The Washington herald., 1921-12-10
Quotes Authorities Against.
Vaccination.

To the Editor, Tie Washington Herald;
In recent years much discussion
has been centered on the advan-
tages and on the grave dangers or
vaccination.
Answering the question. who can
be considered an authority on this
subject" we may well quote the
Hon. Arnold Upton. who said. Il
would suggest that a real authority
is a man who has devoted years Of
his life to the study of the vaccina-
tion question. unbiased by pecun-
larry advantages or professional
sympathy"
Our characterization societies
have collected the names OF men
prominent in science. medicine and
literature, entirely opposed to vac
cinHtion. Among them we may
mention. DIR. J. J. q. Wilkinson.
once a -vaccinist who was urged
to investigate the whole subject
which with reluctance he did, and
stated: not denying other forms Of
social wickedness. l. now, after
careful study, regard vaccination as
one of the greatest and deepest of
all forms, abolishing the last hope
Of races. the new born soundness
of the human family"
DR.. Milton Ross "a scholarly stu
dent. physician and scientist. made
this startling declaration: Il should
be false to the best interests of hu-
manity did / not record my conriC-
tions. based on irrefutable facts that
vaccination is an unmiti gated curse,
and the most destructive medical
delusion which has ever afflicted
the human race.
Il know full we'll that the vaCci-
nator sows broadcast the seeds of
many filth diseases of the skin, the
blood. the hair and the eyes, which
are transmitted from generation to
generation, an ever abiding curse
to humanity.
In the interest of true science
and on behalf of tens of thousands
Of children, l ask you to give this
indictment fair and righteous
Judgment.
DIR. Adolph Vogt, professor of san.
itary statistics and hygiene in the
University of Berne giving testi-
mony before the British Royal Com
mission stated After collecting the
particulars of 100000 cases of small
pox. / am obliged to confess my
belief in vaccination is absolutely
destroyed"
DR.. Charles Creighton, a recog-
nized authority on epidemiology,
and a pronounced vaccinist, was
selected by the publishers of the
Encyclopedia Britannica to write an
article on vaccination.
To his own surprise and that of
oil; he column r.
ticle resulting from his original and
exhaustive investigation was packed
with irrefutable proofs Of the fall
lacy of vaccination.
Awakened by DIR. CreightOn's i'm
portant article. Professor Edgar NJ.
Crookshank, bateriologist of King's
College, made an independent study
of vaccination-the result was the
|. two ponderous volumes, The His
tory and Pathology of Vaccination
in which he denounces the practice
as being uncertain, unscientific and
dangerous.
Unfortunately Che says), a be-
lief in the efficacy of vaccination
has been SO enforced in the educa-
ton of the medical practitioner
that 1t is hardly probable that the
futility of it will be generally
acknowledged in our generation,
though nothing would rebound
more to the credit of the profession
and give evidence of the advance
made in pathology and sanitary
science"
No less valuable was the treatise
prepared by the eminent scientist
Prof. Alfred Russell Wallace, who,
after exhaustive study prepared an
essay on the subject for the ''pur-
pose of influencing parliament, and
securing the speedy abolition of the
unjust, cruel and pernicious laws"
The essay appeared as Chapter
XVIII of THE Wonderful Century
and since published separately
under the title, "Vaccination a De-
fusion: Its Enforcement a Crime"