The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-03-25
Declared To Be Dangerous
In Practice.
It REEVES LATENT DISEASES
And Makes the Patient More
Subject To Them Than
Before.
1T BRINGS OUT TUBERCULOSIS

The whole theory of vaccinations
and serums is wrong. II insures us
against catching one disease only to
make us doubly liable to catch
others, particularly tuberculosis.
This is the startling warning just
given out by Lieutenant Colonel
Charles L. Woodruff, retired from
the United States Army Medical
Corps, one of the greatest sanitary
authorities in the world.
Most human beings have natural
resistance to tuberculosis and with
ordinary good fortune and attention
to our food and surroundings we can
fight off the white plague till old age
or some other cause brings us to
the grave.
Vaccination gives us immunity for
awhile at least, against some one
specific disease, such as typhoid or
smallpox. This would be very well
indeed if We did not have to pay for
il by losing part at least of our nat
ural immunity to tuberculosis.
In quoting other authorities DIR.
lie Tulle tells me that all serums
and vaccines will cause incipient
cases of tuberculosis to get worse.
DR.. G. II. Spooner, and Louis and
Combe. assistants to Vincent at the
Val de Grave in Paris. have noticed
that anti-typhoid vaccines bring out
any latent or chronic disease, par
ticularly tuberculosis. The latter
states that vaccine acts like tuber-
culin, and that they have thus been
able to detect active tuberculosis
when the condition was not suspect
ed before the incubation.
"Chantmerse. of Paris, informs me
that he has seen two cases of rapid
tuberculosis develop few days after
anti-typhOid vaccination, and he
warns particularly against using it
where tuberculosis is suspected"
1t has long been observed in all
countries where statistics are COM
pletely kept, that a typhoid epidem-
ic is always followed by one of tu-
berculosis. This was known long
before the days of serums. vaccina-
tons and antitoxins. 1t was guess
ed quite naturally that the ravages
of typhoid weakened the system to
such an extent as to lay open to in
vasion by the germ of consumption.
Where weakness lay, has not recent
ly been understood.
Scattered about the body are
numberless glands, little and big.
Some of them secret fluids which
can be recognized. like the tear
glands in the eye and the saliva
glands in the mouth.
There are greater number which
have no ducts leading to the sur
face of cavities of the body and
therefore whatever they secret goes
directly into the blood itself. A few
of the larger, more important ones,
are partially understood.
These glands have other places.
apparently located near the kidneys,
and secret a substance called adren-
alin, which controls the heart, and
the blood pressure. II these glands
cease operating the adrenalin sup
ply in the blood stream is soon used
up. The result is a rapid collapse
OF the whole circulation, ending
with stoppage of the heart and
death.
These glands have other duties
apparently connected with fighting
infectious diseases. When a person
is sick from any germ disease the
suprarenals are called upon to ov-
erwork. manufacturing at least part
of the antitoxins which nature sup
plies as antidotes to the poison OF
the microbes.
Overwork produces exhaustion of
the glands. so that after severe fe-
yer. like typhoid. patients glands
are in feeble condition. Not only
are they unable to rally with their
old strength TO meet new germ at