Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-01
OPINIONS OF OTHERS
ROCKING CHAIR ADMIRAL
STRONG FOR CALF PUS

Mrs. A. M. Dougan of Bruno,
writes that she does not agree
with the points contained in the
article on smallpox vaccination
in the American of Feb. 23 and
has sent in an article under the
above caption which was written
by J. A. Sproule and published in
1.-THE Truth Teller" of Battle
Greek, Mich, with the request
that it be published in the Amer
lean.
The Ladies' Home Journal, better
known in some sections of the coun-
try by the name bestowed upon it by
the late editor Brann of the IrOnOclast
the 'Slop Bucket" had a long article
in its July number on the Health of
the Presidents, by one Rear Admiral
Cary T. Grayson, who was the White
House physician during both Wilson
terms.
The whole thing consists largely OF
the stuff served in certain journals
boosting vaccines and serums of all
kinds.
People in general do not look with
particular favor on presidents physi-
clans. Millions of people believe that
if Garfield had been let more alone
and had fewer electrical devices
brought into requisition, that great
man would have had fighting chance
for his life.
Myriads of men have been shot in
the same way as Mckinley, and sur
vived. Harding only needed fast
and the care that any drugless healer
could have given to have pulled
through. But the public were RECALLED
day by day with piffle about the pres
ident being given eggs beaten in milk
ito keep his strength up No worse
fodder could have been given to a
poor body which needed time to throw
the poisons off.
The people also remember that
during Wilson's second term millions
of our young men were taken from
their homes and vocations to serve in
the army. These young men, the
pick of the nation, were pumped sc
full of vaccines and serums that q
large part of them returned after
their short stay in the army wrecked
in body and mind. "Shell-shocked'
veterans they are often termed al.
though large number never crossed
the ocean nor heard the whistle of q
hostile bullet.
When the flu broke out the mortal
ity among the boys in the army was
almost five times that of civil life
The latter included of course the
young, very old and those unfit physi.
cally for the selective draft.
Grayson informs us that George
Washington was an ardent advocate
of incubation. incubation was the
fetish or fad of 18th century med
icos, as the still more brutal. and
unscientific vaccination rite was OF
the 10Th century,"
Washington must have been a glut-
ton for punishment. He had the
smallpox when young, yet wanted all
his men to be inoculated. No wonder
he complained in his letter about be-
ing unable to raise larger army.
Benjamin Franklin is also quoted
as another apostle of incubation.
The Admiral-physician does not
mention the fact that incubation was
made felony by the British govern
ment just as vaccination will be be-
fore many years. But he does say,
incubation produced smallpox
which as a rule was mild in character,
sometimes severe, and occasionally
caused death: Vaccination produces
cowpox which practically never re-
suits. in DEATH" The cheeky pal
averer!
DR.. Creighton, one of the most noted