Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14
The Vaccination FAD.

opposed to vaccination, because it
means the incubation of a healthy
person with pus poison from a
fostering sore on diseased calf, which
conveys often times vastly more
dreadful diseases than small pox
against which it affords no protection.
There are but two ways in which it
affords Immunity, one is death, the
other is communicating some disease
more dreadful and fatal than small
pox. Reliable statistics show eight
deaths in the United States from
vaccination, to one from small pox.
One of our dealers in what is falsely
termed Scientific Medicine" recent
ly wrote the PLAIN DEALER the
following note which we highly prize
as tribute of the devotion of the
PLAIN DEALER to the welfare of the
people against the "pus poison'
fraternity:
s'Inasmuch as you have made it the
policy OF your paper to abuse and mis-
represent the members of the medical
profession here and in this vicinity,
both individually and collectively and
have seen tit to belittle our skill and
services and have, as believe, made
your paper a stumbling block in the
way OF sanitary and scientific advance
ment, believe it my duty to cease to
lend financial or other support to such
a publication. Please withdraw my
professional card and cancel nv sub
scription forthwith and oblige,"
1t is a pathological fact that a
person with one disease seldom con-
tracts another; the worse disease
preventing the milder. In Chicago
there has been several deaths this fail
from vaccination.
The following article we clip from
the Chicago Democrat of October 81,
giving an account of a death that
occurred in that city the Sunday before
and the conclusions of coroner's
inquest held over girl who died from
tetanus caused by vaccination which
we commend to the Scientific Medi-
cine" man whose communication is
found above:
A coroner's jury which sat in the
inquest over the body of Marguerite
Fahnenstock, the s-year-old PUBL of
the Langland school, who died at the
home Of her parents, $50 Wilmot
avenue, early Sunday morning.
rendered verdict that the girl died
from tetanuS resulting from an un-
hn91pd vaccination Uollnd
The girl was yaccinated by phySi-
ician employed by the board of educa-
ton, DR.. w. w. Abel of 1853 Milwall-
kee avenue. The jury recommended
that the proper authorities investi-
gate the case and fix the blame.
1t was at first thought that some
particle of dirt might have caught in
the open wound caused by the vacci-
nation, but the witnesses at the
inquest nullitied this theory. The
girls father told Of the care givenher
and her mother testified in the same
strain.
DR.. p. f. Baur, who attended the
child in her last illness. said that in
his opinion the vaccination was defec-
tive and tetanuS came from it's Door
condition.
DR.. Baur said that he could find no
constitutional weakness that would
lead him to think that any outside
cause interyened to cause death, the
fact that the vaccination made her
sick for three weeks before it proved
fatal was evidence in his Judgment
that the girl was naturally strong.
The girl was sent to school when
the Langland school opened for the
fall term in September and she was
compelled to be vaccinated with the
rest of the children.
The wound did not heal in the usual
time, and her parents, becoming
alarmed, sent for DR.. Baur. He did
all he could for the girl, but the virus
had affected her blood, and after a
sickness of three weeks she died
Sunday morning.
1t is said DR.. Abel, who vaccinated
the girl who died, also performed the
operation on scores of other children.
The Fahnenstock case is the only one
in which corcner's jury has believed
seriously that the vaccination was the
/ powerful agent that produced the
patients death.
Just who the 'proper authorities
to whom the coroner's jury refers ir
the verdict are is question which
the jurors did not attempt to decide
They simply said that the death was
the result of the vaccination and asked
for an Investigation.
The board of education may be
forced into the position of principa
defendant in heavy damage suit as q
result of the coroner's verdict. Franl
r. Fahnenstock, father of the girl
has said that he will sue the board
i Many parents whose children attene
the Langland school are frightened al
the report of the inquest and are
watching with great care for any indi
cation in their little ones OF Sicknes.
from the cause which the Jury sait
today produced death in the case o
Marguerite Fahnenstock.
j The reason people do not NOR,
[strongly object to this disease breed
ing practice is because they do no
understand what vaccination is, ant
have been taught to believe, that i
will usually prevent and always miti
gate small poX, both of which ar
untrue.
Glycerinated calf lymph is only
new device to make an old and dis
credited practice longer acceptable
But vaccine pus poison remains ii
dangerous and deadly as before
!, Parents should not submit themselve
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