Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-27


citizen. Just 90 IN reading the history
and results of vaccination. n the lay
man really knew all that the doctors
knew In addition TO what they profess
10 Know, this certainly would I've an adj
vantage, but were he without this
knowledge there Il much can be learned.
For instance We can obtain the names
and addresses OF soldiers whose arms
were amputated as a result ~ vaccna-
ton In San Francisco during the late
war. We can read Of hundreds who
have been yaccinated and re-yaccinated
and afterwards died with smallpox. We
can ascertain the various forms Of dis
eases that are directly traceable to vac
clnatlon We can read In the Registrar
Generals Report OF over 1000 children
being killed by vaccination IN England
and Wales, according to the admission
OF medical men themselves.
There Is no lack whatever Of material
for earnest and progressive study on
these llnesi and though It may not be
strictly a pleasant pastime. yet Il Is
certainly Interesting Just now when
small cotefle Of men, clothed In a IT.
tie brief authority would like 10 make
the abomlnable practice a compulsory
law In the State.
All this valuable information may be
acquired BY the ordinary, everyday
layman who Is denied the advantage OF
spending from one TO five years In
medical college 10 master the wonderful
lntricacles OF that system which DR..
Evans. Fellow OF the Royal College,
says. rs the most uncertain and unsat-
lsfactory system known, and which has
neither philosophy nor common sense to
commend It's confidence"
When the layman has progressed so
far that he Is not afraid OF being de-
nouneed plSlcly as an lgnoramus by
some cultured physician, he can then
venture TO ask the doctors 90 kindly de-
fine what vaccination ls. or course the
layman himself has some Idea what the
operation Is and what the results may
be- but II requires a physician TO define
exactly what vaccination Is. II requires
a physician TO explain Just what physi-
illogical changes take place In a healthy
person when the vaccine enters the
blood
No ordinary layman can understand
that. Then again the manufacturers Of
the wonderful glyoerlzed lymph that Is
supposed to be So much superior TO the
old fashioned points" that fairly
swarm with diseased germs" that this
lymph Is constantly undergoing change
according to age, temperture, etc, and
no one but a physician should presume
10 say just when this lymph is safeIand
when II Is unsafe. A laymsn must be
silent on these advanced scientific ques-
lions. Even the physician cannot tell
when the lymph Is harmless and when
II Is dangerous, except by the use OF
some mysterious instrument that has
not yet been invented.
Considering the remarkable absence
OF conflicting testimony among medical
practitioners. and the astonishing har-
mony that prevails IN their system OF
therapeutics; considering the absolute
and mathematical exactness" OF the
science; and above all the exceptional
opportunities to study these matters, 1t
should occasion no surprise that "A
concensus OF medical opinion favors
vaccination
A few years ago other medical fads
were Endorsed by "a concensus OF medi.
cal opinion" but today are universally
denounced and discarded. Vaccination
must go. II IL loathsome, beastly prac-
tice, and a concensus OF public opinion
Is they viii not have Il.
Respectfully
N