Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-27

= Peculiar Medical Theory pu, -
rract'ce In an institution for Chill
dren.
New York Tribune.
Are these children vaecinstad o.,
said physician Of the health Dr..
ments vaccinating corps to the elderly
doctor In charge of the institution he
was visiting. H0
They are" responded the elderly
man of physic. '
But where are the marks on their
arms?' OA 'ueiA
"There are none"
"You vaccinated them on their
legsP" =" 'neif
mo, they swallowed it." said the
elder with bland smile.
Then the doctors regarded each 9th
er, on one side with amazement, on the
other with defiant consciousness Of
virtue and an upright mind. The vac
cinating doctor was narrowed up by
awful thoughts of children lsnchiDg
on quilts and ivory points. But the
swallowing doctor kindly came to his
aid by producing a bottle of small
white lOzenges. "Thes are what
give" he said. "They contain a very
high attenuation of the matter from a
smallpox pustule. and, il swallowed.
they not only cure but prevent small
pOx."
The speaker was DR.. s. Swan, who is
In charge OF the House of the Holy
Family" in Second avenue, near Eighth
street. This Is Roman Catholic char.
liable institution for children whose
parents are unable or unfit TO care for
them. IL contains at present about
two hundred young girls, between the
ages Of 5 and IL. A short time since
1t was reported to the health board that
there was a case of smallpox in the
home. A physician was sent up, and
found that the ckness was not case
of smallpox. He also found that both
Mrs. Starr, wealthy lady who is in.
terested in the institution, and Dr.
Swan were strongly opposed to the
ordinary method of vaccination, and
were firm believers in the Ell ,acy Of
smallpox virus taking internally.
Subsequently DIR. Day went there, but
failed to see Mrs, Starr, and fiuding
that many of the children were abso-
lutely unvaccinated and without
protection from smallpox, DIR. J. b.
Taylor the chief of the vaccination
bureau, visited the home and vaccinated
twenty-five children. DIR. Swan cour-
teously consented, but held to his the
DRY. His theory and his lozenges, how
ever, were better for ornament than
for use. In every case the vaccination
took thoroughly. showing that these
little girls would have fallen veins to
smallpox had they been exposed. DR..
Swan, although nominally a homeo-
pathic physician, is not considered
homeopath, if the expression is allow
able, and he carries the EXTREMIST
views of Hahnemann is his last days
TO the farthest point. His process of
preparing the lounges showed the at
tenuatiOn doctrine carried out to it's
last limit. He obtained one drop Of
matter from pustule on a person i'll
with the small pox. This was diluted
with one hundred drops of water.
Then drop of this solution was diluted
with one hundred drops of water, and
the process continued until about the
millionth attenuation was reached.
Then, procuring little sugar pellets or
lozenges, he placed drop Of this very
much weakened water with glass rod
ON each lozenge. 1t is needless to say
that neither in taste, smell, appearance,
or effect do these lozenges differ from
powdered sugar. DIR. Swan said that
anyone taking these lozenges would be
i'll soon afterward with n very mild
form of variolOid. A bottle Of them
has been procured ut the health de-
partment, and they have been freely
swallowed by various persons without
effect. There have been strong ex-
pressions of opinion, However, in re-
gard to the danger of leaving children
exposed to small pox through the mis-.
taken ideas of their guardians.