The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-18
is yAcCINAr1oN ADVISABLE ?
Vaccination More Dangerous than Small
Pox-Engenders Other aud Worse
Diseases No Such Thing as
Pure Virus.

MR.. EDITOR: - The article in last
weeks DEMOCRAT from DR.. Slusser, up
on the smallpox question induces me
to venture few words upon vaccina-
ton, certainly an important question.
High medical authorities oppose vac
cinatiOn and adduce strong evidence to
sustain their position. A writer in
Stoddart's Review for May y,prOduces evil
dence and high authority to establish
the following propositions:
1st-That vaccination is no protection
against smallpox.
2d-That years of prevalent small
pox are not years Of increased mortality.
3d-That re vaccination is futile.
4th-That the theory of perfect Vacci-
nation is fallacy.
5th-That it is impossible to procure
pure virus.
6th-That vaccination leads to and
engenders other diseases, some of which
are worse than smallpox.
7th-That the only safe and sure pre-
ventive against smallpox is obedience
to hygienic laws.
Why put virus, poison, the product
of disease, into the circulation of a
healthy person? Or, why add an addi-
tiOnal enemy to those of an unhealthy
personP But SO universal is the idea of
vaccination, that zone would like" as
Oliver Goldsmith says, "tO be in the
right, even for the sake of novelty and
variety" The author of the article in
Stoddart says he was induced to investi-
gate after losing one child by vaccina-
ton and having another injured for
life. The article gives valuable statis-
tical information and quotes authOri-
ties to sustain the foregoing PROPOSE
tiOns. We cannot do evil that good may
come-cannOt pluck grapes from thOrns
and figs from thistles.
A host of distinguished names stand
opposed to vaccination. Won Humboldt
Professor Newman, Sir Wilfred Lamson
Sir JervOise G. JervOise and hosts of 9th
ers. We give few extracts and Opin'
ions of weight and value:
DR.. Herman, principal physician at the
Imperial Hospital, Vienna, from 1858 to
1864, says.
"My experience of smallpox during
those six years of bedside attendance,
has given me the right, or rather has
imposed upon me the duty of taking
part in the bold and spirited onslaught
on vaccination, which Is now being car
ried on in Switzerland, Germany, En-
gland and other countries. l am con-
Yinced that vaccination is the greatest
mistake and delusiOn in the science OF
medicine; a fanciful delusiOn In the
mind of the discOVerer; a phenomenal
apparitiOn, devoid of scientific founda-
| tiOn, and wanting in all the conditions
of scientific possibility"
DR.. CarOn, CheValier of the Legion OF
Honor, and late government physician
to the Paris prisons, says:
Vaccination, sO-called, modifles moi
one little of either the virulence or the
consequences of smallpox. have long
since refused to vaceinate at any price.
The London Lancet, January 21st
says: From the early part of the CEN
tury cases of smallpox after Vacc1na-
tiOn have been increasing, and now
amount to fOur-fifths of the cases."
The late Sir j. Y. Simpson, M. D.,
never uttered greater truth than when
he said that smallpox can never be ex-
terminated by vaccination; for, as DR..
Druitt justly observes, ''it is just as rea-
sonable to say that umbrellas prevent
thunder-stOrms as that vaccination can
prevent smallpox epidemic"
If the above were all that could be
said against vaccination, 1t were bad
enough; but we have the alarming fact
clearly demonstrated that vaccination
imparts diseases more loathsome, hered-
itary, and fatal, than even smallpox.
The array Of scientific evidence to
prove this Is now freely admitted in all
the British and Continental medical
journals.
DR.. j. w, Collins, DR.. Pearce, DIR. Garth
Wilkinson, and others, testified to the
fact before committee Of the House OF
Commons.
N. Ricord, whose fame is worldwide
says: "At first / repelled the idea that
syphilis could be transmitted by vacci-
nation, but to-day 1 hesitate
no more to proclaim the reality"
DR.. Brundenell Carter says: T think
that syphilitic contamination by vac.
occurrence 1 think that large
proportion of apparently inherited syph-
Ills is in reality vaccinal."
DR.. Ballard, vaccination inspector
says: There are numerous cases on
record to prove that the vaccine virus
| and che syphilitic virus may be intro
duced at the same spot by the same
puncture Of the vaccinating lancet"
Professor Germann, NJ. D., of the Uni
versity of Leipsic, says: eighteen
school girls, averaging twelve years of
age, were re-vaccinated, and were svph-
ilized, and some Of them died. =
Yet the lymph, the syphilitic lymph,
used in this case was obtained from the
official royal establishment for the new
'Iegenerated' or 'animalized' vaccine
lymph"
Dr.. Creighton, of Cambridpe Univer.