The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-11-03
nlsNoverrnber 3, 1906

NO sense in putting vile poison into the healthy
Mood of n human being In the hope that It MIGHT
PREVENT that person from taking disease that
10 frequently LESS DANGEROUS THAN THE
ALLEGED REMEDY. He says, you shall not"
and when he says you" ne means all others like
has been the warning cry with which doctors have
scared their patients into swallowing their conCoc
lions from time out OF mind. He says Let those
care for the bodies Of the people whose education
has qualified them 70 do so. We" say all the
doctors, must be the guardians OF your health
Into our hands, and into our hands alone must
be committed the care Of the lives of the people
You have q body, but YOU should not seek to learn
ANYTHING about 1t. YOU forsooth. should not
INQUIRE whether a thing 10 good or bad for it.
You have nothing to do with It.. WE are the ones
on whom you n1st rely for knowledge of your
own body" hr5 ,goe ase.
The young doctor paints a painful! picture
terrifying picture Of the ravages OF the creal dis
ease smallpox, but he cannot scare many people
! with this picture any longer. Improved methods
of sanitation and personal cleanliness nave been
two potent factors in banishing this terror from
the minds Of those who will think for themselves.
DIR. Jenner no doubt made q great discovery, IN his
day, but Dr. JennerS was day long removed
from this. Dr. Jenner's day was day In which
bath tubs were unknown. His lay was day In
which the science Ut sanitation had not yet been
discovered. Smallpox was terror In Dr.. Jenner'S
day. 1t is mild and easily durable disease in this
day of the bath tub. n} .Elib, <a .5,.
This young man seeks to terrify me by painting
picture of my child gasoln3 for breath with the
diphtheritic membrane closing up its throat and
asks me whether or not will discard the anti
toxin that will remove It. Vastly different Is this
condition, when the disease has fastened on my
child, from the one with which he seeks to COM
taken in inoculating the healthy organisms with
rosy with health, with the vile poison gathered
from fostering sore on tho body of a calf, car
rying with 1t millions of gorns OF all OTHER dis
eases which, Luck In the place whore COWS ale
kept. $'
This doctor speaIs very highly of the approved
aseptic methods Of applying this poison. He
points out the fact that this vaccine Is carefully
prepared, but fails to take cOgnizance of the fact
that while the vaccine pus is forming opportunity
for the absorption of the baccilli OF consumption
typhoid, malaria and all other diseases which veX
mankind is excellent, considering the surround
ings OF the animal from which It Is taken. | say
to this young man. and to all others who think
like him, that II the same aseptic precautions
are taken IN treating the disease smallpox as are
pare 1t when he asks me to inoculate my child,
the poison which he believes will prevent It, there
Will be no more danger in the disease itself than
In the remedy which he clings to- Doctors have
tried to fasten the compulsory vaccination law
upon the people Of many States; they have sue
ceeded In but few. The characterization freedom
Is spreading. Let those who believe or acquiesce
IN the belief in vaccination as preventive OF
smallpox take It. Let those who do not, have the
opportunity Of rejecting It, ,ytt. NJ Il.