Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-18
Questionable If the Process Pre-
vents Contraction Of Smallpox
HIGH MEDICAL AUTHORITIES
shy Il is Not sBcucnciai-C Compulsory
Vaccination should be
Resisted.

urday papers there In to be a compui-
sorry vaccination OF all the teachers
and pupils Of the Salt Lake City schools.
This is a new procedure In the State OF
Utah and the people should carefully
consider the question before submitting
thoir children to such questionable
means OF preventing the disease OF
smallpox.
There In a difference OF opinion
among the most eminent physicians ana
scientists Of the world regarding the
practice of vaccination and the weight
Of evidence In against the practice. This
IL n question that received very little
attention In our state because small
pox has rarely occurred here. We must
10 to England for our evidence. There
the battle against vaccination has
been vigorous for more than quarter
Of century. The opposition did not
come from the medical profession at
first but from the lalty. Many were
imprisoned and paid heavy fines rath-
or than submit their children to the
vile practice OF vaccination. Gradually.
the medical profession awakened to the
Importance cf the question and today
many Of the leading physicians OF the
world raise their voice In opposition to
the practice OF vaccination.
IN the Encyclopedia britannica, ninth
edition. there IL an article OF eight
pages written by DIR. Creighton: the
whole Of II IN against vaccination. II
this practice were az harmless and cf-
fcctiyc as its advocates try TO make the
people believe such nm article would not
be found In such n work M the En-
cyclopcdin britannica. DIR. Creighton
has also written a volume "Jcnnes and
Vaccination" that win answer any OF
the arguments that the friends OF vnc-
Cinntion can produce.
DR. r. NJ. Crookshank. professor OF
pathology and bactcrloloRy. Kings Coll
lego. London. says: II gradually be-
came No deeply impressed with the
small amount Of knowledge possessed
by practitioners. concerning ccwpox
ana other sources OF vaccine lymph,
and with the conflicting opinions Of
leading authorities that I determined TO
investigate the subject for myself.
feel convinced that the profession has
been mislcd 49,. We have submitted
to purely theoretical teaching"
He investigated and this Is his con-
cluson:
"Inoculatlon Of cow-pox does not have
the least effect In affording immunity
from the analogous disease In man.
syphilis; and neither do cow-pox. horse
poS. shecp-pox. cattle-plaguc. or any
other radically dlsslmilar disease, cNcr-
else and specific protective power
against human smallpox" History and
Pathology OF Vaccination. vol. l.. page
i6i. This great work was written by
DR.. Crookshank In 1859 ana coming from
one who Il authority. deserves consid-
Grafton.
Or. Alfred Russell Wallace. the great
| scientist In THE Wonderful Century
that was published last year. devoted
more than a hundred pages 20 vaccin-
alton under the title, Vaccination a
Deluslon-Its Penal enforcement a
| crime" He deals principally with vac
clnntlon, and he proves conclusively
that statistics are against vaccination.
Many other able writer's In the medl-
| cal profession have written books
aginst the vile practice OF vaccination
| II vaccination ls such good thing why
| did II take the royal commission. con-
slstlng OF fifteen OF the leading minds
| OF England. seven years to get In
evidence from both sldea ana then
result In some members Of the commits
| sion deciding IN favor OF entirely ubol-
ishlng the practiceI II II II such d
sure preventive, why did Parliament
less than two years ago modify the laws
so that those who are conaclcntiously
opposed to vaccination need not hav,
their children vacclnated? They had Il
very strict compulsory law for about
half century and II the practice had
been what It's advocates claim, surely
| Parliament would not have endangered
the country thus.
The truth II. that vaccination has only
one thing to recommend II, and that Ii
| It's influence upon the mind, az thos,
mum. from the disease, but the psyche
| logical Influence n not sufficient, ant
many thousands who were vacclnatcd
have afterwards taken the smallpox
hut the advocates OF the practice adj
nit this and say II II In mild form
| Va "a haf la
ner introduced vaccination. on page .
OF his Enquiry, Jenner says: "Abou
seven wears ago ulsD a species u
smallpox spread through many OF th'
towns and villages Of this part OF Glou
cestershlre. IL was OF so mild a nntur,
that a fatal Instance was scarcely eve
heard Of ana consequently 80 llttl'
dreaded by the lower order OF tbs
community, that they scrupled not I,
hold the same Intercourse with cacl
other as II no Infectious disease hat
been present among them. | never saw
or heard OF an Instance OF Its beini
continent"
The advocates Of vaccination en-,
phasize Its harmlcssneas. The same piled
was made for inoculntlon. by Lady
Mary Wortley Montague, when sh'
desired to Introduce II into England II
1874. Writing from Constnntlnople sh'
said:
"Thc smallpox, no general and go ia,
tai amongst rs, N here entirely harm
less By the invention OF engraftlng
which ~ the term they give II. Their,
Is u set Of old women who make 4
their business 90 perform the opera
ton. Every year thousands underg,
Il, and the French ambassador observes
pleasantly that they take the emallpo,
here by way of diversion, az they TAX,
the waters In other countries"
The inOcculation deluslon has as fiIn
q hold on the people as the vaccination
delusion has had during the present ant
II probably responsible for the loss OF a,
many lives, Before Jenners time inoc
oulatlon fell into dlsuse on account o
Its harm, and at present II II prohlb
Tied by law In England whore 1t was 81
popular
Inocculatlon and vaccination wer,
born In corruption and have lost nor.
Of their ilthlneas. In regard TO the lat.
ter. DIR, John Hunter. the celebrated
psychological, and former prcceptor
thus voiced the medical opinion q tn,
time; ''rhe Introduction by inocculntlor
OF mineral or vegetable polaons into tn
blood II hazardous and In cettaalr
quantities may he destructive; but III,
Introduction OF animal products from
another living body. be II man, a cow
or even an ass. In Infinitely more pernic
louA, because allied to II In being vital
lied" This is good philosophy ant
science even now.
The friends of vaccination say thai
tho practice has been 40 perfected tha
no harm can come from IT, They adj
ksalI Il