Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-09

covered, everybody wanted il, and it coult
be obtained humanized or vitulated. That is
q child was vaccinated from the COW Is year
ago, and the virus has passed through somt
400 or 800 trsnsmissions, with many chance
OF having been corrupted. The vitulatet
stock has in like manner been handed dowl
from calf to calf until the evidence of il
genuineness would be questioned in an,
court. Upon what slight foundation tn,
whole question of vaccinal virus restsi Mill
ions of vaccinations are made every year an(
nobody knows what they are made with
The whole process is haphazard. Upon Jen
ner's dictum that smallpox would be stamped
out (?) vaccination was accepted. The Boart
of Health to-day buys its virus of those who
make merchandise of it. "Put money in thy
purse" was, in the beginning, and is to-day
the inscription upon the banner of anybody
who has anything to do with it.
PROCESSES OF VACCINATION,
need not recount the various methods Of
vacoinsting. The operation is so simple
that layman can perform it as we'll as q
legally qualified practitioner. The earlier
vaccinations was performed by laymau and
ladies. When smallpox began to appear
among the vaccinated it was Indignantly
denied at first, but when the failures be-
came too numerous to be hidden, the fault
was laid to the manner of vaccination and
not to the thing itself. Amateur vaccina-
tion was discontinued, and the matter rele-
gated to professional supervision, but with
no better success.
No one should be vaccinated except after
the most rigid physical scrutiny-and not
then. But the carelessness of the health
authorities in this particular is amazing.
This summer q child of IL years was yacci-
mated who was incubating measles. The
rash appeared purplish, coma ensued and
the child died. The indifferent manner in
which children of all classes and conditions
are brought under the rule is enough to ex-
cite the indignation of every right thinking
man. 1t will not do to claim that the effects
are harmless, for no less an authority than
Sir James Poget says, ''The action of vac
cine is to establish a permanent morbid
condition of the blood"
There are instances innumerable where
vaccination has awakened latent disease.
A lady had small tumor. She was vac
cinated, and it passed through the regular
stages. Previous to this the tumor re-
NAMED stationary, but in six months it in
creased from four ounces to eight pounds.
Another case, aged SO, health good. Vac
cination ran the regular course, leaving
open ulcers which did not heal for several
months. Before the ulcers healed diarrhea
set in and persisted until the patient died of
mesenteric tuberele.
If the Board of Health must vaccinate.
why do they not exempt the scrofulous,
syphilitic, eczematous, etc., as well as those
incubating or suffering any acute disease?
Especially should those recovering from any
of the zymotic diseases be exempt. Was
that the case this summer when measles was
epidemic?
A FILTHY MIXTURE USED.
Read this: "The material was obtained
from the Essex Market D1spensary, where
it was gathered from that populous but
filthy city. The mother was required to re-
port at the dispensary on the 21st day OF the
vaccination. The scabs were taken off and
dropped into an open mouthed jar. A suf-
hcient amount of water was added from
time to time to soften the scabs into paste,
into this filthy mixture the quills were
dipped"
Could anything reeking more of filth be
Of? Yet from this, thousands of
unsuspecting people have been compelled
by law to be vaccinated. Is it not fright
full? Let us now see il we can learn what
protection is afforded by this almost univer-
sal practice. Let us see if the end justify
prevent smallpox in the vaccinated?
In examining this evidence, it must be
boE4f lbs ifPs tbf tpftBabfg. Is S61y
presumptive evidence; for in no way can it
be proven that any person would take small
pox even if not vaccinated. Whereas. upon
the other hand, all the evidence produced is
positive, for if person is vaccinated and
contracts smallpox, Notwithstanding, in that
case at least it is a humbup.
Let 1t be remembered that Jenner claimed
that vaccination was a preventive for life.
He lived to see his mistake, for some of the
were attacked twice, and one
case is reported where the man had five at
tacks. Then he. Jenner, concluded that
had to be performed every year
to be effective. 1t must also be remembered
that smallpox is a filth disease, that does
not attack everybody, but only percentage
Of the people
Florence Nightingale attests this and
says: Il was brought up by scientific men
and Ignorant women to believe smallpox
was thing of which there was once first
specimen, which went on propagating lust
is the first dog or pair of dogs, and that
smallpox would not begin itself sny more
han new dog would begin without there
having been a parent dog. Since then
lave seen smallpox growing up in first
peclmens in close rooms or oyer-crowded
Yards where it could not by any possibility
lave been caught, but must have beguI."
DEATHS FROM SMALLPOX.
The estimated death rate for 80 years pre-
'ious to vaccination was 5000 per 1, 900, 600,
nut this estimate was declared unreliable.
The following results taken from hospital
'ases viii give an approximate idea, but
lroh no AL ~ a hnrT rofk L. Ii IL
Per cent
Date. Cases. Deaths. of death
l45 1855 1894
After examining many other tables of
we conclude the above to be about
he correct, about IS cases per 1000. With |
his liberal estimate it was shown that not |
alf the people could have had the disease.
he claim then that vaccination alone pre- |
ents falls to the ground, for this estimate |
overs period prior to vaccination.
In Boston in 1852, out of population of |
1854, there were 8, ,545 cases of smallpox. |
Nth 539 deaths, or 9.7 per cent. This was
efore vaccination, but inoculaton had been |
'racticed for nearly 80 years. Unlnfiuenced |
y inoculation, it is altogether likely the |
cath rate would have been less.
In the smallpox hospital, London. the |
lumber of cases of smallpox after yaccipa- |
ion has steadily increased from about s |
er cent in 1900 to A per cent in 1S45. Ga
er cent in 1855, rs percent in 1865, 80 Der
ent in 1875, and is now about 96 per cent of |
he whole number admitted. During the
mallpox epidemic in 1892, the number OF |
accinated cases very largely exceeded the |
nvaccinated, and of the latter, the vast
majority were children, in whom the disease
) very fatal.
In 1903 the first report of the vaccina
'ock Institute says: sit is not manifest that |
be vaccine inoculation has been of benefit |
D the public, however, much it has been to |
rivate individuals" Strange statement, |
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