The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-07-03 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

VACCINATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DEWSBURY CHRONICLE.  21P,,—1 have asserted, in your colunans, that the lymph, so-called, used in vaccination is the offspring of disease, ancl consequently can only produce disease; the eaota varying according to tbevirns used and the constitution of thcpatient. That to insert disease Into a healthy child is unnatural, unscientisc and wicked. That thousands of infants ere diroctly killed by the operation, and , tens of thousands ruined for life; and these important points are cautiously an intentionally overlooked by "Observer," in his criteisms and consequently passed uncontradicted, There is a good reason for this; but as lam writing with a ssire to invoke public thought on this important question, it will more interest your readera- to know some of the evidences we anti-vaccinators have-, at command in support of ouch assertions.  Sir Wm. Johnson, physioian to William IV., said there wacemore quackery in the profession than out et it. Sir Astley. Cooper testifies that medical art is founded on conjecture and improved by murder. Dr. Plagge in his " Spumes of -Insanity," obaervea- that the caeee of increasing suicide and insanity ara not so much to, be searched for in social conditions, but in the terrible progress of the corruption of the-hurnan fluids. If prominent authors on insanity such as Kelp, Eleriburg, Erlenmeyer, Otto Berkian, tabulate Ti cases of insanity as a direct consequence 01 vaccinatioe ; why should we not have the right to assume that this operation is a prolific cause of the fearful increase of madness? Dr. Wilkinson says thoughtful dentists suggest eaccination as a probable cause of the early decay of the teeth on this age. Mr. Giraldes said that in the Children's 3espital in Paris phlegmonoue erysipelas was not rare after the most careful vaccination. Dr. Gregory, for fifty yeare director of the Small-pox Ileuse, in London, says "the idea of extinguishing small-pox by vaceination is as absurd as chimerical. lam driven to the conclusion, that the pox miasma grows with years in those who are vaccinated, while the opposite is the case with those not vaccinated." Dr. Gregory refused to have his, own children vaccinated. Dr. Eppo, twenty-Gee years director of the Jenner Institute, la ad vaccinated 120000 people, but finally declared that vaccine virus is neither antidote nor corrigent, nor does it neutralise the small-pox, but only paralyses the expansive power of a good constitution, so that the disease has to fall back ..v.ieo the mucuous membranes. Nobody has a right to transplant such a mischieveue poison into the life of a child. Dr. Clallins, twenty years vaccine physician in Edinhro' and Loudon, writes "af I had the desire to describe one third of the victims ruined by vaccination, the Yowl would stand still in your veins. I have not the leant confidenee in vaccination ; it nauseates me. for it oftee transfers. filthy and dangerous diseases :rem one to another, without offering any protection whatever." Dr. Stcwell, for nearly twenty-five years a vaccine physician, says "the nearly general declaration of my patients enables me to peeclaim that vaccination is not only an illusion, but a.curse for humanity. More than ridiculons. It is irrational to say, that any corrupt matter taken from boils and blisters of an organic creature could affect the human body otherwise than to injure it. I myself know the names of a hundred physicians who think like me." Dr. Copland says that vaccination favors the prevalence of several forms of scrofula. Depaul laid before the Academy of ?aria 450 authenticated cases where syphilis was transplanted by vaccination. Dr. Eazard exclaim. d "Adieu to vaccination ;. we will have no more of it. Syphilis has revealed the criminal," Dr. Farr saya "The deaths from syphilis have doubled in 14 years, and. this disease is the cause of many deaths registered under other forms. The great majority of the victims to tliis disease," he continues, "are infants." The following is the actual number of deaths from syphilis iu England : Average of 1838, 39 40 165 per annum. Before the enactment of any vaccination laws.  Average of 1858, 59 60 - 1054 per annum. After vaccination had been obligatory several years. Average of 1868, 69 70. 1866 per annum.  After vaccination had been obligatory 13 to 16. years. Dr. Douglas, ot Leeds, in a letter to the _Yorkshire feat of Saturday, June 26th last, writes in defence of vaccination, but his letter is really exposing the delusion and fraud practised upon the people. tie admits that the public vaccinator cannot ensure good lymph, and that cow lymph cannot be had, &C.; that disease- is spread by vaccination; that vaccination is not a preventative or protective agency, but an ameliorative and, like most of the champions for vaccination, assumes and presumes the rest. The Keighley statistics furnished by Dr. Mlles are unreliable and untrue. A full investigation has been made • the correct figures have been publicly given; yet the public press decline to publish any report contradicting doctors. And this is no assumption. The names of all who have suffered during the epidemic can be produeed with full particulars of their cases. The rest of "Observer's" figures leave your readers thoroughly ignorant of the number attacked in the various towns referred to by me, and how many so attacked were unvaccinated or vaccinated. The attempted contumely and pitiable sarcasm in "Observer's" letter, is unworthy my reply. I will contentent myself by asking him to carefully pursue Dr. Douglas's epistle, and note how this champion of "filth" deals with the question of disease alias pure lymph alias small cow pox. Time forbids more in this : in a future paper I will touch on the legal aspect of this question. The above authorities are quite sufficient to prove that medical men are medical are by no means unanimous upon this question, and the cooked hospital statlst,cs palmed upon the people, are a reproach upon the pro. fession. Yours, 80., WM.