The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-21

Eottfngen, a famous scientist, who IS also a scholar in modern languages md reads fluently both French anc German, has taken up the cudgels against Prof. Theobaid Smith, who ir hix Lowell Institute lecture championed vaccination. pr. Leverson is an ex- pert in the diagnosis and treatment o1 snanpox. known on two continents He is opposed to vaccination. His open letter to Prof. Smith follows:
 s27 Grant Avenue, Bronx,
 New York City, April 26, 1909. To Professor Theobald Smith.
 Boston, Mass.
 Dear Sir:-
 Transcript of Wednesday. March S1 1908, has been sent to me containing what purports to be a report of your fifth Lowell Institute lecture ac- cornpanied by request that l make se such comments thereon as might De needed to correct erroneous impress sions likely to be conveyed by it.
 The task Is difficult, especially by reason of the vagueness of the iauoa- tory report in the Transcript, on many of the points you seem to have touched upon; but I believe the errors the report ascribes to you to be So seriously misleading that am bound to make the attempt.
 u is reported that you had shown sin q previous paper CD how man may be guarded against smallpox by means of vaccine that has been modified by culture dn the cow: and that @ this fhere is a loss of infection, and G) ssft fs able to produce disease only at the place to which it is applied"
 AS q student of pathology who Tor The past fifteen years has devoted him. heIf, almost exclusively. to the study of s9ualIpox and vaccination, and the diseaaed conditions induced by the lat ter have never been able to find any evidence in support of the first state msrt, and have found overwhelming evIdsnce in disproof of the third Both are assumptions without evidence to support them. and if you will favor me with. a visit I will show you large collection of drawings illustrative of deplorable constitutional diseased conditions produced directly by wac cine that has been modified by culture in the cow'', including, cases which that pronounced pro-vaccinist and celebrated surgeon Jonathan Hutchin- son re4uctantly confessed to be or syphdatic character. imparted. some or Chem, enot by arm-to-arm vaccination, but by vaccination direct from the COW. You are reported to have stated that sgrhis discovery has been of ines ttimab1e value to the human race since it is a prophyiactic against smallpox. " 6zsch an assertion is not supported oy
 
 you to be capable of wilfully fooling tyour audience am bound to believe that you have yourself been fooled. laws enacted by ignorant dogmas laid down by nknaves, and adopted by the misguided authorities of our medical schools. and by them maintained by the persecution of those who do not assent thereto. medical profession to be ignorant of facts of the gravest importance to .rnankind, and therefore they remain Ignorant thereof.
 Even the garbled official statistics of all these countries which have been so deIuded as to make the attempt at CONDOR prophylaxis, prove that there ds absolutely no protection. neither tor |Iife". nor etiu puberty, nor for ten wears, nor for seven. nor for six, five, 6ot1r. three. two nor even one year, inor yet for any portion of one year. dn fooling themselves and mankind the officials have not only Rarbled their own statistics, but they have used official statistics with what the great Master Of Statistics, pr. Adolf vogt, @ described as "incon- ceivaible superficiaiity. 9
 The report states that you showed how the arm-to-a arm process was sup planted about fifty years ago by bo- vine vaccine; but why did you not acknowledge the fact that for more than thirty years the pro-vaccinists
 
 caused the syphilitic condition or condition resembling the syphilitic, and persisted in such denial for years even after Ricord had reluctantly ad- mitted that it had done so; and even as liars. the noble-and 4earned men who proved it? Neither Is it fifty, but only about twenty-five years, since such vaccinating was gen. cination is practiced in many places.
 Ie it possible that you stated as re- ported "that the operation was con- troHed by antiseptic treatment and that the quality of the vaccine was rigidly tested"? Pardon me for say ing that assertions so rash and so mis- aeading cannot be excused in a gentle man of your eminence wl3en very small amount of investigat ton would have taught you that the pretences to such effect were the merest shams.
 You are reported to have exhibited .smost convincing graphic diagrams of the death rates 4n different cities be- fore and after establishing compulsory have been only to those who knew F othjng about the subject The truth Is that after desperately fighting against improvements in sanitation the people of England and the people of many parts of the United States, led by the opponents of vaccination, forced sanitary reforms upon their municipal authorities. often in spite of
 
 aals.
 You are reported to have said that lowing to the subtle nature of the dis ease vaccination has been necessary against it.'' You here assume smallpox to be a thing, an entity. This bluuder is committed by nearly all the followers of the self-styled regular school'', and it will probably be a new idea to you to be told that neither smallpox nor any other disease Is an entity, but is a condition.
 You are reported to have quoted ap- the fact that Germany in sists on two vaccinations, one in in fancy, and the other about the age of twelve, while Japan has three. In addition the Japanese troops have vac cinatfons of their own. Now I chance to have beforeSe a report of a speech of Baron EZhehiro kaki, at the Ju- biIee dinn9E<0&, the InceSporated So- ciefy of NIeddkal Officers of Health, wherein he stated that every child in Japan is vaccinated before it is six months old, re-vaccinated at six years, again at fourteen. and that all the men vvnre re-uaccipzfed nn enferipp fha