West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-05-16
MORE ANTI.yAcCrNATIoN.
Dr. william l.. Morgan OF Baltimore,
writes Another Interesting Arti-
Gle on the Subject.
BALTIMORE, May 4, 1901.


courtesy to tell the readers of The
ARGUS some few little facts on the
peoples side of the subject.
That old dried up chestnut about
the Franco Prussian war of 1871,
where the great Health Officer, Sir
K. Simon, testified before the Royal
Commission of England that the
German army, who were well vacci-
mated, lost only $50 by smallpox.
and the French army, which was
not vaccinated, lost 1000, and it
rested that way for very short
time, when a French General, who
was there, from the same stand tes-
tiled to what is well known. that
every soldier entering the French
army had been vaccinated, and re-
peated till successful. Evidence
that His Lordship had knowingly
misrepresented the facts, when the
facts were the Germans were out
side and had plenty of room and
facilities for cleanliness and isola.
ton for their smallpox cases, which
the French with large army in a
closed city, besieged couldlnot have.
France, Germany and all Europe
were thoroughly vaccinated before
that time.
will copy from paper called
The Board of Health Bulletin. of
Chicago, if correctly quoted by the
Medical Review of Reviews. 1t gets
off that old story about the German
vaccinated army in the last war
with France, as above. The funny
thing about the matter is, that the
Bulletin states that it was In conse-
quence of "calamitous epidemic" of
smallpox in Germany in 1870 and
1871, when there were IA, 900
deaths from smallpox, that rigorous
compulsory vaccination laws were
passed. Everybody knows that vac.
cination was compulsory long be-
fore 1871 The Bulletin doesn't
know that the great epidemic was
spread by that army, which the
high priests vaunt as being small
pox proof. Where it gets its figures
for $4,000 deaths its editor alone
knows. Enough for that old dried
up chestnut.
l have in my possession an official
statement from the London Hos
pital for infectious diseases. That
in 1897 ninety-fve per cent of the
smallpox patients had been vacci-
mated. Is that protection
have before me statements that
four healthy children in Harrisburg
and Philadelphia died from vacci-
nation, one from tetanus and three
from sceptic poison. Also state
ment of suit filed in the Court
against the city of Baltimore for
$4,000 damage-a case of paraly-
sis of the left side from vaccination,
with strong evidence. l am now
treating a ten year old bog for
sceptic poison, with deep ulcers all
over him, but mostly on his face.
DR.. Wilhelm Karl Rubin con-
tributes a paper to the Medical Re-
cord of April 9th, on "The Impor-
lance of Sceptic Vaccination" a
pro-vaccinationist, gives list of
81 different and very distressing
diseases that he had seen from vac
cination. Yet he says it is inevi-
table.
Another thing should be known
by the people, that smallpox is gen.
orally epidemic as we'll as conta-
gious and infectious. The first
cases ever saw were prisoners
locked up in the Virginia peniten-
tiary. Had all been vaccinated
when entering; had not had any
communication with the outside for
many months and were taken when
not suspected. The second and all
others that took it had no contact
with the other cases, but myself and
several others that visited them
daily did not take it. But all this
time it was epidemic in the city.
army and through the country.
When an epidemic comes and there
is unsanitary conditions prevailing,
smallpox will spread despite vacci
nation, TO any extent. When the
epidemic leaves the smallpox quits,
and the old dry chestnut rattles
and The Health Officers begin the
cry, We've stamped it out" When
it stayed its own time and went at
its pleasure, and there was nothing
90 stamp out
With the above few references
and reasons, the reader may see
what very slim foundation the
dclusion Of protection and STAMP.
ing out rests on. But to go a little
further and notice the facts. That
there never has been a time in his