Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-18
Questionable # the Process Pre-
vents Contraction OF Smallpox
HIGH MEDICAL AUTHORITIES
Say IL IL Not Beneilcial-Co Compulsory
Vaccination should be
Resisted.


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
their children to such a questionable
means OF preventing the disease OF
smallpox.
There Is a difference Of opinion
among the most eminent physicians and
scientists Of the world regarding the
practice of vaccination and the weight
Of evidence is against the practice. This
Is q question that received very little
attention In our State because small
pox has rarely occurred here. We must
go TO England for our evidence. There
the battle against vaccination has
been vigorous for more than d quarter
Of a century. The opposition did not
come from the medical profession at
first but from the laity. Many were
imprisoned and paid heavy fines rath-
er than submit their children TO the
vile practice Of vaccination. Gradually.
the medical profession awakened TO the
importance Of 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 is an article OF eight
pages written by DR.. Creighton; the
whole Of II is against vaccination. II
this practice were as harmless and eff
fectiye as its advocates try 10 make the
people believe such an article would not
be found in such work as the En-
cyclopedia Britannica. DR.. Creighton
has also written a volume "Jennes and
Vaccination that will answer any of
the arguments that the friends Of vac
cination can produce.
DR.. Il. NJ. Crookshank, professor of
pathology and bacteriology, Kings Col
lege, London, says II gradually be-
came so deeply impressed with the
small amount Of knowledge possessed
by practitioners, concerning cowpox
and other sources of vaccine lymph,
and with the conflicting opinions Of
leading authorities that determined TO
investigate the subject for myself. |
feel convinced that the profession has
been misled Dr.. We have submitted
TO purely theoretical teaching"
He investigated and this is his con-
clusion:
incubation 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
pox, sheep-pox, cattle-pague, or any
other radically dlsslmilar disease. exer-
else and specific protective power
against human smallpox" History and
Pathology Of Vaccination, vol. l., page
464 This great work was written by
DR.. Crookshank in 1889 and coming from
one who Is authority. deserves consld-
Grafton.
Or. Alfred Russell Wallace. the great
in THE Wonderful Century
that was published last year, devoted
more than a hundred pages 10 vaccin-
alton under the title, Vaccination n
Delusion-lts Penal Enforcement a
crime" He deals principally with vac
clnatlon, and he proves concusively
that statistics are against vaccination.
Many other able writer's in the med-
cal profession have written books
aginst the vile practice Of vaccination.
II vaccination Is 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 sides and then
result In some members Of the commits
sion deciding IN favor Of entirely abol-
ishing the practice? II It Is such a
sure preventive, why did Parliament.
less than two years ago modify the laws
so that those who are cOnscientiousy
opposed TO vaccination need not have
their children vaccinated? They had a
very strict compulsory law for about
half a century and II the practice had
been what its advocates claim, surely
Parliament would not have endangered
the country thus.
The truth Is, that vaccination has only
Dne thing TO recommend Il, and that Is
It's Influence upon the mind, as those
who are inoculated think they are Inn
mune from the disease, but the psyche
ogical influence is not sufficient, and
many thousands who were vaccnated
have afterwards taken the smallpox.
But the advocates Of the practice adj
nit this and say II Is in a mild form.
We find the same conditions before Jen-
her introduced vaccination. On page 81 !
II his Enquiry Jenner says. About |
seven wears ago Q7sl) a species of
smallpox spread through many OF the |
owns and villages Of this part Of Glou- |
II was Of so mild a nature |
hat a fatal instance was scarcely ever
heard Of. and consequently so little |
dreaded by the lower order OF the |
that they scrupled not TO
lold the same intercourse with each |
'ther as II no Infectious disease had |
zen present among them. never saw
n heard OF an instance Of its being |
ontuent."
The advocates Of vaccination en-
lhasize Its harmlessness. The same plea
vas made for incubation, by Lady
iary Wortley Montague when she
esired to Introduce II into England In
~. Writing from Constantlnople she
aid:
THE smallpox, so general and so ia
al amongst us Is here entirely HARM
ass by the invention Of ENGRAVING.
ihich Is the term they give Il. There
S a set OF old women who make ii
heir business to perform the opera
lon. Every year thousands undergo
, and the French ambassador observes
leasantly that they take The smallpox
ere by way of diversion, as they take
he waters In other countries"
The lnocculation delusion has as firm
hold on the people as the vaccination
elusion has had during the present and
probably responsible for the loss Of as
lany lives, Before Jenners time inoc-
llatlon fell into dlsuse on account OF
$ harm, and at present Il II prohIb-
ed by law in England, where IL was 80
opular.
Inocculatlon ana vaccination were
orn In corruption and have lost NOE
their filthiness. In regard 20 The lat
r. Dr. John Hunter. the celebrated
psychologist, and a former preceptor.
luz voiced the medical opinion q the /
me: The Introduction by inocculatlon
mineral or vegetable poisons into the
God is hazardous. and In certain
may be destructive; but the
PRODUCTION Of animal products from
iother living body. be II man, COW.
even an ass, In Infinitely more pernic-
us because allied to II In being vital
ed This IL good philosophy and
fence even now.
The friends of vaccination say that
Q practice has been so perfected that
harm can come from IL. They adj