The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-12


declare that ali who had been contami-
mated with the virus Of eow-ppx should
be excluded from school until tie marx
Of the beast had become obIiterated. It
Is proclamation to vaccinate healthy
child. That vaccination Is q disease. Or
more properly speaking. cause OF dis
ease, is evident from the fact that II
produces a sore, ana no one can have
a sore without more or less discomfort,
and discomfort IS disease. That It Is
also a constitutional disease Is admit
ted by yaccinists, otherwise they have
no basis for their claim Of protection.
That It works contamination Of blood
and Is infectious. Is proved by the fact
TINT successive vaccinations sooner or
later produce the specific sore Of the
virus.
What ls called cow-pox is only an
other name for smallpox, and that vac
clnators are actually INJECTING the pa
tlent with smallpox every time they
vaccInate.
Now Il smallpox and cow-pox are
one and the same disease, then 1t fol-
lows that smallpox and vaccination
are one and the same. and that vaecin-
lists are really propagating smallpox.
Varioloid Is seldom dangerous. but
may prove fatal. and that varioloid is
less apt to leave pitts behind; never
theless these do occasionally take
place. Now we submit that these dis
tlnotions are Insignificant and that
there is no possibility Of distinguishing
variolold from smallpox. All the diff
ference is simply this. II the patient is
known to have been vaccinated, the
disease is called by the profession var
lolold, which means resembling small
pox; but IL not vacclnated. then the
disease is admittedly smallpox.
This is done in order to Impress the
public with the idea that vaccination
in some way mobiles or mltlgates,
though 1t does not modify at all any
further than the sickness itself and to
produce some change from the time be-
Ing in the patients manner Of life.
The truth OF the matter Is that any
person inoculated for smallpox, or In
other words, vaccinated, is thereby In
fected, locally, with the virus Of sman-
pox, and viii suffer more or less Sc
verely, depending, first, upon the
mallgnancy of the virus; second, upon
the state Of the patients system at the
time as to purity of blood and vigor of
constitution, and third. upon the en-
vlronment and care of the patient. The
profession have claimed that one attack
prevented another. and that opinion
was SO blIndly followed that when
smallpox did occur the second time 1t
was set down as chlcken-pox, swt.se-
pox or given some name. A second at
tack of smallpox, or what is the same
thing, smallpox following vaccination,
is now generally called varioloid.
Thousands of persons have had small
pox after being successfully vaccin-
ated.
I am convinced that vaccination is
the greatest mistake and deluslon in
the science Of medicine; a fancIful Illu-
sion in the mind of the dlscoverer; a
phenomenal apparitIon devoid Of sclen-
tiflc foundation, and wanting in all the
conditions OF scientific possibility.
I wish to state am opposed to 1t and
submit the following to sustain my
position:
MISREPRESENTATION does not protect
children or adults from smallpox or
variolold:
second-It sometimes imparts to
healthy children a fatal and lOathsome
disease.
Third-No law can compel q man to
submit, against his will, to any surgl-
cal operation whatsoever.
Fourth-No vaccine virus is entirely
free from disease.
Fifth-PhysicIan cannot guarantee
one against injurious effects of vaccln-
tIon. LOUIS A. BAUMANN.
Wheeling. July II,