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HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED
PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY
AND NAVY
BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS
1920 Published by Chas M. Higgins, Brooklyn.
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Prelude:—Forewords for Medical Freedom and Keynotes of
American Rights and Liberties in Medical Matters
Introduction
Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated
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
Death of George Washington from Medical Malpractice in 1799
a warning against Modern Malpractice
Compulsory Vaccination greatest malpractice of to-day, kills
many persons
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
VACCINATION IS BLOOD POISONING WITH INFLICTED
DISEASE AND IS OFTEN MORE FATAL THAN NATURAL
DISEASE
Compulsory Disease As A Condition For Public Schooling Or For Service In Army
And Navy Is Medically Barbarous And Legally Unconstitutional, And Should Be
Abolished
Abolish All Compulsory Vaccination In Army And Navy And Appoint Doctors Of
Various Schools On All Medical And Health Boards
Cruel And Unusual, Excessive And Unreasonable Punishments Are Unconstitutional.
Moral And Medical Monstrosity Of Long Terms Of Imprisonment For Refusing
Vaccination
Harsh Military Punishments Condemned By American Bar Association
Military Obedience To Bad Law. The High Example Of Socrates Commended
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
Compulsory Vaccination Not Necessary And Not Effective For The Health Of Armies
Or Populations. Failure Of Vaccination In U. S. Army Officially Admitted
Medical And Other Authorities Admit Dangers Of Vaccination And Condemn
Compulsion
Deaths From Vaccination Greater Than Deaths From Smallpox. Shocking Denial And
Concealment Of Vaccination Deaths By Our Departments Of Health And Vital
Statistics
Great Epidemics Of Deadly Disease, In Animals And Mankind, Caused By Vaccination
Vaccination Both A Theoretical And A Proved Cause Of Epidemics
Grave Nature Of Recent Epidemic Of Influenza And Pneumonia, And Possible
Relation Of Vaccination Thereto
Epidemics Actually Caused
By Vaccination
Vaccine Factories A Possible And Proved Source Of Epidemics And Should Be
Investigated By Congress And The Government
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
Wonderful Work Of The War And Navy Departments Gratefully Acknowledged
Compulsory
Vaccination Condemned As Un-American
The Declaration Of Independence, Our Basic Charter Of
American Rights, Condemns All Violations Of Inherent Natural Rights
The Code And Basis Of Americanism
The
Five Articles Of The Declaration Of Rights, July 4, 1776
The Golden
Rule And The Declaration Of Rights Compared
Unalienable Rights Analyzed
And Defined
All
Power Comes From The People To The Government-Not Vice Versa
Medical Freedom An Unalienable
Right
Compulsory Vaccination Condemned By Our Courts As Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court Of The United States On The Preeminent Rights Of The
Individual
Decision Of U. S.
Supreme Court Further Analyzed
Unalienable Rights Of The Individual Versus Rights Of Majorities. False Idea
Of The Supremacy Of Majorities Scored
Medical Freedom And Alimentary Freedom Are Equally Unalienable Rights Of The
People And Necessary For Human Life, Liberty And Happiness
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!"
Awful Record Of Japan In Vaccination And Smallpox And In Epidemic Disease Caused
By Vaccine Virus, As Given In U. S. Government Reports
Japanese Virus Causes Epidemics Of Cattle Plague In Mankind And Animals
Medical Freedom Necessary For Medical Progress, Medical Truth And Human Safety
Medical Domination And Compulsion Most Dangerous Power In Body Politic And Must
Be Suppressed
The Gigantic Medical And Vaccine Interest Supporting Compulsory Vaccination A
Menace To Public Right And Safety Which Should Be Curbed
Reformed System Long Used In
England
Proposed National Board Of Public Health, Controlled By One School Of Doctors,
Condemned
Medical Ethics Of The Vaccine And Other Schools Compared And Criticized. The
"Beam" Versus The "Mote"
Propagation
And Infliction Of Disease A Medical Crime
Removal Of The Great Ethical Disgrace Of The Medical Profession
Recapitulation
Conclusion
Life Sketch Of John Pitcairn
Pictorial Supplement Exposing And Illustrating Horrors
Of Vaccination
Pictorial Supplement
Horrors Of
Vaccination Exposed And Illustrated
How Vaccine Virus Is Made And How Cattle And Mankind Are Diseased And Killed By
It
Fig 1 How cattle
are diseased and tortured and Vaccine Virus produced.
What Vaccination Really Is And How Pus Infection, Lockjaw, And Other Diseases
Work Together In Vaccination With Fatal Effects
Fig 2, Fig 3,
Fig 4, Fig 5,
Fig 6,
Diseases Found
In Or Caused By Vaccine Virus
Fig 7,
Fig 8, Fig 8 1/2, Fig 9
The Vaccine Holocaust. Wholesale Infection,
Slaughter And Sacrifice Of Cattle Caused By Vaccination
Fig 10
Official Reports Proving Vaccination To Be The Cause Of Foot And Mouth Disease
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
An Official Doubt Disproved
A Big Price To Pay
For Vaccination
Epidemics Of Smallpox Probably Caused By Vaccination And Foot And Mouth Disease
Cattle Epidemics
Common In Vaccinated Countries
How Lockjaw Is Caused By Vaccination And How This Truth Is Denied And Concealed
By Vaccinators
Lockjaw May Be Caused By Vaccination Whether The Germs Are In The Virus Or Not
"Assassination Of The
Blood" Must Be Stopped
Vaccination And Lockjaw More "Risky" And Deadly Than Smallpox
The Horror Of Horrors, Cattle Plague Or Foot And Mouth Disease, Caused In
Mankind By Vaccination. Medical Ignorance On This Point Scored
Fig 11, Fig 12
The Awful Case Of A Vaccinated School Boy Infected With Foot And Mouth Disease,
Or Virulent Cowpox, And In Eruption For Three Years!
Another
Bad Case Of Virulent Cowpox From U. S. Naval Records
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
Most Important Medical Fact Exposed Here. Identity Of Foot And Mouth Disease
With Vaccination Proved
Vaccination Is Doctored Smallpox. It Assumes Various Forms And Is Often Worse
Than Natural Smallpox
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
An Indictment Against
Bovine Vaccination
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 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.
An English
Sailor Loses His Arm From Cowpox Vaccination
Case Of Henry Plant
Death Of An English Soldier From Typhoid Vaccination. A Typical Case
Sickness And
Death From Vaccinations In U. S. Army
Most Important Medical Point Established. Relation Of Vaccination To The Two
Chief Causes Of Death In The Army-Pneumonia And Meningitis-Proved
The Slaughter Of The Innocents Illustrated. How Little Children Are Infected And
Killed By Inflicted Disease In The "Savage Rite" Of Vaccination
Fig17,
Some Leaves From Mr.
Loyster's Pamphlet
Introduction
Case No. 1
Case No. 2
Case No. 3
Case No. 7
Case No. 8
Case No. 18
Case No. 19
Case No. 20
Case No. 24
Case No. 25
Case No. 27
Case No. 28
Case No. 29
Mr. Loyster's Argument And Proof That Infantile Paralysis Is Caused By
Vaccination
Mr. Loyster's Conclusions
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
Letter From An Aggrieved Father On The Death Of His Little Boy From Vaccination
Proposed Law To Compensate Parents For Injury To Or Death Of Vaccinated Children
Shocking Medical Mendacity, On The Alleged Harmlessness Of Vaccination
The Philippine Falsehood
Health Department Falsehoods
Falsehoods From The Encyclopedias
The Errors In The Britannica
The Errors Of Dr. M. J. Rosenau, A High Medical Authority, On The Relative
Harmlessness Of Vaccination
Jenner's Great Falsehoods. The Original Mendacities Of Vaccination Exposed
The Dangerous "Vaccination Creed" Of The Chicago Board Of Health Explained And
Condemned
The False Glory Of Jenner And The Disgrace Of The Medical Profession
What Protects Us From Smallpox In Modern Times? Is It
Vaccination Or Something Else? A False Claim Exploded
The Unsanitary Conditions Of Jenner's Day Exposed.
Power Of Sanitation To Extinguish Smallpox Admitted By
Jenner's Chief Assistant In 1815
Further Proof From The English Minister Of Health That Sanitation Prevents
Smallpox More Than Vaccination. Poorly Vaccinated London More Healthy Than Much
Vaccinated Berlin
Only A Limited And Voluntary Use Of Vaccination
Suggested And Approved. Forced Vaccination Of
School Children Condemned
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
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
Summing Up-The Case Proved
Conclusion
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. Osier'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: PREEMINENT 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."
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE
1. The vaccinated calf, showing how vaccine virus is made
and how cattle and mankind are diseased by it
2. A vaccinated arm showing the ripe, normal vaccination
sore or pustule as a distinct form of "Purulent Infection".
3. A bad case of vaccination showing an ulcerating sore.
4. Multiple vaccinations spread from the arm to the face by
scratching with the fingers, showing highly infectious
nature of vaccination
5. Photograph of a little child killed by "Generalized Vaccination," where the
vaccinal eruption spreads all over the body like
confluent smallpox
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
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
8. View of a pair of oxen suffering from the same disease
in said epidemic caused by vaccination
8b.
Eruptions of foot and mouth disease on udder and teats
of cow
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
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
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
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.
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
14 and 15. Photographs of an English sailor who lost his arm
from vaccination
16. Photograph of an English soldier killed by Typhoid Vaccination
17. Cartoon from Harpers Weekly. The "savage rite" of
vaccination shown in action. "The medicine man performs
his savage rites" on little children
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
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
2. In Memoriam. Portrait of John Pitcairn, late President of
The Anti-Vaccination League of America and leading business man of
Philadelphia
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
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 today 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, 1 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.
1 See U. S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin 91, Dec, 1913. Also "Preventive
Medicine," by Dr. Rosenau, 1914, page 410.
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 DISEASE 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 fine's
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 3rd, 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, 1 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 v 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., Osier's
"Modern Medicine," new edition, 1913, Volume 1, 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
un-vaccinated, 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 1 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:
Year
Total
Deaths Total Deaths
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 arid 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, iqi r, 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 1 have repeatedly and publicly charged, and have
challenged these doctors and officials to deny or disprove this charge if they
can, and 1 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
epdemics 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 "pyemia," 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,1 but 1 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.
1 See U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin, Oct., 1914, page 591, Smallpox on
Battleship Ohio confounded with Influenza.
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. $. 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, para-typhoid, 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 Osier's "Modern
Medicine," 1913, Vol. I, pages 32 and 33. See also Osier'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 6 l/2 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 1 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, 1 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
"un-alienable 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 in herently 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 LeBceuf 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 PREEMINENT 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 preeminent 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 preeminent 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 allied 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.1
1 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."
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!
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 today, 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 27 1/2 per cent.; in 1905 there were 10,704 cases with 3,388
deaths, mortality 31 1/2 per cent., and in 1908 there
were 18,075 cases with 5,835 deaths, mortality 32 1/2 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
27 1/2 per cent, in 1898 to 31 1/2 per cent, in 1905 and 32
1/2 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 1 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 danerous 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 today, 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
startling membership
figures, combined with the ninety-nine 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 honstly 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.1
1. 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.
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 inpculation 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 1 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.
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
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,
Fig 1. How cattle are diseased and tortured and Vaccine Virus produced.
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 Pyaemia 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 Pyaemia-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: Pyaemia, No. 20A; Septicemia, No. 20B; Vaccinia, No. 20C.
Under this latter sub-head, 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.
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,
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.
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
Fig. 3. Vaccinal Ulcer.
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
Fig. 4. Multiple Vaccinations spread by finger-nails.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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,
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.
Fig. 6. Vaccination on the tenth day, showing a severe type of infection in a
little child. Note widespread 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.
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 "Pyaemia" 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 if
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 widespread 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 fleabite 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 Osier'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.
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.
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.
Fig. 8 1/2 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.
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
Fig 8. Oxen with Foot and Mouth Disease caused
by Vaccination
Fig. 8 1/2 Udder and teats of a cow
affected with Foot and Mouth Disease. Note
characteristic eruptions on teats.
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, how-
Fig 9.
The Vaccine Holocaust.
Look at this picture and read the 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
firewood 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
1008.) In this second epidemic 3,636 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
ever, 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.
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 & Go. 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 cooperation 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 widespread
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, 1 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 consesequently 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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."1
1 The term "pemphigus" means a disease with bubbles or blisters.
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, 1 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, an& 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.
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,
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 widespread 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.1 . . . 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!' "
1 See eruption in Fig. 12.
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 fs 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, 8l/2 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. 8y2, 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 textbooks 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
Fig. 14. Before Vaccination 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."
Fig. 16. Sergeant H. Nichols, of East Finchley, England, died on November 4,
1914, from the effect of anti-typhoid inoculation.
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.
"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 no, 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 Osier'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
This picture, with its expressive title, is taken from an old number of
Harper s
Weekly and shows how vaccination com-
Fig. 17.
The "Savage Rite" of Vaccination illustrated in action.
"The Medicine Man performs his Savage Rites."
From Harper's Weekly, February 24, 1912.
mences 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
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
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
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
Frederick Stinefoot
FREDERICK STINEFOOT, only son of William H. Stine'foot, 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
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
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."
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; intraspinous 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
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
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
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 N0.27
Ruth A. Minnick
RUTH A. MINNICK, daughter of S. V. Minnick. R. D. No 2.,Carthage, N. Y.
Age 10 1/2.
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
aged (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, 10 1/2, 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 nearby 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.
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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.
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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 1 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. n, 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. G. 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. Watkrs.
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 nearby 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 in trenched 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 tor 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 Amerian 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 reread 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 cow-pox,
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 "cow-pox" 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 widespread 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 Gemany 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. battleship Ohio versus the
unvaccinated City of Niagara Falls, N. Y.
A smallpox epidemic raged on this battleship 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
battleship 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 battleship with 1,000 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 battleship 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 of
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 at
tempts 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 unconstitutionally of all compulsory vaccination and
its gross violation of Medical Freedom and Bodily Sanctity, which are
unalieoable 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.