Chapter V: Part 5

In my previous pamphlet “Vaccination and Lockjaw” I have treated this subject exhaustively and now refer thereto for full facts and authorities, but I will give an outline of the subject here which will cover the main facts in the case.

One of the most common and false defences of the vaccinators on this point is the shameful fallacy and falsehood that if the lockjaw germs are not found in the virus itself, therefore vaccination with this virus cannot cause lockjaw in the vaccinated person or be held responsible for it. This is, substantially, the logic or implication in one of our latest Government reports on this subject by Dr. J. F. Anderson, entitled “Post Vaccination Tetanus,” which title means in plain English, _Lockjaw after Vaccination_, published in the U. S. Health Reports of July 16, 1915.

In this report the author, who is an expert on vaccines, practically excuses vaccination for all blame for lockjaw deaths where the lockjaw germs do not exist, or cannot be proved to exist in the vaccine virus itself!... After making this half truthful and misleading report favorable to vaccination, the author, according to the statement of a Washington newspaper, resigned from the employ of the U. S. Government at a salary reported as $4,500 per year and entered the employ of one of the biggest manufacturers of vaccine virus and serums in the country at the alleged enormous salary of $25,000 per year!

For a more truthful and accurate report showing how lockjaw germs are widely diffused and how they absolutely depend on a pus infection, like the vaccination sore, or its equivalent, for their “activation” and fatal effects, as now explained here, see Studies of Dr. Francis, in Bulletin No. 95, U. S. Hygienic Laboratory, August, 1914.

LOCKJAW MAY BE CAUSED BY VACCINATION WHETHER THE GERMS ARE IN THE VIRUS OR NOT

The real truth in this matter is, therefore, that there are at least four distinct ways in which vaccination can cause death from lockjaw:

_First_: The lockjaw germs may be in the virus itself and be inoculated directly into the vaccination wound at the moment of vaccination. And, despite Dr. Anderson’s negative tests, the possibility of this direct infection can exist at any time, as admitted by some of our best authorities, already quoted, on account of the many ways in which the infection can enter the virus, from the vaccinated calf itself and otherwise, and also because its presence cannot always be proved by tests, although known to be in the virus. The lockjaw germ normally dwells in and issues from the digestive organs of domestic animals and is therefore found in manure and garden soil and on the hide and hair of animals and hence may be in the body of the vaccinated calf itself from which the virus is produced!

_Second_: The lockjaw germ, which is widely distributed in some localities, may exist on the person of the vaccinator or the vaccinated at the time of vaccination and be then introduced into the wound with the virus, and the two infections may thus develop together, the pus infection in the wound being necessary to “activate” the lockjaw germs as already shown.

_Third_: The lockjaw germ may enter the vaccination wound and grow in its pus secretion at any time during its suppurating stage by chance scratching, abrasion or absorption, and thus develop its awful toxin with fatal effect on the vaccinated victim.

_Fourth_: The lockjaw germ may already exist within the body when the vaccination is performed, and is known to frequently exist as a natural tenant or denizen of the healthy human body, in nearly one-quarter of the human race! This is also the case with several other disease germs. In such cases the indwelling lockjaw germ will remain entirely inert, dormant and harmless in the body unless some condition necessary to its “activation” or growth is presented, such as that of a suppurating sore, ulcer, abscess or wound, anywhere within or upon the body, the pus-infected or suppurating vaccination sore being, of course, the ideal condition for the activation and growth of the fatal lockjaw infection, as already shown; and this is probably the most common and dangerous way in which vaccination can cause death from lockjaw and other diseases, and the greatest care in the preparation of the virus itself cannot avoid this danger!

It will therefore be seen that in every one of these instances the vaccination wound or sore itself is the essential cause or condition of the lockjaw infection, which could not or would not exist without this condition, or its equivalent, and hence it is nothing but a dastardly evasion and perversion of medical truth and honesty to try to show that, because the lockjaw germ is not in the virus at the moment of vaccination, or that it gets into the wound afterwards through some natural chance or condition to which the human body is constantly subjected, therefore the act of vaccination is not responsible for the resulting death from lockjaw.

“ASSASSINATION OF THE BLOOD” MUST BE STOPPED

It is time, therefore, that this outrageously dishonest medical quibble as to the exact source of infection in vaccinal lockjaw was silenced once for all. What difference does it make to the victim of this terribly fatal disease whether the lockjaw germ was in the virus itself or in or on the victim’s own body, when in either case the act of vaccination, _per se_ and _ab initio_, is the cause of the infection becoming active and fatal in the human body? A logic which would contend otherwise would free the assassins of Presidents Garfield and McKinley from the charge of murder because, forsooth, the fatal septic infection which killed these victims was not on the murderous bullets when they were fired into their bodies, but entered the wounds afterwards through their own carelessness! This is exactly the false and murderous logic that is constantly used by our well-paid professional apologists for vaccination and by their abject dupes, our befooled editors, who brazenly or ignorantly use it in defense of this gross medical malpractice of forcing a most dangerous form of disease and blood infection on healthy and helpless children and adults, which a great English doctor, James J. Garth Wilkinson, so truly calls the “Assassination of the Blood” in the following glowing words, written many years ago, but which convey a stinging rebuke to men of his own great profession in this matter to-day: “This is blood assassination, and like a murderer’s life. The point, however, here is that this amazing act is the homicidal insanity of a whole profession.” See “On Human Science, Good and Evil,” Lippincott, Phila., 1876, page 35.

VACCINATION AND LOCKJAW MORE “RISKY” AND DEADLY THAN SMALLPOX

As a matter of cold fact, therefore, these “Assassins of the Blood,” vaccination and lockjaw, offer a far greater risk and danger to human health and life than natural smallpox itself, and if we should fear anything for ourselves or our children it should be vaccination and lockjaw instead of smallpox, of which we stand in far less danger than of being struck by lightning, whereas lockjaw is a steady and constant danger thirty times greater than smallpox, as the following comparative list of deaths from Smallpox, Lightning and Lockjaw in the State of New York will readily show. This list is taken from the reports of our State Department of Health for the seven years from 1910 to 1916, as follows:

Smallpox Lightning Lockjaw

1910 7 deaths 16 deaths 94 deaths
1911 3 ” 30 ” 114 ”
1912 4 ” 21 ” 97 ”
1913 1 ” 13 ” 111 ”
1914 3 ” 33 ” 115 ”
1915 0 ” 18 ” 90 ”
1916 3 ” 19 ” 69 ”
-- -- ---
Totals 21 150 690

It will be noted that the ordinary danger from smallpox is so actually and relatively insignificant here that it is regularly six to eight times less than that of being struck by lightning, and that the danger from lockjaw of all kinds is so great and constant that it is about thirty times greater than that from smallpox, whereas vaccinal lockjaw, which is about ten per cent. of all lockjaw deaths, is at least three times more dangerous by actual frequency of occurrence than natural smallpox!

THE HORROR OF HORRORS, CATTLE PLAGUE OR FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, CAUSED IN MANKIND BY VACCINATION. MEDICAL IGNORANCE ON THIS POINT SCORED

I have already exposed the deadly epidemics of virulent cowpox or foot and mouth disease in cattle and domestic animals caused by vaccination. I now come to expose one of the most shocking results of vaccination yet disclosed, viz.: the transmission of this horrible cow disease to the human subject. This disease, as a vaccinal result, in mankind, is much more common and fatal than has been generally supposed, and every effort seems to have been made by our vaccinators and health officers to deny and conceal the facts in this matter from the public, which is easily accomplished because of the great general ignorance of all vaccination matters not only by the mass of the people but by the mass of the medical profession itself. For example, the medical profession does not seem to be yet aware of the fact that the severe skin and general disease called “Pemphigus” in man is identical with foot and mouth disease in cattle, nor do they seem to be generally aware of the fact that “Pemphigus” is frequently conveyed by “Cowpox” or vaccination, and they seem to be equally ignorant of the notorious fact that certain makes of vaccine virus had been infected for years with foot and mouth disease, and conveyed this disease in epidemic and fatal form to animals and mankind. Neither do they seem to be aware of the fact that experience now indicates that Foot and Mouth disease may be ultimately proved to be only a virulent form of “Cowpox” or a mongrel form of Smallpox to which ordinary Cowpox or “Vaccinia” may degenerate at any time like a mild domestic dog suddenly changing, in an attack of Rabies, to a mad, dangerous, and deadly distributor of disease.

To show that the close relation, if not the identity, of vaccination with Smallpox and Foot and Mouth Disease is now recognized by special students of this subject, I may here quote from the speech of Senator Money of Mississippi in the U. S. Senate, February 25, 1909, as reported in the _Congressional Record_, in the debate on the Agricultural Appropriation Bill, concerning the epidemic of Foot and Mouth Disease in 1908, as follows:

“This is an important question with respect to cattle, but
it is very much more important to the human beings of this
country. These vaccine points are the things with which we
vaccinate the children of this country against smallpox. It has
been found that it sometimes makes them immune from smallpox,
but gives them the foot and mouth disease, which is just about
as bad.

“The trouble about the matter is that we can not in the United
States produce vaccine for any length of time, for the reason
that this is not a pox country. It is not the home of the
disease. We have to import it from abroad, and consequently
the vaccine points that are produced upon the spot which is the
habitat of this particular disease are the only ones that will
retain the virus in sufficient strength to enable it to render
the human being vaccinated immune from smallpox. Consequently
we can not, as has been expected by a great many people, raise
our own vaccine points, because they lose their power for
immunity against smallpox. We now run the constant danger that
has been manifested very unpleasantly in several localities
of vaccinating children and grown people with these imported
vaccine points and communicating the foot and mouth disease,
which is just about as bad as the smallpox.”

We will now show in the following pages and illustrations how Foot and Mouth Disease is conveyed to mankind in vaccination and that it is not only as bad as smallpox, as Senator Money has stated, but much worse.

_Epidemic of 1902._ Back view of a woman suffering from Foot
and Mouth Disease, or Virulent Cowpox, caused by Vaccination.
Photograph shows final stages of eruption and was taken a
short while before death. Note large blotches all over body
caused by several vesicles running together, then breaking and
excoriating, leaving large raw sores like big scalds or burns.
]

Figs. 11 and 12 show some horrible examples of this deadly cattle plague conveyed by vaccination to human subjects. Fig. 11 shows the back view of a woman victim with a very severe and fatal type of this disease, the photograph being taken a short while before death. I have also a front view of this case, taken after death, but this is too horrible for even this chapter of horrors, so that I have decided to spare the feelings of my readers and not show it here. Fig. 12 is a photograph giving both front and back views of a man with a very bad, but less severe, type of the disease, who recovered after several successive eruptions and about five months of suffering.

_Epidemic of 1902._ Back and front views of man suffering
with Foot and Mouth Disease, or Virulent Cowpox, caused by
Vaccination. Photograph shows early or mid stage of eruptions,
which first appeared four and a half weeks after vaccination.
Recovered after nine successive eruptions of this kind in
five months after vaccination. Note “umbilicated” form of
eruptions like vaccination sores, proving positive relation to
Vaccination and Smallpox. Compare with Figs. 2, 4 and 6.
]

There were ten cases of this kind treated at the Boston City Hospital in January, 1902, by Dr. James S. Howe, who read a report of the cases before a meeting of the American Dermatological Association in Boston in September, 1902, which was afterwards published in the Journal of Cutaneous Diseases for January and June, 1903, from which I quote below. Dr. Howe exhibited photographs of these cases at the meeting referred to, which also appeared in said Journal here quoted, copies of some of which are now shown in Figs. 11 and 12.

These cases and the published report of them are also cited in the medical work before quoted, “Acute Contagious Diseases,” on page 82 therein, so that there is full medical authority for their citation here and ample proof of their nature and origin as being due to vaccination.

Dr. Howe reported that out of the ten cases of this kind treated in the hospital six were fatal, thus showing the deadly nature of this vaccinal disease, which greatly exceeds the average or worst types of smallpox! In Dr. Howe’s report of these cases, at the meeting referred to, he stated as follows:

“Early in January of the present year [1902], while the wave
of vaccination was at its full height [during a smallpox
epidemic], there were received in the Boston City Hospital for
treatment, a remarkable series of cases of bullous dermatitis.
All of these cases appeared in persons recently vaccinated....
The longest duration of the disease in any one case was sixteen
weeks, followed by recovery, and the shortest was one week,
followed by death. The skin lesions began to appear in these
cases in an average of five weeks after vaccination, sixteen
weeks having elapsed in one case, the longest, and three weeks
in one case, the shortest.”

It may be proper to state just here that the “skin lesions” and other eruptions in these human cases were substantially or identically the same as in the cattle affected with foot and mouth disease in the epidemic of 1902 and 1908 previously described, these eruptions being of the _same kind_ and in the _same locations_; that is, the eruptions consisted of numerous vesicles of various sizes, from the size of a pea to that of a dime, half dollar and dollar, and these vesicles broke out all over the body as shown in Figs. 11 and 12, but particularly on feet and hands, lips and nostrils and inside the mouth and throat, and in fact on and in all interior parts of the body covered by mucous membrane, as well as on the external skin, and sometimes in internal organs. These vesicles would sometimes change to pustules or semi-pustules as shown in Fig. 12, and these would spread and run together into large confluent vesicles or blisters, as shown in Fig. 11, and these blisters would then rupture, collapse, drain and excoriate, leaving great raw sores like terrible scalds or burns, as shown in the big black and gray blotches in Fig. 11, thus causing great suffering and agony in this most pitiable victim of vaccination. The victim in Fig. 11 was a woman forty years old, who died ten hours after admission to the hospital and six weeks after vaccination, and in whom the eruptions first appeared three weeks after vaccination. Fig. 12 shows the eruptions in their early or mid stage, and Fig. 11 shows them in their later or final stage. And it must be here understood that these eruptions appear in successive crops, as in the cattle disease, one crop disappearing and healing, to be followed by another crop in a few days, and these ten cases of Dr. Howe had from two or three to nine successive eruptions before death or recovery! The case shown in Fig. 12 is that of a man twenty-one years old in whom the first eruption appeared four and a half weeks after vaccination and who had _nine successive eruptions_ before he finally recovered and was discharged from the hospital about five months after vaccination!

Dr. Howe gave it as his opinion that the disease in these ten cases was caused by some infection in the vaccine virus at the time of vaccination, and a majority of the doctors present at the meeting seemed to agree with him and gave several instances where similar cases happened in their own practice, thus showing that this disease is really a common result of vaccination. One of the doctors then present, Louis H. Duhring of Philadelphia, an expert on skin diseases, said:

“We must grant, I think, in the light of the history of these
cases and what we know of other similar cases, that they are
the direct or indirect result of vaccination. While we hear a
good deal, _pro_ and _con_, about vaccination, of its injurious
results on the part of those who are opposed to it, and of
its value on the part of those who favor it, I have always
felt that those who are opposed to vaccination, or, rather,
those who have brought forward the possible ill effects of
vaccination, did not in some instances have a fair hearing.
I, myself, have seen cases at least similar to the ones
reported by Dr. Howe, as well as others, where the local and
constitutional manifestations were undoubtedly the result of
vaccination.”

Dr. Howe seemed to be somewhat mystified by the disease and at a loss for the best or most proper technical name for it, and on this head he stated as follows:

“On the other hand, it might seem more proper to call them,
perhaps, cases of pemphigus. Quoting Duhring in regard to
pemphigus, I will refer to the following: ‘The mucous membranes
of the mouth, pharynx, epiglottis, trachea, bronchi and
even of the alimentary canal are not infrequently invaded,
especially in the varieties _malignus_ and _vegetanus_, giving
rise to various local lesions, mostly whitish patches and
excoriations. In grave cases there are pain and difficulty in
breathing and swallowing, diarrhea, exhaustion, collapse, and a
fatal ending.’ These cases of mine certainly showed all these
symptoms.”

In answer to this point, Dr. Duhring then said:

“I think Dr. Howe has acted wisely in selecting the title he
has and connecting it with vaccination, because it is to that
point that we wish to call attention, namely, that instances
of bullous dermatitis, often severe and even running a fatal
course, do at times follow vaccination. ... That it is closely
allied to what is known as semi-malignant or malignant
pemphigus; I think probable, but whether we call it bullous
dermatitis from vaccination, or pemphigus from vaccination,
or malignant pemphigus, matters very little at the present
period.”[5]

I think we can all readily agree with this conclusion of the doctors, that it does not matter much what we call this horrible disease caused by vaccination, whether it is “Pemphigus,” “Foot and Mouth Disease” or “Virulent Cowpox,” all of which seem to be fit and proper names, the main point being that this deadly infection is frequently contained in and conveyed by vaccine virus in the operation of vaccination.

The further interesting and surprising fact to be especially noted here, is that while some doctors seem to be fully aware that “Pemphigus” is often caused by vaccination, yet they all seem to be quite ignorant of the fact that the cattle plague known as “Foot and Mouth Disease” is identical with the disease called “Pemphigus” in man, and which is known to be frequently conveyed to butchers and others who handle carcasses of cattle.

The doctors in this discussion were also completely ignorant of the fact that a most extensive and virulent epidemic of Foot and Mouth Disease prevailed in New England in that very year, 1902, when these deadly vaccinations occurred, and that, furthermore, some of the strains of virus used in that year actually contained the foot and mouth infection and that this dangerous infection came from Japan and actually continued for several years, from 1902 to 1908, as before shown in government reports, thus making a chain of unbreakable facts, which, I think, proves the guilt of vaccination for these horrible deadly results beyond any question.

Even if the doctors were inclined to doubt or deny the responsibility of vaccination for these horrible results, they could not, logically or truthfully, do so, for the proof of this causation and relation is written as plainly on the bodies of the pitiable victims as was the “handwriting on the wall” described in the Bible. And it is now necessary only to call careful attention to the eruptions shown in Fig. 12 to get a full proof of this point, for it will be noted that the vesicles or pustules which appear all over the body in Fig. 12 have a very distinct “umbilicated” form with a depressed center and raised margin which is characteristic of only two diseases, vaccination and smallpox, and a clear proof that either of these two closely related diseases was surely concerned in this eruption, and that this eruption is therefore essentially a virulent “cowpox” or a mongrel smallpox. On this point of identity compare Fig. 12 with Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 6, pages 83 to 88.

THE AWFUL CASE OF A VACCINATED SCHOOL BOY INFECTED WITH FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, OR VIRULENT COWPOX, AND IN ERUPTION FOR THREE YEARS!

In the next illustration, Fig. 13, I give another instance of a vaccination horror very similar to or identical with the horrible cases just exposed.

The photograph, Fig. 13, shows the case of a vaccinated school boy eleven years old infected with foot and mouth disease, virulent cowpox or “pemphigus,” which first appeared a few weeks after vaccination and continued intermittently, sometimes in very violent form, for three years! The boy was vaccinated in September, 1914, and this photograph was made at my request eleven months afterwards, in August, 1915, during a comparatively mild stage of the eruptions, which were much worse at other times. These eruptions finally ceased in 1918, after over three years of great suffering by this child victim, and great anxiety and expense on the part of his parents, and so far without any compensation whatever from those responsible for this great evil. Whoever the Law of Justice should decide to be responsible for such a humanly-inflicted calamity should certainly be made to pay for it.

FIG. 13. School boy Arthur Smith, Jr., eleven years old.
Vaccinated September, 1914, photographed August, 1915.
Eruptions similar to foot and mouth disease appeared a few
weeks after vaccination and continued intermittently for over
three years! Photograph shows a mild stage of these eruptions,
which were much worse than this at times. Eruptions ceased in
1918.
]

I will now let the intelligent father of this afflicted child tell the full story of this case and the suffering of the boy and his parents, in the father’s own words as taken from his letters to me on this matter. In his letter dated August 2, 1915, the father, Mr. Arthur Smith, of New Windsor, N. Y., states:

“In reply to your letter of July 29, 1915, in reference to
the condition of my son from vaccination, I wish to say that,
although it is eleven months since he was vaccinated, at the
present time he is in the same condition he was in when the
account of his sickness was published in the _Newburgh Daily
News_, March 12, 1915; and although since then we have taken
him to four different doctors, they have so far failed to do
him a particle of good; in fact, they are at a perfect loss
at the present time as to what is the matter with him. The
greater part of his body from his toes up to the crown of his
head is covered with sores or blisters which are in a continual
form of eruption, which form on his body like a small bubble
which is filled with a water-like substance, and have to be
lanced to let this water out. This is identically the same kind
of blister which began to appear in a short time after he was
vaccinated, and after we called in the physician who vaccinated
him, Dr. Kingston of Newburgh, he immediately pronounced it a
case of cowpox. He left a prescription for him but he rapidly
got worse, so we decided to call in Dr. Barth and he also said
the boy was suffering from a severe case of cowpox; in fact,
he said it was the worst case he had ever seen, and he was
surprised the boy was allowed to get so bad. But I wish to give
Dr. Barth due credit: he worked hard and faithfully to get the
best of the disease. It would take him a full hour at times to
lance all the sores. After bathing him in antiseptic lotion,
he would cover his body with salve and bandage him all up, and
it did appear that, after treating him for about three months,
he had got the best of the disease; in fact, had improved so
much that Dr. Barth said, in due consideration of the cost we
were under, that he thought it would be safe to leave him in
the care of his mother and let him know if he had a relapse.
But I am sorry to say he did not continue to improve; he began
to break out bad again and at the present time he is in the
same condition I have previously stated. It seems to me that,
inasmuch as the State is so insistent upon the subject of
vaccination, there should be something done to put upon some
one the responsibility of the condition in which vaccination
has placed my boy, as it is a continual drain upon my earnings
between the doctors and the drug stores.”

On September 19, 1915, the boy’s father wrote me describing his condition as follows:

“In the first three or four months after vaccination, in
which time he was very bad, the blisters would first form
like vesicles filled with watery fluid, some would get better
without turning into pustules and other blisters would start
the same way, fill up with yellow pus and then get better only
to crop out again in another place. It would be impossible for
me to say how many successive eruptions he had since being
vaccinated as he has practically been in a state of eruption on
one or other part of his body since vaccination (in September,
1914). For a long time his feet and legs were very bad, also
his arms. Then his feet and legs would improve and he would
break out on the head and neck. At the present time (September
19, 1915), with the exception of a few sores on the ankles,
his feet and legs are in pretty good condition, but his head
and neck are very bad; in fact, far worse than when I had
the photograph taken (August, 1915). This is the third time
they have appeared on the head in violent form. The arms have
probably been more affected continually than any other part of
his body and have been very bad all the time, also the back of
the hands, but not on the inside of the hands. He has not as
yet had any sores on the inside of his mouth, but has had them
on the nostrils and on the chin, and the outside of the mouth,
and odd ones on other parts of his face. At the present time
the blisters are about all of the vesicle variety.

“On the 30th of May, 1915, at the suggestion of Dr. Barth, I
took the boy up to Albany to see Dr. Curtis, who is a blood
specialist (Skin Expert in the New York State Department of
Health), and he asked me a good many questions and looked at
the boy’s arms, and after due deliberation he said the boy was
suffering from ‘Pemphigus,’ and he said he had never seen a
case like it, with the exception of one man of 50 years of age,
and he said that he died.”

The man here referred to as having died from “Pemphigus” after vaccination and as being in a condition similar to that which afflicted this school boy was doubtless Ernest Hoffman, aged fifty-four, architect of Albany, N. Y., who died in Albany, March 26, 1908, and whose case I have carefully studied. The copy of the death certificate in this case, now in my possession, gives the sole and only cause of death as “_Pemphigus Vulgaris_,” without any mention, as required by law, of the contributory, coincident, primary or secondary disease of vaccination, although it is notorious that this man was vaccinated and was suffering with a strange and serious skin disease, as a vaccinal complication, before his death, and the case was the subject of several articles in the local newspapers at the time, as a vaccination complication, or disaster. And this is a good instance, right here, to prove my serious charge against vaccinating doctors, that vaccination disasters are frequently denied and concealed in death certificates, either through ignorance or intention. And this denial or concealment in this case is easily proved because a personal investigation, made by one of my colleagues at the time, secured the information and admission that the patient, Mr. Hoffman, was actually vaccinated with the Mulford virus, which was officially reported to have contained the infection of foot and mouth disease at that time, unknown to our doctors and even unknown to the makers of the virus itself! And this infected virus was the alleged cause of the fearful epidemics of foot and mouth disease in cattle in 1902 and 1908, and the probable cause of the same infection in human victims, as already clearly shown by the government reports and other data previously cited. And, furthermore, as the disease called “Pemphigus” has now been proved to be identical or confusible with foot and mouth disease, I therefore think that a strong chain of facts has now been drawn around vaccination as being the real cause and source of the “Pemphigus” in both the dead architect and the surviving school boy, and in the other cases cited, and that this chain of proof is now complete and unbreakable, and most convincing to any reasonable mind.

For further proof on this point see the Report of the New York State Department of Health for 1908, pages 280 to 296, where this case of the Albany architect, and others, are described, and their relation to vaccination and foot and mouth disease indicated.

The last letter received from the father of the afflicted school boy is dated December 12, 1918, and closes the description of this case, which shows a final recovery of the boy, after years of suffering and with a mutilated or much discolored body, as the result of the many eruptions:

“In reply to your letter of December 3, 1918, I wish to say
that my boy at the present time is in fairly good health, and
there are no eruptions on his body and with each succeeding
year the effect seems to be gradually dying away. The summer
of 1917 he broke out in eruption quite bad, especially on the
legs, being most severe on the thighs, and also in the summer
of 1918, but not near so bad as in the preceding summer. He is
free of any eruption at the present time, but the upper part
of his body and especially his arms are covered with a large
amount of brown spots on the skin where the eruptions have
completely died away, but I think that with each succeeding
year, as he grows stronger, the effect will entirely disappear,
with the exception of the brown spots on the skin, which I
suppose will always remain and for which there can be no
remedy.”

ANOTHER BAD CASE OF VIRULENT COWPOX FROM U. S. NAVAL RECORDS

To show how really frequent, common and wide-spread these fearful cases of “pemphigus,” “foot and mouth disease” or virulent cowpox, are, as a result of vaccination, I can cite another well authenticated case of this kind, reported in U. S. Naval Records. This case is reported in the _U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin_ for October, 1911, Vol. 5, No. 4, on page 482--under the heading of “Acute Pemphigus Following Vaccination.” This article minutely describes the case of a negro carpenter, age sixty, employed at one of the U. S. Naval Stations, and vaccinated there, June 9, 1910. About July 9, 1910, an eruption of vesicles appeared first on the vaccinated arm and in a few days spread all over the body. This eruption was exactly similar to that in the cases already described, viz.: vesicles of various sizes which came out in successive crops and on the same parts of the body as in the other cases. And as these vesicles increased they ran together into large confluent blisters which finally broke and formed denuded scars or raw sores on the skin like scalds or burns. To show that the action on the skin and in the mouth and throat was identical with the other cases here described, I need only quote a few lines from the official article itself, as follows:

“The body and extremities in many places resembled a severe
burn or scald, being covered with large denuded red areas,
surrounded by blebs of various sizes.... Toward the end of the
first week several blebs developed in the mouth, one small one
on the tongue, and one large one on the side of the pharynx.
The latter when it burst ‘_nearly drowned him_,’ according to
his wife.”

The patient finally recovered, like the case in Fig. 12, after several successive eruptions and in about four months after vaccination, or in October, 1910, and much to the surprise of the doctors, owing to the severity of the case and the age of the patient.

It may therefore be now noted that this Naval case, together with the others previously described, show how uniformly distinct and typical these several cases are, as being undoubtedly examples of the same specific disease conveyed by vaccination, and are probably nothing more than a direct degenerated or acute form of the vaccine disease itself or possibly a mongrel form of smallpox which may develop from ordinary vaccination at any time. Concerning this most important point I will have something further to say after describing the last case of this kind in the next paragraph, which is most suggestive and convincing.

A RECENT ENGLISH CASE OF CATTLE POX IN A BABY AND ITS MOTHER, CAUSED BY VACCINATION. IDENTITY OF VACCINAL DISEASES PROVED. A MOST SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL FACT DISCLOSED

A recent vaccination horror in a vaccinated baby and its mother, exactly similar to the cases already exposed, is reported in a circular recently issued by the National Anti-Vaccination League of London. This seems to show a clear and horrible case of cattle plague, “foot and mouth disease,” “Pemphigus” or virulent “cowpox” caused by vaccination. And whatever name we may use does not matter much, as before stated, for it is evident that any one or all of these names are interchangeable and appropriate for cases of this kind. In fact, from the many fatal vaccinations of this type occurring in England from time to time, and usually called “Pemphigus” by the doctors and coroners, it would seem that the strain of virus used in England has become permanently tainted with the “foot and mouth disease” or virulent cowpox, as clearly indicated in this recent English case described below

“On March 26, 1918, Mrs. Woofinden of Birmingham took the
vaccinated child to see the doctor, who said he had a very
good arm. A fortnight after vaccination little white spots
had developed round the principal vaccination place, and
she pointed these out to the doctor, who said, ‘That’s
all right.’... On the following day--sixteen days after
vaccination--a white spot appeared on the baby’s lip, and
the same afternoon one showed itself on the ear. The spot on
the lip got larger. The baby was taken to Dr. Kirby on the
following Monday, but he was out. Next day he was seen, and
declared that the trouble was ‘overflow of vaccination.’ The
child was very cross; its sleep was broken. The vaccination
marks on the arm had run together and formed a big white
blister. The doctor said it would be all right in a week. In
the meantime the mother began to feel very ill; lumps appeared
under each arm, and she found eventually that she had been
vaccinated on both breasts from a sore inside the baby’s
mouth. She suffered intense pain and could no longer nurse the
baby.... Each day, from the 16th day after vaccination, fresh
white blisters had developed in various parts of the body,
turning to a deeper color as they matured, and looking like
miniature vaccination marks.[6]... Finding Dr. Rowlands away
from home, Dr. Kirby arranged for the child’s admission to the
Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where, in just one week, after
intense suffering, the poor little victim expired. The blisters
had spread all over the body, covered the inside of the mouth
and choked up the throat so that the child could not swallow.
The arm swelled so enormously that it seemed to be joined to
the body, and the inflammation spread all over the upper part
till it eventually reached the middle of the chest. The upper
part of the arm became black and raw-looking. Every care was
taken at the hospital, and at one time the doctors thought
they would save the baby’s life, but he got weaker and died
on April 26th--being four months and a day old. Dr. Jordan,
at the hospital, certified that death was due to ‘generalized
vaccinia, followed by pneumonia.’ The case created a great stir
in the hospital, and one doctor who saw it remarked, ‘So that
is true cowpox!’”

MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL FACT EXPOSED HERE. IDENTITY OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE WITH VACCINATION PROVED

Yes, Mr. President, please take careful note just here that this is “true cowpox,” as the doctors declared in this last case--the kind of “true cowpox” that is likely to arise at any time from the dangerous infecting operation known as vaccination and the complex infectious material known as vaccine virus, which thus maims or kills its victims by general blood poisoning and by horrible vesicular and pustular eruptions inside and outside the body. And at this stage, Mr. President, I would like to call your special attention to a most significant medical fact which now stands out clearly in the chain of vaccination horrors here disclosed, and this fact is that all the cases occurring in cattle and mankind, herein shown, from the first epidemic of foot and mouth disease in 1902 to the last isolated case of the English baby in 1918, are of _identical type_, which cannot be mistaken, so that the description of one case will describe all--both in cattle and mankind. Now, surely this identity of type indicates identity in cause and origin, as we see, for example, that the cattle and human cases in 1902 are identical with the case of the English baby in 1918, although separated by a time interval of sixteen years, and a geographical distance over continent and ocean--from Boston to Birmingham--of three thousand miles!

Now, the experts of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, who have studied the epidemics of foot and mouth disease in 1902 and 1908 and proved that they were caused by the manufacture of vaccine virus, seem to be of the positive opinion that foot and mouth disease of cattle is a specific disease distinct from “vaccinia” or “cowpox,” and that it was due to some mere chance or accidental infection getting into some strains of vaccine virus that this cattle disease was conveyed to animals and mankind in said epidemics. This theory may be true, but I do not think it has yet been proved, and I believe that it is more probable that the very complex disease known as cowpox or vaccinia is capable at any time of conveying to animals or man the dangerous infection known as “foot and mouth disease,” “Pemphigus,” “virulent cowpox” or “generalized vaccinia,” and that these diseases are not distinct but are identical and confusible with each other, and that the several cases herein shown prove this latter theory, as they are all identical in type although separated by long intervals of time and long distances of space and all occurring as a direct result of vaccination! Furthermore, a great many cases like that of the Albany architect in 1908 and the English baby in 1918 have occurred in England in the past few years and are generally treated as a great mystery by the vaccinating doctors, although they are, in fact, quite common and their relation to vaccination obvious, and these cases are usually called “generalized vaccinia,” “overflow of vaccination” or “Pemphigus” by the English coroners who have passed on many fatal vaccinations of this type in the last ten years.

If, therefore, it is still maintained that foot and mouth disease is distinct from vaccinia, then it seems that this deadly cattle plague has now become a permanent taint in the different strains of vaccine virus used in this country and in England! On the other hand, if foot and mouth disease is not distinct from vaccinia, then it is proved that the horrible and deadly cases of vaccinal disease herein exposed are a normal or regular effect of ordinary vaccination, likely to result at any time therefrom, and to produce epidemics in cattle or mankind; and this proof, therefore, makes general vaccination obviously a much more dangerous and deadly disease than natural smallpox! Surely, Mr. President, this shocking fact calls for immediate attention and the abolishment of all compulsory vaccination, as being now more dangerous to human health and life than the natural disease it is designed to prevent, and this shocking fact can be easily proved by such examples as already given and by many others now concealed and withheld in our vital records, as already solemnly charged in my general public challenge on page vi.

VACCINATION IS DOCTORED SMALLPOX. IT ASSUMES VARIOUS FORMS AND IS OFTEN WORSE THAN NATURAL SMALLPOX

The doctors apply the terms “generalized vaccinia” to any form of vaccinal disease where the eruption becomes _general_ over the body, as in smallpox, instead of being localized and confined to the vaccination wound. Now, there are two types of this generalized vaccinia--the first being shown in Fig. 5 and the second in Figs. 11, 12 and 13. In the first type, the eruption advances to the full pustular stage and the pustules remain either separate or run together in large confluent masses, and these scab over with a dry crust or scab, the same as in confluent smallpox, which it greatly resembles and to which it is equivalent in nature and deadly result, as is fully shown in Fig. 5. In the other type, the eruption does not advance to the pustular stage, but continues in the vesicular and half-pustular stage and runs together into large confluent blisters which do not scab over, but break and excoriate, leaving large denuded or raw sores on the skin like scalds or burns, as shown in Figs. 11, 12 and 13. Now, it is this latter form which is identical with “foot and mouth disease” and “Pemphigus,” and, if anything, it is more agonizing and deadly than the other form and is much more severe and fatal than ordinary, natural smallpox, although, perhaps, not so contagious, as clearly proved by the many horrible cases in child, adult and domestic animals herein illustrated.

It should, therefore, be clearly understood at this point that vaccination as now practiced is really only a form of human smallpox or “variola” combined with “cowpox” and that the vaccine virus now in use is produced directly from and originates in the virus of human smallpox, which is transplanted on the body of the cow and thence used on the human body, so that it necessarily conveys both human and cow infections to the human body; whereas the original vaccination of Jenner was taken from some much disputed or unknown disease in the horse or cow and thence transferred directly to the human arm, and thence from arm to arm. This was found to be such a dangerous practice that it was long ago condemned and abandoned, and the present practice of combined human and bovine smallpox adopted, which I believe to be as dangerous as the old arm-to-arm vaccination--if not more so. As present vaccination is, therefore, a combination of human smallpox and cow disease, should there be any wonder if it should convey to the human body, at any time, some mild or deadly form of smallpox, or some mild or deadly form of cow disease as shown in the several cases herein illustrated? And it is a serious question here whether these cases of cow disease and vaccinal disease herein illustrated are not all really only various forms of that very various disease known as “variola” or smallpox and all caused by vaccination, which is itself, essentially, smallpox at base and origin! Indeed, many students of this subject believe that modern vaccination, which originates from smallpox virus, is partly responsible for causing modern epidemics of smallpox, just as the old prohibited inoculation with smallpox virus was proved to spread the disease and cause epidemics which declined as soon as this inoculation was abandoned and prohibited by penal law. In the same way smallpox has declined in every modern sanitary community where vaccination has been reduced or abandoned, as already shown on page 22, and this being the fact, the abolishment of all compulsory vaccination, and the allowance of voluntary vaccination only, must, surely, to say the least, commend itself to all thoughtful and reasonable minds as a most wise, safe and conservative sanitary and hygienic reform!

It should also be understood at this point that investigators have, so far, failed to discover or isolate the specific germs of smallpox “vaccinia” and foot and mouth disease, but these germs are all known to belong to the class of microbes termed “ultra-microscopic” and “filterable,” that is, so fine and minute that they cannot be distinguished by the microscope and will pass through the finest filters without change. This shows that the germ of foot and mouth disease, whatever it may be, is in the same class with that of smallpox and vaccinia, and may ultimately prove to be identical or closely related, as I contend and believe to be the fact.

PROOF THAT VACCINATION CAUSES MONGREL SMALLPOX AND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AND THAT THE NATURE OF THE VACCINAL ERUPTIONS PROVES THE IDENTITY OF THESE DISEASES

The nature and location of the eruptions found in natural smallpox and in “Generalized Vaccination,” “Acute Pemphigus,” “Virulent Cowpox” and “Foot and Mouth Disease” conclusively prove that these several diseases are closely related, or identical in their essential nature, and are probably varieties of the same generic disease.

For example, no disease but smallpox and its relatives has the profuse vesicular or partly pustular eruptions _on the inside of the mouth and throat_ combined with vesicular or pustular eruptions, usually of “umbilicated” form, on the skin of the body and limbs. Now, these characteristic and combined eruptions are distinctly found in both the animal and human cases of virulent cowpox or foot and mouth disease shown herein and all caused by, and originating from, vaccination, which is, of course, in itself, nothing but a form of smallpox in substance and origin. These characteristic eruptions are particularly well shown in the human cases illustrated in Figs. 11, 12 and 13, also in the case of the negro naval carpenter on page 122, and in the case of the English baby on page 123, which latter is a particularly complete, frightful and convincing case of this positive proof against vaccination. Substantially the same conditions exist also in the many cases of Foot and Mouth Disease in cattle, illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, 8½ and 9, in all of which cases the same eruptions occur inside the mouth and throat and on the feet, teats and udder, and sometimes on other parts of the external skin similar to what occur in the human subject. For typical eruptions on teats and udder, see Fig. 8½, page 95, taken from _Farmers’ Bulletin_, No. 666, before cited, issued by U. S. Department of Agriculture.

AN INDICTMENT AGAINST BOVINE VACCINATION

If, therefore, the apologists for vaccination now wish to deny or excuse its responsibility for causing Mongrel Smallpox or Foot and Mouth Disease in animals and man, as herein clearly shown, they cannot do so, as the cases here illustrated surely carry their own proof on their very faces, as just pointed out, and each case carries the “sign manual” of this deadly vaccination-pox branded on the body of each victim, so plain, indelible and convicting that no vaccination apology can erase it.

I, therefore, believe that the facts now herein disclosed constitute nothing less than a moral and medical indictment against all Bovine Vaccination, particularly that evil practice of compulsory vaccination which would force this dangerous disease of “vaccination-pox” upon child or adult, soldier or sailor, against free will and consent, and under the false representation that it is necessary for health and is perfectly safe and harmless, whereas it is, in fact, highly dangerous to human and animal life and frequently more dangerous and fatal than natural smallpox, as fully demonstrated in these pages.

HOW ONE STRAIN OF VACCINE VIRUS ORIGINATED FROM ONE SMALLPOX TRAMP--AND AN INFECTED COW. SHOCKING LETTER FROM A MANUFACTURER OF VIRUS TO A DOCTOR

The ---- Vaccine Farms,

Dr. ---- & Co., Proprietors.

The Largest and Most Complete Vaccine Establishment in the
World. Only Vaccine Awarded a Medal by The World’s Columbian
Exposition.

M ---- Pa., Oct. 25, 1906.

Dr. J. W. Hodge,
Niagara Falls, N. Y.

Dear Doctor:

In response to your inquiry of the 22nd inst., we beg to state
that Vaccine Virus or its active principle is a subject about
which very little is definitely known. We are only able to
arrive at the results obtained from certain conditions.

It was thought by Dr. ----, the founder of our establishment,
that he had discovered a case of spontaneous cowpox, and we
have been using as one of our strains of seed virus, this
source for nearly twenty years. It later developed, however,
that the case referred to evidently was inoculated by a tramp
having smallpox and who slept in the stable....

We regret our inability to give you more definite information
on the subject, but trust the above may be of some value to you.

Very truly yours,
Dr. ---- & Co.
By ----------- .,
Manager.

This letter surely speaks for itself, with shocking force, as to the vile known and unknown nature of vaccine virus, and needs no further comment here.

Biological Department,

PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY,

Home Offices and Laboratories.

Detroit, Mich., March 27, 1905.

Mr. Chas. M. Higgins, 271 Ninth St.,

Brooklyn, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Your communication on the subject of vaccine virus has been
received and contents noted.