Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-10
A Salt Lake Physician AssaiIs A.
legged Scientific Methods.
0NEFRAUGHT WITH DANGER
Also Capable Of Breeding Disease
Even More surely Than Under
the Old Way.
10 the Editor:

TO the Editor;
would just like TO cay few words
In regard to modern scientific vacclna-
ton The other evening at a meet
ing Of the state board Of Health state
ments were made that would lead peo-
pie TO believe that the present scientific
methods Of vaccination are cutie free
from the danger present some years
ago, when human virus was used and
one member went so far as to state that
mo possible harm could follow vaccl-
nation If properly done" If they had
agreed that the modern smokeless anu
milton was harmless when used by
skilled marksmen they would have been
Just as near the truth. The active
element IN vaccination is pus or matter
from a sore on diseased heifer. and
II does not matter whether this corrup-
ton Is put on ivory points OF mixed
with sterlllzed lymph; 1t Is capable OF
breeding disease even more surely than
under the old way.
Does II look reasonable that the rotten
matter from a fostering pustue on a
diseased animal can be implanted into
the blood OF a healthy child, and make
that child any more healthy and prevent
disease? II this filthy corruption were
put into the stomachs Of the victims
IL might prove as harmless "as the
juice from a beefsteak." but where II
is placed directly into the blood OF the
innocenis II is almost as sure in It's
action as the poison from a venomoua
serpent. Ii Is commonly known that
the poison OF q deadly serpent may
be taken into the mouth or stomach Of
a human being with very little danger,
while II taken directly into the blood
as II is In the bite Of a snake II Is al
most sure death.
Compulsory vaccination was tiled In
England for some forty odd years. with
results that proved TO even stubborn
Engllshmen that vaccination was no
preventive of smallpox, and they re-
Gently repealed the law compelling vac
clnatlon. Can we not profit by their
experience? Must We go through the
same tribulatlons that they have gone
through? Are We to be compelled to
poison the blood Of our healthy off,
spring with the virus from diseased ami
mails and lay the foundation for all
manner Of diseases. as scrofula. con-
sumption, erysipelas, Assesses, &C,
zemas etc? Are the rising generation
10 have legacy Of disease fastened
upon them that will handicap their
best mental and physical life from THE
time 70 the grave? If child gets the
smallpox and gets over 1t he win be
well. but IL he Is vacclnated and il
takes thoroughly he never will be
we'll until the poison Is eradlcated from
his system by the proper medicines
given so as to antidote the vaccine poi
son IN the blood
Modern scientific vaccna ton is lust
as surely evil in its results as was that
OF the last generation because It Ia
modern and scientific does not help
matters any. for the poison Is there just
the same. Statistics are abundant TO
show that the same results follow mod
ern vaccination that have followed II
all the way down from the ancient In
dian heather incubation.
Respectfully yours,
G.. W. HARVEY, MD.