The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-01
NANT No VACCINE VIRUS
BASIS OF THE OPPOSITION TO VAC
CINATION SET FORTH AT
LENGTH
BY ONE OF THEIR NUMBER
Paper Read at Il Recent Meeting OF
the Local Organization Opposed
to Compulsory Treatment
of This Kind.
BY ONE OF THEIR NUMBER

the Anti-Vaccination society at a recent
meeting, ana sets forth the ideas of these
opposed to compulsory vaccination:
The characterization movement, which
had its inception in London in 1850, when
eight persons took upon themselves the
task Of procuring the abolition of ,Om-
pulsory vaccination and OF making known
to the world in general, and the British
pubic in particular, the facts regarding
the 1mpotency of vaccination to protect
from smallpox and the dangers I1keIy TO
be incurred by It's use, has had a mar
vicious growth on both sides of the At
lantlc. Since the matter was agItated
In this country, it has developed a strong
opposition to vaccination, a constantly
increasing minority of scientific as Wei
as Intelligent people seeking to expose
the Jennerian delusion. An impartial
student OF the SUBJECT will recognize that
many of the leaders of the movement
are OF International as we'll as national
repute, are quoted as authority on other
subjects, and are not, as some have
styled them, 1.-The unenlightened, the IN
educated the unintellISSnt, the crankS
of the community
1t has been asserted that the quota
tionS furnished the press of this city
by the ADti-F Vaccination society, of st.
Paul. regarding the dangers and inettica-
cy of vaccination are either piecemeal
extracts, intending to miSleao, or an
tlquated, and even forgeries, and of alb
sQIutely no scientific value-only for agi-
cept slightly from the vast amount of
testimony upon this subject, for it is
well to bear in mind that tne opposition
to vaccination numbers within it's ranks
many of the most distinguished men in
medicine and science Out of 2S6 physi-
clans in England who were asked and
expressed an opion, 2i6 were against vac
Cinati0n. With them may be mentioned
the late Drs. Hamernick, of Prague;
Ancelon, of Nancy, France; DR.. Hubert
Boens; Prof. Adolph Vogt, of Berne;
Prof. Emery Caderre, M. d, Of Mon
treal; DR.. Aitkin; DR.. Charles Creighton,
late demonstration in anatomy at Cam
bridge university, and q prominent writer
on pathology in the Encyclopedia Brit
annica; Prof. Edgar Crookshank, emil
nent bacteriologist of Kings college,
London; DR.. Alfred r. Wallace, DR.. J.
Garth Wilkinson, Prof. Frank W. New
man, John Bright, Herbert Spencer and
John Stuart Mill, all of whom have been
opposed not only to compulsory vaccina-
ton, but had no faith in vaccination as
preventive of smallpox. Those who have
attained distinction as leaders In the
work of characterization in this cOun-
try are Drs Alexander Wilder, of New
Jersey, for years secretary of a national
medical society; Robert A. Gum, dean
of United States Medical College of New
York; M. B. Leverson, Brooklyn, N.
Y, state board of health; Bartlett OF
the New York Medical college; w. b.
Clarke, indianapolis; James B. Bell, Bos-
ton; T. V. Clifford, ]. A. Claussen, S. b.
Mum, o. w. Amerigo, with DR. ]. E.
Caderre of Victoria university, Montreal,
and the late DR.. A. M. Poss, of Canada,
whose international phnanthropic labors
won for him grateful recognition In
five countries.
While it has been wisely said that this
is essentially peoples question and one
which, as a subject for legislation, the
common people are as competent To judge
of as is the most learned physician 1t is
q noteworthy TACT that almost every
man of science, who has carefully inves-
tigated vaccination at any time within
the last thirty years, and has had no
personal interest in upholdtng it. has
condemned the practice. DR.. Creighton,
who furnished the article on vaccination
published in the last edition of the En-
cyclopedia Britannica, began his investi-
cation of the subject with strong bias
in favor of the popular medical dogma,
but an exhaustive study convinced him
that vaccination was devoid of scientific
foundation, and no more entitled to re-
spect than any other fallacy.
Prof Crookshank declares, "Inocula-
ton of cowpoX does not have the least
effect in affording immunity from the
analogous disease in man . nor
exercises any specific protective power
against smallpox
DR.. Gavton admitted, in his testimony
before the royal commission, that
'Eight-tenths of the sufferers in our
smallpox hospitals are vaccinated."
DR.. L. j. Keller, physician-in- chief for
the Austrian railroad system during the
epidemic of 1923, when 2,627 had small
pox, Of whom 469 died (employes, 1900,
with wives and children, was forced
to these conclusions from his experience:
First, generally more vaccinated than
unvaccinated persons were attacked;
second, revaccination did not protect
from smallpox and did not lessen the
general mortality; third, neither vaccina-
ton nor revaccination exercised any IA
Vorable influence upon the mortality of
smallpox"
Statistics show that generally the best
vaccinated towns have the most small
pox. Chicago, two years ago, did more
vaccinating than any other city, and had
the greatest epidemic of the United
States. Several other cities did much
vaccinating and had serious epidemics
while Rochester Indianapolis and a few
others that did but little vaccinating had
but little smallpox.
The Minneapolis Times published the
subjoined casualty list of the Thirteenth
Minnesota regiment during it's sojourn Of
year in the Philippines The regi-
ment took part in thirty-six battles and
skirmisbes; those died of wounds or ac-
cfdents, 10; of typoid fever, fifteen: of
smallpox, eleven; other diseases, eight;
missing, three. Total loss, forty-six AS
every man in the regiment had been
vaccinated, a glance at the list shows
that vaccinated soldier in those islands
was in less danger from the bullets of
the enemy and the accidents of action
than from smallpox.
DIT. E. M. Gustin, referring to the de.
mandS made by the state board of health
of Indiana and other states, says: I'VE
are armed with statistics from every
city smallpox hospital in America and
Europe army reports of this disease from
England, France, Russia, Germany, Nor
way. Sweden, Italy and Spain, and we
declare TO you that they all abundantly
prove that vaccination not onlv does NOT
prevent smallpox but that it has scatter
ed the seed of syphilis, scrofula tuber-
culosls and the myriad of skin and blood
diseases all over the civilized world, and