River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22

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White, in the scientific world, there
fore wrote to the American Medical
Association at Chicago, and found
that the gentleman has no standing
| in the scientific world. lie was grad
Eated from the New York Homeopa-
thic Medical College and Hospital
when he was az years old. He seems
to have been one of the proponents
OF Albert Bram's 'Spondylotherapy'
and of Fitzgerald's "Zonetherapy.
In May, 1915, White was arrested in
Chicago and fined 500 and costs for
practicing medicine without license.
During the influenza epidemic,
White took a flyer in nostrum exploit
tation, putting on the market "Valens
Essential Oil Tablets" which for
Gripping the Flu out of Influenza"
and were also said greatly to benefit
or cure incipient tuberculosis, hay
fever, asthma, etc. The letters "F.
S. &c., Lond." after DR.. Whites name
mean Fellow of the Incorporated
Society of Science, Letters and Arts
of London, Ltd" The Fellowship"
is held by not a few patent medi-
cine" exploiters in the United States
and costs one guinea! The attack on
vaccines, serums and other forms Of
serum therapy is made by the Amer
lean Medical Liberty League which
followed the dissolution of the Ma
tional League for Medical Freedom,
which in 1910 began an intensive
campaign against scientific medicine
in general and the Amer. Medical
Association in particular. This was
engineered and inspired by nostrum
exploiters and those opposed to pure
food laws, aided and abetted by the
followers of the various cults.
Every year during the session of
the Legislature, representatives of
these organizations appear and at,
tack most forms of regular medicine,
especially vaccination and other
forms of serum therapy and most of
them have been in conflict with the
various state officials from time to
time during their career.
In answering certain propositions
in the pamphlet referred to above, it
would be well to group them, and This
has been the procedure followed:
81. All vaccines and serums are so
unnatural that the system of any
normal animal will rebel against
them. Many will rebel with suck
vehemence that they become sick in
their endeavor to fight off the enemy.
"2. Just how any serum or vac
cine will react on any human or ami
NAL is always uncertain. 1t is
shock to the system at best, add the
shock will affect some more thar
others.
"19. An animal is not fsensitized
to the tubercle bacilli or any of its
products if it is tuberculous. / have
seen all these 'sensitizing systems
worked out, and they have all proved
failure. The biologic factor has al
ways to be taken into consideration.
What will work with one will not
necessarily work with another.
"29. The tuberculin test will not
help eradicate tuberculosis from cat
tie. The way to prevent any animal
from having tuberculosis, or any
disease, is to keep it in a healthy
condition, and not over feed it. Over
feeding in humans or animals makes
them susceptible to any disease"
There is nothing specific about the
statements contained in propositions
/ and 2, and without knowing just
what the author had in mind, it
would be difficult to be very specific
in answering them; however, the sys-
tenn does not rebel against vaccines
dIlu StIuIuS LIldL are administered
ministered. In many instances, it is
difficult to notice any change with
out the closest observation. Certain
serums and vaccines are given for
the purpose of conveying immunity
to the recipient rs to the reaction ex-
pccted, and, in fact, tells them prac-
tically how they will feel and can
tell accurately as to about the time
to expect the reaction.
This, no doubt, is what the author
means when he says that the System
will rebel against them," and in many
instances there are reactions that
cause the patient some discomfort,
but measured against the benefits
derived, the discomfort is insignifi-
cant; in fact, most of the vaccines
and serums that are administered
cause such slight reaction that the
recipient is not incapacitatcd from
carrying on his daily routine work.