The Washington herald., 1922-04-22
Vaccination Once More.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
certainly thank The Herald for
publishing the letter by Jessie c.
Jenkins on the vaccination subject
Hundreds Of doctors will support her
statements. The following is one
have by DR.. Charles +. Page OF
Boston, to a Boston editor: lease
permit me to suggest IN the h'oe'
delicate manner possible that ior
paper to print in so-calleo heal
department one line faVorlng Nacc
nation-the injection OF virus '"to
the blood of innocent Children-ls
an Internal swindle on the puo.'o
Every scientific statisticlan In 'n,s
country and Europe, and every "ei-
informed individual in or out OF Ihe
medical profession, regard NacClha
tion Just as l do. as the most aosuru
and harmful of the many bIuhoer
of the medical profession. Ihere 10
not a scrap OF evidence OF It's
fuIness. while the evidence OF i's
hideous harmfulness is oyer~n,Ti
ing. The most vaccinated naIons
have the most frequent and worst
onidemIcs of smallpox. Right mere
in Boston and throughout the state
there are bankers. brokers. lawyers
nreachers and editors who VIII no'
submit their children to the ue
hauch: they will either educate then
children in private schools or pay
any fee for exemption certlnca'eS'
and gratefully II is criminal ishor
ance when a doctor beheves !"
cin.tion. IL he knows better ana
still vaccinates he Is a N'eiou'
CRATER" -,,os so
lang as this lucrative and diS-
astrous practice is entrenched pe
hind vested interests and ootstereu
nm bv coercive legislative enact
ments the public need not expect
to know the truth about it-Ihe
Medical Advance. February l'uS'
Dr. Hodge learned. like many o'n-
.rs in medical school, that Nacct-
nation was a certain protection
AGAINST smallpox. He became
health officer of Lockport, n. Y"
and yaccinated 5000 victims. AFTER
seeing many of those successfully
vaccinated' victims die on from
smallpox he began to doupl '"e
tradition Of the dairymaids anu
made an Independent study oil inc
whole subject He now calls vac
cination "the supreme folly OF 'he
medical profession.
Or Crookshank writes: Though
in this country (England) vaccine
lymph is generally taken to mean
virus of cOw-poX. yet the pa
thology of this disease. and its ma
ture and affinlties, have not oeeh
made the subject of practical stuo!
for nearly half century we
have submitted instead to purely
theoretical teaching and have been
led to regard vaccination as inocu-
lation of the human subject win
the virus of a benign disease OF
COW, whereas the viruses in use
have been derived from several
distinct and severe diseases in Diff
ferent animals" - History and
pathology of Vaccination, vol. l, p.
463D
The doctors took up Jenner's
hlthv nostrum because their Grim
inal practice of injecting people 5
blood with smallpox pus had given
them such a bad reputation. They
were anxious to make a change
off to anything. Jenner's horse
grease-cow-pox" made such foul
ulcers" that they soon had to give
that scheme up; then it was cattle
syphilis, then cattle plague. foot
and mouth disease and a dozen or
more poxes they tried out" or
their ignorant victims. If they ha|
had intellect enough to suggest
that personal hygiene and sanitary
environment. with noncrowding
living conditions would prevent
smallpox, as well as all other filth
diseases, medicine would have had
one less black stain to carry dowr
: in history and many would hav
more respect for it today.
The late Senator Gallinger.
D., told me he didn't believe in va
cination and didn't think much of
antitoxin, either. and he had prac-
ticed medicine for thirty years.
We will never reap results from
Sanitary" living until we sidestep
having the concentrated essence of
foul cattle disease inoculated into
our life blood. An Australian
! bushman ought to know better
than to put pus from a sore into
his blood.
H. BoNNELL-