Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-07
COMPULSORY VACCINATION
Some Celebrated Physicians and Scientists
Who 0enounce Il,
Evil Elects Of the Practice -fndivid-
ual Rights and Personal Liberty
Authorities Quoted.

To the Editor:
As some parties who favor compul-
sorry vaccination have asserted that
there are no persons Of standing in The
medical profession who are opposed to
IL. I have collected some statements
against II. and nave given the names
and positions OF the authors thereof
Francis W. Newman. Emeritus Pro-
fessor of oxford University:
THE doctors Who advise vaccination
have no right 20 be listened TO with
Difference. for they have been guilty OF
monstrous ard deadly blunders. A
quarter OF a century back they scoffed
al those who informed them that vac
cination may propagate any or every
disease that IS ,u the blood. To the last
moment they hardened themselves
against conviction, and when no longer
able 20 deny IT, hey showed no humil-
ity. no confession OF error, no abase
ment.
against the body Of healthy man
parliament has no right OF assault
whatever under pretence OF the public
health, nor any the more against the
body OF healthy infant.
"To forbid perfect health Is tyran
meal wickedness. Just as much as To
forbid chastity n sobriety. No law
giver can have the right.
"The law Is au uncomfortable usurpa-
ton and creates the right OF resist
ance.'
Alexander won Humboldt the veteran
scientist. author Il Casmas. etc:
Il have clearly perceived the progress.
sive dangerous influence OF vaccination
i'm England France and Germany
Alexander Wilder. editor New York
Medical Times Professor OF physiology
I'm the United states Medical College OF
New York.
1T Is the infusion OF communicating
element into he system. and after
such contamination you can never hope
10 regain the iarner purity ~ the body.
Thus tanned tha hody Is made liable To
a host OF ailments. Consumption fol-
lows in the footsteps Of vaccination as
certainly and as unequiyOcally as eff
feet follows cause and wherever IL is
common 90 yaoclnate, scrofula ana
tuberculosis are General"
Professor N|I.Hal Al the New NIh
Medical University. In regard to the
death OF 3G3 children:
"Out OF this number 20S had been vac.
cipated lgS of which. died OF tuber-
cular consumption and 20 OF other NAL.
aides. OF the g5 children that had not
been vaccinatci only 30 died Of tuber.
cular consumption and IS Of other dis
seases"
Copeland's Medical Dictionary:
I'll Is certain mat scrofula and tuber.
culous diseases have Increased since the
introduction ~ c1wpox."
The Medical Tines aud Gazette OF
January lst 1854.
"Consumptlon had widely spread
since the introduction Of vaccination.
and during the breeding ten years had
slain in the metropolis alone upwards
OF $4,000
Prof Ricori u Paris. France in
1862:
III ever the transmission Of disease
with vaccine lymph Is clearly demon
trated vaccination must be altogether
discontinued In nay. 1868: AT first
repealed the idea hat syphilis could be
transmitted by Vaccination. but today
I hesitate no more to proclaim its real
ity."
Or. Bamberger q Warsberg mentions
a case IN which syphilis was communl-
Gated by vaccination for which the prac-