POLIO VACCINATION

New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 5

POLIO VACCINATION

Sir-Dr. Turbott says, "As far as is known no doctor in New Zealand is opposed to the use of the Salk vaccine." Well, here’s one at least who is, fiercely and implacably, of knowlédge and understanding. If the appearances sometimes called polio were ‘"‘a disease," and if the primary cause were a virus or germ; and if the virus or germ attacked people from outside themselves, then attempts at immunisation by vaccination might be logical. But unfortunately for those most concerned, none of these is the case. "Polio" is merely one evidence and effect of a toxic-deficiency condition, due to vitamin and mineral deficiency and autointoxication. Trying to hide the evidence, without correcting the criminal or the crime, is what Dr. Turbott proposes to do. As Sir Robert McCarrison demonstrated some thirty years ago, dogs deprived of vitamin B always become paralysed. Young growing animals need more vitamin B than adults. Effects of vitamin deficiency are always aggravated when the rest of the diet is badly unbalanced. Animals, and human beings, living on diets deficient in vitamin B may exist for years just above the level

where paralysis occurs and be pushed below it by any accident, illness, or shock. And a virus is a degradation of protein, sometimes produced in the intestines of those living unhealthily, by the unhealthy condition. Most New Zealanders are struggling to live dangerously short of minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin B, their badly unbalanced diets made worse still by consumption of enormous quantities of refined starch and sugar in cakes, sweets, coloured drinks, and ice cream; not to mention shiploads of poisonous vaccines and drugs. Tens of thousands are living, precariously, just above the Jevel where paralysis occurs. (But it must not be supposed that the above is the only cause of polio; fear, poisoning by vaccines and drugs, and ergotised dairy products are others.) Meanwhile, the public is ceaselessly deluged, by Dr. Turbott and the Department of Health, with bug, drug, and disease propaganda, the effect of which is to keep the people sick, afraid, and running to medical men; while those who try to enlighten are banned from the press and the air. People, by wrong thinking and wrong feeding and habits, cause disease; disease, sometimes, gives.rise to disease germs; and though appearances can often be modified, the uncomfortable con-. sequences of unhealthy living cannot be prevented by artificial means. There is no need to try. Just refrain from causing unhealthy conditions. Abolish food refining; teach, enable, and encourage people to think and live healthily; and there will, almost immediately, be no more polio, diphtheria, or tuberculosis, and, very soon, hardly any disease at all; and certainly no more attempts at keeping God’s marvellous children well by poisoning their blood streams with dirt grown on the kidneys of dead

monkeys

ULRIC

WILLIAMS

(Wanganui).

("This correspondent is the exception," said Dr. Turbott when this letter was shown to him. "He apparently differs from the rest of his colleagues in New Zealand. There is no point in debating his very personal views. Let us wait and see what happens as regards tection against paralysis after polio va tion." -Ed. ) ~