The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-02
BOUDREN DEALS WITH TYPHOID
 VACCINATION
70 the Editor of The Farmer:

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 1 To the Editor of The Farmer:
 Sirs-I notice in the Bulletin of the
 State Board of Health, for the month of June, that the Secretary, Dr.
 Joseph H. Townsend, devotes some
 space in the advocacy of typhoid vac
 cination, and I also notice that his
 article has been reprinted in full, in
 all the papers in the State The ab-
 surd idea, however, that the products of diseased condition, human or anil nal, is a cure for, or a protection against itself, seems to have escaped
 notice, and predict complete failure 1 as the only result possible from such | cedures. So absolutely opposed to
 natural laws and common sense is
 serum therapy, that the failure of all | serums, anti-toxins, vaccines and | what-nots, to do the things claimed for. them, for the benefit of mankind,
 can be predicted with certainty. And,
 what is worse, the harmfulness re- sulting from such practices can be l predicted with as much certainty as | that they will be failures. It is too bad, however, that the harmfulness of inoculating the producers of disease | is given more consideration when 1t
 manifests its destructiveness to ami
 malls, as witness the facts that two | of our largest Western States have | the tuberculin inoculation of cattle,
 and only because 1t was shown con- | clusively that cattle were thus infect ed by tuberculosis, not cured of the
 disease or protected against 1t. How I long will it take mankind to see that
 such practices must produce the same | results in humans and take the neceS- l sary step for their abolishment? ? 1 Surely, they must do it soon, for their | own self preservation.
 Dr. Townsend, in his article, says: 1 Typhoid fever has long been known, etc. etc.
 The following comment on some of Dr. Townsend's statements may not be deemed inappropriate:
 Typhoid fever has long been known as a preventable. disease" If this is | so, where has the medical profession been all these years that they have | not found out the way to prevent it? There has recently come into use Q | new method of prevention known as
 important results.'' Promises are good. The medical fraternity have
 been deluding the human race with promises for centuries but in almost every instance have failed to make good. What the public would like to l know,-will they be any more success full in this case than in many others
 
 it's successful trial in the English and German armies, but the following in stance of it's effect in the English
 army would hardly bear out his state ment. He probably would not quote it, but I give it to him and the pub lie for his consideration. This state ment was given to me by MT. John Rigly of this city, a member of the Sixth Dragons of the English army, which went to the Boer War eight hundred strong. They were to be rendered immune from enteric fever by the injection of new serum just discovered. Seven hundred and twen- were punished for refusing to obey orders; of the 80 who refused, four took the rever and two died, per cent. Of the 720 who allowed them selves to be protected, 462 were at tackled with the disease and 246 died, nearly 50 per cent, and 1es were in valided home.
 I wonder if Dr. Townsend would consider such showing a successful treatment as a, preventive measure. Of course the treatment being the product of scientific medicine, it could not be classed a quack. Oh, no!
 It is much easier to treat disease duct of a disease animal than by studying and following natures laws, besides it is more profitable to the doctors and when endorsed by such eminent men of authority as pr. Townsend it will no doubt be accept ed by the fraternity in general and the foolish public canN pay the pen atty
 The sooner these squirt gun hum bugs are eliminated from our boards of health and their places filled with truly scientific sanitarianS the better it will be for the public.
 The danger of inoculation was vivid ly described by an eminent physician at lecture recently delivered at Claridge's Hotel, London, under the auspices of Lady Kathleen Bushe.
 Formerly, notwithstanding the gen. eral ignorant use of drugs by the medical profession, the efforts of the physician, mistaken though they gen. orally were, were really directed ex- time of Pasteur's predecessor in quackery, Jenner, and during the growth of Pasteur's superstition right down to this day
 'HThe efforts of the large majority of the profession and all the official doc tors, except those officially employed in promoting sanitat ton, have been sick the we'll. By poisonous sera of all sorts they pretend to seek to pro- tect the well against diseased condi- tions which would scarcely ever hap pen to them were their vitality not reduced by poison poured into their blood, whereby their vitality is low cred and their constitution often per manentIy debased. Let me call at tention to the folly of these inocula- tions. When al drug is administered by the mouth, as was beautifully pointed out by Dr. J. Garth Wilkin- son, in proceeding along the aliment- ary canal it encountered along it's whole line a series of chemical labor atories wherein it is analysed synthe- sized, and deleterous matter prepared for excretion, and finally excreted or 1t may be elected from the stomach, or overcome by an antidote But when natures coat of mail, the skin, is violated, and the drug inserted be- heath the skin natures line of de- fense is taken in the rear and rarely can anything be done to hinder or prevent the action of the drug no mat ter how injurious or even fatal it may be- All the physicians of the world are incompetent either to foresee it's actions or to hinder cit. Even pureI water has been known to act as vio- | lent and foundroyant poison, when in- jected into the blood stream. How much more dangerous is it then to l inject poison, known to be such, | whether modified in the fanciful man. ner at present fashionable among |