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Eastern Physician Argues Against
Vaccination as a Preventative
OF Smallpox.

Vaccination as Preventative
OF SMALLPOX.
In commenting upon the fifteen ca
ses of smallpox that has recently APP
pearcd in Newark. a gentleman con-
nected with the board of health of
ficcr whatever that meanS) has re-
lieyed his mind of the acquired idea
that ",There is the greatest necessity
for wholesale vaccination.
Vaccination is the bastard of the
pagan practice of incubation accord
ing to which horrible custom the
small poN poison was introduced into
the blood OF Il healthy person under
the delusion Of preventing smallpox.
Had there been any truth in the SUI :
given up, but the truth is sit was
very destructive to the public at large
and the general mortality from small
poX was greatly increased" Then
Jenner conceived the idea that COW
poX poison introduced into the III. l
of a human subject would prevent
smallpox Now we have an animal
| poison. the product of a filth disease
b ing introduced by law into the blo'
of healthy, innocent and defenSeleSs
| children under the assumption, which
| rests on no principle or law of nature
that it Will prevent smallpox. There
are those who claim it is homeopathic
but no p"isenis or can be homeopathic
| ic tn state of health. 1t would be
the heigth of absurdity to givea med
iciue to person in a state of health
and claim thereby to prevent any dis
ease which he did not get. This is
the logic of the vaccina tioniStS. There
is no evidence to show that vaccina-
ton ever prevented single case Of
smallpox, while every death report
which came from General Otis Shows
that our soldiers were dying of small
pox. These were all vaccinated be-
fore leaving this country. Every re-
cruit that enters the French army is
vaccinated. During the French-Prus-
sian war there were twenty-thrce
thousand four-hundred and sixty-nine
cases of smallpox in that army.
| The London Lancet of July Is, 1871,
said: OF nine Thousand three-hundrcd
and ninety-two smallpox patients in
London hospitals, six thousand eight
| hundred and fifty four had been vac
cinated. Seventeen and one half per
cent of those attacked died. In the
whole country more than one hundred
and tWenty~thousand vaccinated per-
sons have suffered from small poX. In
England vaccination was made com
pulsary in 1852. Since then they have
mad three smallpox epidemics, Wig,
First epidemic 1858, deaths twenty
thousand and tifty-nine; third epidem-
ic lS70-72, deaths forty Thousand eight
hundred and forty. Increase of popu-
lation from first to second epidemic
seven per cent. Increase of small
, pos one hundred and twenty per cent
! Official returns from Germany show
! that between 1870 and 1885 one mil
. lion vaccinated persons died from
9 smallpox.
Vaccination means blood poisoning
"The blood is the life" which is thus
: poisoned in its citadel and the subj"c'
l. is weakened and made the victim O
r untold misery and often of death. Fo.
Il years the people of England have beef
h protesting against the compulslr,
+ vaccination act. Last August tina
t law was repealed, a taxpayer is oh
j ligcd by law to have his child'S blool
e poisoned before it can gain entranc
l, to what are called free schools, an
I this on a dogmatic assumption whicl
has no basis in fact or analogy in ma
ture.
4 DR.. Chas. Creighton, the eminen
L English physician who wrote the al
;, ticle Oh vaccination in the ninth &c
= ition of the Encyclopedia Brittanic
says: "It is difficult to conceive wha
= will be the excuse for century {
:. cow-poxing; but it can not be doubte
. that the practice will appear in as al
. surd light to the common sense {
. the twentieth century as blood-iettin
now does to us. General cleanlne!
y and purity of blood is our defens
e. against disease
Y G. w. HARMAN, NJ. ]
IA The above article is reprinted /
d request from the Newark IN. J. E
1T ening News.
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