The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-16
.BOUDREN ANSWERS
 DR. N. E. .WORDIN
Quotes Lancet to Show Death from Tetanus of I9 Vaccinated Persons
A SCARLET FEVER EXPERIMENT

 | and medical legislation by which the practice of vaccination IS being pushed to the front on all occa- | sions by a privileged class of self seeking medical men, and its ac- | ceptance by the people made com | pulsory by the State, this matter is brought prominently before the ! public mind as a subject for ear- | nest consideration. These medical dogmatists set aside the right Of private judgment on the part of the people. In attempting to Jus- tify their mercenary aggreSs1ons the cow-pox doctors arrogantly as- sert that vaccination is a medi- cal question for medical men," but | the assertion provokes suspicion rather than confidence, for mystery is an invariable note of imposture. J. w. HODGES, MD, Niagara Falls, N. Y. The members of the medical pro- | fession are plesiomorphic-they act | in herds, they do little indepen- | dent thinking or acting but follow the books and obey the DICTA of 1 their MOSS GROWN leaders. | Alexander M. Ross, AM, MD. | F. R. s. L., England. Member of l the British ands French Societies | for the Advancement of Science. | The learned and scientific criticism by Dr. Wordin of theS letter of Dr. Leverson in your issue of August Fist | is 8. gem of medical litera ture and so convincing in its statements that with out doubt it was thought that noth- ing more could be said on the subject. As read, however, failed to see re- I futed a single statement made by pr. Leverson nor did Dr. Wordin offer any ]I proof of the assumptions made by himself
 He is very hard on "the fellow who 1 rusfles into print with statements
 which are so positively contrary to the facts of history, the commonly ac- IoA- 4o1 e. ,4e1H <Q 4 h. Ia
 I apprehend that Dr. wordin does not know who Dr. Leverson is or he might change his mind as to Dr. Lev erson's ability to pass upon the ques- tions which Dr. Wordin attempts to discuss.
 T It is quite evident from Dr. Wordin's s letter that he is sound on the question
 of vaccination. This seems to be his stronghold and when he is attacked at
 this point he shows fight.
 | Dr. Wordin says: It is men or this
 stamp who are arraying themselves
 against vaccination. They are in no . sense true and reliable leaders" Does |, Dr. Wordin mean that such man as Prof Alfred Russell Wallace whose
 analytical review of the proceedings
 of the Royal Commission appears in : sThe Wonderful Century, is incapable
 of speaking or writing on the subject
 of vaccination? Does Dr. Wordfn
 mean that pr. Chas. Creighton, who
 wrote that brilliant article for the
 ninth edition of Encyclopedia Brit anica showing the abslardity of the lu- | crative delusion, that this scholar is incapable of speaking or writing on
 the subject of vaccination? No mem
 Der of the medical fraternity has ever , attempted to refute or answer pr E fCreighton's statements. When Dr. Creighton agreed to write this article e for the Encyclopedia he was pro l vaccinist and began to write in favor of vaccination but his investigations . caused him to change his views and as : an HONEST man he gave to the
 claims of the vile delusion for all time.
 And what of Prof E. w. Cruikshank 5 who, after devoting three years 10 . careful study and investigation, of the S subject in all parts of Europe where i. information could be obtained, wrote Il two volumes of 800 pages each? n d these he shows by the most conclusive : evidence that vaccination is most : gigantic humbug and the greatest de-
 public. Does pr. Wordin think this s man incapable of speaking or writing s on the subject of vaccination? eH have recently presented to the : Public Library this work or Prof l. members of the local medical society f will take occasion to brush up on the subject of vaccination.
 If the Doctors drive at those who ODD0SGQ :, benefit of the medical fraternity was = intended for me and those co-operat- e inc with me in an effort to have com. - pulsory vaccination laws repealed. d can assure him that we stand ready n to meet him or any of his guild wht s desire to discuss the question either or
 the platform or through the press Ht '- will need his ableSt men to defenc 'f "the facts of history, the commonlS : accepted facts of the day., which any i,,fa na 't prehend.
 e The day has passed when the simple
 statement of an M D., is accepted
 without question.
 facts for the consideration of those
 ldisinterested guardians of the public It health. t was found an account of his havint # taken mucous from mild case oi Is scarlet fever, mixed it with veal 3, solution of carbolic acid. injected i t, simultaneously into ten children witt e a view to rendering them lmmun. l- from this disease. In all cases aftel
 an incubation of from 12 to 72 hour:
 scarlet fever of severe form followed
 Lancet, February 4, 1905. Il In October 1902, nineteen persons $ inocuiated at Mulkawahl, Qndia) 1T and all of them contracted tetanus ,r British Medical Journal, June 1905. s Thousands of such cases might b' d cited if "the facts of history, the com. l. monly accepted facts of the day. hae s, any weight in forming the opinions O. s, doctors. The fact is, logical argu S. ment is wasted on the mercenary ele
 ment of the profession, especially tha $ part of it which is usually attached t' " Boards of Health.
 le My opinion of the profession as. 'e whole is pretty well expressed in th' e, following quotation from speech b! p a man prominent in the profession. y At a dinner given by the graduat y ing class of the Wisconsin College O le Physicfans and Surgeons, Dr. Echols ss the speaker of the evening, declaret le that more quackery is committed un -e der the guise of medicine than in tn
 field of recognized hunbuggery, an'
 that nine-tenths of the physicians ar ],