The Washington herald., 1922-03-03
Replies to Medical Editor.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
The editor of Clinical Magazine is
wondering why so large a number
os people have lost confidence in
| the profession" More than likely
it Is because all the people can
not be fooled all the time.
Now that 4 Texas doctor has dis
covered a serum to Danish lying,
let US hope that 'the profession"
may Indulge in an orgy of Truth
serum upon themselves. which. II
| 1t meets expectations, will do much
more than any other injected dope
yet brought forth by the great
inventors of absurdities in medicine.
see that the District milk prob
lem Is up again. He fears lest tuber-
culosis be carried to consumers
through bad milk. The tuberculin
test is again mentioned. This is one
OF the many medical humbugs of our
day. which our health office is
strong for enforcing. DIR. Law and
DR.. Theobald Smith (the latter a
professor in Harvard Medical
SchooD says that tuberculin is a
dangerous poison. DR.. Law says that
1T tends to stir up the activity Of
existing tubercle. Upon a COW but
to give the tuberculin test IL she
were my own At Sedgley Farm at
Hinsdale. a COW was found dead in
her stall the morning after the first
test on that farm.
/ DR.. Tice. of the Chicago Milk Com
mission. says. I'VE find practically
every one of us will react to tuber-
culin. hut that doesn't mean that we
/ have tuberculosis that is active or
dangerous. The same thing holds
true in cattle
J Some time ago the legislature of
Illinois passed an act to prohibit the
establishing and enforcing Of the
tuberculin test in any city. town or
village within that State. The act
was signed by the governor So the
diseasing of healthy cattle by this
| medical graft was put an end to.
DIR. Kitsato, Of the Imperial Re-
search Bureau Of Tokyo, says that
the use of cows milk for infant
feeding is unknown in Japan, and
! that the native cattle do not suf-
| fer from tuberculosis. and yet in
testinal and meningeal tuberculo-
sis are as common as In the chief
cities of Europe.
From the Investigations made in
! New York City. and by Ungermann
in Germany. II would seem that
the chance of acquiring tuberculo-
/ sis, even from milk from infected
cows. is very slight.
The scare re-mongering doctors who
warn people against dangerous
milk" do not hesitate to infect
! children's blood with the morbid
, poison from the sores of diseased
| cattle. This is exactly where our
. tuberculosis. diphtheria. and. more
than likely. our cancer Is derived
| from.
DR.. J. v. Allen, of Philadelphia.
! says he never saw a fatal case of
| diphtheria in an unvaccinated child.
! Some years ago, DR.. Heiser, then
! in charge of the health department
of the Philippines, was Dragging
of how vaccination had conquered
smallpox in those islands. The
doctors blood poisoned the helpless
! inhabitants there to their pockets
and-hearts' content. Millions of
were performed. The loathsome
poison was manufactured on the
spot, and all compulsorily treated,
except many of the mohammedsEs,
who opposed IL on religious
| grounds. What was the natural
result of this criminal outrage
upon the people? The reaping from
! this disease sowing arrived during
1918 and 1918 when the greatest
smallpox epidemic in the history
of the islands occurred. with 1o7,-
9S1 cases and 5s.741 dead Of small
pox-from which they had been
protected" time and again.
The resisting Mohampedahs SUI