Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-20

temporary Hpulln kVou olllNlt VI ''r
enforcement of health regulations by
the remark that
"Thefa nie q few slmple-mInded per-
sons who do not believe 10 vaccination.
Their mental horizon Is generally near
the ground
The lst Of eminent persons, regular
physicians. scientists, philosophers,
authors men and women famous IN
literature. lu art ana In the learned
professions generally who are deter
nlncdly opposed TO compulsory yaccIna-
ton rs long one. embracing host In
England ana America And IL includes
many who have thoroughly Investigated
the whole subject and have become
convinced that the so-called sure pre-
yenuye ls O widespread fallacy Among
the latter Is such a simple minded
person" as Herbert Spencer HIS
"menta horizon is not commonly be-
leytd TO be generally near the
ground. The following from his book,
"Tmcts ana Comments published In
1909 by Williams and Norgate, London
are here quoted IN this connection:
when once you interfere with the
order of nature there is no knowing
where the result viii end, was the re-
mark made in my presence by dis
l.I..f..t.l.f fVb4V. ta-
ly escaped from him an expression OF
yeNltion at his lack Of retlcence. for ne
saw the various uses | might make OF
the admission
Jenner ana bis disciples have assumed
that when the vaccine virus has passed
through the patients system he Is safe,
or comparatively safe, against small
poX.. ana there the matter ends
win not here say anything for or
against this assumption Except, in
deed by quoting the statement Of a
well known man. Mr.. Kegan Paul the
pubUsherrespecting his own experience.
in his Memories opp, 26QD he says
respecting his smallpox 'Hhen adult II
had had smallpox when a child, iu spite
OF vaccination, and had been yaccin-
ated but "a short time before. / am the
third of my immediate family who had
smallpox twice, and with whom yaccin-
alton had always taken) ! merely pro-
pose 10 show that there the matter does
not end. The Interference with the or.
der OF nature has various sequences
other than that counted upon. Some
have been made known.
A Parliamentary Return issued IN
1889 (No. 392) shows that comparing the
Qulnquennlal periods lSi1-lS5l and 1874
1873 there was in the latter a dlminu-
ton in the deaths from all causes Of
Infants under one year old, 1900 per
million births per 0nnum while the
mortality caused by eight specific as
eases. either directly communicable or
exacerbated by the effects OF vOccina-
ton, increased from 2O.52i to 1889 per
million births per annum-more than
double II Is clear that Far more were
Killed by these other diseases than were
saved from smallpox,
This was IN the days OF arm-to-arm
vaccination, when medical men were
| certain that other diseases (syphllis, for
instancel could not Boz communicated
through the vaccine virus Any one who
| looks into the Transactions Of the Epld.
emological Society OF some thirty years
ago. win find tnnt they were suddenly
convinced 10 the contrary by a dreadful
case OF wholesale syphilizatlon. In
these days Of calf-lymph vaccination
such dangers are excluded not that OF
bovine tuberculosis however But ]
| name the fact as showing what amour,
OF faith Is 20 be placed IN medical opin-
| ion.
70 the communication OF diseases
thus demonstrated must be added ac-
companylng effects. IL Is held that
the immunity produced by vaccination
implies some change in the comp0nents
Of the body; @ necessary assumption
But now II lhe substances composing
the body solid or liquid or both. have
been so modified as 90 leave them M
longer liable 10 smallpox is the modl-
fcation otherwise Imperative VIII
any one dare 20 say Il produc ma
further effect than that OF shielding the
patient from 20 particular disease You
cannot change the constitution In rela.
ton 10 one invading agent and leave II
unchanged iu regard no ali other iuvad.
ms agents. What must me change be-
There are cases OF unhealthy persons 10
whom serious disease cas- typhoid fe.
ynr is foIlowed bv i,prrored bealtb
rut these ara not nominal c1sae ~ ths,
weyo ID healthy person 9oid beqoYn.
pors healthy IN having surc,stior M
6iss.eos Hence as a r9reiIt,tioo mod
MA bv vaccination h mai ipa1a mar,
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