - The Declaration and Constitution carefully analyzed as to the - unalienable American right of Medical Freedom 35 - - The Declaration further analyzed and commended as a complete - creed of essential Americanism in one paragraph and a brief - code of Basic Ethics, Civic Religion and Democratic Government, - which should be emblazoned on all public places and - buildings as the basis of Americanism 37 - - Plato’s Golden Rule and the Declaration of Rights compared 41 - - Unalienable Rights Analyzed and Defined. Medical Freedom - an unalienable American Right 42-45 - - Compulsory vaccination condemned by our Courts as unconstitutional. - Decisions cited 45 - - The Supreme Court of the U. S. on the preëminent rights of the - individual 47 - - Unalienable rights of the individual _versus_ rights of majorities. - False idea of the supremacy of majorities scored 50 - - Medical Freedom and Alimentary Freedom equally unalienable - rights of the People and necessary for Life, Liberty and Happiness 51 - - Medical Freedom equally necessary as Religious Freedom 52 - - Medical Despotism of to-day worse than the old religious despotism - of the past. The medical fanaticism of to-day, “Let us - spread disease so that health may abound,” scored and compared - to the old religious heresy, “Let us sin so that grace may - abound” 52 - - Awful record of Japan in vaccination and smallpox and in - epidemic disease spread by vaccination. Japanese virus causes - epidemics of Cattle Plague in the United States in man and - animals 53-55 - - Medical Freedom necessary for Medical Progress, Medical Truth - and Human Safety 56 - - Medical Domination and Compulsion most dangerous power in - body politic and must be suppressed 60 - - The gigantic medical and vaccine interests supporting compulsory - vaccination a menace to public right and safety and - should be curbed 61 - - Deaths and disasters from vaccination are frequently denied and - concealed by vaccinating doctors now controlling our Departments - of Health and Vital Statistics 63 - - Able laymen, or sanitary engineers, and life insurance statisticians, - having no interest or bias to conceal medical mistakes or - disasters, should be placed at the head of all our Departments - of Health and Vital Statistics with great advantage to public - right and medical truth 63-64 - - Proposed National Board of Health controlled by doctors of one - dominant school of medicine condemned 64 - - Medical Ethics of different schools compared and criticized. The - “beam” _versus_ the “mote.” The Medical Pharisee exposed - and condemned 65 - - Propagation and infliction of disease a medical crime 68 - - Removal of the great ethical disgrace of the medical - profession--compulsory medicine and inflicted disease 68 - - Recapitulation. Reforms suggested 69 - - Conclusion. The President’s words condemning unjust, arbitrary - and coercive forces in the body politic 70 - - In Memoriam. Life sketch of John Pitcairn, late President of - the Anti-Vaccination League of America 73 - - Pictorial Supplement Exposing and Illustrating Horrors of - Vaccination 77 - - How vaccine virus is made and how cattle and mankind are diseased - and killed by it 79 - - What vaccination truly is and how pus infection, lockjaw and - other diseases work together in vaccination with fatal effect 82 - - The typical normal vaccination sore or pustule, a form of blood - poisoning or septicemic infection, pure and simple 83 - - Abnormal and dangerous forms of vaccination illustrated 84-85 - - Fatal form of “Generalized Vaccination” in a baby girl where - the eruption spreads all over the body, like confluent smallpox, - and quickly kills 87 - - Severe type of vaccination in a little child where the inflammation - and eruption extend from the sore over part of the body - and endanger life by general infection 88 - - How vaccinating doctors deny and conceal, and falsely excuse, - frequent deaths from vaccination 89 - - Dangerous nature of Vaccine Virus. Various diseases found in - or caused by it 90 - - Epidemic cattle plagues, known as “Foot and Mouth Disease,” - caused by vaccination in animals and mankind in 1902 and - 1908, with great destruction of cattle and injury to mankind 92-101 - - Photographs of cattle suffering from Foot and Mouth Disease, - caused by vaccination in epidemic of 1902 93-95 - - The shocking “Vaccine Holocaust”! A funeral pile of hundreds - of cattle burned to destroy infection caused by vaccine - virus in epidemic of 1902 97 - - Map of the second epidemic of this disease in 1908, caused by - manufacture of vaccine virus in the U. S. from “seed virus” - derived from Japan 98 - - Great loss and damage caused by these vaccine epidemics to the - government and people of the U. S. A big price to pay for - vaccination 102 - - Epidemics of smallpox probably caused by vaccination and Foot - and Mouth Disease. Foot and Mouth Disease probably a - form of Variola or Mongrel Smallpox 102 - - Cattle plagues of Foot and Mouth Disease very common in much - vaccinated countries like Germany and Japan and probably - caused by vaccine infection same as in the U. S. 103 - - How lockjaw is caused by vaccination and how this truth is - denied and concealed by vaccinators 104 - - Lockjaw may be caused by vaccination whether germs are in - the virus or not. False arguments in defense of vaccination - exposed and shattered 105 - - “Assassination of the Blood” by forced vaccination must be - stopped 106 - - Positive proof that vaccination and lockjaw are more “risky” and - deadly than natural smallpox. Convincing statistical figures - given 107 - - Horror of horrors! Proof that cattle plague, or Foot and Mouth - Disease, in horrible form is caused in mankind by vaccination. - Medical ignorance on this point rebuked 108 - - Horrible case of a woman killed by Foot and Mouth Disease, or - Virulent Cowpox, caused by vaccination. Photograph taken - before death shows awful vaccinal eruptions 110 - - Bad case of the same disease in a vaccinated man. Photograph - of eruption at its height proves positive relation to vaccination 112 - - Proof that “Foot and Mouth Disease,” Virulent Cowpox, “Pemphigus,” - and “Generalized Vaccination” are identical and are - different names for, and forms of, the same typical disease 111-116 - - Case of same typical disease in a vaccinated school boy, being - one of several of similar kind caused by vaccination 117 - - Another case of same typical disease caused by vaccination, reported - in U. S. Naval records 122 - - An English case of the same typical disease in a vaccinated baby, - giving cumulative proof of the responsibility of vaccination for - this fearful and fatal disease 123 - - Most important medical fact now exposed here. Identity of - Virulent Vaccination with “Foot and Mouth Disease”! Called - also “Pemphigus,” “Generalized Vaccination,” or “Virulent - Cowpox,” but all common forms and variations of the same - typical vaccinal disease or Mongrel Smallpox 125 - - Vaccination is “doctored” smallpox, assumes many forms and is - often worse than natural smallpox 127 - - Proof that vaccination causes Mongrel Smallpox and Foot and - Mouth disease and that the nature of the vaccinal eruptions - demonstrates this relation and causation 129 - - An Indictment against Bovine Vaccination 130 - - How one strain of Vaccine Virus originated from a Smallpox - Tramp and an infected cow! Shocking letter from a Manufacturer - of Virus to a Doctor 131 - - The disputed or unknown origin and nature of modern Vaccine - Virus emphasized. Letter from Parke, Davis & Co., one of - the largest makers of Virus in the U. S. 133 - - How an English sailor lost his arm from vaccination 133 - - Case of an English soldier killed by typhoid vaccination 134 - - Sickness and death from vaccination in the U. S. Army 136 - - Important medical fact proved. Relation of vaccination to the - two chief causes of death in the U. S. Army, Pneumonia and - Meningitis 139 - - Dr. Osler’s latest medical work quoted, showing that vaccination - is an exciting cause of other diseases, especially tuberculosis - and syphilis 141 - - The slaughter of the innocents illustrated. Cartoon from _Harper’s - Weekly_ showing the “savage rite” of vaccination in - action. “The medicine man performs his savage rites” on - little children 143 - - Some leaves from Mr. Loyster’s Memorial Pamphlet entitled - “Vaccination Results in New York State in 1914,” showing - the death of his own son and about thirty other children from - vaccination in 1914, while only three deaths from smallpox - occurred in the whole State for the same year 145 - - Portraits of eleven school children killed by vaccination in New - York State in 1914 149-159 - - Vaccination as the exciting cause of death from lockjaw, septicemia, - meningitis, and infantile paralysis, shown in several - cases in Mr. Loyster’s pamphlet 149-160 - - A cry for help! Harrowing personal letters from victims of vaccination - and from parents of outraged school children. Mutilation - and death, caused by compulsory vaccination, denounced - and reform demanded. Many fatal cases cited 163 - - Proposed law to compensate parents for children deformed, disabled - or killed by compulsory vaccination forced on them by - an unwise and evil law 169 - - Shocking and common medical mendacity on the alleged harmlessness - of vaccination 169 - - The “Philippine Falsehood” scored. Alleged “millions” vaccinated - without any injury or death shown to be false and - absurd 170 - - Shocking falsehoods from our health departments as to the - necessity, efficacy and harmlessness of vaccination. Flagrant - example from the New York State Department of Health - exposed 173 - - Some absurd falsehoods exposed from an American Encyclopædia 175 - - Some serious errors and bias exposed in the last edition of the - _Britannica_ as to the alleged harmlessness of vaccination 177 - - The errors of Dr. M. J. Rosenau, a high medical authority, on - the relative harmlessness of vaccination 180 - - Vaccination proved to be highly dangerous and frequently deadly - and often causes more annual deaths than smallpox 178-183 - - Dr. Jenner’s great basic falsehoods. The original mendacities of - vaccination exposed 184 - - Original claim of life protection from one vaccination long abandoned - for very short periods of protection and frequent re-vaccination 187 - - Dr. Olesen’s rule of limited protection of six months to a year - and necessity of yearly re-vaccination 188 - - Multiple or repeated re-vaccinations are more dangerous as a - cumulative blood infection than the risk from natural - smallpox 190-191 - - The Chicago “Vaccination Creed” of repeated and multiple vaccinations - explained and condemned as more dangerous than - natural smallpox 189 - - The false glory of Jenner and the disgrace of the medical profession - in the shamefully false claims on which vaccination has - been forced upon the people since its origin 191 - - What protects us from smallpox in modern times? Is it vaccination - or something else? A false claim exploded. Superior - power of sanitation, isolation and hygiene in preventing - smallpox and other diseases demonstrated 192 - - The unsanitary conditions of Jenner’s day exposed. Power of - sanitation to extinguish smallpox admitted by Jenner’s chief - assistant in 1815 195 - - Further proof from the English Minister of Health that sanitation - prevents smallpox more than vaccination. Poorly - vaccinated London more healthy than much-vaccinated - Berlin 198 - - Limited and voluntary vaccination only, suggested and approved. - Forced vaccination of school children condemned - and its absurdity and needlessness proved 200 - - Absurdity of compulsory vaccination of children of school age, - who have the highest natural immunity and vitality, and - lowest death-rate of any part of the population, and have least - need of vaccination 201 - - Proof that vaccination is a poor protection from disease. - Flagrant and frequent failure to protect from smallpox or - typhoid fever. Many typical instances of these failures, at - home and abroad, shown 202 - - Failure of vaccination in the last greatest epidemic in England - and New York City in 1902 204-205 - - Failure of vaccination in Germany in 1908, 1909 and 1910 205 - - The well vaccinated battle-ship _Ohio_ and the unvaccinated City - of Niagara Falls, N. Y., compared as a test for the merits of - vaccination in the epidemic of 1913 and 1914 206 - - The flagrant failure of typhoid vaccination in the U. S. Army in - France and in home camps officially admitted 207-211 - - Summing up. The case proved in seven cardinal points 211 - - Conclusion. Great danger of vaccination to health and life - proved, which fact, when it once enters the public conscience, - will soon result in the abolition of all compulsory vaccination - as being an infliction of deadly disease and a gross violation - of the most sacred rights of the people to Medical Freedom, - Health and Life 212 - - - - -LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - - - FIGURE PAGE - - 1. The vaccinated calf, showing how vaccine virus is made - and how cattle and mankind are diseased by it 79 - - 2. A vaccinated arm showing the ripe, normal vaccination - sore or pustule as a distinct form of “Purulent Infection” 83 - - 3. A bad case of vaccination showing an ulcerating sore 84 - - 4. Multiple vaccinations spread from the arm to the face by - scratching with the fingers, showing highly infectious - nature of vaccination 85 - - 5. Photograph of a little child killed by “Generalized Vaccination,” - where the vaccinal eruption spreads all over the - body like confluent smallpox 87 - - 6. A severe form of vaccination in a little child, where the - inflammation and eruption spreads from the sore over - part of the body and endangers life by blood poisoning - or general septicemia 88 - - 7. A cow suffering from “Foot and Mouth Disease” or Virulent - Cowpox, in the epidemic of that disease, caused by - vaccine virus in New England in 1902 93 - - 8. View of a pair of oxen suffering from the same disease - in said epidemic caused by vaccination 94 - - 8½. Eruptions of foot and mouth disease on udder and teats - of cow 95 - - 9. The Vaccine Holocaust: photograph of funeral pile of - slaughtered cattle infected by Foot and Mouth Disease - caused by vaccination in said epidemic of 1902 and shown - ready to be burned to destroy the infection, at great loss to - the government and people of the United States 96 - - 10. Map of the second epidemic of Foot and Mouth Disease in - 1908, caused by vaccination which originated from vaccine - factories in Michigan and Pennsylvania and spread to - several States 98 - - 11. A Vaccination Horror: photograph of a woman victim suffering - with a virulent form of Cowpox or Foot and Mouth - Disease, in the epidemic of 1902, caused by vaccination and - resulting in death 110 - - 12. Photograph of a man suffering with a severe form of the - same disease in the said epidemic of 1902, caused by vaccination, - but resulting in recovery after nine successive - eruptions 112 - - 13. Photograph of a vaccinated school boy suffering with a - milder form of cattle disease, “Pemphigus,” or virulent - Cowpox, caused by vaccination in 1914, resulting in recovery - after years of suffering 118 - - 14 and 15. Photographs of an English sailor who lost his arm - from vaccination 133 - - 16. Photograph of an English soldier killed by Typhoid Vaccination 135 - - 17. Cartoon from _Harper’s Weekly_. The “savage rite” of - vaccination shown in action. “The medicine man performs - his savage rites” on little children 143 - - CASES - - 1 to 27. Photographs of eleven children killed by vaccination - in New York State in 1914. Taken from memorial pamphlet - by Mr. James A. Loyster 149-159 - - PLATE - - 1. Statute of Wisdom and Law from New York Appellate - Court, with motto: “Every Law Not Based on Wisdom is a - Menace to the State,” a rebuke to the compulsory vaccination - law _Frontispiece_ - - 2. In Memoriam. Portrait of John Pitcairn, late President of - The Anti-Vaccination League of America and leading businessman - of Philadelphia 72 - - - - -INTRODUCTION - - -THIS little book on the Horrors of Compulsory Vaccination, its medical -barbarism, and its moral and legal atrocity as a gross violation of -Basic Personal and Broad American Rights, is dedicated and addressed to -our esteemed President, Woodrow Wilson, for several decisive reasons: - - FIRST: Because I believe him to be the most potent personality - in public office to-day and our greatest present representative - and exponent of Fundamental American Principles and Basic Human - Rights, and as being now recognized as a world-wide exponent of - these principles both at home and abroad. - - SECOND: Because the President is Commander-in-Chief of the - Army and Navy and is thus invested with supreme commanding and - pardoning power, through which he can bring about an immediate - reform in the evil practice of compulsory vaccination by - pardoning, at his discretion, all men in the Army or Navy now - unjustly condemned by Court Martial for refusing vaccination, - and by abolishing all compulsion and making all vaccination - free and voluntary, as it now is in the English Army. - - THIRD: Because the President is our highest civilian officer - and represents in his person and office one of our most - important American principles, the supremacy of the civil - over the military power. It therefore seemed to me most fit - and proper to appeal to our chief civilian officer on any - great question which concerns the most fundamental civil - rights of the citizen or involves any great abuse of military - power, as is the case with this evil practice of compulsory - vaccination. And I think it will be readily admitted that - _medical militarism_, such as the arbitrary medical compulsion - which forces and inflicts disease upon the human body, under - the fallacy of medical necessity and the pressure of military - law, is surely one of the most dangerous and oppressive forms - of extreme militarism that can be conceived and is not in - accordance with the spirit of American Institutions, and should - be suppressed. While, therefore, I, as a student of this - subject, may earnestly and persistently write and urge, and - demonstrate the truth on this subject, and prove by undeniable - fact, exhibit, and argument the dangerous nature of compulsory - vaccination and the shocking falsehoods on which it is based - as to its alleged efficacy, necessity and harmlessness, yet I - have not the least power or discretion to remove this evil; - whereas the power of the President in this matter is plenary, - instant and complete, so that in almost the twinkling of an eye - he can abolish this evil in the Army and Navy with one word - from his lips or one wave of his hand. And if this evil is once - abolished in the Army and Navy, its abolishment everywhere else - throughout the land is sure to follow, with great advantage - to human right and much improvement in public health, as has - resulted wherever this medical malpractice of inoculation - with inflicted disease has been reduced or abolished, with a - corresponding increase in sanitation and hygiene. - -For these good reasons, I have therefore thought it most -proper and advisable to make this appeal to our highest civilian -official and our Chief Military Commander, who is so potently equipped -to give the immediate relief and establish the reform herein asked -for, viz., the full Medical Freedom to accept or refuse vaccination -as each individual sees fit, which is a basic and inherent American -right; and I therefore now submit the numerous and conclusive facts -and demonstrations in these pages for the special consideration of -the President and the general attention of the People and their -Representatives in our National and State Legislatures, and as a full -justification of the reform prayed for. - -In conclusion, I might say that I first began this work as a simple -Letter of Petition to the President to abolish forced vaccination in -the Army and Navy, with a brief outline of reasons for this reform, -which letter was commenced before the President sailed for Europe to -attend the World Peace Conference. But the importance and scope of the -subject grew as I worked on it, and I concluded to expand the letter -into a full illustration and demonstration of the Horrors of Compulsory -Vaccination, its failures, falsehoods, futilities and fatalities, which -would be so thorough and convincing that it could not be disregarded. -This enlarged work has required nearly twelve months to complete and -make ready for the consideration of the President after his return from -the Peace Conference, and its publication has been much delayed by -several unavoidable conditions, including the recent great strike in -the printing trades. - -I might further state in conclusion that I have spent a lifetime and a -fortune in the study and investigation of this subject and in efforts -for the repeal of all unwise laws for forcing vaccination upon the -people, which repeal is now being agitated and is progressing all over -the civilized world. And as I probably shall not be able to work many -more years in this great cause of Medical Freedom, and as this may be -my last contribution to the cause, I have concluded to make the case -against Compulsory Vaccination so full and complete in this Exposure -that there can be no question of its medical malpractice and its -dangerous, deadly and illegal nature. - -For these reasons I have also thought it my duty to give to the public -the benefit of my studies of a lifetime and the accumulation of the -many shocking facts, proofs and exhibits which I have been collecting -for years, and which, as now massed in the Petition and its Illustrated -Supplement, can, I think, leave no doubt in the mind of any reasonable -man or woman--not professionally interested in vaccination--that all -Compulsory Vaccination should be immediately abolished, and that its -continuation, with these proofs against it, would be a most gross -medical blunder and malpractice and a grave violation of the basic -American principle of Inherent Individual Rights, in being a serious -menace to human health and life, a frequent cause of wide-spread -epidemics and demonstrably more fatal in many instances than natural -disease itself, and therefore a shocking violation of all true medical -ethics and a disgrace alike to modern medicine and modern legislation -which should no longer tolerate the practice. - - CHAS. M. HIGGINS. - - Dated at 271 Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y., - December 1, 1919. - - - - -HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED - - - - -PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY AND -NAVY - - -SUBJECT, IN BRIEF: Request to the President as Commander-in-Chief -to abolish Compulsory Vaccination in Army and Navy, to make all -vaccination voluntary as it now is in the English Army, and to pardon -all men condemned by Court Martial for refusing coercive vaccination. - -Compulsory vaccination is a serious danger to health and life, a grave -medical malpractice and a gross violation of medical ethics, and of -the American principles of Inherent Natural Rights guaranteed in the -Declaration and the Constitution, and should be abolished. Dangers and -Fatalities of vaccination exposed and illustrated. - - - - -PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT - -[Illustration] - - - PETITION, - _from_ CHAS. M. HIGGINS - _of Brooklyn, N. Y. - a citizen of the United States_ - - TO - THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - _Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy - Washington, D. C._ - - Mr. President: - -American History, as you well know, tells us that our first President, -the illustrious George Washington, died in 1799 as the result of a -medical malpractice common at that time, viz., the barbarous and -dangerous practice of indiscriminate bleeding to cure disease. While -suffering from an attack of acute sore throat or laryngitis, the -patient was so weakened by the great loss of vital fluid in repeated -bleeding operations that he was not able to endure this loss and -overcome also the effects of the disease. Our great Washington thus -gave up his glorious life--glorious in the establishment of American -Liberty and the principles of Inalienable Natural Rights of the -Individual as a basis for all Government--on the altar of medical -barbarism and malpractice. - - -HISTORIC WARNING IN THE DEATH OF OUR FIRST PRESIDENT FROM MEDICAL -MALPRACTICE - -Let us now take this warning from the medical barbarism of the past, -even over such a long interval of time, as a fit warning against the -medical malpractices and barbarisms of to-day, which are even more -irrational and dangerous to human right and safety, health and life -than the malpractice of the past which destroyed the life of our first -President. - - -COMPULSORY VACCINATION THE GREAT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE OF TO-DAY WHICH -KILLS MANY WHERE BLEEDING KILLED ONE - -Now the most barbarous and dangerous medical practice of to-day is the -gross evil of compulsory vaccination, which is doubtless the greatest -violation of common sense, medical propriety and the unalienable -natural rights of the individual guaranteed in our basic American -Charters, that any dogmatic, presumptuous profession or class of -men has ever been guilty of. And it is to this serious violation of -American principle forced on our soldiers and sailors by medical -dogmatism that I now wish to ask your most careful attention as one -having the supreme commanding and pardoning power in Army and Navy, -with the earnest prayer that in the exercise of that exalted wisdom and -power possessed by your great American Office and Personality, which -has now made itself felt around the whole world, that this medical -barbarism of compulsory disease may be abolished in our Army and Navy, -and that all men condemned by Court Martial for refusing the infliction -on their bodies of compulsory disease shall be fully pardoned and -restored to their proper and honorable status as loyal American -soldiers and sailors. And I now wish to present to you in the following -pages an abundant array of facts and evidence which prove, I think, -beyond doubt, the great evil and danger of vaccination, its fatality, -and futility, and clearly justify the rational reform suggested for the -abolishment of all forced or compulsory vaccination. - - -THE MODERN MEDICAL BARBARISM POISONS THE BLOOD IN THE BODY INSTEAD OF -DRAINING THE BLOOD OUT OF THE BODY - -In this medical malpractice of to-day the doctors do not open the -veins and drain out the life blood of the patient, ostensibly to cure -his disease, as in the mistaken past, but they now keep this blood in -the body and inject into it directly or indirectly various more or -less virulent diseases, blood poisons, or disease germs, cultures or -products, either living or dead, with the idea of curing or preventing -some natural disease. These practices are called, respectively, -“vaccination” and “serum treatment.” In vaccination an actual living or -dead disease germ, or virus, is injected into the blood, lymph, skin or -muscle; whereas, in serum or antitoxin treatment a disease product or -culture is so injected. - - -VACCINATION THE MOST DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE SYSTEM OF MEDICATION EVER -DEVISED - -Now, whatever merits or demerits this system of disease inoculation -may have, either in preventing or curing or immunizing against natural -disease, I will not here say and do not need to here discuss, except to -state that such curative or preventive power has been much exaggerated -and is very limited and uncertain. But whatever these merits or -demerits may be, it is obvious on fundamental principles of medical and -civic ethics, that such a dangerous and repugnant practice of disease -inoculation and blood poisoning should not be made compulsory on any -person for any excuse whatever. It must be here remembered that it was -admitted that the old smallpox inoculation had a certain preventive -power and yet it was finally condemned and abandoned for reasons of -its great danger as causing more disease and death than it prevented. -Disregarding, therefore, the question of preventive merits or demerits, -I think I can now say with perfect truth and soberness, and without -fear of refutation, that this modern system of compulsory vaccination -is the most violent and dangerous and most immoral or unethical system -of medication that has ever been devised by a most honorable yet most -presumptuous profession which has been proved guilty of the most -gigantic medical mistakes in its past history of the centuries, one -of which--indiscriminate bleeding--as we have already seen, killed -our first President and many other victims of that period. To this -gigantic and abandoned mistake we might now add the two horrible -practices of smallpox inoculation and arm-to-arm vaccination, both of -which were once used and approved by the highest medical authority -as safe and infallible preventives of natural disease, yet both were -finally abandoned as great medical mistakes and were prohibited by -penal law as most risky methods of propagating and extending disease -and more dangerous to human health and life than the natural disease -itself. - - -VACCINATION IS BLOOD POISONING WITH INFLICTED DISEASE AND IS OFTEN MORE -FATAL THAN NATURAL DISEASE - -For these former medical mistakes there is now substituted the modern -medical mistake of compulsory bovine and serum vaccinations of various -kinds and multiple repetitions which are in many instances as dangerous -to human health and life as the former prohibited malpractices, or -more so, and will, doubtless, in due time, be publicly condemned and -abandoned as equal mistakes, like their predecessors. - -Indeed, this modern vaccine system of medicine is so violent and -dangerous that it has been frequently known to kill in from ten to -fifteen minutes, after injection of the serum, by what is known as -“serum sickness,” which is a kind of rapid blood and nerve poisoning -affecting vital nerve centers, to which some persons are very -susceptible.[1] This is, of course, a more violent, rapid and fatal -action than occurs in the most virulent and deadly natural diseases and -is comparable only to a stroke of lightning or shock of electricity or -to the violent action of the most virulent chemical, mineral, animal, -or vegetable poisons known in toxicology. In other fatal cases, where -the poisoning action is slower, death finally occurs from lockjaw, -paralysis, meningitis, or pneumonia, which are frequent results of -vaccination. And these fatal results of vaccination are commonly -denied and concealed in death certificates by recording the terminal -disease of lockjaw, paralysis, meningitis, or pneumonia only as the -sole and original cause of death without any record of the inflicted -disease--vaccination--as the primary or contributory cause of the -death. This evil practice is, of course, a gross falsification of -our vital statistics, and is now a frequent offense by some of our -vaccinating doctors, as I can legally prove by documentary evidence -when required. - -In some death certificates, however, the vaccination is more or less -clearly and honestly acknowledged as the cause of death, direct or -indirect. I have now in hand a recent New York death certificate which -records the death of a little child one year old in three days after -vaccination from vaccinal septicemia, or blood poisoning, due to the -vaccinal infection. - - -EVERY VACCINATION SORE IS AN INFECTING ABSCESS AND EVERY ACT OF -VACCINATION IS A BLOOD INFECTION CAPABLE OF CAUSING SERIOUS DISEASE OR -DEATH AT ANY TIME - -And let me here say that every vaccination sore is simply a septicemic -abscess and focus of infection, more or less dangerous, and is possibly -capable of infecting the whole system at any time with fatal effect; -and, furthermore, every act of ordinary cowpox vaccination is, of -course, an act of septicemic infection or blood poisoning, _per se_, -and pure and simple, and frequently kills in this way in the longer or -shorter time of a few days, which is, of course, quicker than the worst -forms of natural smallpox ever kill. See Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, pages -83 to 88. On this point see also the “Manual of Causes of Death,” by -U. S. Census Bureau, page 56, No. 20, and the corresponding Manual of -the Registrar General of England, in which vaccination is recorded as a -form of septicemia and a serious cause of death. - -As further convincing evidence on this head, I have a Brooklyn death -certificate showing the death of a woman hospital nurse six months -after vaccination, from multiple abscesses which broke out all over the -body in successive crops and continued for six months notwithstanding -the most skillful medical efforts for cure, and finally resulted in -death from general vaccinal septicemia. See Figs. 11, 12 and 13, which -show other cases of this kind. - -I have an English certificate showing the death of a man from the same -cause, multiple abscesses, resulting from vaccination and continuing -for seven years, and finally ending in death from this cause. - -I have also another English certificate which shows the death of a -little infant from vaccinal septicemia in thirty-four hours after -vaccination! Of course the worst form of smallpox was never known to -kill in such short time. - -These shocking facts thus clearly show that an inflicted disease may be -far worse and more fatal than a naturally acquired disease, and that -vaccination may kill with surprising swiftness in a few days, hours, -or minutes, quicker than the most fatal natural diseases or the most -virulent poisons, or may continue a most horrible blood infection with -internal or external eruptions through an agony of months or years and -finally end in death from this infection. - -I have also some recent American death certificates which show the -deaths of five little children of primary school age, all killed in -one week in September, 1915, from vaccination resulting in lockjaw -and septicemia. I have now in hand a memorial pamphlet written by an -aggrieved father, a very intelligent man, an editor and manufacturer, -Mr. James A. Loyster, of Cazenovia, New York, which shows the death of -his own son and about thirty other children from vaccination in New -York State in 1914. This child slaughter was the result of a general -vaccination raid made upon the school children of the State in that -year; and this pamphlet gives convincing proof that about thirty, and -probable proof that about twice that number, were killed by vaccine -infection, _while only three persons died from smallpox in the whole -State for the same year_! See pages 145 to 163, which give several -pages of this pamphlet in full. - - -COMPULSORY VACCINATION AS A CONDITION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLING OR -FOR SERVICE IN ARMY AND NAVY IS MEDICALLY BARBAROUS AND LEGALLY -UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED - -These deadly vaccinations above cited were almost all performed on -school children to satisfy an evil law which has been originated and -sustained by a powerful but mistaken part or sect of the medical -profession--the vaccine sect--by which law vaccination is forced -upon children of school age as a condition for admission to school, -thus making the infliction of a dangerous disease on the tender body -of the child a condition for the exercise of that most essential, -unquestionable, and inalienable right of the child to _Education_! -Such invasion of natural right to life, health, and education is -surely the clearest violation of those great American principles of -inherent natural rights so distinctly set forth in the Declaration and -Constitution which all Governments must respect and defend, as I will -show later on. - - -ABOLISH ALL COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY AND NAVY AND APPOINT DOCTORS -OF VARIOUS SCHOOLS ON ALL MEDICAL AND HEALTH BOARDS - -In the same way this dogmatic and dominant part or sect of the -medical profession, organized in powerful medical societies and now -controlling important public offices, has forced the dangerous practice -of general compulsory vaccination upon our Army and Navy, and this -practice is, I believe, largely the result of having only one school of -medicine--the vaccine school--represented on our Medical Boards and in -our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics. To thus have only one -school of medicine represented on our Medical Boards of Army and Navy -is, I submit, as great a mistake, as unjust, absurd, and un-American, -as it would be to have only one school of Religion represented in our -Army and Navy chaplains. For, surely, medical tolerance and freedom is -as important for national welfare as religious tolerance and freedom. -And to this particular point, Mr. President, I would, therefore, now -like to ask your first and most careful attention, with the suggestion -and hope that, as supreme commander of both arms of the service, you -will not only find it just, wise, and proper to abolish all compulsory -vaccination in Army and Navy and leave vaccination entirely voluntary -with each man, as it now is in the English Army, but that you will also -abolish all arrogant monopoly or control of medical practice in Army -and Navy by any one school of medicine, and will adopt the reform in -the future of having various schools of medicine properly and justly -represented on our Medical Boards, from which reform, I believe, a -great improvement in medical practice and in public right, health, and -comfort is sure to result. - - -CRUEL AND UNUSUAL, EXCESSIVE AND UNREASONABLE PUNISHMENTS ARE -UNCONSTITUTIONAL. MORAL AND MEDICAL MONSTROSITY OF LONG TERMS OF -IMPRISONMENT FOR REFUSING VACCINATION - -At this point I would like to call your careful attention to a news -item which appeared in the _New York Times_ of May 2, 1918, as follows: - - “_Refused Vaccination, Got Fifteen Years._ - - “Camp Dodge, Iowa, May 1.--Elmer N. Olson, of Goodrich, Minn., - a soldier in training here, refused to submit to vaccination. - He was tried by general court-martial and sentenced to fifteen - years in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth.” - -This is only one of many similar items which have appeared in the press -for the last two years, showing that it has been a practice in the -army to try soldiers by court-martial for refusing to be vaccinated -against free will and consent; and to degrade them from honorable -military service merely for this refusal, and condemn them to long -terms of imprisonment such as are given only to dangerous and felonious -criminals under the criminal law,--and it is shown in this item that -the extraordinary punishment of fifteen years’ imprisonment was thus -inflicted for the sole offense of refusing compulsory vaccination! It -may be that in some cases other offenses besides mere refusal to be -vaccinated were involved, but I understand from several news items that -only the act of refusal to submit to forced vaccination was involved in -many such condemnations. - -In answer to a special request for information on this point, I have -been informed by the office of the Judge Advocate General, in a -letter dated January 14, 1919, that there was only one instance of -court-martial for refusing to be vaccinated in the years 1917 and -1918, that this was held to be a violation of the 96th Article of War, -and that the offender in this case was sentenced to be “_Dishonorably -discharged from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances due or -to become due, and to be confined at hard labor at such place as the -convening authority may direct for twenty-five years_.” - -Now I respectfully submit, Mr. President, that whether there were -one or many cases of this kind, they were clearly cases of “cruel -and unusual” and excessive and unreasonable punishment and also an -“unreasonable search and seizure of the person,” condemned in the -Constitution in Articles IV and VIII of the Amendments, as follows: - - ARTICLE IV. “The right of the people to be secure in their - persons ... against unreasonable searches and seizures shall - not be violated.” - - ARTICLE VIII. “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor - excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments - inflicted.” - -I therefore think it is perfectly obvious that to thus degrade a loyal -and honorable soldier and condemn him like a felonious criminal to the -long term of fifteen or twenty-five years’ imprisonment, merely for the -act of refusing to have a dangerous medical operation and an inflicted -disease forced upon his body against his will and consent, is clearly -an “unreasonable seizure” of the person and a “cruel and unusual” and -excessive and unreasonable punishment prohibited in the Constitution; -and I think that no further argument is necessary to prove this point. -Surely to inflict such drastic punishments as above shown--not for any -really criminal, immoral, or perfidious act--not for anything that -really affects the purely military duties, qualities, or services of -any loyal, honorable and healthy soldier--but simply for opposing a -dangerous medical dogma and defending his body against an inflicted -disease and a dangerous medical operation which frequently sickens and -unfits the soldier for a long time afterwards for military service and -sometimes actually kills--as already clearly proved--surely, I say, -such a punishment is not only legally unconstitutional, but is morally -barbarous in both a true military and true medical sense, and should -be abolished in both Army and Navy for the several reasons herein -submitted. - - -HARSH MILITARY PUNISHMENTS CONDEMNED BY AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION - -In the _New York Tribune_ of January 4, 1919, the President of the -American Bar Association, at a meeting in New York City on January -3d, condemned harsh and unjust judgments of military courts-martial, -and stated that “_our military laws and our systems of administering -military justice are unworthy of the name of law or justice_.” He -also said that our army was still following rules copied from England -in 1774, but which were abandoned long ago as better suited “_to -the armies of feudal times than to the citizen armies of a modern -republic_.” He also condemned “the outrageous punishments meted out -by our courts-martial for comparatively slight breaches of military -discipline.” And he further stated that “Punishments are not only -grossly harsh, as compared with the penalties imposed for like offences -by our criminal courts, but they also differ so widely that we find -the same offence punished in one court-martial by twenty-five years -in the penitentiary and in another by six months in disciplinary -barracks.” ... “The accused soldier has no real legal protection.” ... -“The maintenance of military discipline does not require this harsh -and arbitrary procedure. The French army is a model of discipline, but -an accused soldier has the protection of the law thrown around him -at every stage of his trial. That a soldier in our army should have -less legal protection challenges the attention of the lawyers of the -country. The American people never will stand for Prussian methods even -in disciplining the Army.” - - -MILITARY OBEDIENCE TO BAD LAW. THE HIGH EXAMPLE OF SOCRATES COMMENDED - -Lest some false interpreter should suggest that in here condemning -compulsory vaccination in the Army and Navy and urging its abolishment -I am attempting “_to incite insubordination, disloyalty, or mutiny, -or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United -States_,” as expressed in the Overman Law, I would now call careful -attention to the obvious fact that urging the abolition of a bad law, -or petitioning government “for a redress of grievances,” is not urging -_disobedience_ to any law, is not inciting mutiny or refusal of duty -or disloyalty to the United States, but is a clear constitutional -right under Article I of the first amendment, which right, it is there -stated, cannot be abridged or denied. - -If any loyal soldiers, opposed to forced vaccination, should ask my -advice whether they should accept or refuse it, I would advise them -to protest against compulsion and ask for its abolition, but I would -not advise them to deliberately disobey any legal military rule. And -I would further say here that I believe that any soldier who might -be injured or killed as a result of any vaccination, to which he was -forced to submit by any military law, would suffer and die in the -service of his country with just as much honor as if he had died on the -battle-field; or with as much honor as in the case of Socrates, the -great Grecian soldier and philosopher, who died in obedience to bad law -and unjust judgment. - -I would further advise all conscientious objectors to forced -vaccination to consider the teaching of some strict moralists, that it -is better to obey all laws, however bad, than to disobey any of them, -and that this _obedience_ and _sacrifice_ is the first duty of the -soldier and citizen. And it is also taught that this obedience to bad -law, after full and due protest against it, is the best way to bring -about its repeal in due time. - -This seems to have been the teaching of the great Socrates--the pagan -Christ, 399 B.C.--and was the chief lesson of his tragic death. Knowing -that he was unjustly and falsely condemned and that his judges acted -wrongly, yet within the forms of law, he refused to escape this false -and unjust judgment, although he could easily have done so with the -help of powerful friends who urged this upon him. Yet he nobly accepted -the judgment of law and drank the cup of poison to which he was legally -but wrongly sentenced, and thus gave up his life to vindicate what he -believed was the sacred duty of the citizen to obey all laws, just or -unjust, and the still more sacred duty of the lawmaker and the judge, -that all laws and judgments should be absolutely just and true and -faithful to all rights of the citizen. If, therefore, it be the first -duty of the citizen and soldier to obey all law, good or bad, what a -much greater duty is laid upon the lawmaker, the law enforcer, the -Judge, and, we might also say, the Commander-in-Chief, that all law -and all judgments be absolutely right, just and true, and in no way -destructive to the rights of the citizen or soldier who has to obey -these laws, good or bad! This was the grand lesson intended by Socrates -in the sacrifice of his life as a protest and indictment against bad -law and unjust judgment, and we may here, properly, apply this great -Socratic lesson, which has morally thundered down “the corridors of -time” for the past twenty-four centuries, to all the evil laws for -compulsory vaccination which now exist and which should be immediately -repealed and replaced by just and equitable rules for voluntary -vaccination only as proved by the many reasons already given.--“Every -law not based on wisdom is a menace to the State.” See page v. - - -VOICE OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TO OUR SOLDIERS, “YOU HAVE COMMANDERS, -BUT YOU HAVE NO MASTERS.” RIGHTS AND DIGNITIES OF SOLDIERS ASSERTED. -MILITARY AND MEDICAL DESPOTISM CONDEMNED - -At this point, Mr. President, I want to remind you of the rich American -thought you expressed in your address to the American soldiers on the -battle-field in France, at Chaumont, on Christmas Day, 1918. You were -reported to have there said: - - “... this is not a war in which the soldiers of the free - nations have obeyed masters. You have commanders, but you have - no masters. Your very commanders represent you in representing - the nation of which you constitute so distinguished a part.” - -Now, the true American thought in this quotation, as I take it, is -that, as American soldiers and citizens, they are free men and members -of a free state, with American rights and dignities that cannot be -invaded, and are not “slaves,” “chattels,” or “subjects” to any one, -and, therefore, are not to be treated by any form of military despotism -or arbitrary medical dictation, as slaves, hogs, or cattle might be -so treated. And as the hog or cattle doctor might properly force any -medicine down the throat of the helpless beast without being required -to say “by your leave” to his humble patient, or might perform on the -body of the helpless animal any operation that he or the owner might -decide upon, yet I think that neither of us would admit that any man -calling himself a human doctor could, with any decency, propriety, -or legality, follow this crude but necessary code of ethics of the -animal doctor on the human subject by attempting to perform any medical -service on the human body by any intimidation or force or without -full approval and consent of the patient. Yet what have we seen? We -have seen men, calling themselves doctors, claiming the right to -force dangerous medical operations on school children and soldiers -without their free will and consent, and with some form of barbarous -intimidation or coercion, as they might do with dangerous beasts. We -have seen loyal soldiers, conscientiously objecting to unnecessary -and dangerous operations on their bodies against their approval or -consent, who were tried by court-martial and condemned to imprisonment -at _hard labor for twenty-five years_! And this outrageous sentence was -inflicted for nothing more than for asserting one of the most obvious -and unalienable rights of every American--the right to the medical -sanctity of his own body, the right to medical freedom, choice, and -consent in any medical treatment of that body! - -Is it not time, therefore, Mr. President, that this clear American -principle expressed in your address just quoted should now be applied -in this matter, and that this _Medical Hoggery_ of compulsory -vaccination should be abolished in our Army and Navy? And is it not -time also that the members of that “Divine” profession of Human -Healing, in all its schools and sects, should now take action at the -earliest possible day to purge their great profession from the deep -disgrace of this _Medical Hoggery_, which they have originated and too -long practiced, and which is involved in all forms of dictatorial and -compulsory medicine on the human subject? - -Of course, in anything I say here I make no reflection on the -veterinary doctors whose work, in its own sphere, I regard just as -honorable as the work of any other doctors in their sphere. - - -COMPULSORY VACCINATION NOT NECESSARY AND NOT EFFECTIVE FOR THE HEALTH -OF ARMIES OR POPULATIONS. FAILURE OF VACCINATION IN U. S. ARMY -OFFICIALLY ADMITTED - -There is another strong consideration which I think should move you, -Mr. President, toward abolishing this evil of compulsory vaccination -with “cruel and unusual” punishment, and that is: That this compulsion -and punishment is not really necessary for any military purpose or -efficiency, as is proved by several facts in the past and present -practice and experience of our own and other armies, for example: -_First_: In the Russian-Japanese war the Japanese adopted for almost -the first time the modern, effective system of general military -sanitation and hygiene, but used no typhoid vaccination, and yet the -army suffered very little from typhoid fever. _Second_: Per contra, -in the Gallipoli expedition in the recent war the English soldiers -were generally inoculated with typhoid vaccines, but at the same -time the most unsanitary conditions prevailed in camp and field, -and the result was a great loss from typhoid and other fevers among -the vaccinated. _Third_: In the U. S. Army in France in 1918, in -several camps where sanitation and hygiene were grossly neglected, -typhoid vaccination proved to be little or no protection, and it has -been officially admitted to be a great failure, as typhoid epidemics -prevailed extensively in said camps with a high death-rate among the -well vaccinated men. See official report on this subject from the -Chief Surgeon of the A. E. F. in U. S. Public Health Reports of March -28, 1919, entitled, “Typhoid Vaccination no Substitute for Sanitary -Precautions.” See also page 207 in the annexed Supplement. _Fourth_: -Vaccination is now voluntary in the English Army, and it is estimated -that from five to ten per cent. of the Army is unvaccinated. _Fifth_: -There is no court-martial or punishment for refusing vaccination in -the English Army, as is shown by a recent inquiry in the English -Parliament, reported as follows: - - “Official Parliamentary Debates, April 23, 1918, Column 833. - - “Mr. Chancellor asked the Under-Secretary for War, Mr. - Macpherson: - - “_Question A._ Whether refusal of vaccination by any soldier - is a military crime. _Answer A._ Refusal by a soldier to be - vaccinated is not an offence punishable under the Army Act. - - “_Question B._ Whether any officer is authorized to inflict - punishment of any kind for such refusal. _Answer B._ No officer - is authorized to inflict punishment for such refusal. - - “_Question C._ Whether the fact of a man who joined when - vaccination was compulsory, having assented reluctantly then, - alters his legal position now that vaccination is no longer - subject to legal compulsion in the Army. _Answer C._ Soldiers - voluntarily enlisted who, at the time of their enlistment, - agreed in their attestation papers to be vaccinated, cannot be - punished under the Army Act for refusing to be vaccinated.” - -Now, in these facts I think it is distinctly proved that -compulsory vaccination is neither necessary nor surely effective as a -protective remedy, but is of doubtful value as a preventive, and is not -necessary where efficient sanitation and hygiene are used, as is now -the practice in modern armies; and, hence, vaccination should not be -forced on any soldier or sailor under penalty of drastic punishments -for refusal, but should be left to the free and voluntary assent of -each man, as it now is in the English Army. Furthermore, it is believed -that, instead of forcing wholesale compulsory disease upon the Army, -with the vain idea of increasing health, equal effort and expense -devoted to true sanitation and hygiene would surely produce better -results, as emphatically proved by recent critical experience in our -own Army, as just cited. See also page 210. - - -MEDICAL AND OTHER AUTHORITIES ADMIT DANGERS OF VACCINATION AND CONDEMN -COMPULSION - -Surely the example of the English Army, as above given, is a good -enough precedent and authority to justify abolishing all compulsion -and penalties and making all vaccination voluntary in our American -Army and Navy, but if any other authorities are required for this -reform, I might cite for a second example the advice from one of the -highest medical authorities of to-day, viz., Osler’s “Modern Medicine,” -new edition, 1913, Volume I, page 848, which admits the dangers of -vaccination and condemns compulsion in these words: - - “With the greatest care, however, certain risks are present - and so it is unwise for the physician to force the operation - upon those who are unwilling, or to give assurances of absolute - harmlessness.” - -I will now ask your attention to a third authority against -compulsion, which is of the highest significance and force, viz., the -great English Commission on Vaccination appointed by Queen Victoria -in 1889, which sat for about seven years, made a most exhaustive -examination of the subject, and rendered its voluminous reports in -1896. This Commission was composed of five of the leading doctors and -eight of the leading laymen of England, and their majority and minority -reports differed on the merits of vaccination, but both admitted its -dangers and both agreed in advising the repeal or modification of the -English compulsory law, which, however, did not apply to adults, but -only to infants under one year, which form the most susceptible part -of the population. After this recommendation a law was passed, now in -force, called the “conscientious clause,” whereby parents can exempt -their children from vaccination by filing a statement of conscientious -objection; and under this law vaccination has so greatly declined in -England that to-day it is estimated that over sixty per cent. of the -children born are unvaccinated, and yet, contrary to the contentions of -the vaccinators, smallpox has not increased, but has greatly declined, -corresponding to the decline in vaccination and to the increase in -general sanitation and hygiene, as England is now one of the most -sanitary countries in the world. This beneficial effect on public -health resulting from repealing compulsion and making vaccination -voluntary has been so positive that the English Minister of Health, -Hon. John Burns, made this significant public declaration in the House -of Commons on April 12, 1911, viz.: “Just in proportion as, in recent -years, exemptions [from vaccination] have gone up from four per cent. -to thirty per cent., so deaths from smallpox have declined.” - -I will now add a fourth and last example in which I think you will -find a full justification for suppressing all compulsory vaccination -as both evil and unnecessary, and this is the advice of one of the -latest English books on “The Vaccination Question” by Dr. Millard, -London, 1914. Dr. Millard, although a strong pro-vaccinist, has been -for the past ten years the health officer of the unvaccinated city of -Leicester, which has a population of about 300,000, and for the last -thirty years has relied on sanitation and hygiene without vaccination -to protect and improve the public health, and this is the gist of what -Dr. Millard says of the success of this method: - - “The two crucial and outstanding facts which I wish to lay - stress upon, are: - - “(_a_) The unexpected and remarkable experience of the town - of Leicester, which for thirty years has abandoned infantile - vaccination, yet has shown an enormous decline in smallpox - mortality. - - “(_b_) The fact that, although infantile vaccination is falling - more and more into disuse throughout the whole country, yet - smallpox, contrary to all pro-vaccinist expectation and - prophecy, continues to decline and has almost disappeared. - - ... “The striking facts that in Leicester, without infantile - vaccination, the decline has been greater than in most places, - and that throughout the country smallpox has continued to - decrease in spite of the falling off in vaccination, should - surely be sufficient grounds for legitimate doubt. - - ... “If it can be shown that ‘sanitation,’ thoroughly carried - out, is alone sufficient for the effective control of smallpox - in this country (as in Leicester), why inflict upon the - community universal vaccination with all its inseparable - drawbacks? Moreover, what justification can there be any longer - for compulsion? - - “It cannot be denied that vaccination causes, in the aggregate, - very considerable injury to health, most of it only temporary, - but some permanent.... We must never forget that vaccination - is an evil. Vaccinia is just as much a disease as smallpox, - though a less serious one, and all diseases must be regarded as - evil and to be avoided, if possible. There is not the slightest - evidence that vaccination, apart from its effect in preventing - smallpox, is of the least value or anything but detrimental - to the human race.... During the last decade the deaths from - vaccinia have several times outnumbered those from smallpox, - whilst if we have regard to the amount of ill health caused by - the two diseases (and putting aside for the moment the question - of the alleged effect of vaccination in lessening smallpox) it - looks as if vaccinia were becoming, so far as the community is - concerned, the more serious disease of the two.” - - -DEATHS FROM VACCINATION GREATER THAN DEATHS FROM SMALLPOX. SHOCKING -DENIAL AND CONCEALMENT OF VACCINATION DEATHS BY OUR DEPARTMENTS OF -HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS - -It will be seen from the last quotation that Dr. Millard is one of -those honest doctors who are not afraid to tell the truth about -vaccination, its great dangers and frequent fatalities, the evils and -barbarities of compulsion, the superior value of sanitation, and the -stinging fact that the inflicted disease, vaccinia, frequently causes -more deaths per year than the natural disease, smallpox! To confirm -these startling facts I will now quote a few figures, during the period -to which Dr. Millard refers, from the record of the Registrar General -of England which, as you know, is one of the highest statistical -authorities in the world. - -Data from Reports of Registrar General of England showing deaths from -vaccination compared with deaths from smallpox: - - _Total Deaths_ _Total Deaths_ - _Year_ _from Smallpox_ _from Vaccination_ - - 1906 21 29 - 1907 10 12 - 1908 12 13 - - Total Deaths from Smallpox for six years, 1905 to 1910 199 - Total Deaths from Vaccination for six years, 1905 to 1910 99 - Deaths from Smallpox in said period under 5 years old 26 - Deaths from Vaccination in said period under 5 years old 98 - -From these remarkable figures we will see that for the six years from -1905 to 1910, in England and Wales, the total deaths from vaccination -for all ages were about half the total deaths from smallpox, but that -in the same period the total deaths from vaccination, in the child -ages of five years and under, were nearly _four times_ the deaths from -smallpox in the same age group! - -The report of the English Registrar General for the three years, 1911, -1912, and 1913, tell a similar story of vaccinal fatality, as follows: - - Total Deaths from Smallpox for all ages for - three years, 1911 to 1913 42 - Total Deaths from Vaccination for all ages in said three years 31 - Deaths from Smallpox in children under 5 years 8 - Deaths from Vaccination in children of same age 30 - -Here it will be noted that for the three years stated the total deaths -from vaccination are three-quarters of the total deaths from smallpox, -whereas the deaths from vaccination in children five years old and -under are over three times more than the deaths from smallpox in the -same age group! I have not examined the Reports later than 1913, having -confined myself to the decade to which Dr. Millard refers. - -This awful record of fatal vaccinations thus speaks very clearly -for itself and forms a strong indictment of the whole barbarous and -dangerous system of compulsory vaccination, whether for child or adult, -and must condemn the evil practice in every rational mind. - -It can be further proved that an equal or greater fatality from -vaccination, as compared with the English records, occurs in our own -country and in our own State of New York, but these fatalities are -denied and concealed in our death certificates and yearly reports by -our vaccinating doctors and health officials of city and State, as I -have repeatedly and publicly charged, and have challenged these doctors -and officials to deny or disprove this charge if they can, and I now -hereby renew this public challenge on this most serious point. See -challenge on page vi. - -For further data on this point, see my pamphlets, “The Crime -Against the School Child,” “Open Your Eyes,” “Serious Warning,” and -“Vaccination and Lockjaw.” - - -GREAT EPIDEMICS OF DEADLY DISEASE, IN ANIMALS AND MANKIND, CAUSED BY -VACCINATION - -Now, not only is vaccination very dangerous to health and life in many -individual cases and frequently causes more deaths every year than -smallpox, particularly in little children, as already clearly proved, -but another shocking fact is that vaccination has been proved to be the -cause of several great epidemics of deadly disease among mankind and -domestic animals, and has probably also been the cause of many other -serious epidemics whose origin has not yet been proved. - -This shocking fact of vaccine epidemics in recent times is readily -proved by current medical works, by Government Reports, and by -notorious public facts occurring within the last few years, as I will -now show. - -I may first refer on this point to one of the strongest pro-vaccination -works now published, viz., “Acute Contagious Diseases,” by Drs. Welch -and Schamberg, Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. On page 65, in -this work, the following serious admission is made: - - “Several appalling epidemics of septicemia after vaccination - are on record; one occurred in the United States, one in - Germany, and one in France.” - -These epidemics are shown to have caused many deaths in children and -adults, the fatal effect being very rapid, the deaths occurring in one -or a few days after vaccination. - -On page 74, in the same work, this clear admission of an epidemic of -that most awful and fatal disease, lockjaw, caused by vaccination, is -made as follows: - - “In October, November, and December, 1901, there was a small - epidemic of tetanus after vaccination in Camden, Philadelphia, - and to a certain extent in near-by towns. - - “Camden had eleven cases, and Philadelphia even more than this - number.” - -It is to be here noted, however, that, bad as this last admission is, -the pro-vaccinators did not give the public the whole truth in this -last statement, but which I will now add here, viz., that in these -epidemics the deaths from the lockjaw infection in the vaccination -wounds exceeded by manifold the deaths from smallpox in the same -time and locality! Here is another great proof of the medical and -statistical truth to which I have repeatedly called attention, viz., -that vaccination is frequently a much more dangerous and fatal disease -than natural smallpox, and, therefore, obviously, for this reason -alone, should not be forced on any person against free will and consent. - - -VACCINATION BOTH A THEORETICAL AND A PROVED CAUSE OF EPIDEMICS - -In a previous letter to the Secretary of War, dated October 14, 1918, -and published in the _Washington Herald_ of November 20, 1918, I have -pointed out the dangerous nature of vaccination, particularly during -epidemics, and the hygienic importance of suspending all vaccination -during our recent epidemic of influenza and pneumonia, and the further -desirability of making all vaccination strictly free and voluntary. I -also then called attention to the probability that the repeated and -multiple vaccinations of millions of men, in this country and Europe, -with various septicemic infections for the last two years, may have had -some relation to this epidemic, which seems to have been more severe -among the vaccinated men in the military camps and hospitals than among -the rest of the population. And I would now like to repeat here some -of the important facts which I have stated in said letter as to both -the probable and the proved relation of vaccination to many deadly -epidemics. - - -GRAVE NATURE OF RECENT EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA, AND -POSSIBLE RELATION OF VACCINATION THERETO - -From the rapidity, severity, and mortality of this disease, it would -seem not to be a true influenza, as heretofore known, and as its worst -cases are characterized by a rapid and fatal ending, with a few days’ -sickness, in malignant or septic pneumonia, with abscesses in the -lungs, it seems more related to the very fatal “_Pneumonic Plague_” -which raged in Manchuria after the Japanese war. This suspicion is -strengthened by the fact that the chief germ found in the fatal -cases is the “streptococcus,” which is found in the worst forms of -“blood poisoning” or “septicemia,” and also in vaccination. Now, -the act of ordinary vaccination, as already proved, is, in itself, -an act of blood poisoning, pure and simple, and it is so classed in -medical and statistical works as a form of “septicemia,” and one -disease germ commonly found, with many others, in vaccine virus is the -streptococcus, which is the chief germ found in all bad pus infections -and abscess formations. Therefore, as the act of vaccination is simply -the impregnation of the body and blood with a pus infection identical -with “septicemia” or “pyæmia,” and as this infecting process has been -repeated at wholesale in the bodies of thousands and tens of thousands -of men closely massed in camps, should it be any wonder if an epidemic -of some sort of “septicemia” should crop out at some time under such -conditions? - -In leading medical and statistical works, both influenza and pneumonia -and typhoid fever and vaccination are all classed as different forms of -“septicemia,” and while I do not, of course, know, and do not say, that -the recent epidemic of influenza and pneumonia was actually caused by -vaccination, yet I repeat that when the body and blood of millions of -men all over this country and Europe are deliberately impregnated with -various septic diseases, or septicemic infections, can any reasonable -person, whether doctor or layman, be surprised if such world-wide, -and million times repeated, acts of septicemic infection should be -ultimately proved to have some causative or conditional relation to the -recent world-wide epidemic of septicemic disease? Is it physically or -medically possible to go on sowing and spreading some known and unknown -septic diseases at wholesale, within human bodies, without reaping -some big harvest of deadly septic diseases as a necessary consequence? -In the words of Scripture, can we keep on “sowing” the “winds” of -infection without ultimately “reaping” the “whirlwind” of epidemics? - -It has been suggested that this epidemic originated in the -multi-vaccinated and diseased or impoverished German army and has -traveled one-quarter round the earth from that focus of infection. - -It has also been suggested that this epidemic originated from a -regiment of coolies or native Hindoo troops brought from India to -France who were infected with a severe disease like Pneumonic Plague, -and from them this disease spread to the other soldiers in camp and -field and thence over the world. - -It has been further suggested that this disease should not be called a -true influenza or pneumonia at all, but is essentially a most virulent -form of general septicemia, and that it originated from the frightfully -infected soil of the battle-fields, which, in addition to the ordinary -deadly soil infections, contains virulent septicemic and cadaveric -infections from the great mass of buried and unburied bodies. And as -the soldiers in camp and field were already impregnated with several -septicemic infections in the multiple vaccinations of five or six kinds -to which they have been almost universally subjected, their systems -thus became “sensitized” or highly susceptible to further infection, -particularly to what was evidently a new and very severe type of soil -and cadaveric infection. This theory seems to fit the present known -facts and would explain the probable origin of this very severe type of -virulent septicemic plague, which shows itself in this mysterious and -deadly epidemic with its mortality of thirty to sixty per cent., which -we have been improperly regarding as ordinary influenza and pneumonia. - -In my letter to the Secretary of War I proved that there was a distinct -medical and logical relation between influenza and vaccination, and -that many serious diseases, including smallpox and cowpox, commence -like influenza and may be mistaken for it,[2] but I do not need to go -into proof of that point here, but can now say that this point further -strengthens the suspicions stated that the recent epidemic of influenza -and septicemia or septic pneumonia may have had some causative relation -to the extensive wholesale and repeated vaccinations in the military -camps throughout the world, and would indicate, according to another -theory, that this vaccine infection had escaped from and overflowed its -usual bounds and was running wild as a world-wide epidemic infection; -and hence the positive and compelling reasons for checking this -overflowing infection by suspending all vaccination while this epidemic -and infecting condition exists, and making all vaccination voluntary -instead of compulsory as heretofore. - - -EPIDEMICS ACTUALLY CAUSED BY VACCINATION - -That the hypothetical condition suggested in the preceding paragraph, -viz., that the wholesale and world-wide vaccine infection going on -for the past few years had possibly escaped from its usual bounds and -has been overflowing and running wild and thus causing epidemics in -mankind, or animals,--that this, I say, may be no mere hypothesis or -theory, but rather a hard fact, is proved by the frightful epidemics of -“foot and mouth disease” in the United States in 1902, 1908, and 1914, -some of which originated from two of the largest vaccine factories in -this country, one in Philadelphia and the other in Detroit, and were -widely distributed to cattle and mankind in several of our States. See -reports of U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, 1902 and 1908. Also Year -Book of U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1914, page 20. See also page -96 in Supplement. - -It is clearly shown in these reports that vaccine infection was the -direct cause of these epidemics in 1902 and 1908; but the cause of the -epidemic of 1914 and 1915 is not so clearly proven, although there -is a strong suspicion that it was caused by vaccine infection, like -the two others, and, as a matter of fact, it originated in the same -State--Michigan--where the epidemic of 1908 originated and where one of -the largest vaccine factories in the country is located. See page 98 in -Supplement. - -These vaccine epidemics caused the destruction of hundreds of thousands -of cattle and other domestic animals in over a score of States, at a -loss of many millions of dollars to the Government and people of this -country. See page 102. Surely, Mr. President, any medical operation -so inherently dangerous and capable of inflicting such injury on -animals or man should not be forced on any person against conscientious -objection or without free will and consent and should not be required -by our enlightened democratic Government in our Army or Navy in any -form except purely voluntary, like all other medical remedies and -operations. - -There is an attempt made in some of the official reports to deny that -these epidemics of “foot and mouth disease” caused by vaccination could -be or were transmitted to mankind in virus and were limited to domestic -animals, but this I believe to be a grave mistake, as I have the most -convincing evidence that this disease was so transmitted to many human -victims, both child and adult, with most awful effects in 1902 and -1908, and is frequently transmitted to mankind in vaccine virus. See -Supplement, page 111. - - -VACCINE FACTORIES A POSSIBLE AND PROVED SOURCE OF EPIDEMICS AND SHOULD -BE INVESTIGATED BY CONGRESS AND THE GOVERNMENT - -This foot and mouth disease is a horrible eruptive fever, a kind of -“cowpox,” or something like a mongrel smallpox and diphtheria combined, -or also like a very bad chickenpox, with successive crops of vesicles, -blisters or blotches, something like cold sores, large and small, -breaking out all over the body, but chiefly on the hoofs, or hands and -feet, lips and nostrils, also inside the mouth and throat as is common -in smallpox. Sometimes these blotches become confluent and pustular and -continue for months, but, usually, the eruption ends in a few weeks -in recovery or death. In the worst cases, with internal eruptions and -pus infection, affecting vital nerve centers, the end comes in a few -days by the victim choking to death from paralysis of the heart and -breathing organs like what happens in infant paralysis, rabies and -lockjaw. For effects on cattle and mankind, see Figs. 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 -and 13 in Supplement. - -Now here we see that at least two and probably three great epidemics -of fatal disease have originated from vaccine factories and this -raises the serious question as to how far other epidemics, or even the -recent epidemic of influenza, and pneumonia, may have originated from -some vaccine factory or from some of their products extensively or -carelessly used. Surely the places where dangerous infectious diseases -are constantly propagated on a gigantic scale, and disseminated -therefrom into the bodies of millions of animals and mankind, should be -the very possible or probable source of epidemic disease. Obviously, -therefore, this entire subject of the present extensive _manufacture -and distribution of diseases_ or _disease cultures_ or _products_ -and its relation to epidemics and public health should be thoroughly -investigated by Congress and the Government at an early date. To -show you what a gigantic and dangerous medical interest this vaccine -manufacture has become, it may be sufficient to state that there are -now about 100 concerns licensed by the U. S. Government to manufacture -vaccines and serums for _animal and human uses_. This is one of the -great medical interests supporting compulsory vaccination, which is a -grave medical malpractice, and should be abolished wherever it exists -and replaced by wholly voluntary vaccination as already shown. - - -EPIDEMICS AND HIGH DEATH RATES IN THE ARMY PROBABLY CAUSED BY WHOLESALE -AND REPEATED VACCINATIONS. DEATH RATE OF ARMY FROM DISEASE MUCH GREATER -THAN THAT OF CIVIL POPULATION - -After careful study of this subject for years I firmly believe that, -with the excellent sanitary and hygienic conditions now used in our -Army, the dangerous system of disease inoculations, whereby the blood -of every man is impregnated with multiple and repeated vaccinations -of several diseases, such as smallpox, typhoid, paratyphoid, etc., is -a system, to say the least, that is neither necessary nor ultimately -useful for army health. And it is probable that this system produces -far more disease than it prevents. For example: For one death which -naturally occurs in the whole population from smallpox or typhoid -fever, ten to one hundred deaths occur from the far more frequent and -fatal diseases of tuberculosis, measles, pneumonia and meningitis. And -let us here ask, what is the use of having soldiers forced to submit -to a whole series of disease infections, if these infections, at best, -give immunity only for a little while from such diseases as smallpox -and typhoid and make the system more susceptible to the far worse -diseases of measles, pneumonia and meningitis, which actually seems to -be the possible effects of vaccination from the recurring epidemics of -these dangerous diseases in our heavily vaccinated camps? - -As a matter of fact, my studies of deaths from vaccination for many -years past show that meningitis and pneumonia are some of the most -frequent complications; and these two diseases seem to have a certain -relation to vaccination and seem to be very fatal where vaccination -precedes them, and thus acts in what is called a “double” or “mixed -infection,” which is known to be very dangerous to health and life. -See Osler’s “Modern Medicine,” 1913, Vol. I, pages 32 and 33. See also -Osler’s “Principles and Practice of Medicine,” 8th edition, 1918, page -330, on the “Influence of Vaccination on Other Diseases.” See also -pages 135 and 139 in the Supplement. - -Another most significant fact in this connection is the high death-rate -from disease in the Army, as compared with the civil population, which -I will now consider. - -On page 18 in the Report of the Secretary of War for 1918 the death -rate of the Army in the United States from disease for the year ending -August 30, 1918, is given as 6.4; that is, about 6½ deaths for every -thousand men in the Army. The age-groups composing the Army are, of -course, on the general average, between twenty and forty, inclusive. In -the same Report it is admitted that the male civilian death-rate for -the same ages as in the Army (twenty to forty) was about 4.7, which -is a difference of 1.7 or nearly 2 per 1000 in favor of the civil -population or civilian males! This civil death-rate is thus, actually -and relatively, much lower than the army death-rate, and this fact is -very significant as positively indicating some serious cause at work to -lower greatly the vitality and resistance and increase the death-rate -in the army! Now what is that cause? - -The figures 6.4 per thousand for the Army and 4.7 per thousand for the -civil population of the same ages is a great _actual_ difference, but, -of course, means, _relatively_, a much greater total difference against -the Army because the army population is made up of “hand-picked” -men selected for their nearly perfect health and physique and the -absence of all serious constitutional diseases such as tuberculosis -and others, which are all excluded from the army group. On the other -hand, the civil population of the same age group of twenty to forty -includes the healthy and diseased, and particularly those afflicted -with tuberculosis, which constitute a big fraction, and which disease -is most prevalent and fatal in this very age group of twenty to forty! -Yet this civil population, containing all the diseased at the most -fatal adult ages, has a much lower death-rate than the “hand-picked” -physically perfect army group! Now what is the cause of this much -higher death-rate in men of the most physically perfect class, and who -are now treated with the best sanitary and hygienic living conditions, -and where the death-rate should be the lowest? What is the cause of -this difference if it is not that extraordinary medical practice, -or malpractice, which deliberately impregnates the bodies of these -exceptionally healthy and “hand-picked” men with a whole series of the -worst type of disease infections known--that is, septicemic infections, -like the typhoids and the variolas, etc.? And should anyone wonder, -therefore, if the death lists of the army should show plainly in the -blood poisoning diseases of pneumonia, meningitis, etc., which are -known to follow frequently after vaccination? See pages 139 to 142 -for a convincing proof of this point. Surely no person of ordinary -sense--not even an extreme vaccinator--can presume to seriously tell -us that impregnating the human body and blood with several disease -cultures and infections is a purely healthy practice _per se_. And -surely no person of ordinary sense can come to any other conclusion -except this: that such operations must be dangerous and unhealthy _per -se_. - -In all this contention, Mr. President, there is, surely, something -which is very important, which should be most carefully considered -and fully investigated by the Commander-in-Chief, by Congress and the -Departments, at an early day. - - -WONDERFUL WORK OF THE WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED - -Before closing I must here express to you, as Commander-in-Chief, -my full appreciation of the wonderful work done by the War and Navy -Departments and by the officers of the Army and Navy in raising, -encamping, training and equipping our great Army and Navy and putting -them into the fighting field so quickly and so potently, with the -result of immediately turning the tide of warfare against the brutal -enemy, for which majestic result these Departments, and the officers of -the Army and Navy, most fully deserve, as they undoubtedly have, the -unstinted thanks and congratulations of our whole citizenry, civil and -military, man and woman. - -No army or navy in field, camp or ship has ever been taken better -care of in a general sanitary, hygienic and medical sense than our -Army and Navy in this gruelling war. The able and liberal way in -which the physical, moral, mental, religious and recreational needs -of the men have been covered by various bodies, military, medical, -civic, and religious, has been the wonder of all our citizens who -have visited our camps. And to this was undoubtedly due the cheerful -and high spirits, the wonderful morale and fighting power which -made themselves instantly felt on the battle-fields of Europe and -so quickly brought the barbarous enemy to his knees in the glorious -climax of Victory and Peace which we are now enjoying, and which we -all firmly hope and believe will soon be followed by a Permanent and -International Peace coextensive with the civilized world, for which -great end, Mr. President, you have been working so ably, energetically -and devotedly. And I feel sure that your master efforts with our own -people and with our victorious Allies will soon bring about that League -of Nations for the government of the world based on the eternal -principles of reciprocal right and justice and the basic principles of -American Institutions--Equality, Consent of the Governed, and Rational -Liberty--for all persons in their inherent natural rights. - -I, therefore, regret that I have had any criticism to make on this -glorious record of our Army and Navy, but this criticism really -concerns only a part of the medical profession in the Army and Navy, -and one of its medical dogmas, and does not reflect on the rank and -file of the military and naval forces of our country, a majority of -which does not, I believe, approve this dangerous medical practice, or -malpractice, of compulsory vaccination which has been forced by medical -dogmatism on the Army and Navy, and which, I believe, clearly violates -fundamental American principles and also stultifies our proud claim -that this is a government of “Liberty and Justice for all.” - - -COMPULSORY VACCINATION CONDEMNED AS UN-AMERICAN - -In compulsory vaccination there is obviously neither “liberty” nor -“justice” and it is utterly opposed to the fundamental American -principle of inherent human right to medical liberty and choice, and to -sanctity of body, and it therefore fits properly only with some code of -Prussianism--from which it has been in fact copied. - -I would, therefore, now like to show by appeal to our great basic -American Documents of Rights and Liberties that all forms of medical -compulsion and dictation and compulsory vaccination are illegal and -unconstitutional and also violate all true civic and medical ethics. - - -THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, OUR BASIC CHARTER OF AMERICAN RIGHTS, -CONDEMNS ALL VIOLATIONS OF INHERENT NATURAL RIGHTS - -The Declaration of Independence is, I believe, the greatest ethical -and political document ever penned by human hand or human wisdom--the -greatest document of Human Rights and Liberties, Basic Ethics, Civic -Religion and Democratic Government ever written--and all expressed in -its one essential paragraph, as follows: - - “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are - created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with - certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty - and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, - Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just - powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any - Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the - Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” - -We have been accustomed to call this great document a “Declaration of -Independence,” but it should more properly be called a “Declaration -of Rights” because “Independence,” or self-government, is only one of -the several “unalienable” rights declared in this great charter. It -is in fact our great “Bill of Rights,” being our first Charter and -Declaration of those essential, natural, inherent and ineffaceable -rights of mankind, which all governments must respect, defend and -enforce, and which cannot be ignored or invaded by any authority, -organization or government whatever. It is indeed our American “Magna -Charta” of fundamental rights and our first or _Pre-Constitution_ -preceding our formal Constitution, and, of course, equal to it as a -basis for all law and government, and particularly expressing what -may be termed our _Pre-Constitutional Rights_--that is, those rights -which always existed by “Natural” and “Divine” endowment before any -human laws, charters or constitutions were ever written; and it, of -course, antedates, and therefore takes precedence even over our State -and National laws and Constitutions, which, to be valid, must be -based on the _fundamental_ principles of _inherent human and natural -rights_ which are _naturally and divinely_ and equally conferred upon -all mankind. It must be remembered at this point that the official -title of this great document is “The Unanimous Declaration of the -Thirteen United States of America,” which shows that it is the official -statement or code of the foundation governing principles of the New -Nation issued by its first Congress and has, therefore, the full effect -of a “Constitution,” “Pre-Constitution” or “Bill of Rights.” - - -THE CODE AND BASIS OF AMERICANISM - -This great primary Code of Rights, which is adapted for the just -and beneficent rule of mankind in all their relations, has not been -half well enough understood or appreciated by our American people -heretofore, and it has been usually looked upon as chiefly a political -document, whereas, it is essentially much more than that, being in -fact a great code of basic ethics and civic religion, in addition to a -code of democratic government, with a wide scope and character, which -fits it equally to individual, national, or international relations; -and this makes it truly our American Bible and Creed and our basis for -a great American and Universal “Religion” both ethical and political, -which can and should be now adopted by the “League of Nations” as -a standard code or basis for the moral and political government of -mankind the world over, and should be taught in all our schools as the -basis of Americanism. - -It is time, therefore, that Americans clearly understood and -appreciated the full ethical, legal and political scope and sense of -this wonderful code of one paragraph, and it is time also that this -great and simple _Code of Essential Americanism_ was plainly emblazoned -on our public walls, spaces and monuments like the inscription -“Holiness to the Lord” displayed on the forefront of the high priests, -as directed in Exodus, Chapter 28, so that all our people can get fully -acquainted and inspired with the broad and simple principles of Right -and Justice in this sublime Code of Americanism. - -This great paragraph of basic Americanism should, therefore, be -conspicuously posted on every public building, school, and church in -the land, over the Judge’s bench in every Court, over the rostrum -in every Legislature and over the desk of every public officer, and -particularly over the desk of every public doctor, Medical Board and -Board of Health in the land, which have been heretofore some of the -worst violators of this code of unalienable human rights in their -various barbarous practices of medical domination, dictation and -compulsion, and forced infliction of disease. - -Now I do not intend, in this article, to show just how the Declaration -of Independence can be seriously considered as a clear and sure -basis for rational ethics and civic religion for the legal and moral -government of mankind, in all relations, having reserved that important -subject for full treatment in a separate article, but I do intend to -show here how the evil of compulsory vaccination and all other forms -of compulsory medicine are gross violations of the Declaration and its -principles of basic Americanism and inherent human rights so clearly -defined therein. - - -THE FIVE ARTICLES OF THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, JULY 4, 1776 - - FIRST: All men are created equal. - - SECOND: All men are endowed by their Creator with certain - unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the - pursuit of happiness. - - THIRD: Governments are instituted among men to secure these - unalienable rights. - - FOURTH: Governments derive their just powers from the consent - of the governed. - - FIFTH: Whenever any form of government becomes destructive - of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to - abolish it. - -Let us now take up the first article of the Declaration--“_All men are -created equal_”--and see what it means, and what it does not mean. -It surely does not mean that all men are created equal in worldly -possessions or natural advantages, in physical strength, personal -beauty, moral sense or mental power, as it is notorious that mankind -differ unavoidably and universally in all these conditions. But it -clearly does mean that all men are created equal in a moral, legal and -governmental sense, equal as members of society or citizens of the -State, no matter how much they may differ in inherent or acquired -advantages. It means that one man shall count no more than any other -man before the law or in the State by reason of worldly possessions or -personal advantages, but that each man shall count alike and equal, no -matter how rich or poor, strong or weak, smart or dull, handsome or -plain he may be. It means also that the “Creator” has not arbitrarily -picked out any particular person, group, family, or race, as His -special favorites, to rule or lord it over any other person or mass -of persons; and, particularly, that the Creator has not specially -“ordained” any favorite person to rule over any part of mankind without -their selection and consent. It does mean that the Creator has no -“favorites,” but that all men are “equal” before Him, and, hence, -that barbarous and oppressive fallacy of “Divine-Right-Monarchism” -is emphatically repudiated in this first Article. It means that all -“one-man-rule” or “one-race-rule,” and all vile Germanism of the -“Gott-Mit-Uns” or “Germans-Over-All” type, is flatly condemned. But, -per contra, this Article does plainly mean that the Creator has -divinely ordained each and every human individual to be an equal -“sovereign” in his own right and that all government depends on the -selection and consent of these individual and equal sovereigns who are -“endowed” with the “divine right” of collectively forming their own -government and selecting their own rulers, instead of having a rule and -a ruler forced on them by alleged “divine” command, and without their -selection or consent. In other words, this Article obviously means, -pure and simple, “_government of the people, by the people, for the -people_.” - -Now if each individual American is divinely ordained as an equalized -sovereign in his own right--and this is surely a grand distinction of -the American Institution and the American citizen--he obviously has -a sovereign right to his own body and all his natural possessions; -and the most sacred and essential of these rights and possessions is, -obviously, the right to his own physical body, the sanctity of his own -person, and the right to decide how it shall be treated or taken care -of in health or disease; and if he has not this sacred and sovereign -right to his own body he has practically no right at all and might -as well be wiped out and would be better dead. Therefore, if any -doctor or other person claims the right to possess the body of any -man, to experiment or operate upon it, to medicate, cut, inoculate, or -treat his body as he might see fit, without the free choice, consent -or approval of that man, it is obvious that the man is no longer a -sovereign or the owner of his own body, but is a mere “slave” or -domestic animal and that the doctor really owns his body and is his -“master” as much as if he were a pig or dog; so that, therefore, all -“equality” and “sovereignty” of the individual is destroyed by this -medical “hoggery” and we have not a “_government of the people, by -the people, for the people_,” but a government of the doctors, by -the doctors, for the doctors,--which in fact we now have to a very -dangerous extent. And, indeed, medical organization, compulsion, -dictation and domination have now got to such a stage that it is one of -the most dangerous powers in our body politic and must be curbed, as I -will show later on. - -It therefore follows that all compulsory or dictatorial medicine is -an absolute violation of the first or basic principle of Americanism -as expressed in our great Declaration of Rights, and our first or -Pre-Constitution, and therefore must be abolished if we would be true -to basic human right and fundamental American principles. - -We will now take up the second Article of the Declaration and study its -meaning. This Article, with a slight variation of the official words, -is as follows: - - “All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable - rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of - happiness.” - -Now the great keynote-words in this clause, “_unalienable rights_,” -mean “inseparable rights,” rights which the citizen cannot be separated -from, rights which cannot be removed or taken away from the people or -denied or invaded by any government or power whatever, but which all -governments must respect and defend. - -This second article from the Declaration of Rights is, I think, the -wisest, most important and significant statement in a political, legal -and moral sense that was ever written by human hand or human mind, -because it is the essence of the essential paragraph of the Declaration -and clearly expresses the basis of Democratic Government, Rational -Ethics, and Civic Religion, in one simple clause or sentence! This -basis is simply the inherent and “unalienable” rights of our fellow men -necessary for human life, liberty and happiness, which are naturally -or divinely conferred upon all men, equally, and cannot be ignored or -violated by individuals or governments. And it is obvious that the -honest and general recognition of these rights will at once establish -true justice and righteousness among men and nations, and the disregard -and violation of these rights is now, and ever has been, the cause of -all wrongdoing, war, and other evils between men and nations the world -over. - -This simple and potent statement of basic human rights is therefore -equal in ethical and legal force to the bulk of the Decalogue itself -and to the Golden Rule of Humanity, Honesty and Justice in its three -best versions from the world’s greatest moral teachers, Confucius, -Plato and Christ; so that in this simple sentence from the essential -paragraph of our first great national document we have a code of -Democratic Government and of Human Ethics in one sentence, which, as -before suggested, should be taught in all our schools as the basis of -Americanism. - - -THE GOLDEN RULE AND THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS COMPARED - -It may be worth while to consider here for a moment what is perhaps -the best version of the “Golden Rule,” viz., the version of Plato in -Plato’s Laws, Book XI, Prof. Jowett’s translation, which is in these -words, dated about 360 B.C.: - - “Thou shalt not touch that which is mine, if thou canst help, - or remove the least thing which belongs to me without my - consent: and may I, being of sound mind, do to others as I - would that they should do to me.” - -This is surely a most righteous ethical code, clear, broad -and simple, and in moral and logical effect it is nearer like our -American Declaration of Rights than any other formula, particularly as -regards the recognition of the sacred personal rights of the individual -which is equivalent to the principle of “unalienable rights” in the -Declaration. The phrase, “Thou shalt not touch that which is mine or -remove the least thing which belongs to me without my consent,” is -certainly a most righteous rule of human honesty, sanctity, justice -and security which surely condemns everything like compulsory medicine -which touches and violates the body with inflicted disease, without -consent of the patient, and removes and destroys the most sacred -possession of the individual, viz., bodily sanctity, health and life. - - -UNALIENABLE RIGHTS ANALYZED AND DEFINED - -It will be noted that the significant words of the second article of -the Declaration state that “all men” are endowed by their Creator with -_“certain” “unalienable rights,” among which are “life,” “liberty” -and the “pursuit of happiness.”_ By the word “certain” is, therefore, -clearly meant _various_, _many_ or _several_ rights, most of which are -left unspecified or not categorically stated except where it refers -to the chief or general rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of -happiness.” And it is obvious that by these expressions are clearly -meant all essential natural or “unalienable” rights which are necessary -to life, safety, liberty and happiness of the individual and which do -not interfere with, invade or endanger the life, liberty or happiness -of any other individual. The right to “life” of course stands first, -and is stated first, because without life we have nothing; and the -right to “liberty” is stated second, because without reasonable liberty -life itself would be useless, and without ample liberty to pursue our -ideas of happiness in our own ways, without infringing on the liberty -or happiness of others, the right to nominal liberty might itself be -useless and meaningless. - -Let me now remind you, Mr. President, at this point, that all the -reform we ask for in this whole matter is the very important and -essential right of Medical Freedom, viz., the free right of every -person to accept or reject any medical operation whatever as the -citizen or patient sees fit, which is obviously an “unalienable right,” -and, as I will soon show, is as clearly covered in the Constitution -by direct implication as the right to religious freedom is covered by -specific guarantee. And of the two it is obvious that the right to -medical freedom is even more important than the right to religious -freedom, and that medical compulsion is to-day a far more dangerous -evil than religious compulsion ever was. - -Medical compulsion is therefore not only immoral, illegal and -unconstitutional, but is also contrary to all true medical ethics, -which call for the absolute medical freedom and right of the patient to -decide what operation is or is not to be performed on his own body and -blood; and, if any doctor, or any government behind the doctor, has any -sovereign right whatever to force any medication or operation on any -patient, however humble, against his will, consent or desire, will some -one please tell us where the doctor, or the government, got this right -morally, medically or legally? - - -ALL POWER COMES FROM THE PEOPLE TO THE GOVERNMENT--NOT VICE VERSA - -Every true American and Democrat knows, that according to our immortal -Declaration of Rights and our great Constitution our Government has -no rights or powers whatever except what the People have given to it -and that the source of all power is in the People and comes _from the -People to the Government_, and not vice versa, as in the Monarchic -systems which we have been fighting in the Great War. Under our -democratic system, government does not give any rights to the people, -as in monarchic systems, but the people are endowed originally and -inherently with all necessary or unalienable rights for life, liberty -and happiness, and their government exists simply or chiefly for the -purpose of protecting and enforcing these rights, not for granting or -denying rights which exist unalienably in the people themselves. - -It will therefore be found that our wonderful Constitution, as well as -the Declaration, covers these fundamental points most distinctly as -to inherent, unalienable rights _retained by_ and _dwelling_ in the -people, where it states in Articles IX and X as follows: - - “The enumeration in the constitution of certain rights, shall - not be construed to deny or disparage others _retained by the - people_.” - - “The powers not delegated to the United States by the - Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are - _reserved_ to the States respectively, or _to the people_.” - -Here we plainly see that the Constitution, as well as the -Declaration which preceded it, show that the People have a whole series -of “certain” “unalienable” “reserved” and “retained” rights, and that -these several rights, both specified and unspecified, are divinely -conferred and naturally inherent and cannot be invaded or taken away -by any government, but must be respected, defended and enforced by -all governments, and that governments exist for the chief purpose of -defending and enforcing these rights. - -Now we might ask just here: Where and when have the People ever given -up their most sacred, obvious and essential right to their choice of -medical treatment and to the freedom and sanctity of their own bodies -and abandoned their bodies to the doctors to seize when they see fit to -inject with disease as in vaccination, to experiment on as they might -wish or to operate or medicate as they might choose, without any regard -to the free will, consent or desire of the patient? - -As government therefore derives its “just powers” only from the -“consent of the governed,” so it is obvious that doctors can derive -their “just powers” to operate only from the _consent of the patient_; -and surely the unanswerable question in the preceding paragraph shows -clearly the utter barbarity and illegality of all medical compulsion -not only in a basic moral, constitutional and legal sense but also from -the basis of true medical ethics, which surely no true medical doctor -can attempt to deny for one moment. - - -MEDICAL FREEDOM AN UNALIENABLE RIGHT - -In conclusion, it therefore follows that the right to Medical Freedom -is the clearest and most essential of the “unalienable” “retained” and -“reserved” rights possessed by the People under the Declaration and -the Constitution; and as these rights cannot be legally invaded or -denied by any Government, it follows, therefore, that all compulsory -vaccination is clearly un-American, illegal, unconstitutional, and -medically barbarous and unworthy of a place on any American, military, -medical, or legislative Code, and should be absolutely abolished as fit -only for some Code of Prussianism--from which, as before said, it has -been, in fact, copied. - - -COMPULSORY VACCINATION CONDEMNED BY OUR COURTS AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL - -In illustration of the principles stated in preceding paragraphs, I -might here cite a few decisions from our higher courts showing the -outrageous illegal and unconstitutional nature of all forcible or -compulsory vaccination. - -Judge Bartlett, of the New York Supreme Court, in the case of Walters -in 1894, decided that: - - “To vaccinate a person against his will, without legal - authority so to do, would be an assault.” - -Judge Gaynor, of the same Court, in the case of Smith against Health -Commissioner Emery of Brooklyn in 1894, gave the following important -decision which was afterwards fully sustained by the New York Court of -Appeals: - - “If the Commissioner [of Health] had the power to imprison an - individual for refusing to submit to vaccination, I see no - reason why he should not also imprison one for refusing to - swallow a dose. But the Legislature has conferred no such power - upon him, if, indeed, it has the power to do the like.... If - the Legislature desired to make vaccination compulsory it would - have so enacted. Whether it be within its power to do so, and - if so, by what means it may enforce such an enactment, are not - for discussion here.” - -Judge Woodward, of the New York Appellate Court, in the Viemeister case -in 1903, declared that: - - “It may be conceded that the Legislature has no constitutional - right to compel any person to submit to vaccination.” - -The Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts, in the case of -Jacobson in 1904, said: - - “If a person should deem it important that vaccination should - not be performed in his case and the authorities should - think otherwise, _it is not in their power to vaccinate him - by force_, and the worst that could happen to him under the - statute would be the payment of the penalty of five dollars.” - -Judge Fitts, of the Supreme Court in Columbia County, New York, in the -case of Bollinger in February, 1909, charged the jury as follows: - - “I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that the courts of this - State in construing the authority and power so conferred upon - local health officers who are the executive members of the - board or the local boards, have held that there is no warrant - or authority in law for the compulsory vaccination of any - individual.” - -At the second trial of this case in February, 1910, Judge LeBœuf -charged the jury in these words: - - “Now, I have charged you that this assault which is claimed to - have existed here, due to the forcible vaccination, if it was - a forcible vaccination, that is, if it was against this man’s - will, is one which you must consider. And the reason of that is - this: This man, in the eyes of the law, just as you and I and - all of us in this court-room, has the right to be let alone. - We all have the right to the freedom of our persons and that - freedom of our persons may not be unlawfully invaded. That is a - great right. It is one of the most important rights we have.” - - -THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE PREËMINENT RIGHTS OF THE -INDIVIDUAL - -In conclusion on this most vital point, let me call your special -attention, Mr. President, to a most significant and important decision -of the U. S. Supreme Court in the vaccination case of Jacobson _v._ -Massachusetts, rendered in 1905, on appeal from the Supreme Court of -Massachusetts. In this long and interesting decision, one of its most -clear and conclusive paragraphs emphatically declares the preëminent -rights of the individual in certain spheres, as follows: - - “There is, of course, a sphere within which the individual may - assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute - the authority of any human government, especially of any free - government existing under a written constitution, to interfere - with the exercise of that will.” - -Now, what is this “sphere” within which this highest court -in our land tells us so clearly and emphatically that “_the individual -may assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute the -authority of any human government, especially of any free government, -existing under a written constitution, to interfere with the exercise -of that will_”? - -The context both before and after this paragraph shows clearly that -this “sphere” of individual right and freedom exists wherever any -unalienable or inherent natural right secured by our constitution is -invaded or violated, or where any act or practice forced upon the -individual is potentially or actually dangerous to the health or life -of that individual, such as I have shown every act of vaccination to -be, in its very nature being an act of septicemic infection or blood -poisoning pure and simple, which sometimes causes wide-spread epidemics -and frequently causes serious injuries and many deaths, even more -deaths than smallpox itself, as has been demonstrated beyond question. - -Surely, therefore, there is no individual or personal right more -inherent and natural and more sacred and obvious or more surely -guaranteed in Declaration and Constitution than the right to medical -freedom of the body, the right to health and life and the right of -the individual to select and decide freely for himself the medical -treatment of his own body, and the right to guard it against any -medical treatment or operation which in his own judgment and conscience -may be unnecessary or undesirable or may involve great risk or -suffering to himself or may seriously endanger his health or life. -This right is, I think, so obvious, so fundamental and necessary and -so unquestionable under the letter and spirit of our basic laws and -constitution, and by the decisions of our courts as well as by all -common sense, logic and ethics, that I do not think another word of -argument is necessary to establish this right in the conscientious -conviction of every rational mind. - - -DECISION OF U. S. SUPREME COURT FURTHER ANALYZED - -In further consideration of the meaning and significance of this -important decision of the U. S. Supreme Court it may be now explained -that the law of Massachusetts here considered was a Statute passed by -the Legislature requiring the vaccination of all persons, child or -adult, under penalty of fine of $5 for refusing vaccination. This law -made an exception for children or minors in delicate health or such -physical condition as would be injured by vaccination, but made no such -exception for adults like the defendant Jacobson. - -The Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts in its decision, from -which this appeal was taken, had already decided, as I have shown, -that the State could not enforce actual compulsory vaccination upon any -person, but could only enforce the fine of $5 if vaccination was not -voluntarily adopted. - -The U. S. Supreme Court concluded its decision in these words: - - “We now decide only that the statute covers the present case, - and that nothing clearly appears that would justify this Court - in holding it to be unconstitutional and inoperative in its - application to the plaintiff in error.” - -From this conclusion Justices Brewer and Peckham dissented, thus -evidently holding that the law of Massachusetts, which inflicts a -fine of $5 for refusing vaccination, was unconstitutional, whereas -the majority of the Court seem to hold that this State law, which can -enforce the fine but cannot compel the vaccination, was legal and -constitutional, but that nevertheless this fine could not be enforced -against any persons who could show that vaccination was dangerous to -their health and life, and that the Courts would interfere to prevent -its enforcement in all such cases and thus protect the constitutional -rights of the individual within that “sphere” of preëminent individual -right as already quoted. - -Now it seems that the defendant Jacobson did not properly plead that -vaccination was dangerous to health and life, in his own case, or offer -to prove this, in his own case, and hence the decision was technically -given against him, but really, in principle, for him; which decision, -as we have shown, was rendered by a divided Court with two judges -dissenting who evidently held that compulsory vaccination by fine, as -called for in the law of Massachusetts, was unconstitutional. - -We therefore believe that this decision, when properly applied, will -invalidate all forms of coercive vaccination, whether by inflicted -fine, or by denial of some civic right, such as public education, -whenever the prosecuted case is properly tried on the correct legal -pleas and issues and carried up through our highest Courts on the -principles laid down in this great decision and outlined in this -analysis. - - -UNALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL _VERSUS_ RIGHTS OF MAJORITIES. -FALSE IDEA OF THE SUPREMACY OF MAJORITIES SCORED - -We often hear it stated that this is a government essentially of -majorities and that any majority can legally and properly force its -opinion or will upon any minority, no matter how objectionable to the -minority this law or will of the majority might be; and that it is the -clear right of the majority thus to oppress itself upon the minority -and the loyal duty of the minority to yield to this oppression, however -odious. - -This rank idea of the supremacy of majorities is, I believe, a great -legal and moral and cowardly mistake and a gross misconception of -our Democratic American Government, because it entirely loses sight -of the great basic principle of _inherent_ and _unalienable human -rights_ which seems to have been first, or best, expressed in our -immortal Declaration of Rights. Therefore, under this basic principle -of “unalienable” right, no majorities, however powerful, can legally -or morally invade or set aside any of the “unalienable” or inseparable -rights of the People, as this is obviously the clear significance and -meaning of the terms “unalienable rights,” as I have already shown. -Hence this fundamental American principle of “unalienable rights” calls -in trumpet tones from the lines of the Declaration and Constitution and -gives this warning to all majorities, however powerful: “Thus far shalt -thou go but no farther, and here must thy power be stayed”--that is, -stayed at the approach to every sacred inherent and unalienable right -of the individual necessary to the life, liberty, health and happiness -of the individual. - -We have often heard the phrase quoted, “This is a government of laws -and not of men,” which is only another way of stating what I am here -contending for, viz., that this Government of Americanism is not based -essentially on mere numbers or majorities of “men,” but chiefly on -naturally or divinely ordained _principles_ or “laws” of eternal human -right and justice, and, more particularly and essentially, on the great -basic American law or principle of “Unalienable Rights” of the People, -which is the great American “Sanctuary” of Liberty and Right that no -majority or minority can invade or profane. - -Majorities can, of course, properly prevail over minorities in -all matters that are purely selective or elective or which can be -determined only by preponderating vote, but cannot prevail over any -defined or established inherent, unalienable or constitutional right of -the individual, and it has often been well said that Constitutions are -made especially to protect minorities, and not majorities, who already -have the preponderant political and legislative power in their hands -and do not need such protection. - - -MEDICAL FREEDOM AND ALIMENTARY FREEDOM ARE EQUALLY UNALIENABLE RIGHTS -OF THE PEOPLE AND NECESSARY FOR HUMAN LIFE, LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS - -We have already seen how compulsory medicine is a gross violation of -the American principle of Unalienable Rights and need say nothing -further on that point here; but, as the exposure and condemnation of -one evil may show us the way to suppress another and similar evil, -so it may be excusable for us to digress here for a moment from our -main subject and call attention to the fact that the same moral, legal -and logical principles against Compulsory Medicine apply equally -to that latest dangerous invasion of the unalienable rights of the -people involved in the extraordinary scheme of National Prohibition or -Compulsory Abstinence in certain foods and drinks recently forced upon -the people by what is alleged to be a majority of the voters of this -country. Now, I do not believe that any majority of our voters have -ever approved either compulsory medicine or compulsory abstinence, but, -on the contrary, that these errors have been forced upon the people by -audacious, well organized and arrogant minorities who have temporarily -gotten control of political and legislative power and have deceived the -public mind with the alleged necessity, utility and righteousness of -these oppressive errors. But even if it can be shown that a majority -of our voters approve either of these errors, such alleged majorities -would be morally and legally unjustified in overriding any inherent -right of the people under our basic American doctrine and law of -Unalienable Rights. - -I intend to treat, in a separate article, this important subject of -Alimentary Freedom, in certain fermented foods and drinks, as an -unalienable right of the people, established by world-wide and age-long -usage and by the highest civic, moral, legal and religious sanctions, -and need give no further attention to that special subject here.[3] - - -MEDICAL DESPOTISM WORSE THAN RELIGIOUS DESPOTISM. THE OLD RELIGIOUS -HERESY, “LET US SIN THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND,” COMPARED WITH THE MODERN -VACCINATION FANATICISM, “LET US FORCE AND SPREAD DISEASE UPON THE -PEOPLE SO THAT HEALTH MAY ABOUND!” - -In the past centuries, before our great American Institutions of -Civil and Religious Liberty were established, it was the Doctors of -Divinity who were wholly responsible for inventing and maintaining that -great evil of Compulsory Religion, where one type of religion or one -conception of Deity was forced on the whole population under penalty of -torture, disfigurement, mutilation, or death; and these misguided men -seem to have actually had the absurd and diabolical idea--incredible to -us to-day--that by this mutilation and murder they could increase the -sum total of morality in the whole community! - -In a similar way, our modern doctors of medicine and our medical -societies are wholly responsible for inventing and enforcing the -horrible medical scheme of compulsory disease, and with a similar logic -that, by thus forcing these vaccine operations and diseases on the -whole population, they can greatly increase the sum total of health in -the whole community! - -This dogma of compulsory disease is, of course, just as false and evil -as the dogma of compulsory religion; but, of the two evils, compulsory -disease is far more dangerous to human right and safety, health and -life, and it would probably not be difficult to prove that where -one person was mutilated or murdered by compulsory religion in the -barbarous past, ten are now injured or killed by the modern medical -barbarism of compulsory disease. - -There was an old sect of heretics about the time of the Reformation -which seemed to have a poor idea of the value of personal virtue and -good works in salvation as compared with mere dogma, “grace,” and -“faith,” and whose motto seemed to be: “The more sin, the more grace,” -or “Let us sin that grace may abound.” Now, this seems to be very -similar to the doctrine of the coercive vaccinators of to-day, which -appears to be simply and literally this: “The more disease we inflict, -the more health we create,” or “Let us inflict and spread disease -widely upon the people so that health may correspondingly abound.” - -A striking example of the evil effects of this dangerous vaccine -doctrine in recent times is found in the case of Japan, whose awful -record in vaccination and smallpox and in epidemic disease transmitted -by vaccine virus is exposed in the next paragraphs. - - -AWFUL RECORD OF JAPAN IN VACCINATION AND SMALLPOX AND IN EPIDEMIC -DISEASE CAUSED BY VACCINE VIRUS, AS GIVEN IN U. S. GOVERNMENT REPORTS - -Japan has been perhaps the most extensively vaccinated country in -recent times, with most rigid compulsory laws, copied from Germany, -which require re-vaccination at different periods of infant and adult -life. Now vaccination, as I have already shown, is simply one of -the varied forms of smallpox, being an artificially propagated or -cultivated form of the disease involving human smallpox and cowpox -combined, and is often more dangerous and deadly than the natural -disease. This being the fact, what therefore should we expect to -result from the dangerous practice of impregnating the blood of a -whole population with repeated inoculations of the virus of human -smallpox and cow disease? Should we logically expect anything else but -that epidemics of smallpox and cow disease should break out in due -time in such a generally vaccinated and infected population, and that -vaccine or cow disease should be extended to other populations wherever -the virus made from human and cow diseases should be carried and used? - -This logical expectation is what seems to have actually happened in the -case of much-vaccinated Japan, and instead of being made immune from -smallpox epidemics by general vaccination and re-vaccination--which is -one of the positive claims made by vaccinators--Japan, on the contrary, -seems to have suffered from the worst epidemics of smallpox known in -modern times, not only worse than in poorly vaccinated countries like -England and the United States, but worse than experienced in old times -before the days of vaccination! - -This conclusion seems to be fully proved from the U. S. Public Health -Reports for September 2, 1910, which give this frightful record of -smallpox epidemics in Japan for several years past. The population of -Japan at that time, 1910, was about 48 millions, and the high waves -in the epidemics in the preceding ten years were as follows: In 1898 -there were 149,012 smallpox cases with 40,971 deaths, mortality 27½ per -cent.; in 1905 there were 10,704 cases with 3,388 deaths, mortality -31½ per cent., and in 1908 there were 18,075 cases with 5,835 deaths, -mortality 32½ per cent. - -These figures, considering the vaccinal conditions existing in Japan, -under most rigid compulsory laws, are surely terribly significant, to -say the least, and fully shatter the fallacious vaccine doctrine that -vaccination is the only effective remedy against smallpox and that -it always lowers the mortality in epidemics! Per contra, here we see -from these official U. S. Health Reports that in this much-vaccinated -population there was not only a series of severe epidemics with a very -high mortality, but a constantly ascending mortality from 27½ per cent. -in 1898 to 31½ per cent. in 1905 and 32½ per cent. in 1908! Whereas -the usual mortality given by good authorities in old times before -the days of vaccination was only 15 to 20 per cent.! See “History of -Smallpox” by Dr. James Moore, Jenner’s chief assistant, London, 1815, -page 243. - -Now I believe that there is no country in modern times, whether -vaccinated or unvaccinated, which has shown worse epidemics of smallpox -than much-vaccinated Japan, as above shown from official data, whereas -the epidemics within the same period in the poorly vaccinated countries -of England and the United States have been small in comparison. -Surely, therefore, our “Yankees of the Orient” seem to have copied -some of our antique medical barbarisms even more fully than they have -copied our real modern improvements. And, surely, poorly vaccinated -England is much better off with less vaccination and more sanitation -when its Minister of Health, Hon. John Burns, can publicly declare in -Parliament on April 12, 1911, that, “Just in proportion as, in recent -years, exemptions from vaccination have gone up from 4 per cent. to 30 -per cent., so deaths from smallpox have declined.” This also is the -experience of Leicester, the sanitary English city, unvaccinated for -the past 30 years, as previously shown at page 22; and such, I believe, -will be the result wherever that irrational system of inflicting -disease to produce health is abandoned and the rational system of -sanitation and hygiene is adopted in its place. - - -JAPANESE VIRUS CAUSES EPIDEMICS OF CATTLE PLAGUE IN MANKIND AND ANIMALS - -Not only, therefore, has general compulsory vaccination failed to -protect Japan from some of the worst smallpox epidemics known in modern -or olden times, as just shown, but, what is perhaps still more damning, -it is proved by U. S. Government Reports, quoted on pages 95 and 99, -that Japanese vaccination was the source of the deadly epidemics of -Cattle Plague, known as “Foot and Mouth Disease,” which afflicted -both animals and mankind in the United States in 1902 and 1908, this -dangerous infection being imported in vaccine virus from Japan and -used by two of the largest makers of virus in the United States. See -Year Book, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1914, page 21. See also page -99 in Supplement. These epidemics raged in several of our States, as -previously shown, and caused the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of -animals, an unknown amount of human mortality, and a loss of millions -of dollars to the Government and people of this country. Surely such -awful results from Japanese vaccination are a shocking mockery and a -stinging rebuke to all vaccination as an alleged “health” remedy and -call loudly for the abolishment of all compulsory vaccination as a most -dangerous public evil and a flagrant violation of vital human rights to -Medical Freedom, Sanity and Safety. - - -MEDICAL FREEDOM NECESSARY FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS, MEDICAL TRUTH AND HUMAN -SAFETY - -As we now enjoy the great Democratic Institution of a Free Church in a -Free State, with all church control of government and all compulsory or -forced religion prohibited, so, in the near future, we must bring about -an equally important reform for human welfare in preventing all medical -control of our departments of government, in securing true medical -freedom and prohibiting all compulsory medicine as effectually as all -compulsory religion and church control of government is now prohibited. -And as full freedom for all religious sects, in religious matters, -has surely brought about an undoubted advance in religious progress -and in true religion and morality throughout the world, so it is sure -that full medical freedom will bring about a similar increase in true -medical progress and efficiency throughout the world. - -Now in this most important reform of Medical Freedom I want to say at -this point that I hold no brief for any school of medicine or religion, -but what I contend for, as an American citizen, is something broader, -more inclusive, more American, and more important for public right, -health and safety than any one religious or medical doctrine, and -that is a full Medical Freedom for all the people to adopt any honest -or sincere doctrine or system of medicine which they may prefer, -and a free public field for the exercise of this doctrine or system -without any harassment or oppression from any other system of medicine -which may falsely and foolishly think itself specially ordained to -control the whole field of medicine. And just as we now enjoy a full -constitutional guarantee for Religious Freedom, which prevents any one -sect from infringing on the conscientious liberty of another, so we -must have a full Medical Freedom with an equal guarantee which will -give all honest or reasonable medical doctrines free scope and prevent -any medical doctrine or practice whatever from being forced on any -person against free will and consent, and which will recognize the -full right of the individual to adopt any preferred system of medical -treatment, whether with or without prayer and faith, with or without -drugs and medicines, or with or without vaccines or serums. - -This broad medical freedom for all systems of medicine is absolutely -necessary for true medical progress itself, for only by testing -these different medical theories and practices side by side freely -in every-day experience and on a wide scale can the real truth and -virtue of any particular doctrine or practice be determined. A great -modern doctor uttered a most important truth on this head when he said -that “He is the best doctor who knows the uselessness and dangers of -the greatest number of remedies.” And the best way of finding out the -uselessness, danger or virtue of any remedies is to try them carefully -and freely side by side. And this free use and disuse of alleged -remedies side by side in contrast or competition will ultimately sift -out and condemn whatever is really evil or useless more effectually -and justly than any drastic compulsion or dogmatic suppression could -possibly do, thus making the best and surest contribution to true -medical progress, safety and efficiency. - -On the same principle, if all compulsory vaccination is abolished and -each person left free to adopt or refuse vaccination, as he sees -fit--which is his positive legal right--a true test of the virtue and -safety or uselessness and danger of general vaccination will soon be -arrived at. And if it can be shown in such a large and free test that -the unvaccinated part of the population or the unvaccinated part of -the Army and Navy is no more liable, on the average, to catch smallpox -or typhoid fever than the vaccinated part, and is entirely free from -the grave dangers of vaccination itself, surely a great lesson in -medical sanity and progress will be learned. As a matter of fact, this -test has already proved in the case of the U. S. Army in France that -typhoid vaccination is useless as a preventive where sanitation is -grossly neglected. See pages 207 and 210. It has also proved in the -case of poorly vaccinated but sanitary England and particularly in the -unvaccinated and very sanitary City of Leicester, as compared with much -vaccinated Japan, Germany and Berlin, that good sanitation, isolation -and hygiene without vaccination give the best result in reducing and -preventing smallpox in the population and also in greatly reducing the -general death-rate and infant death-rate as compared to the same rates -in the heavily vaccinated communities named. On this point see one of -the latest medical works on this subject by a pro-vaccinator, “The -Vaccination Question,” by Dr. Millard, London, 1914. - -Now, as medical freedom is absolutely necessary for true medical -progress, as just shown, so it is equally necessary for medical truth -and human safety. At this point I am sure it will be readily admitted -that even if an alleged medical remedy were absolutely effective and -sure, and absolutely safe, harmless, and beneficial, it would not -be ethically or legally proper to force it upon any patient against -free will and consent. But when an alleged remedy is very uncertain, -doubtful or irregular in its action, or very dangerous and frequently -fatal in its effects, such as vaccination has been proved to be, surely -the forcing of such a doubtful and dangerous remedy on any person under -pretense of its necessity and harmlessness is not only unethical but it -is a question whether this is not also a gross act of sheer criminal -malpractice. - -When, therefore, any doctor forces such a doubtful and dangerous remedy -as vaccination upon any patient under the pretense that it is necessary -for public health and is perfectly safe and harmless, the doctor is -obviously under a most vicious moral and professional bias and interest -to conceal, deny or falsify any unfavorable facts that may arise in -the case, such as the failure of the alleged remedy or its injurious -or possibly fatal effects on the patient, which bias and falsification -is of course the greatest enemy to medical truth, safety and progress. -And it is obvious that this concealment and denial of the injurious or -fatal effects of medical remedies forced on the people by doctors is -not only against true public policy but is a gross violation of true -medical ethics and a crime upon the people in the falsification of this -most important point of vital statistics, viz., the nature and effects -of alleged medical remedies on human health and life, which facts -should surely be fully disclosed to the public, not only for the sake -of medical truth and progress but for the greater reason of human right -and safety. - -And it must be here remembered that our vaccinating doctors and our -dominant vaccinating medical sect have now such full control of our -death certificates, our departments of health and vital statistics -that they can deny or conceal the effect of their medical operations -with the greatest ease and safety, which is obviously a very sinister -fact, against the most vital interest of the people, in public health, -medical truth and safety and accurate vital statistics, and this evil -surely calls for an immediate reform. - -On the other hand, where medical practice is perfectly free and -voluntary, the practitioner has no bias or interest whatever to make -false claims of alleged efficiency or to conceal facts as to failures, -dangers and fatalities, so that it is therefore obvious that for -both medical truth and progress and human right and safety, Medical -Freedom is an absolute public necessity, and that, per contra, Medical -Compulsion is a most dangerous public evil which must be abolished as -completely as the less dangerous evil of religious compulsion has been -abolished. - - -MEDICAL DOMINATION AND COMPULSION MOST DANGEROUS POWER IN BODY POLITIC -AND MUST BE SUPPRESSED - -The most dangerous power in the body politic of the past age was formed -by the organized intolerant and oppressive Doctors of Divinity, who had -a great State Church and political organization behind them through -which they dominated and coerced the people and by which they were -enabled legally to force upon them the horrible, but now obsolete, evil -of compulsory religion, as well illustrated in some of our early New -England Colonies and in many other places throughout the Old and New -Worlds, during the past centuries. And so, in a similar way, it is the -Doctors of Medicine and the Medical Societies of one great dominating -school or sect, the vaccine sect, which form the most dangerous -power in the body politic to-day, and are almost wholly responsible -for originating and forcing upon the people the barbarous evil of -compulsory medicine and compulsory disease, in violation of the most -fundamental, inherent, natural, and constitutional rights of the people. - -President Lincoln--who was one of our greatest Americans--has told -us that no man, however good, is fit to govern another man without -the latter’s consent, and I think it will be generally admitted, as a -sound Democratic and American doctrine, that no one class or profession -of men--not even the great clerical or medical profession--is quite -perfect enough to be trusted with exclusive, unlimited or dangerous -power over our fellow men. Nevertheless it is a fact that the medical -profession, as now organized and possessed of political and official -power, and in control of some of our most important departments of -government, such as Public Health, Vital Statistics and Medical -Legislation, has already a most dangerous power over the people, -perhaps more dangerous and unlimited than any other class of men, and -this dangerous power must be curbed as soon and as much as possible in -the interest of true Medical Freedom and Progress and public right and -safety. - -My late esteemed friend and neighbor, the illustrious Judge Gaynor, -New York’s greatest mayor, uttered one of his best sayings, which we -may well note and apply here, when he said: “Beware of the men or the -class who are too anxious to exert power.” And this warning we can -now apply most pertinently to our dominating medical societies and -vaccine companies, which together form a most gigantic medical interest -which is the chief influence that has forced compulsory medicine and -inflicted disease upon the people and controls our Departments of -Health, and which should be fully investigated by the Executive and -Legislative Departments of our State and National governments, which -should adopt some radical reforms to curb this dangerous medical power -and safeguard the rights of the people, as suggested in the next -paragraph. - - -THE GIGANTIC MEDICAL AND VACCINE INTEREST SUPPORTING COMPULSORY -VACCINATION A MENACE TO PUBLIC RIGHT AND SAFETY WHICH SHOULD BE CURBED - -The latest official reports show that there are now _ninety-nine_ -concerns licensed by the U. S. Government to manufacture vaccines and -serums for both human and animal uses! These ninety-nine concerns have -a capitalization of about fifty millions or more. One of the largest of -these manufacturers, located in Detroit, has a capital of ten millions, -while another large concern located in Philadelphia has a capital of -two millions. - -The two great epidemics of Foot and Mouth Disease, or virulent cowpox, -in this country in 1902 and 1908 were caused by the vaccine virus of -two of these ninety-nine vaccine manufacturers; and these epidemics -resulted in great mortality to animals and mankind, as already shown, -with a loss of millions of dollars to the Government and people of the -United States; but no recompense has ever yet been made, so far as I -know, to the Government or People by these vaccine companies for this -great damage, and I ask your particular attention, Mr. President, to -this important point. - -Now, to give a list of all the medical societies in the United States -and their membership figures would take too much space here, as their -names and numbers are “legion”; but I can give some figures which will -include the chief National Society and the chief State societies in the -leading State of New York, as follows: - - American Medical Association 43,000 members - Medical Society, State of N. Y. 8,000 ” - Associated Physicians of Long Island 503 ” - Brooklyn Medical Association 200 ” - Medical Society of Kings County 950 ” - Harlem Medical Association 400 ” - Medical Association, Greater City of N. Y. 750 ” - Medical Society of County of N. Y. 2,709 ” - N. Y. Academy of Medicine 1,400 ” - -This table, while including only a partial list of medical -societies in the United States, comprises some of the largest and most -influential societies of the dominant or allopathic school, active in -the national field and in our own local field of New York State. Now -each State in the Union has a similar group of local or State societies -and these several State societies combined with the big National -societies and with the _ninety-nine vaccine companies_ form, obviously, -a most gigantic medical, political and commercial interest behind the -medical evil of compulsory vaccination. Of course, a great many doctors -of this dominant school are advanced and progressive enough to oppose -all compulsory vaccination; but doctors of this type unfortunately -seem to be a minority, at present, in the dominant vaccine school -of medicine. On the other hand, a large majority in almost all of -the other schools of medicine are strongly opposed to vaccination, -particularly to all forms of compulsion. - -A glance at this list of medical societies already given, with its -startling membership figures, combined with the _ninety-nine vaccine -companies_, must convince any thoughtful man of the dangerous size and -organization of these medical and vaccine interests, which obviously -have more or less of a joint interest to force their vaccine operations -and products upon the people as much as possible by compulsory laws, -and otherwise, and whose joint profits are obviously in direct -proportion to this use. - -Now, no other profession has anything like the large and well organized -membership and corresponding political power and influence of the -medical profession in the body politic. Indeed, few, if any, trade or -business organizations can compare with the medical profession in this -respect, and this medical power is further greatly increased beyond -that of any other profession, trade or business in being in practical -control of our most important Departments of Public Health and Vital -Statistics all over the country, so that in advocating and practising -the dangerous barbarism of compulsory medicine this medical power can -easily deny and conceal the actual effects of this dangerous medication -on human health and life in our vital statistics. This is surely too -much power and a power too dangerous to be left in the hands of one -class or profession of men, and it would surely be an act of public -wisdom to take this control of our Departments of Health and Vital -Statistics out of the hands of this one medical class and entrust it -to doctors of various schools or to some other professions, such as -sanitary engineers, expert lay statisticians, life insurance actuaries, -or even to able laymen, who would have no professional bias or interest -to deny or conceal any medical mistakes or disasters, but who would -honestly give to the public the true record, not only of deaths -from natural diseases, but--what is even more important for public -information, public health, and medical progress--the true record of -disease and death from all _artificial or inflicted diseases_ and -medical operations in general. - - -REFORMED SYSTEM LONG USED IN ENGLAND - -As a matter of fact, the reformed system here suggested has long been -in use in England, where the Minister of Health and the Registrar -General have been both eminent laymen, and not doctors, but with -honest doctors under them, and where the record for sanitation and -public health is one of the highest and the death-rate one of the -lowest in the world, while vaccination is constantly declining. Under -this system the English vital statistics are also known to be the -most full and reliable in the world, and deaths from vaccination -and other medical practices are not denied and concealed, as in our -doctor-controlled Departments, but are reported honestly and regularly -every year, showing in many years a greater mortality from vaccination -than from smallpox. - -This medical and statistical reform should be immediately adopted in -this country to abolish the dangerous medical domination and monopoly -which now controls our Departments and which has long been an abuse -of public power by one medical sect, a great enemy to Medical Truth, -Freedom and Progress and an arbitrary power in our body politic which -should be no longer tolerated under our American institutions.[4] - - -PROPOSED NATIONAL BOARD OF PUBLIC HEALTH, CONTROLLED BY ONE SCHOOL OF -DOCTORS, CONDEMNED - -A typical instance of the dangerous tendency of the medical profession -to extend its power over the people is shown in the recent scheme of -the proposed National Department of Public Health, to be composed -chiefly of doctors of one sect, with a head doctor having a seat in the -President’s Cabinet. - -Now, a National Department of Public Health, properly organized and -conducted, may be a very good thing for the public welfare, but such -a Department should by no means be controlled by doctors of one -dominating sect or by the big vaccine interests in alliance with it, -but all schools of medicine should be properly and fairly represented -in such a Department, and its head member, having a seat in the -Cabinet, should be an able and eminent layman and not a medical -doctor, so that the head of the Department would thus represent the -interests of the whole people and not chiefly the professional ideas -and interests of one school of medicine. - - -MEDICAL ETHICS OF THE VACCINE AND OTHER SCHOOLS COMPARED AND -CRITICIZED. THE “BEAM” _VERSUS_ THE “MOTE” - -What would be thought of the “medical ethics” of an imaginary or -hypothetical doctor who might invent some medical remedy and then have -laws passed to force this alleged remedy upon his patients against free -will and consent, but to his own profit, and who might at the same -time get control of the Departments of Health and Vital Statistics so -that he could safely and successfully deny and conceal the failures, -dangers and fatalities of his alleged remedy or invention? Could there -be conceived a medical policy or practice of greater professional -effrontery, impudence and wicked presumption than this? Could there -be a medical practice of greater danger to human right and safety and -more shocking and destructive to all true medical ethics and progress? -Could there be any practice more violative of the inalienable rights of -the American citizen? And yet this hypothetical picture illustrates, -substantially, the medical policy which the people now suffer from in -every community oppressed with the evil of compulsory vaccination, -and which would be greatly aggravated if we were to have a National -Department of Health controlled by vaccinating doctors. - -We have heard a good deal from the medical societies as to the evils -of the “Quack” doctor, the “Patent Medicine” man and the Christian -Scientist, who are severely frowned upon by the regular doctor and -pro-vaccinator; but these men, much abused by their alleged superiors, -have never been guilty of anything so violative of true medical -ethics and of public right and safety as the practice of forcing -medical remedies and operations upon their patients against free will -and consent, or the practice of representing remedies as absolutely -necessary and perfectly safe and harmless which are in fact not -necessary and are highly dangerous, and not only frequently kill the -patient but actually cause great epidemics of fatal diseases in animals -and mankind, such as the deadly epidemics of foot and mouth disease in -1902 and 1908, already described, which were caused by inoculations -with the vaccine virus from two of the biggest vaccine factories in the -United States. - -Now I have never heard that any “Quacks” or “Patent Medicine” doctors -or Christian Scientists or any other school of medicine, good, bad or -indifferent, have ever been guilty of any damage to health and life -comparable to this awful record of the vaccine school, which school -seems to arrogate to itself such superiority and dominance over its -fellow men. So far as the average “patent” medicines are concerned, -they may be said to be of three classes: First, harmless or agreeable -mixtures having no actual effect on disease, good or bad, except in -the fancy or faith of the patient. Second, mixtures of ordinary drugs -substantially such as the regular doctors prescribe. Third, at the -worst, nothing worse than mixtures of medicated “booze” or doctored -“dope.” Per contra, I never heard of any “Patent” or “Quack” medicine -which was an actual _blood poison_ or the actual virus of some -dangerous or deadly infection capable of infecting the patient with -some fatal disease and of killing him in a few minutes, hours, days or -weeks, as frequently happens with different forms of vaccination, as I -have already demonstrated beyond doubt in these pages. - -To this dangerously dominating vaccine sect of medicine, which sees the -faults of other men but not its own great errors, we may therefore now -apply the crushing words of Christ in His great parable of the beam and -the mote, as follows: - - “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, - but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” - - “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; - and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy - brother’s eye.” - -Yes, Mr. President, if this powerfully organized and dominating sect of -medicine, which now has such a dangerous power in our body politic, -will cast out the blinding “beams” of compulsory medicine, inflicted -disease and medical falsification out of its mental eyes it may then -be able to see clearly to cast out the relatively harmless medical -“motes” out of the eyes of our fellow men. But I am afraid that we -cannot rely on this Profession to correct its own great faults unaided, -or that, like the old Pharisee, it will ever remove from its own eyes -the blinding beams of medical self-righteousness, infallibility, -domination, compulsion and falsification. It will undoubtedly require -the logical common sense and moral sense of the laity to bring about -this medical reform, as few creeds, professions or parties ever reform -themselves from within, but generally by moral and logical force from -without. Left to itself, the Profession would undoubtedly acknowledge -and correct its present great errors of Bovine Vaccination, compulsion -and falsification in due time, but this reform would probably not -occur voluntarily for a century yet!--that is, in about one hundred -years after we were all dead. Indeed, the record of History seems to -show that it usually requires about a century for this most dogmatic -and infallibilistic sect of medicine to correct any of its gigantic -mistakes. For instance: The awful mistake of smallpox inoculation -was continued for over a century, endorsed by the highest medical -authorities as the only way to prevent smallpox, and yet it was finally -abandoned and prohibited by public opinion and penal law as being one -of the most dangerous and effective ways to propagate and multiply -smallpox. And it was not till after this gigantic medical mistake -was prohibited that natural smallpox began to seriously decline. -In the same way the vile medical scheme of arm-to-arm vaccination -continued for over half a century under the endorsement of a large -part of the medical profession as a safe substitute for inoculation, -and as perfectly harmless and effective, and yet it was ultimately -condemned and abandoned as one of the vilest schemes ever devised for -transmitting the most dangerous human and animal diseases from one -person to another! Now I believe that the present medical evil of -Compulsory Bovine Vaccination is worse than any of the former mistakes -as involving the extensive diseasing of two classes of animals, cattle -and mankind, and causing epidemics of the most dangerous diseases in -mankind and domestic animals which were not known under the former -evil schemes of inoculation and arm-to-arm vaccination! We must not, -therefore, now wait for a century more to allow the bovine vaccinators -and compulsory doctors voluntarily to abandon and correct what is -perhaps the greatest medical mistake in history, but we must bring -about this reform at once, in our own day, by a proper exertion of -the common sense and the moral sense of the laity in enacting new -laws which will prohibit all medical compulsion and all propagated -and inflicted disease, and which will also remove all vaccinating -doctors from the head and control of our Departments of Health and -Vital Statistics and put in their places able laymen, or men of neutral -professions, who will do justice to all medical sects and schools and -protect and enforce the legal rights of the people to _Medical Freedom_ -and _Safety_ and to _Medical and Statistical Truth_. - - -PROPAGATION AND INFLICTION OF DISEASE A MEDICAL CRIME - -The extensive propagation and coercive infliction of a dangerous -disease, under the false pretense that it is necessary for public -good and is safe and harmless, is obviously in the nature of a gross -medical malpractice and public crime which is against public policy and -public health and should be abolished by Penal Law, just as Smallpox -Inoculation was abolished nearly a century ago. - - -REMOVAL OF THE GREAT ETHICAL DISGRACE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION - -I have not the least doubt that the best doctors in all our present -schools of medicine, including the allopathic, will hail the broad -reform of Medical Freedom which I am here urging and which they will -readily see will be a great benefit to Humanity and to the whole -“Divine” Profession of Healing and will be the removal from it of -something which the verdict of History will undoubtedly record -as having been the greatest Ethical Disgrace on the whole Medical -Profession. And as the abolishment of compulsory religion removed -a great disgrace from the Clerical Profession in the past, so the -abolishment of compulsory medicine will remove a great disgrace from -the Medical Profession of to-day. And the doctors will doubtless, in -due time, regret that they were ever guilty of such a barbarism, as -much as modern Churchmen now regret the similar barbarous mistake of -their predecessors. - - -RECAPITULATION - -It is, therefore, to this great medical reform, Mr. President, that I -now ask your careful attention and forceful help, so far as may lie -within your power or may commend itself to your conscientious judgment; -and I now briefly recapitulate the essential points in this much needed -reform, as follows: - - FIRST: The abolishment of all compulsory vaccination in the - Army and Navy, leaving vaccination free and voluntary with each - man, as it now is in the English Army. - - SECOND: The full pardon of all men condemned by Court-Martial - for refusing compulsory vaccination. - - THIRD: The thorough investigation of the propagation and - distribution of inflicted diseases by vaccine factories and - vaccinating doctors, and the effect of this dangerous practice - on the health and life of animals and mankind and its possible - or actual relation to great human and animal epidemics, - including epidemic Influenza and Pneumonia. - - FOURTH: To determine carefully the number of cases of sickness - and death caused annually, directly or indirectly, by - vaccinations of different kinds in the Army and Navy and in the - civil population. - - FIFTH: To have all deaths caused by vaccination or other - medical operations reported truly every year by all Medical - Boards and Boards of Health, and to have heavy penalties - enacted for all wilful denials or concealments of such deaths - in death certificates or other vital records and statistics. - - SIXTH: To have various schools of medicine represented on all - Medical Boards and Boards of Health in order to prevent medical - monopoly by any one school of medicine and to establish Medical - Freedom for all schools, with greater benefit to the public - service, thus promoting true medical progress and efficiency. - - SEVENTH: To have able laymen or sanitary engineers or life - insurance statisticians at the head of all Departments of - Health and Vital Statistics, with honest doctors under them, - like the good system long in use in England. - - -CONCLUSION - -In your Message to Congress, August 8, 1919, Mr. President, you -expressed a very strong and interesting thought in condemnation of all -unjust, arbitrary and coercive forces in the body politic, and the -necessity of suppressing them in the interest of human welfare. This -thought applies most aptly in the present case against the evils of -dominating, arbitrary and coercive Medicalism, and I am therefore very -glad to quote it here as my closing sentence, where, it seems to me, it -has the force of a whole chapter in the space of one small paragraph. - - “The world has just destroyed the arbitrary force of a military - Junta. It will live under no other. All that is arbitrary and - coercive is in the discard. Those who seek to employ it will - only prepare their own destruction.” - - Respectfully submitted, - - CHAS. M. HIGGINS. - - Dated at 271 Ninth Street, - Brooklyn, N. Y., - U. S. Constitution Day, - September 17, 1919. - - -MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: - - American Association for Advancement of Science. - American Child Hygiene Association. - National Tuberculosis Association. - American Red Cross (Life Member). - American Medical Liberty League, Chicago. - Medical Liberty League, Boston. - Anti-Vaccination League of America, Philadelphia. - National Anti-Vaccination League, London. - American Civic Association. - National Security League. - Navy League of U. S. - Aerial League of America. - American Rights League. - League of Free Nations Association. - American Historical Society. - National Geographic Society. - National Municipal League. - National Association of Manufacturers. - Constitutional Liberty League, Philadelphia. - National Agricultural Society. - National Consumers’ League. - Vigilance League, New York. - Public School Protective League. - Constitutional League of America. - -[Illustration: In Memoriam - -JOHN PITCAIRN - -Late President of The Anti-Vaccination League of America. Born in -Scotland, January 10, 1841. Died at Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, July 22, -1916.] - - - - -LIFE SKETCH OF JOHN PITCAIRN - -BY A PHILADELPHIA FRIEND - - -John Pitcairn, who became President of The Anti-Vaccination League of -America when it was organized in Philadelphia, on October 21, 1908, -was one of America’s foremost men of affairs. He was born on January -10, 1841, at Johnstone near Paisley in Scotland. In 1846 his parents -removed to the United States and settled in Allegheny City, now a part -of Pittsburgh; and there he received an elementary education in the -public schools. At the age of fourteen he began his business career -in the office of the Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at -Altoona. In subsequent years he became Assistant to the Superintendent -of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, and Assistant to -the Superintendent of the Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania -Railroad. On February 22, 1861, he had charge of the train that -conveyed Abraham Lincoln from Harrisburg to Philadelphia, on the way -to the Presidential inaugural at Washington; and when the Confederates -invaded Pennsylvania before the Battle of Antietam he and his brother, -Robert Pitcairn, were sent by Colonel Thomas A. Scott, then Assistant -Secretary of War, to Chambersburg, to take charge of the train service -for the Government. He afterward became Assistant Superintendent of -the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Superintendent of -the Middle Division of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad. He built the -Imperial Refinery at Oil City; and while associated with H. L. Taylor -& Company, then the largest producers of oil in America, was engaged -in the production, refining and pipe line transportation of oil. He -was also a member of the firm of Vandergrift, Pitcairn & Company, and, -with Mr. Vandergrift, built and controlled the first pipe line for the -utilization of natural gas for manufacturing purposes and controlled -the Natural Gas Company, Limited. In 1883, Mr. Pitcairn, in association -with Captain John B. Ford and others, organized the Pittsburgh Plate -Glass Company, of the Board of Directors of which he was the Chairman -until 1897, when he purchased the interests of the Fords and became -the President of the Company; this office he resigned in 1905, again -becoming Chairman of the Board. The capital was originally $600,000; -this was increased at various times until it reached $2,750,000; later -it became $10,000,000 and finally, $22,750,000, all representing -real values. Mr. Pitcairn was also President of the C. H. Wheeler -Manufacturing Company, the Loyal Hanna Coal and Coke Company, and the -Pittsburgh Valve and Fittings Company, and a Director of the Central -National Bank of Philadelphia, the Columbia Chemical Company, the -Michigan Chemical Company, the Natural Gas Company of West Virginia, -and the Owosso Sugar Company. In these important business connections -and in many other fields of successful enterprise, he remained -unremittingly active until the autumn of 1915, when he suffered an -attack of pneumonia, from the after effects of which he died, at his -residence, “Cairnwood,” Bryn Athyn, Pa., on July 22, 1916. - -During the last ten years of his life, Mr. Pitcairn was to a great -extent the guiding spirit of the anti-vaccination movement in America. -It would be impossible to chronicle his activities in its behalf -without writing a voluminous history. In 1908 Mr. Pitcairn made -possible by his liberality a National Anti-Vaccination Conference, -which held its sessions in Griffith Hall, Philadelphia, on October -19, 20 and 21 of that year, and which led to the organization of The -Anti-Vaccination League of America. To _The Ladies’ Home Journal_ for -May, 1910, he contributed an article on “The Fallacy of Vaccination,” -which has reached several million readers. On December 1, 1911, he -was appointed by Governor Tener a member of the Pennsylvania State -Vaccination Commission, and in this capacity on March 12, 1913, -he rendered his report, which is a clear, scholarly and readable -contribution to the literature of anti-vaccination. - -Mr. Pitcairn’s personal attributes were the natural products of his -Scotch ancestry, his vigorous constitution, and his training in the -school of experience, matured by close association with many of -the most eminent minds of his time, extensive travels, and broad -culture. He had an innate love of freedom, and hatred of injustice and -oppression; and these high qualities of his character were enlivened by -a keen sense of humor and deepened by positive religious convictions. -As a practical man, his faculties of perception were clear, his -deductions were accurate, his judgment of values was correct, and he -was constant in the pursuit of his purposes. But above all, he was -a man of independence in thought, of moral courage in action, and -magnetic and winning in his personality, so that it has been well said -of him, as Sir Walter Scott said of Roderick, - - “_One blast upon his bugle horn - Were worth a thousand men._” - -The office of The Anti-Vaccination League of America is at 1420 -Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Porter F. Cope, Secretary; Mr. -C. Oscar Beasley, Vice-President. - -The office of The National Anti-Vaccination League, London, is at -25 Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S. W. Miss L. Loat, -Secretary. - - - - - PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT - TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY - VACCINATION - - PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT - EXPOSING AND ILLUSTRATING HORRORS - OF VACCINATION - - _By_ CHAS. M. HIGGINS - BROOKLYN, N. Y. - 1920 - - - - -PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT - - -TO THE PRESIDENT: - -This Illustrated Supplement is also specially addressed to the -President, to illustrate and demonstrate the numerous facts stated -in the preceding Petition and thus make the exposure of the Horrors, -Falsehoods and Fatalities of Vaccination so complete and demonstrative -that there can be no doubt that Public Right demands the immediate -abolishment of all Compulsory Vaccination, wherever it exists, as a -dangerous medical malpractice violating fundamental human rights. - - - - -PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT - - - - -HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED - - -HOW VACCINE VIRUS IS MADE AND HOW CATTLE AND MANKIND ARE DISEASED AND -KILLED BY IT - -[Illustration: FIG. 1. How cattle are diseased and tortured and Vaccine -Virus produced.] - -By referring to the cut on this page it will be seen that the living -calf or heifer is first bound down on a movable tilting table, and its -belly is shaved and on the clean, tender skin of a most tender part -one or two hundred cuts or scratches are then made, as shown, and into -these cuts or scratches is rubbed some “seed virus,” obtained directly -or indirectly from human smallpox, and other known or unknown human or -animal infections. But just what infections this “seed virus” contains -it seems impossible to find out, and it seems also that even the virus -makers themselves either do not know definitely what they are using -and making, or will not state. But they certainly should be compelled -by law to disclose fully the exact nature and origin of their viruses, -and to publish the same clearly and openly, and should also be rigidly -bonded to the State and the National Government for all damages to -animals or mankind caused by any disasters from their dangerous methods -and products. - -We can all now imagine, however, looking at the picture, Fig. 1, what -must be the tortures and suffering of the vaccinated heifer with one -or two hundred festering wounds on its belly, when we recall the great -suffering often caused to a child with a single wound on its arm, and -we can also imagine what must be the effect on the entire system of the -heifer itself--the future milk giver--in being thus saturated by the -septic poison from these multiple wounds, pustules or ulcers, and what -may be the permanent constitutional effect on the animal in developing -or fixing in it, perhaps for life, some of our most dangerous diseases, -such as tuberculosis, to which the bovine species is most subject, -and which it has been demonstrated is chiefly transmitted to man -through the milk of the cow. See 25th Report of U. S. Bureau of Animal -Industry, 1908, page 109. Whatever the effects on the system of the -heifer may be, it must be obvious, however, that to be thus saturated -by the virus of most dangerous diseases in hundreds of wounds over a -large part of its body certainly cannot be good, and it is obviously -a most barbarous and revolting kind of medical art, to say the least, -which thinks it must resort to such a wholesale method of diseasing -domestic animals first and mankind afterwards with the idea of -promoting general health; and how any one can conceive anything more -barbarous or revolting and dangerous than this method, we fail to see. - -Now after the calf has been inoculated as described, it is removed -from the table and allowed to stand on its feet in its stall securely -tied, and carefully fed and tended and allowed to remain thus for -about a week, with its one or two hundred festering wounds gradually -filling up with ulcerative or suppurative disease matter. At this -stage the calf is now again strapped on the table for the collection -of this accumulated disease matter. This fresh disease matter usually -contains the germs of many diseases known and unknown, including human -smallpox and cowpox or “vaccinia” and sometimes other germs even much -more dangerous and fatal than smallpox. This dangerous complex disease -matter is now squeezed and scraped out (imagine the torture of the -heifer as its one or two hundred wounds are successively scraped out!) -and this horrible material is then mixed with glycerine in order to -dilute it and make it go farther and more profitably, and also to kill -many dangerous germs which the complex virus is known to contain, and -to some of which, glycerine, in a certain percentage, is fatal, but -is not fatal to the germ of smallpox or vaccinia which it is aimed -to preserve in more or less virile condition. In addition to this -mixing with glycerine the virus is also subjected to a number of other -processes and tests, to endeavor to free it from all the dangerous and -fatal disease germs which it is known or is likely to contain, except -the smallpox germ, which is dangerous enough in itself. But it seems to -be impossible always to free the virus from such “foreign” germs, or to -guarantee that it will not produce at any time some dangerous or fatal -result when inoculated into the body of child or adult in the operation -of vaccination, as is proved by the two great epidemics of foot and -mouth disease in cattle, in 1902 and 1908, and the many human deaths -occurring after vaccinations reported every year throughout the country. - -After the virus has been taken from the vaccinated calves, it has been -the custom, in some cases, to free the diseased calves and let them -mix with healthy herds, and in other cases the vaccinated calves have -been butchered and their carcasses sold for human food! Either of -these methods of disposal of the diseased calves is obviously highly -dangerous to animal and human health and life, but whether these -dangerous practices are still used by any vaccine manufacturers or by -any of our Health Departments having vaccine stables and laboratories -we do not know; but this point should be carefully investigated by the -Government and these dangerous practices suppressed wherever they still -exist. - - -WHAT VACCINATION REALLY IS AND HOW PUS INFECTION, LOCKJAW, AND OTHER -DISEASES WORK TOGETHER IN VACCINATION WITH FATAL EFFECTS - -Every act of cowpox vaccination consists simply in making a wound, -scratch or puncture on the human body and then rubbing or injecting -into this wound a living or virulent disease virus of a more or less -complex nature, usually containing the actual virus of human smallpox -combined with animal cowpox and always the virus of pus infection or -septicemia in one or more of its many forms. Dr. M. J. Rosenau, one of -the best authorities in the country on vaccine virus, in his recent -work “Preventive Medicine and Hygiene” (1914), says on pages 6 and 7: -“Vaccine Virus always contains bacteria. There is no such thing as -aseptic virus. Staphylococci, streptococci, members of the hemorrhagic -septicemic group, and, in a few instances, tetanus spores and the gas -bacillus have been found in vaccine virus.” - -In Bulletin 12 of the U. S. Hygienic Laboratory, issued 1903, on -“Impurities in Vaccine Virus,” Dr. Rosenau tells us that “Vaccinia is -a specific disease, the cause of which _has not been determined_. We -are therefore _working somewhat in the dark_. We are _compelled_ to -vaccinate our patients with a virus containing micro-organisms other -than those causing vaccinia.” - -Listen to these most significant admissions by one of the highest -authorities on vaccine virus in the country--_working in the dark with -an undetermined disease_! _Compelled_ to vaccinate the people with -a virus containing many different disease germs other than the one -intended, which in itself is even yet _undetermined_ and in the _dark_! - -Does this look much like known, safe, certain and scientific medicine, -or is it merely only dangerous experiment and guesswork with deadly -infections on the human body? - -To show that vaccination is authoritatively recognized as essentially -equivalent to Pyæmia and Septicemia, I can cite the reports of the -Registrar General of England, which is the highest statistical -authority in the English-speaking world, which acknowledge many -vaccination deaths every year, and these deaths are now classified -under a subhead of Pyæmia-Septicemia which is numbered 20 in the -International List of Causes of Death, and the deaths under this -general head are divided and classified as follows: Pyæmia, No. 20A; -Septicemia, No. 20B; Vaccinia, No. 20C. Under this latter subhead, more -deaths of children are recorded from vaccination almost every year than -from smallpox itself! See pages 23-24. See also “Causes of Death,” -issued by U. S. Census Bureau, 1913, page 56, No. 20, where vaccination -is classed as a form of Purulent Infection and Septicemia. - -[Illustration: - - FIG. 2. Vaccination on the ninth day, showing a normal, - ordinary or mild type. Note here that both the central sore or - vaccine pustule and the surrounding inflammation or “areola” - present, even in this mild or ordinary form, clearly a case of - septicemic or pus infection or blood poisoning pure and simple. -] - -In Fig. 2 annexed I now give a photograph of an ordinary “successful” -or normal vaccination on the ninth day after inoculation, showing -the fully developed or pustular stage of a “mild” or “safe” type of -vaccination from which no serious harm or “complication” is supposed -to result. It will be noted, however, that even this normal form of -vaccination is a perfectly typical case of pus infection, septicemia -or blood poisoning on a small or mild scale. The vaccination wound on -the arm, as will be seen, takes the typical form of a large irregular -pustule or small abscess about one inch in diameter, more or less, -with a depressed center and raised margin like a smallpox pustule, and -this pustule is full and tense with a collection of pus or suppurative -disease matter which, of course, always contains the germs of pus -infection, inflammation and suppuration in one or more varieties -which usually include, as Dr. Rosenau has stated, the two most common -and dangerous pus germs, known as the “staphylococcus” and the -“streptococcus.” You will also note that around the big pustule there -is a diffuse rash or inflammation known as the “areola” which goes -more or less deep in the flesh and extends more or less over the arm -according to the severity of the case, and is similar to or identical -with Erysipelas. The extent and severity of both the pustule and the -rash vary more or less in every case, but in strong and healthy persons -not very susceptible to the vaccine poison the pustule and areola -usually show no greater extent or severity than that seen in Fig. 2. I -will here state that this Fig. 2, as well as the following Figs. 3, 4 -and 6, are all taken by permission from “Acute Contagious Diseases,” by -Drs. Welch and Schamberg of Philadelphia, published by Lea Brothers in -1905, which is a high authority on pro-vaccination, and one of the most -complete works on smallpox and vaccination published. - -[Illustration: FIG. 3. Vaccinal Ulcer.] - -In Fig. 3 is shown a bad case of vaccination which takes the form of -a spreading ulcer, showing a severe pus infection, being the exact -condition required for lockjaw to develop if its germ is already within -the body of the vaccinated person or if it gets into the wound in any -way whatever from the surroundings of the person or from the vaccine -virus itself. See on this point my special pamphlet “Vaccination and -Lockjaw”; see also page 104 in this Supplement. - -[Illustration: FIG. 4. Multiple Vaccinations spread by finger-nails.] - -Fig. 4 gives the picture of a nurse having several vaccine pustules -on the face caused by being scratched by a freshly vaccinated child, -showing the virulently infectious nature of vaccination as being -a septicemic or pus infection, pure and simple, which is not only -highly dangerous in itself but in which the terrible lockjaw and other -diseases find essential culture conditions for their deadly work when -acting as double or “mixed infections.” - -[Illustration: - - FIG. 5. Photograph of a little English baby two months old, - taken after death, killed by vaccination in thirty-six days. - This is a very severe and frequent form of fatal vaccination - known as “Generalized Vaccinia,” where the vaccine sore spreads - all over the body in a series of big confluent pustules very - like confluent smallpox, being thus clearly an aggravated case - of pus infection and septicemia. -] - -Sometimes the vaccination sore spreads all over the body like a bad -case of confluent smallpox, as shown in Fig. 5, which shows the case -of a little English baby two months old who was killed, according to -death certificate, in thirty-six days after vaccination by this form -of general eruption which is known as “Generalized Vaccinia.” I have -obtained this photograph from the parents of the child through my -London Office, with the death certificate, and have been informed that -the eruption on the covered parts of the body was even worse and more -confluent than that on the exposed face and arm. The name of the child -was Mona Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson of Burnley, England, -and the date of death was August 4, 1908. - -[Illustration: - - FIG. 6. Vaccination on the tenth day, showing a severe type - of infection in a little child. Note wide-spread inflammation - over the arm at the “areola” around the vaccine pustule and the - bad eruption on the face which sometimes spreads all over the - body. This is, of course, a clear case of pus infection and - septicemia in which lockjaw, meningitis, pneumonia, or other - diseases may find their essential conditions for producing - their deadly work in killing the child as a direct or indirect - result of the vaccination and the double infection caused by it. -] - -In Fig. 6, also taken from the work of Drs. Welch and Schamberg, is -shown the photograph of a vaccinated boy, illustrating a severe form of -vaccination which is very common in susceptible children. In this case -the pustule is not much different from Fig. 2, but the areola is very -severe and like erysipelas and has spread over a large part of the arm -and up to the shoulder, indicating a severe infection of the system -with a more extensive and serious blood poisoning which is further -aggravated by a bad rash of pimples which has broken out upon the face -and about the mouth like the first form of the eruption in smallpox. -This eruption may be in the form of papules, vesicles or pustules, or -may go through the three forms successively, as in smallpox, or abort -at any of these stages; and these eruptions, either of the pimples -or the areola, may sometimes extend over a large part of or even over -the entire body and quickly kill the child by general blood poisoning -and exhaustion. Where the external or skin eruptions are not very -bad, however, the child usually recovers, with or without permanent -constitutional injury. The worst cases of vaccinal infection are -not, however, those which have external skin eruptions but in which -there is little or no indication externally of purulent infection, -except possibly at the sore itself, and in which the suppuration or -infection extends _inwardly_ and attacks one or more of the internal -organs and kills by general internal suppuration known as “Pyæmia” or -“Septicemia,” which may show itself by serious suppurations in lungs, -bronchi, pleura, heart, brain or spine, or in the digestive or other -organs. Thus by its very extensiveness this blood poisoning may give -to the falsifying vaccinator ample and plausible excuse to make a -false and deceptive report on the death of the vaccinated child and -to deny and conceal the primary responsibility of vaccination for the -infection and death by reporting in death certificate or autopsy that -the child died from one or other of the terminal diseases or results -of the vaccine infection, such as “Pneumonia,” “Broncho-Pneumonia,” -“Pleurisy,” “Meningitis” or “Endocarditis,” or even perhaps by some -form of intestinal inflammation and obstruction which, with a whole -series of other complications, may of course also result from the -vaccinal septicemia in its general riot of infection throughout the -whole system. And any one of these several consequent or terminal -diseases can be plausibly set down by the falsifying vaccinist as the -true and only cause of death, without any mention whatever of the -original cause in the primary infection of the vaccination, which -will thus be completely ignored and brazenly denied and concealed. -Such a death certificate or autopsy report concealing and denying the -original infection of vaccination is, sad to say, very common, and is, -of course, just about as true and honest and acceptable as if some -murderer should report on his own homicidal act that the bullet which -he shot into the victim’s body did not really kill the victim, but -that it was purely the stoppage of the man’s defective heart that -actually killed him! Or, to give another example, that it was the fatal -infection of lockjaw which the careless victim himself, or his careless -nurse, allowed to get into the harmless bullet wound, that was really -responsible for the death and not the innocent bullet that was fired -into the victim’s body! - - -DISEASES FOUND IN OR CAUSED BY VACCINE VIRUS - -The diseases which have been found or proved to exist in vaccine virus -are as follows: - -FIRST: Tetanus or Lockjaw, one of the most deadly and rapid in its -action. For instances of Lockjaw germs in vaccine virus, see Journal -Medical Research, Boston, Mass., May, 1902. See also page 105 in this -Supplement, which shows how vaccination can cause Lockjaw, whether the -germs are in the virus or not. - -SECOND: Different forms of the germs of “Sepsis” which produce the -dangerous and often fatal festering sores, abscesses and ulcers of -different kinds. See Bulletin 12, U. S. Hygienic Laboratory, 1903. - -THIRD: Actinomycosis or “Lumpy Jaw.” This produces a terrible festering -tumor in the bones or tissues of the head, brain, or spine, something -like the effects of either Cancer, Tuberculosis, or Meningitis, and may -be confounded therewith; and its germs have often been found in vaccine -virus. See Journal Medical Research, Boston, Mass., January, 1904. - -FOURTH: Infantile Paralysis. There is strong evidence that this -mysterious and most fatal disease may also sometimes be caused by -vaccination, as a direct or indirect result. See pages 145 to 162 -herein taken from Mr. Loyster’s Pamphlet. See also page 13 in the -English translation of a German work on Paralysis by Dr. Oskar Vulpius -(Wm. Wood & Co., New York, 1912), which admits that vaccination is one -of the causes of Infantile Paralysis. - -FIFTH AND SIXTH: Tuberculosis and Cancer. There has been a strong -conviction growing for some years past among close students of -vaccination, both within and without the medical profession, that -the practice of wide-spread inoculation of the population with known -and unknown ulcerative diseases or pus infections such as found in -vaccine virus is probably responsible for the great increase in two of -the worst and most fatal ulcerative diseases of modern times, viz., -Tuberculosis and Cancer. The former causes about fourteen thousand -deaths every year in New York State, and the latter about eight -thousand deaths, regularly and steadily every year, compared to which -the few annual deaths from smallpox are a mere bagatelle or like a -microscopic flea-bite on the mortality lists. - -There has long been supposed to be some relation between Cancer and -vaccination, because the same microbial germ or form has been found -in the virus or lesions of both diseases, and also in smallpox and -syphilis, known as “vaccine bodies.” See the Report of the N. Y. -State Cancer Laboratory for 1902 and 1903, pages 10 and 78. Another -reason for this supposed relationship is that these two of our most -terrible and fatal diseases seem to have increased steadily since -the introduction of inoculation and vaccination and are now common -in countries which are most vaccinated, such as Japan and Germany. I -will give a striking example of this fact here, in one instance which -will suffice for the present, viz.: In Japan, which is one of the most -extensively vaccinated countries in the world, there is one of the -highest death-rates from Tuberculosis known, whereas in our own State -of Utah, where all compulsory vaccination is prohibited by a State -law, there is the lowest death-rate from tuberculosis in the United -States! See U. S. Mortality Statistics, 1913, page 28. So important has -this subject been getting for some years past that many investigators -are now studying it and a prominent magazine has been considering the -publication of a series of articles by some eminent doctors to show the -relationship or influence of vaccination on cancer and tuberculosis, -which some of these doctors claim to have already demonstrated. - -Compulsory vaccination has been most rigid on the whole population in -Germany and Japan for many years past, and it has long been known that -Germany, like Japan, has had a very high death-rate from tuberculosis, -which has been much increased since the Great War. Count von Brockdorff -Rantzau, head of the German Peace Delegation, acknowledged this grim -fact after receiving a copy of the Peace Treaty at Versailles on May -7, 1919, by saying: “Germany now is _the home_ of tuberculosis.” This -significant fact is reported in the _New York Herald_ of May 8, 1919. - -The influence of vaccination in causing, aggravating or increasing -tuberculosis and other diseases is now well recognized by high medical -authorities. For example: In one of the most recent medical works it -is distinctly admitted that vaccination influences or aggravates other -diseases, and that “a quiescent malady may be lighted into activity by -vaccination.” And it is also here stated that this activating effect of -vaccination occurs particularly in syphilis and in tuberculosis, two of -the most common and dangerous diseases of the human race! See Osler’s -“Principles and Practice of Medicine,” 8th Edition, 1918, page 330. -This is, surely, a tremendous admission of the very dangerous effects -of vaccination from one of the latest and highest medical authorities -of to-day, and is sufficient, in itself, to condemn all compulsory -vaccination. - -SEVENTH: Foot and Mouth Disease of Cattle. This disease is a form of -“cowpox” and has been frequently transmitted by vaccination to both man -and beast, and, most horrible to say, it is notorious that the great -epidemics of this terrible cow disease in 1902 and 1908 were caused by -the manufacture of vaccine virus, and the last or greatest of these -epidemics, of 1914 and 1915, is believed also to be due to vaccination, -although not yet clearly proved. See Year Book of U. S. Department of -Agriculture for 1914, page 20. See also reports of U. S. Bureau of -Animal Industry for 1902 and 1908. These several epidemics have caused -the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle and other domestic -animals, at a loss of many millions of dollars to the Government and -people of the United States. - -[Illustration: FIG. 7. Cow suffering from Foot and Mouth Disease caused -by Vaccination.] - -Fig. 7 shows a cow suffering with foot and mouth disease, which is -a kind of virulent cowpox, very infectious and contagious, conveyed -by vaccination, and transmissible to man and beast. Note the badly -ulcerated and dribbling mouth of the cow. Ulcerations also affect -the feet, and eruptions of vesicles break out in successive crops on -different parts of the body, particularly on teats and udder, on lips -and nostrils, and in the mouth and throat. This picture is taken from -the Report of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry for 1902, on the bad -epidemic in the New England States in that year, where, in several -instances, this dangerous cow disease was conveyed to human subjects -through vaccination, resulting in horrible eruptions and agonizing -death, as I will show further on at pages 110 and 112. - -[Illustration: FIG. 8. Oxen with Foot and Mouth Disease caused by -Vaccination.] - -Fig. 8 is taken from the same Report for 1902 previously mentioned and -shows a yoke of oxen suffering with the foot and mouth disease and -ready to be killed and buried to suppress the infection. Note the sore -and gaping mouths of the oxen and their sore and swollen feet. They are -shown standing in the bottom of a deep trench into which they have been -driven and where they will be shot; their bodies will then be covered -with quicklime and finally buried under six feet of earth to destroy -the infection. - -[Illustration: FIG. 8½. Udder and teats of a cow affected with Foot and -Mouth Disease. Note characteristic eruptions on teats.] - -Fig. 8½ is a view of the hind quarters of a cow suffering with foot and -mouth disease and showing the udder and teats with the characteristic -eruption of this disease. Compare this eruption with the human -eruptions in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 and 13. This illustration is taken -from Farmers’ Bulletin No. 666, on the foot and mouth disease, issued -by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1915. Fig. 9 shows the awful -“Vaccine Holocaust.” See page 96. - -[Illustration: FIG. 9. The Vaccine Holocaust. Look at this picture and -read next page.] - - THE VACCINE HOLOCAUST - - WHOLESALE INFECTION, SLAUGHTER AND SACRIFICE OF CATTLE CAUSED - BY VACCINATION - - _From Pamphlet “Open Your Eyes” by Chas. M. Higgins--1912_ - - The photograph on preceding page is taken from the Report of - the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry for 1902 on the great - epidemic of Cattle Plague, or Foot and Mouth Disease, in - Massachusetts in 1902, caused by vaccine virus, which cost - the U. S. Government $130,000 to suppress and caused the - slaughter of 4316 animals. In this impressive picture you - will note the bodies of hundreds of cattle resting on a pile - of fire-wood in a trench on the snow covered ground ready for - burning to destroy the infection caused by the vaccine virus. - Look carefully, as the picture is much reduced, and you will - see a man at the left in the trench setting fire to the pile. - Note the horns, heads, and hoofs of the cattle bristling from - all sides of the funeral pile. Soon you will see the smoke of - sacrifice rise from these victims of vaccination on the altar - of Medical Barbarism--a Holocaust to the Demon Vaccine! - - In 1908 there was a second epidemic of the same disease which - raged in several States, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Maryland - and New York, caused by the vaccine virus used by two of the - largest manufacturers of vaccine virus in the United States. - (See Report of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry for 1908.) - In this second epidemic 3636 animals were slaughtered at a cost - to the U. S. Government of $300,000. In both epidemics there - occurred outbreaks of similar disease among vaccinated persons - in the infected States, from which many deaths resulted. What - do you now think of any medical scheme for the alleged benefit - of “public health” which is capable of causing such disasters - to animal and human life as this peculiar and extraordinary - scheme of bovine vaccination? Do you think, Mr. President, that - any medical device capable of causing such disasters should - be made compulsory by law, in our Army or Navy, on our public - school children or on any one else in any shape or form? And - do you not think that all compulsion should be now abolished - and Medical Freedom from inflicted disease established as an - absolute American and Hygienic Right? - -Fig. 10 shows a map of the second epidemic of foot and mouth disease -in 1908, taken from the Report of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry -for 1908. The shaded counties in the four States of Michigan, New -York, Pennsylvania and Maryland show where the epidemic of that year -spread and how it originated and travelled. This epidemic was caused -by manufacturers of vaccine virus and originated from the virus -of two large American manufacturers, one in Detroit, the other in -Philadelphia. This strain of virus is said to have come originally from -Japan, the much-vaccinated country, and contained the infection of foot -and mouth disease, and it was used apparently for years without any -knowledge that it carried this dangerous disease, which was probably -conveyed to many vaccinated children and adults in that time with -a horrible eruptive effect in many cases,--how many will never be -known. This infection of the vaccine virus was not known or discovered -until 1908 because the Philadelphia company killed their calves after -getting the virus from them and thus prevented the vaccinated calves -from mixing with and infecting healthy cattle, but confined the -infection to vaccinated human beings. In 1908, however, the Detroit -company got some of this “seed virus” from the Philadelphia company to -“strengthen” their product. The Detroit method was not to finally kill -the vaccinated calves, but to hire unvaccinated calves from farmers or -stock dealers and after they were infected, and the virus taken from -them, to return the calves to the farmers or stockmen, where they thus -mixed with healthy cattle which were afterwards shipped to different -States and thus spread the great plague of foot and mouth disease in -that year, as shown by the official map annexed and by the official -reports cited below. - -[Illustration: FIG. 10. Map of Epidemic of 1908 caused by Vaccine -Virus.] - - -OFFICIAL REPORTS PROVING VACCINATION TO BE THE CAUSE OF FOOT AND MOUTH -DISEASE - -For expert proof that vaccination is responsible for epidemics of Foot -and Mouth Disease, see the annual reports of the U. S. Bureau of Animal -Industry, already cited, for 1902 and 1908, and also the Year Book -of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1914, page 21. See also -Farmers’ Bulletin No. 666, issued by the Department of Agriculture. See -particularly the first official report on the epidemics of Foot and -Mouth Disease in 1902 and 1908, issued by the U. S. Bureau of Animal -Industry. This first report is not now in print but is on record in the -Bureau and it was first given to the press and released for publication -on May 17, 1909; and from a copy of this report obtained from the said -Bureau, I now give the following extracts which will clearly show that -it was the vaccine virus used by two of our largest manufacturers -of virus in the United States that was responsible for causing the -epidemic of foot and mouth disease in 1908, and was also probably the -cause of the previous epidemic of the same disease in 1902 and 1903. - - -“COPY OF STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE PRESS BY THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY, -U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION, MAY 17, 1909 - - “ORIGIN OF THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE - - “The recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Michigan, - New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland started from calves used - in the propagation of smallpox vaccine virus which had been - contaminated with the virus of foot and mouth disease, and the - contaminated strain of vaccine originally came from a foreign - country. - - “The main facts regarding the outbreak ... are as follows: - The H. K. Mulford Company of Glen Olden, Pa., imported - certain smallpox vaccine virus which was contaminated with - the infection of foot and mouth disease. In May, 1908, some - vaccine of this strain was procured by Parke, Davis & Co. of - Detroit. Calves used by the latter firm in propagating vaccine - were sent, October 16, to the Detroit stock yards and thence - on the same day to a farm near Detroit. On October 20, three - carloads of cattle from points in Michigan reached the Detroit - stock yards and were put into the pens that had been occupied - by the vaccine calves four days previously. Some were sold - for slaughter at Detroit, while the remainder were shipped to - Buffalo and some were reshipped to Danville and Watsontown, - Pa., where the disease was first observed some days later. The - disease spread to various places in Pennsylvania and New York - and to one locality in Maryland. [See Map, page 98.] - - “Three separate series of experiments were made by Doctors - Mohler and Rosenau. Young cattle and sheep were inoculated with - vaccine virus obtained from both firms. Foot and mouth disease - was produced in experimental animals by the use of vaccine of - the same strain obtained from both sources, while other strains - of vaccine tested gave negative results. The disease was also - transmitted from one animal to another through several series, - in two instances by natural modes of infection. - - “The investigation also indicates that the outbreaks of foot - and mouth disease in New England in 1902-3 were probably due - to contaminated vaccine of Japanese origin from the Mulford - Company.... - - “The fact that the infection was present in the vaccine virus - of the Mulford Company for so long a period, but was not - transmitted to outside cattle, was doubtless due to this firm’s - practice of killing its calves after taking the vaccine virus. - Parke, Davis & Co., on the other hand, rented their calves and - placed them again on the market a short time after the vaccine - material was taken. In this way the disease spread from the - vaccine stables of Parke, Davis & Co., but not from those of - the Mulford Company, although it was the vaccine virus from the - latter establishment that infected the former’s cattle.... - - “As soon as the facts regarding the contamination of vaccine - became known, the licenses of the two firms involved were - at once suspended, all the suspected vaccine virus on hand - was destroyed and that upon the market withdrawn, and other - measures of a radical nature were taken. The report commends - the intelligent and prompt coöperation of the Mulford Company - and Parke, Davis & Co. in accomplishing this end. After an - examination of every strain of vaccine upon the market, it is - stated that there is now (1909) upon the market no vaccine - contaminated with the virus of foot and mouth disease. - Regulations have been formulated with a view to preventing - hereafter the propagation of contaminated vaccine virus. No - instance of the transmission of foot and mouth disease to man - through vaccine virus has been recorded, and it is considered - doubtful, in view of the tests made, if it is possible to - reproduce the disease in him by the cutaneous inoculation - commonly used in the process of vaccination.” - - -AN OFFICIAL DOUBT DISPROVED - -It will be noted that in the official report just quoted there is no -question of the responsibility of vaccine virus for causing the deadly -plague of foot and mouth disease in cattle and other domestic animals -and that two or more extensive and deadly epidemics in animals have -been thus caused by the virus of certain manufacturers, involving -the destruction of thousands of animals and the loss of millions of -dollars to the Government and people of the United States! It will also -be noted, however, that at the end of this report there is a guarded -or tentative statement that no instance of the transmission of foot -and mouth disease to human subjects by vaccination is known or “has -been recorded”; and that there is some doubt that this disease can be -conveyed to man by skin inoculation only, as in vaccination, although -it is clear that it can be and has been surely conveyed to domestic -animals by such inoculation! It is admitted in later reports that the -disease can be conveyed to animals or man by ordinary skin inoculation -or scarification provided some blood is drawn in the operation, which -is, of course, a common occurrence in ordinary vaccination. This rather -doubtful statement as to infection in man by ordinary vaccination I -will therefore prove to be an evident error and will give, further on, -the most convincing proof that foot and mouth disease--or what is in -every way equivalent to and identical with it--is frequently conveyed -to mankind by vaccination, with fatal effect! - - -A BIG PRICE TO PAY FOR VACCINATION - -To suppress the epidemic of 1902, as already shown, 4,316 animals were -slaughtered by the U. S. Government at a cost of $130,000; and in the -epidemic of 1908 the Government slaughtered 3,636 animals at a cost of -$300,000. The last or recent epidemic, which has been the worst of all, -extended from 1914 to 1916, invaded twenty-three States and involved -the destruction of 172,222 animals, chiefly swine, cattle and sheep, in -the order stated. The cost of this destruction amounted to a loss of -over nine millions of dollars, half of which was paid by the National -Government and half by the States! See the report of the Chief of the -U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry for 1916. This is surely a big price -to pay for vaccination, which was most probably the cause of this last -and greatest epidemic, as it was proved to be the cause of the previous -epidemics of 1908 and 1902! And at this point it should be remembered -that this last epidemic of 1914 to 1916 originated in the same State of -Michigan where one of the largest vaccine factories in the country is -located and from which factory the epidemic of 1908 was proved to have -originated! - - -EPIDEMICS OF SMALLPOX PROBABLY CAUSED BY VACCINATION AND FOOT AND MOUTH -DISEASE - -An interesting and significant fact in relation to the epidemic of -1908 is that the lake counties of New York where the foot and mouth -disease prevailed in 1908, as shown on the map in Fig. 10, are the same -counties where the greatest outbreaks of smallpox occurred in 1913 and -1914, and may possibly have had some relation to the previous epidemic -of virulent cowpox or foot and mouth disease in 1908 and to the last -epidemic of this disease in 1914 to 1916. This point seems to be worthy -of careful investigation, to say the least, because I am convinced -that so-called “Foot and Mouth Disease” may be really a virulent form -of “Cowpox” or a mongrel form of smallpox and may sometimes convey -to mankind what may actually be, or be mistaken for, a mild form of -smallpox, such as prevailed in the lake counties of New York in 1914, -including the City of Niagara Falls. - - -CATTLE EPIDEMICS COMMON IN VACCINATED COUNTRIES - -Now these epidemics of foot and mouth disease in cattle seem to be no -uncommon thing, and, what is very significant, they seem to be very -common, severe, and almost constant in countries where vaccination -is very extensive and rigid, such as in Germany and also in Japan, -where German ideas have been copied and where, of course, the cattle -are extensively diseased to produce this vile disease stuff, known -as vaccine virus; and it must be here noted that it was from much -vaccinated Japan that the seed virus came which caused our great -epidemics of 1902 and 1908. - -The Report of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1908, page 381, -shows that _in one year_, in Germany alone, over _800,000 cattle -and other animals_ were infected by Foot and Mouth Disease. And it -seems probable that this extensive infection of cattle may have come -originally from the general and wide-spread vaccination used in Germany. - -Now so far as we know the parties responsible for causing the great -damage in our two great epidemics of foot and mouth disease have as yet -made no legal recompense to the National or State Governments, or to -the private individuals aggrieved, for which damage they would appear -to be clearly liable. - -Consider for a moment the audacious recklessness and negligence -in infecting cattle in hundreds of wounds on the body with a most -infectious disease, or combination of diseases, commonly and falsely -represented as harmless, and afterwards turning these dangerously -infected animals loose among healthy herds! But this is only one of -the audacious acts and dangerous results against public right, health, -and safety occurring constantly from the deadly medical barbarism -of compulsory vaccination, which the Government would do well to -investigate and correct immediately. And the best way to begin this -correction is to ABOLISH ALL COMPULSORY VACCINATION. - -I will show further on how foot and mouth disease is frequently -conveyed to mankind by vaccination, with awful and fatal effects, but -in the meantime I will first show how deaths from lockjaw are one of -the most common and fatal results of vaccination. - - -HOW LOCKJAW IS CAUSED BY VACCINATION AND HOW THIS TRUTH IS DENIED AND -CONCEALED BY VACCINATORS - -This dreadful and most fatal disease known as “Tetanus” or Lockjaw -is such a common result of vaccination, and the consequential and -responsible relation of vaccination thereto is so shamefully denied and -concealed by vaccinators, that a special chapter seems to be necessary -here to give the real truth on this important point. - -In my previous pamphlet “Vaccination and Lockjaw” I have treated -this subject exhaustively and now refer thereto for full facts and -authorities, but I will give an outline of the subject here which will -cover the main facts in the case. - -One of the most common and false defences of the vaccinators on this -point is the shameful fallacy and falsehood that if the lockjaw -germs are not found in the virus itself, therefore vaccination with -this virus cannot cause lockjaw in the vaccinated person or be held -responsible for it. This is, substantially, the logic or implication -in one of our latest Government reports on this subject by Dr. J. F. -Anderson, entitled “Post Vaccination Tetanus,” which title means in -plain English, _Lockjaw after Vaccination_, published in the U. S. -Health Reports of July 16, 1915. - -In this report the author, who is an expert on vaccines, practically -excuses vaccination for all blame for lockjaw deaths where the lockjaw -germs do not exist, or cannot be proved to exist in the vaccine virus -itself!... After making this half truthful and misleading report -favorable to vaccination, the author, according to the statement of a -Washington newspaper, resigned from the employ of the U. S. Government -at a salary reported as $4,500 per year and entered the employ of one -of the biggest manufacturers of vaccine virus and serums in the country -at the alleged enormous salary of $25,000 per year! - -For a more truthful and accurate report showing how lockjaw germs are -widely diffused and how they absolutely depend on a pus infection, like -the vaccination sore, or its equivalent, for their “activation” and -fatal effects, as now explained here, see Studies of Dr. Francis, in -Bulletin No. 95, U. S. Hygienic Laboratory, August, 1914. - - -LOCKJAW MAY BE CAUSED BY VACCINATION WHETHER THE GERMS ARE IN THE VIRUS -OR NOT - -The real truth in this matter is, therefore, that there are at least -four distinct ways in which vaccination can cause death from lockjaw: - -_First_: The lockjaw germs may be in the virus itself and be inoculated -directly into the vaccination wound at the moment of vaccination. -And, despite Dr. Anderson’s negative tests, the possibility of this -direct infection can exist at any time, as admitted by some of our -best authorities, already quoted, on account of the many ways in which -the infection can enter the virus, from the vaccinated calf itself and -otherwise, and also because its presence cannot always be proved by -tests, although known to be in the virus. The lockjaw germ normally -dwells in and issues from the digestive organs of domestic animals and -is therefore found in manure and garden soil and on the hide and hair -of animals and hence may be in the body of the vaccinated calf itself -from which the virus is produced! - -_Second_: The lockjaw germ, which is widely distributed in some -localities, may exist on the person of the vaccinator or the vaccinated -at the time of vaccination and be then introduced into the wound with -the virus, and the two infections may thus develop together, the pus -infection in the wound being necessary to “activate” the lockjaw germs -as already shown. - -_Third_: The lockjaw germ may enter the vaccination wound and grow in -its pus secretion at any time during its suppurating stage by chance -scratching, abrasion or absorption, and thus develop its awful toxin -with fatal effect on the vaccinated victim. - -_Fourth_: The lockjaw germ may already exist within the body when the -vaccination is performed, and is known to frequently exist as a natural -tenant or denizen of the healthy human body, in nearly one-quarter of -the human race! This is also the case with several other disease germs. -In such cases the indwelling lockjaw germ will remain entirely inert, -dormant and harmless in the body unless some condition necessary to -its “activation” or growth is presented, such as that of a suppurating -sore, ulcer, abscess or wound, anywhere within or upon the body, the -pus-infected or suppurating vaccination sore being, of course, the -ideal condition for the activation and growth of the fatal lockjaw -infection, as already shown; and this is probably the most common and -dangerous way in which vaccination can cause death from lockjaw and -other diseases, and the greatest care in the preparation of the virus -itself cannot avoid this danger! - -It will therefore be seen that in every one of these instances the -vaccination wound or sore itself is the essential cause or condition of -the lockjaw infection, which could not or would not exist without this -condition, or its equivalent, and hence it is nothing but a dastardly -evasion and perversion of medical truth and honesty to try to show -that, because the lockjaw germ is not in the virus at the moment of -vaccination, or that it gets into the wound afterwards through some -natural chance or condition to which the human body is constantly -subjected, therefore the act of vaccination is not responsible for the -resulting death from lockjaw. - - -“ASSASSINATION OF THE BLOOD” MUST BE STOPPED - -It is time, therefore, that this outrageously dishonest medical -quibble as to the exact source of infection in vaccinal lockjaw was -silenced once for all. What difference does it make to the victim -of this terribly fatal disease whether the lockjaw germ was in the -virus itself or in or on the victim’s own body, when in either case -the act of vaccination, _per se_ and _ab initio_, is the cause of -the infection becoming active and fatal in the human body? A logic -which would contend otherwise would free the assassins of Presidents -Garfield and McKinley from the charge of murder because, forsooth, -the fatal septic infection which killed these victims was not on the -murderous bullets when they were fired into their bodies, but entered -the wounds afterwards through their own carelessness! This is exactly -the false and murderous logic that is constantly used by our well-paid -professional apologists for vaccination and by their abject dupes, our -befooled editors, who brazenly or ignorantly use it in defense of this -gross medical malpractice of forcing a most dangerous form of disease -and blood infection on healthy and helpless children and adults, which -a great English doctor, James J. Garth Wilkinson, so truly calls the -“Assassination of the Blood” in the following glowing words, written -many years ago, but which convey a stinging rebuke to men of his own -great profession in this matter to-day: “This is blood assassination, -and like a murderer’s life. The point, however, here is that this -amazing act is the homicidal insanity of a whole profession.” See “On -Human Science, Good and Evil,” Lippincott, Phila., 1876, page 35. - - -VACCINATION AND LOCKJAW MORE “RISKY” AND DEADLY THAN SMALLPOX - -As a matter of cold fact, therefore, these “Assassins of the Blood,” -vaccination and lockjaw, offer a far greater risk and danger to human -health and life than natural smallpox itself, and if we should fear -anything for ourselves or our children it should be vaccination and -lockjaw instead of smallpox, of which we stand in far less danger than -of being struck by lightning, whereas lockjaw is a steady and constant -danger thirty times greater than smallpox, as the following comparative -list of deaths from Smallpox, Lightning and Lockjaw in the State of -New York will readily show. This list is taken from the reports of our -State Department of Health for the seven years from 1910 to 1916, as -follows: - - Smallpox Lightning Lockjaw - - 1910 7 deaths 16 deaths 94 deaths - 1911 3 ” 30 ” 114 ” - 1912 4 ” 21 ” 97 ” - 1913 1 ” 13 ” 111 ” - 1914 3 ” 33 ” 115 ” - 1915 0 ” 18 ” 90 ” - 1916 3 ” 19 ” 69 ” - -- -- --- - Totals 21 150 690 - -It will be noted that the ordinary danger from smallpox is so actually -and relatively insignificant here that it is regularly six to eight -times less than that of being struck by lightning, and that the danger -from lockjaw of all kinds is so great and constant that it is about -thirty times greater than that from smallpox, whereas vaccinal lockjaw, -which is about ten per cent. of all lockjaw deaths, is at least three -times more dangerous by actual frequency of occurrence than natural -smallpox! - - -THE HORROR OF HORRORS, CATTLE PLAGUE OR FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, CAUSED -IN MANKIND BY VACCINATION. MEDICAL IGNORANCE ON THIS POINT SCORED - -I have already exposed the deadly epidemics of virulent cowpox or foot -and mouth disease in cattle and domestic animals caused by vaccination. -I now come to expose one of the most shocking results of vaccination -yet disclosed, viz.: the transmission of this horrible cow disease to -the human subject. This disease, as a vaccinal result, in mankind, is -much more common and fatal than has been generally supposed, and every -effort seems to have been made by our vaccinators and health officers -to deny and conceal the facts in this matter from the public, which -is easily accomplished because of the great general ignorance of all -vaccination matters not only by the mass of the people but by the mass -of the medical profession itself. For example, the medical profession -does not seem to be yet aware of the fact that the severe skin and -general disease called “Pemphigus” in man is identical with foot -and mouth disease in cattle, nor do they seem to be generally aware -of the fact that “Pemphigus” is frequently conveyed by “Cowpox” or -vaccination, and they seem to be equally ignorant of the notorious fact -that certain makes of vaccine virus had been infected for years with -foot and mouth disease, and conveyed this disease in epidemic and fatal -form to animals and mankind. Neither do they seem to be aware of the -fact that experience now indicates that Foot and Mouth disease may be -ultimately proved to be only a virulent form of “Cowpox” or a mongrel -form of Smallpox to which ordinary Cowpox or “Vaccinia” may degenerate -at any time like a mild domestic dog suddenly changing, in an attack of -Rabies, to a mad, dangerous, and deadly distributor of disease. - -To show that the close relation, if not the identity, of vaccination -with Smallpox and Foot and Mouth Disease is now recognized by -special students of this subject, I may here quote from the speech -of Senator Money of Mississippi in the U. S. Senate, February 25, -1909, as reported in the _Congressional Record_, in the debate on the -Agricultural Appropriation Bill, concerning the epidemic of Foot and -Mouth Disease in 1908, as follows: - - “This is an important question with respect to cattle, but - it is very much more important to the human beings of this - country. These vaccine points are the things with which we - vaccinate the children of this country against smallpox. It has - been found that it sometimes makes them immune from smallpox, - but gives them the foot and mouth disease, which is just about - as bad. - - “The trouble about the matter is that we can not in the United - States produce vaccine for any length of time, for the reason - that this is not a pox country. It is not the home of the - disease. We have to import it from abroad, and consequently - the vaccine points that are produced upon the spot which is the - habitat of this particular disease are the only ones that will - retain the virus in sufficient strength to enable it to render - the human being vaccinated immune from smallpox. Consequently - we can not, as has been expected by a great many people, raise - our own vaccine points, because they lose their power for - immunity against smallpox. We now run the constant danger that - has been manifested very unpleasantly in several localities - of vaccinating children and grown people with these imported - vaccine points and communicating the foot and mouth disease, - which is just about as bad as the smallpox.” - -We will now show in the following pages and illustrations how Foot and -Mouth Disease is conveyed to mankind in vaccination and that it is not -only as bad as smallpox, as Senator Money has stated, but much worse. - -[Illustration: FIG. 11. Horrible Case of Cowpox in a Woman. - - _Epidemic of 1902._ Back view of a woman suffering from Foot - and Mouth Disease, or Virulent Cowpox, caused by Vaccination. - Photograph shows final stages of eruption and was taken a - short while before death. Note large blotches all over body - caused by several vesicles running together, then breaking and - excoriating, leaving large raw sores like big scalds or burns. -] - -Figs. 11 and 12 show some horrible examples of this deadly cattle -plague conveyed by vaccination to human subjects. Fig. 11 shows the -back view of a woman victim with a very severe and fatal type of this -disease, the photograph being taken a short while before death. I have -also a front view of this case, taken after death, but this is too -horrible for even this chapter of horrors, so that I have decided to -spare the feelings of my readers and not show it here. Fig. 12 is a -photograph giving both front and back views of a man with a very bad, -but less severe, type of the disease, who recovered after several -successive eruptions and about five months of suffering. - -[Illustration: FIG. 12. Foot and Mouth Disease in a Vaccinated Man. - - _Epidemic of 1902._ Back and front views of man suffering - with Foot and Mouth Disease, or Virulent Cowpox, caused by - Vaccination. Photograph shows early or mid stage of eruptions, - which first appeared four and a half weeks after vaccination. - Recovered after nine successive eruptions of this kind in - five months after vaccination. Note “umbilicated” form of - eruptions like vaccination sores, proving positive relation to - Vaccination and Smallpox. Compare with Figs. 2, 4 and 6. -] - -There were ten cases of this kind treated at the Boston City Hospital -in January, 1902, by Dr. James S. Howe, who read a report of the cases -before a meeting of the American Dermatological Association in Boston -in September, 1902, which was afterwards published in the Journal of -Cutaneous Diseases for January and June, 1903, from which I quote -below. Dr. Howe exhibited photographs of these cases at the meeting -referred to, which also appeared in said Journal here quoted, copies of -some of which are now shown in Figs. 11 and 12. - -These cases and the published report of them are also cited in the -medical work before quoted, “Acute Contagious Diseases,” on page 82 -therein, so that there is full medical authority for their citation -here and ample proof of their nature and origin as being due to -vaccination. - -Dr. Howe reported that out of the ten cases of this kind treated in -the hospital six were fatal, thus showing the deadly nature of this -vaccinal disease, which greatly exceeds the average or worst types of -smallpox! In Dr. Howe’s report of these cases, at the meeting referred -to, he stated as follows: - - “Early in January of the present year [1902], while the wave - of vaccination was at its full height [during a smallpox - epidemic], there were received in the Boston City Hospital for - treatment, a remarkable series of cases of bullous dermatitis. - All of these cases appeared in persons recently vaccinated.... - The longest duration of the disease in any one case was sixteen - weeks, followed by recovery, and the shortest was one week, - followed by death. The skin lesions began to appear in these - cases in an average of five weeks after vaccination, sixteen - weeks having elapsed in one case, the longest, and three weeks - in one case, the shortest.” - -It may be proper to state just here that the “skin lesions” and other -eruptions in these human cases were substantially or identically -the same as in the cattle affected with foot and mouth disease in -the epidemic of 1902 and 1908 previously described, these eruptions -being of the _same kind_ and in the _same locations_; that is, the -eruptions consisted of numerous vesicles of various sizes, from the -size of a pea to that of a dime, half dollar and dollar, and these -vesicles broke out all over the body as shown in Figs. 11 and 12, -but particularly on feet and hands, lips and nostrils and inside the -mouth and throat, and in fact on and in all interior parts of the -body covered by mucous membrane, as well as on the external skin, and -sometimes in internal organs. These vesicles would sometimes change to -pustules or semi-pustules as shown in Fig. 12, and these would spread -and run together into large confluent vesicles or blisters, as shown -in Fig. 11, and these blisters would then rupture, collapse, drain -and excoriate, leaving great raw sores like terrible scalds or burns, -as shown in the big black and gray blotches in Fig. 11, thus causing -great suffering and agony in this most pitiable victim of vaccination. -The victim in Fig. 11 was a woman forty years old, who died ten hours -after admission to the hospital and six weeks after vaccination, and in -whom the eruptions first appeared three weeks after vaccination. Fig. -12 shows the eruptions in their early or mid stage, and Fig. 11 shows -them in their later or final stage. And it must be here understood that -these eruptions appear in successive crops, as in the cattle disease, -one crop disappearing and healing, to be followed by another crop in a -few days, and these ten cases of Dr. Howe had from two or three to nine -successive eruptions before death or recovery! The case shown in Fig. -12 is that of a man twenty-one years old in whom the first eruption -appeared four and a half weeks after vaccination and who had _nine -successive eruptions_ before he finally recovered and was discharged -from the hospital about five months after vaccination! - -Dr. Howe gave it as his opinion that the disease in these ten cases -was caused by some infection in the vaccine virus at the time of -vaccination, and a majority of the doctors present at the meeting -seemed to agree with him and gave several instances where similar cases -happened in their own practice, thus showing that this disease is -really a common result of vaccination. One of the doctors then present, -Louis H. Duhring of Philadelphia, an expert on skin diseases, said: - - “We must grant, I think, in the light of the history of these - cases and what we know of other similar cases, that they are - the direct or indirect result of vaccination. While we hear a - good deal, _pro_ and _con_, about vaccination, of its injurious - results on the part of those who are opposed to it, and of - its value on the part of those who favor it, I have always - felt that those who are opposed to vaccination, or, rather, - those who have brought forward the possible ill effects of - vaccination, did not in some instances have a fair hearing. - I, myself, have seen cases at least similar to the ones - reported by Dr. Howe, as well as others, where the local and - constitutional manifestations were undoubtedly the result of - vaccination.” - -Dr. Howe seemed to be somewhat mystified by the disease and at a loss -for the best or most proper technical name for it, and on this head he -stated as follows: - - “On the other hand, it might seem more proper to call them, - perhaps, cases of pemphigus. Quoting Duhring in regard to - pemphigus, I will refer to the following: ‘The mucous membranes - of the mouth, pharynx, epiglottis, trachea, bronchi and - even of the alimentary canal are not infrequently invaded, - especially in the varieties _malignus_ and _vegetanus_, giving - rise to various local lesions, mostly whitish patches and - excoriations. In grave cases there are pain and difficulty in - breathing and swallowing, diarrhea, exhaustion, collapse, and a - fatal ending.’ These cases of mine certainly showed all these - symptoms.” - -In answer to this point, Dr. Duhring then said: - - “I think Dr. Howe has acted wisely in selecting the title he - has and connecting it with vaccination, because it is to that - point that we wish to call attention, namely, that instances - of bullous dermatitis, often severe and even running a fatal - course, do at times follow vaccination. ... That it is closely - allied to what is known as semi-malignant or malignant - pemphigus; I think probable, but whether we call it bullous - dermatitis from vaccination, or pemphigus from vaccination, - or malignant pemphigus, matters very little at the present - period.”[5] - -I think we can all readily agree with this conclusion of the doctors, -that it does not matter much what we call this horrible disease caused -by vaccination, whether it is “Pemphigus,” “Foot and Mouth Disease” or -“Virulent Cowpox,” all of which seem to be fit and proper names, the -main point being that this deadly infection is frequently contained in -and conveyed by vaccine virus in the operation of vaccination. - -The further interesting and surprising fact to be especially noted -here, is that while some doctors seem to be fully aware that -“Pemphigus” is often caused by vaccination, yet they all seem to be -quite ignorant of the fact that the cattle plague known as “Foot and -Mouth Disease” is identical with the disease called “Pemphigus” in man, -and which is known to be frequently conveyed to butchers and others who -handle carcasses of cattle. - -The doctors in this discussion were also completely ignorant of the -fact that a most extensive and virulent epidemic of Foot and Mouth -Disease prevailed in New England in that very year, 1902, when these -deadly vaccinations occurred, and that, furthermore, some of the -strains of virus used in that year actually contained the foot and -mouth infection and that this dangerous infection came from Japan and -actually continued for several years, from 1902 to 1908, as before -shown in government reports, thus making a chain of unbreakable facts, -which, I think, proves the guilt of vaccination for these horrible -deadly results beyond any question. - -Even if the doctors were inclined to doubt or deny the responsibility -of vaccination for these horrible results, they could not, logically -or truthfully, do so, for the proof of this causation and relation -is written as plainly on the bodies of the pitiable victims as was -the “handwriting on the wall” described in the Bible. And it is now -necessary only to call careful attention to the eruptions shown in Fig. -12 to get a full proof of this point, for it will be noted that the -vesicles or pustules which appear all over the body in Fig. 12 have a -very distinct “umbilicated” form with a depressed center and raised -margin which is characteristic of only two diseases, vaccination and -smallpox, and a clear proof that either of these two closely related -diseases was surely concerned in this eruption, and that this eruption -is therefore essentially a virulent “cowpox” or a mongrel smallpox. On -this point of identity compare Fig. 12 with Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 6, pages -83 to 88. - - -THE AWFUL CASE OF A VACCINATED SCHOOL BOY INFECTED WITH FOOT AND MOUTH -DISEASE, OR VIRULENT COWPOX, AND IN ERUPTION FOR THREE YEARS! - -In the next illustration, Fig. 13, I give another instance of a -vaccination horror very similar to or identical with the horrible cases -just exposed. - -The photograph, Fig. 13, shows the case of a vaccinated school boy -eleven years old infected with foot and mouth disease, virulent cowpox -or “pemphigus,” which first appeared a few weeks after vaccination and -continued intermittently, sometimes in very violent form, for three -years! The boy was vaccinated in September, 1914, and this photograph -was made at my request eleven months afterwards, in August, 1915, -during a comparatively mild stage of the eruptions, which were much -worse at other times. These eruptions finally ceased in 1918, after -over three years of great suffering by this child victim, and great -anxiety and expense on the part of his parents, and so far without -any compensation whatever from those responsible for this great evil. -Whoever the Law of Justice should decide to be responsible for such a -humanly-inflicted calamity should certainly be made to pay for it. - -[Illustration: - - FIG. 13. School boy Arthur Smith, Jr., eleven years old. - Vaccinated September, 1914, photographed August, 1915. - Eruptions similar to foot and mouth disease appeared a few - weeks after vaccination and continued intermittently for over - three years! Photograph shows a mild stage of these eruptions, - which were much worse than this at times. Eruptions ceased in - 1918. -] - -I will now let the intelligent father of this afflicted child tell the -full story of this case and the suffering of the boy and his parents, -in the father’s own words as taken from his letters to me on this -matter. In his letter dated August 2, 1915, the father, Mr. Arthur -Smith, of New Windsor, N. Y., states: - - “In reply to your letter of July 29, 1915, in reference to - the condition of my son from vaccination, I wish to say that, - although it is eleven months since he was vaccinated, at the - present time he is in the same condition he was in when the - account of his sickness was published in the _Newburgh Daily - News_, March 12, 1915; and although since then we have taken - him to four different doctors, they have so far failed to do - him a particle of good; in fact, they are at a perfect loss - at the present time as to what is the matter with him. The - greater part of his body from his toes up to the crown of his - head is covered with sores or blisters which are in a continual - form of eruption, which form on his body like a small bubble - which is filled with a water-like substance, and have to be - lanced to let this water out. This is identically the same kind - of blister which began to appear in a short time after he was - vaccinated, and after we called in the physician who vaccinated - him, Dr. Kingston of Newburgh, he immediately pronounced it a - case of cowpox. He left a prescription for him but he rapidly - got worse, so we decided to call in Dr. Barth and he also said - the boy was suffering from a severe case of cowpox; in fact, - he said it was the worst case he had ever seen, and he was - surprised the boy was allowed to get so bad. But I wish to give - Dr. Barth due credit: he worked hard and faithfully to get the - best of the disease. It would take him a full hour at times to - lance all the sores. After bathing him in antiseptic lotion, - he would cover his body with salve and bandage him all up, and - it did appear that, after treating him for about three months, - he had got the best of the disease; in fact, had improved so - much that Dr. Barth said, in due consideration of the cost we - were under, that he thought it would be safe to leave him in - the care of his mother and let him know if he had a relapse. - But I am sorry to say he did not continue to improve; he began - to break out bad again and at the present time he is in the - same condition I have previously stated. It seems to me that, - inasmuch as the State is so insistent upon the subject of - vaccination, there should be something done to put upon some - one the responsibility of the condition in which vaccination - has placed my boy, as it is a continual drain upon my earnings - between the doctors and the drug stores.” - -On September 19, 1915, the boy’s father wrote me describing his -condition as follows: - - “In the first three or four months after vaccination, in - which time he was very bad, the blisters would first form - like vesicles filled with watery fluid, some would get better - without turning into pustules and other blisters would start - the same way, fill up with yellow pus and then get better only - to crop out again in another place. It would be impossible for - me to say how many successive eruptions he had since being - vaccinated as he has practically been in a state of eruption on - one or other part of his body since vaccination (in September, - 1914). For a long time his feet and legs were very bad, also - his arms. Then his feet and legs would improve and he would - break out on the head and neck. At the present time (September - 19, 1915), with the exception of a few sores on the ankles, - his feet and legs are in pretty good condition, but his head - and neck are very bad; in fact, far worse than when I had - the photograph taken (August, 1915). This is the third time - they have appeared on the head in violent form. The arms have - probably been more affected continually than any other part of - his body and have been very bad all the time, also the back of - the hands, but not on the inside of the hands. He has not as - yet had any sores on the inside of his mouth, but has had them - on the nostrils and on the chin, and the outside of the mouth, - and odd ones on other parts of his face. At the present time - the blisters are about all of the vesicle variety. - - “On the 30th of May, 1915, at the suggestion of Dr. Barth, I - took the boy up to Albany to see Dr. Curtis, who is a blood - specialist (Skin Expert in the New York State Department of - Health), and he asked me a good many questions and looked at - the boy’s arms, and after due deliberation he said the boy was - suffering from ‘Pemphigus,’ and he said he had never seen a - case like it, with the exception of one man of 50 years of age, - and he said that he died.” - -The man here referred to as having died from “Pemphigus” after -vaccination and as being in a condition similar to that which afflicted -this school boy was doubtless Ernest Hoffman, aged fifty-four, -architect of Albany, N. Y., who died in Albany, March 26, 1908, and -whose case I have carefully studied. The copy of the death certificate -in this case, now in my possession, gives the sole and only cause of -death as “_Pemphigus Vulgaris_,” without any mention, as required by -law, of the contributory, coincident, primary or secondary disease of -vaccination, although it is notorious that this man was vaccinated and -was suffering with a strange and serious skin disease, as a vaccinal -complication, before his death, and the case was the subject of -several articles in the local newspapers at the time, as a vaccination -complication, or disaster. And this is a good instance, right here, to -prove my serious charge against vaccinating doctors, that vaccination -disasters are frequently denied and concealed in death certificates, -either through ignorance or intention. And this denial or concealment -in this case is easily proved because a personal investigation, made by -one of my colleagues at the time, secured the information and admission -that the patient, Mr. Hoffman, was actually vaccinated with the Mulford -virus, which was officially reported to have contained the infection of -foot and mouth disease at that time, unknown to our doctors and even -unknown to the makers of the virus itself! And this infected virus was -the alleged cause of the fearful epidemics of foot and mouth disease in -cattle in 1902 and 1908, and the probable cause of the same infection -in human victims, as already clearly shown by the government reports -and other data previously cited. And, furthermore, as the disease -called “Pemphigus” has now been proved to be identical or confusible -with foot and mouth disease, I therefore think that a strong chain of -facts has now been drawn around vaccination as being the real cause and -source of the “Pemphigus” in both the dead architect and the surviving -school boy, and in the other cases cited, and that this chain of proof -is now complete and unbreakable, and most convincing to any reasonable -mind. - -For further proof on this point see the Report of the New York State -Department of Health for 1908, pages 280 to 296, where this case of -the Albany architect, and others, are described, and their relation to -vaccination and foot and mouth disease indicated. - -The last letter received from the father of the afflicted school boy -is dated December 12, 1918, and closes the description of this case, -which shows a final recovery of the boy, after years of suffering and -with a mutilated or much discolored body, as the result of the many -eruptions: - - “In reply to your letter of December 3, 1918, I wish to say - that my boy at the present time is in fairly good health, and - there are no eruptions on his body and with each succeeding - year the effect seems to be gradually dying away. The summer - of 1917 he broke out in eruption quite bad, especially on the - legs, being most severe on the thighs, and also in the summer - of 1918, but not near so bad as in the preceding summer. He is - free of any eruption at the present time, but the upper part - of his body and especially his arms are covered with a large - amount of brown spots on the skin where the eruptions have - completely died away, but I think that with each succeeding - year, as he grows stronger, the effect will entirely disappear, - with the exception of the brown spots on the skin, which I - suppose will always remain and for which there can be no - remedy.” - - -ANOTHER BAD CASE OF VIRULENT COWPOX FROM U. S. NAVAL RECORDS - -To show how really frequent, common and wide-spread these fearful cases -of “pemphigus,” “foot and mouth disease” or virulent cowpox, are, as -a result of vaccination, I can cite another well authenticated case -of this kind, reported in U. S. Naval Records. This case is reported -in the _U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin_ for October, 1911, Vol. 5, -No. 4, on page 482--under the heading of “Acute Pemphigus Following -Vaccination.” This article minutely describes the case of a negro -carpenter, age sixty, employed at one of the U. S. Naval Stations, and -vaccinated there, June 9, 1910. About July 9, 1910, an eruption of -vesicles appeared first on the vaccinated arm and in a few days spread -all over the body. This eruption was exactly similar to that in the -cases already described, viz.: vesicles of various sizes which came out -in successive crops and on the same parts of the body as in the other -cases. And as these vesicles increased they ran together into large -confluent blisters which finally broke and formed denuded scars or raw -sores on the skin like scalds or burns. To show that the action on the -skin and in the mouth and throat was identical with the other cases -here described, I need only quote a few lines from the official article -itself, as follows: - - “The body and extremities in many places resembled a severe - burn or scald, being covered with large denuded red areas, - surrounded by blebs of various sizes.... Toward the end of the - first week several blebs developed in the mouth, one small one - on the tongue, and one large one on the side of the pharynx. - The latter when it burst ‘_nearly drowned him_,’ according to - his wife.” - -The patient finally recovered, like the case in Fig. 12, after several -successive eruptions and in about four months after vaccination, or in -October, 1910, and much to the surprise of the doctors, owing to the -severity of the case and the age of the patient. - -It may therefore be now noted that this Naval case, together with the -others previously described, show how uniformly distinct and typical -these several cases are, as being undoubtedly examples of the same -specific disease conveyed by vaccination, and are probably nothing more -than a direct degenerated or acute form of the vaccine disease itself -or possibly a mongrel form of smallpox which may develop from ordinary -vaccination at any time. Concerning this most important point I will -have something further to say after describing the last case of this -kind in the next paragraph, which is most suggestive and convincing. - - -A RECENT ENGLISH CASE OF CATTLE POX IN A BABY AND ITS MOTHER, CAUSED BY -VACCINATION. IDENTITY OF VACCINAL DISEASES PROVED. A MOST SIGNIFICANT -MEDICAL FACT DISCLOSED - -A recent vaccination horror in a vaccinated baby and its mother, -exactly similar to the cases already exposed, is reported in a -circular recently issued by the National Anti-Vaccination League of -London. This seems to show a clear and horrible case of cattle plague, -“foot and mouth disease,” “Pemphigus” or virulent “cowpox” caused by -vaccination. And whatever name we may use does not matter much, as -before stated, for it is evident that any one or all of these names are -interchangeable and appropriate for cases of this kind. In fact, from -the many fatal vaccinations of this type occurring in England from time -to time, and usually called “Pemphigus” by the doctors and coroners, -it would seem that the strain of virus used in England has become -permanently tainted with the “foot and mouth disease” or virulent -cowpox, as clearly indicated in this recent English case described below - - “On March 26, 1918, Mrs. Woofinden of Birmingham took the - vaccinated child to see the doctor, who said he had a very - good arm. A fortnight after vaccination little white spots - had developed round the principal vaccination place, and - she pointed these out to the doctor, who said, ‘That’s - all right.’... On the following day--sixteen days after - vaccination--a white spot appeared on the baby’s lip, and - the same afternoon one showed itself on the ear. The spot on - the lip got larger. The baby was taken to Dr. Kirby on the - following Monday, but he was out. Next day he was seen, and - declared that the trouble was ‘overflow of vaccination.’ The - child was very cross; its sleep was broken. The vaccination - marks on the arm had run together and formed a big white - blister. The doctor said it would be all right in a week. In - the meantime the mother began to feel very ill; lumps appeared - under each arm, and she found eventually that she had been - vaccinated on both breasts from a sore inside the baby’s - mouth. She suffered intense pain and could no longer nurse the - baby.... Each day, from the 16th day after vaccination, fresh - white blisters had developed in various parts of the body, - turning to a deeper color as they matured, and looking like - miniature vaccination marks.[6]... Finding Dr. Rowlands away - from home, Dr. Kirby arranged for the child’s admission to the - Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where, in just one week, after - intense suffering, the poor little victim expired. The blisters - had spread all over the body, covered the inside of the mouth - and choked up the throat so that the child could not swallow. - The arm swelled so enormously that it seemed to be joined to - the body, and the inflammation spread all over the upper part - till it eventually reached the middle of the chest. The upper - part of the arm became black and raw-looking. Every care was - taken at the hospital, and at one time the doctors thought - they would save the baby’s life, but he got weaker and died - on April 26th--being four months and a day old. Dr. Jordan, - at the hospital, certified that death was due to ‘generalized - vaccinia, followed by pneumonia.’ The case created a great stir - in the hospital, and one doctor who saw it remarked, ‘So that - is true cowpox!’” - - -MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL FACT EXPOSED HERE. IDENTITY OF FOOT AND MOUTH -DISEASE WITH VACCINATION PROVED - -Yes, Mr. President, please take careful note just here that this -is “true cowpox,” as the doctors declared in this last case--the -kind of “true cowpox” that is likely to arise at any time from the -dangerous infecting operation known as vaccination and the complex -infectious material known as vaccine virus, which thus maims or kills -its victims by general blood poisoning and by horrible vesicular and -pustular eruptions inside and outside the body. And at this stage, -Mr. President, I would like to call your special attention to a most -significant medical fact which now stands out clearly in the chain -of vaccination horrors here disclosed, and this fact is that all the -cases occurring in cattle and mankind, herein shown, from the first -epidemic of foot and mouth disease in 1902 to the last isolated case -of the English baby in 1918, are of _identical type_, which cannot be -mistaken, so that the description of one case will describe all--both -in cattle and mankind. Now, surely this identity of type indicates -identity in cause and origin, as we see, for example, that the cattle -and human cases in 1902 are identical with the case of the English -baby in 1918, although separated by a time interval of sixteen years, -and a geographical distance over continent and ocean--from Boston to -Birmingham--of three thousand miles! - -Now, the experts of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, who have -studied the epidemics of foot and mouth disease in 1902 and 1908 and -proved that they were caused by the manufacture of vaccine virus, seem -to be of the positive opinion that foot and mouth disease of cattle -is a specific disease distinct from “vaccinia” or “cowpox,” and that -it was due to some mere chance or accidental infection getting into -some strains of vaccine virus that this cattle disease was conveyed to -animals and mankind in said epidemics. This theory may be true, but -I do not think it has yet been proved, and I believe that it is more -probable that the very complex disease known as cowpox or vaccinia -is capable at any time of conveying to animals or man the dangerous -infection known as “foot and mouth disease,” “Pemphigus,” “virulent -cowpox” or “generalized vaccinia,” and that these diseases are not -distinct but are identical and confusible with each other, and that the -several cases herein shown prove this latter theory, as they are all -identical in type although separated by long intervals of time and long -distances of space and all occurring as a direct result of vaccination! -Furthermore, a great many cases like that of the Albany architect in -1908 and the English baby in 1918 have occurred in England in the -past few years and are generally treated as a great mystery by the -vaccinating doctors, although they are, in fact, quite common and their -relation to vaccination obvious, and these cases are usually called -“generalized vaccinia,” “overflow of vaccination” or “Pemphigus” by the -English coroners who have passed on many fatal vaccinations of this -type in the last ten years. - -If, therefore, it is still maintained that foot and mouth disease is -distinct from vaccinia, then it seems that this deadly cattle plague -has now become a permanent taint in the different strains of vaccine -virus used in this country and in England! On the other hand, if foot -and mouth disease is not distinct from vaccinia, then it is proved -that the horrible and deadly cases of vaccinal disease herein exposed -are a normal or regular effect of ordinary vaccination, likely to -result at any time therefrom, and to produce epidemics in cattle or -mankind; and this proof, therefore, makes general vaccination obviously -a much more dangerous and deadly disease than natural smallpox! Surely, -Mr. President, this shocking fact calls for immediate attention and the -abolishment of all compulsory vaccination, as being now more dangerous -to human health and life than the natural disease it is designed to -prevent, and this shocking fact can be easily proved by such examples -as already given and by many others now concealed and withheld in -our vital records, as already solemnly charged in my general public -challenge on page vi. - - -VACCINATION IS DOCTORED SMALLPOX. IT ASSUMES VARIOUS FORMS AND IS OFTEN -WORSE THAN NATURAL SMALLPOX - -The doctors apply the terms “generalized vaccinia” to any form of -vaccinal disease where the eruption becomes _general_ over the body, as -in smallpox, instead of being localized and confined to the vaccination -wound. Now, there are two types of this generalized vaccinia--the first -being shown in Fig. 5 and the second in Figs. 11, 12 and 13. In the -first type, the eruption advances to the full pustular stage and the -pustules remain either separate or run together in large confluent -masses, and these scab over with a dry crust or scab, the same as in -confluent smallpox, which it greatly resembles and to which it is -equivalent in nature and deadly result, as is fully shown in Fig. -5. In the other type, the eruption does not advance to the pustular -stage, but continues in the vesicular and half-pustular stage and runs -together into large confluent blisters which do not scab over, but -break and excoriate, leaving large denuded or raw sores on the skin -like scalds or burns, as shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13. Now, it is -this latter form which is identical with “foot and mouth disease” and -“Pemphigus,” and, if anything, it is more agonizing and deadly than -the other form and is much more severe and fatal than ordinary, natural -smallpox, although, perhaps, not so contagious, as clearly proved by -the many horrible cases in child, adult and domestic animals herein -illustrated. - -It should, therefore, be clearly understood at this point that -vaccination as now practiced is really only a form of human smallpox -or “variola” combined with “cowpox” and that the vaccine virus now in -use is produced directly from and originates in the virus of human -smallpox, which is transplanted on the body of the cow and thence -used on the human body, so that it necessarily conveys both human and -cow infections to the human body; whereas the original vaccination of -Jenner was taken from some much disputed or unknown disease in the -horse or cow and thence transferred directly to the human arm, and -thence from arm to arm. This was found to be such a dangerous practice -that it was long ago condemned and abandoned, and the present practice -of combined human and bovine smallpox adopted, which I believe to be -as dangerous as the old arm-to-arm vaccination--if not more so. As -present vaccination is, therefore, a combination of human smallpox -and cow disease, should there be any wonder if it should convey to -the human body, at any time, some mild or deadly form of smallpox, or -some mild or deadly form of cow disease as shown in the several cases -herein illustrated? And it is a serious question here whether these -cases of cow disease and vaccinal disease herein illustrated are not -all really only various forms of that very various disease known as -“variola” or smallpox and all caused by vaccination, which is itself, -essentially, smallpox at base and origin! Indeed, many students of -this subject believe that modern vaccination, which originates from -smallpox virus, is partly responsible for causing modern epidemics of -smallpox, just as the old prohibited inoculation with smallpox virus -was proved to spread the disease and cause epidemics which declined -as soon as this inoculation was abandoned and prohibited by penal -law. In the same way smallpox has declined in every modern sanitary -community where vaccination has been reduced or abandoned, as already -shown on page 22, and this being the fact, the abolishment of all -compulsory vaccination, and the allowance of voluntary vaccination -only, must, surely, to say the least, commend itself to all thoughtful -and reasonable minds as a most wise, safe and conservative sanitary and -hygienic reform! - -It should also be understood at this point that investigators have, -so far, failed to discover or isolate the specific germs of smallpox -“vaccinia” and foot and mouth disease, but these germs are all -known to belong to the class of microbes termed “ultra-microscopic” -and “filterable,” that is, so fine and minute that they cannot be -distinguished by the microscope and will pass through the finest -filters without change. This shows that the germ of foot and mouth -disease, whatever it may be, is in the same class with that of smallpox -and vaccinia, and may ultimately prove to be identical or closely -related, as I contend and believe to be the fact. - - -PROOF THAT VACCINATION CAUSES MONGREL SMALLPOX AND FOOT AND MOUTH -DISEASE AND THAT THE NATURE OF THE VACCINAL ERUPTIONS PROVES THE -IDENTITY OF THESE DISEASES - -The nature and location of the eruptions found in natural smallpox and -in “Generalized Vaccination,” “Acute Pemphigus,” “Virulent Cowpox” and -“Foot and Mouth Disease” conclusively prove that these several diseases -are closely related, or identical in their essential nature, and are -probably varieties of the same generic disease. - -For example, no disease but smallpox and its relatives has the profuse -vesicular or partly pustular eruptions _on the inside of the mouth -and throat_ combined with vesicular or pustular eruptions, usually -of “umbilicated” form, on the skin of the body and limbs. Now, these -characteristic and combined eruptions are distinctly found in both the -animal and human cases of virulent cowpox or foot and mouth disease -shown herein and all caused by, and originating from, vaccination, -which is, of course, in itself, nothing but a form of smallpox in -substance and origin. These characteristic eruptions are particularly -well shown in the human cases illustrated in Figs. 11, 12 and 13, -also in the case of the negro naval carpenter on page 122, and in the -case of the English baby on page 123, which latter is a particularly -complete, frightful and convincing case of this positive proof against -vaccination. Substantially the same conditions exist also in the many -cases of Foot and Mouth Disease in cattle, illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, -8½ and 9, in all of which cases the same eruptions occur inside the -mouth and throat and on the feet, teats and udder, and sometimes on -other parts of the external skin similar to what occur in the human -subject. For typical eruptions on teats and udder, see Fig. 8½, page -95, taken from _Farmers’ Bulletin_, No. 666, before cited, issued by U. -S. Department of Agriculture. - - -AN INDICTMENT AGAINST BOVINE VACCINATION - -If, therefore, the apologists for vaccination now wish to deny or -excuse its responsibility for causing Mongrel Smallpox or Foot and -Mouth Disease in animals and man, as herein clearly shown, they cannot -do so, as the cases here illustrated surely carry their own proof on -their very faces, as just pointed out, and each case carries the “sign -manual” of this deadly vaccination-pox branded on the body of each -victim, so plain, indelible and convicting that no vaccination apology -can erase it. - -I, therefore, believe that the facts now herein disclosed constitute -nothing less than a moral and medical indictment against all Bovine -Vaccination, particularly that evil practice of compulsory vaccination -which would force this dangerous disease of “vaccination-pox” upon -child or adult, soldier or sailor, against free will and consent, and -under the false representation that it is necessary for health and is -perfectly safe and harmless, whereas it is, in fact, highly dangerous -to human and animal life and frequently more dangerous and fatal than -natural smallpox, as fully demonstrated in these pages. - - -HOW ONE STRAIN OF VACCINE VIRUS ORIGINATED FROM ONE SMALLPOX TRAMP--AND -AN INFECTED COW. SHOCKING LETTER FROM A MANUFACTURER OF VIRUS TO A -DOCTOR - - The ---- Vaccine Farms, - - Dr. ---- & Co., Proprietors. - - The Largest and Most Complete Vaccine Establishment in the - World. Only Vaccine Awarded a Medal by The World’s Columbian - Exposition. - - M ---- Pa., Oct. 25, 1906. - - Dr. J. W. Hodge, - Niagara Falls, N. Y. - - Dear Doctor: - - In response to your inquiry of the 22nd inst., we beg to state - that Vaccine Virus or its active principle is a subject about - which very little is definitely known. We are only able to - arrive at the results obtained from certain conditions. - - It was thought by Dr. ----, the founder of our establishment, - that he had discovered a case of spontaneous cowpox, and we - have been using as one of our strains of seed virus, this - source for nearly twenty years. It later developed, however, - that the case referred to evidently was inoculated by a tramp - having smallpox and who slept in the stable.... - - We regret our inability to give you more definite information - on the subject, but trust the above may be of some value to you. - - Very truly yours, - Dr. ---- & Co. - By ----------- ., - Manager. - - -This letter surely speaks for itself, with shocking force, as to the -vile known and unknown nature of vaccine virus, and needs no further -comment here. - - - Biological Department, - - PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY, - - Home Offices and Laboratories. - - Detroit, Mich., March 27, 1905. - - Mr. Chas. M. Higgins, 271 Ninth St., - - Brooklyn, N. Y. - - Dear Sir: - - Your communication on the subject of vaccine virus has been - received and contents noted. - - What you say about the confusion existing in the minds of the - medical profession as shown by medical text-books regarding - the origin of vaccine is entirely true. No one seems to know - positively the exact nature of this product. It would seem - to us, however, that the theory that cowpox is but modified - smallpox, is the most tenable one. Particularly does this seem - true in view of the facts reported by Dr. Monckton Copeman, - Director of the Government Vaccine work in London, that he had - been able to take smallpox virus, transmit it to monkeys, from - monkeys to heifers, and from heifers to man, the resulting - vaccination on the human subject being identically the same as - that produced by vaccine as ordinarily prepared. Furthermore it - was shown that the persons vaccinated with this vaccine, when - exposed to smallpox, were immune. In other words, the chain of - evidence seems very complete, that by properly transferring - the smallpox virus from man to animals of different species it - became so modified in the transmission that, when applied to - heifers, it produced typical vaccinia, and was found to fill - every requirement as a means of protecting against smallpox - when applied to unimmunized children. - - On theoretical grounds it seems to us that this is a very - plausible explanation of the origin of vaccinia. During - Jenner’s time smallpox was very prevalent and nothing could - be more natural than for persons recovering from smallpox - to transmit the disease to the udders of cows, producing an - infection which, on account of the difference in the species of - the animal, modified the smallpox virus. - - Regretting that we are unable to state more positively the - exact relation between the two diseases and the origin of the - seed as used by manufacturers, we remain, - - Very sincerely yours, - (Signed) PARKE, DAVIS & CO. - - -THE DISPUTED OR UNKNOWN ORIGIN AND NATURE OF MODERN VACCINE VIRUS -EMPHASIZED. LETTER FROM PARKE, DAVIS & CO., ONE OF THE LARGEST MAKERS -OF VIRUS IN THE U. S. - -This letter, like the preceding one, frankly admits the doubt, -ignorance and confusion as to the origin of vaccine virus, and the -practically unknown origin and nature of the seed virus used by -manufacturers, except that it most probably originates in human -smallpox, pure and simple. This letter is given in full on the left and -speaks clearly for itself and is worth reading carefully on this most -important point as it shows the crude, unknown and unscientific basis -of all bovine vaccination which is proved out of the mouths of the -arch-vaccinators themselves. See also page 82. - - -AN ENGLISH SAILOR LOSES HIS ARM FROM COWPOX VACCINATION - -[Illustration: FIG. 14. Before Vaccination] - -[Illustration: FIG. 15. After Vaccination] - - -CASE OF HENRY PLANT - -On September 1, 1911, at the age of eighteen years and eight months, -Henry Plant was admitted into the Royal Navy, at Wolverhampton, as a -second-class stoker, and passed a searching medical examination by a -naval doctor at Birmingham. He was sent to Portsmouth, served on the -“Victory” till September 24, and was then drafted to the “Renown.” -Shortly afterwards he was vaccinated in three places, high up on the -left shoulder. On October 19, 1911, he was admitted to the Royal Naval -Hospital, Haslar, suffering from influenza. Severe shooting pains from -the left shoulder to the finger-tips developed, and for sixteen days he -was treated for rheumatism. After sixteen days’ intense suffering an -operation was performed, an abscess was discovered, and from this time -till the arm was amputated on July 9, 1912, the poor fellow suffered -unceasingly. Four Members of Parliament took up the case, and the final -result was a compassionate grant of £50 compensation and the offer of -a situation at Devonport under the Admiralty. Representatives worked -for nearly seven months to secure justice for the young man, and though -the Admiralty have never admitted that the loss of the arm was due to -vaccination, their action in compensating Plant is an admission of -responsibility. The facts in this and the following case are taken from -a circular issued by The National Anti-Vaccination League, London. - - -DEATH OF AN ENGLISH SOLDIER FROM TYPHOID VACCINATION. A TYPICAL CASE - -The _Finchley Press_, for November 13, 1914, contained the following -particulars: - - - “MILITARY HONOURS. - - “FUNERAL OF A FINCHLEY DRILL-INSTRUCTOR YESTERDAY. - - “Drill-Instructor Nichols, of 42, Sedgemere Avenue, who was - well known in Finchley, has passed away at the age of fifty-one - as the result of _the after effects of inoculation_. A big, - strong, healthy-looking man, the news will come as a surprise - to those who knew him. - - “There was a large attendance at St. Marylebone Cemetery at the - funeral yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, when Mr. Nichols was - buried with military honours.” - -A resident at East Finchley sent the following particulars to the -Anti-Vaccination League of London: - - “Mr. Nichols had been a Territorial for about eight years, and - as a boy was intended for Sandhurst College, but circumstances - prevented this. A keen soldier, and particularly clever - at drilling recruits, he was being kept for Home Service. - Understanding that inoculation was compulsory for the men, he - underwent the operation as an example and encouragement. - - [Illustration: - - FIG. 16. Sergeant H. Nichols, of East Finchley, England, - died on November 4, 1914, from the effects of anti-typhoid - inoculation. - ] - - “On Saturday, October 24, he was inoculated a second time on - the left side of chest. He was taken ill at once and went home - to bed, complaining of a dreadful beating on the top of his - brain. On the Monday he reported himself ill and was given - the half-day off with the others, but passed for duty for the - Tuesday and Wednesday and sent on an eight-mile march. On the - Thursday he woke up with severe trembling, later on partial - paralysis set in with very severe delirium, kidney trouble, - swollen tongue and many other distressing symptoms. Also - his heart, which had always been passed as perfectly sound, - was very bad. Two nurses and his own doctor (a believer in - inoculation) attended him. On the day of his death, November 4, - his pulse was 144. - - “Sergeant Nichols was a very strong man, never ill, and looked - more like forty than fifty years of age. His photograph - indicates his ‘fitness.’ For some time before his death he - did sergeant’s work and was known as full platoon sergeant, - but the papers verifying this only came through, Mrs. Nichols - understood, just about the time of his death, so that he is - described as corporal on death certificate, but she says he had - a sergeant’s funeral and is described as such on the gravestone. - - “Mr. Nichols’ death was a great shock to his friends, some of - whom saw him two weeks before death, when he was telling them - how ‘very fit’ he was feeling, and how thoroughly his heart was - in his work.” - -The death certificate in this case gives the cause of death as: - - 1. “Anti-Typhoid Vaccination.” 2. “Pneumonia.” - - -SICKNESS AND DEATH FROM VACCINATIONS IN U. S. ARMY - -We cite this fatal English case here out of many others on record -in this country and England because it is so typical and such a -plain example of many cases of sickness and death caused by typhoid -vaccination since its adoption several years ago. How many cases of -illness or death have been truly caused by this and other kinds of -vaccination in the Army and Navy, in recent years, can probably be -accurately determined only by a special committee of investigation -appointed by the Commander-in-Chief or by Congress, and so selected as -to be entirely free of any medical or professional interest or bias. - -The office of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army in answer to -my request for information on this point admits that many cases of -sickness have been caused by smallpox and typhoid vaccination in the -Army in the year 1917, but states that no deaths have been caused by -any form of vaccination in said year 1917, and that the data for the -year 1918 are not yet available. The figures admitted for sickness from -the two forms of vaccination stated seem to be serious and significant -and are now given below in the words of the letter addressed to me from -the Surgeon General’s office, March 15, 1919, as follows: - - “The number of men admitted to sick report during 1917 for - typhoid vaccination was 10,549, or a rate of 15.54 for each one - thousand men. - - “For smallpox vaccination the number admitted was 9,059, or a - rate of 13.35 for each one thousand men. - - “The total number of days lost as the result of typhoid - vaccination was 28,679 and for smallpox 34,814.” - -Now, I think that this shows a rather serious and significant amount -of sickness which can thus incapacitate about fifteen men out of every -thousand for several days, or about one and a half per cent. of the -whole Army! And, surely, where such deliberately inflicted vaccinal -diseases forced on the soldiers cause such an amount of sickness as is -here admitted, they are also likely to cause death in some cases and do -frequently cause death in many cases, as I have already demonstrated -beyond question. - -I, therefore, believe that the statement that no deaths have been -caused in the U. S. Army from vaccination in 1917 is possibly not -correct, and that a careful investigation by unbiased investigators -would probably show that many deaths have been so caused directly or -indirectly by the present barbarous system of compulsory vaccination, -or inflicted disease, which admittedly causes so much sickness. -Vaccinating doctors who believe in this barbarism of compulsory disease -and force it upon their helpless patients under the false pleas that -it is actually necessary, perfectly harmless and surely effective, -have obviously an evil professional bias and interest to deny and -conceal the real facts whenever some “complication” or “infection” -caused by the vaccination arises and extends and finally kills the -patient; and in such case the coercive doctor can very easily satisfy -his conscience and compromise “statistics” by recording the death as -due solely to one or more of the “complications” and not at all to the -vaccination, which, as a matter of fact, I know to be a common thing -with vaccinators in civic practice. Indeed, it is admitted in official -reports that a similar careless practice as to false diagnosis and -incorrect report of cause of death exists in some cases in the U. S. -Army where, for example, actual typhoid fever in vaccinated men had -been reported as “Influenza” and where death of vaccinated men from -typhoid was entered as due solely to one of the complications such as -“Peritonitis,” “Broncho-Pneumonia,” etc. See page 207, showing failure -of vaccination in U. S. Army, from Report of the Chief Surgeon of the -A. E. F. in France. - -The English example of Sergeant Nichols, above given, well illustrates -the very grave and sudden illness frequently caused by typhoid -vaccination, sometimes resulting in death and usually involving some -form of paralysis, heart failure, meningitis and pneumonia, as in this -Nichols case, where evidently paralysis and pneumonia were the two -chief complicating and terminal diseases which resulted in death. This -fact is very significant here because meningitis and pneumonia are now -two of the chief causes of death in the Army, and there is a strong -chain of evidence showing that these two diseases have a positive -relation to vaccination and are probably caused or aggravated thereby, -and this point is most important in showing the dangerous infecting -nature of vaccination both in itself and in its relation to and -combination with other disease infections, as I will prove in the next -paragraph. - - -MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL POINT ESTABLISHED. RELATION OF VACCINATION -TO THE TWO CHIEF CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE ARMY--PNEUMONIA AND -MENINGITIS--PROVED - -It is a most interesting and suggestive fact that two of the chief -causes of death in the Army are meningitis and pneumonia, and it is -also most significant that the Army death-rate from these two diseases, -both relatively and absolutely, is much higher than in the civil -population, although the Army is composed of picked men of the highest -physical type and best health, while the civil population contains all -the weaklings and diseased and the average types. On this important -point see the latest Report of the Surgeon General of the United States -Army for 1918, covering the statistics of the year 1917. On pages 44, -236, 285 and 286 in this report it is shown that the chief causes of -death in the Army in 1917 were pneumonia, measles and meningitis in -the order stated, and that pneumonia causes about thirty-two per cent. -of all deaths, measles thirty per cent., meningitis ten per cent. and -scarlet fever about two per cent. As regards the greater frequency of -these diseases in the Army than in the civil population, it is shown at -page 236 that measles is two hundred times more frequent, meningitis -fifteen times more frequent, pneumonia twelve times more frequent, -and scarlet fever ten times more frequent in the Army than in the -civil population! It is, therefore, believed that this extraordinarily -high death-rate in the Army from meningitis and pneumonia, where it -should be the lowest, is due to the extensive repeated and multiple -vaccinations of various kinds now used in the Army, which greatly -exceed the ratio of vaccination in the civil population. This fact, -combined with the closely related fact that meningitis and pneumonia -are regularly and constantly two of the most common complications -in fatal cases of vaccination, furnishes convincing proof of the -possible responsibility of vaccination for being the cause of the -epidemics of meningitis and pneumonia in our excessively vaccinated -Army within the last two years. For example, in many of the cases of -fatal vaccination, which I have investigated, or have on record, for -several years past, I find that pneumonia and meningitis figure as -the chief complicating diseases which have caused death in acting as -a secondary, double, or mixed infection with the primary infection -of the vaccination, and that these two diseases are the most common -complications together with septicemia and lockjaw in all fatal -vaccinations. Indeed, the several fatal vaccinations illustrated -in this chapter of vaccination horrors prove this point clearly, -as most of them show pneumonia or meningitis or both as the fatal -complications. For example, in the case of the Waters boy described -on page 168, it appears from the autopsy and hospital report in my -possession that pneumonia and meningitis were the fatal complications -with the vaccination and are set down in these records as the chief -causes of death. - -Likewise, in the case of the English soldier and the English baby on -pages 135 and 123, pneumonia appears as the complicating disease and -the final cause of death in both cases. Furthermore, in Dr. Howe’s six -fatal cases in 1902, described on page 113, one of which is illustrated -in Fig. 11, page 110, it was found that severe lung lesions existed -in four of these cases involving lobar and broncho-pneumonia and -pleurisy. In the eleven cases of fatal vaccination taken from Mr. -Loyster’s pamphlet on pages 145 to 159, meningitis figures as the fatal -complication in three cases, paralysis in three cases and lockjaw in -five cases. - -In explanation of these several cases where vaccination has evidently -acted as a primary infection, complicated with the secondary or mixed -infection of some other co-acting disease, it may be stated that the -germs of these very deadly diseases, such as lockjaw, meningitis and -pneumonia, seem to be normally diffused widely in the human body, or -in its surroundings, where they are normally perfectly inert, dormant -and harmless, but are aroused into deadly activity by the dangerous -primary infecting action of vaccination, which, being a pus or -septicemic infection, seems to provide conditions for the growth or -activation of the dormant disease germs which would otherwise remain -perfectly harmless, just as gunpowder remains perfectly inert and -harmless until touched by an igniting spark. And it would, therefore, -seem that vaccination thus evidently acts as an igniter or “activator” -to these dormant indwelling infections and causes the double or -“mixed infection” which finally produces the deadly effect. In fact, -it seems that most deaths are caused by double or mixed infections, -or by several diseases acting in combination or complication, and -that comparatively few deaths are caused by one simple disease acting -alone. And it also seems to be a fact that the vitality of the human -body is usually so great and its natural safeguards so many that it -ordinarily yields only to a complicated attack of several diseases -combined. If this view is correct, and it seems to accord with modern -medical theories and experience, then the folly of the whole scheme -of multiple vaccinations seems to be apparent in the evident fallacy -of expecting to defend the body against natural infections by filling -it with a whole series of inflicted infections which arouse the most -deadly but dormant infections already in the body! Furthermore, many -of these inflicted infections are almost purely experimental and -unknown as to their really final or ultimate effect. In other cases -the infections are known to be more or less dangerous and deadly in -their possibilities, and even at their best have the effect only of -giving immunity for a short while, perhaps for a few months, from such -comparatively minor diseases as smallpox and typhoid fever, while they -make the human body more susceptible to diseases of ten or one hundred -times greater frequency and fatality, such as pneumonia, meningitis, -measles and scarlet fever. - -At this point we might again quote from one of the latest medical -works and one of the leading doctors of to-day, viz., from Osler’s -“Principles and Practice of Medicine,” eighth edition, 1918, page 330, -where the point just argued is clearly recognized as to the effect -of vaccination in exciting other diseases and is expressed in these -distinct words: - - “Influence of Vaccination Upon Other Diseases: A quiescent - malady may be lighted into activity by vaccination. This - has happened with congenital syphilis, occasionally with - tuberculosis.” - -Now, as regards the extraordinary prevalence of the two other diseases, -scarlet fever and measles, in the Army, it is a rather strange and -suggestive coincidence that these two deadly infantile diseases are -more closely related to smallpox and vaccination than any other known -diseases,--so much so, in fact, that in olden times they were actually -considered as forms of smallpox and were not differentiated therefrom -as in modern times; and they are, of course, very often, to-day, -confounded with smallpox by inexpert doctors before the eruption is -fully developed, or in mild types of smallpox which are often mistaken -for scarlet fever or measles. These facts would therefore seem to -indicate that the excessive smallpox or cowpox vaccinations in the army -may have had some relation to the excessive measles and scarlet fever -as well as to the excessive pneumonia and meningitis; and this point -is worthy of careful consideration, to say the least, and cannot be -consistently or logically ignored by any unbiased student of epidemic -diseases and present-day medical practices. - -I therefore submit, Mr. President, that in the many co-related and -convincing facts above stated, there is surely presented a strong chain -of circumstantial evidence showing that the excessive vaccination in -the Army and Navy may be the cause of the excessive death-rate from -meningitis and pneumonia, and in this showing there is surely to be -found the strongest and most compelling reason why all compulsory -vaccination should now be permanently abolished in the Army and Navy, -and only voluntary vaccination permitted hereafter. - - -THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS ILLUSTRATED. HOW LITTLE CHILDREN ARE -INFECTED AND KILLED BY INFLICTED DISEASE IN THE “SAVAGE RITE” OF -VACCINATION - -[Illustration: FIG. 17. The “Savage Rite” of Vaccination illustrated in -action. - - “The Medicine Man performs his Savage Rites.” - _From Harper’s Weekly, February 24, 1912._ -] - -This picture, with its expressive title, is taken from an old number of -_Harper’s Weekly_ and shows how vaccination commences in the acts of -wounding and infecting the forced, frightened, suffering and protesting -children. The following pages will show how this medical savagery ends -in the disabling and death of so many of our little children all over -this land from blood poisoning in its many different forms, caused -by or resulting from the vaccination. This slaughter of our precious -children now reaches a most serious and shocking figure every year, far -in excess of deaths from smallpox, and this fact is most persistently -and shamefully denied and concealed by our vaccinating doctors, who, -at present, control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics. -Surely this medical savagery, proved by so many flagrant and undeniable -examples in the preceding and following pages, cries out to Human -and to Divine Justice for a Radical Medical Reform, which should be -either the Abolishment of All Vaccination or the Abolishment of All -Compulsion. - - - - - SOME LEAVES FROM - MR. LOYSTER’S PAMPHLET - - “VACCINATION RESULTS IN NEW YORK - STATE IN 1914” - - SHOWING PHOTOS AND PARTICULARS - OF MANY CHILDREN - KILLED BY VACCINATION IN 1914 - - _By_ JAMES A. LOYSTER - CAZENOVIA, N. Y. - - In Memory of his Son - Lewis Freeborn Loyster - - who Died September 21, 1914 - as a sequence of - Vaccination - - _Note._ Mr. Loyster’s full pamphlet contains forty pages - showing fifty-one cases of vaccinal disasters, thirty of which - were fatal. Only about a third of these fatal cases have been - selected for illustration here.--C. M. H. - - -INTRODUCTION - -THE object of this pamphlet is to publish the result of a painstaking -inquiry into the effects of vaccination in the State of New York in -1914. - -My immediate personal interest in the subject is due to the death of my -only son as a result of vaccination. - -I have been a believer in and advocate of vaccination. I was myself -vaccinated in childhood by the arm-to-arm method without ill effects. -It was in accordance with this belief and in an honest effort to -comply with the law that I had my son vaccinated. Even his death did -not entirely shake my faith in the practice, but it led me to make an -investigation of the results of vaccination in New York State in 1914. -Owing to the difficulty of making a canvass in the great cities, no -effort was made to collect statistics in New York and Buffalo, and -but little in Rochester, Syracuse or Albany. My investigations were, -therefore, practically confined to the rural or semi-rural portions of -the State. - -The result has been the gathering of such an appalling story of death -and illness as to completely shatter my belief in the wisdom of -enforced vaccination. - -It should be understood that I am not a physician. This leaves me free -to write with greater frankness in certain instances than would be -permitted to a doctor by the ethics of his profession. - -I desire to be understood as seeking nothing but the common good of -humanity. In the pages that follow I have attempted to write without -bias as far as is humanly possible. Only established facts are -presented; extravagant statements have been avoided; in no single -instance has a quotation been made from an anti-vaccination source. I -have felt that my case is so strong that I could afford to be generous -in my arguments. - -The reader is invited to go over the facts as presented and draw his -own conclusions as to the accuracy of the deductions made. - - JAMES A. LOYSTER. - -Cazenovia, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1915. - - _Note_. In the group pictures on the following pages the star - indicates the victim of vaccination.--C. M. H. - - -CASE No. 1 - -[Illustration: OLIVE CRAMER] - - OLIVE CRAMER, daughter of Fred Cramer, 22 E. State St., - Gloversville, N. Y. - - Age 15. - - Vaccinated July 28 with vaccine “E.” - - Commenced to complain Aug. 24,--27 days from vaccination. - - Died Aug. 27. - - Diagnosis, “Tetanus following Vaccination.” - - This young woman’s health prior to vaccination is reported to - have been “one hundred per cent. perfect.” She commenced to - complain Aug. 24, and was stricken with convulsions Aug. 26. - Death occurred at 11:15 P.M. on Aug. 27. She was conscious - all the time except the last few hours. Jaws were locked and - breathing labored. A brother vaccinated with the same tube of - vaccine was so ill as to require an operation. - - -CASE No. 2 - -[Illustration: FREDERICK W. BOHMWETCH] - - FREDERICK W. BOHMWETCH, son of F. J. Bohmwetch, 308 Eighth St., - Watkins, N. Y. - - Age 10. - - Vaccinated Aug. 5. - - Commenced to complain Aug. 29,--24 days after vaccination. - - Died Sept. 2. - - Diagnosis, “Tetanus.” - - Complained first of stiff neck and arm. Aug. 30 diagnosed as - lockjaw. Three thousand units antitoxin administered. Grew - rapidly worse. Convulsions appeared at 3 A.M., Aug. 31. At 9 - A.M., 10,000 units antitoxin administered; again at 9 P.M. Head - and back drawn back so that three pillows were necessary under - small of back. More antitoxin administered Sept. 1. Unconscious - at noon. Died Sept. 2. - - -CASE No. 3 - -[Illustration: REGINALD SIDNEY SUMSION] - - REGINALD SIDNEY SUMSION, only son of Geo. Sumsion, - Gloversville, N. Y. - - Age 12. - - Vaccinated Aug. 11 with vaccine “E.” - - Died Sept. 11. - - Diagnosis, “Tetanus.” - - This boy was “splendidly healthy.” Never sick except with usual - children’s diseases, until vaccinated. First complained that - the back of his neck and jaw were stiff. On the 7th could not - walk. Convulsions appeared. Antitoxin administered. Removed - to hospital. Convulsions continued very severe. Chloroform - administered. Convulsions continued through the 7th and 8th. - Very weak on afternoon of 9th. Oxygen administered at 6 P.M. - Died 6:45 A.M., Sept. 11. No abrasion of any kind found on body - except vaccination wound. - - -CASE No. 7 - -[Illustration: FREDERICK STINEFOOT] - - FREDERICK STINEFOOT, only son of William H. Stinefoot, No. 226 - Mullett St., Dunkirk, N. Y. - - Age 10. - - Vaccinated Sept. 22. - - Commenced to complain Oct. 5,--13 days from vaccination. - - Died Oct. 13. - - Diagnosed “Tetanus.” - - This child was in splendid health. The night before he was - stricken he was feeling especially well. On Monday morning his - neck was stiff and shoulders all drawn up. Dr. Hallenbeck was - called but he insisted that the family physician be employed. - He was out and Dr. Ellis, the health officer, was called. - The case was diagnosed as tetanus. Convulsions appeared at 6 - o’clock. No serum was available until Tuesday, Oct. 6, about - 10 A.M. A quantity injected intra-spinously. Removed to Brooks - Hospital, Dunkirk, about 4 P.M. same day and died fifteen - minutes after admission. - - -CASE No. 8 - -[Illustration: JAMES LOUIS MURRAY] - - JAMES LOUIS MURRAY, son of James T. Murray, Glen Cove, L. I. - - Age 6. - - Vaccinated Sept. 15, vaccine “H.” - - Commenced to complain Oct. 3,--18 days from vaccination. - - Died Oct. 10. - - Diagnosed “Tetanus.” - - This child had no prolonged period of unconsciousness. He had - convulsions and other typical symptoms of tetanus. His health - is reported good prior to vaccination. - - -CASE No. 18 - -[Illustration: EDWARD JOHNSON] - - EDWARD JOHNSON, son of J. Johnson, No. 65 South St., - Binghamton, N. Y. - - Age 11 years 7 months. - - Vaccinated Aug. 6, vaccine “E.” - - Commenced to complain Aug. 14,--8 days from vaccination. - - Died Aug. 26. - - First diagnosed “Blood Poison.” - - Subsequent diagnosis “Typhoid Meningitis.” - - Patient had been in perfect health prior to vaccination. He was - ordered to hospital for an operation to which parents would not - consent. There were no convulsions. He was unconscious about a - week. Paralysis of the throat a prominent symptom. Breathing - much labored. - - Both this case and No. 17 were subjects of sharp controversy - among doctors and others in the city of Binghamton. There is - no lack of medical opinion as to vaccination having been the - primary cause of illness, but this is stoutly denied by other - physicians. Considered collectively with the similar cases - herewith reported, it seems that there can be little doubt of - their being similar to the rest of the vaccination fatalities. - - -CASE No. 19 - - BELLE HINMAN, daughter of Prof. M. C. Hinman, Tully, N. Y. - - Age 7. - - Vaccinated July 25, vaccine “H.” - - Commenced to complain Aug. 7,--12 days from vaccination. - - Died Aug. 10. - - First diagnosis, “Acute Indigestion.” - - Final diagnosis, “Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.” - -[Illustration: BELLE HINMAN] - -This little girl was also in perfect health and unusually well -developed for age, both physically and mentally. She complained of -feeling ill on Aug. 7 with symptoms indicating a digestive disturbance. -The local physician called it acute indigestion. She soon lapsed -into unconsciousness and never rallied. Expert counsel was called -and case pronounced cerebro-spinal meningitis. A lumbar puncture -disclosed in spinal column a clear fluid under normal pressure. -Cultures were sterile; intra-spinous injection of the Flexner serum -without beneficial effects. Paralysis was extensive, involving the -throat; breathing labored and death due to respiratory insufficiency. -Temperature elevated during entire illness. All symptoms were so -exactly parallel to those of Cases 24 and 25 as to warrant the -suspicion that this, too, was infantile paralysis. - - -CASE No. 20 - -[Illustration: JAMES C. CHURCHILL] - - JAMES C. CHURCHILL, son of Carl F. Churchill, Dolgeville, N. Y. - - Age 5 years 9 months. - - Vaccinated about Feb. 12, vaccine “H.” - - Commenced to complain in a few days. - - Died July 23. - - Diagnosed “Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.” - - This boy had good health until he was vaccinated. He commenced - to complain in a few days and was never well afterwards. He was - unconscious for 10 days before death. Right side paralyzed. - Compare with Cases 19, 24, 25. - - -CASE No. 24 - -[Illustration: WILBUR DOYLE] - - WILBUR DOYLE, son of Ivan Doyle, New Woodstock, Madison County, - N. Y. - - Age 8. - - Vaccinated Aug. 28, vaccine “E.” - - Commenced to complain Sept. 9,--11 days from vaccination. - - Died Sept. 14. - - Diagnosis, “Infantile Paralysis.” - - This boy became unconscious Sept. 9. Temperature nearly 106. - Kidneys involved; necessary to use catheter. Temperature - dropped to about normal for few hours. General paralysis - appeared. Throat paralyzed Sept. 13. Could not swallow. - Temperature again became extremely high, reaching 107.4 rectal - at 3 A.M. on the 13th. Remained unconscious until death, which - occurred at 10:35 P.M. Sept. 14. - -_Note._ The make of vaccine virus used in the different fatal cases -shown herein is indicated by the Code letters “E” and “H.” E indicates -the virus made by the Mulford Company of Philadelphia, and H the -virus made by Parke Davis & Company of Detroit. These were the two -manufacturers whose virus is officially alleged to have caused the -epidemic of Foot and Mouth Disease in 1908. See page 99.--C. M. H. - - -CASE No. 25 - -[Illustration: LEWIS FREEBORN LOYSTER] - - LEWIS FREEBORN LOYSTER, son of James A. Loyster, Cazenovia, - N. Y. - - Age 11. - - Vaccinated Aug. 29, vaccine “E.” - - Commenced to complain Sept. 10,--11 days from vaccination. - - Died Sept. 21. - - Diagnosed “Infantile Paralysis.” - - This boy was the picture of health. To quote the attending - physician, he was “a splendid specimen” physically. On the - night of Sept. 10 he had a bad headache. The next morning - at six was no better. At ten he was found by his mother - unconscious. He was very constipated and slightly nauseated. - Vomited once. Examination of urine showed indican in - considerable quantities. The initial diagnosis was acute - indigestion. Blood examined and found normal except for an - excess of white corpuscles, explained as a natural sequence - of vaccination. Unconsciousness continued. On Sept. 13 lumbar - puncture made. Fluid from spinal cord not under pressure; - perfectly transparent, subject to microscopic and culture - tests; proved absolutely sterile. Case diagnosed as infantile - paralysis of the cerebral type. Temperature very high, ranging - from 104 to 106 rectal. About Sept. 14 throat became paralyzed. - For five days could not swallow a drop. Food administered - through rectum; medicine hypodermically. Paralysis of right leg - and arm appeared about Sept. 17. Lungs filled with thick mucus. - Respiration labored. Slight cyanosis. Small amount of oxygen - administered continually after Sept. 16. Death occurred at - 10:10 P.M. on Sept. 21 from paralysis of respiratory muscles. - Temperature about 107 at death. Microscopic examination of - spinal cord after death confirmed diagnosis as infantile - paralysis. - - -CASE No. 27 - -[Illustration: RUTH A. MINNICK] - - RUTH A. MINNICK, daughter of S. V. Minnick, R. D. No. 2, - Carthage, N. Y. - - Age 10½. - - Vaccinated Sept. 22. - - Commenced to complain Oct. 2,--10 days from vaccination. - - Died Oct. 10. - - Diagnosis, “Infantile Paralysis.” - - This little girl’s health was perfect. She and her older - brother, age 13, were vaccinated on the same day. Both became - ill, the little girl critically so. She had no convulsions; was - unconscious four days; her throat was paralyzed. Death occurred - as stated. The boy was “very sick” with symptoms “much like the - girl,” but recovered. - - -CASE No. 28 - - HOBART MINNICK, son of S. V. Minnick, R. D. No. 2, Carthage. - - Vaccinated Sept. 22. - - Commenced to complain Oct. 2 (10 days). - - Recovered. - - This boy, age 13, brother of Ruth Minnick, was vaccinated - from same capsule as sister who died; was very sick with - symptoms “about like the girl,” but recovered with no serious - consequences. It appears almost certain that this was what - may be called an “abortive” or “arrested” case of infantile - paralysis. The fact that he was vaccinated simultaneously - with his sister, who died of a transparent case of infantile - paralysis, is strong presumptive evidence of a common origin - of the two cases in the vaccine. Cumulative evidence of - this common origin in the virus, and of the possibility of - transmitting infantile paralysis by means of the vaccine - abrasion, is found in a _third case in the same house_, as - follows: - - -CASE No. 29 - - CHARLES S. MINNICK, son of S. V. Minnick, Carthage, N. Y. - - Age 6. - - Vaccinated Oct. 6. - - Commenced to complain Oct. 16,--10 days from vaccination. - - Recovered. - - Diagnosis, “Vaccination.” - - The first unfavorable symptom was kidney trouble. He was - _unconscious and helpless for two weeks_. Breathing labored. - Is recovering slightly crippled. This also seems to be a - transparent case of infantile paralysis. These three cases in - the same house, with identical symptoms, following vaccination - in exactly the same period of time, furnish the most damaging - evidence against vaccine that has been brought to light in the - present investigation. - - -MR. LOYSTER’S ARGUMENT AND PROOF THAT INFANTILE PARALYSIS IS CAUSED BY -VACCINATION - -The theory of the possibility of conveying infantile paralysis through -vaccine abrasions as well as the probability of the vaccine having -contained the germs receives startling confirmation in three cases in -the home of S. V. Minnick of Carthage, reported under numbers 27, 28, -and 29. Ruth, 10½, and Hobart, 13, were vaccinated the same day _from -the same tube of virus_. Both became very sick in just ten days from -vaccination. The boy, being older, recovered, after a severe illness, -with symptoms much like the girl. Ruth died after a plain case of -infantile paralysis, which was so reported by her attending physician. -Four days before the little girl’s death, in compliance with the -demand of the school authorities, the little brother, Charles, age 6, -was vaccinated. In precisely 10 days he, also, became very sick, with -symptoms practically identical with the other two children. He was -_unconscious and helpless_ for two weeks, but recovered with a slight -residual paralysis. He was attended by another physician and the only -diagnosis reported is “vaccination.” - -Simultaneous cases of infantile paralysis in the same family have -hitherto been so rare as to excite comment. Many physicians with large -practice have never had an instance in their entire practice. Here are -_three_ in one house. - -The theory of “subsequent infection” needs extensive “bracing” in this -instance; and then there is Case 19 with onset in 12 days; Case 24, -onset in 11 days; Case 25, onset in 11 days; unquestionably paralysis -cases, with practically identical incubation periods, all contributing -evidence of a common and simultaneous infection. What other possible -common origin except the vaccine virus is it possible to place under -suspicion? It is unthinkable that these children, widely scattered -in different portions of the State, with no history of near-by -paralysis cases, could have each accidentally acquired the germ in the -vaccination wound exactly ten or eleven days from vaccination. Such a -theory presupposes a universal distribution of the poliomyelitis germ -entirely at variance with observation and experience. - - * * * * * - - _Note._ Vaccination is acknowledged to be one of the causes - of Infantile Paralysis by a recent medical authority on this - subject, Dr. Oskar Vulpius, in a book published by Wm. Wood & - Company of New York, 1912.--C. M. H. - - -MR. LOYSTER’S CONCLUSIONS - -It has been the intent of the writer to present facts rather than to -participate in a controversy that is still unsettled after a century -of argument; but as a result of the investigation of over fifty -vaccination disasters and the almost constant study of vaccination -literature for several months, it seems that the following conclusions -are warranted and should be frankly stated: - -(1) Vaccination has been the cause, directly or indirectly, of the -death of at least fifty children in New York State in 1914. The record -herewith printed gives only the cases occurring in rural or suburban -districts. Neither the time nor means were at hand to make a canvas of -the cities. While only 27 fatalities are here recorded, some of which -are not clearly proven, it is believed that were the figures from the -cities obtainable, possible errors in the list would be more than -offset and enough reported to swell the total to the number given. - -(2) In addition to the deaths an appalling trail of illness has -followed vaccination. It has been entirely beyond the scope of this -publication to print even a partial record of these cases. - -(3) The cost in illness and destruction of child life is entirely -out of proportion to the amount of protection against smallpox that -is attained or needed. There were but three deaths from smallpox in -the entire State, including Greater New York, in 1914. In one rural -district twenty miles in diameter, where four children died from -vaccination, there has not been a single case of smallpox within the -memory of any person now living. - -(4) Vaccination of children is wrong in principle, is not in harmony -with the trend of the best medical practice and should be abandoned. -It is being more clearly understood every day that many of the serious -ills of later years are directly traceable to the so-called children’s -diseases. Whereas the tendency was once to encourage the having of -such diseases so as to “have them over with,” the tendency now is to -keep the child just as free from them as can be, and postpone them to -as late an age as possible. A normal vaccination is as serious as some -of the diseases of childhood, without taking into further account its -sinister possibilities. - - * * * * * - - _Note._ I have a few hundred copies of Mr. Loyster’s valuable - pamphlet now in hand, and can furnish full copies, on request, - for ten cents each to cover cost and postage. The substance of - the pamphlet is, however, embodied in the preceding pages.--C. - M. H. - - -A CRY FOR HELP! HARROWING PERSONAL LETTERS FROM VICTIMS OF VACCINATION. -MEDICAL EVIL OF COMPULSORY DISEASE, CAUSING DEFORMITY AND DEATH IN -SCHOOL CHILDREN AND OTHERS, DENOUNCED AND REFORM DEMANDED - -I have received many touching personal letters, during the past few -years, from victims of vaccination and from parents of slaughtered and -deformed children, and I now submit extracts from some of these letters -to show the horrible nature and extent of this evil and the strong -call that is going up all over this country for help to abolish this -evil. And this call must surely appeal to every humanized mind, lay or -medical, and particularly to all such minds in public place or power, -to do what they can for the investigation and legal suppression of this -barbarous medical crime of compulsory disease, which is now required -by an evil doctor-made law as a condition for entrance to our public -schools and for service in the Army and Navy. - - _No. 1._ Having read your article in last night’s paper on the - dangers of vaccination I want to compliment you on the work of - enlightening the masses that you and your league are doing. - Both my brother and I are victims of vaccination, having, as - children, after such an inoculation developed a severe disease - of the eyes which has left both my brother’s eyes seriously - impaired, and has left me with a _scar_ directly in front of - the pupil of my right eye, obstructing the vision. Enough - cannot be said to expose the folly of this barbarous practice - of poisoning healthy human beings.--Mr. M., New York City, May - 5, 1914. - - _No. 2._ After reading your Warning against having children - vaccinated I thought I would take the liberty to write you. I - was always against vaccination, but was told my little girl - could not enter the Public School unless I had her vaccinated, - so I had our own Doctor come in. Before she was vaccinated - she was perfectly well, but her arm turned black and she was - out of her head at times. We were both afraid she would have - blood poison, poor child suffered so. Her picture will show - how healthy she was and the good care she got. But a short - time after her arm got better she got malignant scarlet fever, - and in twenty-four hours she was gone. I shall always lay it - to the vaccination. I hope the time will come when the Health - Board will see the mistake and allow children to go to school - without having that vile stuff put in their healthy bodies. If - I had another child I would keep it from school if it had to be - vaccinated. I sincerely hope others will help you in your good - work against vaccination.--Mrs. S., Brooklyn, N. Y., May 6, - 1914. - - _No. 3._ I know of a family in Poughkeepsie, three in number, - who are terrible victims of vaccination, father and son - cripples, and mother insane from grief. They have lost their - home owing to the expense of operations caused from effects of - vaccination.--Mrs. T., Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1914. - - _No. 4._ I have been told by some people that the visiting - officer would vaccinate against any one’s wishes. I saw a - few cases vaccinated last school term and they have not been - able to attend school in one year. One child was so sick they - had a doctor for four months every day, and is a cripple for - life. Her head is drawn to one side. Another died of blood - poison.--Mrs. V. D., Tivoli, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1914. - - _No. 5._ I am in earnest accord with your article in to-day’s - paper. There are many deaths caused by vaccination and the - blame placed on something else. For instance, my boy James - was vaccinated in Chicago some years ago. He was eight years - of age. A week after the vaccination his feet and limbs began - to swell and pain him. Then he took so sick that I called in - Chicago’s most noted physicians and specialists to consult on - the case. They dosed, anointed, injected and did many things - trying to counteract the poison, but all to no avail. The - blessed, innocent little boy suffered the tortures of the - damned; he wasted away and died in horrible agony. The doctor - made out his death certificate, giving the case as “heart - failure.” Now I have another boy eight years of age and I will - go through hell before I will suffer him to have the matter - taken from a festering sore of a cow and injected into his - blood. What course must I pursue to defeat vaccination in this - case?--Mr. O., New York City, Sept. 5, 1914. - - _No. 6._ I have a little boy eight years old. When he was four - I found I had to have him vaccinated. I took him to my mother’s - family doctor. He had been our doctor for forty years and - always had great faith in him, and he vaccinated my little boy - who was very strong and healthy. It went into blood poison, his - little arm was so big and swollen, he got feverish and sick and - our doctor was there every day for about a month and he was - not getting any better and finally he told me I had better get - another doctor, that he could do no more and my boy was getting - very bad. I went and got a special doctor. He ordered my boy - taken to a hospital, and there he was, did not know what minute - they would have to cut his little arm off to save his life and - so sick did not know what minute he might die. I don’t know - of any sickness that would be worse than that was. I cannot - describe it in a letter, and ever since he has not been well, - he is so thin and pale and gets tired so easy. I know it is all - on account of that vaccination and now I have two little girls, - twins two years old. I don’t know what I would do if I had to - have them vaccinated, which is indeed barbarous. I do not wish - to see any one vaccinated again and suffer as my little boy - did, his arm is thinner and weaker than the other one is. I do - hope something can be done so our little children won’t have to - be vaccinated.--Mrs. J., Herkimer, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1914. - - _No. 7._ I was made an invalid and helpless for a number of - years from the effects of vaccination while attending College - at Boston, Mass. If I can do anything to help you put out this - practice I will be only too glad to write and give you my - experience in full. It put me out of teaching and earning my - living for ten years.--Miss S., Hoosick, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1914. - - _No. 8._ In answer to your kind letter expressing your deep - sympathy for the loss of my two boys, I thank you, and will - try and enlighten you the best I can. The virus that was used - to vaccinate my children was the product of H. K. Mulford Co. - of Philadelphia. My family doctor and the consulting physician - diagnosed the case as Tetanus, caused by the virus. The - children were hurried to the Penna. Hospital at Philadelphia, - where the hospital physicians made the same statement. Chas. - and Fred were two very healthy boys, never had a sick day, that - is, to require the services of a doctor, they were vaccinated - Sept. 2d, showed no signs of illness. Monday evening, Sept. - 27th, complained of sore throat, Tuesday grew worse, bodies - began to get rigid. Operated on about 5:30 and given Antitoxin. - Died 2:35 and 5:25 Wednesday A.M. In talking with a Mr. C. who - is investigating the matter, he claims that a person who has - been vaccinated may have smallpox and not show it outwardly, so - that the preventive is as bad as the disease, and I consider it - an unnecessary operation forced upon the people.--Mr. H. P., - Burlington, N. J., Oct. 7, 1915. - -To this last letter the following answer was sent: - - Dear Sir: I thank you very much for your kind letter of - Oct. 7th, giving me particulars as to the death of your two - precious little boys from lockjaw caused by vaccination, and I - hardly know how to express my horror at this misfortune and - my sympathy with you in what, as you say, was an “entirely - unnecessary operation forced upon the people”: but I have - now determined, from a knowledge of a large number of cases - like yours, which are occurring all over the country, to do - everything I can for the balance of my life to bring about the - repeal and prohibition of all compulsory vaccination in every - shape and form as nothing less than a medical crime on the - people. Within the last week three children have been killed in - our own city from this evil. - - I have spent fully twenty-five thousand dollars in the last - year in a newspaper campaign in our State to enlighten the - people as to the great falsehoods and fatalities of compulsory - vaccination and to bring about the repeal of the law, but the - medical powers in the State, which profit by vaccination, had - too much influence in the legislature and the law was only - slightly altered, so as to take compulsory vaccination off the - country districts and put it stronger on the ten large cities - in the State where the enforcement of the law will be more - profitable to the vaccinators. This new law is, however, so bad - and illegal that I think it can be easily invalidated in our - courts, and I shall continue to fight it until it is completely - removed from our statute books as one of the greatest outrages - on children ever committed by man. - - I believe that a special act should be passed by our - legislatures to indemnify all parents whose children have been - killed by these dangerous and unnecessary medical operations - forced upon the people by an unwise law, and I will endeavor to - have such an act introduced in our State at the next session of - our legislature and would suggest that you propose a similar - law in your own State. - - (Signed) CHAS. M. HIGGINS. - Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1915. - - - - -LETTER FROM AN AGGRIEVED FATHER ON THE DEATH OF HIS LITTLE BOY FROM -VACCINATION - - 4913 Church Avenue, Flatbush, - Brooklyn, N. Y., July 27, 1915. - - Hon. ELIHU ROOT, - President Constitutional Convention, - Albany, N. Y. - - Sir: - - On October 16, 1914, I was compelled by the Board of Education - of New York to have my son, Chester Stanley Waters, vaccinated - as a condition to enter school. - - The operation was performed by a Board of Health Doctor in - Public School No. 135, Flatbush, Brooklyn, on that date. - - On November 8, 1914, my son was taken sick with Tetanus, a - direct result of that compulsory vaccination. - - I called in our family physician, Dr. A. R. Addy, 208 Lenox - Road, Flatbush, who examined my boy, found a large vaccination - wound containing a very considerable quantity of pus. Having - removed this and cauterized the wound, diagnosed the case - as Tetanus and advised his immediate removal to Kings Co. - Hospital, which was done. - - He died in Hospital on November 14, 1914, inflicting upon me a - punishment beyond words to describe. - - A poison of the most vile kind was injected into the pure, - clean blood of my beautiful, healthy little boy (seven years - of age), destroying his young life, bringing death to him in a - most horrible manner. - - I learn you are engaged on an Amendment to the Constitution - to remove compulsory vaccination as a condition to enter - school and receive education, and I would most earnestly urge - you to adopt such an Amendment. My boy was killed by the - enforced vaccination, killed as a condition for exercising his - _inalienable right to receive education_. - - I appeal to you, myself, a stricken father, punished beyond - description, to save other fathers and mothers from such an - awful fate as has been inflicted upon me. - - Trusting God will guide you and your associates, engaged in - this work, to see the frightfulness and utter uselessness of - this abominable law and adopt an Amendment sufficiently strong - in our State Constitution to wipe it out forever. - - Protect our children! - - Yours very respectfully, - (Signed) R. C. WATERS. - - _Note._ The Convention failed to adopt any Amendment concerning - vaccination, and all the Amendments which it did recommend were - defeated by popular vote at the next election.--C. M. H. - - -PROPOSED LAW TO COMPENSATE PARENTS FOR INJURY TO OR DEATH OF VACCINATED -CHILDREN - -As suggested in a previous page, there should be a special act passed -by every State, which now requires compulsory vaccination in any form, -to indemnify parents or relatives for any injury or death caused by -vaccination forced on children or other victims by such unwise law -as requires the general infliction of a compulsory disease upon the -people. This law has been originated by medical dogmatism and is -continued by medical interest and falsehood, as already shown, and is -of great actual profit to doctors and virus makers, but is truly “A -Menace to the State.” On this point see the Statue of Wisdom and Law -in the frontispiece, with its wise motto which stands as a distinct -rebuke to this evil law which either should be repealed or compensated -by a remedial act passed for the relief of its many victims as here -suggested, for, surely, “Every Law not Based on Wisdom is a Menace to -the State.” - - -SHOCKING MEDICAL MENDACITY, ON THE ALLEGED HARMLESSNESS OF VACCINATION - -I might continue here for hundreds of pages to report “ad nauseam” -shocking instances of vaccination horrors such as already shown. -Indeed, I am not sure but I may have already reached, for the average -reader, the point of “ad nauseam” in the many horrible instances now -exposed. But I believe I could go on in this exposure to the point “ad -infinitum” if all the deadly results of vaccination could be brought to -public light which are now hermetically concealed by our professionally -interested partisans of vaccination who now control our Departments of -Health and Vital Statistics and can conceal their grave mistakes as -they please. - -Physically shocking as are the vaccination horrors which I have already -exposed, they are not, morally, so shocking as the awful medical -mendacity or ignorance and presumption which constantly asserts the -perfect harmlessness of vaccination and denies its responsibility for -frequent disastrous effects on human health and life. - -I will now give some examples of this gross medical mendacity from -some of the so-called high medical authorities as found in Government -Reports, Health Department Bulletins, leading Encyclopedias and Medical -Books in this country and England which will clearly illustrate my -serious charge and show that, usually, the higher the alleged authority -is, the more false and exaggerated his statements are, and the more -easily refuted, as I will soon prove. - - -THE PHILIPPINE FALSEHOOD - -There is one Government Report on vaccination in the Philippine -Islands, which is often quoted by vaccinators to show the utter -harmlessness of vaccination, which claims that from three to five -millions of vaccinations have been performed on the population of the -Philippines, _without a single injury or death_! Now, this reckless -report might be made correct if slightly amended by the Goddess of -Truth to read as follows: “Three to five millions vaccinated without a -single injury or death”--_which has ever been honestly acknowledged_! -It is, of course, shamefully false on its face to say that three to -five millions of vaccinations were ever inflicted in the Philippines -or anywhere else without any injuries or deaths; and the mind which -can accept such a statement without a big logical and moral squirm -does not understand the real nature of vaccination, the facts of vital -statistics, or the first principles of mere mathematical chances, -proportions and probabilities, as I will now show. - -In the first place, a million is such a gigantic number that any person -who has any disrespect for or trifles with it is not fit to discuss -this subject. For example: if a man were to live for a million days he -would have to be about three thousand years old! Whereas the average -life of a man is much less than fifty years or about one-sixtieth of -a million days! Now, if a man were to subject himself for the whole -average lifetime of fifty years, or one-sixtieth of a million days, -to the ordinary, benign, and necessary conditions of breathing air, -drinking water and milk and eating food, he could not possibly do -this without at some time contracting some disease and possible death -from these perfectly normal, necessary, and benign conditions of -breathing, eating and drinking, as most of our diseases and infections -are admittedly contracted through these three benign sources! Yet our -Government-trifler in millions wants us to believe that you could -inflict on the human body--millions of times--not a purely benign -action, but the purely and doubly malign act of vaccination, which -consists in first wounding the body and then injecting into this wound -a virulent septicemic infection, without causing a single injury or -death! In other words, the doubly malign act--wounding and infecting -the human body with a complex pus infection--is utterly harmless and -less injurious than the purely benign acts of breathing, eating and -drinking, which demonstrably cannot be practised for one-sixtieth of a -million days by any human being without a possible serious injury or -death! - -Here is surely the “reductio ad absurdum” which shows that such a -reckless statement of the harmlessness of vaccination by the millions -is, of course, a stupid and shameful medical falsehood on its face -and is pretty close to being a medical crime on the people, as any -honest doctor or intelligent layman must know who has given any serious -consideration to this subject, or who has any idea of what vaccination -is, or who knows anything of disease infections, vital statistics and -the laws of mere mathematical chances and probabilities. - -Indeed, every competent doctor knows that you could not subject the -human body to a mere pin scratch for a million times without causing -several serious injuries or possible deaths from resulting infections. -And every competent doctor and student of vital statistics knows -also that there are actually more deaths caused every year by mere -pin scratches and trifling cuts, wounds and abrasions, resulting in -lockjaw, septicemia, erysipelas and other infections than from the -dreaded smallpox itself. - -Is it not, therefore, rather strange, Mr. President, that vaccination -should be reported as so utterly harmless in the distant Philippines, -where we can not easily get at the records, when we know it is so -deadly in the near-by England and America, where the accessible -records show that it causes, frequently, more deaths than smallpox, -as I have already proved? For example: the great English Commission -on Vaccination found that deaths from vaccination were sometimes as -high as seventy deaths per million vaccinated. This is twice as high -as the mortality from smallpox in the United States, which for five -years, from 1901 to 1905, including our last great epidemic period of -1901 and 1902, averaged only thirty-four deaths per million population! -See U. S. Mortality Statistics for 1907, page 40. The Reports of the -Registrar General of England for 1906, 1907 and 1908 give a death-rate -from infantile vaccination in those years which runs as high as -forty-two deaths per million children vaccinated! Here we see that, -according to some of our highest statistical authorities, vaccination -is not harmless, but is so very harmful that its ratio of mortality per -million vaccinated is sometimes twice as great as the ratio of smallpox -mortality per million population, and including an epidemic period! - -We therefore think, Mr. President, that these points and facts make -sufficient answer to, and refutation of, the shocking medical lie that -vaccination is perfectly harmless, and, per contra, prove that general -vaccination is actually more dangerous to public health and human life -to-day than natural smallpox, just as that great medical blunder of a -past century--smallpox inoculation--was proved to be more dangerous -than the natural disease and was finally prohibited by penal law. And I -feel sure that compulsory vaccination will follow the same course and -be legally prohibited for the same reason in the present century. - - -HEALTH DEPARTMENT FALSEHOODS - -As a lifelong student of this subject I have become convinced that the -whole cult and practice of general public vaccination and particularly -all compulsory vaccination, like all great intrenched evils, has -originated in falsehood, has continued in falsehood, and now exists -on both falsehood and concealment, viz.: falsehood as to its absolute -efficiency and certainty in protecting the individual against smallpox; -falsehood as to the necessity of general vaccination to prevent -smallpox epidemics; and gross falsehood as to its perfect safety and -freedom from danger to human health and life. - -Now, I do not think that I have ever seen a grosser illustration of -the truth of this charge than can be found in the special article on -Vaccination published in the _Monthly Bulletin_ or _Health News_ for -February, 1914, issued by the New York State Department of Health -at Albany, which contains what I believe to be shocking falsehoods, -fallacies, and exaggerations which even a tyro in the investigation -of this subject could easily refute, as I will now show. All these -fallacies have been issued with an air of gospel truth, to instruct the -public, and to try to justify the extreme efforts of our department -officers and medical doctors to force compulsory vaccination on -every child and adult in this State as not only absolutely necessary -for public health, but as the only known means to prevent smallpox -epidemics, and as being an operation which is wholly beneficial and -entirely safe and harmless to human health and life. I shall now give -examples of the chief and worst of these medical falsehoods and follow -with their refutation, as a duty clearly due to public truth and right. - -FIRST FALSEHOOD: This official Bulletin at page 48 tells us concerning -the alleged efficiency and necessity of vaccination as follows: - - “Nothing but vaccination can save from smallpox.... Cleanliness - and general sanitation exert absolutely no influence upon its - prevalence.” - -This is about as shocking, absurd and false as it can be, and coming -from our highest State health officer is certainly not creditable to -our public health service, but is so obviously absurd and untenable -as to refute itself on its very face. This paragraph tells us, in -effect, that dense human overcrowding, with personal and public filth -spread everywhere, no sanitation or isolation anywhere, and every case -of smallpox left loose and at large to spread by direct contact to -every child and adult and thus infect every one right and left, as in -the old unsanitary times of big and frequent epidemics--all this, our -Health Commissioner coolly tells us, would not make a bit of difference -in the spread of the disease! And, per contra, the prevention of all -these vile unsanitary conditions of barbarous times, with or without -vaccination, would have no effect whatever to reduce the disease! - -Now, of course, every person of any common sense or knowledge simply -knows that these propositions are absurdly false on their face, and -that we need pay no further attention to them, except to show by such -horrible examples how foolish and desperate the falsehoods are that -are resorted to by some doctors and health officers to try to force -this dangerous medical evil of compulsory disease on every child and -adult, and that on such falsehoods it is essentially based. Every -unbiased student of this subject knows that efficient sanitation and -hygiene have been the most effectual means for preventing and reducing -all diseases and promoting public health during the last half century -and that, as a matter of fact, no serious reduction of smallpox or -typhoid fever has been effected in modern times except through general -sanitation and hygiene, with or without vaccination. - -SECOND FALSEHOOD: The next major fallacy in this State Department -Bulletin relates to the alleged perfect safety of vaccination, as -follows: - - “There is not the slightest risk in the process of vaccination - when it is carried out with clean virus (now guaranteed by - Government inspection) and when the vaccination itself is kept - clean. ‘Sore arms’ come from dirt getting into the vaccination, - not from the vaccine itself.” - -Now, if the man who wrote this falsehood knows anything extensive on -this subject, he must know that what he states here is not true. And he -knows also that the government does not really guarantee any virus, and -that no such thing as “clean” virus is now, or ever was, made or can be -made; that is, no virus without some, or many, dangerous suppurative -disease germs of one kind or another, known or unknown, which will -not be likely, some time or other, in some persons, to bring about -a dangerous infection of the system with possible serious or fatal -injury, and that, as a matter of fact, such infections are occurring -constantly in children and adults from the various existing brands of -“clean,” “inspected,” and “certified” virus now in use. Furthermore, as -to this evil being caused only by “dirt” getting into the wound, this -audacious writer must also know that this dangerous or fatal infection -can and does come into the wound both directly as a “primary” infection -from the virus itself, and as a “secondary” infection from “dirt” in -or about the wound, and he must know very well, if at all competent -to write on this subject for public instruction, that one kind of -infection is about as common and as fatal as the other, and that both -are almost equally chargeable to the operation of vaccination itself, -so that to contend otherwise is merely a cowardly evasion of the truth, -as has been fully proved by the shocking exhibits of vaccination -horrors shown herein. - - -FALSEHOODS FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS - -From the article on Vaccination in one of our leading American books of -reference, the “International Encyclopedia,” published by Dodd, Mead & -Co. in 1904, I take this surprising gem of falsehood, as follows: - - “_There is absolutely no danger of transmitting disease by - means of bovine virus._” - -Please note that the author of this falsehood is not content with -saying merely that there is _no danger_, but _absolutely_ no danger. -And when he was asked for an explanation or “authority” for this -outrageous statement, this is what he answered: - - “You ask for the authority for the statement in the - International Encyclopedia: ‘There is absolutely no danger of - transmitting disease by means of bovine virus.’ - - “I cannot refer you to an authoritative work on medicine where - this statement can be found, but it is commonly repeated by - professors of medicine to students, and was put away in my - memory as an established fact many years ago.” - -The rank stupidity and falsity of the statement first quoted will -be evident when we recite the fact that _the very basic purpose and -function_ of the bovine virus is _to transmit the disease cow-smallpox -from calves to man_, as an alleged preventive of another disease, -natural smallpox, and yet this high medical authority, writing for -the information of the trusting public in one of our leading books -of reference, solemnly tells us that it is absolutely impossible to -transmit any disease by it, and that this doctrine has been preached -to students for years _as an established fact_! If, however, he meant -to say that it is absolutely impossible to transmit any other disease -besides cow-smallpox or “vaccinia,” this statement would, of course, -be equally false. Even of such generally harmless and benign mediums -as _air_, _water_ and _milk_, it could not be sanely or truthfully -said by any one that “_there is absolutely no danger of transmitting -disease_” by them, for we all know that some of the most common and -fatal diseases are often transmitted by these very benign mediums, -air, water and milk. But to make such a reckless statement about a -dangerous complicated _disease culture or virus_, a revolting _extract -of pustules_, is not only grossly _untruthful_, but it is hardly even -_sane_; yet this is a good sample of some of the statements with which -our _high medical authorities_ have misled the trusting public mind. -And speaking of “sanity,” it may provide us with a rather laughable -emotion, at this point in our very grave subject, if I now cite the -fact that at the time this high medical authority made this most false -and absurd statement, as to the utter harmlessness of vaccination, he -actually held the most high and significant office of--“_President of -the New York State Commission on Lunacy_”! - - -THE ERRORS IN THE BRITANNICA - -The article on Vaccination in the Encyclopedia Britannica, in the old -edition preceding the last or current edition, was written by Dr. -Chas. Creighton of London, a well known English doctor who, by long -study, has become an opponent of vaccination, and is the author of -several books exposing its fallacies. When Dr. Creighton first got -the commission to write the article for the Encyclopedia he was a -pro-vaccinist, like many other doctors, but to fit himself to write -a full and impartial article which would give both sides of the -subject he resolved to make a thorough study of it, pro and con. This -study convinced him of the dangerous nature of vaccination to health -and life, its limited or exaggerated value as a protection against -smallpox, and its illogical or unscientific basis as a medical remedy; -and his critical article on this subject, when it first appeared in the -leading Encyclopedia, made a sensation in the medical world and has -been a thorn in the side of pro-vaccinists ever since. - -Now, what will impartial students of this subject say when I cite the -fact that the article on Vaccination in the last or current edition -of the Britannica is written, not by a man who is impartial and -professionally disinterested in the subject, as was Dr. Creighton, -and who tried to give both sides of the subject freely, but, on the -contrary, by a man who is actually _a manufacturer or inventor of -vaccine virus_ and has, therefore, necessarily, a professional interest -and bias to conceal the failures and dangers of vaccination as far -as he can? Surely, the editors of the Britannica made a great moral -and logical mistake when they selected any man to write so important -an article on a much disputed subject in this great book of reference -who had any professional or other interest or bias in this subject. -Now, the biased and interested author of this article in the last -edition is none other than Dr. S. Monckton Copeman of London, a strong -pro-vaccinist, who claims to be the original inventor of the so-called -“_glycerinated virus_” now in general use for vaccination. The idea of -adding glycerine to the virus is to kill the many dangerous disease -germs or infections it is known to contain, but to preserve the germ -of smallpox, or “cowpox” intact. This is, of course, an admission that -before the use of glycerinated virus vaccination was very dangerous -and likely to cause many infections in the human body, but since the -adoption of glycerinated virus--Dr. Copeman’s invention--it is now -claimed that vaccination is rendered safe and harmless. This is, of -course, a false claim, as I have already shown, and will further show -in a succeeding paragraph. - -Now, this greatly biased and one-sided article of Dr. Copeman--the -maker or inventor of glycerinated virus--in our greatest Encyclopedia, -is surely a good illustration of my charge that the trusting public -mind is constantly misled, whether intentionally or unintentionally -I know not, by some of our highest medical authorities on the -whole subject of vaccination, and particularly as to its alleged -harmlessness. Thus, when Dr. Copeman, who is regarded as one of the -leading authorities on modern vaccination, comes to consider the -dangers of vaccination, he heads his paragraph, “Alleged Injurious -Effects,” thus implying that the injuries are only “alleged” and not -real, and he goes on to argue or imply that--due to his invention--the -dangers and injuries are now trifling or negligible, but tacitly admits -or implies that before his invention of glycerinated virus the dangers -were very serious, whereas, with his invention, vaccination is now -practically safe and harmless. - -Now, what must we think of the truth of this claim that vaccination -with glycerinated virus is now safe and harmless, when, at the very -time that its inventor made or implied this claim in the pages of the -Encyclopedia, in the year 1910 or 1911, the vital records of his own -country, in the reports of the Registrar General of England for those -two years, showed that there were eight deaths from vaccination in the -year 1910, and fourteen deaths from vaccination in 1911! And these -fatal vaccinations were, of course, all made with the glycerinated -virus as, practically, no other kind is now used! These vaccination -deaths were all in little children under five years and they exceeded -the deaths from smallpox in the same age class by fourfold in 1910 and -by threefold in 1911! That is, the deaths from vaccination under five -years were eight in 1910 and fourteen in 1911; while the deaths from -smallpox under five years were two in 1910 and five in 1911! The total -deaths from smallpox in all ages were nineteen in 1910 and twenty-three -in 1911. - -The four years preceding 1910 show even a worse record for vaccinal -mortality than the record of 1910 and 1911, so that the record of -those two years cannot be claimed as anything special or unusual. -For example, the reports of the Registrar General for 1906, 1907 -and 1908 show a total of only six deaths for these three years -from smallpox in the infant ages under five years--the ages most -susceptible to smallpox--while for the same infant ages there is a -total of fifty-three deaths for the same three years from cowpox or -vaccination--nine times more infant deaths from vaccination than from -smallpox! In 1909 there is reported only one infant death from smallpox -and eleven infant deaths from vaccination! - -This shocking record of vaccination deaths clearly shows that the -famous glycerinated vaccination of Dr. Copeman, which he virtually -claims to be so safe and harmless, in our greatest book of public -reference, is actually from three to ten times more fatal to children -than natural smallpox, as proved by the vital records of his own -country and by the highest statistical authority in the world! Surely, -Mr. President, in such crushing counter facts as these, my charge -of a shocking deception of the public mind, either intentional or -unintentional, on the merits of vaccination by our highest medical and -literary authorities, is flatly proved. - - -THE ERRORS OF DR. M. J. ROSENAU, A HIGH MEDICAL AUTHORITY, ON THE -RELATIVE HARMLESSNESS OF VACCINATION - -We now come to a different style of medical falsehood on the effects -of vaccination which, while honestly admitting its dangerous nature, -yet tries to minimize the dangers as much as possible and reduce them -to the relatively immaterial. This is a shameful equivocation of the -truth and an absurd contradiction of facts, as I will now prove out -of the mouth of the apologist himself. I now refer to the statements -of Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, who is one of our highest authorities in -this country on vaccination and other special medical subjects. He was -for several years Director of the United States Hygienic Laboratory -at Washington, where he made many investigations into the nature of -vaccine virus, its impurities, dangers, etc., and has made official -reports on different subjects for the said Laboratory and for the -United States Public Health Service. He is now professor of Preventive -Medicine and Hygiene in Harvard University, and is the author of -several books, one of which, “Preventive Medicine and Hygiene,” -published by D. Appleton & Co. in 1914, I will now quote from. In this -book, on page 19, under the head of “Dangers and Complications” of -vaccination, Dr. Rosenau states as follows: - - “However, vaccination is not always a harmless procedure; it - must be looked upon as the production of an acute infectious - disease, and, although the disease is always mild and trivial, - it must not be treated as trifling. The chief danger lies in - the fact that we have produced an open wound, which is subject - to the complications of any wound. Even a pin prick or a razor - scratch may result in death. While the aggregate number of - deaths resulting from the complications of vaccination may be - considerable, the aggregate of the individual risk is so small - as to be disregarded, especially when proper precautions are - taken.” - -Here, surely, are some honest admissions and some queer denials, and -I would now kindly ask you, Mr. President, to re-read this quotation -carefully, and I think you will find it an interesting verbal and -psychological study, showing the typical sophistry and casuistry of -the whole vaccination cult which well illustrates a witty saying of -the late Elbert Hubbard, who was a great student and opponent of -vaccination, viz.: “The great trouble with vaccination is that it -vaccinates the mind.” And he meant by this that the poison which the -vaccinators put into the blood of their victims seems to react morally -on themselves so that it poisons and blinds their minds and renders -them unable to see their own shocking absurdities and mendacities in -their false excuses and defences for the serious evils of vaccination. -The great Gladstone was reported to have said that he was led to -oppose compulsory vaccination not so much by the arguments of the -anti-vaccinists as from the falsehoods of the vaccinators. - -You will note that all the medical authorities previously quoted assert -positively that vaccination is perfectly safe and harmless and never -causes any serious injury or death, except what might be due to the -carelessness of the vaccinated persons themselves, which statement I -have proved by overwhelming evidence to be a most outrageous medical -falsehood. Per contra, the last medical authority quoted honestly -admits that vaccination is not always harmless and that it always -consists in inflicting an acute infectious disease on the human body, -but that this inflicted disease practically never does any harm and may -be disregarded. In other words, the policy of this medical authority -and high representative of the vaccination cult, in the statement -quoted, seems to be to honestly admit all he dare, and gracefully deny -all he can! And for this honesty we must give him a layman’s thanks, -for he does really admit a great deal, and where he attempts to deny he -really admits more, as I will soon show. - -Now, it is obvious that the infliction of “an acute infectious -disease,” deliberately and extensively, on the human body, is a -vicious and dangerous practice, per se and prima facie, and cannot -be continued indefinitely without serious injuries, as I have already -proved, and hence Dr. Rosenau contradicts himself at the very outset -in his statement or apology for vaccination. In his next phrase he -makes the still more surprising statement that this inflicted disease -is “_always mild and trivial_,” which assertion is undoubtedly a -falsehood! And Dr. Rosenau must know as well as any doctor or layman -in this country that this assertion is false, and per contra that this -inflicted disease--vaccination--is sometimes very severe and fatal and -far worse than natural smallpox itself, and that it often causes more -annual deaths than smallpox, as I have already proved by overwhelming -evidence and by the highest statistical records in the world! I would, -therefore, here respectfully suggest that Dr. Rosenau make some -apology to his readers for this falsehood or mistake, and correct this -statement as soon as possible in the next edition of his book. - -To emphasize and dispose of this serious error of Dr. Rosenau I will -now show out of his own mouth how he stultifies and contradicts -himself, and logically admits that vaccination is not “always mild and -trivial,” but is often quite dangerous and fatal. For example, he says: - - “And although the disease is always mild and trivial, yet it - must not be treated as trifling.” - -This phrase, just quoted, is, surely, a rich verbal and logical study -of medical sophistry and equivocation. Vaccination, this medical -champion tells us, is always a “trivial” disease, but it is not a -“trifling” disease. This is morally and logically equivalent to -telling us that vaccination _is trivial_ and it _is not trivial_! In -other words, he asserts in one breath what he denies in the next, or -contradicts himself in successive breaths! This is so, because the -dictionaries show that the two words “trifling” and “trivial” have -exactly the same meaning and are synonymous and identical, so that -“trivial” is defined as “trifling,” and “trifling” is defined as -“trivial.” This, therefore, morally and logically, means a confession -out of his own mouth that the inflicted disease, vaccination, is not -always either trivial or trifling, but is often very dangerous and -deadly, which is, of course, the exact and demonstrable truth, and the -scholarly Dr. Rosenau is the last man who can plead ignorance of this -truth. Indeed, in another paragraph of his contradictory statement, -he absolutely acknowledges this serious danger of vaccination while -apparently trying to conceal or deny it. For example, he makes this -conclusive and crushing admission that: - - “While the aggregate number of deaths resulting from the - complications of vaccination may be considerable, the aggregate - of the individual risk is so small as to be disregarded.” - -Now, if the aggregate number of deaths from vaccination is -“_considerable_,” then it is clearly proved, out of his own mouth, -that vaccination is not always mild or trivial, but just the opposite, -viz., _frequently very dangerous and deadly_, thus again proving the -case against vaccination out of the mouth of its own defenders! As to -the quibble or sophistry that “_the aggregate of the individual risk is -so small as to be disregarded_,” this is also a fallacy and falsehood, -because this cannot be really true if the aggregate number of deaths -is so “considerable,” and particularly not when we have shown that the -deaths from vaccination frequently exceed the deaths from smallpox, as -this proves that the individual risk from general vaccination is far -greater than from natural smallpox, and, therefore, in the long run, -vaccination is as much to be avoided as smallpox if not more so. - -Webster’s Dictionary gives three meanings for “Considerable,” as -follows: “Worthy of consideration”; “notable”; “rather large in amount.” - -The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary gives the meaning of -“Considerable” as: “Of noteworthy size, quantity or importance.” - -It will therefore be seen that Dr. Rosenau, necessarily and logically, -admits that the deaths and injuries from vaccination are not “trivial” -but “rather large in amount,” and “of noteworthy size, quantity or -importance,” thus proving our case out of the mouth of our opponents. - - -JENNER’S GREAT FALSEHOODS. THE ORIGINAL MENDACITIES OF VACCINATION -EXPOSED - -No chapter on the mendacities of vaccination would be complete without -including the great foundation and monumental falsehoods of Dr. Edward -Jenner, who was the alleged “discoverer” or inventor of “Vaccination,” -by which term is meant the inoculation of cowpox from cow to man and -thence from arm to arm, in distinction from the old direct smallpox -inoculation from human to human; and it may now be interesting and -profitable to devote a few paragraphs to these great falsehoods of the -arch-vaccinator himself. - -Jenner’s original claims for vaccination were stated, positively, in -his Petition to Parliament March 17, 1802, asking for a reward for his -alleged “discovery” in these words: - - “That _your petitioner, having discovered_ that a disease which - occasionally exists in a particular form among cattle, known - by the name of the cowpox, admits of being inoculated on the - human frame with the _most perfect ease_ and _safety_, and is - attended with the singularly beneficial effect of _rendering - through life_ the person so inoculated _perfectly secure from - the infection of the smallpox_.”--See “History and Pathology of - Vaccination,” by Dr. Edgar M. Crookshank, London, 1889, page - 173, Vol. I. - -Now, every proposition in the above statement is a shocking falsehood, -as can be easily proved by a few moments’ consideration. In the above -quotation the emphasis is mine but the words are Jenner’s, and I -have emphasized the words to show clearly where the rank and glaring -falsehoods are which make this short statement a very tissue of -falsehoods, as will soon appear. - -In the first place, it was a downright falsehood for Jenner to claim -that he had “_discovered_” that a disease known as “cowpox” could be -inoculated on the human frame and that this inoculation would act as -a preventive of smallpox, for it is obvious to every student of the -history of vaccination that Jenner made no such original “discovery,” -but that this “discovery” was made by the milkmaids and dairy farmers -of rural England who had long known and used it, and this “discovery” -was given by them to Jenner, who then falsely claimed it as his own -“discovery” and finally got a reward of thirty thousand pounds from -Parliament for this false claim! - -Thus does History show us that vaccination commenced, at its very -outset, with gross falsehood and also in what would be called in our -day a gigantic piece of medical “graft,” and it has been continued on a -similar basis, more or less, ever since. - -The second great falsehood in the original claim of Jenner was the -shocking and reckless statement that the cowpox was perfectly harmless -and could be inoculated on the human body with “_perfect safety_,” -which false claim has been kept up ever since by the mendacious -successors of Jenner, as I have already shown. This claim of the -“_perfect safety_” of cowpox was, of course, _perfectly false_, for -not only were some of Jenner’s own experiments and tests on patients -harmful, but his whole scheme of arm-to-arm vaccination was soon proved -to be so dangerous that it was long ago abandoned and prohibited like -its evil predecessor--smallpox inoculation--and, for that reason, -is not used to-day, being replaced by what is known as “Bovine -Vaccination,” which is direct inoculation of so-called “cowpox” from -cattle to man instead of from man to man or arm to arm as used by -Jenner. Now, this modern “Bovine” vaccination I believe to be even more -dangerous than the old Jennerian arm-to-arm type, because it involves -the extensive diseasing of two classes of animals, cattle and mankind, -and has been the cause of deadly epidemics in both classes, as already -proved, which was not known under the old system, and it is also guilty -of now causing more deaths almost every year than natural smallpox -itself, particularly among little children, as I have already proved -beyond question. - -The third great falsehood in this tissue of Jennerian mendacity is the -claim that one vaccination rendered the vaccinated person “_perfectly -secure_” “_through life_” from “_the infection of the smallpox_.” This -was, of course, a most reckless and absurd claim on its face, for how -could Jenner, with a few experiments and tests extending over a few -years, declare with any honesty, or with any logical or scientific -warrant, that cowpox inoculation gave _absolute security from smallpox -for life_? This reckless claim was, of course, soon proved to be a -rank falsehood by the wide-spread failure of vaccination to protect -from smallpox as soon as the vaccinated persons were exposed to actual -infection or epidemic conditions where they readily contracted the -disease, as they do to this day notwithstanding their vaccination! A -new apology had therefore to be invented for this wholesale failure -of vaccination soon after its first adoption, and this was made by -abandoning the false claim of unlimited life protection from one -vaccination and substituting the modified claim of a limited protection -for seven years--more or less--and the consequent necessity of frequent -or periodical re-vaccinations to get any continued or reliable -protection from the operation. - -Now Jenner’s original false and absurd claim of unlimited or life -protection from one vaccination was probably partly due to his -ignorance of the real nature and history of smallpox and his credulous -adoption of the old fallacy and superstition, in common use, that one -attack of smallpox gave sure immunity for life from a second attack, -which proposition never really had any scientific basis in theory or -fact, as it has been repeatedly proved that smallpox may, and often -does, occur two or three times in the same person, whether vaccinated -or unvaccinated, and that there is no regularity or certainty in the -alleged protection given either by smallpox or vaccination, but that -immunity depends largely on sanitary, hygienic and constitutional -conditions. In fact, some students seem to think that the person who -has once had smallpox is more likely to have it again than one who has -never had the disease! It was, therefore, at this first demonstrated -failure of vaccination to protect from smallpox that Jenner’s chief -assistant, Dr. James Moore, wrote a very interesting little book called -“The History of Small Pox,” London, 1815. The chief purpose of this -book was to apologize for the failure of vaccination to protect from -smallpox, as originally falsely claimed by Jenner, by showing that -even smallpox does not protect with certainty for life or any other -period, but that the same person may have smallpox two or three times -in succession, instances of which are cited all through the book, thus -making the ingenious or crafty plea for vaccination that it cannot be -expected to give any more protection than smallpox gives; and therefore -reliance must not be placed on one vaccination alone for life, but -protection can only be obtained by re-vaccinations repeated at frequent -intervals of a few years! - -It will thus be seen that Jenner completely abandoned his false and -reckless claim of _perfect protection_ from smallpox _for life_ by -_one vaccination_, for which he got his big graft or money prize from -the English government; but, please note, he did not make this retreat -or acknowledge his great mistake until after he had pocketed his big -reward of thirty thousand pounds for his shamefully false claim of the -unlimited protection and perfect safety of vaccination! - - -SHORT DURATION OF VACCINAL PROTECTION AND NECESSITY OF FREQUENT -RE-VACCINATIONS NOW ADMITTED. DANGER FROM SUCH REPEATED VACCINATIONS -GREATER THAN FROM SMALLPOX - -We have seen in the preceding chapter how the original false and -reckless claim of Dr. Jenner for _absolute protection for life from -one vaccination_ was soon abandoned when put to the actual test of -smallpox epidemics and that a modified position was then taken in the -necessity of re-vaccination in certain periods of about seven years, -more or less. This limited claim has, however, been also abandoned -in recent years and the term of alleged vaccinal protection has been -getting successively shorter and shorter, until it has now fallen -to the ridiculously short protective period of only six months or a -year for each vaccination or re-vaccination! This seems to be the -present position of our most recent medical authorities and advanced -vaccinators, which is not only a great shrinkage in protective claim -but is very interesting and significant in that it closely approaches, -and admits, the rational position of the anti-vaccinators who have -contended consistently and persistently from the days of Jenner that -vaccination, at the best, gave merely a limited immunity of only a few -months, more or less, and, in some cases, in very susceptible persons, -gave no immunity; and that frequent and repeated vaccinations are more -dangerous as being multiple and cumulative infections of an artificial -or inflicted disease than beneficial as the preventive of a natural -disease. - -To show the present position of advanced pro-vaccinators on this point -and their virtual agreement with anti-vaccinators as to the very -limited period of vaccinal protection and the necessity of frequent -repetitions, I will now quote from a recent high medical authority, -viz., Dr. Robert Olesen, of the U. S. Public Health Service, stationed -at Manila in the Philippine Islands, which is supposed to be one of the -greatest fields in the world for practical experience with smallpox and -vaccination. - -In an elaborate article by Dr. Olesen printed in the _New York Medical -Record_ of March 4, 1911, he makes these very serious statements as to -the necessity of frequent re-vaccinations and the short duration of -protection from each vaccination, as follows: - - “THE NECESSITY FOR RE-VACCINATION.--There is abundant reason - for believing that a person who has been successfully - vaccinated is absolutely protected against smallpox during - a period varying from six to twelve months, probably the - latter. After this time his immunity may or may not continue - indefinitely.... - - “In the absence of means of determining accurately the length - of perfect resistance it is best to re-vaccinate once a year.” - -Now here we plainly see that this Government Expert after long -experience in the fertile field of the Philippines admits clearly and -positively the very limited protective power of vaccination, so that -it is practically evanescent in duration, or extends over a few months -only, or at most can not, or should not, be relied on for sure and -safe protection longer than from six months to one year! And for this -reason Dr. Olesen carefully advises that “_it is best to re-vaccinate -once a year_.” - -Now, surely, this modest position of Dr. Olesen as to the short -duration of protection and the necessity of re-vaccination _once a -year_ is very similar to the position of the anti-vaccinators, but very -different from the positive claim of Dr. Jenner on which vaccination -started and for which he got his big prize or “graft” of thirty -thousand pounds for the grossly false claim of his alleged “discovery” -that _one vaccination_ would give _absolute protection_ from smallpox -_for life_! - - -THE DANGEROUS “VACCINATION CREED” OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF HEALTH -EXPLAINED AND CONDEMNED - -I will now give another great authority on vaccination, viz., the -famous and dangerous “Vaccination Creed” of the Chicago Board of -Health, issued in 1906, and still in use, which limits the protective -power of vaccination still more than Dr. Olesen and makes it absolutely -dependent on multiple or doubly repeated vaccinations to the point of -“saturation,” as follows: - - “After many years of experience with smallpox and vaccination, - the Chicago Department of Health hereby declares: - - “First: That true vaccination--repeated until it no longer - takes--ALWAYS prevents smallpox. NOTHING ELSE DOES.” - -It may be now noted that the first and essential article of this -creed, printed with its big emphatic capitals, positively states that -the only vaccination that protects against smallpox is a duplicated, -successive, repeated or multiple vaccination--“_repeated until it no -longer takes_.” This means that there must be at least two or three -successive vaccinations or multiples of them before any “protection” -is obtained, that is, at least one or more successful “takes” and one -subsequent vaccination which fails to take! In other words, we must -vaccinate repeatedly until it takes, and then vaccinate repeatedly -until it fails to take, to get any protection; and this, in some cases, -may of course require from two to four or six successive vaccinations! -And yet this is the only kind of _redoubled_ vaccination which this -famous, or infamous, creed gravely and emphatically tells us in full -and loud capitals “ALWAYS” prevents smallpox and that “NOTHING ELSE -DOES”! And while Dr. Olesen tells us that one successful vaccination, -repeated at least once every year, is a fairly reliable protection -against smallpox, yet this “Chicago Creed” positively tells us that -such “successful” yearly vaccination is no good at all unless followed -at once by another vaccination _which is not successful_! What do you -now think, Mr. President, of the absurdity and confusion in these -vaccination theories? And what do you think of the great personal -repulsiveness and great medical danger of these theories in calling for -so many and such frequent inoculations of disease virus or blood poison -to give alleged protection from the so-called dangerous disease of -smallpox which ordinarily kills less people every year than lightning -and which in an epidemic year kills less than ordinary measles or -whooping-cough kills every year? - -Now while such wholesale and repeated or redoubled or saturated -vaccinations for every person, every year, would undoubtedly be a most -profitable thing for vaccinating doctors and vaccine makers and would -extend the use of vaccine virus _ten to one hundred fold_, yet it is -very doubtful whether this would be any benefit to public health. -On the contrary, this would be the most grave menace to private and -public health that could be conceived; for, whereas, the limited -vaccination now practiced actually causes more deaths per year than -smallpox, particularly in little school children, what would happen to -our precious children and our brave soldiers and sailors if we were -to adopt the horribly dangerous theories of multiple or redoubled or -“saturated” vaccination every year for each person, according to the -“Creeds” of Dr. Olesen and the Chicago Board of Health, which these -experts assure us is the only way to get any certain protection from -smallpox? - -Now if only one vaccination were required for life protection, it -would, obviously, not involve as much risk from vaccinal infections -or “complications,” such as Lockjaw, Septicemia, Meningitis and -Pneumonia; but if the vaccinations have to be repeated every few -months or a year as Dr. Olesen directs, or, furthermore, if they have -to be redoubled and repeated “_until it no longer takes_,” as in the -“Chicago Creed,” then the infecting risk is obviously very different -and is so much increased with each repeated inoculation that the danger -of these repeated and cumulative infections from the artificial or -inflicted septicemic disease called “cowpox” becomes much worse than -the danger from the natural disease, smallpox, so that the patient is -thus more likely to suffer and die from the “cure” rather than from -the “disease,” as now frequently happens from vaccinations, as I have -already abundantly proved by shocking examples in these pages. - - -THE FALSE GLORY OF JENNER AND THE DISGRACE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION - -If, therefore, it were ever really true that one vaccination gave sure -protection from smallpox for life and that the act of vaccination was -in itself perfectly safe and harmless, as Jenner positively claimed, -vaccination might then of course be a grand thing, of immense benefit -to the human race, and might perhaps deserve all the good things -that have been said about it by its interested flatterers and false -advocates! But, of course, these big claims of life protection and -perfect safety never were true but have been the gigantic falsehoods -on which the great evil of compulsory vaccination has been justified -by the medical profession and forced by it upon the people for many -years past with great damage to human health and life--how much -will never be known--and with great ethical disgrace to the medical -profession itself, as I have already proved, and from which disgrace -the profession should, surely, free itself at an early day for the sake -of professional honor and decency if not for the sake of human right -and safety, health and life. - - -WHAT PROTECTS US FROM SMALLPOX IN MODERN TIMES? IS IT VACCINATION OR -SOMETHING ELSE? A FALSE CLAIM EXPLODED - -We have just seen in the preceding chapter that high medical -authorities positively assure us that vaccination gives no protection -against smallpox unless it is done freshly once a year and is also then -done _repeatedly_, “_until it no longer takes_,” which will surely -require at least two successive vaccinations and may require from two -to three, four or more successive vaccinations each year! Now let us -seriously ask here: How many persons are there in the civil population -or in the Army and Navy who have ever been, or are now, vaccinated in -this way, viz., regularly once a year and then vaccinated repeatedly -until the condition of _vaccinal saturation_ is reached where “_it no -longer takes_”? I firmly believe that no well informed doctor, student -or statistician will deny that _not five per cent._ of the civil -population or of the Army and Navy has ever been vaccinated according -to this rule and system which the experts assure us is the only safe -and certain rule for vaccinal protection from smallpox! What, then, -keeps the general population and the men of the Army and Navy so free -from smallpox that for the generation past there are ordinarily less -annual deaths from smallpox than from lightning? Surely it can not -be vaccination that is responsible for this freedom from smallpox in -modern times when not five per cent. of the population is vaccinated so -that it can have any protection from smallpox! - -The extreme pro-vaccinator has, however, long and loudly claimed, and -has deceived himself and the trusting public with this false claim, -that general vaccination is practically the sole and only thing that -has brought about the modern reduction of smallpox or that can ever -reduce smallpox! But this claim is obviously absurd and false on -its face when we have already seen that not five per cent. of the -population is vaccinated in such a way as can give any protection, -and that ninety-five per cent. of the vaccinated population has no -effective vaccinal protection whatever! - -This false claim that vaccination has been the chief cause of the -reduction in smallpox in modern times is further positively disproved -by the flagrant fact that countries which are most extensively -vaccinated have had the worst epidemics in modern times, such as the -case of Japan cited on page 53; and that as a rule in all smallpox -epidemics the great majority of cases always occur in well vaccinated -subjects and the minority in unvaccinated subjects as officially -acknowledged in the last epidemic in New York City in 1901 and 1902, -cited on page 204. - -Surely, therefore, vaccination cannot be solely responsible for the -great modern reduction of smallpox, but, per contra, there have been -some great benign, natural and artificial conditions which have -intervened in human life since the old days of big smallpox epidemics -and the adoption of vaccination, which benign conditions have brought -about the great decline in smallpox--and not the unnatural and -irrational condition of vaccination which has been falsely credited -with this result. And it must be obvious that benign conditions which -act by the _prevention_ and _reduction_ of disease are more likely to -produce this result than a remedy like vaccination, which means the -actual propagation and infliction of disease. Now what are these benign -conditions? They are clearly of two kinds, “Natural” and “Artificial.” -They are, first, natural, that is, some pervasive natural changes in -conditions of human life, which are more or less unknown or not yet -fully understood in their exact nature, but which have surely brought -about a great reduction in the general death-rate and also in specific -death-rates from several deadly diseases, in which no remedy such as -vaccination has ever been used, and yet the general death-rate and -the death-rates of these particular diseases have been reduced in -modern times even more than smallpox has been reduced since the use -of vaccination. For a few examples of these greatly reduced diseases -we might mention Bubonic Plague, Epidemic Erysipelas, Typhus Fevers, -Cholera, Scurvy, etc., etc. All of these terrible diseases which were -once as bad or worse than smallpox have been not only reduced more -than smallpox in modern times, but most of them have practically been -totally obliterated in modern life, so that they have now become -almost medical curiosities, and yet no such thing as vaccination has -been used in this reduction. The other conditions which have brought -about this reduction of these deadly diseases are the artificial and -purely benign conditions of Sanitation, Hygiene and Isolation. Now -if these safe and benign natural and artificial conditions have, -undeniably, brought about the reduction or obliteration of these -terrible diseases without any vaccination, is it not most logical and -reasonable to conclude that these same safe and benign conditions have -been the chief cause in reducing smallpox also, and that the burden -of proof is clearly on the pro-vaccinators to prove, if they can, the -preposterous claim that vaccination is the chief cause of this great -reduction of smallpox? - -At this point this striking historic and medical fact should be -distinctly remembered that before the adoption of vaccination, and -for some time afterwards, there were practically no such remedies -known or used as Sanitation, Hygiene or Isolation. These rational -defenses against smallpox and other diseases are in fact of very recent -usage and have practically been used, in any extended or efficient -manner, only within the last generation! And the reduction in smallpox -practically dates from this usage and is proportional to the extent -and regularity of this usage. See the great success of sanitation and -isolation, etc., in reducing smallpox, without vaccination, in the -English City of Leicester and the general effect of sanitation in -recent times as set forth in the book, “The Vaccination Question,” by -Dr. Millard, London, 1914. - -It may therefore be very hard for us to realize this fact in modern -times, that in the old unsanitary days of big epidemics and deadly -plagues, the general population had no clear idea at all of the actual -contagiousness of epidemic diseases or that they were spread by actual -_contact_ or close proximity, from one person to the other, and -therefore no effort whatever was made to isolate cases of dangerous -disease like smallpox, which were thus commonly left freely exposed -in public and private until they spread like wildfire through the -whole community in frequent and wide-spread epidemics common in those -days. Per contra, the idea generally held by the people in these old, -unsanitary times was that epidemic diseases were spread universally, -by some general malign influence, through the air--not by contact -from person to person--and that they were _divine scourges_ sent by -the wrath of God to punish man for his sins, and that it was not only -useless but even impious to try to escape these scourges. Hence the old -barbarous schemes of smallpox inoculation and cowpox vaccination agreed -perfectly with this barbarous medical theology, for by these remedies -the sinner or penitent patient did not try to escape the wrath of God -but willingly bowed to it and took the scourge upon himself in a mild -form with the hope in Divine Mercy to escape it in its worst form! This -seems to have been the medical psychology of vaccination in past times! - - -THE UNSANITARY CONDITIONS OF JENNER’S DAY EXPOSED. POWER OF SANITATION -TO EXTINGUISH SMALLPOX ADMITTED BY JENNER’S CHIEF ASSISTANT IN 1815 - -It can therefore be readily seen that, as soon as the barbarous -system of deliberately inviting and spreading disease described in -the preceding paragraph was abandoned, and the reckless exposure of -smallpox in public and private was prevented by strict isolation -and proper sanitation, smallpox epidemics were bound to decline and -disappear. But this result has happened only in very recent times -in advanced communities which have adopted some effective system -of sanitation and isolation, and with little effect one way or the -other from vaccination except that smallpox and other diseases and -the general death-rate seem to be much worse where vaccination is -extensively used and sanitation, isolation and hygiene are neglected, -as has been proved flagrantly in the case of much-vaccinated Japan, -cited on page 53, and, reversely, in the case of the English City -of Leicester, cited on page 22, where the best effects in reduction -of smallpox and increase in general health have been produced by -abandoning vaccination and relying on sanitation, isolation and hygiene -for the last thirty-five years. - -Now, a very interesting and convincing evidence in this direction is -furnished by Dr. Jenner’s chief assistant, Dr. James Moore, before -quoted, who, writing over one hundred years ago, clearly recognized -and admitted the truth and force of the above contention, viz., that -sanitation and isolation would extinguish epidemic smallpox, without -regard to vaccination; and this point I will now prove from Dr. Moore’s -book on “The History of Smallpox,” published in London in 1815, which -seems to have been one of the first authorities to urge sanitation and -isolation for the suppression of this disease. - -On pages 304 to 307 in Dr. Moore’s book, he gives a very clear -statement of the above point, as follows: - - “The plague was a less destructive distemper than the Small - Pox, yet no plan similar to the quarantine laws has been - established to extinguish this infection; and one which was - lately proposed in Parliament was discouraged as injurious to - personal freedom.” - - “But surely every man susceptible of a dangerous contagion - has a natural right to hinder persons who are contaminated - with that disease, from touching or even approaching him. The - exercise of this right is a species of self defence; which for - the public safety may assuredly be regulated by law, without - infringing any reasonable notions of political liberty.” - - “It is therefore much to be wished, that to preclude all - persons infected with the Small Pox from mixing with the - public, a law should be enacted to confine them strictly to - their own houses, or in hospitals appropriated by the parishes - for that purpose, as long as the infection is upon them.” - - “The plan is simple, to enforce it would be easy; and the sole - inconvenience would be a temporary confinement of those persons - whose enlargement spreads poison through the land.” - - “By such a measure, the infection of the Small Pox, for want - of subjects to act upon, would necessarily decline, and soon - become extinct; and multitudes of human creatures would be - annually preserved from disease, blindness and death.” - -It will now be seen that this interesting medical and historical -authority shows us that, while quarantine or isolation had been used to -some extent in old times in the prevention of the plague, yet it had -never been applied to smallpox, and that a law proposed in the English -Parliament in 1815 to make isolation compulsory was defeated; but Dr. -Moore distinctly tells us that such a law or practice, if enforced, -would by itself extinguish smallpox! - -Now, this admission I regard as very significant and conclusive in this -contention in coming from Dr. Moore, who was a medical authority in -Jenner’s day, being a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London -and Surgeon of the Second Regiment of Life Guards, and was also so -close to Jenner that he dedicated his book to him, and was not only his -chief assistant in the new scheme of vaccination but held the important -office of “Director of the National Vaccine Establishment,” which was -the government institution controlling the production of vaccine virus -and the administration of public vaccination. - -Surely, therefore, we could have no better authority than Dr. Moore -to admit and establish our present contention against the modern evil -of compulsory vaccination, viz., that there is surely something else -besides vaccination that has prevented or reduced smallpox epidemics in -modern times, and that something is the benign and rational remedies -of sanitation and isolation with certain natural and human changes -and improvements in conditions of human life and health; and not the -irrational and malign remedy of propagating and inflicting general -disease upon the people, as falsely taught by the extreme vaccinators. - - -FURTHER PROOF FROM THE ENGLISH MINISTER OF HEALTH THAT SANITATION -PREVENTS SMALLPOX MORE THAN VACCINATION. POORLY VACCINATED LONDON MORE -HEALTHY THAN MUCH-VACCINATED BERLIN - -In a speech by the Hon. John Burns, Minister of Health for England and -Wales, in the House of Commons on April 11, 1912, he gave the following -clear statement showing that vaccination cannot be alone credited with -the reduction of smallpox, but that, as a matter of fact, smallpox had -declined as vaccination was reduced and as sanitation and other benign -conditions of human life had increased. These most significant facts -are fully expressed in the following extract from the official speech, -which speaks clearly for itself and needs no further comment here. - - “I am not at all alarmed by the comparison made with - Germany.... I entertain the respect for figures tempered by - fact, which every responsible man ought to have. Just in - proportion as in recent years exemptions (from vaccination) - have gone up from four per cent. to thirty per cent., so - deaths from smallpox have declined.... The facts are these: - I am right in giving these figures with regard to London. - During the time that I have had the honor of being at the - Local Government Board the following have been the deaths from - smallpox in a city of 4,500,000 inhabitants: 1906, no deaths; - 1907, no deaths; 1908, no deaths; 1909, two deaths; 1910, no - deaths. So that in five years there have only been two deaths - from smallpox in a city of 4,500,000 people. Not even Germany - or Berlin can transcend those figures by the increasing - cleanliness, increasing sobriety and greater attention paid - both by the community and individuals to removing all causes of - smallpox, and nearly every other disease.... I believe that all - this fear and panic, all this talk about plague and smallpox, - is due to misconception and misapprehension of social facts. - These diseases are in a very different position from what - they were in ten, twenty, thirty or forty years ago, and it - is a creditable and a happy circumstance that I, as Minister - of Health for England and Wales, am enabled to state that in - regard to the administration of public health no other country - is comparable to ours, and I am pleased to have heard such - hearty recognition of our efforts from the different speakers - this afternoon.” - -I therefore think that this close study of vaccination facts thus far -presented must convince every reasonable mind, lay or medical, that -if these benign conditions of sanitation, isolation, etc., had been -generally adopted and enforced for the past century, in place of the -dangerous remedy of general or compulsory vaccination, smallpox would -have become extinct before this time and as much of a medical curiosity -as Plague, Cholera, Typhus and Scurvy now are, which at one time -slaughtered their thousands every year! - -I also believe that it is probably due to this evil practice of general -vaccination, which is simply the propagation and infliction on the -general population of actual smallpox in one of its various forms, that -the pestilence of smallpox has been kept alive as a still dangerous -menace to human health and life, ready to burst out into conflagration -wherever vaccination is recklessly and extensively used, as in the -recent case of Japan, or where sanitation is grossly neglected, instead -of being now a medical curiosity, like the other great plagues of the -past which we have successfully extinguished without any vaccination. -And as smallpox is the only one of the ancient plagues that we have -deliberately cultivated, propagated and constantly inflicted upon -the human population, under a barbarous and false theory of thereby -preventing disease, is it any wonder, in common sense and common logic, -that we have so signally succeeded in keeping this ancient plague alive -by this strange medical malpractice, while the other ancient plagues -have become extinguished? - - -ONLY A LIMITED AND VOLUNTARY USE OF VACCINATION SUGGESTED AND APPROVED. -FORCED VACCINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN CONDEMNED - -I firmly believe that vaccination should be used only, or chiefly, -in smallpox hospitals, or elsewhere, by doctors and nurses whose -professional duties require them to be exposed directly to smallpox -infection and who necessarily have to take the professional chances -of injury or infection from either the smallpox or the vaccination. -If, therefore, vaccination confers any protection or immunity from -smallpox, even for a short or limited time, it is, of course, proper -for doctors, nurses and attendants to make use of this protection as -far and as frequent as they may wish or consider necessary. It is, of -course, also proper for any person, whether exposed or not exposed to -smallpox, to voluntarily resort to vaccination whenever he may see fit -to do so, or as his doctor may advise, as this is the unalienable right -of Medical Freedom for which we contend and to which all citizens are -entitled. But to force the whole population, and particularly little -children, to submit to the dangerous operation of vaccination, when -the merest fraction of this population, or not one in a thousand, -would ever be exposed to any probable chance of actual contact with -smallpox, and therefore not requiring any protection against it, would, -obviously, be a very absurd, unwise and dangerous practice; because to -thus vaccinate the mass of this healthy, unexposed and unendangered -population would simply be widely extending disease and infection where -it did not already exist, and would be inflicting a form of artificial -smallpox on the whole population which, as I have already clearly -proved, might be more dangerous in the long run than the ordinary -chances from natural smallpox itself. This is particularly true when I -have shown from high medical authorities that vaccination gives only -an evanescent protection, or immunity for short periods of time, from -a few months to a year, and requires to be continued at such short -intervals and doubled or repeated at each interval, which frequent -repetitions greatly increase the chances of incurring more injury from -the many vaccinations than from smallpox! - -Where, however, vaccination is used by the doctors, nurses or -attendants at the smallpox hospitals, or by any other person actually -exposed or likely to be exposed to the disease, the case is entirely -different and the burden of the chances and dangers is safely shifted -and greatly reduced, as, in this case, the artificial disease of -vaccination is inflicted to protect the vaccinated person from the -natural disease of smallpox only where this disease already exists and -actually endangers the person exposed to it. This is entirely different -from the practice of inflicting and spreading disease widely where -it does not already exist, as in the evil system of the wholesale -vaccination of school children and the general population who are not -exposed to smallpox and may never be exposed to it in a lifetime. -The absurdity and uselessness of vaccinating school children where -no smallpox exists, and where there is no chance of being exposed to -it, is proved by the short period of protection given by vaccination -and now admitted by vaccinators; because the limited protection given -by vaccination at such a time, when not needed, would probably have -expired by the time it was needed by the appearance of any epidemic -or sporadic case, thus making the previous vaccination needless and -another vaccination necessary. As a fresh vaccination, therefore, is -the only thing that gives any sure protection, and this for a few -months only, there is surely no use in vaccinating any children, on -the vaccinators’ own showing, until they are actually menaced by the -presence of smallpox infection or epidemic. - - -ABSURDITY OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION OF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE WHO HAVE -HIGHEST IMMUNITY AND VITALITY AND LOWEST DEATH-RATE OF ANY PART OF THE -POPULATION - -To single out children of school age for this application of wholesale -and compulsory vaccination, as is done under the present evil school -vaccination law which has been originated and sustained by our medical -societies, is particularly absurd, mischievous and unethical from a -true medical, sanitary and hygienic standpoint; because it is a most -extraordinary fact, which seems to be little known by the doctors or -the laity, that children of school age have the greatest immunity -from all disease and the lowest general death-rate of any part of the -population, and to a most surprising degree, and are therefore in less -need of the alleged protection of vaccination than any other part of -the population! Whereas it is generally falsely assumed that they are -in most need of such protection. This relative immunity and vitality -is, however, so great that children of school age from 6 to 19 have -only five per cent. of the total deaths from all causes, although they -constitute about twenty-five per cent. of the whole population! The -children of school age have therefore about twelve times the immunity -and vitality of the infant age under six years and about six times -the vitality and immunity of all the rest of the population over -nineteen! See Report of the New York State Department of Health for -1912, page 125. See also my pamphlet, “The Crime Against the School -Child,” 1915, pages 32-33. This extraordinary fact alone condemns -all compulsory vaccination of school children as a most medically -incongruous, barbarous and unnecessary practice. But this evil creation -of our medical societies will never be given up by our infallibilistic -vaccinators until the common sense of the laity is firmly asserted to -make all vaccination in schools or elsewhere free and voluntary and -to demand the repeal of the evil compulsory vaccination law wherever -it exists, which has probably killed three times more children than -smallpox in the last ten or fifteen years. - - -VACCINATION A POOR PROTECTION AGAINST DISEASE. FLAGRANT AND FREQUENT -FAILURE TO PROTECT FROM SMALLPOX OR TYPHOID FEVER SHOWN BY MANY TYPICAL -INSTANCES AT HOME AND ABROAD - -At the outset I stated that I did not need to discuss the merits or -demerits of vaccination in its alleged preventive or immunizing power -against disease; and while these merits had been much exaggerated, -yet, whatever they were, small or large, did not matter much, as the -chief question was the danger of vaccination to health and life. This -was also the chief question with the evil predecessors of modern -vaccination, viz., the old smallpox inoculation and Jenner’s arm-to-arm -vaccination, both of which were admitted to have some protective power -against smallpox, yet both were finally condemned and prohibited -by public opinion and penal law because they were found to be very -dangerous to human health and life and actually caused more disease and -death in the long run than they prevented. - -I think I have already proved in the preceding pages, without any -doubt, the serious dangers of modern bovine vaccination to human health -and life, and that it now, in fact, often causes more deaths than -smallpox, particularly in infants and school children, and has also -been the cause of many dangerous epidemics among animals and mankind; -and that for these capital reasons all compulsory vaccination should -be absolutely abolished and prohibited, and voluntary vaccination only -allowed. - -In order, therefore, to show the meager or limited protective power -of vaccination and its common, proved and admitted failure to protect -from epidemic disease, I will now give several typical examples of this -failure, both with the more common smallpox vaccination and the more -recent typhoid vaccination, so as to complete this indictment against -the medical malpractice of compulsory vaccination in all forms and -leave nothing further which need be said on this subject in these pages -to bring conviction to every reasonable mind that the barbarous medical -scheme of compulsory disease is a very dangerous and fallacious mode of -improving public health. - -EXAMPLE FIRST. From Report of Registrar General of England for last -great epidemic year of 1902: - - Population of England and Wales 33,000,000 - Total Deaths from Smallpox 2464 - Vaccinated Cases 821 - Unvaccinated Cases 791 - Condition Not Stated 852 - --- - 2464 - -Surely there is no proof here that vaccination is much of a protection -from smallpox, but rather the very reverse, because it is here shown -that the majority of fatal cases are vaccinated. - -EXAMPLE SECOND. During the last great smallpox epidemic in New York -City in 1901 and 1902, the City Department of Health issued a printed -circular to doctors, dated in 1902, which clearly acknowledged that -the majority of all cases in this epidemic occurred in persons who -had been successfully vaccinated a few years previously, and not -in unvaccinated persons! This statement was signed by Dr. Ernst J. -Lederle, Commissioner of Health, and Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, Chief -Medical Officer, and was in part as follows: - - “Experience in the recent outbreaks in New York City, contrary - to the general opinion, has shown that the majority of the - cases occurring here are not in unvaccinated persons, but - in those who have been vaccinated successfully some years - previously.” - -Dr. Lederle, who signed this statement, is now a manufacturer of -vaccines and serums in New York City, and Dr. Biggs is now the Health -Commissioner of the State of New York at Albany. - -EXAMPLE THIRD. Health Officer Raymond of Brooklyn stated in the -_Brooklyn Eagle_ of June 5, 1902, that in the epidemic in Brooklyn in -1902, in the first half of that year, there were 357 cases of smallpox -and that 322 of these cases were all vaccinated and only 35 cases -unvaccinated! - -Surely these last two examples, right at our own doors, show that -vaccination is little or no protection, or, to say the least, is a -very poor protection, from smallpox, or has such a limited duration -or period of protection that it fades out very rapidly and needs to -be renewed and repeated frequently, with great possible danger to -health and life, as already proved, and admitted by medical authorities -previously quoted, so that this “cure” not only often fails but may -become finally worse than the “disease.” - -EXAMPLE FOURTH. Smallpox in Germany, the best vaccinated country in -Europe, as given in U. S. Public Health Report for January 23, 1914: - -_Record of Smallpox Cases and Vaccinal Conditions for Three Years, -1908, 1909, 1910_ - - Total cases 917 - Vaccinated and re-vaccinated 671 - Unvaccinated 143 - Unknown 28 - Vaccinated unsuccessfully or too late 75 - --- - 917 - -Here we plainly see that in this much-vaccinated country--the pride -of vaccinators--the cases of smallpox among the well vaccinated and -re-vaccinated were _over four times_ the number of cases among the -unvaccinated! Surely this example, with the two previous ones, clearly -proves that vaccination is not very much of a protection! And surely -there is nothing in these examples which any vaccinator can get much -comfort from or use as a moral or medical justification of the shameful -and evil practice of forcing compulsory vaccination upon the whole -community under the shocking falsehood that it is the infallible and -only protection against smallpox! And surely these forceful and -humiliating facts give a stinging rebuke to this false contention. - -EXAMPLE FIFTH. The fully vaccinated U. S. battle-ship _Ohio_ versus the -unvaccinated City of Niagara Falls, N. Y. - -A smallpox epidemic raged on this battle-ship at Guantanamo, Cuba, in -December, 1913, and January, 1914, with these figures: - - Population about 1000 - Smallpox Cases 29 - Deaths 5 - -Per contra, an epidemic existed in Niagara Falls from 1912 to 1914, -inclusive, as follows: - - Population 40,000 - Total cases of Smallpox 550 - Deaths from Smallpox 1 - Deaths from Vaccination 3 - Never vaccinated 483 - Vaccinated over five years 26 - Vaccinated for less than 5 years 5 - Not stated 36 - --- - 550 - -Logical comparison of the vaccinated ship with the unvaccinated city, -as follows: - -The vaccinated ship had twenty-nine cases and five deaths per thousand -population. - -This same ratio of disease and death applied to the 40,000 population -of Niagara Falls would call for 1160 cases and 200 deaths! Whereas -the cases were actually only fourteen per thousand population and the -deaths one fortieth of one person per thousand population, while the -known deaths from vaccination were three! - -It is surely not difficult to decide here as to which makes the worst -showing, the vaccinated ship or the unvaccinated city! And while -vaccinators are very fond of referring to this case of Niagara Falls -as a great example of the virtue and need of vaccination, we think it -must be obvious that the less they say of this case as compared with -the vaccinated battle-ship _Ohio_, the better it will be for the cause -of vaccination and the logic of the vaccinator. Here we see five deaths -from smallpox in the well vaccinated battle-ship with 1000 population, -and one death from smallpox in the unvaccinated city of 40,000 -population, which is a ratio of mortality, on basis of population, _two -hundred times greater_ in the well vaccinated battle-ship than in the -unvaccinated city! - -Besides this difference of smallpox cases and deaths in favor of the -unvaccinated city, there were three deaths from vaccination in the -Niagara Falls population or three times more than the deaths from -smallpox! - -For some of these facts as to Niagara Falls see the Report of the New -York State Department of Health for 1914, page 102. The three alleged -deaths from vaccination are denied, as usual, by the health officials, -but we have convincing evidence to prove them as most probably due to -vaccination. These three fatal cases were: Miss Hull, school teacher, -vaccinated when she was suffering from kidney disease; Bernard Moran, -a very old man, vaccinated when he was suffering from heart disease; -and John George Chambers, a strong man, killed by a clear case of acute -blood poisoning or septicemia with complications immediately following -the vaccination and extending from the vaccination sore. - -EXAMPLE SIXTH. The flagrant failure of Typhoid Vaccination in the U. S. -Army in England and France. - -The following extracts are taken from the Report of the Chief Surgeon -of the A. E. F., printed in U. S. Public Health Reports for March -28, 1919, entitled: “Typhoid Vaccination No Substitute for Sanitary -Precautions.” These extracts tell their story, most plainly and -positively, as to the abject failure of typhoid vaccination to protect -from disease where and when this protection is really needed, that is, -where serious actual infection exists due to unsanitary conditions; -and they also prove the necessity and superior value of sanitation as -a protection from disease. I now quote these extracts verbatim as they -appear in the official Report. They speak clearly for themselves and -need no comment here to emphasize their great force and significance as -a strong argument against compulsory vaccination from the vaccinators -themselves. - - “In July, 1918, a replacement unit consisting of 248 men from - Camp Cody, N. Mex., reached England with typhoid prevailing - extensively; 98 men, or 39.5 per cent., had typhoid, and the - case death-rate was 8.42 per cent. - - “It was evident from the investigation that the men were - exposed to infection through contaminated drinking water while - en route to the port of embarkation in the United States. The - unit had been vaccinated a few months prior to the occurrence - of the epidemic. Most of the patients presented the typical - clinical features of typhoid.” - - “In August, 1916, a small but severe epidemic occurred in a - detachment of Engineer troops stationed at Bazoilles. In this - unit fifteen cases of typhoid occurred, with a death-rate - approximating ten per cent.” - - “Following the offensive in the Argonne sector, typhoid and - paratyphoid began to be reported from practically all divisions - engaged in that offensive. It is quite evident that the initial - cases were due in large part to drinking infected water.” - - “More than 300 cases of typhoid-paratyphoid may be attributed - to the Argonne offensive. Eight hundred and seventy-four - typhoids and paratyphoids have been reported in the American - Expeditionary Forces since October 1, 1918.” - - “A small but severe epidemic occurred in the Joinville - concentration area in December and January. In a group of - Medical Department units (evacuation and mobile hospitals - and sanitary trains) concentrated there seventy-five cases - occurred, with a case death-rate of approximately twenty per - cent.” - - “The records of this office show that patients with typhoid - have passed successively through camp, field, evacuation, and - base hospitals without any documentary evidence that typhoid or - paratyphoid was even suspected. There are records of a stay of - two weeks or more in a single base hospital without diagnosis, - and not a few records are on file showing that it remained for - the pathologist to make the diagnosis at the autopsy table.” - - “The vaccinated individual protected against general systemic - infection may still act as a carrier of typhoid infection, - and frequently shows clinical manifestations of local disease - of some portion of the gastrointestinal tract, while the - characteristic symptom complex of typhoid fever due to general - infection, namely, continued fever, rose spots, and enlarged - spleen, may be wholly absent.” - - “Many cases originally diagnosed as influenza in the American - Expeditionary Forces have subsequently proven to be typhoid.” - - “Intestinal types of supposed influenza should always be - considered as possible typhoid until proven otherwise.” - - “The frequency with which atypical, mild, unrecognized cases - of typhoid and paratyphoid fever has occurred in the American - Expeditionary Forces among vaccinated men makes it absolutely - essential to surround all such cases of undetermined fever with - the same precautions which it is found necessary to apply to - established typhoid or paratyphoid patients, to avoid contact - infections in the wards among other patients and hospital - personnel.” - - “Several protocols have been received in which the complete - pathological and bacteriological pictures of typhoid fever were - recorded but the cause of death was entered as ‘peritonitis,’ - ‘perforation of the intestine,’ ‘broncho-pneumonia,’ ‘acute - enterocolitis.’” - - “Typhoid fever is increasing in the American Expeditionary - Forces--so are the paratyphoid fevers.” - - “Vaccination is a partial protection only and must be - reinforced by sanitary measures.” - -It will be noted that not only does the above official Report contain -a frank, full, and free admission of the outright and inexcusable -failure of typhoid vaccination to protect from typhoid fever where it -is most needed, viz., where “sanitary precautions” do not exist, but -it also clearly shows some other serious evils which I have repeatedly -charged to the practice of compulsory vaccination, viz., it shows -how frequently false diagnoses are made of vaccinated cases, either -wilfully or inadvertently, so as to conceal the actual occurrence -of typhoid fever in vaccinated men and report it as some other -disease, such as “Influenza,” etc., and thus conceal the failures -of vaccination. It also shows that many cases of death from typhoid -fever in vaccinated men are reported as not due to this disease but -to some of its terminals or complications such as “Peritonitis,” -“Broncho-Pneumonia,” “Enterocolitis,” etc. By these mistaken, or -wilfully false, reports, the failures, dangers and fatalities of -vaccination are often concealed and denied, thus verifying my charge of -serious medical falsification in these matters, which I have openly and -publicly stated for years past and challenged denial or disproof. - -EXAMPLE SEVENTH. Failure of Typhoid Vaccination in the U. S. Army in -America. - -In the _Journal of the American Medical Association_ for February -15, 1919, there is a report of a bad epidemic of Typhoid Fever which -occurred among the vaccinated men in Camp Greene, Charlotte, North -Carolina, in June, 1918. In this case infection is reported to have -come from ice cream which the men had eaten, and the rather pitiable -and ridiculous excuse is given for the failure of the vaccination in -this case, that the infection in the ice cream was so virulent or in -such “massive doses” that the protective power of the vaccination -was not sufficient to overcome such “massive” infection, and hence -the vaccination failed to protect the men and they succumbed to the -disease, notwithstanding their extensive and repeated vaccination! This -is, of course, another and equally positive admission of the failure -of typhoid vaccination, but, unlike the previous example, it is a -rather ridiculous or farcical admission, as it attempts to excuse -the failure by saying that the “doses” of infection in the ice cream -were so “massive” that the vaccination was overpowered and could not -be expected to overcome such odds! In other words, vaccination will -protect you where there is no dangerous or serious infection to be -guarded against, but will fail where any serious or “massive” doses of -infection are present! This is equivalent to saying that vaccination -is a good policeman for any town where there are no lawbreakers and no -disorder, but is no good where there is any serious crime, violence -or danger. Vaccination, we are thus told, is a good bulletproof armor -provided you shoot only pop-guns against it, but it is no good to -resist real pistol or rifle balls! This is just about what opponents -of compulsory vaccination have been contending for years, and this is -therefore one of the chief reasons why we now contend that no such -ineffective, unreliable and dangerous remedy should be forced on any -person, child or adult, against free will and consent. - - -SUMMING UP--THE CASE PROVED - -To sum up briefly, I think it may now be seen that our several cardinal -points against the evils of Compulsory Vaccination have been proved by -impregnable legal, medical and historical facts and out of the mouth of -high authorities on vaccination. These cardinal points may be stated in -seven numbers as follows: - - FIRST: The illegality and unconstitutionality of all compulsory - vaccination and its gross violation of Medical Freedom and - Bodily Sanctity, which are unalienable American rights equal - with Religious Freedom. - - SECOND: The medical barbarism and malpractice of all compulsory - medicine and compulsory disease as being opposed to all true - standards of medical ethics and logic. - - THIRD: The poor protective power of vaccination, which gives no - immunity from smallpox except for short periods of a few months - or a year and requires frequent repetition, which is obviously - ineffective as a protection and dangerous as a remedy. - - FOURTH: That sanitation, isolation and hygiene have been and - are the chief means of preventing and suppressing smallpox - epidemics independent of vaccination. - - FIFTH: That vaccination is very dangerous to health and life, - causes epidemics in animals and mankind and is oftentimes more - fatal than smallpox and now causes more deaths than smallpox. - - SIXTH: That vaccinating doctors and health officials most - shamefully deny and conceal injuries and deaths from - vaccination and falsify our vital statistics accordingly. - - SEVENTH: That the practice of inflicting on the human body a - compulsory medical disease, which is dangerous to health and - life and causes many deaths every year, is obviously illegal - and a medical crime on the people which must be suppressed. - - -CONCLUSION - -As soon, therefore, as this crushing fact of the great danger of -vaccination to human health and life enters the mind and conscience -of the mass of the people, and is fully grasped by the legislative, -the judicial and the executive minds of the country--from whom it -has been so long concealed by medical falsehood in high places--this -enlightenment will, I firmly believe, result in the permanent -abolishment of all compulsory vaccination, if not in the penal -prohibition of general vaccination, as being now more dangerous -than natural smallpox; and to that great fact and to this final and -prophetic thought, Mr. President, I ask your careful attention in -closing this exposure of vaccination horrors and medical mendacities. - - Respectfully submitted, - CHAS. M. HIGGINS - - Dated at 271 Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y., - U. S. Constitution Day, - September 17, 1919. - - - - - AMERICANISMS - - MEDICAL FREEDOM IS AN UNALIENABLE - AMERICAN RIGHT - - MEDICAL COMPULSION, - LIKE RELIGIOUS COMPULSION, IS UN-AMERICAN - AND MUST BE ABOLISHED - - NO GOVERNMENT WITHOUT CONSENT - OF THE GOVERNED - - NO MEDICATION WITHOUT CONSENT - OF THE PATIENT - - NO COMPULSORY VACCINATION - - NO COMPULSORY INFLICTION OF DISEASE - - - - - “IN THE DISCARD” - - “The world has just destroyed the arbitrary force of a military - junta. It will live under no other. All that is arbitrary and - coercive is in the discard. Those who seek to employ it will - only prepare their own destruction.” President Wilson, in - Message to Congress, August 8, 1919. - - - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] See U. S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin 91, Dec., 1913. Also -“Preventive Medicine,” by Dr. Rosenau, 1914, page 410. - -[2] See U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin, Oct., 1914, page 591, Smallpox on -Battleship _Ohio_ confounded with Influenza. - -[3] This subject of Alimentary Freedom as an unalienable right of the -people in time of peace has been treated in a separate pamphlet issued -November 25, 1919, entitled “Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs.” - -[4] A change has recently been made in the law in England whereby the -medical profession obtains control of the Ministry of Health, which -is believed to be a change for the worse; and this illustrates the -constant effort of the profession to increase its power over the people -and to control all health matters, which, for the best interests of the -public, it should not be allowed to do. - -[5] The term “pemphigus” means a disease with _bubbles_ or _blisters_. - -[6] See eruption in Fig. 12. - - - - -Transcriber’s Notes - -Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. 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