The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-10

of the American Pharmaceutical AS
sociation, recently. He is regarded as
one of the ablest opponents OF Vacc1n-
alton in the United States He sald'
in his Philadelphia lecture:
| Gas DR.. Wadsworth, in his remarks
just finished, characterized the anti
vaccinationists as being ignorant as
using underhanded methods of fight
ling and as 'championing the cause
of pestilence,' I think that it is only
fair that the audience should nave a
look at an anti-vaccinat1on1st' 1or IN
spection purposes, to see Whether we
have horns or not, and also to near
the arguments that come from such
crazy people.
Doctor Wadsworth says that there
! is only one side to the vaccination
question. 1 say in reply to TINS what
John Stuart Mill says: He who knows
| only one side, of the case, knows little
of that
1.-The great obstacle that stands in
the way of every attempt to secure, by
intelligent discussion, settlement OF
| the vaccination question, is that the
vaccinationists do not meet our ObJec-
lions with scientific data. Mere epl-<
thets and assump tons prove nothing
1.-THE vaccination question has It's
historical and political, as Wen as It's
scientific aspects 1t IS historical III
the sense that it involves conSfdera-
ton of the experience of communities
with smallpox epidemics; and 1t IS
political, in that influential ele-
ment Of the medical profession mas
caused compulsory vaccination TO De
put into the statute lazy, which Is
enacted by the legislative representa-
tives of the people.
.tThe greatest smallpox epidemic II
! history, both in the number OF cases
and in the proportion of deaths, oc-
Cured not in prevaccination times,
than
cent of welI-nigh universal vacctn-
alton. 1t has been conclusively prov
ed that of the more than $4,000 deaths
from smallpox that occurred in Eng
land and Wales in 1S7o-1-72' at least
80 per cent, occurred in yaccinated
persons and the experience of PruS-
STA and other German states, IN the
same epidemic, was similar This fail
ure of vaccination to protect the world
from the furious smallpox epidemic
of 1872 turned the minds of men to-
ward more thorough investigation
than had before been undertaken, or
the protection that vaccination was
alleged to afford to communities
against epidenics of smallpox
Jenner assured the English House
of Commons. in his petition for rernu-
neration, presented in 1902, that cow
pox admits of being innoculated on
the human frame with the most per- 1
feet ease and safety. and is attended
with the singular1y beneficial effect Of
rendering through life the person so |
inoculated perfectly secure from the
infection of the smallpox This was
soon shown by actual experience to
be a false premise.
"Cow-pox virus contaminated with !!
the virus OF smallpox, Jenner de- |
nounced as spurious.
Now the medical profession has al |
most entirely discarded cow-pox, and |
smallpox, only, is generally used for |
the propagation of vaccine cirrus. In |
other words, the members Of the med |
icaI profession have thrown overheard |
their vaccination hero, Jenner. They |
he put Jenner's cow-pox virus into I
the scrap-heap, and have substituted |
for it the matter Of human smallpox |
Another dead-surely-rig cult, arm
to-arm vaccination, which was upheld !
by the members of the medical pro- |
fession for nearly a century. they fin
e71v discovered to be a mistake; and +
this,also they have thrown overheard. /
In fact, they have now thrown over
board nearly everything, nearly every
alleged fact, nearly every argument, |
upon which, lin the beginning, they /
induced, the governments of the lead
ing civilized nations of the world to |
endorse vaccination, and subsequently,, |
to force it upon their people by the
instrl1Inentality of statutory compu1-5
sion.
.Arm-to-a arm vaccination was found
to be mistake, because it was dan
gerous to health and life. It was
proved that by it many diseases had
been transmitted from one arm to an
other. 1t was therefore discarded
"Anti-typ1loid serum is a sterile sub
stance made of dead typhoid fever
germs; so, also is diphtheria antitoxin
a sterile substance. But vaccine tfrus
matter derived from suppurating sores
on diseased beasts. The introduction !
Of such diseased matter into the hui
man circulation is denounced by true
biologists, except when vaccination
against smallpox is concerned. Why
the Introduction of diseased living
matter is always dangerous, except
when vaccination against smallpox is
concerned, is as yet unexplained.
Something has been said of the +
safety Of which the public can rest i
assured because of laboratory inspec-
ton, not only by the vaccine manu-
facturer, but also by representatives
of the United States Public Health
and Marine-Hospita1 Service. When
we recall however, that for five I
six years several vaccine farms in this
propagated vaccine virus con-
taminated with the foot and mouth
disease of cattle, and that this con-
escaped discovery during
hat time, causing hundreds of thous-
ands of diseased vaccine points to be
used for the vaccination of children,
we can gather some idea of what the
laboratory inspection amounts
to from the standpoint of public safe
ty. j
fTetanus germs exist in soil and in
hay, and in the alirnentery canal, the
hair, and the manure, of the calf We
can easily realize, therefore, that the
very origin of vaccine virus is in
environment of tetanus. And when
we recognize. further, that tetanus in
fI1.0f rT-TT7 IF a1J1 / :
covery, and further, that tetanus
spores require for their development
only just such a favorable culture
medium the vaccination sore fur t
1ishes, we may conclude, by reasoning J
from analogy, that these facts are in |
favor. of the thenrz that the PERM r