The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15
DANGEROUS
 TYRANNY OF
 MEDICINE
Major Boudren Produces an Example of Injury Done by Vaccination asd Warns Against Health Board Legisla. tiOn Adopted by General Assembly.

The following is a striking example of medical tyranny and would need no comment. except for the fact that health boards all over the country are seeking to have this same despotic power placed in their hands. We have an evidence of this in that clause in our new city charter which allows the health board to make their own rules without consent of the council and which makes them responsible to no one. Intelligent gentlemen whom we sent to Hartford to safeguard our rights allowed this law to be embraced of protest. Any one observing the movements of the medical fraternity all over the country will find them seeking to have laws passed for their tecting the pubic health. It will be well for every community to remem- Der that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, political, religious and med ical The following is from the New York World: Y
 "Berlin, July That barbarous practices among army and navy offic- CTS are not confined to Russia is ex- pected to be shown at trial sched- lled to begin in Berlin within a few weeks. The trial will also go far to show how absolutely under the heel of imperial officialdom is the average respectable German citizen.
 '"The case concerns a young son of a prominent Berlin physician. The boy, U1rich Cruewell, enlisted, a year ago in the Imperial Navy. After about six weeks of service it was dis covered that he had heart disease. A naval surgeon was ordered to make thorough medical examination.
 Among the young recruits papers the surgeon found a certificate which showed that the boy had been dis r,xr< bca<~ he refused to be vaccinated. In the eyes of the zealous imperial surgeon this was a grave offense, and he deter mined to teach the recruit lesson before he reported him unfit for ser vice.
 "Ordering the recruit to bare his arm. the surgeon made four savage Pslashes in the flesh, several times as deep and long as customary in vacei- nation. He then recommended the young mans discharge on the ground of physical disability.
 Thinking that Cruewel would be discharged at once the surgeon paid no more attention to the vaccination. As it happened there was a delay of nine days before the boy was released from service, and when he appeared at his home his father found his arm swollen terribly and infected with gangrene.
 "Dr. Cruewell was still more amazed at the lads story, and at once reported the matter to the Imperial Naval Chief. Instead of ordering an investigation the naval officer went to the Attorney General and secured an indictment against Dr. Crueweu for insulting an official of the Imperial Navy.
 Many months passed before any, thing was done. but the trial has at last been put on the calendar. The reason for the delay is clear. The officials wished to give the boys wounds time to heal so that the in jury would not appear important in court.
 'Dr. Cruewell. however, forestaIled such designs by having the boys arm photographed in it's various stages of conva1escence from the poisonous wound he had received
 "It IS expected that the naval offic- CTS will pack the jury. as is usual in such cases, and produce official med ical experts to testify against pr. Cruewell, and the trial probably will result in further Humiliation for the physician if not actual punishment and for no greater crime than report ing what he considered a wrong done his son by an imperial official"
 MAJOR THOMAS BOUDREN.