The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-25
FACTS AGAINST VACCINATION.
(contipusd from The News Of July as)

person who believes In vaccination,
from his own Judgment, after he knows
what il Is. is q fool. Everything about
10 Is most horrible and preposterous.
How Is IL possible that people can have
any confidence In men that will do such
ab0minable things? Are they 20 con-
tlnue TO be our advisers and dictate laws
20 be enacted for their special benefit,
and deprive the people of their inalien-
able rights aud personal libertiesp Are
the people of Rhode Island sheepish
enough to submit 10 such outrages?
What could there possibly be more pre-
posterOus than for State TO make law
that children shall be blood poisoned
before they can go 10 the public school.
Is IL not OF all things imaginable, the
most damnable and the most foolish?
Could there be greater disgrace to the
State? And have the people no regard
for the reputation of their State?
How was the medical profession able
to commit such a gigantic fraud upon
mankind? The answer Is, the regular
doctors ruled supreme from time i'm
memorial in all medical matters in every
government, from kingdoms down, by a
colossal system Of deception, used In
every conceivable way to conceal its real
character. The following are the prin-
clpal lies by which ID has been sustained
and enforced upon the people:
1st. Edward Jenner discovered vac,
and was the greatest benefactor of the
age.
I'd. Vac. was the greatest blessing
ever vouchsafed TO man.
3D. Vac. prevents smallpox.
4th. Vac. does no harm.
9TH. When vac, Injuries or kills
child, they say vac had nothing to do
death.
These lies are all described above and
proved to be such.
Now, however astounding, IL Is
lamentable fact that the upper classes of
the community, to their utter disgrace,
have been fooled hundred years by the
doctors. and made TO execute vaccination,
the most absured and blackest Of all
crimes. Think OF Judge of the
Supreme Court having his child pois-
oned! because an unconstitutional law
requires it. Just think of Presidents,
Governors, Mayors, School Superlntend-
ents, School Committees, allowing the
little childred to be poisoned Think
of ministers having all their little Sun
day-school children poisoned! just
think of the Judiciary Committees decid-
ing that people shall have their children
poisoned Oh how strange What
disgrace TO educated men!
The doctors fool the people just the
same with their poisonous medicines,
their antitoxin, tuburculin and all sorts
of quackery, and folks are fools enough
to let them experiment ON their defence
lass children.
We believe with the professors above
quoted that the people would get along
better without the doctors. They can't
cure a simple case of scarlet fever or
measles without quarantining the whole
family We are glad To inform the
mothers that they can soon have little
book by which they can do their own
doctoring. and while that Is being pre-
pared. we will say that when they have q
child taken sick no matter what 1t is
threatened with, scarlet fever, or any
ferer measels, chicken-pox, smallpox or
diphtheria, give it bath at 102 degrees !;
immerse the child nearly to its chin. and
let Ii stay in l2 or 10 minutes; then put
the child TO bed, and put on but little
clothes until it gets cooled to its normal
heat. Common sense will tell you how
to manage.
As soon as you discover that the child
Is sick, don't send for a doctor TO make it
sicker, but give it bath at once. and in
nine cases out of ten that will be the last
of il. Fever is fire, and water Is the
best thing to put it out with. Use COM
mon sense instead Of poisons. III a child
is but little feverish, when ID is put to
bed put a bandage, wet with warm water,
around its chest, from its arms to its
hips. We prefer wooden; II the cloth
Is thick, one thickness to wet will dc IL
thin, use two thicknesses. WliN = t"e
bandage so the water will not run out If
1t, but leave itwet enough not to get dry !;
pin it, not too tight nor too loose, use
common sense In every thing you do.
Put dry cloth outside Of the wet, five
times the thickness OF the wet. When
you take the bandage off rub the child
over with the hand. wet in tepid water,
then wipe IL dry. This is natures cure,
and many families are using il success
fully In this State. You must not wait
until your house Is half burned down
before you begin to put on the water.
Keep a small cloth, wet with tepid water,
on the front part of the child's head,
while in the bath.
In printed circular. to the members
of the General Assembly, opposing the
bill before the House, to repeal the COM
pulsory vaccination law. signed by VIM.
II. Palmer, Gardner t. Swarts. and
Charles V. Chaplin, we find the following
statements, viz:
In Providence over $4,000 have been
vaccinated by the Health Department,
and no serious or permanent injury has
resulted in any case; and In only few
Instances has the arm been unduly in
famed."
The authors of that circular made SINH
lar statements at n hearing before the
Judiciary Committee of the Senate about
the 20th of April, '94. when their atten-
tion was called to the fact, that q healthy
boy, q years old, was vaccinated at the
City Hall, Saturday afternoon, the 10th
of April, and died the next day at 3 p. NJ.
Brain trouble was given In the certificate
OF death as the cause, which the child
must have taken In the Health Depart
ment, for that dangerous disease had
prevailed at that department for long
time. No wonder IL killed the boy.
Tie people of Providence know that
statement TO be totally false. rs far as
relates to fatality and cases Of injury by
vaccination.
In the same circular we find the follow
ing declaration, viz: "In the Franco
Prussian war; there were $40 deaths from
smallpox in the well vacciDated German
army. and %, 400 in the poorly vaccnated
French army. This lie 10 uphold vacci-
nation first appeared in the British
Medical Journal In 1872. and was re-
printed In the Anti- VdccindtOr. Ii was
in an old speech by Sir Lyon Playfair, In
Parliament, In 1870. and again In his
speech In the House Of Commons, June
18th. 1883. aud the acknowledgment by
DIR. Carpenter that IL was FALSE was In
his htter to the London Daily Neics,
August Z, 1888, and was printed in q book
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