Chapter VI: Part 6

What you say about the confusion existing in the minds of the
medical profession as shown by medical text-books regarding
the origin of vaccine is entirely true. No one seems to know
positively the exact nature of this product. It would seem
to us, however, that the theory that cowpox is but modified
smallpox, is the most tenable one. Particularly does this seem
true in view of the facts reported by Dr. Monckton Copeman,
Director of the Government Vaccine work in London, that he had
been able to take smallpox virus, transmit it to monkeys, from
monkeys to heifers, and from heifers to man, the resulting
vaccination on the human subject being identically the same as
that produced by vaccine as ordinarily prepared. Furthermore it
was shown that the persons vaccinated with this vaccine, when
exposed to smallpox, were immune. In other words, the chain of
evidence seems very complete, that by properly transferring
the smallpox virus from man to animals of different species it
became so modified in the transmission that, when applied to
heifers, it produced typical vaccinia, and was found to fill
every requirement as a means of protecting against smallpox
when applied to unimmunized children.

On theoretical grounds it seems to us that this is a very
plausible explanation of the origin of vaccinia. During
Jenner’s time smallpox was very prevalent and nothing could
be more natural than for persons recovering from smallpox
to transmit the disease to the udders of cows, producing an
infection which, on account of the difference in the species of
the animal, modified the smallpox virus.

Regretting that we are unable to state more positively the
exact relation between the two diseases and the origin of the
seed as used by manufacturers, we remain,

Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) PARKE, DAVIS & CO.

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.

This letter, like the preceding one, frankly admits the doubt, ignorance and confusion as to the origin of vaccine virus, and the practically unknown origin and nature of the seed virus used by manufacturers, except that it most probably originates in human smallpox, pure and simple. This letter is given in full on the left and speaks clearly for itself and is worth reading carefully on this most important point as it shows the crude, unknown and unscientific basis of all bovine vaccination which is proved out of the mouths of the arch-vaccinators themselves. See also page 82.

AN ENGLISH SAILOR LOSES HIS ARM FROM COWPOX VACCINATION

CASE OF HENRY PLANT

On September 1, 1911, at the age of eighteen years and eight months, Henry Plant was admitted into the Royal Navy, at Wolverhampton, as a second-class stoker, and passed a searching medical examination by a naval doctor at Birmingham. He was sent to Portsmouth, served on the “Victory” till September 24, and was then drafted to the “Renown.” Shortly afterwards he was vaccinated in three places, high up on the left shoulder. On October 19, 1911, he was admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, suffering from influenza. Severe shooting pains from the left shoulder to the finger-tips developed, and for sixteen days he was treated for rheumatism. After sixteen days’ intense suffering an operation was performed, an abscess was discovered, and from this time till the arm was amputated on July 9, 1912, the poor fellow suffered unceasingly. Four Members of Parliament took up the case, and the final result was a compassionate grant of £50 compensation and the offer of a situation at Devonport under the Admiralty. Representatives worked for nearly seven months to secure justice for the young man, and though the Admiralty have never admitted that the loss of the arm was due to vaccination, their action in compensating Plant is an admission of responsibility. The facts in this and the following case are taken from a circular issued by The National Anti-Vaccination League, London.

DEATH OF AN ENGLISH SOLDIER FROM TYPHOID VACCINATION. A TYPICAL CASE

The _Finchley Press_, for November 13, 1914, contained the following particulars:

“MILITARY HONOURS.

“FUNERAL OF A FINCHLEY DRILL-INSTRUCTOR YESTERDAY.

“Drill-Instructor Nichols, of 42, Sedgemere Avenue, who was
well known in Finchley, has passed away at the age of fifty-one
as the result of _the after effects of inoculation_. A big,
strong, healthy-looking man, the news will come as a surprise
to those who knew him.

“There was a large attendance at St. Marylebone Cemetery at the
funeral yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, when Mr. Nichols was
buried with military honours.”

A resident at East Finchley sent the following particulars to the Anti-Vaccination League of London:

“Mr. Nichols had been a Territorial for about eight years, and
as a boy was intended for Sandhurst College, but circumstances
prevented this. A keen soldier, and particularly clever
at drilling recruits, he was being kept for Home Service.
Understanding that inoculation was compulsory for the men, he
underwent the operation as an example and encouragement.

FIG. 16. Sergeant H. Nichols, of East Finchley, England,
died on November 4, 1914, from the effects of anti-typhoid
inoculation.
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“On Saturday, October 24, he was inoculated a second time on
the left side of chest. He was taken ill at once and went home
to bed, complaining of a dreadful beating on the top of his
brain. On the Monday he reported himself ill and was given
the half-day off with the others, but passed for duty for the
Tuesday and Wednesday and sent on an eight-mile march. On the
Thursday he woke up with severe trembling, later on partial
paralysis set in with very severe delirium, kidney trouble,
swollen tongue and many other distressing symptoms. Also
his heart, which had always been passed as perfectly sound,
was very bad. Two nurses and his own doctor (a believer in
inoculation) attended him. On the day of his death, November 4,
his pulse was 144.

“Sergeant Nichols was a very strong man, never ill, and looked
more like forty than fifty years of age. His photograph
indicates his ‘fitness.’ For some time before his death he
did sergeant’s work and was known as full platoon sergeant,
but the papers verifying this only came through, Mrs. Nichols
understood, just about the time of his death, so that he is
described as corporal on death certificate, but she says he had
a sergeant’s funeral and is described as such on the gravestone.

“Mr. Nichols’ death was a great shock to his friends, some of
whom saw him two weeks before death, when he was telling them
how ‘very fit’ he was feeling, and how thoroughly his heart was
in his work.”

The death certificate in this case gives the cause of death as:

1. “Anti-Typhoid Vaccination.” 2. “Pneumonia.”

SICKNESS AND DEATH FROM VACCINATIONS IN U. S. ARMY

We cite this fatal English case here out of many others on record in this country and England because it is so typical and such a plain example of many cases of sickness and death caused by typhoid vaccination since its adoption several years ago. How many cases of illness or death have been truly caused by this and other kinds of vaccination in the Army and Navy, in recent years, can probably be accurately determined only by a special committee of investigation appointed by the Commander-in-Chief or by Congress, and so selected as to be entirely free of any medical or professional interest or bias.

The office of the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army in answer to my request for information on this point admits that many cases of sickness have been caused by smallpox and typhoid vaccination in the Army in the year 1917, but states that no deaths have been caused by any form of vaccination in said year 1917, and that the data for the year 1918 are not yet available. The figures admitted for sickness from the two forms of vaccination stated seem to be serious and significant and are now given below in the words of the letter addressed to me from the Surgeon General’s office, March 15, 1919, as follows:

“The number of men admitted to sick report during 1917 for
typhoid vaccination was 10,549, or a rate of 15.54 for each one
thousand men.

“For smallpox vaccination the number admitted was 9,059, or a
rate of 13.35 for each one thousand men.

“The total number of days lost as the result of typhoid
vaccination was 28,679 and for smallpox 34,814.”

Now, I think that this shows a rather serious and significant amount of sickness which can thus incapacitate about fifteen men out of every thousand for several days, or about one and a half per cent. of the whole Army! And, surely, where such deliberately inflicted vaccinal diseases forced on the soldiers cause such an amount of sickness as is here admitted, they are also likely to cause death in some cases and do frequently cause death in many cases, as I have already demonstrated beyond question.

I, therefore, believe that the statement that no deaths have been caused in the U. S. Army from vaccination in 1917 is possibly not correct, and that a careful investigation by unbiased investigators would probably show that many deaths have been so caused directly or indirectly by the present barbarous system of compulsory vaccination, or inflicted disease, which admittedly causes so much sickness. Vaccinating doctors who believe in this barbarism of compulsory disease and force it upon their helpless patients under the false pleas that it is actually necessary, perfectly harmless and surely effective, have obviously an evil professional bias and interest to deny and conceal the real facts whenever some “complication” or “infection” caused by the vaccination arises and extends and finally kills the patient; and in such case the coercive doctor can very easily satisfy his conscience and compromise “statistics” by recording the death as due solely to one or more of the “complications” and not at all to the vaccination, which, as a matter of fact, I know to be a common thing with vaccinators in civic practice. Indeed, it is admitted in official reports that a similar careless practice as to false diagnosis and incorrect report of cause of death exists in some cases in the U. S. Army where, for example, actual typhoid fever in vaccinated men had been reported as “Influenza” and where death of vaccinated men from typhoid was entered as due solely to one of the complications such as “Peritonitis,” “Broncho-Pneumonia,” etc. See page 207, showing failure of vaccination in U. S. Army, from Report of the Chief Surgeon of the A. E. F. in France.

The English example of Sergeant Nichols, above given, well illustrates the very grave and sudden illness frequently caused by typhoid vaccination, sometimes resulting in death and usually involving some form of paralysis, heart failure, meningitis and pneumonia, as in this Nichols case, where evidently paralysis and pneumonia were the two chief complicating and terminal diseases which resulted in death. This fact is very significant here because meningitis and pneumonia are now two of the chief causes of death in the Army, and there is a strong chain of evidence showing that these two diseases have a positive relation to vaccination and are probably caused or aggravated thereby, and this point is most important in showing the dangerous infecting nature of vaccination both in itself and in its relation to and combination with other disease infections, as I will prove in the next paragraph.

MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL POINT ESTABLISHED. RELATION OF VACCINATION TO THE TWO CHIEF CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE ARMY--PNEUMONIA AND MENINGITIS--PROVED

It is a most interesting and suggestive fact that two of the chief causes of death in the Army are meningitis and pneumonia, and it is also most significant that the Army death-rate from these two diseases, both relatively and absolutely, is much higher than in the civil population, although the Army is composed of picked men of the highest physical type and best health, while the civil population contains all the weaklings and diseased and the average types. On this important point see the latest Report of the Surgeon General of the United States Army for 1918, covering the statistics of the year 1917. On pages 44, 236, 285 and 286 in this report it is shown that the chief causes of death in the Army in 1917 were pneumonia, measles and meningitis in the order stated, and that pneumonia causes about thirty-two per cent. of all deaths, measles thirty per cent., meningitis ten per cent. and scarlet fever about two per cent. As regards the greater frequency of these diseases in the Army than in the civil population, it is shown at page 236 that measles is two hundred times more frequent, meningitis fifteen times more frequent, pneumonia twelve times more frequent, and scarlet fever ten times more frequent in the Army than in the civil population! It is, therefore, believed that this extraordinarily high death-rate in the Army from meningitis and pneumonia, where it should be the lowest, is due to the extensive repeated and multiple vaccinations of various kinds now used in the Army, which greatly exceed the ratio of vaccination in the civil population. This fact, combined with the closely related fact that meningitis and pneumonia are regularly and constantly two of the most common complications in fatal cases of vaccination, furnishes convincing proof of the possible responsibility of vaccination for being the cause of the epidemics of meningitis and pneumonia in our excessively vaccinated Army within the last two years. For example, in many of the cases of fatal vaccination, which I have investigated, or have on record, for several years past, I find that pneumonia and meningitis figure as the chief complicating diseases which have caused death in acting as a secondary, double, or mixed infection with the primary infection of the vaccination, and that these two diseases are the most common complications together with septicemia and lockjaw in all fatal vaccinations. Indeed, the several fatal vaccinations illustrated in this chapter of vaccination horrors prove this point clearly, as most of them show pneumonia or meningitis or both as the fatal complications. For example, in the case of the Waters boy described on page 168, it appears from the autopsy and hospital report in my possession that pneumonia and meningitis were the fatal complications with the vaccination and are set down in these records as the chief causes of death.

Likewise, in the case of the English soldier and the English baby on pages 135 and 123, pneumonia appears as the complicating disease and the final cause of death in both cases. Furthermore, in Dr. Howe’s six fatal cases in 1902, described on page 113, one of which is illustrated in Fig. 11, page 110, it was found that severe lung lesions existed in four of these cases involving lobar and broncho-pneumonia and pleurisy. In the eleven cases of fatal vaccination taken from Mr. Loyster’s pamphlet on pages 145 to 159, meningitis figures as the fatal complication in three cases, paralysis in three cases and lockjaw in five cases.

In explanation of these several cases where vaccination has evidently acted as a primary infection, complicated with the secondary or mixed infection of some other co-acting disease, it may be stated that the germs of these very deadly diseases, such as lockjaw, meningitis and pneumonia, seem to be normally diffused widely in the human body, or in its surroundings, where they are normally perfectly inert, dormant and harmless, but are aroused into deadly activity by the dangerous primary infecting action of vaccination, which, being a pus or septicemic infection, seems to provide conditions for the growth or activation of the dormant disease germs which would otherwise remain perfectly harmless, just as gunpowder remains perfectly inert and harmless until touched by an igniting spark. And it would, therefore, seem that vaccination thus evidently acts as an igniter or “activator” to these dormant indwelling infections and causes the double or “mixed infection” which finally produces the deadly effect. In fact, it seems that most deaths are caused by double or mixed infections, or by several diseases acting in combination or complication, and that comparatively few deaths are caused by one simple disease acting alone. And it also seems to be a fact that the vitality of the human body is usually so great and its natural safeguards so many that it ordinarily yields only to a complicated attack of several diseases combined. If this view is correct, and it seems to accord with modern medical theories and experience, then the folly of the whole scheme of multiple vaccinations seems to be apparent in the evident fallacy of expecting to defend the body against natural infections by filling it with a whole series of inflicted infections which arouse the most deadly but dormant infections already in the body! Furthermore, many of these inflicted infections are almost purely experimental and unknown as to their really final or ultimate effect. In other cases the infections are known to be more or less dangerous and deadly in their possibilities, and even at their best have the effect only of giving immunity for a short while, perhaps for a few months, from such comparatively minor diseases as smallpox and typhoid fever, while they make the human body more susceptible to diseases of ten or one hundred times greater frequency and fatality, such as pneumonia, meningitis, measles and scarlet fever.

At this point we might again quote from one of the latest medical works and one of the leading doctors of to-day, viz., from Osler’s “Principles and Practice of Medicine,” eighth edition, 1918, page 330, where the point just argued is clearly recognized as to the effect of vaccination in exciting other diseases and is expressed in these distinct words:

“Influence of Vaccination Upon Other Diseases: A quiescent
malady may be lighted into activity by vaccination. This
has happened with congenital syphilis, occasionally with
tuberculosis.”

Now, as regards the extraordinary prevalence of the two other diseases, scarlet fever and measles, in the Army, it is a rather strange and suggestive coincidence that these two deadly infantile diseases are more closely related to smallpox and vaccination than any other known diseases,--so much so, in fact, that in olden times they were actually considered as forms of smallpox and were not differentiated therefrom as in modern times; and they are, of course, very often, to-day, confounded with smallpox by inexpert doctors before the eruption is fully developed, or in mild types of smallpox which are often mistaken for scarlet fever or measles. These facts would therefore seem to indicate that the excessive smallpox or cowpox vaccinations in the army may have had some relation to the excessive measles and scarlet fever as well as to the excessive pneumonia and meningitis; and this point is worthy of careful consideration, to say the least, and cannot be consistently or logically ignored by any unbiased student of epidemic diseases and present-day medical practices.

I therefore submit, Mr. President, that in the many co-related and convincing facts above stated, there is surely presented a strong chain of circumstantial evidence showing that the excessive vaccination in the Army and Navy may be the cause of the excessive death-rate from meningitis and pneumonia, and in this showing there is surely to be found the strongest and most compelling reason why all compulsory vaccination should now be permanently abolished in the Army and Navy, and only voluntary vaccination permitted hereafter.

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS ILLUSTRATED. HOW LITTLE CHILDREN ARE INFECTED AND KILLED BY INFLICTED DISEASE IN THE “SAVAGE RITE” OF VACCINATION

“The Medicine Man performs his Savage Rites.”
_From Harper’s Weekly, February 24, 1912._
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This picture, with its expressive title, is taken from an old number of _Harper’s Weekly_ and shows how vaccination commences in the acts of wounding and infecting the forced, frightened, suffering and protesting children. The following pages will show how this medical savagery ends in the disabling and death of so many of our little children all over this land from blood poisoning in its many different forms, caused by or resulting from the vaccination. This slaughter of our precious children now reaches a most serious and shocking figure every year, far in excess of deaths from smallpox, and this fact is most persistently and shamefully denied and concealed by our vaccinating doctors, who, at present, control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics. Surely this medical savagery, proved by so many flagrant and undeniable examples in the preceding and following pages, cries out to Human and to Divine Justice for a Radical Medical Reform, which should be either the Abolishment of All Vaccination or the Abolishment of All Compulsion.

SOME LEAVES FROM
MR. LOYSTER’S PAMPHLET

“VACCINATION RESULTS IN NEW YORK
STATE IN 1914”

SHOWING PHOTOS AND PARTICULARS
OF MANY CHILDREN
KILLED BY VACCINATION IN 1914

_By_ JAMES A. LOYSTER
CAZENOVIA, N. Y.

In Memory of his Son
Lewis Freeborn Loyster

who Died September 21, 1914
as a sequence of
Vaccination

_Note._ Mr. Loyster’s full pamphlet contains forty pages
showing fifty-one cases of vaccinal disasters, thirty of which
were fatal. Only about a third of these fatal cases have been
selected for illustration here.--C. M. H.

INTRODUCTION

THE object of this pamphlet is to publish the result of a painstaking inquiry into the effects of vaccination in the State of New York in 1914.

My immediate personal interest in the subject is due to the death of my only son as a result of vaccination.

I have been a believer in and advocate of vaccination. I was myself vaccinated in childhood by the arm-to-arm method without ill effects. It was in accordance with this belief and in an honest effort to comply with the law that I had my son vaccinated. Even his death did not entirely shake my faith in the practice, but it led me to make an investigation of the results of vaccination in New York State in 1914. Owing to the difficulty of making a canvass in the great cities, no effort was made to collect statistics in New York and Buffalo, and but little in Rochester, Syracuse or Albany. My investigations were, therefore, practically confined to the rural or semi-rural portions of the State.

The result has been the gathering of such an appalling story of death and illness as to completely shatter my belief in the wisdom of enforced vaccination.

It should be understood that I am not a physician. This leaves me free to write with greater frankness in certain instances than would be permitted to a doctor by the ethics of his profession.

I desire to be understood as seeking nothing but the common good of humanity. In the pages that follow I have attempted to write without bias as far as is humanly possible. Only established facts are presented; extravagant statements have been avoided; in no single instance has a quotation been made from an anti-vaccination source. I have felt that my case is so strong that I could afford to be generous in my arguments.

The reader is invited to go over the facts as presented and draw his own conclusions as to the accuracy of the deductions made.

JAMES A. LOYSTER.

Cazenovia, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1915.

_Note_. In the group pictures on the following pages the star
indicates the victim of vaccination.--C. M. H.

CASE No. 1

OLIVE CRAMER, daughter of Fred Cramer, 22 E. State St.,
Gloversville, N. Y.

Age 15.

Vaccinated July 28 with vaccine “E.”

Commenced to complain Aug. 24,--27 days from vaccination.

Died Aug. 27.

Diagnosis, “Tetanus following Vaccination.”

This young woman’s health prior to vaccination is reported to
have been “one hundred per cent. perfect.” She commenced to
complain Aug. 24, and was stricken with convulsions Aug. 26.
Death occurred at 11:15 P.M. on Aug. 27. She was conscious
all the time except the last few hours. Jaws were locked and
breathing labored. A brother vaccinated with the same tube of
vaccine was so ill as to require an operation.

CASE No. 2

FREDERICK W. BOHMWETCH, son of F. J. Bohmwetch, 308 Eighth St.,
Watkins, N. Y.

Age 10.

Vaccinated Aug. 5.

Commenced to complain Aug. 29,--24 days after vaccination.

Died Sept. 2.

Diagnosis, “Tetanus.”

Complained first of stiff neck and arm. Aug. 30 diagnosed as
lockjaw. Three thousand units antitoxin administered. Grew
rapidly worse. Convulsions appeared at 3 A.M., Aug. 31. At 9
A.M., 10,000 units antitoxin administered; again at 9 P.M. Head
and back drawn back so that three pillows were necessary under
small of back. More antitoxin administered Sept. 1. Unconscious
at noon. Died Sept. 2.

CASE No. 3

REGINALD SIDNEY SUMSION, only son of Geo. Sumsion,
Gloversville, N. Y.

Age 12.

Vaccinated Aug. 11 with vaccine “E.”

Died Sept. 11.

Diagnosis, “Tetanus.”

This boy was “splendidly healthy.” Never sick except with usual
children’s diseases, until vaccinated. First complained that
the back of his neck and jaw were stiff. On the 7th could not
walk. Convulsions appeared. Antitoxin administered. Removed
to hospital. Convulsions continued very severe. Chloroform
administered. Convulsions continued through the 7th and 8th.
Very weak on afternoon of 9th. Oxygen administered at 6 P.M.
Died 6:45 A.M., Sept. 11. No abrasion of any kind found on body
except vaccination wound.

CASE No. 7

FREDERICK STINEFOOT, only son of William H. Stinefoot, No. 226
Mullett St., Dunkirk, N. Y.

Age 10.

Vaccinated Sept. 22.

Commenced to complain Oct. 5,--13 days from vaccination.

Died Oct. 13.

Diagnosed “Tetanus.”

This child was in splendid health. The night before he was
stricken he was feeling especially well. On Monday morning his
neck was stiff and shoulders all drawn up. Dr. Hallenbeck was
called but he insisted that the family physician be employed.
He was out and Dr. Ellis, the health officer, was called.
The case was diagnosed as tetanus. Convulsions appeared at 6
o’clock. No serum was available until Tuesday, Oct. 6, about
10 A.M. A quantity injected intra-spinously. Removed to Brooks
Hospital, Dunkirk, about 4 P.M. same day and died fifteen
minutes after admission.

CASE No. 8

JAMES LOUIS MURRAY, son of James T. Murray, Glen Cove, L. I.

Age 6.

Vaccinated Sept. 15, vaccine “H.”

Commenced to complain Oct. 3,--18 days from vaccination.

Died Oct. 10.

Diagnosed “Tetanus.”

This child had no prolonged period of unconsciousness. He had
convulsions and other typical symptoms of tetanus. His health
is reported good prior to vaccination.

CASE No. 18

EDWARD JOHNSON, son of J. Johnson, No. 65 South St.,
Binghamton, N. Y.

Age 11 years 7 months.

Vaccinated Aug. 6, vaccine “E.”

Commenced to complain Aug. 14,--8 days from vaccination.

Died Aug. 26.

First diagnosed “Blood Poison.”

Subsequent diagnosis “Typhoid Meningitis.”

Patient had been in perfect health prior to vaccination. He was
ordered to hospital for an operation to which parents would not
consent. There were no convulsions. He was unconscious about a
week. Paralysis of the throat a prominent symptom. Breathing
much labored.

Both this case and No. 17 were subjects of sharp controversy
among doctors and others in the city of Binghamton. There is
no lack of medical opinion as to vaccination having been the
primary cause of illness, but this is stoutly denied by other
physicians. Considered collectively with the similar cases
herewith reported, it seems that there can be little doubt of
their being similar to the rest of the vaccination fatalities.

CASE No. 19

BELLE HINMAN, daughter of Prof. M. C. Hinman, Tully, N. Y.

Age 7.

Vaccinated July 25, vaccine “H.”

Commenced to complain Aug. 7,--12 days from vaccination.

Died Aug. 10.

First diagnosis, “Acute Indigestion.”

Final diagnosis, “Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.”

This little girl was also in perfect health and unusually well developed for age, both physically and mentally. She complained of feeling ill on Aug. 7 with symptoms indicating a digestive disturbance. The local physician called it acute indigestion. She soon lapsed into unconsciousness and never rallied. Expert counsel was called and case pronounced cerebro-spinal meningitis. A lumbar puncture disclosed in spinal column a clear fluid under normal pressure. Cultures were sterile; intra-spinous injection of the Flexner serum without beneficial effects. Paralysis was extensive, involving the throat; breathing labored and death due to respiratory insufficiency. Temperature elevated during entire illness. All symptoms were so exactly parallel to those of Cases 24 and 25 as to warrant the suspicion that this, too, was infantile paralysis.

CASE No. 20

JAMES C. CHURCHILL, son of Carl F. Churchill, Dolgeville, N. Y.

Age 5 years 9 months.

Vaccinated about Feb. 12, vaccine “H.”

Commenced to complain in a few days.

Died July 23.

Diagnosed “Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.”

This boy had good health until he was vaccinated. He commenced
to complain in a few days and was never well afterwards. He was
unconscious for 10 days before death. Right side paralyzed.
Compare with Cases 19, 24, 25.

CASE No. 24

WILBUR DOYLE, son of Ivan Doyle, New Woodstock, Madison County,
N. Y.

Age 8.

Vaccinated Aug. 28, vaccine “E.”

Commenced to complain Sept. 9,--11 days from vaccination.

Died Sept. 14.

Diagnosis, “Infantile Paralysis.”

This boy became unconscious Sept. 9. Temperature nearly 106.
Kidneys involved; necessary to use catheter. Temperature
dropped to about normal for few hours. General paralysis
appeared. Throat paralyzed Sept. 13. Could not swallow.
Temperature again became extremely high, reaching 107.4 rectal
at 3 A.M. on the 13th. Remained unconscious until death, which
occurred at 10:35 P.M. Sept. 14.

_Note._ The make of vaccine virus used in the different fatal cases shown herein is indicated by the Code letters “E” and “H.” E indicates the virus made by the Mulford Company of Philadelphia, and H the virus made by Parke Davis & Company of Detroit. These were the two manufacturers whose virus is officially alleged to have caused the epidemic of Foot and Mouth Disease in 1908. See page 99.--C. M. H.

CASE No. 25

LEWIS FREEBORN LOYSTER, son of James A. Loyster, Cazenovia,
N. Y.

Age 11.

Vaccinated Aug. 29, vaccine “E.”

Commenced to complain Sept. 10,--11 days from vaccination.

Died Sept. 21.

Diagnosed “Infantile Paralysis.”

This boy was the picture of health. To quote the attending
physician, he was “a splendid specimen” physically. On the
night of Sept. 10 he had a bad headache. The next morning
at six was no better. At ten he was found by his mother
unconscious. He was very constipated and slightly nauseated.
Vomited once. Examination of urine showed indican in
considerable quantities. The initial diagnosis was acute
indigestion. Blood examined and found normal except for an
excess of white corpuscles, explained as a natural sequence
of vaccination. Unconsciousness continued. On Sept. 13 lumbar
puncture made. Fluid from spinal cord not under pressure;
perfectly transparent, subject to microscopic and culture
tests; proved absolutely sterile. Case diagnosed as infantile
paralysis of the cerebral type. Temperature very high, ranging
from 104 to 106 rectal. About Sept. 14 throat became paralyzed.
For five days could not swallow a drop. Food administered
through rectum; medicine hypodermically. Paralysis of right leg
and arm appeared about Sept. 17. Lungs filled with thick mucus.
Respiration labored. Slight cyanosis. Small amount of oxygen
administered continually after Sept. 16. Death occurred at
10:10 P.M. on Sept. 21 from paralysis of respiratory muscles.
Temperature about 107 at death. Microscopic examination of
spinal cord after death confirmed diagnosis as infantile
paralysis.

CASE No. 27

RUTH A. MINNICK, daughter of S. V. Minnick, R. D. No. 2,
Carthage, N. Y.

Age 10½.

Vaccinated Sept. 22.

Commenced to complain Oct. 2,--10 days from vaccination.

Died Oct. 10.

Diagnosis, “Infantile Paralysis.”

This little girl’s health was perfect. She and her older
brother, age 13, were vaccinated on the same day. Both became
ill, the little girl critically so. She had no convulsions; was
unconscious four days; her throat was paralyzed. Death occurred
as stated. The boy was “very sick” with symptoms “much like the
girl,” but recovered.

CASE No. 28

HOBART MINNICK, son of S. V. Minnick, R. D. No. 2, Carthage.

Vaccinated Sept. 22.

Commenced to complain Oct. 2 (10 days).

Recovered.

This boy, age 13, brother of Ruth Minnick, was vaccinated
from same capsule as sister who died; was very sick with
symptoms “about like the girl,” but recovered with no serious
consequences. It appears almost certain that this was what
may be called an “abortive” or “arrested” case of infantile
paralysis. The fact that he was vaccinated simultaneously
with his sister, who died of a transparent case of infantile
paralysis, is strong presumptive evidence of a common origin
of the two cases in the vaccine. Cumulative evidence of
this common origin in the virus, and of the possibility of
transmitting infantile paralysis by means of the vaccine
abrasion, is found in a _third case in the same house_, as
follows:

CASE No. 29

CHARLES S. MINNICK, son of S. V. Minnick, Carthage, N. Y.

Age 6.

Vaccinated Oct. 6.

Commenced to complain Oct. 16,--10 days from vaccination.

Recovered.

Diagnosis, “Vaccination.”

The first unfavorable symptom was kidney trouble. He was
_unconscious and helpless for two weeks_. Breathing labored.
Is recovering slightly crippled. This also seems to be a
transparent case of infantile paralysis. These three cases in
the same house, with identical symptoms, following vaccination
in exactly the same period of time, furnish the most damaging
evidence against vaccine that has been brought to light in the
present investigation.

MR. LOYSTER’S ARGUMENT AND PROOF THAT INFANTILE PARALYSIS IS CAUSED BY VACCINATION

The theory of the possibility of conveying infantile paralysis through vaccine abrasions as well as the probability of the vaccine having contained the germs receives startling confirmation in three cases in the home of S. V. Minnick of Carthage, reported under numbers 27, 28, and 29. Ruth, 10½, and Hobart, 13, were vaccinated the same day _from the same tube of virus_. Both became very sick in just ten days from vaccination. The boy, being older, recovered, after a severe illness, with symptoms much like the girl. Ruth died after a plain case of infantile paralysis, which was so reported by her attending physician. Four days before the little girl’s death, in compliance with the demand of the school authorities, the little brother, Charles, age 6, was vaccinated. In precisely 10 days he, also, became very sick, with symptoms practically identical with the other two children. He was _unconscious and helpless_ for two weeks, but recovered with a slight residual paralysis. He was attended by another physician and the only diagnosis reported is “vaccination.”

Simultaneous cases of infantile paralysis in the same family have hitherto been so rare as to excite comment. Many physicians with large practice have never had an instance in their entire practice. Here are _three_ in one house.

The theory of “subsequent infection” needs extensive “bracing” in this instance; and then there is Case 19 with onset in 12 days; Case 24, onset in 11 days; Case 25, onset in 11 days; unquestionably paralysis cases, with practically identical incubation periods, all contributing evidence of a common and simultaneous infection. What other possible common origin except the vaccine virus is it possible to place under suspicion? It is unthinkable that these children, widely scattered in different portions of the State, with no history of near-by paralysis cases, could have each accidentally acquired the germ in the vaccination wound exactly ten or eleven days from vaccination. Such a theory presupposes a universal distribution of the poliomyelitis germ entirely at variance with observation and experience.

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_Note._ Vaccination is acknowledged to be one of the causes
of Infantile Paralysis by a recent medical authority on this
subject, Dr. Oskar Vulpius, in a book published by Wm. Wood &
Company of New York, 1912.--C. M. H.

MR. LOYSTER’S CONCLUSIONS

It has been the intent of the writer to present facts rather than to participate in a controversy that is still unsettled after a century of argument; but as a result of the investigation of over fifty vaccination disasters and the almost constant study of vaccination literature for several months, it seems that the following conclusions are warranted and should be frankly stated:

(1) Vaccination has been the cause, directly or indirectly, of the death of at least fifty children in New York State in 1914. The record herewith printed gives only the cases occurring in rural or suburban districts. Neither the time nor means were at hand to make a canvas of the cities. While only 27 fatalities are here recorded, some of which are not clearly proven, it is believed that were the figures from the cities obtainable, possible errors in the list would be more than offset and enough reported to swell the total to the number given.

(2) In addition to the deaths an appalling trail of illness has followed vaccination. It has been entirely beyond the scope of this publication to print even a partial record of these cases.

(3) The cost in illness and destruction of child life is entirely out of proportion to the amount of protection against smallpox that is attained or needed. There were but three deaths from smallpox in the entire State, including Greater New York, in 1914. In one rural district twenty miles in diameter, where four children died from vaccination, there has not been a single case of smallpox within the memory of any person now living.

(4) Vaccination of children is wrong in principle, is not in harmony with the trend of the best medical practice and should be abandoned. It is being more clearly understood every day that many of the serious ills of later years are directly traceable to the so-called children’s diseases. Whereas the tendency was once to encourage the having of such diseases so as to “have them over with,” the tendency now is to keep the child just as free from them as can be, and postpone them to as late an age as possible. A normal vaccination is as serious as some of the diseases of childhood, without taking into further account its sinister possibilities.

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_Note._ I have a few hundred copies of Mr. Loyster’s valuable
pamphlet now in hand, and can furnish full copies, on request,
for ten cents each to cover cost and postage. The substance of
the pamphlet is, however, embodied in the preceding pages.--C.
M. H.

A CRY FOR HELP! HARROWING PERSONAL LETTERS FROM VICTIMS OF VACCINATION. MEDICAL EVIL OF COMPULSORY DISEASE, CAUSING DEFORMITY AND DEATH IN SCHOOL CHILDREN AND OTHERS, DENOUNCED AND REFORM DEMANDED

I have received many touching personal letters, during the past few years, from victims of vaccination and from parents of slaughtered and deformed children, and I now submit extracts from some of these letters to show the horrible nature and extent of this evil and the strong call that is going up all over this country for help to abolish this evil. And this call must surely appeal to every humanized mind, lay or medical, and particularly to all such minds in public place or power, to do what they can for the investigation and legal suppression of this barbarous medical crime of compulsory disease, which is now required by an evil doctor-made law as a condition for entrance to our public schools and for service in the Army and Navy.

_No. 1._ Having read your article in last night’s paper on the
dangers of vaccination I want to compliment you on the work of
enlightening the masses that you and your league are doing.
Both my brother and I are victims of vaccination, having, as
children, after such an inoculation developed a severe disease
of the eyes which has left both my brother’s eyes seriously
impaired, and has left me with a _scar_ directly in front of
the pupil of my right eye, obstructing the vision. Enough
cannot be said to expose the folly of this barbarous practice
of poisoning healthy human beings.--Mr. M., New York City, May
5, 1914.

_No. 2._ After reading your Warning against having children
vaccinated I thought I would take the liberty to write you. I
was always against vaccination, but was told my little girl
could not enter the Public School unless I had her vaccinated,
so I had our own Doctor come in. Before she was vaccinated
she was perfectly well, but her arm turned black and she was
out of her head at times. We were both afraid she would have
blood poison, poor child suffered so. Her picture will show
how healthy she was and the good care she got. But a short
time after her arm got better she got malignant scarlet fever,
and in twenty-four hours she was gone. I shall always lay it
to the vaccination. I hope the time will come when the Health
Board will see the mistake and allow children to go to school
without having that vile stuff put in their healthy bodies. If
I had another child I would keep it from school if it had to be
vaccinated. I sincerely hope others will help you in your good
work against vaccination.--Mrs. S., Brooklyn, N. Y., May 6,
1914.

_No. 3._ I know of a family in Poughkeepsie, three in number,
who are terrible victims of vaccination, father and son
cripples, and mother insane from grief. They have lost their
home owing to the expense of operations caused from effects of
vaccination.--Mrs. T., Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1914.

_No. 4._ I have been told by some people that the visiting
officer would vaccinate against any one’s wishes. I saw a
few cases vaccinated last school term and they have not been
able to attend school in one year. One child was so sick they
had a doctor for four months every day, and is a cripple for
life. Her head is drawn to one side. Another died of blood
poison.--Mrs. V. D., Tivoli, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1914.

_No. 5._ I am in earnest accord with your article in to-day’s
paper. There are many deaths caused by vaccination and the
blame placed on something else. For instance, my boy James
was vaccinated in Chicago some years ago. He was eight years
of age. A week after the vaccination his feet and limbs began
to swell and pain him. Then he took so sick that I called in
Chicago’s most noted physicians and specialists to consult on
the case. They dosed, anointed, injected and did many things
trying to counteract the poison, but all to no avail. The
blessed, innocent little boy suffered the tortures of the
damned; he wasted away and died in horrible agony. The doctor
made out his death certificate, giving the case as “heart
failure.” Now I have another boy eight years of age and I will
go through hell before I will suffer him to have the matter
taken from a festering sore of a cow and injected into his
blood. What course must I pursue to defeat vaccination in this
case?--Mr. O., New York City, Sept. 5, 1914.

_No. 6._ I have a little boy eight years old. When he was four
I found I had to have him vaccinated. I took him to my mother’s
family doctor. He had been our doctor for forty years and
always had great faith in him, and he vaccinated my little boy
who was very strong and healthy. It went into blood poison, his
little arm was so big and swollen, he got feverish and sick and
our doctor was there every day for about a month and he was
not getting any better and finally he told me I had better get
another doctor, that he could do no more and my boy was getting
very bad. I went and got a special doctor. He ordered my boy
taken to a hospital, and there he was, did not know what minute
they would have to cut his little arm off to save his life and
so sick did not know what minute he might die. I don’t know
of any sickness that would be worse than that was. I cannot
describe it in a letter, and ever since he has not been well,
he is so thin and pale and gets tired so easy. I know it is all
on account of that vaccination and now I have two little girls,
twins two years old. I don’t know what I would do if I had to
have them vaccinated, which is indeed barbarous. I do not wish
to see any one vaccinated again and suffer as my little boy
did, his arm is thinner and weaker than the other one is. I do
hope something can be done so our little children won’t have to
be vaccinated.--Mrs. J., Herkimer, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1914.

_No. 7._ I was made an invalid and helpless for a number of
years from the effects of vaccination while attending College
at Boston, Mass. If I can do anything to help you put out this
practice I will be only too glad to write and give you my
experience in full. It put me out of teaching and earning my
living for ten years.--Miss S., Hoosick, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1914.

_No. 8._ In answer to your kind letter expressing your deep
sympathy for the loss of my two boys, I thank you, and will
try and enlighten you the best I can. The virus that was used
to vaccinate my children was the product of H. K. Mulford Co.
of Philadelphia. My family doctor and the consulting physician
diagnosed the case as Tetanus, caused by the virus. The
children were hurried to the Penna. Hospital at Philadelphia,
where the hospital physicians made the same statement. Chas.
and Fred were two very healthy boys, never had a sick day, that
is, to require the services of a doctor, they were vaccinated
Sept. 2d, showed no signs of illness. Monday evening, Sept.
27th, complained of sore throat, Tuesday grew worse, bodies
began to get rigid. Operated on about 5:30 and given Antitoxin.
Died 2:35 and 5:25 Wednesday A.M. In talking with a Mr. C. who
is investigating the matter, he claims that a person who has
been vaccinated may have smallpox and not show it outwardly, so
that the preventive is as bad as the disease, and I consider it
an unnecessary operation forced upon the people.--Mr. H. P.,
Burlington, N. J., Oct. 7, 1915.

To this last letter the following answer was sent:

Dear Sir: I thank you very much for your kind letter of
Oct. 7th, giving me particulars as to the death of your two
precious little boys from lockjaw caused by vaccination, and I
hardly know how to express my horror at this misfortune and
my sympathy with you in what, as you say, was an “entirely
unnecessary operation forced upon the people”: but I have
now determined, from a knowledge of a large number of cases
like yours, which are occurring all over the country, to do
everything I can for the balance of my life to bring about the
repeal and prohibition of all compulsory vaccination in every
shape and form as nothing less than a medical crime on the
people. Within the last week three children have been killed in
our own city from this evil.

I have spent fully twenty-five thousand dollars in the last
year in a newspaper campaign in our State to enlighten the
people as to the great falsehoods and fatalities of compulsory
vaccination and to bring about the repeal of the law, but the
medical powers in the State, which profit by vaccination, had
too much influence in the legislature and the law was only
slightly altered, so as to take compulsory vaccination off the
country districts and put it stronger on the ten large cities
in the State where the enforcement of the law will be more
profitable to the vaccinators. This new law is, however, so bad
and illegal that I think it can be easily invalidated in our
courts, and I shall continue to fight it until it is completely
removed from our statute books as one of the greatest outrages
on children ever committed by man.

I believe that a special act should be passed by our
legislatures to indemnify all parents whose children have been
killed by these dangerous and unnecessary medical operations
forced upon the people by an unwise law, and I will endeavor to
have such an act introduced in our State at the next session of
our legislature and would suggest that you propose a similar
law in your own State.

(Signed) CHAS. M. HIGGINS.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1915.

LETTER FROM AN AGGRIEVED FATHER ON THE DEATH OF HIS LITTLE BOY FROM VACCINATION

4913 Church Avenue, Flatbush,
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 27, 1915.

Hon. ELIHU ROOT,
President Constitutional Convention,
Albany, N. Y.

Sir:

On October 16, 1914, I was compelled by the Board of Education
of New York to have my son, Chester Stanley Waters, vaccinated
as a condition to enter school.

The operation was performed by a Board of Health Doctor in
Public School No. 135, Flatbush, Brooklyn, on that date.

On November 8, 1914, my son was taken sick with Tetanus, a
direct result of that compulsory vaccination.

I called in our family physician, Dr. A. R. Addy, 208 Lenox
Road, Flatbush, who examined my boy, found a large vaccination
wound containing a very considerable quantity of pus. Having
removed this and cauterized the wound, diagnosed the case
as Tetanus and advised his immediate removal to Kings Co.
Hospital, which was done.

He died in Hospital on November 14, 1914, inflicting upon me a
punishment beyond words to describe.

A poison of the most vile kind was injected into the pure,
clean blood of my beautiful, healthy little boy (seven years
of age), destroying his young life, bringing death to him in a
most horrible manner.

I learn you are engaged on an Amendment to the Constitution
to remove compulsory vaccination as a condition to enter
school and receive education, and I would most earnestly urge
you to adopt such an Amendment. My boy was killed by the
enforced vaccination, killed as a condition for exercising his
_inalienable right to receive education_.

I appeal to you, myself, a stricken father, punished beyond
description, to save other fathers and mothers from such an
awful fate as has been inflicted upon me.

Trusting God will guide you and your associates, engaged in
this work, to see the frightfulness and utter uselessness of
this abominable law and adopt an Amendment sufficiently strong
in our State Constitution to wipe it out forever.

Protect our children!

Yours very respectfully,
(Signed) R. C. WATERS.

_Note._ The Convention failed to adopt any Amendment concerning
vaccination, and all the Amendments which it did recommend were
defeated by popular vote at the next election.--C. M. H.

PROPOSED LAW TO COMPENSATE PARENTS FOR INJURY TO OR DEATH OF VACCINATED CHILDREN

As suggested in a previous page, there should be a special act passed by every State, which now requires compulsory vaccination in any form, to indemnify parents or relatives for any injury or death caused by vaccination forced on children or other victims by such unwise law as requires the general infliction of a compulsory disease upon the people. This law has been originated by medical dogmatism and is continued by medical interest and falsehood, as already shown, and is of great actual profit to doctors and virus makers, but is truly “A Menace to the State.” On this point see the Statue of Wisdom and Law in the frontispiece, with its wise motto which stands as a distinct rebuke to this evil law which either should be repealed or compensated by a remedial act passed for the relief of its many victims as here suggested, for, surely, “Every Law not Based on Wisdom is a Menace to the State.”

SHOCKING MEDICAL MENDACITY, ON THE ALLEGED HARMLESSNESS OF VACCINATION

I might continue here for hundreds of pages to report “ad nauseam” shocking instances of vaccination horrors such as already shown. Indeed, I am not sure but I may have already reached, for the average reader, the point of “ad nauseam” in the many horrible instances now exposed. But I believe I could go on in this exposure to the point “ad infinitum” if all the deadly results of vaccination could be brought to public light which are now hermetically concealed by our professionally interested partisans of vaccination who now control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics and can conceal their grave mistakes as they please.

Physically shocking as are the vaccination horrors which I have already exposed, they are not, morally, so shocking as the awful medical mendacity or ignorance and presumption which constantly asserts the perfect harmlessness of vaccination and denies its responsibility for frequent disastrous effects on human health and life.

I will now give some examples of this gross medical mendacity from some of the so-called high medical authorities as found in Government Reports, Health Department Bulletins, leading Encyclopedias and Medical Books in this country and England which will clearly illustrate my serious charge and show that, usually, the higher the alleged authority is, the more false and exaggerated his statements are, and the more easily refuted, as I will soon prove.

THE PHILIPPINE FALSEHOOD