Chapter I: Part 1

HORRORS OF VACCINATION
EXPOSED AND
ILLUSTRATED

PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO
ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION
IN ARMY AND NAVY

BY
CHAS. M. HIGGINS

PUBLISHED BY
CHAS. M. HIGGINS
BROOKLYN, N.Y.
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
CHAS. M. HIGGINS

_Published April, 1920_

THE DE VINNE PRESS
NEW YORK

DEDICATION

THIS EARNEST EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF OUR BASIC AMERICAN PRINCIPLE OF “UNALIENABLE” PERSONAL RIGHTS, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL FREEDOM AND THE ABOLISHMENT OF ALL MEDICAL COMPULSION, IS DEDICATED TO OUR UNPRECEDENTED PRESIDENT, WOODROW WILSON, WHOSE NAME WILL SURELY BE PLACED IN THE HIGHEST NICHES OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AS ONE OF OUR GREATEST EXPONENTS OF IDEAL AND PRACTICAL AMERICANISM, FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY AND THE WORLD.

WISDOM AND LAW

“EVERY LAW NOT BASED ON WISDOM IS A MENACE TO THE STATE”]

WISDOM AND LAW

“EVERY LAW NOT BASED ON WISDOM IS A MENACE TO THE STATE”

From the Statue of Wisdom and Law, at entrance to Appellate
Court, Twenty-fifth Street and Madison Avenue, New York
City. Statue and motto by F. W. Ruckstull, Sculptor. See
Frontispiece, Plate 1

A SCULPTURED REBUKE TO COMPULSORY VACCINATION

Compulsory Vaccination is an instance of a law which inflicts
actual disease and possible death on the human body and
propagates and disseminates deadly infections widely upon
animals and mankind. This is surely a glaring instance of a law
which is not based on Wisdom or Sanity and is a Menace to the
Health and Security of Humanity and the State.

“This amazing act is the homicidal insanity of a whole
profession. This is blood assassination.”

Dr. James J. Garth Wilkinson, 1876.

“It is unwise for the physician to force the operation upon
those who are unwilling, or to give assurances of absolute
harmlessness.”

Dr. Osler’s “Modern Medicine,” 1913, Vol. I, page 848.

“Vaccination is not always a harmless procedure; it must be
looked upon as the production of an acute infectious disease.”

Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, 1914.

“Against the body of a healthy man Parliament has no right of
assault whatever, under pretence of the public health.”

Professor F. W. Newman, of Oxford.

“Vaccination is a delusion, its penal enforcement a crime.”

Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, in “The Wonderful Century,” 1899.

PUBLIC CHALLENGE TO HEALTH DEPARTMENTS

DEATHS FROM VACCINATION DENIED AND CONCEALED

MORE DEATHS FROM VACCINATION THAN FROM SMALLPOX

IN order that there shall be no misunderstanding about the serious charge which I bring against vaccination, as being now actually more dangerous to public health and human life than natural smallpox, and the equally serious charge which I make against vaccinating doctors--who now control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics--of denying and concealing these facts from the people, I now issue this special challenge to the Departments of Health of the City and State of New York, which cover a population of eleven millions, and with whose records I am more familiar, that I will undertake to prove from their death certificates and vital records, now concealed and withheld from the public, that there have been more deaths from vaccination than from smallpox _in every year_ for the past fifteen years in the City and State of New York. If they deny the truth of these charges I further solemnly challenge them to open their now concealed records to public examination and I will prove the truth of my charges from these records. Will they now dare to deny these charges or will they dare to refuse to open their heretofore hermetically concealed records to give the full medical and statistical truth to the people on these most important points?

CHAS. M. HIGGINS.

Brooklyn, New York,
September 17, 1919.

FOREWORDS FOR MEDICAL FREEDOM

AND

KEYNOTES OF AMERICAN RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES IN MEDICAL MATTERS

KEYNOTE NO. 1: INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.

All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, among which are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. _Declaration of Independence, 1776, more properly
called Declaration of Rights._

KEYNOTE NO. 2: RESERVED RIGHTS AND POWERS RETAINED AND POSSESSED BY THE PEOPLE.

“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall
not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by
the people.” “The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively or to the people.” _U. S.
Constitution, Articles IX and X, 1789._

KEYNOTE NO. 3: SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.

Under our Basic Charters, just quoted, the sovereign right and
power rests in the People, and the Government has no rights or
powers, whatever, except as conferred by the People. QUESTION:
Where have our State or National Governments obtained the
right to force any medical remedy or operation upon citizens
against their will and consent? Where have these governments
obtained the right or power to force an infectious and deadly
disease upon the human body in defiance of the will and the
right of the citizen? Have the people ever given up their
most sacred essential and unalienable right to the sanctity
and security of their own bodies and to their free choice and
right of selection in the medical treatment of their bodies?
This is surely one of the great “unalienable,” “reserved” and
“retained” rights which the people have never given up to any
government, and which the Legislature or police power has no
right to invade. _C. M. H._

KEYNOTE NO. 4: PREËMINENT RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL DECLARED BY U. S. SUPREME COURT.

“There is, of course, a sphere within which the individual may
assert the supremacy of his own will, and rightfully dispute
the authority of any human government, especially of any free
government existing under a written constitution, to interfere
with the exercise of that will.” _U. S. Supreme Court in
Vaccination case of Jacobson, 1904._ Note: This decision also
held that vaccination could not be legally forced upon any
persons who could show that it was dangerous to their health or
life.

KEYNOTE NO. 5: COMPULSORY VACCINATION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

“It may be conceded that the Legislature has no constitutional
right to compel any person to submit to vaccination.” _Judge
Woodward, of New York Appellate Court, in Viemeister case in
1903._

“If the Commissioner of Health had the power to imprison an
individual for refusing to submit to vaccination, I see no
reason why he should not also imprison one for refusing to
swallow a dose. But the Legislature has conferred no such power
upon him, if, indeed, it has the power to do the like.” _Judge
Gaynor in Supreme Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1894, case of Smith
vs. Emery._ This decision was fully sustained by the Court of
Appeals.

KEYNOTE NO. 6: MEDICAL COMPULSION AND DOMINATION JUDICIALLY REBUKED AND MEDICAL FREEDOM ASSERTED BY NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS.

“I concur in Judge Chase’s construction of the statute. But I
would go farther. I deny the power of the Legislature to make
it a crime to treat disease by prayer.” _Decision of Chief
Justice Willard Bartlett, of New York Court of Appeals, in
“Christian Science” case of Willis Vernon Cole, 1917._

KEYNOTE NO. 7: GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO FORCE A MEDICAL DISEASE OR OPERATION UPON THE PEOPLE.

From these decisions it would seem to be obvious that it cannot
be made a crime to refuse a medical operation to which the
patient does not consent or approve, and which is dangerous
to health or life, and that this is the “sphere,” as stated
by the U. S. Supreme Court, “within which the individual may
assert the supremacy of his own will and rightfully dispute
the authority of any human government ... to interfere with
the exercise of that will.” And, furthermore, this “sphere,”
surely means the “Unalienable rights” of the people asserted
in the Declaration and the “reserved” rights and powers
retained by the people as expressed in Articles IX and X of the
Constitution. _C. M. H._

KEYNOTE NO. 8: THE JEFFERSONIAN OATH OF RATIONAL AMERICAN LIBERTY.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” _Thomas Jefferson,
Author of Declaration of Independence, to Benjamin Rush, Signer
of the Declaration._

KEYNOTE NO. 9: MEDICAL FREEDOM IS AN INALIENABLE AMERICAN RIGHT.

The right of the individual to select any preferred system
of medical treatment, whether with or without prayer and
faith, with or without drugs and medicines, or with or without
vaccines or serums, and the right to accept or refuse any
medical remedy or operation, is surely a clear inherent and
reserved right, under our basic American Charters of Rights
and Liberties, and cannot be legally or morally denied, but
must be respected, defended and enforced by all Governments.
Indeed, our first and Basic Charter--The Declaration of
Rights--clearly and emphatically asserts that the essential
purpose of Government is to secure these inalienable rights
of the individual. Jefferson taught that Liberty, in all
essential needs, is not a “privilege” granted by Government,
but an inherent right possessed by all men, and naturally or
divinely conferred upon them; hence the chief function of all
Governments is to secure and enforce these human rights, not
to invade or violate them to satisfy medical dogmas or other
oppressive, dangerous, and illegal theories. _C. M. H._

KEYNOTE NO. 10: CONCLUSION: ABOLISH FORCED VACCINATION.

All Compulsory Vaccination should be abolished as being illegal
and unconstitutional and more dangerous to public health and
human life than natural disease, and therefore a medical
outrage and crime upon the people.

The Declaration of Rights distinctly asserts that: “Whenever
any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.”

The “ends” here referred to are the natural “unalienable” and
“reserved” rights of the people, which are grossly violated
by Compulsory Vaccination, and it is therefore the moral,
legal and constitutional right of the people to demand the
abolishment of this medical evil of compulsory disease which
obviously violates their most sacred and essential personal
rights, viz.: Sanctity of Body, Medical Liberty and Choice,
Health and Life.

TEXT OF PROPOSED LAW TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION.

“No form of vaccination or inoculation shall be compulsory on any person or be made a condition for the exercise of any right, privilege, or duty, of any person.”

CONTENTS

PAGE
Statue and Motto of Wisdom and Law. A sculptured rebuke to
Compulsory Vaccination _Frontispiece_

Dedication to President Wilson iii

Public Challenge to Health Departments. Deaths from Vaccination
greater than deaths from Smallpox. Now denied and
concealed by Doctors and Health Officers vi

Prelude:--Forewords for Medical Freedom and Keynotes of
American Rights and Liberties in Medical Matters vii

Introduction xxiii

Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated 1

Petition to the President, Commander-in-chief of Army and
Navy, to abolish Compulsory Vaccination and pardon all men
condemned by court-martial for refusing vaccination 3

Death of George Washington from Medical Malpractice in 1799
a warning against Modern Malpractice 5

Compulsory Vaccination greatest malpractice of to-day, kills
many persons 6

Vaccination most dangerous and repulsive remedy ever devised,
is a form of blood poisoning with an inflicted disease and is
often more deadly than natural disease 7

Compulsory vaccination as a condition for Public Schooling, or
admission to Army and Navy, medically and legally wrong
and should be abolished 11

Doctors of Various Schools of Medicine should be represented
on all medical and health boards 11

Imprisonment for refusing vaccination in Army and Navy condemned
as “cruel and unusual punishment” forbidden by
Constitution 12

Military obedience to bad law commended. The great example
of Socrates cited 15

The President quoted in asserting the rights and dignities of soldiers
and condemning military despotism and “Medical Hoggery” 17

Compulsory vaccination not necessary and not effective for
health of armies or populations. Examples cited. Failure of
vaccination in U. S. Army 18

Vaccination not compulsory in English Army 19

Medical authorities admit dangers of vaccination and condemn
compulsion. Sanitation superior to vaccination. The sanitary
unvaccinated City of Leicester, England, cited 20-22

Deaths from vaccination greater than deaths from smallpox.
Statistics given 23

Great epidemics of deadly disease in animals and man caused by
vaccination 25

Grave nature of recent epidemic of Influenza and Pneumonia and
possible relation of vaccination thereto 26

Vaccine factories a possible and proved source of epidemics and
should be investigated by Congress and the Government 30

Epidemics and high death-rates in the Army probably caused
by wholesale and repeated vaccinations. Death-rate of Army
from disease much greater than that of civil population 31

Wonderful work of the Army and Navy Departments in the late
war gratefully acknowledged and commended 34

Compulsory vaccination condemned as un-American and a violation
of our great American Charters of Rights and Liberties,
the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution 35

The Declaration and Constitution carefully analyzed as to the
unalienable American right of Medical Freedom 35

The Declaration further analyzed and commended as a complete
creed of essential Americanism in one paragraph and a brief
code of Basic Ethics, Civic Religion and Democratic Government,
which should be emblazoned on all public places and
buildings as the basis of Americanism 37

Plato’s Golden Rule and the Declaration of Rights compared 41

Unalienable Rights Analyzed and Defined. Medical Freedom
an unalienable American Right 42-45

Compulsory vaccination condemned by our Courts as unconstitutional.
Decisions cited 45

The Supreme Court of the U. S. on the preëminent rights of the
individual 47

Unalienable rights of the individual _versus_ rights of majorities.
False idea of the supremacy of majorities scored 50

Medical Freedom and Alimentary Freedom equally unalienable
rights of the People and necessary for Life, Liberty and Happiness 51

Medical Freedom equally necessary as Religious Freedom 52

Medical Despotism of to-day worse than the old religious despotism
of the past. The medical fanaticism of to-day, “Let us
spread disease so that health may abound,” scored and compared
to the old religious heresy, “Let us sin so that grace may
abound” 52

Awful record of Japan in vaccination and smallpox and in
epidemic disease spread by vaccination. Japanese virus causes
epidemics of Cattle Plague in the United States in man and
animals 53-55

Medical Freedom necessary for Medical Progress, Medical Truth
and Human Safety 56

Medical Domination and Compulsion most dangerous power in
body politic and must be suppressed 60

The gigantic medical and vaccine interests supporting compulsory
vaccination a menace to public right and safety and
should be curbed 61

Deaths and disasters from vaccination are frequently denied and
concealed by vaccinating doctors now controlling our Departments
of Health and Vital Statistics 63

Able laymen, or sanitary engineers, and life insurance statisticians,
having no interest or bias to conceal medical mistakes or
disasters, should be placed at the head of all our Departments
of Health and Vital Statistics with great advantage to public
right and medical truth 63-64

Proposed National Board of Health controlled by doctors of one
dominant school of medicine condemned 64

Medical Ethics of different schools compared and criticized. The
“beam” _versus_ the “mote.” The Medical Pharisee exposed
and condemned 65

Propagation and infliction of disease a medical crime 68

Removal of the great ethical disgrace of the medical
profession--compulsory medicine and inflicted disease 68

Recapitulation. Reforms suggested 69

Conclusion. The President’s words condemning unjust, arbitrary
and coercive forces in the body politic 70

In Memoriam. Life sketch of John Pitcairn, late President of
the Anti-Vaccination League of America 73

Pictorial Supplement Exposing and Illustrating Horrors of
Vaccination 77

How vaccine virus is made and how cattle and mankind are diseased
and killed by it 79

What vaccination truly is and how pus infection, lockjaw and
other diseases work together in vaccination with fatal effect 82

The typical normal vaccination sore or pustule, a form of blood
poisoning or septicemic infection, pure and simple 83

Abnormal and dangerous forms of vaccination illustrated 84-85

Fatal form of “Generalized Vaccination” in a baby girl where
the eruption spreads all over the body, like confluent smallpox,
and quickly kills 87

Severe type of vaccination in a little child where the inflammation
and eruption extend from the sore over part of the body
and endanger life by general infection 88

How vaccinating doctors deny and conceal, and falsely excuse,
frequent deaths from vaccination 89

Dangerous nature of Vaccine Virus. Various diseases found in
or caused by it 90

Epidemic cattle plagues, known as “Foot and Mouth Disease,”
caused by vaccination in animals and mankind in 1902 and
1908, with great destruction of cattle and injury to mankind 92-101

Photographs of cattle suffering from Foot and Mouth Disease,
caused by vaccination in epidemic of 1902 93-95

The shocking “Vaccine Holocaust”! A funeral pile of hundreds
of cattle burned to destroy infection caused by vaccine
virus in epidemic of 1902 97

Map of the second epidemic of this disease in 1908, caused by
manufacture of vaccine virus in the U. S. from “seed virus”
derived from Japan 98

Great loss and damage caused by these vaccine epidemics to the
government and people of the U. S. A big price to pay for
vaccination 102

Epidemics of smallpox probably caused by vaccination and Foot
and Mouth Disease. Foot and Mouth Disease probably a
form of Variola or Mongrel Smallpox 102

Cattle plagues of Foot and Mouth Disease very common in much
vaccinated countries like Germany and Japan and probably
caused by vaccine infection same as in the U. S. 103

How lockjaw is caused by vaccination and how this truth is
denied and concealed by vaccinators 104

Lockjaw may be caused by vaccination whether germs are in
the virus or not. False arguments in defense of vaccination
exposed and shattered 105

“Assassination of the Blood” by forced vaccination must be
stopped 106

Positive proof that vaccination and lockjaw are more “risky” and
deadly than natural smallpox. Convincing statistical figures
given 107

Horror of horrors! Proof that cattle plague, or Foot and Mouth
Disease, in horrible form is caused in mankind by vaccination.
Medical ignorance on this point rebuked 108

Horrible case of a woman killed by Foot and Mouth Disease, or
Virulent Cowpox, caused by vaccination. Photograph taken
before death shows awful vaccinal eruptions 110

Bad case of the same disease in a vaccinated man. Photograph
of eruption at its height proves positive relation to vaccination 112

Proof that “Foot and Mouth Disease,” Virulent Cowpox, “Pemphigus,”
and “Generalized Vaccination” are identical and are
different names for, and forms of, the same typical disease 111-116

Case of same typical disease in a vaccinated school boy, being
one of several of similar kind caused by vaccination 117

Another case of same typical disease caused by vaccination, reported
in U. S. Naval records 122

An English case of the same typical disease in a vaccinated baby,
giving cumulative proof of the responsibility of vaccination for
this fearful and fatal disease 123

Most important medical fact now exposed here. Identity of
Virulent Vaccination with “Foot and Mouth Disease”! Called
also “Pemphigus,” “Generalized Vaccination,” or “Virulent
Cowpox,” but all common forms and variations of the same
typical vaccinal disease or Mongrel Smallpox 125

Vaccination is “doctored” smallpox, assumes many forms and is
often worse than natural smallpox 127

Proof that vaccination causes Mongrel Smallpox and Foot and
Mouth disease and that the nature of the vaccinal eruptions
demonstrates this relation and causation 129

An Indictment against Bovine Vaccination 130

How one strain of Vaccine Virus originated from a Smallpox
Tramp and an infected cow! Shocking letter from a Manufacturer
of Virus to a Doctor 131

The disputed or unknown origin and nature of modern Vaccine
Virus emphasized. Letter from Parke, Davis & Co., one of
the largest makers of Virus in the U. S. 133

How an English sailor lost his arm from vaccination 133

Case of an English soldier killed by typhoid vaccination 134

Sickness and death from vaccination in the U. S. Army 136

Important medical fact proved. Relation of vaccination to the
two chief causes of death in the U. S. Army, Pneumonia and
Meningitis 139

Dr. Osler’s latest medical work quoted, showing that vaccination
is an exciting cause of other diseases, especially tuberculosis
and syphilis 141

The slaughter of the innocents illustrated. Cartoon from _Harper’s
Weekly_ showing the “savage rite” of vaccination in
action. “The medicine man performs his savage rites” on
little children 143

Some leaves from Mr. Loyster’s Memorial Pamphlet entitled
“Vaccination Results in New York State in 1914,” showing
the death of his own son and about thirty other children from
vaccination in 1914, while only three deaths from smallpox
occurred in the whole State for the same year 145

Portraits of eleven school children killed by vaccination in New
York State in 1914 149-159

Vaccination as the exciting cause of death from lockjaw, septicemia,
meningitis, and infantile paralysis, shown in several
cases in Mr. Loyster’s pamphlet 149-160

A cry for help! Harrowing personal letters from victims of vaccination
and from parents of outraged school children. Mutilation
and death, caused by compulsory vaccination, denounced
and reform demanded. Many fatal cases cited 163

Proposed law to compensate parents for children deformed, disabled
or killed by compulsory vaccination forced on them by
an unwise and evil law 169

Shocking and common medical mendacity on the alleged harmlessness
of vaccination 169

The “Philippine Falsehood” scored. Alleged “millions” vaccinated
without any injury or death shown to be false and
absurd 170

Shocking falsehoods from our health departments as to the
necessity, efficacy and harmlessness of vaccination. Flagrant
example from the New York State Department of Health
exposed 173

Some absurd falsehoods exposed from an American Encyclopædia 175

Some serious errors and bias exposed in the last edition of the
_Britannica_ as to the alleged harmlessness of vaccination 177

The errors of Dr. M. J. Rosenau, a high medical authority, on
the relative harmlessness of vaccination 180

Vaccination proved to be highly dangerous and frequently deadly
and often causes more annual deaths than smallpox 178-183

Dr. Jenner’s great basic falsehoods. The original mendacities of
vaccination exposed 184

Original claim of life protection from one vaccination long abandoned
for very short periods of protection and frequent re-vaccination 187

Dr. Olesen’s rule of limited protection of six months to a year
and necessity of yearly re-vaccination 188

Multiple or repeated re-vaccinations are more dangerous as a
cumulative blood infection than the risk from natural
smallpox 190-191

The Chicago “Vaccination Creed” of repeated and multiple vaccinations
explained and condemned as more dangerous than
natural smallpox 189

The false glory of Jenner and the disgrace of the medical profession
in the shamefully false claims on which vaccination has
been forced upon the people since its origin 191

What protects us from smallpox in modern times? Is it vaccination
or something else? A false claim exploded. Superior
power of sanitation, isolation and hygiene in preventing
smallpox and other diseases demonstrated 192

The unsanitary conditions of Jenner’s day exposed. Power of
sanitation to extinguish smallpox admitted by Jenner’s chief
assistant in 1815 195

Further proof from the English Minister of Health that sanitation
prevents smallpox more than vaccination. Poorly
vaccinated London more healthy than much-vaccinated
Berlin 198

Limited and voluntary vaccination only, suggested and approved.
Forced vaccination of school children condemned
and its absurdity and needlessness proved 200

Absurdity of compulsory vaccination of children of school age,
who have the highest natural immunity and vitality, and
lowest death-rate of any part of the population, and have least
need of vaccination 201

Proof that vaccination is a poor protection from disease.
Flagrant and frequent failure to protect from smallpox or
typhoid fever. Many typical instances of these failures, at
home and abroad, shown 202

Failure of vaccination in the last greatest epidemic in England
and New York City in 1902 204-205

Failure of vaccination in Germany in 1908, 1909 and 1910 205

The well vaccinated battle-ship _Ohio_ and the unvaccinated City
of Niagara Falls, N. Y., compared as a test for the merits of
vaccination in the epidemic of 1913 and 1914 206

The flagrant failure of typhoid vaccination in the U. S. Army in
France and in home camps officially admitted 207-211

Summing up. The case proved in seven cardinal points 211

Conclusion. Great danger of vaccination to health and life
proved, which fact, when it once enters the public conscience,
will soon result in the abolition of all compulsory vaccination
as being an infliction of deadly disease and a gross violation
of the most sacred rights of the people to Medical Freedom,
Health and Life 212

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURE PAGE

1. The vaccinated calf, showing how vaccine virus is made
and how cattle and mankind are diseased by it 79

2. A vaccinated arm showing the ripe, normal vaccination
sore or pustule as a distinct form of “Purulent Infection” 83

3. A bad case of vaccination showing an ulcerating sore 84

4. Multiple vaccinations spread from the arm to the face by
scratching with the fingers, showing highly infectious
nature of vaccination 85

5. Photograph of a little child killed by “Generalized Vaccination,”
where the vaccinal eruption spreads all over the
body like confluent smallpox 87

6. A severe form of vaccination in a little child, where the
inflammation and eruption spreads from the sore over
part of the body and endangers life by blood poisoning
or general septicemia 88

7. A cow suffering from “Foot and Mouth Disease” or Virulent
Cowpox, in the epidemic of that disease, caused by
vaccine virus in New England in 1902 93

8. View of a pair of oxen suffering from the same disease
in said epidemic caused by vaccination 94

8½. Eruptions of foot and mouth disease on udder and teats
of cow 95

9. The Vaccine Holocaust: photograph of funeral pile of
slaughtered cattle infected by Foot and Mouth Disease
caused by vaccination in said epidemic of 1902 and shown
ready to be burned to destroy the infection, at great loss to
the government and people of the United States 96

10. Map of the second epidemic of Foot and Mouth Disease in
1908, caused by vaccination which originated from vaccine
factories in Michigan and Pennsylvania and spread to
several States 98

11. A Vaccination Horror: photograph of a woman victim suffering
with a virulent form of Cowpox or Foot and Mouth
Disease, in the epidemic of 1902, caused by vaccination and
resulting in death 110

12. Photograph of a man suffering with a severe form of the
same disease in the said epidemic of 1902, caused by vaccination,
but resulting in recovery after nine successive
eruptions 112

13. Photograph of a vaccinated school boy suffering with a
milder form of cattle disease, “Pemphigus,” or virulent
Cowpox, caused by vaccination in 1914, resulting in recovery
after years of suffering 118

14 and 15. Photographs of an English sailor who lost his arm
from vaccination 133

16. Photograph of an English soldier killed by Typhoid Vaccination 135

17. Cartoon from _Harper’s Weekly_. The “savage rite” of
vaccination shown in action. “The medicine man performs
his savage rites” on little children 143

CASES

1 to 27. Photographs of eleven children killed by vaccination
in New York State in 1914. Taken from memorial pamphlet
by Mr. James A. Loyster 149-159

PLATE

1. Statute of Wisdom and Law from New York Appellate
Court, with motto: “Every Law Not Based on Wisdom is a
Menace to the State,” a rebuke to the compulsory vaccination
law _Frontispiece_

2. In Memoriam. Portrait of John Pitcairn, late President of
The Anti-Vaccination League of America and leading businessman
of Philadelphia 72

INTRODUCTION

THIS little book on the Horrors of Compulsory Vaccination, its medical barbarism, and its moral and legal atrocity as a gross violation of Basic Personal and Broad American Rights, is dedicated and addressed to our esteemed President, Woodrow Wilson, for several decisive reasons:

FIRST: Because I believe him to be the most potent personality
in public office to-day and our greatest present representative
and exponent of Fundamental American Principles and Basic Human
Rights, and as being now recognized as a world-wide exponent of
these principles both at home and abroad.

SECOND: Because the President is Commander-in-Chief of the
Army and Navy and is thus invested with supreme commanding and
pardoning power, through which he can bring about an immediate
reform in the evil practice of compulsory vaccination by
pardoning, at his discretion, all men in the Army or Navy now
unjustly condemned by Court Martial for refusing vaccination,
and by abolishing all compulsion and making all vaccination
free and voluntary, as it now is in the English Army.

THIRD: Because the President is our highest civilian officer
and represents in his person and office one of our most
important American principles, the supremacy of the civil
over the military power. It therefore seemed to me most fit
and proper to appeal to our chief civilian officer on any
great question which concerns the most fundamental civil
rights of the citizen or involves any great abuse of military
power, as is the case with this evil practice of compulsory
vaccination. And I think it will be readily admitted that
_medical militarism_, such as the arbitrary medical compulsion
which forces and inflicts disease upon the human body, under
the fallacy of medical necessity and the pressure of military
law, is surely one of the most dangerous and oppressive forms
of extreme militarism that can be conceived and is not in
accordance with the spirit of American Institutions, and should
be suppressed. While, therefore, I, as a student of this
subject, may earnestly and persistently write and urge, and
demonstrate the truth on this subject, and prove by undeniable
fact, exhibit, and argument the dangerous nature of compulsory
vaccination and the shocking falsehoods on which it is based
as to its alleged efficacy, necessity and harmlessness, yet I
have not the least power or discretion to remove this evil;
whereas the power of the President in this matter is plenary,
instant and complete, so that in almost the twinkling of an eye
he can abolish this evil in the Army and Navy with one word
from his lips or one wave of his hand. And if this evil is once
abolished in the Army and Navy, its abolishment everywhere else
throughout the land is sure to follow, with great advantage
to human right and much improvement in public health, as has
resulted wherever this medical malpractice of inoculation
with inflicted disease has been reduced or abolished, with a
corresponding increase in sanitation and hygiene.

For these good reasons, I have therefore thought it most proper and advisable to make this appeal to our highest civilian official and our Chief Military Commander, who is so potently equipped to give the immediate relief and establish the reform herein asked for, viz., the full Medical Freedom to accept or refuse vaccination as each individual sees fit, which is a basic and inherent American right; and I therefore now submit the numerous and conclusive facts and demonstrations in these pages for the special consideration of the President and the general attention of the People and their Representatives in our National and State Legislatures, and as a full justification of the reform prayed for.

In conclusion, I might say that I first began this work as a simple Letter of Petition to the President to abolish forced vaccination in the Army and Navy, with a brief outline of reasons for this reform, which letter was commenced before the President sailed for Europe to attend the World Peace Conference. But the importance and scope of the subject grew as I worked on it, and I concluded to expand the letter into a full illustration and demonstration of the Horrors of Compulsory Vaccination, its failures, falsehoods, futilities and fatalities, which would be so thorough and convincing that it could not be disregarded. This enlarged work has required nearly twelve months to complete and make ready for the consideration of the President after his return from the Peace Conference, and its publication has been much delayed by several unavoidable conditions, including the recent great strike in the printing trades.

I might further state in conclusion that I have spent a lifetime and a fortune in the study and investigation of this subject and in efforts for the repeal of all unwise laws for forcing vaccination upon the people, which repeal is now being agitated and is progressing all over the civilized world. And as I probably shall not be able to work many more years in this great cause of Medical Freedom, and as this may be my last contribution to the cause, I have concluded to make the case against Compulsory Vaccination so full and complete in this Exposure that there can be no question of its medical malpractice and its dangerous, deadly and illegal nature.

For these reasons I have also thought it my duty to give to the public the benefit of my studies of a lifetime and the accumulation of the many shocking facts, proofs and exhibits which I have been collecting for years, and which, as now massed in the Petition and its Illustrated Supplement, can, I think, leave no doubt in the mind of any reasonable man or woman--not professionally interested in vaccination--that all Compulsory Vaccination should be immediately abolished, and that its continuation, with these proofs against it, would be a most gross medical blunder and malpractice and a grave violation of the basic American principle of Inherent Individual Rights, in being a serious menace to human health and life, a frequent cause of wide-spread epidemics and demonstrably more fatal in many instances than natural disease itself, and therefore a shocking violation of all true medical ethics and a disgrace alike to modern medicine and modern legislation which should no longer tolerate the practice.

CHAS. M. HIGGINS.

Dated at 271 Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
December 1, 1919.

HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED

PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY AND NAVY

SUBJECT, IN BRIEF: Request to the President as Commander-in-Chief to abolish Compulsory Vaccination in Army and Navy, to make all vaccination voluntary as it now is in the English Army, and to pardon all men condemned by Court Martial for refusing coercive vaccination.

Compulsory vaccination is a serious danger to health and life, a grave medical malpractice and a gross violation of medical ethics, and of the American principles of Inherent Natural Rights guaranteed in the Declaration and the Constitution, and should be abolished. Dangers and Fatalities of vaccination exposed and illustrated.

PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT

PETITION,
_from_ CHAS. M. HIGGINS
_of Brooklyn, N. Y.
a citizen of the United States_

TO
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
_Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy
Washington, D. C._

Mr. President:

American History, as you well know, tells us that our first President, the illustrious George Washington, died in 1799 as the result of a medical malpractice common at that time, viz., the barbarous and dangerous practice of indiscriminate bleeding to cure disease. While suffering from an attack of acute sore throat or laryngitis, the patient was so weakened by the great loss of vital fluid in repeated bleeding operations that he was not able to endure this loss and overcome also the effects of the disease. Our great Washington thus gave up his glorious life--glorious in the establishment of American Liberty and the principles of Inalienable Natural Rights of the Individual as a basis for all Government--on the altar of medical barbarism and malpractice.

HISTORIC WARNING IN THE DEATH OF OUR FIRST PRESIDENT FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Let us now take this warning from the medical barbarism of the past, even over such a long interval of time, as a fit warning against the medical malpractices and barbarisms of to-day, which are even more irrational and dangerous to human right and safety, health and life than the malpractice of the past which destroyed the life of our first President.

COMPULSORY VACCINATION THE GREAT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE OF TO-DAY WHICH KILLS MANY WHERE BLEEDING KILLED ONE

Now the most barbarous and dangerous medical practice of to-day is the gross evil of compulsory vaccination, which is doubtless the greatest violation of common sense, medical propriety and the unalienable natural rights of the individual guaranteed in our basic American Charters, that any dogmatic, presumptuous profession or class of men has ever been guilty of. And it is to this serious violation of American principle forced on our soldiers and sailors by medical dogmatism that I now wish to ask your most careful attention as one having the supreme commanding and pardoning power in Army and Navy, with the earnest prayer that in the exercise of that exalted wisdom and power possessed by your great American Office and Personality, which has now made itself felt around the whole world, that this medical barbarism of compulsory disease may be abolished in our Army and Navy, and that all men condemned by Court Martial for refusing the infliction on their bodies of compulsory disease shall be fully pardoned and restored to their proper and honorable status as loyal American soldiers and sailors. And I now wish to present to you in the following pages an abundant array of facts and evidence which prove, I think, beyond doubt, the great evil and danger of vaccination, its fatality, and futility, and clearly justify the rational reform suggested for the abolishment of all forced or compulsory vaccination.

THE MODERN MEDICAL BARBARISM POISONS THE BLOOD IN THE BODY INSTEAD OF DRAINING THE BLOOD OUT OF THE BODY

In this medical malpractice of to-day the doctors do not open the veins and drain out the life blood of the patient, ostensibly to cure his disease, as in the mistaken past, but they now keep this blood in the body and inject into it directly or indirectly various more or less virulent diseases, blood poisons, or disease germs, cultures or products, either living or dead, with the idea of curing or preventing some natural disease. These practices are called, respectively, “vaccination” and “serum treatment.” In vaccination an actual living or dead disease germ, or virus, is injected into the blood, lymph, skin or muscle; whereas, in serum or antitoxin treatment a disease product or culture is so injected.

VACCINATION THE MOST DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE SYSTEM OF MEDICATION EVER DEVISED

Now, whatever merits or demerits this system of disease inoculation may have, either in preventing or curing or immunizing against natural disease, I will not here say and do not need to here discuss, except to state that such curative or preventive power has been much exaggerated and is very limited and uncertain. But whatever these merits or demerits may be, it is obvious on fundamental principles of medical and civic ethics, that such a dangerous and repugnant practice of disease inoculation and blood poisoning should not be made compulsory on any person for any excuse whatever. It must be here remembered that it was admitted that the old smallpox inoculation had a certain preventive power and yet it was finally condemned and abandoned for reasons of its great danger as causing more disease and death than it prevented. Disregarding, therefore, the question of preventive merits or demerits, I think I can now say with perfect truth and soberness, and without fear of refutation, that this modern system of compulsory vaccination is the most violent and dangerous and most immoral or unethical system of medication that has ever been devised by a most honorable yet most presumptuous profession which has been proved guilty of the most gigantic medical mistakes in its past history of the centuries, one of which--indiscriminate bleeding--as we have already seen, killed our first President and many other victims of that period. To this gigantic and abandoned mistake we might now add the two horrible practices of smallpox inoculation and arm-to-arm vaccination, both of which were once used and approved by the highest medical authority as safe and infallible preventives of natural disease, yet both were finally abandoned as great medical mistakes and were prohibited by penal law as most risky methods of propagating and extending disease and more dangerous to human health and life than the natural disease itself.

VACCINATION IS BLOOD POISONING WITH INFLICTED DISEASE AND IS OFTEN MORE FATAL THAN NATURAL DISEASE

For these former medical mistakes there is now substituted the modern medical mistake of compulsory bovine and serum vaccinations of various kinds and multiple repetitions which are in many instances as dangerous to human health and life as the former prohibited malpractices, or more so, and will, doubtless, in due time, be publicly condemned and abandoned as equal mistakes, like their predecessors.

Indeed, this modern vaccine system of medicine is so violent and dangerous that it has been frequently known to kill in from ten to fifteen minutes, after injection of the serum, by what is known as “serum sickness,” which is a kind of rapid blood and nerve poisoning affecting vital nerve centers, to which some persons are very susceptible.[1] This is, of course, a more violent, rapid and fatal action than occurs in the most virulent and deadly natural diseases and is comparable only to a stroke of lightning or shock of electricity or to the violent action of the most virulent chemical, mineral, animal, or vegetable poisons known in toxicology. In other fatal cases, where the poisoning action is slower, death finally occurs from lockjaw, paralysis, meningitis, or pneumonia, which are frequent results of vaccination. And these fatal results of vaccination are commonly denied and concealed in death certificates by recording the terminal disease of lockjaw, paralysis, meningitis, or pneumonia only as the sole and original cause of death without any record of the inflicted disease--vaccination--as the primary or contributory cause of the death. This evil practice is, of course, a gross falsification of our vital statistics, and is now a frequent offense by some of our vaccinating doctors, as I can legally prove by documentary evidence when required.

In some death certificates, however, the vaccination is more or less clearly and honestly acknowledged as the cause of death, direct or indirect. I have now in hand a recent New York death certificate which records the death of a little child one year old in three days after vaccination from vaccinal septicemia, or blood poisoning, due to the vaccinal infection.

EVERY VACCINATION SORE IS AN INFECTING ABSCESS AND EVERY ACT OF VACCINATION IS A BLOOD INFECTION CAPABLE OF CAUSING SERIOUS DISEASE OR DEATH AT ANY TIME

And let me here say that every vaccination sore is simply a septicemic abscess and focus of infection, more or less dangerous, and is possibly capable of infecting the whole system at any time with fatal effect; and, furthermore, every act of ordinary cowpox vaccination is, of course, an act of septicemic infection or blood poisoning, _per se_, and pure and simple, and frequently kills in this way in the longer or shorter time of a few days, which is, of course, quicker than the worst forms of natural smallpox ever kill. See Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, pages 83 to 88. On this point see also the “Manual of Causes of Death,” by U. S. Census Bureau, page 56, No. 20, and the corresponding Manual of the Registrar General of England, in which vaccination is recorded as a form of septicemia and a serious cause of death.

As further convincing evidence on this head, I have a Brooklyn death certificate showing the death of a woman hospital nurse six months after vaccination, from multiple abscesses which broke out all over the body in successive crops and continued for six months notwithstanding the most skillful medical efforts for cure, and finally resulted in death from general vaccinal septicemia. See Figs. 11, 12 and 13, which show other cases of this kind.

I have an English certificate showing the death of a man from the same cause, multiple abscesses, resulting from vaccination and continuing for seven years, and finally ending in death from this cause.

I have also another English certificate which shows the death of a little infant from vaccinal septicemia in thirty-four hours after vaccination! Of course the worst form of smallpox was never known to kill in such short time.

These shocking facts thus clearly show that an inflicted disease may be far worse and more fatal than a naturally acquired disease, and that vaccination may kill with surprising swiftness in a few days, hours, or minutes, quicker than the most fatal natural diseases or the most virulent poisons, or may continue a most horrible blood infection with internal or external eruptions through an agony of months or years and finally end in death from this infection.

I have also some recent American death certificates which show the deaths of five little children of primary school age, all killed in one week in September, 1915, from vaccination resulting in lockjaw and septicemia. I have now in hand a memorial pamphlet written by an aggrieved father, a very intelligent man, an editor and manufacturer, Mr. James A. Loyster, of Cazenovia, New York, which shows the death of his own son and about thirty other children from vaccination in New York State in 1914. This child slaughter was the result of a general vaccination raid made upon the school children of the State in that year; and this pamphlet gives convincing proof that about thirty, and probable proof that about twice that number, were killed by vaccine infection, _while only three persons died from smallpox in the whole State for the same year_! See pages 145 to 163, which give several pages of this pamphlet in full.

COMPULSORY VACCINATION AS A CONDITION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLING OR FOR SERVICE IN ARMY AND NAVY IS MEDICALLY BARBAROUS AND LEGALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

These deadly vaccinations above cited were almost all performed on school children to satisfy an evil law which has been originated and sustained by a powerful but mistaken part or sect of the medical profession--the vaccine sect--by which law vaccination is forced upon children of school age as a condition for admission to school, thus making the infliction of a dangerous disease on the tender body of the child a condition for the exercise of that most essential, unquestionable, and inalienable right of the child to _Education_! Such invasion of natural right to life, health, and education is surely the clearest violation of those great American principles of inherent natural rights so distinctly set forth in the Declaration and Constitution which all Governments must respect and defend, as I will show later on.

ABOLISH ALL COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY AND NAVY AND APPOINT DOCTORS OF VARIOUS SCHOOLS ON ALL MEDICAL AND HEALTH BOARDS

In the same way this dogmatic and dominant part or sect of the medical profession, organized in powerful medical societies and now controlling important public offices, has forced the dangerous practice of general compulsory vaccination upon our Army and Navy, and this practice is, I believe, largely the result of having only one school of medicine--the vaccine school--represented on our Medical Boards and in our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics. To thus have only one school of medicine represented on our Medical Boards of Army and Navy is, I submit, as great a mistake, as unjust, absurd, and un-American, as it would be to have only one school of Religion represented in our Army and Navy chaplains. For, surely, medical tolerance and freedom is as important for national welfare as religious tolerance and freedom. And to this particular point, Mr. President, I would, therefore, now like to ask your first and most careful attention, with the suggestion and hope that, as supreme commander of both arms of the service, you will not only find it just, wise, and proper to abolish all compulsory vaccination in Army and Navy and leave vaccination entirely voluntary with each man, as it now is in the English Army, but that you will also abolish all arrogant monopoly or control of medical practice in Army and Navy by any one school of medicine, and will adopt the reform in the future of having various schools of medicine properly and justly represented on our Medical Boards, from which reform, I believe, a great improvement in medical practice and in public right, health, and comfort is sure to result.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL, EXCESSIVE AND UNREASONABLE PUNISHMENTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. MORAL AND MEDICAL MONSTROSITY OF LONG TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT FOR REFUSING VACCINATION

At this point I would like to call your careful attention to a news item which appeared in the _New York Times_ of May 2, 1918, as follows:

“_Refused Vaccination, Got Fifteen Years._

“Camp Dodge, Iowa, May 1.--Elmer N. Olson, of Goodrich, Minn.,
a soldier in training here, refused to submit to vaccination.
He was tried by general court-martial and sentenced to fifteen
years in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth.”

This is only one of many similar items which have appeared in the press for the last two years, showing that it has been a practice in the army to try soldiers by court-martial for refusing to be vaccinated against free will and consent; and to degrade them from honorable military service merely for this refusal, and condemn them to long terms of imprisonment such as are given only to dangerous and felonious criminals under the criminal law,--and it is shown in this item that the extraordinary punishment of fifteen years’ imprisonment was thus inflicted for the sole offense of refusing compulsory vaccination! It may be that in some cases other offenses besides mere refusal to be vaccinated were involved, but I understand from several news items that only the act of refusal to submit to forced vaccination was involved in many such condemnations.

In answer to a special request for information on this point, I have been informed by the office of the Judge Advocate General, in a letter dated January 14, 1919, that there was only one instance of court-martial for refusing to be vaccinated in the years 1917 and 1918, that this was held to be a violation of the 96th Article of War, and that the offender in this case was sentenced to be “_Dishonorably discharged from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances due or to become due, and to be confined at hard labor at such place as the convening authority may direct for twenty-five years_.”

Now I respectfully submit, Mr. President, that whether there were one or many cases of this kind, they were clearly cases of “cruel and unusual” and excessive and unreasonable punishment and also an “unreasonable search and seizure of the person,” condemned in the Constitution in Articles IV and VIII of the Amendments, as follows:

ARTICLE IV. “The right of the people to be secure in their
persons ... against unreasonable searches and seizures shall
not be violated.”

ARTICLE VIII. “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted.”

I therefore think it is perfectly obvious that to thus degrade a loyal and honorable soldier and condemn him like a felonious criminal to the long term of fifteen or twenty-five years’ imprisonment, merely for the act of refusing to have a dangerous medical operation and an inflicted disease forced upon his body against his will and consent, is clearly an “unreasonable seizure” of the person and a “cruel and unusual” and excessive and unreasonable punishment prohibited in the Constitution; and I think that no further argument is necessary to prove this point. Surely to inflict such drastic punishments as above shown--not for any really criminal, immoral, or perfidious act--not for anything that really affects the purely military duties, qualities, or services of any loyal, honorable and healthy soldier--but simply for opposing a dangerous medical dogma and defending his body against an inflicted disease and a dangerous medical operation which frequently sickens and unfits the soldier for a long time afterwards for military service and sometimes actually kills--as already clearly proved--surely, I say, such a punishment is not only legally unconstitutional, but is morally barbarous in both a true military and true medical sense, and should be abolished in both Army and Navy for the several reasons herein submitted.

HARSH MILITARY PUNISHMENTS CONDEMNED BY AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

In the _New York Tribune_ of January 4, 1919, the President of the American Bar Association, at a meeting in New York City on January 3d, condemned harsh and unjust judgments of military courts-martial, and stated that “_our military laws and our systems of administering military justice are unworthy of the name of law or justice_.” He also said that our army was still following rules copied from England in 1774, but which were abandoned long ago as better suited “_to the armies of feudal times than to the citizen armies of a modern republic_.” He also condemned “the outrageous punishments meted out by our courts-martial for comparatively slight breaches of military discipline.” And he further stated that “Punishments are not only grossly harsh, as compared with the penalties imposed for like offences by our criminal courts, but they also differ so widely that we find the same offence punished in one court-martial by twenty-five years in the penitentiary and in another by six months in disciplinary barracks.” ... “The accused soldier has no real legal protection.” ... “The maintenance of military discipline does not require this harsh and arbitrary procedure. The French army is a model of discipline, but an accused soldier has the protection of the law thrown around him at every stage of his trial. That a soldier in our army should have less legal protection challenges the attention of the lawyers of the country. The American people never will stand for Prussian methods even in disciplining the Army.”

MILITARY OBEDIENCE TO BAD LAW. THE HIGH EXAMPLE OF SOCRATES COMMENDED