New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-18


TO DO
Henry Bergh has written the following letter to
Professor Chandler on what he considers the evils
of vaccination:
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
FOR VIE PREyENTIoN OF CRUELTY TO ANNALS
HEADQUARTERS, FOURTH-AyE. CoBNER 22DSI
NEw-YORK. Dee 1G. 1881.
To Professor CHANDLER, President Of he York Board
DEAR STA: That the unders gned should address you
on subject relating TO medical science. seeing that
faculty, and that doing should occasion you along
with your colleagues ami portion of the public too,
to offer a strong conviction OF the absolute neces-
sity OF a more serious consideration of the sub
ern inquiry has brought 10 bear on if. shall con,
tent myself in the note which have the honor to send
YOU simply stating the IN the hTicfcst form
RE yrb 41ncyiean Rcric,rn the event Of yonr regard
ing my contribution worthy OF such cousidcrltionfor
fuller statistics and opinions OF eminent men III opposi-
ton TO the practice.
The liberty. Of the press. along with the con
stitutional right-nay dulyIof every citizen to
affecting general welfare, feel persuaded you will
accord 10 propose, AS leading posulate that 1t
is illogical and at variance with the theory Of the
therapeutic and poppy actc arts, 10 create disease in
healthy body, with the view OF preventing disease.
Those twin sciences however lnocGiation and vacci
nation, maintain the correctness OF this assumption,
Notwithstanding the evidence that the continually
and suddenly de under the lunuelce or such trratntt
that adults acquire protection IRON the undcNclopcd
malaly which IT cOutemplates preventing; and worse
than all, that the human family ~ slowly deterioraicd
and destroy ed thereby and chronic diseases made per
the views mere expressed tne experience ana scientific
Investigations OF professional men, equally learned
subject Yourself and your honorable associates
Toward close OF the last century, Jcnnor, you
are announced to the world his alleged discovery
OF a preventive that terrible scOurge smallpox ich
for ages had devastated Europe and America ANA which
has continued 50 10 do at intervals, the ease with
cholera and other epdemcs not witnstanding his DIS
cOvcry" BarUn IN his life OF Jenner, volume >, page
29S saws OF him:
Neither Jcnncrs previous education nor his habits
gave him relish for any OF the branches OF pure
SCIENCE he seemed t" have peculiar horror for anna
..lu "A MAS on
TINS want OF calculation goes far to account for the
absurit OF Ills statements about the miraculous effect
u vaccination upon populations where only = or
3 per cent had becn operated on ! hold that most
important in this question Of vaccination is the
lyinpn. ] nave before nae picture of Is
board. upon the hody Of which are to b.
numerous pnstules seated al me liable Is to be
seen 1assaehnsritS American one o those tntcrpaEg
Down East citizens, whose scent Of che gHty dollar
is provcrba, ana WHO having heard that vaccinatug
constitute and arbitrary law which dooins TIE rising
faying their heaIthy blood poisoned by fajlI and
disgusting or be deuied the benefits Of ed
iis vr CREATION ,ud staring n away for rr a. L.
cent meeting Of the BRUSH Medical Association this
- he va i',,I fo mike ,I ,,Irl f 10" o.'
AMI ,onl anil mus ib Atarr.,,D Cow.
pox contractor repudates MS master and with perfect
demoCrauc freedom actr up a national mandatory IN
Now tue truth H. JenneT know that cOwpoX was o. no
avail against smallpox and hence rcsorieI 90 horse
grcase Gor.e grease cowpoX There exist creature,
called Quacks," rom country free. hence
DR.. yld has opened snOp IN London. aud after
blowing MS brass trumpet and beating nia bias drum,
says: THE profession al Enga mandate me
win Applications Tor lymph, and WIN Gods nc!p viii
succeed III schclDg lhe thI-' arctiion movement "nd
demonstrate tnat II caf vaccination becomes universal
small pox must disappear from The world"
need hardly rcmurK To one possessing your c.prTi-
encc and scientific attanmcnts tnat cattle are subject
10 tuberculosis whch Is proved TO be nocula0r and is
identical human tuJ-rcutO-is. II one disease u
dreaded nan another It is consumption.
1 I,gfl in tf.. .NtV
H. All. Many Of The lower animals have other cArDnc
and hereditary Diseases, winch correspond % uoc VITA
NaicI mankind suffer, an every incIu. cap
aDle OF being communicated 10 our race, che uumrr
GUS Authorities before me declare. The prescribed
limits o. an ordinary letter FORBID my entering into
y, ,car,ng H. ONLY desire i. T., .py,s ttr ,'r,
prety-ndy humanity Of having thi~ subject Of uni
Vcrsali h,oFodt seriously Investigated b. others
u,Ic.I better able 70 do Il justice man mysciG
In presence Of tine frignuu statistics Infection and
mortality, which result as Is caIued from the Pre-, al
lug system smallpox treatment, ami which have -
hand, J bold thai tne medical faculty ana The pupuc
should from H. uniii modern thought aud siuuy
shall rendered their verdict II the statements of
Professor Adolf NO-t, % Eenc, with which | snail
TINS communication he coiIc't-aud thrS sur
Hta,en, / pray you employ your influence and
learning TO cause TINS practice 10 Dc until time
IN 10 whom For the past nIty wears al,
tic recruits Tor the Prassan army yaccAatci
smallpox occurred in army tnan among the
members OF the civil population OF The age, al
though me iJJc nave MOI "eeh universally Ndcci'cd
during the FranoO-iermau war, the army, with dcni-
vaccination, tNlCc
were attA,Aed ~ snIaIlO officers; times a.
many u.lITry cayaIry; sixty times many
IessIau contingent as OI the WurtOmJurg; ma he in
Icis iucreITO mat inc disease governed III
fucnces totally different from thar OF successful vac
CiIIa,ICu.
lnat the youth OF France OF the agcirce from
all oUnpusIUn 10 vacImatOn-Si,w almost three
tImcs newer OF mortality T0m smallpox than the
army.
mat the three and half millions said 10 have died
OF that disease Mexico were counted by any
one ana according reports eye Witnesses most
OF mem Ici vIciiuIs 10 lduinc.
That plIs communicated IN vaccine lymph snOw
well DaIlc, and eqdiy 80 tnc TACT that IL trans
uatteu ro parent cad, from the nurse through the
llK 70 he niant and even frO wlfe ~ husband. Ac
curuns tine reports OF Regl5trdlcHcrai OF London
Inc great increase tue uunDer dca ms from Iufan-
the sypnis were comcidcnt WItn the Of
ciuaOn and he adds that there died Of syphilis in The
hyc years:
Under
year OF age. OF all ages.