The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-17
DEATHS FROM VACCIN ALTON.
Eye-Opening Testimony for Those Who
Believe i'll Jenner's Practice.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
In your report Of the smallpox meeting
Of the State Board of Health in your issue
of this morning is a report Of DR.. Leach,
saying that of the many people vaccinated
in Muncie recently there were no bad re-
suits in a single case" 1t might be diff
cult to define what a professional vaccin-
ator would consider bad results" but SO
remarkable q report should not go UNI
challenged, for medical men, whether vac
cinators or not, freely admit that bad re-
suits are frequent. Look in the State Board
of Health reports for 1883 and 1884 for off,
cial evidence of this. If you will turn to
your file you VIII find under date of Mum
Gle, Nov. %, 1893, this dispatch:
Mrs. Eli Cough died of lockjaw near
Muncie last night. Her death was directly
caused by vaccinations"
Little Marjorie Woodruff, five years old,
died Of lockjaw, caused by vaccination, at
her home in Bellport, Long Island, Dec. G,
and two young daughters of james Stone.
of Plum Run, just east of PEBBLES, o., died
last December of blood poisoning by vac
c~ination. DR.. ]. r. Kipp, a Chicago col
lege professor, lost a case by death caused
by vaccination. The reports of the Regis
trar-general Of England shows eight
hundred deaths from vaccination in the last
lSh years, lilOu5u lHc ICluIHS - Out
meager, because of the professional desire
to save vaccination from reproach.
But the deaths directly caused by vac
~cination are few compared with those in
directly caused, to say nothing OF the dis
ease and sickness entailed. Why not look
and avail ourselves Of the testimony Of
those who have had the largest experience
with vaccination and smaliPox? If vaccin,
be forgiven II, but as it does not, why
blind our eyes TO the fact? The smallpox
epidemic that swept over Europe in 1S71-72
was one of the worst OF history, and hun
dreds of thousands Of v~accinated people
had the disease, thousands Of them dying,
and the English Army Commission report
of 1SS4-s5 was that in India vaccination
Was powerIess against smallpox:
vaccination as e preventive of smallpox,
and the question OF its continuance has now
become one to be settled by the people, who
tors and so-called health boards, for, in
stead OF promoting health it causes disease,
skin diseases, scrofula and consumption.
This is not my say so, but Of men VINO have
long studied the matter in all its bearings,
cite a few opinions and l am done:
Niemeyer, in his textbook of medicine,
sometimes ~endangers life, and in other
cases leaves permanent impairment OF
DR.. George Gregory, for fifty years direc-
tor of the London smallpox hospital. says
and that the idea that it can is absurd,
chimerical. irrational: -presumptuous."
Or: W. J; Collins, for twenty-five years a
sition with It's $500 yearly fees, and
testified before the British House OF Com
mons that ne had not the least confidence
in vaccination, at least two-thirds of all
cases of smallpox having been successfully
vaccinated, and that lit often transfers
tlthy and dangerous diseases without Of
fnriuCr any nTptoctiOn yVNatGyer'
DIR. John Epps, twenty-five years director
of the Jennerian Institute. London. after
vaccinatinG 10, coo people, gave up the prac-
| tice, saying that it was poisonous and at
forded no protection.
DR.. stoweIl. for thirty years a public vac
cinator in England, did the same, and add
Ell that revaccination was equally value
less.
DIR. Hitchman. for many years a public
vaccinator at Liverpool, gave it UP, saying
there are hundreds killed yearly by it
DR.. Perron, of the French Legion Of Hon
or, says that vaccination has introduced
abolished il for the harm it has done.
DR.. Caron, government physician to the
Parts prisons. long since refused 10 vacci-
nate, as 1t was worthless and valueless.
The London Lancet said. Jan. q. 1871;
Gases of smallpox after vaccination now
DIR. J. w. Pease, NJ. p, said: "Childrer
die under the operation of the vaccination
acts i'm a wholesale way"
The Students Journal and Hospital Ga.
zette said. Jan. IA. 1852: Many deaths have
resulted from vaccination, and an unknown
number of children have he'd their consti-
tutions cruelty injured through vaccina.
ton"
Copeland's Medical Dictionary says: 1T
IS certain that Scrofulous and tuberculouS
diseases have increased since the iItroduc.
ton of cowpox, and that the vaccine favors
particularly the prevalence OF various forms
of scrofula."
And so l could go on and adduce enough
similar and equally strong testimony from
men great in medicine, in literature
IN science ana in pU4.tIls TO fill Il whole
page of your paper, and, for that matter
would willingly do il. The charge that !
am a pestiferous crank on the anti-vaccina-
ton subject would at least receive the re-
Div that am in good company. / feel GER
tain that the people at large do not know
the facts in the matter. and that il is the
imperative duty OF the press or the coun-
try TO enlighten them on this, the foremost
sanitary question OF the age, that they
may no longer blindly present their bodies
a living sacrifice before this Moloch OF
superstition. vaccination, bearing in mind
as prof. Newman said. that against the
BODY Of a healthy man or infant Parlia,
ment has no right OF assault whatever
under pretense Of the public health: nc
law giver can have the right, and such Z
law is an unendurable usurpation and ere.
ates the right % resistance"
w. y. CLARKE, NJ. D.
Tndfonanoifc Feb Ic