The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-23
Mr.. DENNY'S PROTECTION
Another Vigorous Playing of the Hide
Gus Vaccination Fallacy."

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
was amused at the charming naivete OF
Mayor Denny in regard to vaccination, as
shown in the following utterance attributed
to him the other day in an evening paper:
some years ago when we had smallpox
here L told my family TO send me 10 the
Pesthouse at once if 1 were taken down.
But / had been thoroughly vaccinated and
did not have to 60"
Now. the regulation statistics very plain
~ show that vaccination has no influence
in the protection OF persons from attacks OF
smallpox. whatever virtue il may be
claimed to have in modifying the severity
OF such attacks; so Mr.. Denny's fancied
protection was only on a par with that
afforded the ostrich when it sticks its head
in bush when pursued by a hunter. In
your interesting history OF the epidemic
Of which Mr.. Denny speaks. published the
2lst of last August. is described the case
of DR.. Wagner. who was even better pro
tected' than Mr.. Denny. he having been
vaccinated four times. early and late. but
who took smallpox. made his will. went 10
the pesthouse. where he spent twenty-eight
days in seclusion. The regulation statistics
of the smallpox epidemic which swept over
Europe in 1871 show that there were actually
hundreds Of thousands of cases of small
poX among vaccicnated persons In Eng
land that year % 126 died of smallpox-and
in that country vaccination was compulso-
~. In Bavaria there We're 30.742 cases Of
smallpox that year, of which 29,429 were
among vaccinated persons. a per cent. Of
95.7. (See Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. q. for
these figures and many more of the same
kind) The annual report of the health de-
partment of the city of New York, issued
rn 1871, says: THE extraordinary preva-
lence Of smallpox over various parts Of the
globe, especially in countries where vacci-
nation has long been efficiently practiced;
fits occurrence In its most fatal form In
persons who gave evidence of having been
well vaccinated, and the remarkable sus-
ceptibiity of people Of all ages TO revacci-
nation are new facts in the history or this
pestilence, which must lead TO reinvestiga-
ton of the whole subject OF vaccination and
of it's claims as a protecting agent" 1
have no fault TO find with the above quo
tation except as to the expression new
facts" They are old facts, and the history
of the subject bristle with them They
were new facts to that particular health
board there. but they do not seem TO be
new facts even yet to some other health
boards / could name.
/ will not infiict ancient history upon you,
but hone you will bear with me In the in
the New York Medical Journal for March
= is an article enttied ssat tbs TS1
WEIGH physician TO the Philadelphia Small
pox Hospital His record embraces the
1894. His tables show that out OF these
5000 cases of smallpox only 1,6l2 were
among the unvaccinated And they , were
even less, as he had 'ninety-three unclassl-
fed" more than half of whom probably
belonged among the vaccinated- He en-
deavors TO show that vaccination nlugates
the disease. but conclusively shows that II
does not prevent IL. Here is one OF his
statements: I'm examining the arms or
natients of German birth IL is quite COM
mon to find three distinct scars on eacn
arm and even a greater number is fire.
Quently met with. I have seen as many as
twenty typical vaccine marks on inc arms
of a German patient" Is not this pro
lection OF the ostrich kind?
In an English blue book report on sanl-
tarv mea siires in India in lSsi-e5 NANNY
for 1854, shows that the vaccinating stan stan
of 426l vaccinated 5,S34.s61 persons that
Rein1 333 $50 and the army commission
concludes: I'VE are thus brought face 10
face with the fact that, notwithstanding the
smallpox swept over the provinces just as
if there had been none. II is clear that
vaccination has been incompetent 10 deal
with the disease in it's epidemic form. TX
sanitary work be neglected no more ue-
pendence against smallpox can be placed on
where altogether. for in an epidemic year
smallpox scapes from the influence OF vac
cination alone" This Is official testimony
that vaccination protects from smallpox
when there Is no smallpox around, out IS
useless when smallpox comes.
hope you will pardon my inslstence upon
this subject in so public manner but THIS
matter is the greatest sanitary subject OF
the age and its settlement belongs to the
people not the doctors, and so should be
discussed in the newspapers. The people
must refuse longer to be made SICK when
well at the orders of health boards whose
officials and attaches are so ignorant OF the
subject as TO ask. in fancied support or
vaccination, why there is so much less
smallpox now than there was before vac
cination was introduced, oblivious or the
fact that the conditions are not compar-
able because the practice In vogue then
was noculation-vaccinating with smallpox
matter itself thus spreading the disease:
History shows that vaccination was foisted
upon the medical profession by Jenner by
fraud, and forced upon the people by
vast piece OF political chicanery, ana no
microscopic or bacterioloRist has been able
to show that the vaccine virus is anything
more than pus from an old sore on an ami
NAL, only capable of causing sickness,
disease and death, as il has thousands upon
thousands of times without the beneft
superadded Of comforting protection from
smallpox. In conclusion IL is most note
worthy fact that the statistics used by the
anti-Vaccina tionists were not manufacturer
by them, but in the regulation way, usually
by the believers in vaccination, and II Is
another fact that every one who will but
look over the fast growing literature OF
this subject becomes convinced that the
worship OF vaccination. this hideous fallacy,
is but that of a foul fetish i'm the rightful
place OF the pure goddess Hygeia-
w. d. CLARKE, NJ ID.
Indianapolis, March 81