The Washington herald., 1907-12-30
Defends Present-day Medicine.

Editor The Washington Herald
Without perfect candor. perfect mental
verasity. discussion in the highest sense
is impossible.
Now. as party to this controversy. /
have been. as nearly as l can judge. in
tellectuaHy honest In support OF all the
vitally important af1rmations which /
have made. 1 have given as fully as pos
sible. in the meager space allotted. the
logical. reasonable. demonstrable conclu-
sicns Of the scientific world. But those
conclusions have been either ignored or
deliberately. lllogically. and disdainfully
questioned Furthermore. many quota
tions and statements calculated to mis-
interpret and obscure the writing OF
eminent medical authorities. and to con-
fuse and mlslead the untechnical. have
been made. not only in these columns.
but on the public platform. I therefore
beg 10 submit the following:
/. challenge Mr. Watts to produce indubstabe
scientific evidence that vaccine when prepared. PIE
served and used IN strict accordance with the most
approved methods. can cause tuberculosis lues. or
lOckaw.
? / request Mr. Bradford 10 give the page o.;
the Official report vaccination o. the Surgeon
General ot the American army IN the Philippines
during 1898 l99l'' FROM which Mr.. Bradford recently
quoted the following: Seven hundred and foUrteCa
eases Of smallpox 2i9 deaths-eTery one Iaocinated
and reyaccinated.
3 With an apology 70 Mr.. Manner challenge
MIR. Bradford 20 show where DIR. William OseT
says Of the serum treatment for diphthera' that
within the last decade dphtheriA has increased,
particularly in cities"
T. challenge him to produce indubitable scientific
evidence that many cases of diuhtheria' Of the
pbaIynaN or laryuX. manifesting all the clinical
pathological. and meteorological phenomena Of true
/ diphtheria, have occurred where not a single
hlsbs-Loeiiier bacillus was f0und. also 10 rcfute.
By ike evidence. the medical claim that that germ
has been demonstrated 70 be capable of acting as
the specific exciting cause Of diphthCTia-
:. / challenge hin 10 show. by like evidence
wherein the experiments OF Pettoakofer and I'm
meTich disproye that the comma bacillus ~ Koch
is the specific exciting ~ Asiatic cholera
8. l challenge him 10 show. by like evidence
wherein the presence q typhoid haccilh in In
habited localities in which typhoid fever has never
been known 20 occur proves that those baciui arc
not the specific exciting cause Of typhoid fever
wherever u does occur.
2 / challenge Mr. Kimbau. &C S. D. lecturer
on Christian Science (0r any other Christian Scien
list 20 show hy Ike evidence the correctness q ths
assertion recently repeated hy Mr. KimbaI that II
has been scientifically established that bactcra are
never the cause q disease. but are merely "sosy
enEers
= VII thank him o. give the name e. tht
eminent surgeon IN thiCagn." who is alleged o.
have stated that IN operating on -50j individuals
whose cases had been diagnosed as appendicitis b.
/ found only 81 % De suffering from that disease
@ ! challenge SIR. kimbalI or any other CHRIS
tan Scientist % furnish induhitaile scientific eyi
dencc q Mr.. hmEall's assertion that malignant
cancer. chronic Brights as ase and l0com0to
ataxia have been completely cured simply and s0ley
/ by the methods o. Christian Science
II the parties concerned can fulfill these
/ requirements. let them hasten 10 do so
/ II they cannot fulfill them. let their as
! sertions count IN the estimation Of all FOR
I what they already count IN the estimation
( Of every tolerably educated physician
HERMAN T. KITTREDCE. n D.