The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-18
More Anti-Vaccine Broadsides
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

tice. and after reading numerous
articles in physical culture
monthly some time ago l believe
the evidence is all against vaccines.
1t is a fact that representation
physicians doctor their statistics by
counting all failures as mere in
stances of failure of the vaccine
to take" and 1 believe the same
is true even when it results in Il
casualty.
But even though uncertain
whether there may be reasons why
vaccination is beneficial, l am GER
tain that the reasons they give for
il are illogical. contrary to the
simplest rules OF reasoning and
that unless they can prove their
method does more good than harm
all laws requiring vaccination
should be repealed. They actually
put forward as axiom or first prin-
ciple OF nature that when a mild
form of a disease is communicated
to the human system the latter
builds upyantitoxin by which it be-
comes more fortified against that
disease In the future: or that by
combating the particular malady it
becomes more able to do so in the
future
This is another case of false
analogy" When one exercises his
muscles against resistance he in
creases their power for future pur-
poses because he forces the blood
and nerve force through certain
channels; and the energy flows
more easily through these in the
future, thereby building up the
muscle and adding to nerve force
at his command.
But when a poison attacks the
system there is no mind within US
which becomes aware Of its pres
enCe and directs the glands to do
double work. The action is en-
tirely chemical. According to
physiological Investigations a germ
attacks or is attacked by a white
corpuscle, the policeman Of the
blood. and both of them are neu-
tralized for future warfare. The
battles continue between germs
and defenders until one wins by
attrttiOn. If the germs are many
there is great probability that they
may lodge themselves in some
weak spot before being extermi-
mated; and when once they have
taken hold they can multiply in a
corpuscles of the blood-or to the
antitOXin, il one should choose to
use this appellation.
Now just see what the vacci ma
zionist vaguely imagines. or as
sumos to take place in the blood
IN the dark body where one part
cannot even be aware the other
part exists except BY the chemical
erect of one on the other. mil
lion germs suddenly enter the blood
and create condition OF high
fever CreaCtiOn to the "shot")
StraiShtway the antitoxin Cor
white COrpuscle) glands become
aware. after counting over with
their fingers and duly calling the
roll of the little policemen on each
beat, who faithfully returned home
each night after their duties o.
that number are missing, One
becomes alarmed and calls up gland
number two. ard finds to his hor-
ror that the same has happened
here. He calls a council of war
~ the entire body and exercising
"A foresight superior to many or
canisms which have brains to
think with. and being burdened
with due sulicitudc for the body.
ana hHON INK tue experience 81
that such germs will certainly de-
~troy it. he proposes that in the
future they manufacture more de-
lenders to handle that particular
disease than they ever did before.
SO each gland hunts up the for
Inula for this particular antitoxin.
repairs into its chemical labora-
tory, and with exactly the same
amount Of nourishment furnished
u. proceeds to turn out two and
three germ killers of this particu-
lar brand where it made but one
before. o Nature, how marvellous
are thy works,
of course the vaccinationist has
never made such an absurd ex-
0lanation as that. But he has
made the vague analogy, and
trusted to hazy thinking to do the
rest: or, firmly believed himself
that some mysterious force directs
the chemical substances to work
rs though it or they possessed an
intellect. and thought they were
permanently strengthened by the
exercise so that they could better
attack the same kind Of germ.
Please let the vaccinationist ex-
plain why Japan, scrupulously
lean, is continually harassed by
the very diseases against which she
: using the most vaccine. Why
civilian groups can cOngregate as
they please in Clearly fashion with
out spreading disease. but that
Wholesale vaccination (three to five
shOts) at army camps is followed
by nearly every kind of epidemic
known to the AnGlO-SaXon race.
rcpresenting all the germs con-
tanned in the vaccine. And why
men who possessed strong vitality
before being made a sewer for
germs. have suddenly lost it-and
never regained it. And also if the
rredit for removing smallpox from
the old army shouldn't have really
been given to increased cleanliness
instead of to vaccine?
7 believe the euphemistic name
vaccination" ought to be changed
to characterization" so that the
public may know what it means. III
then an officer came to force into
their healthy veins a million germs
fro a putrid calf scream injec-
tion which he knows by experience
will stop his heart from beating If
repeated on the same day-they
will be tempted to put into prac-
tice John Stuart Mills advice on
that subject-to resist the law: or
rather, to insist on its being re-
pealed.
PAUL MORRIS.
Regulate Coughing Public.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
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