VACCINATION PROVED WORSE THAN USELESS.
(To the Editor of the Eveuing Star.)
Sia, —" A.P. " has proved the above beyond a doubt, notwithstanding Dr Buchanan's statistics, "The other side of the question," which appeared in the Advertiser lately. " Hygician's " exceU tent letter in that journal,, and Wm. Hume-Ebthery's telling catechism stand uncontradicted. Why P Simply because the conclusions these gentlemen arrive at are founded on facts which every medico may know, and which the majority of them do know, from reading the various medical works and periodical serials of the day as well as from their own experience. Statistics are often deceiving, figures are often a delusion and a snare, especially when put together by interested people, such as would perpetuate a monstrous evil for the sake of the gold and silver it brings to their purser. This is the secret of the perpetuation of vaccination. Was it not for the filthy lucre—and filthy indeed it is in this case—which the practice of this foul thing brings to the coffers of the lower class of medicos, hardly one amongst thdm would be found to defend
the abomination for a moment; it would be denouncou by them as an absurdity, and worse than useless iv the lace of the voluminous evidence now before the world, and would not be tolerated for a day in this age of intelligence. Indeed it is time that a determined movement was made by the people to get rid of the nasty thing. A few months ago the writer cut from a leading ChicagoU.S., journal, more than a column of closely printed matter, which guvo a list of some of the. most horrible cases of disease which had been imported iuto the blood by the arm to arm vaccination, all well authenticated. The article also contained a long list of the most eminent physicians, both of Europe and America, who had denounced vaccination as an intolerable evil to be at onceabandoned, because it was no preventativ.e to smallpox whatever, aud worse,'for jt 4 was likely to undermine the general health of every people which submitted to it. There was something substantial in that article, a collection of undisputab'le facts, not a statistical theory of mere 'figures from interested sources. For the sake of suffering humanity, I am glad to sec that '■ the journals of Thames are bold enough to allow this matter to be ventilated, and especially when we have already,iu,our midst one if not more very bad cases. As for myself, for over 40 yearn, I. have been satisfied that vaccination is calculated to spread the majority, of diseases that human kind is heir.to; therefore I have ever been a bitter opponent of the monstrous abomination. My father was of the same mind as - myself, and used to remark thus to' me : " Boy,, you will see byand-bye what a ruction there will be when the evils of vsccinatiou begin to show themselves' among the people;" The old ma'u wasprophetical: the evils are now showing, l themselves wholesale, hence the controversy which is raging pretty, hot in several- , parts of the world, and will rage until the .'• filthy thiug is done away with, iv spite of covetous medicos, who would perpetuate ' the monstrosity. What care they for the health of the people ? The less health the more gold and silver; that is their * motto, which is well known. But is it" ' not simply tyranny with sach terrible facts before them that governments should insist upon vaccinating' poor helpless infants, whether the parents approve or not? It is out of the province of the';, *' State to interfere in any suchmaniier with ' families, and should be resisted to the utmost by every well informed and in..". 1 tellijtent parent, from principle . alone, barring other considerations. .States are now intering iv many matters which do not concern them. The thin end- of the , wedge is in, and it is being .gradually driven home. I know what that home is, - but I abstain from now declaring what a pitch of slavery and serfdom a little time will reveal to astonished tribes and peoples when the wedge has reached its gaol. If the sacred rights of families areinterfered ' with, resist they must, and will.—l am, &c;, Pko Bono Pcblico.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3996, 19 October 1881, Page 2
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707VACCINATION PROVED WORSE THAN USELESS. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3996, 19 October 1881, Page 2
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