The Washington herald., 1907-12-01

NariOla was known from remote an
tiquity in China. that seep-plot of cpl
denies. A medical sage of the eighth
century b. C.-Tse Han TOng-at-
tempted 10 check its ravages BY blow
ing the powder Of dried varioIa scabs
into the nostrils Of the patients His
personal longevity seems to show that
they failed to break his neck for such
= procedure.
During the long period OF pagan civ
iliZ1tiOn neither Greece or Rome. nor
any Of the European colonies expert
creed any epidemic which could posi-
bly, be taken for contagious varioIa
In the battle OF Pharsalia. Julius
Caesar instructed hts troopers to slash
the faces OF his aristocratic opponents.
those beauty being wholly
free from the skin-pitting disorder. BY
hygiene alone this population Of some
l2o.oe0,909 eager traders ana restless
adventures. coming IN an unavoidable
contact with smallpox. stricken neigh
bors kept smallpox IL bay for nearly
fifteen hundred years. The mere prop
osition Of compulsory blood poisoning
among those sJalwart people would
have consigned the protector TO a mad
cage. But" write DR. Felix Oswald
after the fan Of Rome, the darkness
of Oriental superstition crept over Eu-
rope. and the Goddess Of Health with
drew her protection"
Cleanliness the Remedy.
in monk-ridden Italy, smallpox cpl
denies were extremely virulent. Milan
lost half its population in 1925, The
came eDidemics decimated Russia.
Florence. Poland. and Northern Spain.
but the more clearly and civilized ma
tives Of Moorish Spain generally es-
capped. Their creed prohibited pork
and alcoholics. and enjoiued daily
bathing. Nearly every large town OF
Mohammcdan Spain had free public
baths and their cities were less crowd
ed. Without an attempt at anything
like vaccination, these clearly Mussul-
mans enjcined immunity from a dis
easc that scOurged their northern
neighbors almost into madness.
Later. when the yoke of feudaIism
was broken. ring walls in European
cities were torn down. Fostering meats
hlled mp and planted with shade trees.
and garden cottage took the place of
slum- dungeons; then the ravages Of
the great plague ab5ted
In 1895 Dr. Edward Jenner heard a
milkmaid say Il can never have small
pON- because I have already caught 70
from a cow Upon Investigation he
found that cows occasionally had an
eruptive disease resembling smallpox So
DR. Jenner's discovery which has been
forced upon the people all these years.
came from the chance saying Of an igno-
rant country milkmaid and Is to-day
called by some physicians the milk
maids myth" Jenner declared that mat
ter from the greasy heels Of horses. after
having passed through the cows system
was the only genuine life-preserving fluid
1t is h0rse-grease coWpoX that is OF SOW
ereign virtue" said he His prescription
is nowhere i'm use to-day, however Prof
Charles Creighton, OF Cambridge Uni
verSiy, London, says that cOwpOx is not
"a disorder to which the bovine race is
naturally subject but is really contracted
from diseased mixers. and has no reIa-
ton whatever to smallpox Jenner him
self collected more than loo instances Of
second attacks Of smallpox in the same
person. Such cases are frequently met
with in outbreaks Of any extent at the
present time.
DR.. Jenner PenSioned.
The English government voted DR.. Jen-
ner Gloo,ooo and a life pension. and The
Dairy Maids Myth" became scientific
fact"-unul il was fortunately challenged.
In 1904 Or. II. c. Proctor, of Bristol.
England published a list of twenty-five
persons who had been attacked by variola
within a few weeks after having under
gone the Jenner process. eight Of whom
died, in spite Of careful medical attend
ance. In a single year, about this time.
1894 vaccinated persons died Of smallpox
In Bavaria, happening which somewhat
cismayed the Jennerites. and those at
tackled by variola, who were vaccinated
exceeded 5000 In 1899 the English gov
ernment appointed a royal commission OF
inquiry TO investigate vaccination, as the
evil reports which were surging in were
causing trouble. The commission was
composed of fifteen eminent scientists.
medical and nOn-medical men. and in
1896, after l36 sessions. ii was found that
vaccination was utterly worthless as a
prevention Of smallpox, and dangerous TO
the health of the people. as IL was posi-
bic 10 convey a worse disease by the act
of vaccination IL was also found that
the percentage of cases of vaccinated
smallpox patients 10 the total admissions
IN the LoRoon Smallpox Hospital, had
increased with the increase
of vaccination among the general popu-
lation. in 1896 il being g per cent. and
IN 1881, 100 per cent or, all the cases
had been vaccinated. So in 1898 England
repealed the compulsory vaccination laws
Dr. Carl Spinzig. of St. Louis. in charge
or the smallpox hospital during the civil
war, observed the failure of vaccination
to protect against disease. and said
Smallpox is a UTemic blood poison, and
to suppose That IL can be either prevented
or mitigated by introducing more of like
element is absurd, 10 say the least Vacci- /
nation has TO be acknowledged as without
a scientific basis. Smallpox is nothing
less than the effort of nature to clear the /
body of diseased and decaying material
The poisonous matter which nature
wisely eliminates from the body Of the
diseased calf in an effort to save its life |
and restore it 10 health is seized upon |
by the vaccinator and implanted into the !
wholesome body Of a helpless child |
Tuberculosis Cow Used.
Dr. F. l. Stevens. government inspector |
Of meats. said that on March 10, 1902. a /
COW was slaughtered in Somerville, Mass. |
that was extensively diseased with tuber- /
cUlosis. The marks on the animal indi- /
Gated that she had been used for the pur- +;
pose of producing vaccine within a cou- 1
pie Of monthsl
The cultivation Of perfect health by /
living in accordance with the health laws |
)f nature, is the only course by which all /
disease can be annihilated. The lower
animals about us are not diseased. unless
man makes them so Any disease which !
ever visited the human race can be
brought 70 bay. by hygiene and ISOLATION.
out the pUs and poison remedies in
rented in the past and present centuries
nave been the greatest scourges which /
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