The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-07
FACTS AGAINST VACCINATION.
(contributed.)
No. 4.

and he knows II, and wields il often
with cruelty which no words Of mine
can utter or sufficiently condemn
British Medical Journal, Oct. 18th, 1881,
p. 62i. , =,
butt said, In delivering the Gulstonlan
Lecture for 1884, at the Royal College OF
Physicians. After referring with COM
passion to the sufferings Of women, who,
he believes, feel more pain than men
do he mentioned the morbid chains,
the mental abdsement into which fall
the flock of women who lie under the
wand of the Gynacologist specialist OF
women's Diseases; the aoomen toho are
cagedu up IN London back drdtctng-rooWss
and risited almost daily, their brave and
active spirits broken under false u
belief In the presence of secret and
over-mastering local malady; and the
best years of their lives honoured only
by distressful victory over pain"
Qtalics ours. )-Medieal Press. March ID.
1884.
beside these matters, wherein the in
dividual doctors profits are in one scale
and the patients In another, there Is
still more important class Of cases,
wherein the interests OF the profession
are on one side and those of the public
on the other In these latter there Is
reason to apprehend that tacit trades
unionism exists among all medical men,
whereby the interests Of the laity are
systematically sacrificed to those OF the
profession.
What has that smooth-spoken doctor
done? In the sight of God he has told q
shameful and cruel lie, and has taken
money from the very victim OF his false
hood. lie has betrayed the trust OF lov-
ing aud simple hearts, and left them to
break, when with word he might have
done what in him lay'to save their earthly
treasure.
"Ifdoctors willdo this crueland wicked
thing for their trades-union, what viii
they not do likewisep And who amongst
the readers of this paper can recall any
case where they have acted otherwise,
snd spoken the truth except when the
doctor, perhaps, whose patient he WIS.,
tied, happened to be of so humble class,
that the great man could venture to treat
him as he pleased?
"Let us, for heavens sake. know Where
we stand VIII the doctors tell MS the
truth beside the sick beds of our friends.
or will they no2 Ii they will not, then
let us be relieved from the monstrous
cost and heart-breaking disappointments
consequent on summoning them to con-
situations"
Tie undersigned has known of three
consultations. one consisting or 2, one
of 3, and one OF doctors. The friends
managed TO hear all that was said, and
not word was said about the patients
in either case, hence IL is concluded that
many such cases occur every day. They
charged good price and left, and doubt
less it was just as well. for the patients,
but what about the honestly
"This question of the secret UNDER
standing and trades-uni0n bylaws among
medical men rises to the level Of political
Importance when we note that our coro-
ners are now SO generally taken from the
profession.
"ieference TO another evidence Of the
extent of the trade-unionism among
medical men has been already made In
in speaking of the unanimity wherewith
the profession as body. having Itself
very little concern with Vivlsectlon, has
supported the handful of psychologists
in their demand for a free viyisecting
table
"The Vaccination ntroversy Is one on
which it would be idle here To enter; but
IL the reader bear ia mind the Tact that
between bI0 and 1856 the doctors ye-
ceived e2, 50S. .237 out of the rates for vac
cinatiou, independently of private prac-
ce (See Reports of Local Governments
'0ard), the ZtalOtry and cruelty where
nth this medical rite is upheld, will
carcely escape the suspicion of he
efore-named Unconscious bias pro-
iuced by pecuniary interest Baptism
vas never urged by those who believed
hat it could save Souls from perdition,
With such relentlesSness as Vaccination
S insisted upon by men whose cardinal
loctrine.' as Mr.. Shorter says, is Sal
gation by Filth, and who insist that il
,aG save Bodies from smallpox.
1--WE have arrived at the following con-
clusions:
"'rhat trade unionism exists In the
profession which asilitates against the
proper performance Of the duties Of
medical men In various public and pri-
vate offices.
"fhat the profession has proved
doubly treacherouS to women.
That the further increase OF the
power of the profession holds out a seri-
Gus threat to the personal liberties of all
til. lay members of the community.
But in the doctors we have class of
men who are more and more gaining the
confidence Of the bOudoir, and scrupu-
l0usly honorable as some of these men
are. this growing social fact is pregnant
with perils precisely parallel to those
which are generally recognized among
PrDtestants In the hold Of priests upon
the home. Nay, If there remains any
truth in the prUyerb, deuc medecins, nm
dthee (and its truth increases rather than
declines), the danger from the private
medical director. greatly exceeds that
from the spiritual"
The sympathies and cooperation Of
the intelligent and patriotic lay-voters
OF the State, who have the good of the
community at heart, aud upon whom the
people must depend for the protection
OIL their inallenable rights and sacred
personal liberties, are kindly solicited In
this desperate struggle for the freedom
of the poor and their little ones, from
the tyrannical aud ghaStly laws of the
medical profession.
The upper classes of society who have
been under medical domination for GEN.
turtles, having reyered ami pAsonized the
regular AllOpathic medical profession
greatly To its injury have deceived and
led the masses of the people to believe
that the doctors We're really what they
appeared TO be and should have been,
honest. humane, scientific and skillful,
when In fact they have proved to have
been directly the opposite, dishonest,
cruel, tyrannical and empirical, in du
medical matters. There Is here and
there an exception, but the number is
too small To have any controlling innu-
ence upon the gigantic medical trades
union. This subject is of unparalleled
Importance, and unless the common peo-
pie, awake To their danger, take hold OF
the matter, repeal the tyrannicas med
ical laws tand enact laws To protect
themselves from the encroachuient of
the medical profession: liberty In Rhode