The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-02-14

IUdkC an apology 10 lnls cltiLcH vi
my county for not having found out
his predicament earlier and protect
ing them with typhoid vaccine, but
decided that this was no time for
apologies but rather time for ac-
ton. So | walked out to my car,
the doctor in charge had been urg-
ing vaccine for some time, secured
by vaccine case, walked back to the
house and said: You told Dr.
that you would not have your fam
lily given the vaccine because you
were not able to buy it. | have an
abundance of pure fresh vaccine
made by the Mississippi State Board
of Health in their hygenic labora-
tory. This is furnished free and my
services are furnished you by the
the State Board and the county.
Now | want to give you and your
children and niece the vaccine and
protect you against this loathsome
and dangerous disease for you will
all die of it with these surroundings.
He stuck his thumbs in his gall
uses" and said: Now Doc. that
brings on more talk; you know |
don't believe in no SIGH" At the
risk of getting shot | gave those of
his family who did not have the
disease the vaccine and none of
them developed the disease, but the
father siad he would hold me re-
sponsible for any i'll effects of the
vaccine, and that if they had the
fever that he would know that my
vaccine was the cause of it and that
| would either have to treat them
free myself or pay for medical SER
vices, all of which readily agreed
to in order to try to save them. His
wife fingered between life and death
for twelve weeks and finally recov-
cred; the daughter was in bed seven
weeks and now has gall stones fol-
lowing the typhoid. This man con-
tracted the disease within a week
and died in the third week from a
perforated bowel which caused per-
itonitis. | was not glad that he
died but | did not send any flowers
around nor have | ever been able to
shed a tear. Somehow | have
allus' felt that the family was bet
ter off You know we doctors haye
a way of consoling the family by
saying that he or she, as the case
may be. is better off; this time |
can truthfully say you all are better
off He didn't want them vacci-
mated and he didn't leave them any
insurance.
| saw a picture somewhere on a
large canvass, in the center of the
picture, advancing directly toward
the spectator, rides large group of
warriors arrayed in corselet and he'll
met. Their steady march ct once
attracts the eve. Julius Caesar is
their leader He is fianked by Ma
poleon and Alexander the Great and
followed by a host of those whom
the world calls its conquerors; they
advance between two long rows of
rigid, grisly corpses. In the dis
tance spectral mountains hedge in a
desolated plain, given over to the
vulture, the bat and silence. | want
to see some artist paint a compan-
ion picture to this "Conqueror in
war" and call it "conquerors in
Peace"
Instead of spectral hills and DESC
lated plains, the scene should be
laid in a happy, smiling valley. en-
circled with vineclad hills and kiss
ed by Gods white sunlight. The
march would be led by Edward Jen-
ner, fanked by Koch and Erhlich
and Ninchow and Gus Evans and
w. : Leathers and C. ID. Mitchell
and host of other great but un-
known medical heroes who are try
ing to prevent and cure people of
disease rather than kill them for self
aggrandizement. Instead of max
ing their way through lines of grisly
corpses, they should march through
rank upon rank of grateful men and
women and a host of little children
who. upon bended knee and with
outstretched hands would invoke
Gods richest blessings upon their
deliverers from typhoid fever, Dip
iberia. hookworm disease. small