The Washington herald., 1907-12-09
JOHN X. HENCH.
Medical Science p
IL Ia MashinEton Hernli

A$uit'N AiN NAhullkluE HtIelQ-
Hippocrates, the father of medicine.
wrote THE physicians duty is 10 watch
the indications of nature. and assist. but
unfortunately. the doctor has become
wiser 90 than nature"
What a pity that more OF our profess
sional life-preservers 90 haven't done
more watching of the indications OF
nature"
Many of the various remedies used
by these men of medicine during the
past several centuries have been loath-
some and absurd in the extreme
About 100 years ago the prevailing fad
! Of these infallible. scientific" men was
the 'inoculation" of well people with the
virus from smallpox patients bodies. BY
| this practice smallpox was spread all
over the civilized world. II was proved
by the royal commission that more than
10000 people had died OF smallpox In Eng
land alone as the direct result OF having
been inOculated by the doctors In 1870
the British Parliament made this prac-
tice e penitentiary offense. So the in
| fallibles'' had 70 change their tactics. In
1896 "the Jenner idiocy" was discovered
and the form Of human sacrifice was
changed
When vaccination was compulsory in
England. the registrar generals reports
showed 200 children killed annually in
London by vaccination The English
digest OF parliamentary returns. No 4SS
session 1873. records 5000 deaths of chill
dren from diseases OF vaccination to oc-
cur annually
Dr. Hyncheman dissected over 100 chill
dren. whose deaths were caused by vac
cin1tiOn. and he said: NO smallpox
cases presented a post-mortem more
hideous."
The Surgeon Generals reports OF the
American army in the Philippines gives
smallpox returns as follows. Cases. IA;
249 deaths during 1S9S-190l. all revaccinated.
This mortality of 35 per cent is double
the death rate from smallpox in the mid
dlle of the eighteenth century. before
vaccination was discovered Hospital re-
ports for 190O'N show 1886 picked army
men put out OF business by vaccination.
In 1901 smallpox panic was reported
in Camden, n. j., with these results:
Fourteen cases Of smallpox, one death
only from smallpox, and five deaths from
lockjaw following vaccination New York
State had two deaths from smallpox in
one year. and over twenty from lockjaw
from vaccination.
Medical "science"C0 is just about as
unstable as fashions in millinery. Since
the germ theory has arrived. and
serum treatments, consumption in Amer
lea has increased 100 per cent: cancer. 400
per cent, and epilepsy and insanity about
$50 per cent. DR.. William Osler says OF
the Serum" treatment for diphtheria:
While other contagious diseases have
diminished within the last decade diph-
liberia has increased, particularly in
cities (where antitoxin is used most
Dr. Nirchow says: Microbes are AL
ways found where there is disease. They
are also found where there is no an
preciable disease. and may be the result
and not the cause. Of disease" CIappots
don't cause the dead horse; they are only
scavengers.)
The tubercle bacilli was found bv
analyses Thy DR.. Loomis. New York; 10 |
be absent in the sputum of consumptives !
until. three and one-half months had |
elapsed in that disease
Many cases of diphtheria have occurred
where not a single KIebs-Loefler. bacillus
was found. after repeated examinations
also these bacilla have been repeatedly
found in the throats of large numbers Of |
healthy children.
Profs. Pettenkoffer and Emmrich. Of
Munich, Germany, gave the germ theory |
bang from which II has never recov-
cred. At one dose Prof Pettenkoffer
swallowed several millions of the germs /
of Asiatic cholera; Prof Emmrsch re- /
peated the experiment few DAYS later
by swallowing a culture containing MANY
millions cholera germs These germs
were taken from the intestines of per
son who died of Asiatic cholera in Ham
burg These physicians experienced no !