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Dr. C.G.G. Nittinger's Evils of vaccination / by C.C. Schieferdecker.ContributorsSchieferdecker, Chr. Charles.National Center for Homoeopathy (U.S.)American Foundation for HomoeopathyNational Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publication/CreationPhiladelphia : [Printed by Henry Ashmead], 1856.Persistent URLhttps://wellcomecollection.org/works/qxygyzw9License and attributionThis material has been provided by This material has been provided by theNational Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. Theoriginal may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.) where theoriginals may be consulted.This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions undercopyright law, including all related and neighbouring rights and is being madeavailable under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark.You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercialpurposes, without asking permission.Wellcome Collection183 Euston RoadLondon NW1 2BE UKT +44 (0)20 7611 8722E library@wellcomecollection.orghttps://wellcomecollection.org
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DR. C. G. G. NirfTINGEll'S•EVILS OF VACCINATION,•BYC. C. SCHIEFERDECI<.ER, l\I. D.l\'\:•I. CorlnlllloDB, ill • .,,,_ '; .(/;.,.. . , , 1, !\. .. C'i.. I~? Y ~,.IPBILADELPIII.\.:•TO BE J!AD O"F TITE EDITOll, OR A:\:Y RE~PECT.\BLEBOO.KSELLER IX TUE UXlTED STATES.1 8 5 6. ••••••Entorc,1 according to Acl or Congres~, in the year 15,',j, byC. C. ScntEPERDF.CK&a, M. D.,In tho Clerk's Ofilcoor tile Distt-ict Court, of tho &,tern District of l'ennsyl~anln•PRIN'l'.&O BY RENnY B. ASD:11£A.O1OE01l0£ ;;.TK&t:t AD0\1'6 Ef,LV£Nl'JJ .• •••••'•DEDICATION TO TIIE PUBLIC.IN pl'csenting nnd recommending tbe contents of this littlevolume to the friendly consideration of the public in general,anc1 physicians in particular, I am perfectly aware of theterrible outcry that will be raised against it and me; I al,;oacknowledge the truth that nobody stands there in his time,so pcr&ct and independent, that be would not err and sin •,"l'ith that time. I therefot·e hope l will be forgiyen when Iam wrong-may he do better who fiuds fault with the following.It concerns and aims n.t the benefit of mankind, and has •thus great claim on the consideration of the people. It is :i.battle against the faith of more than half a century, taughtby physicians, upheld by the clergy, and blindly believed inby the people. The odds are foa1·ful; yet truU1 is mighty.I only ask for fair phy. Let the sfruggle be an open audhonest one, not cn,rried on in the sick-chamber of the deceiYedpeople, or -with assassin weapons th:it shun daylight ::in<l thefront of the opponent.I hare.Jlbstainetl from the publica.tion of statistical htbles,sustnining the contents of this book, nncl alre,uly prepared,but will meution th.cir result.The increase of the population of the United Stutes ofAn1crica. is immense, but it is certainly not owing to causesthat would pro\·e :.i pre-eminently increaseu healthy state ofthe people, becau~e such increase of population depends on-••lV DEDICATION.l, A lieallliy powe1· of generation. 2, A sfrong desire forge11erationa: nd 3, Social.fill'tl1era1o1fc e{ ;e11cratio11.,vheu we here cannot complain of a. want in these lattertwo requirements, the absence of the first, acts \·ery injuriously,for notwithstanding the large number of births, the existenceof a healthy gencratb·e power is contracliclctl :-1. On the parl of lite male: (a) by the greater mortality ofthe sex, (1: 20,) (b) by the inability of men to bear the fatiguesof a campaign, (~Iexico,) and (c) by the weakness and liabilityto disease of men in general.2. On tlte pai·t qf tlte female: (a) by the greater mortalityof the sex, (1 : 41,) ( b) by the increased sufferings during pregnancy,(c) by the frequent premature births, (d) by the morefrequently required obstetrical operations, and (e) hy the unhappyexperience that the child-bed becomes l!;Cne1·allya •sickbed,and often a de:ith-bed; (formerly the eighty-first died,now the t,renty-tbird.)3. On t!te JJ<irt of the cltild: (a) hy the fact that the fruitfrom such diseased seed and soil comes diseased into theworltl, (b) that generally one-half of the cle:iths are those ofinfants, :incl (c) by the daily increasing number of still-bornchildren.C. C. SCIIIEFERDECKER, l\I. D.Pliiladelpltia, January, 1856 ...fI•A '\V ORD TO P II Y SI C I A X 1'.1'.,cc1:--ATIOX 1,clongs not to the "scienc<'" it i~ nt>ither a"1:cnH'1~ium,'' n_or even a "rcmc<lium au(•cr:s." It re.-ts "npnon up.on 1gnor:tncc_; should e,·Pr}lhing that happen~aftcrw:1,rd~ 111 the w'.1rl<l,• r_i,.u ul on mnn, liclonμ; to :IIellicinc?l\Iy sc1entJ~c C?nsc,entc 1s not so wide. '\\'liat nolH;cly undcrstnnd~,1s fot· nobody o. science. Yaccinatiou i!'I mere•· ll>t)s.". '\\'hat nobody ½nows, ~o much knows C\"CI')' bll<ly: inYO.cc111atJon t_h~re a.-e neither _w1,c-me11 nor lay-men, hut onlyi:cuxi11e pru.d1t,oners a_nd 1·acc111cea rrier.~; CYcryh ocly who ha~fil'C SCllH'S, and pcrce1,·cs the ("llllSt'l(llruec5 of l'llC<'ination, orfeel~ them Cl'CU on himself, hns n. perfect right to _juclμ;co>f it.It lltlongs therefore-, more pcrh:tp~, than any other ol!jcct, onthe bro1t1lest b:isi,- of puhlicity. hcforo that puhlic which offersits skiu fur it, and lay:< at ~take its welfarn an,l life. "'hil~l\te,licinc slept, vaccin,ition hns crept illegally i11to it; it lrn~l111rrowcttlh e ma~k of ~cicncc, a11cli s 11citlitrf <1u11d1•i,1I 1 n·«·son, fur poison poisons the healthy, rtt,tl kills lhf' sickly: 1wrin ,wturc, for the in~tinct nhhor,; it; 110,· i,t ph!tsioloy!!, fl'!:then the "·hole doctrine of resorption and endcrmaty ,,oul,llie f:ilse, it would be ( puuctmn snlieus t) tllC'1 •iclorio11.a~u tonomyof the life-power in the exportation through the skin, nu untruth;1w1· i11 lite diemi.-slr!f, for CYen n tyro wonl<l not pretendto neutralize ncitl hy :ici1l, alkali by alkali, ns the phy~ici,m,pox hy pox; nor i~ lite cli(luif!J oj' m""• for wuu will throwpoison about him, ngain~t the po~sihly tkstru..tirP offed ofwhich hr has no nntirlota rcatly t ,\. young country-girl tohlthe JOllltg student, Jenner, wlio in pfaying with her folt her1,lister~, ;;he would neYcr g"t the small-p•,x. hccau,e she ha,lthe cow-pox. l\Iorc than this tracliti"n has neither the pom-11ous uni ,·ersity sdence 1 nor anyh_0<).Yel se lt•arnct! of \'(IC~in:ttion; nud our most emment phys1cmns ";ncl imrgeons hchc)"C,but do not-know n-.oro than what tlmt 1?:•rl has chatted withthe student in the cow-st,ihle. The constancy in this faithh:1s lasted now some fifty )'Oar::<a,n d rohbcd the life's n11tonomyof its crown, and reason of it,; right.J<~yer_vd cstructho poison cau dc~tl'ny Cl'l't'Y Ol'f?!'lll: the~tomach anrl i11tcstiues of one, the urmnry organs o! another,the chest of n, third, the senses and _joints of a fourth: we ,cothis in the syphilis, "out. rhcunnttism, tl!e \'eμ:ct,11tle_a ml1niucrnl P"isons. '\Vh0'e the small•\?•)~ poison ,et!le, itself,there it prot!uccs its disease-form,, d1flerc11tn cco1·'11ngt o thedifl'crent bodies nud times. Is it not much more the duty of.VI A WORD TO PilYSICIANS.•tho medical wol'ld to ~tudy the pox:-matter, and to explainby it the i<ingular conditions of the disen~c of our times,than merely to l:1ud its n~~umecl henelitR, and 1ualignantlyscorn at e\·ery doubter? ,V-ithout; nn accurate kuowleclge ofthe organico-ehemicnJ po,Ycrs, we arc neYer able to penetrateinto the hws of the life-power.'.l'bc question: whether small-pox and cow-pox arc identical,is sufficiently answered in the affirmative by a J1umbcr ofeminent physicians, among ,,hich Dr. Ceely of .Ailcsbury,distingui~hes him~elf; but I add here a letter which speaksunmistakably foi• itsolf.Pr11z, Tyrol, Octol,t>r l 6, lSjO,-- -- -- "The Wtntity of tho T"accin::nrnd varlol:\. is bC'yond onydouht ~:-tablb.h<-(bl y tho fact, that in tho yenr flf 18-16,( !,·cry one of the childr<'n whom the :-.urg~ou 1'". ' . , . hl the \"ulJe-y vi' 1~02:na.n,~ aeciuat('d,. wasa.ttac.·kedl>y the rc~tl sronll-p,n<, ,-rhicb lufect<'il theu the grown-up 1wo1>lo. .f . ... wai;nnu.'h trl)ttbled by thl~ unexpected circumsb1ncc. Among ilu:pcv]>l<' t'he gratestiudignatiou wa-. runsNl against vaccinatiou. which "has i,,prC'ada 11 o,•cr 'fyrol.J, a:;. Imperial Suptn .. ising 1>hy-sici11H 1 was often CQm1,cHed by my official 1>o~iliou,to 1u&JH!cth hi adijlriul vpidvu'liC.Hoc1rn:n;1;.caoIcmap, erial Su))ei~Vi-$ingP hyliician. 0Enormous is the ignoranco of the Yaccinator, anc.1 reachesthe gig:mtic height where shame begins; he can break, bntnot mend the pot. :Mightily shines the light of the culture ofnritural hititory~ first, Astronomy and Physic skinned themseh-es, then .Mineralogy ancl Chemistry, then Botany gota Jirm natural hasis, anc.1 finally Zooloo-y. .K cw forms ofthought produced their m1tural systems ; t11e searching powerof the human mincl solved first the distant questions, descendedfrom the sun of Copernicus down tl'trough the steps oft1ature, and 1·emnincd standing finally still ()ejore, I say fJrj'orcits own shrine: httma,iity. ]\Ian di,-likes nothing more thanself-contemplation. Instead of emulating, and uot remainingbehincl the .,ister sciences, l\Icdiciuc built thoughtlessly :t"pons asinorum," with vacciue poison, octroyizod for thehuman family diseases, and existed, anogantly simpering tothis hour, without system. Quackery bas liftec.1 its bead,builds palaces, and tho thermometer and h&rometer of nationssiuks bodily and mentally. J\lan is not such au unconditionalpoison-plant, as names of diseases the polylogic medical codeeuume1•tites. llow many poison-springs could he then ea1·1·yin himself?J\Iorc earnest thnn ever 11011·, w]icn, in conseciuence ofvaecinatiou,the Oriental free pox-poisuu, the 1:hole1·ai, s permittedto slay "ad libitum," rii.es the mctiical sphynx, and asks thoold questiom1- •" \V hat is the nature of the small-pox poison?"IIow many poisons may the hun1an body produce? ,vhich•A wono TO PllYSICIANS. vunr<i tho interior enc1nics of liuman life, the germ~ of sufferirv•nn<l death of the human family here on earth? Ancl in whatconnection nro they with tho el<'mcnt from which we !he?for whatever contai11s the laws of joy and life, must all;O containthose of our pains and death.Liko the wings of a gloomy night-butterfly, a rich coloredthrcnd draws tbrou1?;h the l:ihyrinth of the gnwes of our ancestori:.The sy. mptoms a1·e only the colors .h ut the nature ' th~ s~cd of the cliscascs,_i s winged DE.'\TIT, as he appears in thepnnc1pnl re~ult~ of rational research, nncl of disscction:s ofdifferent times and crid!!mies; a~ hll shows himself to be ani-711cil poison, viz., small-pox poison, by chemical analysi,- to oureyes, and pro,·cs hiD1self as such in tho practice. Look upfrom the death-history of humanity and sec into the IJ!uc archof heaven! There nl~o, c1·cry thing was to go acconling tothe almnnac, ns before nccorclin:?:t o the eo<leo f clisca,e withoutsense and plan'/ No! " Tcmpora 11111fa11f11ert. 110,1r ta11imalia ct 11lcrntw ct om11is creal11ra in illis." 'J'o fin<! outthese mutation~, to observe and remo,,,o the t111imal p1J;~o11, isthe reforD1-prohlcm.'l'hc Yaccinntion -cataract will then lie remon•,I frr,m oureye~, and the gloomy truth O\'Ond1clm us, that there is nothingn1orc clange1·ous fo1· the welfare of men, thnn a mc1lic:1I optimismus;that our bodily sufferings ha\'e increase,! in numhC'l'antl pllwCr, that we ha,·c by n1ccinalion merely ~poilctl thofol'm of disease, and made worse tho di,case itself.I hope for moral nn<l technical ~upport in this war np:ainsttho Vaccine l\Icdusa, hut fear I will now he tra<h1c~••nI n<lscand:i lized as before, wbcncYcr I ha,·c spoken hunc,..tly mycon'l'iction.r wish I had, as Pericles of old, the thunder on my to~guc,anti the lightning in my pen, to rouse the people anu sc1cncofrom their lethargic sleep. ..EYery physicinu and al_l the people arc Yery careful withthe smaller poisons, of wluch the ~011·cs~t re- .1. '!'he miner:\! poisons: arscmc, :_mtm~onyc, opper, subhmat,Yitriol, bismuth, concentr:it~tl acids, &c. . .2. 'l'he ycgctnhle poisous, p:lrticularly the na:r,ohc, pru~s1caci<l, 011i11111h,y oscyamus, 1Jellatlonna, strnmomum, hemlock,• tond-stool, &c. . . .By the inoculation of thc~c P?tsons a l:i_ ,accmc, 10 the lcp::1of d;,,,.s, cats, of a lamb, in the wm;s of a pigeon, we are unahloto m:kc them seriously ill. ~ o~cr tn)'. own arm for sm·h experiment~,i~ desire,!, but I will light with i-wortl and 111,wdera"'ainst the 111oculat1on: .0 3, UJ'i1ofao,1s oj' lid,t!f a11i111alsn, 1ore yet, of tlicir co11»cs,•Vlll A WORD TO PIIY:HCI.ANS.( animal poison,) f. i., the glanders of horses, the 1nurrain, thesaliro. of mad don-.-, the fresh pox of cmrs nnd tihecp, thecad:n-erous pox ofthc Yacciuation lnncet, &c. These pui~on~,pnrticnlnrh· of unimali; who suckle their young, arc ahsorbeclby the hunian fluids and textures with wondcrftil rnpidity, andconnected with them most tcnnciously like rust and irpu.The !'!feet is (a) a primarlJ, stormy, ai1d fatal one, or (b) asecondw·!f, lasfi11f/, diseasing one. The bite of a mad dog,often hardly pel'ccptible, produces rabies either at once, a11<lis generally fat., l; or after two, ~even, ele,-en, fifteen, l weutyonoyc:u-s; tsyphilis will mix, if not entirely erntlicated itself~in e,·erY net an<l disease of nf1e1·-lifo.4. dj l111ma1p1o isons. ,ve an,id eYcry one justly. who hnsthe itch, small-pox, lues, nen·ous forer, canc('r, all contagioti,1discn,cs in gcmen1l. ,v-e nre afraid of the smallest wound inthe skin under such circumstances, and know perfectly wellthe terrible and fatal effects of su1,;h impurities, particularly ofcadn,·crs.Consider then the »1ost unforlhnnte position of n tenderinfant, that cnnnot strug;le and l'C8ist. It is poisoned withoutregard to the aho,·e mentioned circumRtances; without regardto season and climate; without regnr,I to the c<m(liti(ln of itsparents; without regard to poYerty nnd domestic relations;without regard to good or had care ; without rcg:u-d to tec>thiag;without regard to the processes of growth nntl de,·clopmcntof its cu·gans and system~, which nre connected ,,ith~o many irritations in blood ancl nenes; without regard tothe tendency of the i~fantile body to recci,·e not only readily,external influences of e,ery kin(), but al~o to oppose themviolently; without mercy, because the Yaccinator u ndcri-tantlsof what he does, not mure than the ,accinatcd infant: with•out knowledge of his racciuc malter, for the ,-accinator takeswhat he ha$, and f!;etsa.1-'re.~hv accine lymph,b. Cadacerou::. i-a<:<-i1l1yer, 1pl1,c. l'ure l111ma11izelyrlm ph,d .. Cadni•c,-011/s1 11ma11ize1d1 1mph,e. Imz,ure, c1,prm:ed, l111111a11il!zfrlidl]> lt; viz., such which istaken from chiltlr<'n who arc diseased from 1,irlh ;,/: Carlcaerous, l1uma11ized,d e1,raved ly1111,Jiw, hich is preSl!r\'Ctli n the rnccinc 1mttlc.~ithout :tn i,lea whcthc1· tlte l!Jmplt co11tai11.9s t,·011r1o r u·ealcP.0Iso11, dchcs the ,·al'cinator the lJmph he h:t~, into the openWl1t1nd of the inf:tntilc arm~.P:tus~, . <;> J(h_ysici:in! r~flcct before you destroy I Yourrespornub1hty 1s terrible. The human body is the temple ofGod, you are its earthly guardino .•[l•\•INTRODUCTORY.r. 1\lABILLON tells us, that he who made a valuablepresent to a cloister, got a box on the car as a receipt.The greater the value of such a present, the harderwas the box. The church gave, therefore, every onewho presented a new truth, stancling as a spiritualgood far above the ntatcrial, for a receipt, cuffs a nclbox.es, which not unfrequently resulted in death. Inthe same 1nanner, she a.cknowledgcd the lighting offar better lighls than her common wax candles, withkindling funeral 11iles. Every one who tells a 11cwtruth, n11iy, therefore, very naturally expect to betreated with boxes ond cuffs; lie, the only one whone,-er sa.itl anything but the n1ost sublime truths,received iu J ernsalem blows and death.It is an 01ninous fact, that the i\Icdical Sciencewas always either entirely arrogated by the 1n·iesthood,or, when given into the hands of a distinctclass, its follo,ve1·s would find it their interest toleague with the pvicsthood. This will easily explainwhy the i\Icdical guild, imitating their older andmoi-c cxpericncc(l confederates, would also seek tobide the1nsc!Ycs behind a veil of sanctimonious mystery,and pay e,·ery one who tlar,cd to touch this ,·cilby truth, with tho same coin the church did. '· Tho12 INTRODUCTORY.Science," par excellence, remained jesuitically content,in regard to the people, with the literal explanationof tlte word, RNcnv TilYSELF, without beingwilling to TEACTI this knowledge; and even now everypublic lecturer or ,,Titer on matters pertaining to ourboclily wclfa1·e, is abused and persecuted. This hasbeen my fate ever since I left the old trodden pathof scientific mum1nery, and tried to teach the peoplesimple and wholesome truth by word an<l <lce<l; itwill be my f:1tc doubly now·, when I in these pages,expose the criminal guilt of the faculty, in not onlynot opposing the introduction of va,ccination, but inexecuting it thcmsclYes on the innocent offspring oftheir time. The physicians cannot now plead jgnoranccof its ruinous effects, for daily observationshows them to the most painful extent. They cannotexcuse themsclYcs with its legality; fo1· in Spain,the inquisition; in France, the torture; in Germany,the cutting off of hands, and tearing out of tongues;and here i11 America, the burning of witches,-wasalso lawful ! and yet, they all have fallen into thedismal abyss of 0xecration in their flight before enlightenedreason !The non-use of reason in the !\Iedical Science, isthe cause of its want in positive progress. The presentsheet-anchors of the practice-venosection,leeches, vomitircs, purgatives, iodine, quicksilverdothey satisfy real science? or are they able to exorcisedeath? -n'hy, then, the continued fruitlesshunting for new and absurd ren1cclies, even of themost disgusting character, ,,iz. liver oil, guano, urea?INTRODUCTORY. 3,Yhy do crcn physicians resort to r1tutck nostrum~,or to Ruch 1nost ridiculous hallucinations as that ofJluutcr's inhalations of vitiated air in consumption?No science has yet been degl'a<le<l by its own vagariesso deeply as the :i\Ie<lical.Every science develops itself in three periods :the first is tltat of blind fai'tli ; the scconcl, tltat ofsmart sophistication; antl the third, tltat of sober investigation.The religious period of science, forinstance, in regard to the tr,catment of small-pox inlater times, was vaccination; the sophistic period, 1·evaccination,scar theory, and a vaccine table system.Let us no,v soh·e the last problem; for a.~ lr>ng as we1·enou11ce; 11>el'iencwe,h ich ci·eates lcnowledoew, e bt1ni.~lt real science, (Liebig,) and fav~r the ascendancy ofcrery trumpet humbug.The object of this pamphlet, is to prove vaccinationto be nonsense before reason-a miserable illusion, ina scientific point of view, and, in regard to histo1·y,tlw gl'catest <:rinie that has been co111n1ittcdi n thislast ceutu1·y. The truth of these 11ositions I ha,·ca:ssertetl these last fifteen years, antl whereYer I coul<l,I have sal'ed infants from this cruel poisoning; but Ifelt n1ysclf so alone already, on account of my curativeYiews, that I would not \\-rite on the subject, becauseI could hanlly expect that any good wouldcome fro1n my single-handed protest. l3ut whatI ltayc felt, and what I htirc prcachctl for years,now shakes with tlnn1<ler-souncls the proud walls ofsenseless sclf-suflicicncy and lethargic routine. Inthe heart of Europe, a great and goou man, Dr. Nit-•4 INTRODUCTORY.tiugcr, regardless of abuse and malice, has told inmighty words the truth:"By vaccination, lntnianity has progressii•el!Jlo st:(n,) in number, (b,) in quality and lifr-duration,-thediseases ltave gained in number, power nnd ( c,) tenacity;"and while in hun1blo gratitude I pniy to theAlmighty to speed his work, I have transl:.ited, extractedand adapted his book for publication in thiscountry. 1\Iay tho faculties of this country, like thoseof France and Germany, as well as all the laymen,ponder well over its hints; and may tho work thusbegun in this country, bo continued and finished byabler hands than mine.l\Ieanwhile, I beg every parent who is requestedby a physician to ha,•e his chilJ vaccinated, to put tohim tho following questions:1. Do you know the nature of the small-pox poison'?(No!)2. Do you know the nature of the vaccine poison ?(No!)3. Do you know bow, in vaccination, both workupon and against cnch other? (No!)4. Can you deny that yaccinating is poisoning? anclexcuse it because destruction docs not always followa senseless method'?5. !lave you got sure remedies against tho smallpox?-and if you ha.ve poisoned niy <:hilcl-a.gainstthe vaccine-poison ?-or, will you satisfy me with theconsolation, that kind Nature will often bear andconquer the most terrible consequences of the mostsenseless treatment?•INTRODUCTORY. 5G. Every tradesman knows his tools, materials:incl rules,-ha\'o you a criterion for vaccination?7 . ..1\.ncwl hat nobody knows, you call method'?science?-or even archivic physiology?8. Can you deny, that not every agent produces inevery 1nan the same effect?9. Can you tell inc, why whole countries have,-without vaccination, remained free from small-poxcpiclen1ics?10. Can you deny that, since 18-1G, the small-poxepiclemicprogr-0sscs incessantly? llas vaccinationheltl hack the small-pox even a hair's breadth? Haveyou any other ren1edy to oppose that scourge with,but the deceptive one now in use? or do you believe,that on the Bank of Disease and Death, a paperthereceipt for a vaccination-fee-will be received forfull payment?11. Is, in the history of mankind, vaccination theonly and isolated case, that a whole century or anation bas bclicycd, judged and undertaken things,which we do not believe, judge quite differently andnever undertake?12. Can you deny that absurdity reigns withoutlogic? and tliat n1any a, victim bas appeared before{ou's throne without his time having run out"?c. C. ScnIEFERDECKER, ir. D.1*
••EVILS OF VACCINATION.§ 1. The flourishing condition of a. country dependsprincipally on the number and well-being ofits inhabitants. ,vhatcvcr decreases these, is anenemy. The greatest 1nischief has been done bysanguinary wars and epidemic diseases; to take precautionarymeasures against these hostilo i11terfereneesin the happy progress of nations, is the duty ofgovernments and indiYiduals, ancl requires prudence,power anJ courage.In our cxci ting times, when the peace-tired peoplecall everywheTO for warlike preparations, the medicalstaff should a]so arouse thmuselves from their lethargyfor a struggle with the sneakingly spreadingenetny of the internal and e.t·te,·nal small-pox, which,as I intend to show below, is the source of 1uost of our1nisfortuncs. The bloody wars, the mostf:ital epidemics,have never caused such dre:idful derastations amongnations, its the sn111ll-poxw, hen we consider that for-111crly, this disease slaughtered in Europe, yearly,near half a 1nillio11o f victi1111s.I s it to be wondered8 THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.at, then, when the layman, who only with difficultyconquers his instinctive aYcrsion against vaccination,looks anxiously at the effects around him, where 11mallpox-cases arc daily increasing; when he begins todistrust the prevcnti,-e, which has deceived him once,and deceives hin1 again in the re-vaccinittion; moreyet, when under the eyes of tl1e observing physician,the poison in its first stages, in its germ, growth andbloom, diseases whole families, and now every whereclearly approaches tho time of harvest?Not the s1u,tll-pox, appearing in proper form onthe surface, is now to be feared; but the matte1·, thatdisturbs, J)aralyzes and destroys the inner and higherorgans, which, without developing its power outwardly,remains in our interior shut up, is the most dangerousenemy. A man looks well, and is apparentlyhealthy, but the poison has penetrated his vitals, anllinsidiously undermined the supports and organs oflife, till its fruits arc ripe, and death reaps the harvost.Should not 1 under such circumstances, thephysician be startled up from his easy couch of inheritedfaith on the preYcntive power of vaccination?Should he not, free from authorities and oracles,scrutinize more thoroughly the history of nicdicinc,and dive deeper into Nature and her work, in orderto gain, in tho extraordinary presence, that knowledgeand direction, for which he can answer in theft1,tute before science and those who honor him withthe most sacred trust ? Faith is not iS'cience.§ 2. I know I have to tra,·cl a hard road ! Itleads me among the Pietists and Fanatics of :i\IcdiTHEEVILS OF VACCINATIOX. 9cine; ancl the cla1nor against hi1n who conde1nns theirn.crccil nstitute of \r accination, will he like the roaringof those ,Yho defend the faith on other mysticalfallacicR. I feel, like Sarcone, that I am a physicianand a 1nan. The difficulties of art, and the limits ofthe hun\an mind, circu1nscribc n1e. But, whatever1nay be the consc<1uence, I shal1 be happy, if I haven1arkcd the first lines for the "'Ork of medical liberation,which olhers may and will finish. Every hintat a new truth in the healing art, is :i, benefit for thehuman family!To proscribe and to prevent ·vaccination, is theohjcct of these pages. For this object, I propose toproYc, in the shortest possible manner, the truth ofthe following three conclusions:I. Vaccination appea1·s before tlie tribunal of Reasona.s No~SENSE !II. JTac,•inations ltowsi tself in tlie liglit of Science,as (t :MISERA l3LE ILLUSIO~ !III. 1racci11atiopn1 "ovcist self, in the ltist01·yo f ltu-111a11ittyo, be tlte GRE,tTEST CRIME co1nniitte,li n thislast century!FIRST THESIS.VACCL.~ATION BEFORE TUE TRIBUNAL OF REASON.§ 3. To restore ortlcr and cquilibriu1n, power wasalways counterpoised by power, courage by cou1·agc,prudence by prudence; overweight by counterweight,10 TilE E\TILS OF VACCINATIO~.and cvcrybocly understood, why one poison i-honld boannihilated by a couuter-poison-an 1t11tidotc. Inour century a now idea, entirely unique, i-prang up.Nobody know an antidote against tho small-pox; butthe poisoned lancet was thrown into tho scale of life,sunken with s1nall-pox-poison, and vanity triumphantlyglorified the act. Pox-poison 1nust dri,e outpox-poison; Satan must dri,·c out Satan!The pure human being, free from diseased matter,the innocent infant, is poisoned and consoled "·iththe ~Iephistophelic declaration: "Now, it wiU certainlynot get the small-pox!" The uufo1·tunatebeing, who bas already the poison in l1is body, receivesmore of the sa1ne poison, and is taught thoarithmetic of •witches, and told that "twice one isnone," and that the poison of the bocly is somehow01· other swallowed and "digested" (Dr. lleime) bythe poison of the lancet. This miraculous thing,which docs not make unclean the clean, nor cleansestho unclean; which is a poison, ancl yet })rotects bothf1·om its own effect ;-this miraculous thing, whichacts all-mightily in every perio1l of evolution and involution,in tho infant as in the adult, in the womanas in the man, in the we.ik, scrofulous constitution,as in the iron one, and in every pa.rt of the wo1·ld ;thismiraculous thing is a "pi·otectii•e poison," like~1oloch, a God in whose arm.s the infant suffers,sickens and dies.Of this universal heaJing wonder of mankind, wedo not yet know any but injurious and fatal effects !Its most celebrated friends could not help but to acTIIEEVILS OF VACCINATIO:N. 11knowledge this; and we bless yet a poison as a remedi,il agent which we sow in joyful faitlt, to weep1·at ionafl!J OYcr the <lamage done by it. lr e fleel>cforo syphilis an<l avoid the itch; and yet theircontagious principo in its innermost natul'o, is a nearkin to tho small-pox, with the only diffcrcuco, thattho last is far more destructive than tho former. Iftho strongest poison-that of the small-pox-protectsfrom small-pox, then, without nppcaring paradoxical,syphilis must p1·otoct from syphilis, itch from itch,111:iguo fro1n plague; an,l its inoculation should beinsistccl upon in all woll-reguhitetl communities. Pidgcons,iuocnlate<l on the breast, get tho most beautiful,·acciuc-pustulc~, syphilitic and itch-ulcers. 1Yhyshould we, then, be so 0110-sidc<al nd partial with thevaccine?§ •.l:. Like tho odor of musk, and tho color ofcochineal, tho small-pox-poison divi<lcs itself wonderfully; penetrates oYorywhcro; clings to everything-to clothes, furniture, bods, walls, domesticani1nals, to everything on which tho exhalation canfasten itself; neither :iir nor time destroys it. This})Oisoo, thou, ,vhose atomically s1nallost quantity, forwhich eYen a llomroopathist could not find a number,which the governments try to keep off by police-measuresof the strictest character, n1ust, according to l.iw,be incorporated in the delicate inner economy of thehuman body, eYen of tho tcntler infant; and this, notIIomroopathotically, but the full fresh matter, tliemore the better for tho well-being of the humanfaluily ! A merely cursory look into history, shows12 TllE EVILS OF VACCINATIO:N.us that Leprosy came to an end; afterward:;, thePlague also; Syphilis lost its epidemic chal'actcr, &c.Have human exertions done this'? or docs, in thenature of these evils, also lie the foundation anrl durationof their existence? and has crerything it:; time?Ilow shall I comprohcnd that, like those contagiousdiseases, tho sniall-pox will also dissoh·e itself anddisappear, if the poison is kept in the body artifich1lly,as a standing article, by continued inoculation.Let us suppose that the cow-pox-lymph be, what itis certainly not, a perfectly harmless n1atter, for thereception of which we in fun reach out our arms: whocan give us security, that in vaccination and 1·c-vaccination,no other diseased mattel's arc introducedinto our bodies? But as the vaccine-poison is, was,and will remain, from its first origin, nothing elsebut a poison of a narcotic character, whicl1, in itsdivisibility, exceeds even prussic acid, must we thennot ask, whether we, under all circumstances, canbring it into our body with impunity?In regard to the sma1ler poisons: itch, !<yphi1 is,nervous fever, cancer, the public and physicians arevery careful with a little out, the least scratch, thebite of a leech, a plaster, and particularly with thelancet for ven-esection, because everybody knows theterrible consequences from any such neglect; expe-1·ienco teaches, "tltat, if a lancet, besmeared withfnatter fresh out of a sniall-pox pustule, is im1nerseclinto a i 1ein, the same effect is produced, as when thesmall-pox poison is b1·ou9lit into inner organs."The symptoms of yaccination are those of intoxaTUEEVILS OF VACCL.'i'ATION. 13tion, often si1oilar to those of poisoned wounds :fc\·er, vo1nitiug, diarrho::a, swelling of glands, vehementlocal inflatnmation, &c. ; nature clearly expressesher incligntttion against the unnatural intrut:!ion, In the face of such experience, and againstthe conclusions of my own reason, I am asked toluwe fait!t, and to be content, in tlte siniplicity of rny}wart, with tlii.s paradox:"Small poisons, brought in the least scratch, aroinjurious; they poison, au<l 1nust be carefully aYoi<led;but the greatest of our poisons, brought into thebo<ly by G, 8, 12, 18 lancet-cuts, are not only notinjurious, but they cannot do any harm, they ne\·erhave done, antl they ncYcr will do hann; this fuithis the faith of the country, and 1nust not be attackedby the conclusions of 1niserable reason. 'ro call theexcitement of the body, after vaccination, a violentindignation of nature, is wicked: it is the incomprehensibleact of transubstantiation, in which tho bodilypoison is sw,tllowctl and digested by the lancet-poison,antl n1an rises out of such digestion purifiedfrom the small-pox-poison."This is one of those thcoxics, of which Goethesays that they are gtcy, an<l llamlet that they are,wt true. If I would assu1ne that a rational beingor govern1nent intended to poison first e,·erybotly,in order to cure them afterwards, all the world wouldcall 1110 1n:ul; and yet goycrnrnents order CYory yearthousands of people to be poisoned by small-poxpoisons,and are in ecstasies about the progress andblessings of art. Nobody calls this madness !2•14 TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION.SECOND TilBSIS.YACCINATIO:N BEFORE TIIE TRIBUNAL OF TRUTII.§ 5. IIai•e ive gained or lost by vaccination? Shouldwe continue to vaccinate and be 1Jaccinatecl?In the large cities of tho United States of America,and all over tthe old settled })Urts of this country, tinot-vaccinatccl person is of seklom occun·e11co; butwo find a great many who ha-ve been two, three, fourand :fi,,e times vaccinated. Should we then notrightly expect that this country, before all others,shoulJ distinguish itself by the remarkable he:.ilthincssof its younger generation, and that it shouldshine a beacon-light for those millions who eithervaccinate not at all, or a,t least very carelessly? l-Io1vashamed those stupid barl)arians must be ! how beautifulin growth a.nd face the wise Amcrican,-and howmisformcd, pock-marked, wasted, sickly the Greek,the Oriental, the l\Icxican, and all barbarians must be,,vho do not immolate themsel,·cs and their children tovaccination? The f(itigues of a campaign, tho exposureto deprivation in the ·wilderness, ancl in thecounnon life-scramble of social relations, should notleave an impression on such youthful heroes of art,while those, who laugh at vaccination, are so able tobear already so much !But is this so ? The unfortuna.te remaining few ofthe soldiers that went to l\Icxico, tell a terrible taleof the contrary ! While the vaccinated English andFrench in tho Crimea, arc decimated by the smallestTUE E\'ILS OF VACCINATION. 15exposure, the not-vaccinatecl Turks and Russians1,ear up un<lcr the Ramc circumstances with greatelastic tenacity! "\\'!tile in 1\f1·ica, the source of thesmall-pox, so1nc die of it, we arc thinned by the tcrrihlcconsequences of vaccination: small-pox, itch,typl1us, and CYcry kind of pustule-diseases, many ofwhich . were entirely unknown, before vaccinationca1nc 1n use.'.l'hcrc is a happy configuration and manngcmentof the soil here; the population is not densely packedas in other countries; we <lo not live under thepressure of poYcrty, of famine, or other particularcalamities: there was no war in our midst, and theircxican ca1npaignw ns not au exhausting one; weenjoy liberty; marriages do not find obstacles: thus,every frn·orablo clement con-curs for a prosperousphysical progress; and yet ,ye ha.,·e not gained ina healthy development of the body, but we haveclearly lost. Every new genc1·ation hastens forwardsto bodily destruction, as if a worm was secretlygnn.wing at the root of life. This wonn is thes1nall-po.1i:1 oisan: tho gcnnine as well as the inoculatccll'accinc. Its existence, without external pustule,is proved by chemistry; and its remova.l out ofthe reach of the hu1nan organiz(l.tion, not its increase,is asked from true science. ..A..rsth ould remo-vei t byscientific cal'c; Nature ejects it by pustulnr nud othc1·eruptions. It is ti:nly a pity, that at present fewonly bring their l)Oi~on to the surface, and thus haYea short struggle, "·hich is remunerated by duniblehealth afterwards. The life-process of the ·fhuds16 THE EYILS OF YACCINATION.and of tl1e nerYous system, is so 1nuch interfe-recl withand weakened by the stca<ly "·orking of the poisoningmethod of vaccination, that a great 1nany of tl1epeople have become too miserably feeble to clri\·e thetough small-1)ox-poison out of the system. The poisoncontinues to be produced in the hearth of digestion;uninterrupted by scientific interferencct it remainsin the interior organs, pnrnlyzes and undcr-1niues the "·hole machinery of the human 01·g,1nisn1,appears to the superficial observer, in various formsof diseases of the sensibility, as well as of the irritability,re-production, secretion, and propulsion. Thesame poison produces in different organs and syste1ns,in different bodies, families, nations, and zones,different effects, but giYes alwa,ys the diseases, particularlythose of children, a 1na1ignant character.This is the absolutely sole and satanic protection,vaccination ever offe1·s.§ 6. "But," says Professor Dr. von Rapp, "youcharge vaccination with various injurious effects,which cannot properly be i1nputed to it. The diseaseswhich you attribute to vaccination, liave alreadyexisted long before; or, if they are only now moreaccurately distinguished, they ought not to be derivedfroin vaccination!"I assert, and am ready to prove, that the sniallpox-poison and the vaccine-poison are identical. Aslong as this fact is not clearly ;:efuted, and as longas it is not proYed that both of these poisons arc ofan essentially different nature, so that the one canserve as the antidote of the other, so long is it indifTTIE EVILS OF VACCINATIO:l(. 17ferent ltow 1111tcho f injury in a disease is to llc attrihutc<l ti) one or tho other. They both together doinjury, only that, in tho one case, tho injury is anatural struggle for health, while in tho other, of vaccination,the injury is a culpable act of man. 'l'hcvariety of injury is far greater and 1noro exte11sivethan above n1entioned, for it is infinite, incalculablo.Thero is not one 1nodicinal poison that has only oneeffect, and the vaccine-poison would alone be anexception!If we, for instance, look at the multifarious effectsof tartar emetic in different doses: pustules, othereruptions, nausea, sickness, pain in the stomach,vomiting, diarrhooa, cholera, J)erforation of the stomachand intestines, colic, infla1umations and paralysis,gangrene, affections of the nerves, muscular,veakncss, suffering in the breast and head, disturbancesof tho senses and mind, palpitation, asthma,congcstion11h, c1uorrhage, feve1·, &c., &c.; if we considerthe legion of sy1npton1s produced by a narcotic,sboulu we then believe that tho n1ost subtilc poisonwhich exists uuder the sun, the most powerful poisonthat tyrannizes the whole ca1·th, would NOT possessthe greatest power anu multiplicity of effect?'' \r cry well, but all those diseases you impute toyaccination, ha.ve existed bcfol'e," &c.The forms, I will grant, have existed ; the constructionof the human organism does not change ;the natnrc of diseases remains always the san1c, andtho necessary crises follow always tho same law~.Ercry difference we sec, consists only in tho dif-2*••••18 TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.ferent reflexes. There were, and will always he,different kinds of vomiting, without tartar emetic.Unfortunately, there arc many pathologists whowill treat diseases according to their sy1nptoms, asLinne the plants, after their filaments. In the attemptat the removal of human miseries, it is most importantto look for their seed, their origin. Ile whosays: fire is fire, lies under a mistake! for woocl,-oil,pitch,-alcohol fire, each of them requires a differentmeans for extinction, yet fire ,existed always, but notthe knowledge of its nature, its seed and origin.Ile who pours ,vatcr on burning oil, commits nogreater wrong than the physician who treats diseasesby system only, their foundation may be the smallpox-poison or not. The most simple disturbanceof the stomach, produced by this poison, can thus bedriven into the most violent nervous fever, in consumption.Can we then console ourselves with thereflection, that nervous fevers and consumptions liaiieezisted before f The forms have existed, and willremain the same, ]Jut the causes change, and deter-1nine the weal and the wo of the encl, and themanner of the active interference of the physician.'\Vhere the effects of tartar emetic arc visible, therewe have a ta1·tar emetic disease before us, be it inflammation,spasms, cholera, or pustules: should ,vehere, although these diseasejorrns ltave existed before,and although these for1ns have been successfnllytreated with tartar emetic and ipecac., again proscribetartar emetic ?-lliost assuredly not !-Andprecisely so it is with the small, pox ! ,vherevcr inTJIE EVILS OF VACCINA'fION, 19n. <lisease-fo rm the small-pox-poison is active an<lvisible, or only discernible by the sy1nptoms, therewe ha.re a s1nall-pox-discasc before us, be it pustules,gastro-malaria, croup, whooping-cough, cholera, spinalaffection, consumption, &c., &c. As little as w,c wouldcure vomiting, as above said, with tartar emetic, we'would pretend to cure small-pox with small-pox, orwith things that baYe affinities with tho small-pox,viz. : whey, milk, beer, bad potatoes, ancl such things.Every contagious disease must continue to exist,although time may change its form even, till theremedy is foun<l for its destruction : its momentarydisappearance is not more tl1an an optical delusionof the mind. I therefore 1nust certainly acknowledge,that sufferings arising from small-pox-poisonhave always existed, but that is the very reason whywe ought to be constantly on the look-out for it.Since the 1nore general introduction of vaccinationa1nong the people, diseases haYe slowly increased;for wo fintl on the Elysian fields of Pathology, besidesthe old and cu11.-rentlti seases, o. crop of other diseasesRpringing up, partly entii·cly new, partly the usualones with malignant character and unusual tcnacity,allof which have clearly their foundation in thes1nall-pox-poison, and require quite a different cw·exncthod.The following is a rapid glance at the pitiable acquisitionof our century, which may produce at leastone good effect : " that it will lead to reform in 11Iedicine,and call the attention of observers and thinkers20 TllE EVILS OF VACCIN.ATION.to an examination of the i1nmcnsc urea, the small-. .pox-poison now occupies :1. Diseases of tlie Sensibility.The English, who have bi-ought vaccination intoexistence, haYc felt their blunder £rst in its progressiYedestruction; they always pi-ccc!lc us 1rarninglywith the punish1ncnt of terrible scourges, like angina,croup, typhus, softening of the sto1nach, putrid fe,•er,cholera, and of other internal small-pox forms. Andwe ?-of course-we follow!About fifty years after tho first vaccination inEngland, Dr. Home complains:"That the formerly more frequent inflammatorydiseases have decreased, but that the number of thoseof an opposite character have immensely increased.The first, of which Sydenham speaks so much, do notat all exist in London any more; and in Edinburgthere is hardly seen a right strong infiam1natoryfever. The lingering putrid, or nervous fever, (typhusne1·vosus,) is most common; and what is particularlyremarkable, this slow fever attacks principallypersons of an age which is generally most prone tostrong inflammatory cliseases, viz., the years from 18to 30. This increase of such debility-fevers is clearlythe consequence of the fact, that the people a,ro gettingevery day less vigorous and weaker in general,&c."E\'erywberc, where vaccination was introduced, thesame unhappy state of the human organism bcca1ncvisible; an<l the longer and the more cxtensiYely peo••TilE l~VILS OF VACCINATION. 21plc in<l11lgeind this luxnry, the clearer began physic.:ia11slo write on typhus, which follows vaccinationlike its shadow, fro1n place to place, from station tostation. A general weaknes~ of the Jnuscles andnerYes iB thrown OYer all the people that worship thel\Ioloch of Yacciuation. 'file slightest affection, if notYcry ten1lerly touched, takes soon a nerYous turn,gets gangrenons, and laughs the physician in thefacc. IL is n1ost painful to obserYe the continuedincrease of i-pinal irritations, curYatures of the spine,palsies, chronic nervous suffering,.;, ini-anity, melan.choly, suicidt', mental debility an<l softening of thel>rain, apoplexy, l1ypochondry, hystcry, dizziness,cramp:1, neuralgias, ischias, tic, ncrYous headache,disturbances of the senses, a1nanrO$e, hard hearing,general weakness, want of reaction in diseases, lossof sleep, &c.2. JJiscases of the Irritability.lJenl'.ibility ancl Irritability are fellows! Therefore,weakness of 1nnscles, particularly of tho involuntary,which stand near the inner life ;-tre1nbling,rho1uuatic, gon ty, stiff, contracted, useless me1nbers,p,tins in hip aud back, swellings of the bones,caries, &c.3. Diseases of tlie Re_ptoduction.The stoinach ! tho stomach ! ancl always the stomacht yet once n1ore ! the stomach phiys the part ofthe hero in tbis present dr,una. The digestion ismiserable, I would rather call it hysterical. Phlegm,22 TEE EYILS OF YACCINATIO:s1.acidity, bitterness, heart-burn, :flatulence, wonns,carrion-stools, bad urine, constipation, cliarrhoca,pressure, cra1np, vomiting, softening of tbc stomach,dysentery, typhus (small-pox of the intestines) cholera,a pitiable condition of the sexual oxgans in1nalcs and females, queer appetite and s]eep-allthese exist and alternate with each other in Babylonianmixture.4. Diseases of tlie Secretion,.The spleen suffers precminenily, and ren1inds us ofthe diseased condition of the milt in do1nestic animals Jnext, the liver and other glands, particuhirly the mucous-preparing glands of the inner coating, in consequcncc of which, whooping-cough, croup, hectic consumption,influenza, scrofula., dropsy, chlorosis andscorl>ut, arc so frequent. Tho itch has emancipatc<litself from the "scientific itcli-rnite ;" syphilis seemsto assume again the cxanthcmatic cbaracteT. Bothshow an immense number of infected victims ; bothlike the company of the small-pox-poison;. and allthree giYe away to the same 1'emcdies. The skin, infortunate cases, breaks out in many sharp eruptions,viz., pustules, papuh:e, tetter, cxanthe1ns, furunclcs;the miserable urinary organs help themselYes sometimesby urinous, the intestines by hren1orrhordaldischarges1 of a certain degree of heat and acridity.5. Diseases of P1·opulsion.The human heart shows itself here most clearly asthe organ of feelings. Ilappiness, joy, pleasu1·c,•TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATIO:N. 23on1otion, affection, passion, inclination, longing, baYclost their poetical rose-color; a more <lark, melancho-1 ic ten<lency has entered the chambers of life. Inthe s:ime manner, as the stomach docs its unpleasantsoccagc-scrvicc, docs the heart it,, duty of dri,·ing onthe hlootl-circulaLion, with reluctance antl difficulty.The blood bas beco1ne blue-black, weak and thin; thesertun greenish; bleedings are frequent; there is aninclination to mortification, passive congestions, palpitations,piles; all fevers antl 1nomentary syn1ptomschange quickly, and the corpses turn soon blue andputrid.§ 8. All these disturbances in tho happy, healthy,lively interchanges between the organs of man, ha\'eexisted and will exist. But as the bite of a good orbad dog, is to be judged, not according to externalaspect, but according to the tooth that tlid bite: wemust also in diseases of our times recognize the maskof :i poison, which spreads desolation, sickliness, misery,pa.ins, tear~, and often premature death amongtho people. Tho fresh and blooming grave of thevirgin, tho noble courage and strength of the youngman, wither away under its secret influence. Oftenclo we sec a young corpse, but not the fatal "'capon!Call it the gen11ine, or tho vaccine-poison-enough!it is in Yarious ·ways tho pox-J)Oison. Such misery ispreYontcd, ·when Na.turo or A1·t succeed in throwingthe poison from the interior to the surface;* ancl this..* As most signally in the case of .\[rs. J. L-y here in Phila- llclphia, by the breaking out of a most Yiolent atlnck of small-pox,nnd in very many other cases I had hero in my bands.-Dr. S.•24 TilE EVILS OF VACCINATIOX.1nost radically, in its true original forn1 as s1uall-pox,or in bastarcl-forn1 of any other matter-expulsion.The strength of the body used up in the sirocco offever, is seldo1n able to drive the 1oattcr out by urine,sweat or in hro1norrhoidal crises. Nature generallyand tyrannically calls for pus. Nature is in smallpoxfully satisfied with suppuration, and blooms afterwardsonly the more beautifully. The bastartl-formH:pustules, itchy antl tettery eruption, boils, furunclcs,gum-boils, suppuratccl, glands, sore fingers and feet,appear often as after-crises, the fayora.ble influenceof which, for health, ought to be higher valued thanit i::;. N aturc does not higgle with herself; she punishes,when it is done with the above-mentioned ills,for the natural law revenges itself by natural punishment.Well then l will we rouse Nature further yet torebellion, by vaccination? ,viii we further defy herclearly-announced law? Let it be granted for a momentthat we could do it, while we really cannot doit: woul<l we then be irresolute in the choice betweena mark in the face, and a deep drought of the sufferingsof life? A silly girl might, perhaps, fear thesmall evil, because she sees it, an<l choose for it thousandtin1es greater ones, which she sees not and knowsnot. But should the physician immolate at the altarof cosmetics, the happiness of life and fa111ilics?The present mode of treatment, and the progress ofmedicine in this respect, lessens the fear of disfigurationvery 1nuch; the method of shutting tho patientup in hot beds and rooms with his disease-exhalations•TUE EVILS OF VACCL'IATIO~. 25-of lrtting his rlry lips languish for water, and hisbnrniug, parched skin bake in fever, is forgotten, andbas made room for .~ more 1·ational, cooling trcat-1ncn t, by means of which an intelligent physician canprcvcn~ ahnost, if not quite entirely, tho dis£guringeffect of the disease. But so long as the Chinese writewith their present signs, so long is their progress imJ)Ossible; and therefore, give the physician a, diffe1·cnteducation. De not 1uystifi.cd yourself by illegiblesigns and unintelligible sounds.§ 0. Our present poplllation gi,·e us tho best opportunityfor drawing comparisons in regard to the influenceof ,, accination. ,v e can divide our fellow-beingsinto throe classes:1. In those of fron1 1 to 25 years of age; nearlyall vaccinated, and many re-vaccinated.2. In those of from 25 to 50 years of ago ; bornl1crc, and mostly vaecinatecl!, and some re-vaccinated;and3. In those of from 50 to 80 years of age, not atall vaccinated in childhood.Let us now compare the last class with the firstand second. Justice is the basis of society. Thepeople of this third class can and shall sift the presentand the pnst, soh·e doubts, clear up darkness,and honor truth, whether their children and grande11iltlrcnhn,·c gained or lost on strength, fullness and·well-being of life, by \r accination. 1\.ntl truly, ourseniors, who ha,·e lived and acted so infinitely morethan wc,-who baYe seen and fought the battles offreedom, and cultivated the wilderness, while we826 TlIE EVILS OF VACCIN.ATlON.always enjoyed the blmisings of peace ancl plenty,ourseniors, I say, stancl like strong oaks before us;they hardly know anything about nerves, spine, sto111-ach, nothing of mucous discascR, nor of interior ulcerations.The grandfather sighs with feelings of pityand contempt: ",Yhat miserable fellows our descendantsarc ; each of them req_uircs more of niedicalattendance in one year, than I had in my whole life!"He digests yet with case; is not oppressed by hismeals; his ideas arc clear autl flowing; he is in thefull enjoyment of his well-preserved body for allfunctions, and his head performs readily its duties;he has not squanclered his money for medical quackery,and enjoys contentedly the means wLich hisexertions and fortune haYe accumulated around him.The matron who has for twenty years or more fulfilleddomestic duties, and who has borne, probably, manya seYerc trial,-look at her, llow well preserved sheis; how actiYcly, cheerfully and healthily she ¼llOvesabout,-she is perplexed at things she cannot understand.She must buy for one daughter false hair;for another she has to cook something particular, herstomach being so very delicate; her grand-daughtershe has to take to the country, on account of weaknessand a troublesome cough; another grand-childshe has to give cod-liver-oil for glandular difficulties;a third has a swollen goitre-neck; and a fourth husto be brought to the dentist; and-let us sing a loudhosannah for the vaccine-lancet !-the fifth must hesent to an Ortbop .". e<licI nstitute. The poor old ladyis puzzled about this new name; she cannot pronounceTIIF. EVILS OF VACCINATION. 27it.! \Vh:tt a pcrvcrtCll ,yorld ! The old arc ;1trong,tl1c young weak: the oltl nurse the young! .A.11y ouaf!cil people attest, whether the scale of domesticha ppine~,; has sunk or risen, since ·vaccination hasheco1ne general. Speak you, agc<l pastors of thelan<l, whether joy or prc1naturc suffering has growni11 your fol<ls ?-say whether you hear yet in yourt-cinplcs the sa1ne clear sound of voices you beard formt·rly !-wl1cthcr you sec yet the healthy, rucl<ly faces,you iuhnirccl in your youth, arouncl you! You olderteachers of schools hear witness whether there arcn1orc docile antl healthy children, or more pale, weak,scrofulous, tettcry, itchy, coughing ones no"•, thanthirty or forty years ago! Tell me, 0 physiologist,whcrcfrom comes the smaller stature of the people?-the less 1narkctl formation of n1usclc and tlcvclopu1c11?t -the miscraJ.,le condition of the mouth ?-tllclanguid expression of the physiogno1ny ?-th! green,yellowish hue of the face '?-the lower degree of"·armth of the bo<ly '? .And, finally, let us call on thes.erYants to tcstif,.of tho horrible excretions of thebo1ly-of the disgusting sweats in bctl-of tho loathso111condition of the body-linen-of the stench ofclunuber-Yesscls-of the decided carrion-smell of theclothes often in the cleanest and best families.Speak, then, parents, priests, teachers, physiologists,i;crvants ! Your obscrvn,tions and conclusionswill un<loubte11y1 c oincide in one point: that theren1nst he at the foundation of this internal an1l externalcorruption of the people; a co1n1non cause, a cau~eof destructire effect. Let us consider our fa.ir land28 Tlll:J EYILS 011 VACCINATION.a garden, and its inhabitants the plants of this garden:Is all in this garden in order, perfection andsplendor ?-If this is not the case,-has, perhaps, thogardener a wrong method, or the root of the plants theworm ? Or do, perhaps, both causes exist? It istlie unnatui·ally inoculated, and tlte natu,-al smallpox!Let the moralist think of this. Let the hea1·tbrokenmother ans,ver thus the bitter sighs and thehumble questions she sends ·with tearful eye up toheaven: why her darling thrives not? why it Ruffcrsso 1nuch? and why it is taken from her? Do notconsult in this great question, of the weal and woe ofour blessed land, the dim lights of University-liliputs,the jargon of arrogance, the self-complacency of scientificstupidities. A few instances do not prove agenerality, and blasphemy cannot hold it up! Thefree ey_e looks its age into the eye, and judges thewhole llom above!§ 10. Shall we have, then, the fearful small-poxagain? Shall we, perhaps, venerate it as a benefit?By no menns! But befo1·eI qualify my answer, tellme, my friend, " "\Vhere has the small-pox beenthese last fifty years? that is, the small-pox youfear so much; we will call it the ltisto,-ical smallpox?"-"The malignant small-pox of the 16th, 17thand 18th century, which made its appearance in somurderous a manner1 often even with all the terrotsof the bubo-plague, and against which medicationdid nothing, - where was it in this half of ourcentury?" I-las it, pelchance, been kept and preservedamong those who were not vaccinated; perTUI;EVILS OF VACCIN.\TIOX. 2!)haps, where the scctl ancl root of the small-pox grew?No! No,rhcre on the "·hole earth! Let us examinetl1c principal years of terror of the last three centuries.'l'hey arc :l . .For the wltole cartlt: 1586. 1723.2. Fo1· ..11merica:i.\Iexico ; Ilispaniola. 1518.South 1\.mcrica. 1728. 1750.North A111erica. 1717. 1738.lln<lson Bay. 1781.!3. For ..1lftica: Cap. 17 55.4:. For EuroJJC:l',. .., NortlLRus::;ia. 1580. 1605.Faroe Islaucls. 1651.lee land. 17 07.Engl:intt 1660-1GD2. 1729-17 4:0. 17 52.1763.IIollancl. 1562-1563. 1636. 1666.B., So1dlt-France. 15-11. 1568. 1577. 1666. 1693.17 41.-17 45.Italy. 1551. 15G7. 1717-1725. 1753-1755.Switzerland. 16:26. 168G. 1697. 1735. 17 -16.Spain. 1:517. 1529. lf,6-1. lll-!8-1651.C., JJidille-Gcnnany and IIungary. 1519 .. 1530. 1542.1.:,;i2. 162-1--1629. 1633. 1657. 1666.1G78-1G7fl. 1680. 1606-1697. 1700-liOG. 1711-1714. 171,3-1717. 17J8.1778. l 708. 1801. 1805.3*30 TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, thehistorical small-pox lea\-cS us suddenly. The earth,vaccinated or not vaccinated, <lid not yet sec jn theselast fifty years a time like the above-mentioned.Did the murderer of millions run before a wo1uanLadyl\Iontague-who, in 1722, came f1·om the landof the former paradise bringing a modern Eva, instockings-Inoculation-for an Adam's apple alongto England? Or dicl the scourge fly before the vaccinatinglancet of the German Plett, 1790, or of themore scribbling Jenner, to whom a milking countrywenchoffered the apple of temptation? Prove to methe existence of the historical sma11-pox at this time;and I will not yet believe in vaccination, but I willnot scold aed condemn it. But, surely, small-poxwas gone !-did not exist any 1nore !-long beforevaccination was introduced! For, although on the28th of l\Iay, 1799, the first cbilcl got vaccinated inGermany, the system was not generally introducedbefore 1820; and long before this year the historicalsma11-pox had disappeared ! Without waiting formedical experiments and government ordinances, thedisease changed its terrible character into a betterone, and showed itself only sporadically.Dr. Elsasser reports, that from 1808 to 1810, onlya few cases of small-pox had been observed, and thatin the kingdom of Wwtembcrg, during those terribleyears of war and famine, from 1813 to 1817, only2385 cases made their appearance, of which not onewas malignant.Schnurrer says, in 1816: "This year's small-poxTIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 31•is more identical with the regular old disease, thantlrn.t of the tw·o preceding years; there was thespe<:ific smell wanting, and the third stage, where theeruption loses the red circle, and stands like waxdropson the skin; the contents run out, or wereresorbe<l, and did not forfn tho usual scab."The i:ame eminent physician re1narks, in his Chronicleof Ep'demics, (II. p. 290 :) "The view that thosmall-pox, without vacl}ination, would have becomeby-and-by milder, and £nally disappeared, gainsstrength by the observations made in tho yearsJ 816, 1817 ."Tho central vaccine-physician, Dr. Seeger, of Stuttgart,writes, 11 that ,Yurtemberg remained from 1818to 1824 entirely exempt fron1 small-pox, and tl1at from1825 to 1830 there were so few cases, and these solight, that it was hardly worth while to speak of it."Ile cites then "\Te zin, who says, " that the frequentcases of variolcs and varioloids are not the consequenceof the temporary protection of Yaccination,but that small-pox-epidemics appear only in ,certainlonger intervals; and that in the first thirty years ofthis century, the small-pox would not have epidemicallybroken out without vaccination."Let us farther hear the classica.l authors on smallpox,the learned Lentin, and the penetrating Sarrone:"}.Juch foundation as the opinion of thosen1ay have, who believe, to be able to mitigate, toi1nprove, nncl, as it were, to dilute the malignity oftbe nat'tlral small-pox, by repeated vaccinations, thoobservation will always stare in their face, that when•32 TllE EVILS OF VACCINATION.one who is vaccinated, is cxposc<l to natural infection,the disease will always appear in its true .form, an<l1nOtStl!wJ itlt a 111ali9na11ct l,aractcr. "*.A. lthough we have h:ul, in later years, in spite ofthe general introduction of vaccination, a great dealof small-pox au1ong us, the' real ol<l historical snrn.11-pox did not appear. ,r11cre then is this ~Ietlu!-a?She is not here !-has she perhaps hidllen herself inyour interior ?-She is not among about 250 millionsthoroughly ci,,ilizcd men !-1)erchan~c you :find heramong your 600 millions other fellow-inhabitants ofthis earth, who know nothing of a Lady l\lontagueand her inoculation-epistles, nothing of Jenner andhis country-,vcnch, nothing at all of vaccination!No! she is not there either! a.n<lm, ore woudcrful yet,think only! these not-vnccinated barbarians haveand ha Ye had no small-pox; they liYe and exist hapJlierthan you, who suffer fro1n an avalanche ofinternal miseries: you who arc a weakling, notwithstandingyou are vaccinated "secun<lum artein !"Not even the Indians of Quito ha\·e ij11e sn1all-po:xany longer, (for liumboldt would certainly ha.Yomentioned the fact,) although Iloff1nan tells us thatthey suffered formerly fro1u the most malignant ki111l.Now, think yourself a collectjou of faces and bodiesof all countries and nations, accurately painted,* The truth of this assertion is proYed by daily experience. Imyself have been, in my younger years, repe,\tedly v.1ccinated;nnd ns soon ns I ,l'"ith my eh1stic constitution was cxposl!l lo infection,l got a ,·cry :se,·cre attatk of confluent mnlignant small-pox,which infeclc(l agnin my whole vncci nntcd honschold.-Dr:. 8.TUE EVILS OF VACCINATIOX.regarding color, features and formation: what a fieldfor reflection and investigation on vaccination andnot-vaccination! The result of such meditationsgi,·es us the true wisdom about vaccination. The,rhole vaccinatory witchcraft is as great and infamousa lie as the infallibility of the Pope, in which likewisemillions have faith ; they clie for their lie, while,ve vaccine-worshippers perish on ours!Vaccination has not protected us; it could not doit, because the sanall-pox had al ready left us and thenot-vaccinated "'orld, Lefore its introduction, or, asI will presently show, had taken another turn; it,vill not protect us, but rather lead us deeper and1norc steadily in their arms. The great Sarronc says;",v • e h::tve observed, after many a vaccination, thatthe infection spreads by this very means, when weexpected it the ]cast!"To what Fernelius says already, in the sixteenthcentury: "It is true, we are many years, in succession,free fro1n tl10 inroads of small-pox, but we oftenhave found ou1·sclvcs unexpectedly attacked, andnearly destroyed!" we have to subscribe, this veryday, our bloody signature, while we mnst recognizetl1e oppa1·cnt modification of the external form, for11. n1iserablc illusion, when we find this vauntccl modificationexisting in a transfer of the disease fromthe exterior to the interior life-organs.••34 TilE EVI! OF VACCINATION.TIIIRD TIIESIS.Y,\CCINATION rs A CRI~1E.§ 11. Ou.r actions arc generally basctl upon threemotiYCS:l. Upon faith (blind belief;)2. Upon ltabit (false experience ;)3. Upon lcnowleclg(et rue cxporioncc.)EYcry other 1noti,·e, as passion, &c., "~ excludehere at once. ,v e must acknowledge, that we arewanting the preceding necessary insight into theeffects and consequences of Ya.ccination, and that wetherefore cannot giYc a ratio~al account of it, andcontinue its application, as a mere senseless habit, aslong as we cannot refute the truth of the followingpositions:1. The cause and tlre nature of tlte snzall-poxpoisonancl nf tlte sinall-po.r is not known.Vaccination is the apocalypsis of medicine. Claircausays: " Laws arc, in the widest signification,the nccessa.ry conditions and relations of things,which flow from tlteir very nature, and in this allcxistcn~ has its own laws: Goel and the materialworld of botlies-thc spiritual and ani1nal creationallli.tYC their laws!" "\ra ccination is not foundedupon ariy la:w of nature; it is truly an outlaw!2. lt is the san1e witlt tltc vaccine or cow-pox! ,v cknow of it not 1norc than what that country-girl toldthe youthful stadent Jenner. Jenner bclievctl it inTITB EVILS OF YACCJXATIO.N.the true Engli:ih fashion ; he told it farther ; and physicians,laymc11, kings anil nations, plunged wildlya11ll l1li1111liyn tile Htn1e faith, ·which :;oon became soauthoritati\·e ancl unconditional, that e,·ery doubterwas treated with contempt and cxco1nmunication, andpersecution. The faithfully-believing people soon1nixe<l the thing with th person, autl accon1cd tophysicians the ability of 111ovingt he powers of natureafter tltei,. own pleasure, ancl ,created tl1us a larger:nul farther pri vilcgc for the n1edical profession.'l'ltc exccssi,·e veneration for this institute, was richlynourishc<l hy the ti111id thought on the terrible smallpox,which was lookcll 11pon as tho 1nost horriblescot1rgc the lnnnan fan1ily had been i;ubjcctctl to.Iu1pu<lencc and self-complacency copulated with it athought of cli,·inc origin and 1u1aYoidal,lo necessity.Notwithstanding all thi11,w e physicians do, in reality,know nothing 11,orc about tho cow-pox, than what thotc1npting country-Eva has told her admiring J enncr.Ea Jude.r eist ante nzinisteriu,ni nzortis.:t Of tlw e;ff'el'to f' the cow-z:,oJ·0, 1· vaccination, 1aeonl!J l.·11owt,h at ,nan and cow get sick and suffer froinit. It produces clearl!J all tlie symptoins of· a mosttl10,.011glpto isoning. Astrology is the moral <liseaseancl weakness of the Orient; tho Yaccination-faiththat of the Occident. There are in the Occident, as,rcll as in the Orient, Llind gropers, who act "-ithoutknowledge of cause and effect.-1,. ]Jou• tlw cow-po.1·-poison should insure man, weCttnnot ,1t•en clrl'am, .fin· less JJli!Jsiolif/ically tltinl,.,Yhen the belieYcrs of :.\Ietcmpsychosis, the Tartars,•36 THE EVILS OJ;' VACCINATION,swallow pills m:ulc of the excrements of tl1eir higbpriestfl,-as Forster and IIastings tcstify,-the filthyusage rests upon a deep thought, upon an idea ;-butthe vaccination?5. The rnedii:al science has 110 power over the s111allpox-poison; it is confined to tlte defence! • If we hada c1ear insight into the effect of the lancet, and wouldre1nain silent about its destructiveness, we "·ould deservethe execration of the ""orld ! But vaccinationis the child of faith, a kind of talismanery, supportedby fea,r and cherished by laziness. Habit, scienceand Jaw, have declared:1. That vaccination has not the least injuriousinfluence upon the life and hea.Jth of those who arevaccinated.2. That vaccination offers the best possible securityfor the extermination of a tendency of beinginfected by small-pox.3. That vaccination is the only means by whichsmall-pox and its destruction can be finally banished.These three articles of social faith have p]ayed thegreatest mischief with presu1ned wisdom of legislativepowers, and have fooled the millions~ for a rfallywise man only acts thus, when he knows fully whathe is about. Faitlt is not knowledge.A state-faith is not exactly a crime for itself;but it is an evil, and a very great one, when the lawswhich are based upon and dednced from it, and whichshall tend to happify society, lead to the very oppositeresult. :i;.,eut s then examine these three article!!of faith more minutely.•TUE EVILS OF VACCINATIO~. 37FIRST ARTICLE OF Fi\ lTII,§ 12. 'l'hc sun-ray warms; the n1oonlight cli:_n-ms;the wttler nioistcns; and poison poisons. .All this"isnothing new; and go,·crnment knows it too, when itspeaks so sweetly to the nation: "Not tlie least lia,·nic-omi:s fro11i vaccination!" E,·cry medical report,cYcry look into the lists of death and their causes,prove& it; and yet til1eg o,·ernmcnt says gladly, "0 !not tlie lrast harm ltas been done by i•accination !".The first is a senseless lie; the second a consciousone-a Persian lie ! But the Shah lies, and, therefore,all Persiitns lie! Tbns tl1c go,·ernmcnt-officersand the Faculty lie, and the uncounted masses offool!; mcl'l·ily follow i;uit ! Et nemo injecit in eu,nn1anu111. :\Iarc. i. 31." 001110 in, 1nadam ! be not afr:iid ! Does tl1is littleone belong to you? So, so ! ,vhat a lo,·cly •b:tbe ! truly, it young hero! a perfect ideal of health!"oxclai1ns the vaccine-physician to the trembling motlaer,who is full of doubts and misgil'ings. '· IIcrc !• •·cad yourself; read the new law, provided by thewiso legislators of n1odcrn Athens. It says: Traccinationdoes not do tlie least Jia,-m !'' This o,·ci·powcr::ithe last gleam of God-given instinct in the doubtingn1othcr-soul; tl1c snow-white, pure little arms arcbared antl offered, antl the poison 6-12-18-:Z~times incised; for it is of acknowledged importance;"that tlw i•acci,u-poison should be forced into tlie untcillingbody in SUJ.<'FICIENT quantity! TTTE MORE TUEDETTER! !"Philanthropist, let us pray in the words of tho438 THE EYILS OF VACCINATION.holy Crucific<l: "Father ! forgi,·e them, for theyknow not what they do!" antl they honestly acknowledgethe fact.General measures "e base upon general laws!The law of Nature is, that she rewards us "'ith pleasurablesensations, as often ,ls we haxe sa.tisfie<l oneof her calls. Is, therefore, vaccination ~ naturalnecessity ? \Y ould the child, tl~n, feel so 111is.erably,and be sick after it? Instead of this, the so,·ercignnature of the child declares a, reYolutionary war, assoon as it is poisoned with the vaccine-lymph. Thepowers of self-protecting nature and of the unnaturalinvasion, are drawn up like two hostile arn1ies, infull battle array. The invading poison attacks; thecombatants get heated; the struggle becornes Yehen1ent;the child is dismayed; the fever rages; theskin burns; the pulse runs high and quick; it storms.'' For God's sake, doctor!" exclaims the 111other,ringing her hands, "n1y child ! my darling child !Yaccination has hurt it ! "" Cahn yourself, good woman, this is nothing butthe vaccine-fever-the extinguishing feyer ! "Jlfotlier.-Thc cx-tin-guishing fever?JJoctoi·.-Y es ! the same.11Iother.-"\Yhat is there to be extinguished? ~fychild was pci-fcctly healthy; it was never yet thelcar,t unwell, .As little as I and my husband--• IJoctor.-(Shcltered behind his medical and mysticalprcrogati,rc) You do not understand that; you betterquiet yourself. Read here the laws an enlightenedlegislature ha.s made and provided !•••TUI-: EYILS OJ' V.\CCINATIOX • 39. Auel the disconsolate mother is silent! and thedoctor is silent too !The storm rages on. The suffering chikl screams;throws itself about; cannot fintl rest. The m9thcrprays, nncl peace ensues. Nature has conquered!\'ictory ! Yictory ! The chilcl i fl quiet antl exhausted.The tnolher s1niles through her tears. ·victory ! Triumph!The hostile, poisonous intruder, is repulsedto the i-pot where he first invaded. There be is!Shut up, fctterc,1, capti\'e lies the wild destroyers intheir holes; but fiery rc<l and swollen for angea·, looksYictorions Nature out of the inflamed arm ..1.liotlter.-O ! God be thanked ! the eruption ishere; what anxiety I )rn,\'C had !IJoctor.-Y ou sec, 1ua<lu1ne; i;uch things you donot unclerstnn<l: as I have told you before.J.llotlwr.-0 yes! I was wro11g, and beg your pardona thousand tin1es.The sacred order of Nature is snYetl, the anarchicalin,·asion of the poisonetl lancet Rubtluctl, andmartial law proclaimed. 1'he htw of Na.ture is: ejectionby suppur:Ltion ! '.l'hc pox suppurates, faHs off in·ugly scabs. But the general welfare of Nature hassuffered by the fri,·olous war . •1liothl'r.-)Iy little one looks yet very pale; onecan sec how exhausted it is.J>ocior.-'I'hank Gotl, n1ntlame! tho re-actiYof e,·crwas :,plcndill; and no\\· you cnn be assured, that itwill nc\'cr get the s1nnll-pox.1lioth1:r.-O ! how shall I express my gratitude toyou!••••40 TllE E\'ILS OF VACCINATION.Let us now· look deeper into this hocus-pocus ofvaccination. The infantile organism is the purestexpression of natural perfectibility. To interrupt it,is a great t~rin1e; but to interrupt it sensele;;sly, i!'I :imonstrous crime. Let us be grateful to God, whodirects the e,·il to turn to good. Let us revere theguardian angels who watch unceasingly over our cradles.Let us admire all-powerful Nature, which is notso easily brought into this serious :incl lasting clisordcrby our perverse intrusions; for otherwise, there wouldhardly have remained a, human being alive. But letus not praise vaccination, even if a great many childrenget alive through it. Nature is great! A mostastonishing proof of tl.1isg i,·c;(a) Those children, particularly boys, whose stronghealth will not accept any poison at all, who do notform those vaccine-blisters, but who, as it were, rejectindignantly tlte intrusion, and throw out the poisonagain by clifferent kinds of eruption ::ind ulcerotions.(b) Such who have carried out of tl1c Yiolent struggleof the natunil small-pox, the reward of perfectlypure bodily health; and(c) Such to whotn a kind of family immunity mightbe ascribed; that is, a n1ixtnre of fluids, the chemicalvitality of which would rather permit a hnndi-cd otherdisease-forms, than the small-pox, (and vice versa.)Oaznl Yaccinatctl a boy in Yain;'l'hc second timtl-in Yain !The third time-in Yain !The fourth time-in vain !He then made him take a, quantity of puh-crizcd••TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 41kine-pox-scabs in a soup. On the fourth day, thepoor hoy begun to vo1nit violently, and to suffer fromnervous sympton1s. '£his condition lasted for sixda.ys, and finally there appeared on his body onehundred and eighty kine-pox-pustules. ,vbcthcr thestomach of this victim of one-sided scientific perversity,thrc,v its grateful acknowledgment for suchfa,·ors right iuto the face of the expcrin1cntalizingDoclor, is not 1nentioned.§ 13. The tender age of infancy is very susceptihlcfor external influences ; why not also for anykincl of poison'? And it would have to succun1boften to the change in temperature, to carelessnessand pcr,'crsity in education, and many other untowardcircumstances arising from false views andinherited prejudices, if our kind Creator ltad notprovided safeguards for all emergencies. This guardforn1s the tendency of tho child to oppose e,·eryintrusion and attack, by a wonderful re-action. ,v cha.vc seen sucl1 a spcctaclo in tbc preceding pages!,v ;uld to Go<l th:1t the struggle be al\\'ays so fortunate; I would be silent, aucl suppress 111yin dignation!But it is not always :.o ! The susceptibility,as well as the rc-acti,·e power, and therefore also theresult of tho physical struggle arc so different, andya,rying in 1nau11cr and strength, as the 1nillions offlowers of a 1nc,Hlowc, ut down by a hail-storm. :i\Ianya book 1night be written on this subject alone, but Ihn\·e neither time nor space, nor inclination for sucha task.Si-:cOND RcENF.: - The hostile invasion of the4*•••42 TEJ<; EVILS OF V.ACCINATlON.•beastly pox is a,lso totally l'Cpulscd by the powers ofnature, (e.i:ercitus vitm ;) but the marauders arc notonly caught hy the arm, and rlriYcn out of the land,but all the boundaries are infested, molcstcLl, andexhausted ];y these.Besides, and aJter the vaccine-eruptions, variousskin-affections make their appearance in c11ilclrcn: a1papula; b, cx.,'lnthemata; c, pustules; d, furuncles,which trouble the little ones 1nore or less, or whichthey secretly breed for years. "The child will notthrive; there is always something the matter withit ! "JIIothet A.-i.\Iy child has got au eruption all overthe body, like. heat-blisters; it has scarcely any restfor itching; on its cheeks and lips there arc poisonblisters,and it is sore here and there ..11fother B. - i.\ly good for-nothing nurse left theother day the door open; my three chikh·en havetaken severe colds. I haYe sent her off. i.\fy poori\Iolly has got now erysipelas, Lizzie something likenettle-rash, and Tom even the measles. They • areall ,·cry unwell, indeed; but the worst is that weapprehend with the babe-the scarlet feYcr !.1Wother 0. -I am afraid that my children havehandled the mangy cat of our neighbors; I neverwill be again the neighbor of tt baker. It is unbearable-all n,y children ha,c the tetter: Charles onthe head (jlavus;) John in the face (i1npetigo larvalis,)and Bob on his thighs ( i1npet. sparsa.) It isa very disagreeable sight, ant1 sn1ells so bad1y. Theworst of all is - and I am fully satisfied of it-the••TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 43Doctor has m:-i<lc a 1nistake, and not thoroughlyextinguished the !:unall-pox-poison, for my boy Jameshas got, hesicles the vaccine-pustules, the real smallpox,(1•ariola, varioloids, i•aricell:.e.) Yet I must saythat the boy has had the extinguishing-feyer Yeryse\·errly: at least the Doctor sai<l so.Jlotlzer .D.-1\.ll 1ny happiness is gone; I was tcohappy! Since my unfortnnatc boy has been vaccinnted,he hn!i been n perfect Lazarus. E\·ery partof his borly brraks out in 1nost painful boils andnbscesses in the arm-pits, on the neck and body ingeneral; his arms and feet appear to be full of n1attcr;the poison comes even out at the ends of hislittle fingers (panaritia.) i\Iy only consolation is,"that the pale poor little thing can cat well.As the unprofcssignal fathe1· doubted for1ncrly, soi,- now the physician startled: "11[ea culpa! rnear11a.i-imac ulpa!" 'l'he <listrcss of the n1iserable parents<lriYes the blnsh of embarrassment in his face."IIcn1 ! II cm ! but no !" ho <loufcnsh i1nsclf; "no,the Yaccinntion cannot be the only cau:-c of all thispitiful woe; all the wot·ld vaccinates, and law-makers,even in the 1nost progrcsRiYc and enlightened comn111nitics,order it! I then will Yaccinate as longas go\·erninent and the people dc8irc it." The son ofIlea rcn, in China, orders the i\Iantlarin to be whipped,·who again has the people whipped: "Lege leg is Doctorlegcni serv{'lbo seri·us, nee non pliysic1rn longus !.17.\ 012111' boi•es IJeo cur~ surtt?§ 1-l. TurRD ScENE.-Thc ground is less guarded;the laneet-nr111y penetrates deeper into the lnnd, into••••44 'THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.the intestines of the country. They find thcn1wonderfully fortified. E,·erywhoro electric battcriei<,(plexus), like small fortresses, with star-like ramifications,su1Tountl the grey-redtlish nervous knots,(ganglia), the arterial streams; the principal fortificationprotects the stomach, (ganglion. solate,) andtwenty-four to twenty-five such detached forts on eachside of tho spinal column defend the spinal n1arrow.The rapport 1vith the head, ·with the members of thewhole body is secured. Thus prepared and armed,nature awaits the attack of tho kine-pox. Theyapproach; nature defends 1.ierself by violent fever,tho child burns, calls for water, moans pitifully, letshead and limbs hang loosely ; the heat increases, thoncr1•es of the spinal marrow hasten to succor, bycramps and convulsions: John ~ies the second clay;thotendons jump, tho cerebrum participates, sopor,contortions ensue : Charles <lies on the fourth, sixth,tenth day ;-tho struggle gets finally weaker, is continuedyet for some weeks: David dies of hecticfever!J.1:lotlter.-0 God ! my child! 0 doctor ! n1y poorchild, it is dead ! I ought not to have had it vaccinated!J)oct01·.-Here the teething is tho cause, madame,a. Yehmnent fever, an inflammatory fever, was complicatedwith the teething.11:lotlier.-Yos, yes! and this fever was-what youcall-the extiinguishing fever I O God ! my child !Doctor.-(Sighs and sneaks a.way with deep andvery painful emotions.)TJIE F.\'ILS OF \TACCINATIO;:... 4iiIt is n beaut if nl, a very wise law, this vaccinationlaw! The brute-pox has gained some advantage,and reaches now the niucous uwnibranes. It is principallythe nerve-fortress of the ston1ach, which resistsvjgorously; the storn1 rages in the arteries, (abdominalpulsation;) the mucous preparing glands (n11tClJJrtr129landulx) envelope the enemy with toughphlegm; he is subdued. Nature conque1·s and triumphsltere by cliarrltc'l'a: Tom cuts himself through;Bob suceu1nbs in the flight; tlte1·eb, y vomiting, Georgegets through, but is severely ,vounded; Ilarry falls.'l'he discar<lc<l enemy runs now wildly up ancl down;James saves hin1self; ,Yash dies of cholera tie syn1ptoms;the fortresses (ganglia) inflame autl discharge,vhatcver they can (cl1olera.) The main body of thepartially-subdued enemy takes 1·efuge in the blindgut;establishes itself there :-Ike is saved with greatdifficulty by :irt; Clun·les's stomach gets perforated;he clies of softening of the stomach.-Firc ! fire! thecncmy'i; fire-torch blazes in the intestines! Sam can1uinlly be Rnatched out or ti o flames; Neu dies ofenteritis. The poison-pox takes the burning place!True, faithful N1iturc, succutubs not yet; she struggle,-for life ancl death, and Rhe succeeds to take holdof the leaders of the in,·ading l'cbcls, and shuts themup in the exant he1n of the coating of the intestines .• . Agnin she proclairns and executes m:ntial law: slte•ejects p1111. But here on the inner coating of 1nnnthe execution ii:; far inorc difficult than on the cxbernalsurface. 1\. sensible physician helps Fred throughin the process of ejection (typhus, nervous mucous••4G THE EVILS OF VACCJNATIO~.feyer); the ulcers in the intestines suppurate nn<lheal; but with Anna they heal not,-she dies!IIelp ! help ! tho child suffocates; the brute-poisonmoves from the stowach into the breast. ,Yhat aterrible catarrh ! Lizzie sinks under her chokingcough, and Emma, with asthmatic want of breath,under convulsions. Dost thou hear the distressingcall of Nature, the whooping-cough : this horrible,pitiable woe of a child? Dost thou sec the colossalmass of phlegtn by which Nature tries to defend herself,as long as she docs not feel her fever-strengthequal in a match with the poison-power?IIow rapidly does the scourge progress! The terriblyominous co1nmotion begins already the first,fourth, seventh, and ninth day after the vaccination;many, many ch ldrcn fall its victims; an<l again,others arc more fortunate; hut mostly some miseryremains. The mucous membranes, particularly thoseof the organs of the senses and generation, (in adults,)attest the sufferings and dangers originating in theinoculated kine-pox-poison. Ophthahnia, otorrhoo,fiuor al bus, prurigo, &c., &c.§ 15. ,Yha.t a sea of tears, what an unboundedfield of misery lies behind us ! Let us add to this thedeacl, the inYalitls, the infinn, that come forth out ofthese struggles! The field on which the battle wasso fiercely fought, is before u's, disordered, ruinetl,weakened, devastated; it is the extcnsi,·e .field ofdigestion and breatliiny, the basis, the root of life.Not enough that these terrible traces arc re-proclucedyear after year, but the poisoning goes on ngain and• ••••TllE EVILS 01,' VACCINATION . • 47 •again, and poison is lieape<f into the already poisonedlio<lies. 1\..n<tlh is is the reason why the affections oftho 1nucous me1nbranes, which were forinerly onlyone-half of :~11 diseases, haYe now increased to fi,·esixthsof their number. Thou misen1.blc abclomen !•tl1ou miserable chest! Is Pandora:s box not yetc1npty '!* •Gone is all faith in the doctrine of (( not the leastinjury." Nothing has gained but the history oferrors and fallacies; its pages show innumerable newcxpcri1uents. The people have acquired by this raccin:ilion:1 .. A. glorious degree of sickly sensitiveness of the:-ito111aclatn d intestinal canal, accompanied by openancl hidden disturbances in tho whole digestive ~ppa-1·atus, viz., diarrhroa, dyspepsia, phthisis dyspeptica,liver and spleen suffering, never known before.2 .. A.n entirely new disease (since 1806) which dollllcstieatesitself every year 1norc firmly, the typltus,·which is a mucous fever with ulcerations and pox()ruptions in the abdominal viscera .3. The daily ntore frequent appearance of a uewchildren-disease, which i\Iillar obsen·cd and presented(17 55) as the first fruit of inoculation in England: the asth1na ~Iillari.4. The poor children haYe gained, or rather regained,in immensely more malignant form, (since180u,) the long before forgotten inflammation of the •wind-pipe-croup. .,\.s formerly, in England, Nature* ,\11,wcr: Xot ns long ns the box of Pnn<lorn is the Yncciniitingcnsc of instruments!•••••48 • 'TlIE EVILS OF \'.ACCINATION .revolted (1738) against the iuoculation of tl10 hu1nansmall-pox-matter, and triecl valiantly to re-1110,•tah epoison by means of c:itarrhal gangrenous augina inthe thront; as children for nearly forty years sufferedthe tortures of horrible straugulation-difficultics, andmany thousands of the1n wretchedly 11erishc<l; soappears now here and•everywhcrc, where vaccinationis introduced, the croup, somewhat milder, becausethe kine-pox: is somewhat; milder, and tortnres,frightens, sickens and kills ( already so1ne fortyyears) tho innocent Yicti1ns.5. The whooping-cough has gained in strength andextent immensely.6. The human family in general, has acquired a.monstrous increase in consumptive and hectic diseases,which mostly originate in the digestive apparatus(plztliisis dys1Jeptica.)7. An entirely new disease, softening of the stom-.ach, (v. Jaeger and Oamerer,) has been added since1811-1813, to our already immensely large catalogueof dest1·uctive diseases.8. Our young women l1ave gainc<l, since ] 822, agenerality of chlorosis and fiuor albus, of which wedid not drearn before.9. The whole human fa1ni]y ha Ye been enriched bythe acquisition of the Bengaiian poison-snake-hydrophis;the tropical wil<l pox-roison, the cholera; whichnow has established itself among us thoroughly andhabi tuitll y.10. Our generation has, besi<les all this, ga,ine<l afar greater susceptibility for the small-pox-poison,••'l'Uls £YILS OF YACOINATIO~. 4Vwhich will 1·a \'a~c in the abovc-111cntioned tliscascfonnsof the 1nucous n1e1nbrancs in the interior of theorganisn1, till the feeding of the poison l,y vaccination,onlcretl e,·cn by law~, sanctionecl by usage, anclhc\11 up hy the faculty, is forbi<l<len under severepenalty. 'l'hen only will Na,turc he able to recoverall her own i ancl then will the external small-pox reappcar as a redeeming mcaus for the internal destruction.Doctor.-Bring your habe now for vnccination !JJiolf1 rr.-liow you have frightened me, I tren1bleall o,·c1· !Dor-to1•,-V{hy? what is the matter?1l[o//ier.-Parclon 1nc; but I feel a perfect horrorc1·ceping o,·cr 1ne at tho mere thought on vaccination,since n1y poor Charles has died in consequence of it.IJoetor.-O nonsense ! Clrn.r]cs did not die on Yaccination; tlo not believe such a thing. Ile got dysenterywhile teething. •JJ[otlter.-I beg you to wait another year; Tomis now very delicate intlccd ..Doclor.-Only the better! and I have this verymoment excellent, fresh Yaccinc-lymph.JJiotlu:r.-In God's name be it done! But, doctor,the rcRponsibility rests on your shoulders!r Niue <lay:-. after this cou,·cTsation and followingYaccination, 'rom was a corpse, with two ,acc1ne-1Jlistcrs on each arm.§ 16. Founru SCEXE:- The l)oundaries and the• gates of the lan1l arc poorly gnarde1l; the first ad,·anccof the fever-troops is iuacti,·c. Nature, impotentlyr,50 TIU, EVILS OJ..' Y ACCIN ATION.urging on the miserable powers of the bo<ly, strugglesagainst the beastly pox in the spheres of the mucot!smcinbranes. There is a great deal of mucus, butnot sufficient to stifle and s1nother tho enemies. '.l'hopolice-force (the u•onns) of tho intestinal canal is increased.This moastu-o is for some time succes::;ful;but tho intruding poison soon oYerpowers the wormsalso, and the skirmishing in the streets makes theassistance and interference of a physician necessary( antlwbnintica.) EYon now the quiet is of shortduration!The poisoning eruptions sneer at the catarrh; theymove i11to the throat, drying, burning and exhausting;the thirst is enormous; the irritation of the eyesand the nose, and the sneezing, torturing. Theylaugh at Nature antl 4,rt; for they delight to pla,y intho most various catarrbal forms :-not in storm andrain,-no ! in the most beautiful, warm, dry weather,• in the full bloom of the fields. They play for monthsand years, up and down like ebb and flood. Nothingwill draw tbc enemy out of bis positions. "It isalmost to despair," exclaims the physician, "that isno cataarb ! I was deceived ! \Vhat a. suspicioussmell ! it is clearly infectious ! It rniist be a poison;it consumes the child's color, flesh, roundness andnerYous energy. You sec how it shrinks, as if frightened!-how h-ritable, pale, tiny and miserable it is!I must assist poor Nature!" And observe how Naturegratefnll_y and readily gathers het strength, andcalls on the serous texture for assistance. Tho •struggle is slowly renewed ; the poison storms on thoTILE EVILS OF VACCINATIOX. 51one i;idc fron1 the 1uucons 11c11 nbrancs against theseros:1, anrl nttacks on the otl1cr si1lc the ~crous innercoating of the vessels. 'rhe bent and excitement islicrc, anrl is there, and soon burns the head, (.A1·aclt-11oicle;a) soon hnrn the joints, (8ynovial menzbranes,ln1rs,1m• uco.g,,,);- the fever rages-the life struggles allover in the blootl-Yesscls, nerves, fibres, &c. ; the tlinphrag1ncntcl1es fire! The rebels cut and thrust hereand there through the hca,1, cl1cst, ston1ach, spleenancl liver; no 1ncntl1er of the body will net. E,·eryfunction is at :L stand-still. The prime of the poisonfitlls fin:11ly also into the centre; the inner coating oftl1e pcricar<litun inflan1e•s. !low then the heartstonns in anxiety aiul despair! how the pulsation1·uns wil1l ! the stinking breath indicates a retreat ofthe enemy, (contagium ;) the room is pc~tilcntial.Open the windows ! air ! IIo,Y the nerYes tremhlc !"h:it ii tumult an,l upro:u· ! (1·octifoe bti.s ;) the tongueis in a trc1nor. ,vater ! water! IIcroically couragt•ons, ob:-;crYcs the physician, he quiets and cool:,;nntl orders the xoute ! 0 heaYcns ! Sam sinks in thestorm ! .Jim 1nakcs u last effort. The skin steams!-pestilential s1ncll !-the enemy fices; victory! theeri,-is has arrived! Out of all openings flies t11e pest-Others arc ficrhtin"' yet. If we had only ncrYCS a1ul 0 r,., ..YC:lscl,:,c omplains the serous party !-Take courage,exclaim~ Xaturc; the watchword is: Life or death!)'on arc co1nplctcly :-hut-up ,:acs; exhale, hy all1nca11~i,n stead of your usual Yapor, \\·ater; tlrown thei11cc111liarie:--..A .11tsl ec, the di~case is extingui,-hedin the watery effusion: (lq;dro<:epltaluasc utus, l1ydro-•52 TilE EYILS OF VACCINATION'.tliora.i-,l q;clropsp cricardii, .1l11asarcal,t ydrops tunicceamnios, ltydrocclc, l1ydrartli11.~&, c., &c.) 'l'hcformation of furuncles and abscesses fail not to niakotheir appearance in the later time of 1·econvalcscc11cc;the law, ejection by pus, must be fulfilled.§ 17. Let us examine, for once, the viscera of ananimal that has been butchered; tho glassy shiningexterior, f. i. of the intestines, of a bladder, &c.,shows the serous texture which the wisdo1u of theCreator has 1nuch condensed, and left without bloodand nerves. In such textures are sac-like enclosed allthose viscera, that arc most necessary for life, viz.:the brain, the organs of sight and hearing, tho lungs,the heart, the liver, the spleen, the stou1ach andintestines, the kidneys and blac1dcr, the joints, &c.The inflammation of these sacs is very painful, violent,and rather difficult to 1nanagc, because it ii;generally combined with erysi pclas; it affects oftenmost seriously the organs themselves, which the sacsare to protect, and thus even life itself. The 1nctlicalguild throw in this sanctum the poison fire-brand ;they carry the terrible furies of death, suffering, andsickness into the very life-springs, and exclaim :" There is net tlte least injury done !"First Motlier. What a most awful afiliction ! Think,my neighbor's lovely boy has died this mon1ent !Second Mothe1·. Is it possible ? That fine, handsomeboy, ,vho began already to walk, autl laughedso sprightly, is dead?First JJIIotlwr. The same! his poor father is nearlycrazed; it "·as his favorite.•Till, E\.ILS OF YACCIXATION.1fseco111Jl liotlier. Ent I h:n·c seen th<' d1ilcl onlythe other ,hn.·., as well m; ever!J<'irst Jlfut!ter. Last week ho was vaccinated; hethen began to 1,ickcn, got inflaru1nation of the brain,a ntl <lic<l.Secontl J.liutlif'I'. A good 1nany children die, now-a<lay~, unilc•r similar circumstances.First ]lfutlter. The father accuses loudly the physician,as the cause of the cleath.l:Jcco11id1 Iotlie,·. Our houses of refnge arc nowchangcu into hospitals by the introduction of vaccina-• tion.Fil'1;Jt Jlotlw,·.A nother neighbor's three daughtersha Ye been rc-vaccinatc1l latcly; one of them has n6whip-disease; another is as ugly, ycllo"~ and lean asone can be ; and the third, a, truly excellent girl,congbs all night, and is very weak. ,re hear herscreams in our house; she has such terrible painsand stitches in her breast and left side.Sec:oncl1 1lotlier. A friend of 1nine became bedridden,for a long tin1c, after re-Yacciuation. Sud<lcnl_ys he got most awful car.ache ; three physicians"·ere called in. But all their cndc:1xors to help werein Yain. Finally, ,L tnn1o'i· forrued in the car. Thephysicians took it first for a polypus; it showed itselfto l.,e aftct·wards an :tbsces1-, which di:schargctl ao-reat deal of ,·cllow water; and now she hears withh •' that car 11ot .i sound; you would hardly know thepoor woman.Pir.~t 1liotlwr. The sa1ne thing happcnctl to afriend of my ltusLantl's; but, in his case, the tliffi!i*54 • TUE EVILS OF VACCL.'{ATION.culty settled in the eyes. On one e~·c he is entirelyblind now; the otl1er is so weak, that he cannot hearany light.Second JIIotlte,·. Our Doctor has vaccinated hin1-self four times. The last ti1nc, two months ago, hogot very sick. As soon as he had recovei:ccl, andbegan to make visits, he got the real small-pox, andsuffers now dreadfully, he has lost all his hair.§ 18. The FIBRINE exists in otu-chyme, and in grcntquantity in our blood, and forms the principal flubstanceof our flesh. l\Iuscle and tendon differ from•each other, like the external .and internal skin of theli11.s;t hey al'e therefore one and the same substance;and it makes no difference that the flesh is red, nnclthe tendon silvery. This beautiful silvery-shiningtexture is the fibrous tc;1Jturew, hich gives the bodyits elasticity. It surrounds all our bones, surroundsour whole brain, as well as its single divisions, ourspinal marrow, all our nerves, our eye, our heart,all our blood-,•essels: forms firm capsules round ourjoints, sheaths ligaments di,·isions for the mechanismof our life. It is, therefore, besides the bones,the firmest protection for all our organs. Thisvery firmness is their own defence: while tho scrosaarc protected by their vapor and water, the mucousmembrane by mucus, the external skin by the fut.'.l'his is the reason why tho Creator gave to the fibroustexture so little conductibility, particularly of poison.J3ut even this bulwark is reached by tho vaccinepoison! Do you not sec and feel tho track of thisbeast: the dreary vestiges through the regions ofyour nature, till it nrrived there?TIIE EVILS OF '\"ACCIXATIOX. 55Look at the im1nensc nuu1ber of rickety children,i ncrt'asing, year after year, at.. the most rapid rateever since. anr1 wherever other nations have imitatedthe vaccination of the English ! 1\.s horrible ns now,our forefathers did not see this disease ! C1·ooked,blintl, lame, hunch-backed, full of suppurating boils,era1np, with deall-pale, <listorte<l pain-features, mov('sthis worl,1 of poorest children before our eyes. "'hati,; man? you i-igh !-but ask-rather exasperated:lVltat <lid rnan do? and he a pl1ysician, too? :igovernment? ,Yith tears of gratitude buries even acloating 1nother such a 1niserahle being, whose lifell'Ottlcl have been a torture to itself. "Not tltc leastinjury!" for the child riRes an angel to hca,·eu !IIcre the thought dies! the pen is sil<'nt ! the _((ftltHccne is too tragic! A feeling of sorrowful indign:ttio1!a lone speaks yet. Let others then talk.,Yhcn Abraham, at tl1e command of God, waspreparing to sacrifice his son Isaac, God sent a r:unnear him, in his stead. Ch1·i:-t says: Nobody willgive his son a stone, when he asks bread. "·hat docsthe public do, when the physician poisons his ownchild'? Let us hear what Ileitn says: (Pockenseuel1en,/'i. 533.)"Dr. D., in S., Yaccinatccl his own, perfectlyhealthy child, about one year old. The suppurntionfcvcrwas so strong, anti the pustules flouri,;heμ so£ncly, as Dr. B. had scldo1n seen it. But, ever si1iccthat, the child began to be sickly, had nearly alwaysHome diarrhcca, increased thirst, some cough-onefuruncle after another n1atlc its appearance-the last56 TTIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.a very large 011e,l lesides some other s111allcro ne~, onthe scat of the child, broke eight days hcfore itscleath. Yet the eliiltl tried anxiouf;ly to Sa.Ye his footfrom every touch, while it tlicl use it, and wliilc itwas yet happy and frolicsome, as 1nuch as its 1na11ytroubles permitted it. The foot retained, for somedays yet, its natural color anu fonn, and the fathercould therefore ascribe the infla1n1natory exciten1cnt,which expressed itself in loss of appetite, thirst, andnightly orgasms, only to teeth-development, (ah!) orto the swollen inquinal glancls, (ah! ah!) or an irritation(wha,t kind?) of the isehiaclic or of the crural• nc1Tc. The continually increasing heat (what heat?)1nade the father think of an inflau1mation of thofibrous muscle-sheathing of tho foot; the clearly-expresseddesolation, tho want of appetite, the oftenrepeatedattacks of involuntary nausea, indicated tohim bilious eo1nplieations. The foot began, finally,after a few clays, to get very hot, and to swell considerably,while the color of the skin remained yettho san1e; anti now there could be no doubt of aninflammation of tho periosteum. A Yomiti,·e rcmoYe<l,nearly indigested, everything the child had takentho last few da.ys. In the following night, tho heatincroase<l more and 1uore. Three leeches, :and thorubbing-in of mercurial ointment, pi-otlucccfl irst som!lch alleviation, that the poor child, who had notslept for twenty-four hours, fell asleep, and slept firehours in succession. But, the next morning, it wasclearly d~ible that the child':-; strength was rapidlysinking; it ground its teeth, and rolk•<l the c,vcsTTTE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 57while <loiing. ,vhen :iwakc, it h:Hl full COIJ!-ClOUSnes,;,un<l begged, with fon<lling caresses, (its father!itg physician!! its poisoner!!! its tnurderer ! ! ! !) forh~lp. The forenoon, it was very restless. In the afternoon,there was s01ne <1uiet; and now appeare<l inthe middle of the shin-bone, a hluisl1-re<l i;pot, and011 this some nut-colored pnstulc::i1 filled with matter ;although the little sufferer son1ctimcs started up, as iffrightened; he rcmainctl pretty <1uiet till two o'clock,when he liegan to show difficulties in breathing. AJ1cn1pty choking got soon combined with this cl.u-..nginghartl hreathing, which rctnruecl 1norc antl 1norc frc<1ue11tly, an1l lastetl longer and longer, au<l finallycca,;e1l in the forenoon, about ten o'clock; the hreathinggot now 111or(<) liflicult yet, so that no respirationwmi had, with'.>ttt exertion a11<l groaning; the innocentvictin1 retained all this ti,ne, consciousnl'ss, antian1l prayed for J'Clicf (to whorn '?) A. tepid ln1Lh f-.Ub<luc<l 011cc 1norc the attacks for J1alf an hour, but aftertl1:1.t the chil1l Rank very rripiuly, and death relievedtl1c s-ufferer about two o'clock, four weeks after thevaccination."-" 'l'hc dissection conriuccd even the1\-rctchecl father of the f:tct, that the sole cause oftl1e tlii;case and death of his own child was h1s ownact, and nothing but the vaccination!"'l'his heinous crime, this history of cruelties, isnarrated hy a father, by a pl1_yf-icianb, y so eminenta 111:tn a~ Dr. Ilcim, in his official reports; and yet •physicians uarc to assert, and goYcrnments uarc tocontend: " F,.acci11ation cloes not do tlte least injur!J !"' I could cite here, from the same pages,•••58 TlIE E1ILS OF VA.CCJN.\TION.more atrocious details of kacl1c.1·ayn cl paeclartlirocac,•,of which Dr. Scyfer, in IIeilbron1, gives the sacldetails. EYery honorable and discri1ninating physiciancould add to his catalogue of horror::;, theknowledge of which would make our hair stand up.But enough ! Be silent reflection !§ 19. SIXTH SCENE. - The rebels triuu1ph ! thebeastly hordes of the vaccine-poison conquer the land,settle down, and establi::;h themselves in it. Tl1e throneo!monarchical nature, tlte brain, is vehemently shaken,or even softcnecl ; the 1nountain-passes and thci1·springs, the marrow and its nerves, arc blocka<lc<l,teased, or also softened; tlie fortifications of thebody (the ganglia,) and the 1nagazines of industryand economy (the glandular system and the 1nucousme1nbranes,) arc in their po,Yer. The fever-troops ofthe nerves and of tho blood lie beaten and prostrated.The guard alone, the ·animcc vitw, stand yet firmly,and is not conquered.She alone continues the struggle, in periodicalattacks and skirmishes. Thcso attacks proceed fro1nthe heights of the spinal colu1nn, inn1ding soon thodominion of respiration, soon that of <ligcstion, soontba,t of generation, soon that of the mcch.anis1u ofthe body, (intermittent fc,·cr.) Nature rallies alsoonce a year, generally for a pitched battle, (so1nc1uore violcn t :u1d decisirc fever or inflau1mtai on.). But she is. unable to gain, nnassistc<l, a, co1nplctevictory, cramped as she generally is lJy drug-interference,ancl if a sensible physician does not helpher in her efforts.•'IHE I:\'ILS OJ:' YACCINATION. 59Tho proccsiws of d0Yelopn1cnpt lay in the chiluthe lJrincipnl role ; therefore the vacciuc-poison-rcbels1nix thcn1sclvcs n1ost rca11ily in the organs,. particularlyactive in these processes, and thus the ruin ofthe organism is secured for life.\Y c sec here, in this picture, how human life iset11hittcre1la ntl SJ)Oilcd-a, life that is ncrcr healthy,and seluo1n rea1ly sick- the comfort of the drugsliop.Since the creation of human beings, therenever was such o. variegated, topsy-tnr\·y chaos ofi;uffcrings of the spinal cohnnn, as at the presentti UH!: no wonder that physicians and patients feel asif they should despond! 'rhere remains only oneg11in for u!>..:....l'cjoicca, ntl erect triumphal archesfi·o1n the birth-place of the wench, who instructedJenner in the vaccine-mysteries, to the ball wherethe :1\Iassachusetts legislature lately hatchccl theirvaccine-law, besides other sin1ila,rp rogrc11siYlcc gi;;latire 1ncasurcs, that astountl the civilized worldrc,joicc of the grand acc111isitionsm ade by n1ccination: the 111iraculo111O1R TJ!OP.BDIC INSTITUTES AXD'l'IIE WONDER"FUL TENDON-CUT !-rejoice, :1\Iadame, ofthe discovery of thy hidden steel-supporters ; tlto1iltast 11ot a s111all-po:c 1nark in thy yellowislt-palej"((ce !Ilci1n says farther: " The scrofulous diathesis a1,pcarswith others at once, in tho eyes and enlargedglands. 1'hat vaccination increases scrofulous tcntlencies,antl develops its visible products, is a factthat cannot be denied.". Hcjoice, then, of thy feeble, brick-reel, or blearing•60 THF. EVILS OF YACCINATION.eyes, which look like window-glasses in winter time !-rejoice of thy glandulous, kn&tty, enlarged, tnntterdischargingneck ! -rejoice of thy stun tcd, erookc<lgrowth, of thy Ron1an-X-figure ;-thou hast not onesmall-pox-1nark on the surface of thy body. Drinkcod-liYer-oil, be moxa,-ctl, cut, stuck antl burnt, rt]nthrough all the healing institutions, science and lnunbug1nay hase established: if thou bclieYest that tobe better than to have possibly a light mark in theface, over ·which thou mightst jest and rail, and withwhich thou couldst dance, sing and enjoy life.§ 20. If all this come already to pass on the greenwood, yet the ideal of health, what shall become ofthe dry, that is, of the children produced by such amiserable generation as ours is at present ? \r accinationtreats them all alike; all arc vaccinated: thechild of the drunkard, of the famishing, of the syphilitic,of the cancerous, of the gouty, of tho old man,of the voluptuous mother, of the consu1nptive, of thodropsical, of the leprous, of tl1e fool, &c., &c. Horribilediet it!SEVENTII ScENE :-The physician stands deeplymoved before the lifeless body of his Yaccinatecl victim;the wailing of the stricken .fa1nily cuts his h cart,and causes him the 1nost painful feelings. Ile woultllike to justify himself, and cannot find anywhere anoutlet. I-Ic hunts in the wiclo e1npire of possibilitiesin Yain for a name-in vain eYen for a pretence.I-Ie struggles with himself; he must acknowlcclgo itto himself, he 1nust confess ucforo the whole "·oriel,that the child has <lied on the reaction of vaccination .•TIil-: f)Ylt8 OF \'ACCIXATIOX . 61•It is so perfectly clear a case, that all talking nncltninciug is in vai 11. \Vb~rcvcr tables of vaccination:u·e l'cgnlarly ancl ciirefully kept, tho una,·oirlahlotrnth stares in the eyes of every rcacler, that vaccinationitself alone kills a largo nmuher of chihhc11,while it givc-s to every other disease ,t 1nalig1rnnt character!'\\'hl'n a criminal is cxccntccl, the wholec-ouutry is aronsc<l; hut nobocly says anything abouttlw thonsan<ls slain by the act of vacci11ation ! 'l'hetarth eovtrs thc111 c1uictly. It is ~ai<l, lice dca<l aredumb ancl do not spealc. It is false; they do speak,a 1111 accuse science, government, a111l the peoJllt', allco11ct•rnt•1l. 1Vltoet'e1· supports and prai8e:s a fals11•1111'(/wtul,p holds it as a tnw one, 11111ssot me time orotft,,,· xu.ffi:r jo1· all the 1•ieti111.s lain b,1;i t. Docs theaxe of the executioner compare "'ith a false medical 111etl1otl?IIas ii llerod, a Pharaoh given tho royaldccl'Ce: '· 1~accination clo1•ns ot clothe least ltann ?" or;L legislature of an enlightened State of our Union int lie 1 Uth century ? '\You kl a u1erciful connnu nity ofChristians coudemn all their d1ihlrcn to clca th antl111isery? or is :;t1clt a, state of affairs the work of Sa- .tan ·1 ,vith 1i::1i11fucla re deliberates ii jury about theverdict orer life and death of a, criminal outcast,whose existence is a curse to tho community; and •another jury, co1nposing parents, brothers and sisters,clccille without he:iitation orer the fate of their innocentrelation, who is noYcr eYcn hcanl in the case.0 Lord, deliver us fro1n ci•il !Through a lutly, (l\Iontaguc,)-through Jenner'scountrv-«irl,-throu!dl woman, then, again, this sin • 0 ~662 TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.has como into the world, and death by this s1n. Thefemale sex, and principally_ the :roung 1nother, hasmost to snffe1· fron1 it. That is Goethe's curse of •Nature! i\liserable expiation ! The conscience of thefather and of tbe physician reYolts against tl1e abomination.,,ill the public and the goYernment remainquiet?Already in the year 180], two years nftcr Dr.Ballhorn, in Ilanover, (in iiay, 1799,) hacl Yaccinatcdthe first child in Germany, Dr. Sybel wrote: « Itcannot be <lenied, that, ( with :ill rcP-pect <luc to Yaccination,be it said,) not oYery one who is Yacciuatcd,is saved, and that a great many examples bring beforeour eyes the most deplorable cases, where, hy n1eansof this celebrated discoYery, father and u1othcr havobeen carried away fro1n their children, and that wholefamilies haYe l)ecome victims of cleatb. Cases, "'heretbe most unfortunate consequences re1nained behind,l1ave brought upon this new n1ethod the u1ost Yiolcntexepra tions." Such was the dirge of the physicianson the continent of Europe, soon after th<l introductionof vaccination. ,v1uit will the tuno bo now, afterit has decimated and destroyed the human fa1nily?SECOND ARTICLE OF FAITII.§ 22. "Tlte vaccinc-po.1~; -rtert lte bestp ossible sccu-1·iilJ/ 01· the extinction of tlie tendencl/ to be injectedby the real small-pox;" exclaims with satisfaction, theeasy, thoughtless wanderer on tho beaten track, andscience shakes grimly tho mane.Diseases aro the effects of diseasing causes; eachTTIB l,VILS OF YACCINATION .•<li sea~e ha~, like tho plant, its seed, its own 1-.1:1i 11, itsnature, its course, its fruit and its end. Ile whodocs not know all these thing", can neither protectf1·01n its poison, nor extirpate it. 1\s long as thephysicians 1nust acknowle<lge that they do not un<lerstan1leither the cause, or the nature of the small-pox,1Lsw ell as of the kinc-pox1-tbat the 111anncrin whichl he Yac<-4'ica cts, is to then1 u. terra incognita, andthat they rlo not know how to attack the s111al1-poxpoison,-so long remains 1·accination a medical foolery;OH account of its conse<1uences, a crime again!'thumanity; and, whcrcrer the J,iws re<1uirc it, a legalntrocity. 1\11 iinmense a1nount of learning and investigationhas already been ap11liccl, for the purposeof ascertaining tho place of the origin antl nativityof the small-pux-,i·ltether it comes from Arabia,frotn the Red Sea and Egypt, or fro1u Ethiopia, orthe interior of .A. frica-of which, although so near toci1·iliz:ttion, we really know notl1ing. They weresought fo1· in the works of Jicro<lot i in the first chapterof the Exo\lus of iioses. Some thought to fintlthe1n with Pharaoh and Job, in Syric Orfa, on the"·ood-confincs of the cold zone, and where the pcppc•rgrows.Connuercc, h·arelers, soldiers, l1eggars, haYe beennccn~e(l of 11a,·in1; brought the disease, and yet.the11oiso11is a prod net of )-our own body; an(l 1iceauseyou • will not bclie1·e it, Kat11rc throws ir uncercmowuioush· into your face. Seek, then, here for iit ! here• •you will find it ! \\'hat cle1·onr:;, is not a, l>pirit-aIJreath ! Can you not touch the pustules and boils••• •64: TllE EVILS OF YACCINATION.with your own 11antls? 1\.ntl yet yon opine it to he aspirit, whom you think to be al>le to rxorcisc with ll1evaccination-spell! The pus is the clrci-::o! f the poison;why do you not unclrcss it? • You 1nust sec thepoison naked, and then you will recognize it as thecreeping hydra, of your life, of which you have totake care; you will then sec that it is the 1nothcr of111anyla rge antl small children, to wlio1n n•ographygiYcs 1nany different names. Tho large chilL1ren arcthe cpide1nics of pest, small-pox, cholera, ycllowfcver,grippe, of 1nany pituitous ancl nervous fevers,of tho PUS-FORMS of genus Honw; the smaller oneshave been already mentioned aboYc. As a metal appearsbefore your eye in various colors and forn1s ofcrystallization, soon 1nixcd, soon pure, soon wo•·kecl: soshows the human poison itself soon more hidden ; soonfree in the softening of the sto1nach, clyscntery, cholera;soon sta1npccl in typhus ulcerosus, and in thesuppurated precipitates on the surface of your body.And when it has gainc<l the clay, as at present, principallyby vaccination, every disease dresses itselfafter its fashion. The poison is 1nore honest thanyou are active. You persecute the wolf, the hear,and innocent dog, ( '"ho1n your heartless children ha ,·etcasetl to mad1tess;) you pay pren1iun1s for their extermination: but yon let the poison 1nurdcr rnyri,uls;•and yet you can touch it with your h<1nds; it appearsquite matcrtally iu and on yon. •§ 23. llistory proYcs clearly and indisputably thedestructive effects of this poison; and yet c,·cry oneruns as if mad, iuto the anns of Jenner's country-•• •TilE EVILS OF VACCINATIO~. 65~irl ! \Ye may indulgingly excuse such insane thingsin an impulsi,·e, J)assionate, young antl inexperiencedfellow, but the deliberate wisdom of graYe age, ot1ghtto guard against such juvenile ebullitions. Takeyour Thucydidefl, upou whom you prided yourself so1nuch, when yet a boy, read how beautifully he describestho tliscaso of Rome, which spread oYer the,vorhl ;-how there was (;.131 J~. C.) l!Ot a youth tobe found fit to he a sol<licr; reiul his .A.thenian pest,and the hattlo of rotidma ;-hear what St. CJt)l'iansays about tho epidemy of tho Occident, (:2;j0 D. C'.,)which lastecl fifteen years, whence "·o t·etaiu yet,•"l,lack," for tho Ohristian 1nourning color ;-hearthe co1nplaints of tho angel-pure .Actius, (557 B. C.,)ab~ut the bubo-pest, which sho,Ycu a p:u·ticular predilectionfor children. .At iiaho1nn1ed's birth-clay (;j7:2)throws N aturo i-1nall-pox in your face. She ,-rishedto he long before un<lerstood; but you were a la zyfool,and remain it truly to this day. She took yon 589-5D-!-, by the nose wilh sneezing, yawning autl c1eath;you tliccl and exclaimed, Goel help! "Now;· saysKature, "I will then let influenza knock CYery centuryat tho door of the lnunan family .• , In ,·ain !The crus,Hlcs ca1ne, the body followed the spiritualimpulse; un<l even tho c:liihlish organis1n was (1211)carried awny hy this blintl powrr; 50,000 children11ilgrimize<l ! In vain! "Go, then," exclain1s Na,tnrr,in dcspafr, "go, 11~cle:<bs lack leatl-colorctl antl1rax, fire-reel .A.ntonius-fire; thou Jorllan-itchle pros~·: !hon e11i,-;copal-Yioloct arbuncle; a11cl thoul\longolian plica, (l:?Su :) pcrYcrse 111cn ask for blackti*•66 TilE EVILS OF VACCINATION.and wl1ife, I mu'-t then ~enclt hc111a nu1nhcr of brr1·1·cnyears of famine, followed by <lcath !" Thero oan1e(1348) the black death over all nations; it i·olle<l inblood and ne1Te-matter. IIunrn,nity saw now, eC'rtainly,black and white, but did not con,prchencl thefriendly intention of Nature, who showed then1 here1nore clearly yet, than in Athens, that the poison isnot a spirit, but a visible and tangible nm.! tcr, whichlikes to <lress i tsclf in pus; • and that suppurating carbunclesand bubons SU\'C life, as, now-a-day~, thosma.11-pox. P<Jst au<l small-pox reign then supren,cly! and both have gnawed the human family to piecesin a terrible manner, and ·nothing was done but tocount tLe vestiges and the corpses that were slainduring three centuries. Ohemi.stry did not seelc fortlte lcilli119to oth; an<l 1Iedicine di<lf or th.it very reasonnot blunt its sharp edge.--Finally, there appearsa lively fellow·-the English student Jonner.-"Astudent of 111ediein!e" exclain1s Nature, like a happybride, "be must, of course, understand n1c, and especiallythe exploring art-chcn1istry !"-Dut Jennerwas quite TOO natural ; he did not stick to the udderof the cow, brit ran after a country-wench. Alienaubera suxit. Deceived Nature conjured up in her furyentirely now diseases in the present century. Notwithstandingthat, the other diseases also do no longercorrespond with the condition of the weather or aliments,but as a curse of Nature destroy our intestines;the people shout in blindness: "Victory ! triun1ph! no 1norc small-pox! Ilurrah for Jenner andhis girl!" But that destructive poison, which is no•THE. EVILS OF VACCINATION. 67Rpil'it, bnt Yisihlc, tangible, s111cllablc, tasteablc, andeven aucliblc, that tooth of our age gnaws on antl on,an<l will yet niauy years n1akc its sharpness felt.'J'hat poison, generally called small-pox-poison, goc!'!,and will go unrcstraincilly its historical and cha.ractcl'isticcour!-\Ct,i ll it is totally cratlicatccl. It boastsiu11)uclcntlyth, at it will always again proceed whcrefl'mnit proceeded fir:-t. There is the origin of thes1nall-pox.-llcim says: "Thus tlte trutlt of a 11pontaneo11sidiopathic deL•elopment of .,mall-pox-rnatter,out of conclitions and ci,·cumstances entirely unknownlo 11s, ivitlwut tlie injl1wnce of infection, is beyond alldoul,t e.~tablisltecl."11hc people stuck faithfully to all that was orderedfor them; but what docs science and go\·ernment do'?The people arc certainly dcceiYcd in their expectations;thry suffcrcll in11nensely fro1n vaccination; theyl>orc willingly strict quaro.ntine 1neasurcs; ancl yetthey hall an<l h:t YC s1nall-pox, rarioloids, &c. ;-if wewill cYcn o,·erlook the gcncrnl bodily injury inflictedby .n these prc,·eutivc means, wl1ich so frcrpientlyend in death. IIeim, the penetrating thinker andphysician :ultls with deep foresight:"The diseaso must consist in a, change of the ehe-• n1ico-clcctrical process of the nervous system, "·hichis pro,·ed by the affections frou1 which single p:irts ofthe spinal systc1n snffcr, by t11c constant pains in certainregions of the body, particularly of the neck andback ;-b,v the seizure of the great connecting ner,·csunder ruultifurious crampy, dyspeptic, nauseous syn1p68TJIE EVILS OF VACCINATION,toms, more yet by the undcnicd influence on hrematosc. "Eichhorn confirms I-Iei1u's Yicws, by saying:"It is certain, that the small-pox-mattc1· formsitself in the blood and lymph-system; it is, as it were,hatched in the lymphatic glands, and communicatedfrom the centres of this system to the blood andncrYeS.''Nature i;peaks out of infants without falsehood anddeception. T lie infant is personified trutlt; it showsin the lap of the mother, at the entrance into thoworld, in the swaddling-clothes, the presence of thosmall-pox, no 1natter whether the mother has hadthem or not. Poetic superstition insists with tenacityin older children, often on external infection.§ 24. The younger an in<li,•i<lual is, the more frequently,but also the purer, is the poison formed.iYhy don't you seek it in its cradle here? Arc youafraid of Fred. Hoffmann and his friends: Boyle, Sydenb:un, Schulze and Cullen, whose mcchanico-dynamicrosary has been prayed for, for a century, by.i:hcn1edical profession,-without being hear<l by Ilaal?\Vhy will you not, like .AutcnTieth, at least mon1ental'ily,free you1·self fi:om the old system, in order totry once the views of the humoral pathologists, if itwere even Sylvius, who considered the body to be achc1nical laboratory, and life a chemical process?Try it; teru: yourself loose fro1n nosological <listinctions,from local phenomena. A decided disease ofthe fluids uceds the eye and the light of chemistry !•TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION. GD~he is tho swonl 0f the present time, tl1at cnts topieces the Yaccination a1, vain foolery. As certain asthe A.thu1tic Ocean cannot be swallowed and tligcstc<l1,y the river Delaware, as certain ca.n the small-poxpnisonnot be swallowed and digested by the kinc-poxpoison.But you can find their filthy excrements.IJiscriutinate ! As little as the ocean cares for theDelaware, as little docs the small-pox care for vaccination.Docs not our time, with its im1nense numberof casc-s of itch antl syphilis, of external and internalpox, whose hero is the choler.a, prove the whole doctrineof vaccination to be a falsehood, and the hiwordering it, a crime? Docs it not show its entireusclcssne~s as a p1•otection-ma11oouvro?Ilow the science par excellence wails! Dr. Elsasseralready complains some thirty years ago:"The kine-pox ha.ve, in the whole, disappointed usin our expectation of their protective viilue. Vaccinationhas not been able to re1nove the tendency tobe infected by sma11-pox. The vaccine is generallyovcrcon1c ancl alienated by the real small-pox."'£he pt·incipal vaccination pl1ysician of the kingdomof '\'nrtcmherg, Dr. Seeger, says niiivcly:"\Ye lrnxe indeed, NO CRITERION to deciJe, whenan\l in what tlegree the protecting power of goodn1ceine is decreased or extinct in an indi,·idnal. ,Y chave :NO CJtITI1RION for the clegrec of the susceptibilityfor sn1nll-pox of a person. We have NO CRITERroxto <letenuinc the period of the duration of theprotection. Individuals who hiive been formerly vac70TIIE EVILS OF VACCIN,\TION.cinaterl, arc, before a11 otl1c1·sl,i able to be attackctlby small-pox; (of course, dignus est operarius nzercedcsua !)" Elsasser SO!JS:"Iu •the course of a general epidemy, a great manyof the not-vaccinated-children get the lightest kindof small-1)ox. In Baden, "'here the law requiresgenera1 yaccination, was the last small-1,ox-epiden1yat least as destructive as forn1erly. !{inc-pox anclsmall-pox arc often found combined, each taking itsown course, and both interfering with each other."And Ileim adds :" The regular small-pox, care not the least for thebest flourishing vaccine."Once more ! The disease is yet as malicious as itwas at the time of the Arabs, who gave the first descriptionof it, tRhazes,) and cares not a farthing forvaccination ! Besides, the v.accine-pustule and vac- •cine-mark may stand every kind and Yariation ofsmall-pox, antl other similar matter-expulsion possible,at a time when there exists a small-pox epidemy.It is certainly a very convenient faith, a sweetsoundingsyi-en-song, a very nice practice, thatleaves the mintl perfectly at ease to think and assumethat the vaccination hocus-pocus bestows Achilleaninviolability; .ancl that the medical holy water purifiesperfectly; and that we, therefore, may carelesslyviolate the temple of I-Iygioa, tho temple of 1Esculnpc,and that we may continue to gluttonize, to ca1·ouse,to dissipate without punishment. JJorninusv obiscu1n.'Deus se irrideri non patitur.TUE EVILS OF Y ACCTh-ATION. 71TUIIUJ ARTICLE OF F,\ITII.§ 2i). "Vaccination is the O:SLY reliable 111eansto banisli tlte snuill-pox witli its destructive consequen<:eH." 1Y c will not even think of its hanishn1cntat all, "ne dcsinas in piscein ;" it should ratherbe callctl their firm settlement in the country, becauseeYerybody will, with the great Sarcone, who (1753 to1755, and 17G0 to 1768) saw in Naples the most malignantand fatal epidemics, "easily co1nprehend, thata body eneumbe1·ecl with the s1nall-pox-poison, canonly then gain health, when the s1nall-pox come totho surface, or wl1cn the in1purity, that traYels aboutin the blood and fluids of the hotly; is ejected throughthe usual channc ls."But if a man has no poison in himself, and it isrORCED into hi1n by Yaccination and rc-Yaccination,the disposition to it must finally show itself. Greenwoo(l geh; dry, and burns! Iu the first case, mangets careless against his cnen1y; in the other, he isthrown treacherously in his anus; and science restsquietly and self-complacently on the easy conch ofroutine, instead of searching for further and morerational means, because Pythia. bas clairvoyizcd ofthe "only" remedy:-" the gold of Ophir."I have already mentioned above, that the infectionspreads after ;llt\ny v1tcci11ations, through this veryn1attcr, when it is the least thought of. The sn10.llpox-diseaso could, therefore, never leave us, even ifits time hnd run out. The people hold it closely and:fi.r1nlyin their arms. The plague which devastated(in the 17th century) Ew·ope so frequently, seemed,••72 TilE EVILS OF VACCINATION.according to Scbnurrer's ingenious view, (Cbron. ofEpicl., II. 203,) in 1666, to dissolve itself for "\YesternEurope, into other milder diseases, f. i. dysentery,purples, scarlet fever, infla,mmations of the throat,&c. Henssler shows the sympton1s of the later syphilisin the symptoms of leprosy; and even. this V cnusbad lost, for some time, tl1e wings of catarrh andexanthcm, (which she at present secu'IS to re-assume.)In a great many other contagious and fatal diseases letus recognize the san1c process of dissolution in theirhistory of pathological development. I-low shall andcan the same take place with the small-pox, if weassiduously and continually prevent it with all might?Throw 3,way reason and history! Be it so !-Thelast few years ought to open our eyes mightily; and,where this is not the case, there can't exist eyes atall ! With a false passport, under different well-knownfamily-names of diseases, mostly in the stolen dressof catarrh, sneaks the small-pox-poison tlu·ough thecivilized, vaccinated world; it torments the stomachand its fellows; irritates, lames, and softens ournerve-marrow; throws the ,yholc economy of ourbody into misery; veils the soul, antl troubles us yetin our dreams. ""\Vhat is the matter?" exclaimsDruggy, "tho diseases will not heal propei·ly ." "A.ndI," sighs Lilliput, '' am quite out of all prcceclencc;I cure, and nobody gets well! ~Iy prescription willnot answer the object." ;rhc old-woman-practice isat its wit's-encl !-!lave then the stormy times turnedthe medical science also upside down '?-The physiciansvaccinate furiously on and on; and sec, theTUE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 73false and treacherous vaccine goes laughingly to bedwith the s111all-pox-poisona,n d feeds and caresses it!)le<licinc stand,;, confusccl Lefore the people ! Thopromised l>anishtncnt docs not really exist; on thocontrary, the people co1nplain louder, -for like1narauders 1novcs tho poison, <lcstroying, laming intheir interior about, for n1onths and years. Ilighaud low inuuolate, in despair, to superstition, tosy1npathy, to Spiritualism, iu Yain ! - You, thou,hcnign Nature! help us; I tlu·ow myself on yourbreast ! - 1\nd sec ! she sends her fever-troops, andthrows tho 01101ny, in small skirmishes, or in onepitched battle, partly out of tho openings of thebotly, partly out in blisters ancl boils. Liberty! real,Round liberty, of lifo ancl happiness, is now felt bythe grateful sufferer, but the d1·ug-guild and popularinfatuation exclaims against it-and vaccinates againand again, instead of forbidding it at once. •TnE S.lIALL-POX-POISON EXISTS! It shows itselffar more frequently on the internal mucous membraneof tho thro3.t, nose, eyes, tongue and mouth,in the intestines, &c., than on tho external surface.If it docs not mako its appearance, we can withmathcn1atical certainty calculate, that it will breakout in a wilde1· form, as decomposing, putrid, contagiousdisorder and cholera. Tl1e government ought,therefore, rather to offer prices for the wholesomediscovery of n1eans, by which tho poison coulu againbe brought fro1u the interior of tho human body toits surfac<'. But, instead of \u·ging science to learnto act specifically against the poison itself-instead7 •74 TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION.of forming medical battle-lines against the cnc1nyth.o old beaten track is followed on and on, a systematicprescription is written, and the }leoplo arcvaccinated for their own destruction!Deus sit testis inter nie ancl inter te ! Quid vidistiliypocrita? Scientiani profanasti ! terra1n tua1n perdidisti! populum tuuni occidisti.§ 2G. ".11ccordin,qt o yoiu· lanientations, tlterc ouglttto be an itnconinionly large nu1nbe1· of patients ancldeatlis !" Certainly! ancl I will even acknowledgethat there arc seasons s01netimcs remarkably freefron1 fatal diseases. But, we must discern betweendisease-condition, and the brealci11go ut of diseases.Sickly is tho by fal' greatest number of tha people,ca.rryiug, as they do, in themselves, the latent poison;but, while some are perfectly conscious of theirn1iserable con<litiou, there arc many others too careles~of their own self to perceive it."I liave always had an e:ccellent stoniacli and perfectdi;estion: now I liave to be extre1nely care_f1d-alittle too miiclt, or not enough, 11psets nie; the sn1allestfaitlt in 1ny diet p1·esscs and puffs rne up, ancl punisla!Sme witli exci·uciating su.ffetings !" The digestion ischangeable, slow, difficult and painful; the appetitesmall, and asks for piquant and cool things, viz. :ham, salt-fish, salad, fruit, acids. Breakfast is theworst meo.1, a,nd a sensation of faintness compelsthem to eat something: for otherwise the conditionof the body, without food, would be unbearable. Ifthis weakness jg helped by eating, another unpleasantnessappeal's: fullness, distension of the sto1nach,•THE E\'IT.S OF VACC:tNATIO::-i. 75in,lolcncc, anil drcnrsinc~s. The sufferer feels in anuncomfortable 111anncr, which is often painful in thepit of tl1c stomach, where n1lll how the sto1nach issituatc,1, aml that the digestion is not readily, butlazily, i1npcrfcctly, nn<l unwillingly performed."JlI!J -~toniachi s a zJe1fectv inegar-factory, 01·p torl11cr>no1t1l, ing out z,ltleg11i:I spit 11p nothing but saltII s . h 11ttt!l8e8. , 01nctlmcs, t ere appears s01ne nausea, orso1nc 1:1lighYt Otniting; and a slight diarrhcca relievesnn1ch. Things arc wrong in the abdo1nen: it ru1nbles,pinches and swell:;; stitches arc often felt in the leftside ; the abtlon1cn hang:; down like a drummed andinacti,·e sac; the back co1nplains, knees and feet feeltired; there i~ less urine than usual ; but, whn.t thereis, is bad, au<l somewhat acrid; wincl and stool s1ncllcarrion-like. The l:1ttcr contains much slime, andoften worn1s. The empti1wss uncl fullness of tlte6to11uu:lr,e,f lect upon tho hea<l; the F0IOIER, as headache,dizziness. '· Ifi•el," s,iys 1ny neighbor, '' as ifI ltc(d the very 11ii8c:ltirifn 11l!J ston1acl1"-nnothcrcou1plains: "J J1ai•ea scnsatio1ia s if rny i·ictuals wet·ein niy liead ;''-the LATTER, as merely thick, stupidfading: the cn1ptiness, at night, as sleepiness, terribled1·eam~, &c. ; the fullness, as sorrowful, heavysleep. The hail' of tho head decays. The conditionof the head indicates clearly tl1e condition of theston1ach. This cn1ptiness and fullness of the stomach,is with others rcfiectell in the respiratory sphere.The interior of the throat of s01nc swells up withchcn·.r-rcd color, autl grcy-,rhite pm;tules appear;the Yoice suflers. There is generally something tho•7G TllE EYILS OF VAC'CINATIO~.matter in the throat ancl back. "\Vith others, again,we find a. ~nuffiing, ca.tarrhal irritation of the nose,throat, winclpipc, chest, when a. <lry, hot, siroccobreathis exhaled iip from the throat. Ile longs instinctivelyfor water, swallows greedily quite unusualquantities, and yet excretes comparatively very littleby sweat and urine, as if fire was scorching hisinterior. Ile now pcrcei,·cs that there is 1uuch )i('a,tin his body, particularly as he finds that his excrementsarc also very hot; and yet he feels, on theother side, how little animal heat his body reallypossesses, bow sensitive his external sw-facc is, particularlyhis spinal column. Ile docs not avoid theburning rays of the sun; he stands before a red-hotstove, and presents his back to the heat, and expresseshis grateful feelings, by exclamations of " Oh! ah!0 how lovely!'' and other expressions of comfortableness.He then takes, with tl1e greatest excl'tion, awalk-and sighs, with a quid of tobacco or a segarin his mouth: "I certainly sltall one of the.•e daysdie froni beloiv itpwards .'" till finally a cup of stronghot coffee, or a glass of hot punch, restores somekind of an equilibrium. At another time is theexterior condition of the temperature quite the opposite.An unpleasant, dry, burning heat, lames anddestroys the strength; he hastens to take a bath.Ile feels best in the open au:. As soon as the firstdigestive labors a.re over, ho enjoys again some comfort,and feels able to exert himself somewhat; he iscontent, till the debility returns fro1u the sto111a.cl1.Connected with these symptoms is a tired, n1elan-•'IJIE EYILS OP VACCIXATION. 77cl1olic, or an excitable, nervous 1nanner about him,which mnaciates one, while another fattens, spongelike,-a third yawns eternally, and sighs without anapparent causc,-a fourth, tho n1ost fortunate of all,has on his body ahniys something to scratch, or toplaster.The fire of the eye, the color, the fullness and theexpression of the face expires slowly with the decreaseof tho elasticity of tho muscles and mental activity.Every other weak part of our body begins now tomake itsclf felt. Tho plethora complains of delJility,l,lood-congestion; the blood-vessels enlarge; the 1nensesbecome too copious; tho parturition difficult. Oldcolils, sore throats, worms wake up; rheumatic painsmo,·e about like marauders; tho piles give unusualtrouble; tho gout is more irritable and painful; thoeruptions ancl salt rheun1s get livelier; scrofula. appearsin all sha<lcs as la rnala,j,ie du jour in the foreground;the tuberculous sufferer coughs early anclla.to in cnunpy attacks; the consumptiveg oes out likea light, or swells up; dropsy returns; jaunclice conCC'abitself bchincl a green, yello,vish, clay-color;hystery is playing much 1nischief; syphilis ancl itchwill not heal radically; and a kincl of intermittentfc-,·cr appears renclily after a 1neal.Thus-with these cl1anges in the digestion, in thefeelings of weakness in tho nn1scles, ncrYes, senses,::ioul :u11l heart; in the clecrease of eYen body-temperature;of sleep, and his usual in1bccilitics-li,·esthe poor alrcacly infected sufferer, without consultingn physician, generally following his inherited super-7*•78 TilE EVILS OF YACCINATION.stition, and his perYerse instinct., in an unsatisfactorycondition about hiu1sdf, whether he be well or ~ick;he e,·en considers it hartlly worth while to 1nolcsta physician with his con1plaints, or to lio1it hislabor. Although many a father might perceive (ifhe would only take the trouble to look) that some:thing is wrong about the health of his family; thatthere passes not a clay without con1p1aiut; that hiswife fades unusually early aivay; aucl that l1is childrenremain 91·een, and will not bloom ; that theyvery often get fever attacks, anll waste away, or ejectmatter by suppuration from their bodies ;-.althoughhe could see, that everywhere in other familic•s thesame sad condition exists: he really sees nothing,thinks nothing, and does nothing. 'l.'inieo f n1illity!Vive le zero !This imperfect description of a state, where peopledo not yet conside1t·l ie•selves sick, indicates the generalhealth-condition fo our po1lulation, undermined asit is by the small-pox and vaccine-poison. '.l'he l)eoplcare, in reality, far more diseasecl than they tl1inkthemselves. It indicates the dark cloud that hangsover our life-horizon, the seed-field of the worl<l-contaginm,and confirms the olcl, but highly importantposition: that in no disease the sympathy with heart,brain and exte,·nal skin, is so great, as in affectionsof the mucous membranes; and th:i,t they arc thedeeper and the more tenacious, the less or the 1noreremote from them the pain is. The legitiu1atc, mostradical, and, therefore, most fortunate excretion ofthis poisonous matter, is, according to experience,TTIE F.YIT,S OF YACCI~ATTO:\". i9n1ccliatc1lh y the l1rC'rrkingo ut of tl1c small-pox; a factt\w t, in later ti111c,;h, a,; happily often O(:Cnrrcd in the1110s~ i;ati:-factory 111anncr. Yet people l;nncnt aboutit: :111d 111i:-;er11l,licn,j nrious vacci1uition is continuouslyHent in the ficl<l against it. "\\'hat ,vill our ex- •pcriencc be, when 111:tn hi1uself complains, and thecPn(rifugal z,ower of J...,.nturef onns diseases out ofthose yet quietly rei;ting 1li~cuse-1natters; and whatis ,rortiC yet, when, by-and-by, the ce11tn1,etnlp owerof the poison pervades all the various interior provincesof our organization? Then only, when mi!-cryantl wrctche<lncss grin1 us with our vaccination-marksflCOffinglyi n the face,-then only win WC hasten tofill the lamp of salvation with the oil of true :-cience.The i:;mall-pox-niattcr creeps at present through theini-icle of the people only, as it were, in great andc1ark passages. lJToe to ltini wlio feeds tliis snalre byi•accinc !§ 28. The s1uall-pox-matte1· is a poison producc<lin our own ho<ly, in our stomach, as soon as Olli' ritatality,be it in consequence of the condition of ourlife, or of the years in which we have li,·cd, siuks belowthe nonnal standard, and passes over frou1 thevital-chemical more into tbe chcmico-vital. In theperfect nu1n wh,o is healthily nourished, like a strongtree, all che1nistry falls too s.hort; but not in theoppm,itc case. Ilcrc is the sickening small-pox-mattereasily demonstraLlc. That this 111atter cannot beB1•acci11r,te(olu t of the botly, but only impeded by aradical change in the order of life, and removed hy a,sensible interference of a natural cure-method in its••80 TIIE EVILS OF YACCIK.\TIOX.effect and continuous 1lcYclopn1cnits, beyond contra,llictionclear. Our life autl n1e<lical treatn1ent 1nustbe changed : these arc the only real protective meansagainst the malicious and destructire ene1ny of the• ,'l"clfare anll increase of the human fan1ily. Let usthen submit !-Vaccine has changed the ci\'ilizcdworld into a deceptive pool of evils, the na1nes ofwhich blind yet the people; it has in reality producedno other benefit, if benefit it be, but a nun1cricallyimmense iucrea.se of physicians. Him, wl10 is ripefor the sniall-pox, 111ill and can:, save nothing but tlteejection of the rnatter. To vaccinate hi1n wlto has gotno snutll-pox-rnatteri n ltini, 01· wlw is not yet pi·eparedfor their ejection, and then congratulate liini asbeing safe froin tlte disease, is a PEllNlCIOUS SI:'IIPLI·SITY, but not a SANCTA Sii\Il'LICITAS; it is SUBLI:'IIELYRIDICULOUS. Whoever is unable or unwilling to freehimself at once and entirely from this sweet Baal'sfaith, may have the pleasure to look at the childrenwhom my intervening protest has already saYcd fromvaccination. The difference between Yaccinatcd andnot-vaccinated children is striking, and so palpable,that words arc unnecessary. In families, those thatarc vaccinated, always giYe me the most trouble. Ifyou wish to be better satisfied yet, raise beside ,i vaccinatedchild, an nnl'acciuated one! Cease to playf1·ivolouslyw itil the life-happinesso f your chilcl! Letus by a11 means restore the beneficial loYc-rclationwith good olcl 1nothcr Nature, by the wcll-regulatetluse of her natural gifts, and by the purer applicationof her pure remedies; and Jet us drive the poi~oning•TTIE F.VILS or YACCl~ATIO~. 81i1np,t he goocl-for-nothinvga ccine,o ut of the countrv.V L~t u:; accu~c none! Go\'ern1nont and phy:;icians11a\'e accc<l in good faith. A.lthough we must standconfusetl a111ol vcrwhchnetl in painful :-ilcnce Leforethe past follicK, let us learn fro1n it for the future!Purlo,·e i·icti in ,ws ipsos descenclamu.~, resipisi:amus.IEomini.~ errare, i11sipil!ntis i•ero in errore perseverare !"\Ye tleciclc1lly re<p1ire this:1. That every regulation imposing Yaccination, beat once aLolisheu.2. '!'hat every physician and government warn thepeople against vaccination.3. That every pl1ysician who Yentures to Yaccinate,be made responsible for tho injury done by his act.4. That ·the legislati,·e bodies will enact laws forthe prohiliition of Yaccination, for the reason that theoperator exposes himself to the danger of injuring,01· e,·en killing an innocent hmnuu being.5. '.l'luit the go,·ernu1ent make it an object of particularcare, to try to retrie,·e the i1n1nense injurydone already by Yuccintttion, by establishing bathingestablisluucnts, &c.§ :3D. IIow much 1no1·e prosperous woukf this soe1ninently blessed country be, if vaccination halln<),·er been introduced, or woulcl ha.ve been forbiddenas a, sanitary 1nca1>urc! and how 1nuch happier wouldthe people be in !<Oul and body, and general 1yclfarc,had they ncYcr been Yacciuated !•The ];it tcr question ha:-, as far as the bocly is concerned,heen already answered; the former is a. n1attcrfor the consideration of the goYernmeut. '.l'he••82 TllE EVILS 01' VACCI~ATION.continuetl encro:1.clunent of poison in the physicalstate-body, is clearly an important external eventanhistorical "fait accompli," the cause of which canchange in the sa1ne manner as it has shown itselfinjurious in the single organism, the meta1uorphosisof the organiz,ltion of the state, and, if persiste<l in,may impede and destroy society in its free de,·elopmentand progress. The political life of a nation isrnostly the exptession of tlie.h· physical condition.Not tlte spirit nourishes tlte body, as Virgil says, buttlte body the spirit. •"\Then organizations that are not poisoned, butharmoniously conditioned, liYe socially together, wecan comprehend how easily a unite-tie of order,morality, antl welfare may embrace them. Let usfurther examine, with Foster, their connection withregard to tho sound stomach. Tho quality, q1.1antity,the combination of food have the greatest influence,not alone on the momentary impressions which oursoul receives, but also on its social disposition orhumor. A man is, no matter how sober he n1ay bebefore a n1eal, not what be is after it. A glass ofliquor,· a, cup of coffee, gh·e different degrees ofvivacity, of activity, of irritability, despondency, orhilarity. One kind of food, because it lies heavilyiu the stomach, makes us 'morose and fretful; another,because it is easily digcstetl, disposeti us toamiability ancl. kindness. Tho use of Ycgetablesalone makes, because they are not nutritious enough,tho body weak, and predisposes us to quiet, laziness,and mildness ; the uso of nutritious meats and fluids,•••TJJE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 83which stimulate the nerves, produces rcstle11sncss,cxcitc1ncnt, and courage. In these habits of nutrition,originate habits in the bodily constitution andorgans, out of which the various temperaments formthmnsclYes. Long experiences had taught the ancients,that the knowledge of Dietetics for1n an importnutpart of 1noral philosophy, The ancient Persiansa111l Ureeks acted in the areopagus upon important1nattcrs only before mcal:i. Those people, who in theh cat of n1cals, or under the vapor of digestion, consultabout ,important affairs, show, in their assl)n1-hlages, Yiolcnce and stormy excitement; nntl theirresolutions arc often unreasonaLle and rebellious. Ifthis i., the case with the healthy sto1nach, what shallwe expect of one that is poisoned'?l\[a11y a disorder and 1·ow would not take place,•if the small-pox-poison did not irritate, torture, andoften paralyze the digcstiYe apparatus; ancl it wouldnot be cliflicult to deri,·c n1any a disorderly tu1nult ofour c1ninr11t1 nc11,a nd their unbeco1ning violence in •the legislati,·e ,cha1uhers of our governments, fromthat s:unc source. ?IIoro yet! The vaccine antlsn1all-pox-poison penetrates into the very mass offl ui1ls of the people ; the ioliole lifc-dispo!-ition, therefore,that is, the whole revelation of their n1ind anclheart, gets disturbed; their intelligence, their conviction,their principles, their religion, tli,,cir ideas offrccdo1n, right and duty, their character and fate,becotno injuriously affected and changed. The disharmony· of the organs must necessarily drag tho1nincl into the botlily quarrel, and the intellectual•84: THE EVILS 01:' YACCINATION.antl physical tlerclopmcnt of the in<livith1al crosseach other most disturbingly. Tbe body and thosoul of man can neYer be thought as separated inthis life. Such serious physical cbangeR, as a manyyears' continued poisoning, inust of necessity havethe n1ost <lecisiYcin fluence upon the political horiionof the country. A. von Ilumboldt says:" The influence is eternal, which tho physicalnature exercises over the moral disposition of man;".r\nd Schnurrer adds :.. Physical eve!1ts have really, in evex:y period ofhistory, if not incited) at least laitl hold of the fatesand epochs of the humain family."••••••••CONCLUSION.TUE FALL OF JIIAX. •Now the country-wench was more 11ubtle, than allpersons else, and she said unto Science: "ShouldGo1l have said, ye shall not cat of CYcry thing of thecow'?"And Science said unto the wc11ch: 1C\Vc 1nay catof the cow ,yhutevcr is wholcso1nc-the flesh and tho111ilk. But ,vc 111ust not cat the ficsh of a cli.~easedcow, or drink the 111ilk of a sick u1ltlcr; least of allnn1st we take into ourselves the diseased ca·uption ofthe kine-pox. ;\lost painfully do I recall the year;;of tnurrain, ,.,..henG od said: 'Ye $hall not cat of thecow, nor shall ye e\'cn touch it, lest ye die!'"1\nd the ,rcnch said unto Science: "Ye shall surelynot die; for God kuoweth that, in the dny ye vaccinatewith the kine-pox,-yc need not swallow it,ycwill wrest yourself fro1n fate antl necessity, intofrec1lom, be cxc1npt fro1n sninll-pox, hantlsomcr,stronger antl 1norc spiritual than c;-cr !"1\1ul when ~cicnce saw that such easy work was1norc plcasau t than racking the hrain, she sum1nonctlhcl' n1an, the physician, to yisit the cow in the r,;tablc;auil hr, too, comprehcntlctl th.it tltis practice woulll8•86 CON CL USIO:N.be more comfortable. .t'\nd tbe eyes of both "wereopenCll," and they knew that the Lord had tlissolrcdthe murrain and the small-pox, though Jenner hndnc,t, and co,·cred their nakedness with Yaceine-rcportsand optin1ist reasonings. ,..And they heard again, in our day, the voice of theLord walking in the garden of the peoples, with influenza,small-pox, typhus, cholera, yellow-fe,·cr; "·ithnutny other 1naliguant and putrid e,·ils. Antl thephy:;ician "hid hi1nsclf" behind the 1nedical collegeand goYcrnment frou1 this clear truth .. And the Lord called from a1nong the c0111plainingpeoples, saying: "Physician, where art thou?"And the phys:iciai:ai nswered: "I heard the wailof the peoples, and I was afraid; for I know not lwwto lteal the wounds I have inflicted, and therefore Ihid 111yself.".1.\.nd the Lord said: ",vho told thee that thouhad,;t acted without sense and reason? IIast thounot-in 1nockery of all sound sense, and merely followingthe tattle of a country-wench-thoroughlypoisoned my peoples?"And the physician replied: "The college where Istt1Cliecla, ncl all n1y medical brethren advisecl rne tovaccinate, and so I Yaccinated !"And the Lord said unto Science: "1Yhat is thisthat thou hast done ?".A.nd Science answered: "A country-wench asserted,that sbe woul<1 not get the small-pox, because shehad bacl the kine-pox."And the Lord said unto the girl: "Because thou••CONCL'C'SION. 87hast rlonc this, thou sl1alt suffer moc.t from Yaccination;thy youth shall not 1,100111 as the flower of theficlcl; thy :;pine :;]1all c111·,·e1 11Hlt:t1h· e inner pr)i:;on;thy i-ick ho<ly shall hi111lert hy 11<.!,·elopmcnat,n 1l thoushalt cat steel and earth. There shall be e1nnitv be- •tween thee and 1ne<licinc. • If thou scckcst help fromthe cow, 111ilk and whey shall hnnn thee; an,l thereshall I.Jc little joy for thee in the drug-shop, or 011 theorthopxrlic be1l, or iu the ten1lo11-cut, picrciug thyheel. • .,\ntl when thou becomc;;t a wife, thou shaltlook greenish-yellow, and ha,·c many sorrows, ,rhc_p.. th uu art ulcsscd; thou shalt bring forth thy childrenin pain and angui!<h, with the help of a physician;anll tho poison shall be divitlcd l)ctwocn thee an<l thychilrl."Ancl unto the man the Lord said: "Decau~c thouhast hearkened to the Jll'attling voice of a foolishcountry-girl, and pcrn1ittc,l thy house to be fillet! withpoisonous 1nattcr, which divine Nature founcl to heu 11Jitc 1•e1.f1o r a bcallt, an<! therefore <'Jcctetl it, thywife and thy children, iusteall of hC'ing the !rnp11inessof thy existence, 1-hal1 cause thee nn1ch trouble, andanxiety and cxpeni'ic; thy marriage shall !.,ring forthf1lr thee thorns and thistles, instead of joy and Llc~s-•But the Lord droYc the 11hysician out of Paratlisc,nn<l placed hcforo the garden of fan1ilirs and people,the flaming cherul,: "or a severe Law, which is thercl-inlt of rational research, and which will lcu.d hu-1nnnity to a. 1uorc prospcrou:a: future hy a return toN u.ture."•
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DR. C. G. G. NirfTINGEll'S•EVILS OF VACCINATION,•BYC. C. SCHIEFERDECI<.ER, l\I. D.l\'\:•I. CorlnlllloDB, ill • .,,,_ '; .(/;.,.. . , , 1, !\. .. C'i.. I~? Y ~,.IPBILADELPIII.\.:•TO BE J!AD O"F TITE EDITOll, OR A:\:Y RE~PECT.\BLEBOO.KSELLER IX TUE UXlTED STATES.1 8 5 6. ••••••Entorc,1 according to Acl or Congres~, in the year 15,',j, byC. C. ScntEPERDF.CK&a, M. D.,In tho Clerk's Ofilcoor tile Distt-ict Court, of tho &,tern District of l'ennsyl~anln•PRIN'l'.&O BY RENnY B. ASD:11£A.O1OE01l0£ ;;.TK&t:t AD0\1'6 Ef,LV£Nl'JJ .• •••••'•DEDICATION TO TIIE PUBLIC.IN pl'csenting nnd recommending tbe contents of this littlevolume to the friendly consideration of the public in general,anc1 physicians in particular, I am perfectly aware of theterrible outcry that will be raised against it and me; I al,;oacknowledge the truth that nobody stands there in his time,so pcr&ct and independent, that be would not err and sin •,"l'ith that time. I therefot·e hope l will be forgiyen when Iam wrong-may he do better who fiuds fault with the following.It concerns and aims n.t the benefit of mankind, and has •thus great claim on the consideration of the people. It is :i.battle against the faith of more than half a century, taughtby physicians, upheld by the clergy, and blindly believed inby the people. The odds are foa1·ful; yet truU1 is mighty.I only ask for fair phy. Let the sfruggle be an open audhonest one, not cn,rried on in the sick-chamber of the deceiYedpeople, or -with assassin weapons th:it shun daylight ::in<l thefront of the opponent.I hare.Jlbstainetl from the publica.tion of statistical htbles,sustnining the contents of this book, nncl alre,uly prepared,but will meution th.cir result.The increase of the population of the United Stutes ofAn1crica. is immense, but it is certainly not owing to causesthat would pro\·e :.i pre-eminently increaseu healthy state ofthe people, becau~e such increase of population depends on-••lV DEDICATION.l, A lieallliy powe1· of generation. 2, A sfrong desire forge11erationa: nd 3, Social.fill'tl1era1o1fc e{ ;e11cratio11.,vheu we here cannot complain of a. want in these lattertwo requirements, the absence of the first, acts \·ery injuriously,for notwithstanding the large number of births, the existenceof a healthy gencratb·e power is contracliclctl :-1. On the parl of lite male: (a) by the greater mortality ofthe sex, (1: 20,) (b) by the inability of men to bear the fatiguesof a campaign, (~Iexico,) and (c) by the weakness and liabilityto disease of men in general.2. On tlte pai·t qf tlte female: (a) by the greater mortalityof the sex, (1 : 41,) ( b) by the increased sufferings during pregnancy,(c) by the frequent premature births, (d) by the morefrequently required obstetrical operations, and (e) hy the unhappyexperience that the child-bed becomes l!;Cne1·allya •sickbed,and often a de:ith-bed; (formerly the eighty-first died,now the t,renty-tbird.)3. On t!te JJ<irt of the cltild: (a) hy the fact that the fruitfrom such diseased seed and soil comes diseased into theworltl, (b) that generally one-half of the cle:iths are those ofinfants, :incl (c) by the daily increasing number of still-bornchildren.C. C. SCIIIEFERDECKER, l\I. D.Pliiladelpltia, January, 1856 ...fI•A '\V ORD TO P II Y SI C I A X 1'.1'.,cc1:--ATIOX 1,clongs not to the "scienc<'" it i~ nt>ither a"1:cnH'1~ium,'' n_or even a "rcmc<lium au(•cr:s." It re.-ts "npnon up.on 1gnor:tncc_; should e,·Pr}lhing that happen~aftcrw:1,rd~ 111 the w'.1rl<l,• r_i,.u ul on mnn, liclonμ; to :IIellicinc?l\Iy sc1entJ~c C?nsc,entc 1s not so wide. '\\'liat nolH;cly undcrstnnd~,1s fot· nobody o. science. Yaccinatiou i!'I mere•· ll>t)s.". '\\'hat nobody ½nows, ~o much knows C\"CI')' bll<ly: inYO.cc111atJon t_h~re a.-e neither _w1,c-me11 nor lay-men, hut onlyi:cuxi11e pru.d1t,oners a_nd 1·acc111cea rrier.~; CYcryh ocly who ha~fil'C SCllH'S, and pcrce1,·cs the ("llllSt'l(llruec5 of l'llC<'ination, orfeel~ them Cl'CU on himself, hns n. perfect right to _juclμ;co>f it.It lltlongs therefore-, more pcrh:tp~, than any other ol!jcct, onthe bro1t1lest b:isi,- of puhlicity. hcforo that puhlic which offersits skiu fur it, and lay:< at ~take its welfarn an,l life. "'hil~l\te,licinc slept, vaccin,ition hns crept illegally i11to it; it lrn~l111rrowcttlh e ma~k of ~cicncc, a11cli s 11citlitrf <1u11d1•i,1I 1 n·«·son, fur poison poisons the healthy, rtt,tl kills lhf' sickly: 1wrin ,wturc, for the in~tinct nhhor,; it; 110,· i,t ph!tsioloy!!, fl'!:then the "·hole doctrine of resorption and endcrmaty ,,oul,llie f:ilse, it would be ( puuctmn snlieus t) tllC'1 •iclorio11.a~u tonomyof the life-power in the exportation through the skin, nu untruth;1w1· i11 lite diemi.-slr!f, for CYen n tyro wonl<l not pretendto neutralize ncitl hy :ici1l, alkali by alkali, ns the phy~ici,m,pox hy pox; nor i~ lite cli(luif!J oj' m""• for wuu will throwpoison about him, ngain~t the po~sihly tkstru..tirP offed ofwhich hr has no nntirlota rcatly t ,\. young country-girl tohlthe JOllltg student, Jenner, wlio in pfaying with her folt her1,lister~, ;;he would neYcr g"t the small-p•,x. hccau,e she ha,lthe cow-pox. l\Iorc than this tracliti"n has neither the pom-11ous uni ,·ersity sdence 1 nor anyh_0<).Yel se lt•arnct! of \'(IC~in:ttion; nud our most emment phys1cmns ";ncl imrgeons hchc)"C,but do not-know n-.oro than what tlmt 1?:•rl has chatted withthe student in the cow-st,ihle. The constancy in this faithh:1s lasted now some fifty )'Oar::<a,n d rohbcd the life's n11tonomyof its crown, and reason of it,; right.J<~yer_vd cstructho poison cau dc~tl'ny Cl'l't'Y Ol'f?!'lll: the~tomach anrl i11tcstiues of one, the urmnry organs o! another,the chest of n, third, the senses and _joints of a fourth: we ,cothis in the syphilis, "out. rhcunnttism, tl!e \'eμ:ct,11tle_a ml1niucrnl P"isons. '\Vh0'e the small•\?•)~ poison ,et!le, itself,there it prot!uccs its disease-form,, d1flerc11tn cco1·'11ngt o thedifl'crent bodies nud times. Is it not much more the duty of.VI A WORD TO PilYSICIANS.•tho medical wol'ld to ~tudy the pox:-matter, and to explainby it the i<ingular conditions of the disen~c of our times,than merely to l:1ud its n~~umecl henelitR, and 1ualignantlyscorn at e\·ery doubter? ,V-ithout; nn accurate kuowleclge ofthe organico-ehemicnJ po,Ycrs, we arc neYer able to penetrateinto the hws of the life-power.'.l'bc question: whether small-pox and cow-pox arc identical,is sufficiently answered in the affirmative by a J1umbcr ofeminent physicians, among ,,hich Dr. Ceely of .Ailcsbury,distingui~hes him~elf; but I add here a letter which speaksunmistakably foi• itsolf.Pr11z, Tyrol, Octol,t>r l 6, lSjO,-- -- -- "The Wtntity of tho T"accin::nrnd varlol:\. is bC'yond onydouht ~:-tablb.h<-(bl y tho fact, that in tho yenr flf 18-16,( !,·cry one of the childr<'n whom the :-.urg~ou 1'". ' . , . hl the \"ulJe-y vi' 1~02:na.n,~ aeciuat('d,. wasa.ttac.·kedl>y the rc~tl sronll-p,n<, ,-rhicb lufect<'il theu the grown-up 1wo1>lo. .f . ... wai;nnu.'h trl)ttbled by thl~ unexpected circumsb1ncc. Among ilu:pcv]>l<' t'he gratestiudignatiou wa-. runsNl against vaccinatiou. which "has i,,prC'ada 11 o,•cr 'fyrol.J, a:;. Imperial Suptn .. ising 1>hy-sici11H 1 was often CQm1,cHed by my official 1>o~iliou,to 1u&JH!cth hi adijlriul vpidvu'liC.Hoc1rn:n;1;.caoIcmap, erial Su))ei~Vi-$ingP hyliician. 0Enormous is the ignoranco of the Yaccinator, anc.1 reachesthe gig:mtic height where shame begins; he can break, bntnot mend the pot. :Mightily shines the light of the culture ofnritural hititory~ first, Astronomy and Physic skinned themseh-es, then .Mineralogy ancl Chemistry, then Botany gota Jirm natural hasis, anc.1 finally Zooloo-y. .K cw forms ofthought produced their m1tural systems ; t11e searching powerof the human mincl solved first the distant questions, descendedfrom the sun of Copernicus down tl'trough the steps oft1ature, and 1·emnincd standing finally still ()ejore, I say fJrj'orcits own shrine: httma,iity. ]\Ian di,-likes nothing more thanself-contemplation. Instead of emulating, and uot remainingbehincl the .,ister sciences, l\Icdiciuc built thoughtlessly :t"pons asinorum," with vacciue poison, octroyizod for thehuman family diseases, and existed, anogantly simpering tothis hour, without system. Quackery bas liftec.1 its bead,builds palaces, and tho thermometer and h&rometer of nationssiuks bodily and mentally. J\lan is not such au unconditionalpoison-plant, as names of diseases the polylogic medical codeeuume1•tites. llow many poison-springs could he then ea1·1·yin himself?J\Iorc earnest thnn ever 11011·, w]icn, in conseciuence ofvaecinatiou,the Oriental free pox-poisuu, the 1:hole1·ai, s permittedto slay "ad libitum," rii.es the mctiical sphynx, and asks thoold questiom1- •" \V hat is the nature of the small-pox poison?"IIow many poisons may the hun1an body produce? ,vhich•A wono TO PllYSICIANS. vunr<i tho interior enc1nics of liuman life, the germ~ of sufferirv•nn<l death of the human family here on earth? Ancl in whatconnection nro they with tho el<'mcnt from which we !he?for whatever contai11s the laws of joy and life, must all;O containthose of our pains and death.Liko the wings of a gloomy night-butterfly, a rich coloredthrcnd draws tbrou1?;h the l:ihyrinth of the gnwes of our ancestori:.The sy. mptoms a1·e only the colors .h ut the nature ' th~ s~cd of the cliscascs,_i s winged DE.'\TIT, as he appears in thepnnc1pnl re~ult~ of rational research, nncl of disscction:s ofdifferent times and crid!!mies; a~ hll shows himself to be ani-711cil poison, viz., small-pox poison, by chemical analysi,- to oureyes, and pro,·cs hiD1self as such in tho practice. Look upfrom the death-history of humanity and sec into the IJ!uc archof heaven! There nl~o, c1·cry thing was to go acconling tothe almnnac, ns before nccorclin:?:t o the eo<leo f clisca,e withoutsense and plan'/ No! " Tcmpora 11111fa11f11ert. 110,1r ta11imalia ct 11lcrntw ct om11is creal11ra in illis." 'J'o fin<! outthese mutation~, to observe and remo,,,o the t111imal p1J;~o11, isthe reforD1-prohlcm.'l'hc Yaccinntion -cataract will then lie remon•,I frr,m oureye~, and the gloomy truth O\'Ond1clm us, that there is nothingn1orc clange1·ous fo1· the welfare of men, thnn a mc1lic:1I optimismus;that our bodily sufferings ha\'e increase,! in numhC'l'antl pllwCr, that we ha,·c by n1ccinalion merely ~poilctl thofol'm of disease, and made worse tho di,case itself.I hope for moral nn<l technical ~upport in this war np:ainsttho Vaccine l\Icdusa, hut fear I will now he tra<h1c~••nI n<lscand:i lized as before, wbcncYcr I ha,·c spoken hunc,..tly mycon'l'iction.r wish I had, as Pericles of old, the thunder on my to~guc,anti the lightning in my pen, to rouse the people anu sc1cncofrom their lethargic sleep. ..EYery physicinu and al_l the people arc Yery careful withthe smaller poisons, of wluch the ~011·cs~t re- .1. '!'he miner:\! poisons: arscmc, :_mtm~onyc, opper, subhmat,Yitriol, bismuth, concentr:it~tl acids, &c. . .2. 'l'he ycgctnhle poisous, p:lrticularly the na:r,ohc, pru~s1caci<l, 011i11111h,y oscyamus, 1Jellatlonna, strnmomum, hemlock,• tond-stool, &c. . . .By the inoculation of thc~c P?tsons a l:i_ ,accmc, 10 the lcp::1of d;,,,.s, cats, of a lamb, in the wm;s of a pigeon, we are unahloto m:kc them seriously ill. ~ o~cr tn)'. own arm for sm·h experiment~,i~ desire,!, but I will light with i-wortl and 111,wdera"'ainst the 111oculat1on: .0 3, UJ'i1ofao,1s oj' lid,t!f a11i111alsn, 1ore yet, of tlicir co11»cs,•Vlll A WORD TO PIIY:HCI.ANS.( animal poison,) f. i., the glanders of horses, the 1nurrain, thesaliro. of mad don-.-, the fresh pox of cmrs nnd tihecp, thecad:n-erous pox ofthc Yacciuation lnncet, &c. These pui~on~,pnrticnlnrh· of unimali; who suckle their young, arc ahsorbeclby the hunian fluids and textures with wondcrftil rnpidity, andconnected with them most tcnnciously like rust and irpu.The !'!feet is (a) a primarlJ, stormy, ai1d fatal one, or (b) asecondw·!f, lasfi11f/, diseasing one. The bite of a mad dog,often hardly pel'ccptible, produces rabies either at once, a11<lis generally fat., l; or after two, ~even, ele,-en, fifteen, l weutyonoyc:u-s; tsyphilis will mix, if not entirely erntlicated itself~in e,·erY net an<l disease of nf1e1·-lifo.4. dj l111ma1p1o isons. ,ve an,id eYcry one justly. who hnsthe itch, small-pox, lues, nen·ous forer, canc('r, all contagioti,1discn,cs in gcmen1l. ,v-e nre afraid of the smallest wound inthe skin under such circumstances, and know perfectly wellthe terrible and fatal effects of su1,;h impurities, particularly ofcadn,·crs.Consider then the »1ost unforlhnnte position of n tenderinfant, that cnnnot strug;le and l'C8ist. It is poisoned withoutregard to the aho,·e mentioned circumRtances; without regardto season and climate; without regnr,I to the c<m(liti(ln of itsparents; without regard to poYerty nnd domestic relations;without regard to good or had care ; without rcg:u-d to tec>thiag;without regard to the processes of growth nntl de,·clopmcntof its cu·gans and system~, which nre connected ,,ith~o many irritations in blood ancl nenes; without regard tothe tendency of the i~fantile body to recci,·e not only readily,external influences of e,ery kin(), but al~o to oppose themviolently; without mercy, because the Yaccinator u ndcri-tantlsof what he does, not mure than the ,accinatcd infant: with•out knowledge of his racciuc malter, for the ,-accinator takeswhat he ha$, and f!;etsa.1-'re.~hv accine lymph,b. Cadacerou::. i-a<:<-i1l1yer, 1pl1,c. l'ure l111ma11izelyrlm ph,d .. Cadni•c,-011/s1 11ma11ize1d1 1mph,e. Imz,ure, c1,prm:ed, l111111a11il!zfrlidl]> lt; viz., such which istaken from chiltlr<'n who arc diseased from 1,irlh ;,/: Carlcaerous, l1uma11ized,d e1,raved ly1111,Jiw, hich is preSl!r\'Ctli n the rnccinc 1mttlc.~ithout :tn i,lea whcthc1· tlte l!Jmplt co11tai11.9s t,·011r1o r u·ealcP.0Iso11, dchcs the ,·al'cinator the lJmph he h:t~, into the openWl1t1nd of the inf:tntilc arm~.P:tus~, . <;> J(h_ysici:in! r~flcct before you destroy I Yourrespornub1hty 1s terrible. The human body is the temple ofGod, you are its earthly guardino .•[l•\•INTRODUCTORY.r. 1\lABILLON tells us, that he who made a valuablepresent to a cloister, got a box on the car as a receipt.The greater the value of such a present, the harderwas the box. The church gave, therefore, every onewho presented a new truth, stancling as a spiritualgood far above the ntatcrial, for a receipt, cuffs a nclbox.es, which not unfrequently resulted in death. Inthe same 1nanner, she a.cknowledgcd the lighting offar better lighls than her common wax candles, withkindling funeral 11iles. Every one who tells a 11cwtruth, n11iy, therefore, very naturally expect to betreated with boxes ond cuffs; lie, the only one whone,-er sa.itl anything but the n1ost sublime truths,received iu J ernsalem blows and death.It is an 01ninous fact, that the i\Icdical Sciencewas always either entirely arrogated by the 1n·iesthood,or, when given into the hands of a distinctclass, its follo,ve1·s would find it their interest toleague with the pvicsthood. This will easily explainwhy the i\Icdical guild, imitating their older andmoi-c cxpericncc(l confederates, would also seek tobide the1nsc!Ycs behind a veil of sanctimonious mystery,and pay e,·ery one who tlar,cd to touch this ,·cilby truth, with tho same coin the church did. '· Tho12 INTRODUCTORY.Science," par excellence, remained jesuitically content,in regard to the people, with the literal explanationof tlte word, RNcnv TilYSELF, without beingwilling to TEACTI this knowledge; and even now everypublic lecturer or ,,Titer on matters pertaining to ourboclily wclfa1·e, is abused and persecuted. This hasbeen my fate ever since I left the old trodden pathof scientific mum1nery, and tried to teach the peoplesimple and wholesome truth by word an<l <lce<l; itwill be my f:1tc doubly now·, when I in these pages,expose the criminal guilt of the faculty, in not onlynot opposing the introduction of va,ccination, but inexecuting it thcmsclYes on the innocent offspring oftheir time. The physicians cannot now plead jgnoranccof its ruinous effects, for daily observationshows them to the most painful extent. They cannotexcuse themsclYcs with its legality; fo1· in Spain,the inquisition; in France, the torture; in Germany,the cutting off of hands, and tearing out of tongues;and here i11 America, the burning of witches,-wasalso lawful ! and yet, they all have fallen into thedismal abyss of 0xecration in their flight before enlightenedreason !The non-use of reason in the !\Iedical Science, isthe cause of its want in positive progress. The presentsheet-anchors of the practice-venosection,leeches, vomitircs, purgatives, iodine, quicksilverdothey satisfy real science? or are they able to exorcisedeath? -n'hy, then, the continued fruitlesshunting for new and absurd ren1cclies, even of themost disgusting character, ,,iz. liver oil, guano, urea?INTRODUCTORY. 3,Yhy do crcn physicians resort to r1tutck nostrum~,or to Ruch 1nost ridiculous hallucinations as that ofJluutcr's inhalations of vitiated air in consumption?No science has yet been degl'a<le<l by its own vagariesso deeply as the :i\Ie<lical.Every science develops itself in three periods :the first is tltat of blind fai'tli ; the scconcl, tltat ofsmart sophistication; antl the third, tltat of sober investigation.The religious period of science, forinstance, in regard to the tr,catment of small-pox inlater times, was vaccination; the sophistic period, 1·evaccination,scar theory, and a vaccine table system.Let us no,v soh·e the last problem; for a.~ lr>ng as we1·enou11ce; 11>el'iencwe,h ich ci·eates lcnowledoew, e bt1ni.~lt real science, (Liebig,) and fav~r the ascendancy ofcrery trumpet humbug.The object of this pamphlet, is to prove vaccinationto be nonsense before reason-a miserable illusion, ina scientific point of view, and, in regard to histo1·y,tlw gl'catest <:rinie that has been co111n1ittcdi n thislast ceutu1·y. The truth of these 11ositions I ha,·ca:ssertetl these last fifteen years, antl whereYer I coul<l,I have sal'ed infants from this cruel poisoning; but Ifelt n1ysclf so alone already, on account of my curativeYiews, that I would not \\-rite on the subject, becauseI could hanlly expect that any good wouldcome fro1n my single-handed protest. l3ut whatI ltayc felt, and what I htirc prcachctl for years,now shakes with tlnn1<ler-souncls the proud walls ofsenseless sclf-suflicicncy and lethargic routine. Inthe heart of Europe, a great and goou man, Dr. Nit-•4 INTRODUCTORY.tiugcr, regardless of abuse and malice, has told inmighty words the truth:"By vaccination, lntnianity has progressii•el!Jlo st:(n,) in number, (b,) in quality and lifr-duration,-thediseases ltave gained in number, power nnd ( c,) tenacity;"and while in hun1blo gratitude I pniy to theAlmighty to speed his work, I have transl:.ited, extractedand adapted his book for publication in thiscountry. 1\Iay tho faculties of this country, like thoseof France and Germany, as well as all the laymen,ponder well over its hints; and may tho work thusbegun in this country, bo continued and finished byabler hands than mine.l\Ieanwhile, I beg every parent who is requestedby a physician to ha,•e his chilJ vaccinated, to put tohim tho following questions:1. Do you know the nature of the small-pox poison'?(No!)2. Do you know the nature of the vaccine poison ?(No!)3. Do you know bow, in vaccination, both workupon and against cnch other? (No!)4. Can you deny that yaccinating is poisoning? anclexcuse it because destruction docs not always followa senseless method'?5. !lave you got sure remedies against tho smallpox?-and if you ha.ve poisoned niy <:hilcl-a.gainstthe vaccine-poison ?-or, will you satisfy me with theconsolation, that kind Nature will often bear andconquer the most terrible consequences of the mostsenseless treatment?•INTRODUCTORY. 5G. Every tradesman knows his tools, materials:incl rules,-ha\'o you a criterion for vaccination?7 . ..1\.ncwl hat nobody knows, you call method'?science?-or even archivic physiology?8. Can you deny, that not every agent produces inevery 1nan the same effect?9. Can you tell inc, why whole countries have,-without vaccination, remained free from small-poxcpiclen1ics?10. Can you deny that, since 18-1G, the small-poxepiclemicprogr-0sscs incessantly? llas vaccinationheltl hack the small-pox even a hair's breadth? Haveyou any other ren1edy to oppose that scourge with,but the deceptive one now in use? or do you believe,that on the Bank of Disease and Death, a paperthereceipt for a vaccination-fee-will be received forfull payment?11. Is, in the history of mankind, vaccination theonly and isolated case, that a whole century or anation bas bclicycd, judged and undertaken things,which we do not believe, judge quite differently andnever undertake?12. Can you deny that absurdity reigns withoutlogic? and tliat n1any a, victim bas appeared before{ou's throne without his time having run out"?c. C. ScnIEFERDECKER, ir. D.1*
••EVILS OF VACCINATION.§ 1. The flourishing condition of a. country dependsprincipally on the number and well-being ofits inhabitants. ,vhatcvcr decreases these, is anenemy. The greatest 1nischief has been done bysanguinary wars and epidemic diseases; to take precautionarymeasures against these hostilo i11terfereneesin the happy progress of nations, is the duty ofgovernments and indiYiduals, ancl requires prudence,power anJ courage.In our cxci ting times, when the peace-tired peoplecall everywheTO for warlike preparations, the medicalstaff should a]so arouse thmuselves from their lethargyfor a struggle with the sneakingly spreadingenetny of the internal and e.t·te,·nal small-pox, which,as I intend to show below, is the source of 1uost of our1nisfortuncs. The bloody wars, the mostf:ital epidemics,have never caused such dre:idful derastations amongnations, its the sn111ll-poxw, hen we consider that for-111crly, this disease slaughtered in Europe, yearly,near half a 1nillio11o f victi1111s.I s it to be wondered8 THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.at, then, when the layman, who only with difficultyconquers his instinctive aYcrsion against vaccination,looks anxiously at the effects around him, where 11mallpox-cases arc daily increasing; when he begins todistrust the prevcnti,-e, which has deceived him once,and deceives hin1 again in the re-vaccinittion; moreyet, when under the eyes of tl1e observing physician,the poison in its first stages, in its germ, growth andbloom, diseases whole families, and now every whereclearly approaches tho time of harvest?Not the s1u,tll-pox, appearing in proper form onthe surface, is now to be feared; but the matte1·, thatdisturbs, J)aralyzes and destroys the inner and higherorgans, which, without developing its power outwardly,remains in our interior shut up, is the most dangerousenemy. A man looks well, and is apparentlyhealthy, but the poison has penetrated his vitals, anllinsidiously undermined the supports and organs oflife, till its fruits arc ripe, and death reaps the harvost.Should not 1 under such circumstances, thephysician be startled up from his easy couch of inheritedfaith on the preYcntive power of vaccination?Should he not, free from authorities and oracles,scrutinize more thoroughly the history of nicdicinc,and dive deeper into Nature and her work, in orderto gain, in tho extraordinary presence, that knowledgeand direction, for which he can answer in theft1,tute before science and those who honor him withthe most sacred trust ? Faith is not iS'cience.§ 2. I know I have to tra,·cl a hard road ! Itleads me among the Pietists and Fanatics of :i\IcdiTHEEVILS OF VACCINATIOX. 9cine; ancl the cla1nor against hi1n who conde1nns theirn.crccil nstitute of \r accination, will he like the roaringof those ,Yho defend the faith on other mysticalfallacicR. I feel, like Sarcone, that I am a physicianand a 1nan. The difficulties of art, and the limits ofthe hun\an mind, circu1nscribc n1e. But, whatever1nay be the consc<1uence, I shal1 be happy, if I haven1arkcd the first lines for the "'Ork of medical liberation,which olhers may and will finish. Every hintat a new truth in the healing art, is :i, benefit for thehuman family!To proscribe and to prevent ·vaccination, is theohjcct of these pages. For this object, I propose toproYc, in the shortest possible manner, the truth ofthe following three conclusions:I. Vaccination appea1·s before tlie tribunal of Reasona.s No~SENSE !II. JTac,•inations ltowsi tself in tlie liglit of Science,as (t :MISERA l3LE ILLUSIO~ !III. 1racci11atiopn1 "ovcist self, in the ltist01·yo f ltu-111a11ittyo, be tlte GRE,tTEST CRIME co1nniitte,li n thislast century!FIRST THESIS.VACCL.~ATION BEFORE TUE TRIBUNAL OF REASON.§ 3. To restore ortlcr and cquilibriu1n, power wasalways counterpoised by power, courage by cou1·agc,prudence by prudence; overweight by counterweight,10 TilE E\TILS OF VACCINATIO~.and cvcrybocly understood, why one poison i-honld boannihilated by a couuter-poison-an 1t11tidotc. Inour century a now idea, entirely unique, i-prang up.Nobody know an antidote against tho small-pox; butthe poisoned lancet was thrown into tho scale of life,sunken with s1nall-pox-poison, and vanity triumphantlyglorified the act. Pox-poison 1nust dri,e outpox-poison; Satan must dri,·c out Satan!The pure human being, free from diseased matter,the innocent infant, is poisoned and consoled "·iththe ~Iephistophelic declaration: "Now, it wiU certainlynot get the small-pox!" The uufo1·tunatebeing, who bas already the poison in l1is body, receivesmore of the sa1ne poison, and is taught thoarithmetic of •witches, and told that "twice one isnone," and that the poison of the bocly is somehow01· other swallowed and "digested" (Dr. lleime) bythe poison of the lancet. This miraculous thing,which docs not make unclean the clean, nor cleansestho unclean; which is a poison, ancl yet })rotects bothf1·om its own effect ;-this miraculous thing, whichacts all-mightily in every perio1l of evolution and involution,in tho infant as in the adult, in the womanas in the man, in the we.ik, scrofulous constitution,as in the iron one, and in every pa.rt of the wo1·ld ;thismiraculous thing is a "pi·otectii•e poison," like~1oloch, a God in whose arm.s the infant suffers,sickens and dies.Of this universal heaJing wonder of mankind, wedo not yet know any but injurious and fatal effects !Its most celebrated friends could not help but to acTIIEEVILS OF VACCINATIO:N. 11knowledge this; and we bless yet a poison as a remedi,il agent which we sow in joyful faitlt, to weep1·at ionafl!J OYcr the <lamage done by it. lr e fleel>cforo syphilis an<l avoid the itch; and yet theircontagious principo in its innermost natul'o, is a nearkin to tho small-pox, with the only diffcrcuco, thattho last is far more destructive than tho former. Iftho strongest poison-that of the small-pox-protectsfrom small-pox, then, without nppcaring paradoxical,syphilis must p1·otoct from syphilis, itch from itch,111:iguo fro1n plague; an,l its inoculation should beinsistccl upon in all woll-reguhitetl communities. Pidgcons,iuocnlate<l on the breast, get tho most beautiful,·acciuc-pustulc~, syphilitic and itch-ulcers. 1Yhyshould we, then, be so 0110-sidc<al nd partial with thevaccine?§ •.l:. Like tho odor of musk, and tho color ofcochineal, tho small-pox-poison divi<lcs itself wonderfully; penetrates oYorywhcro; clings to everything-to clothes, furniture, bods, walls, domesticani1nals, to everything on which tho exhalation canfasten itself; neither :iir nor time destroys it. This})Oisoo, thou, ,vhose atomically s1nallost quantity, forwhich eYen a llomroopathist could not find a number,which the governments try to keep off by police-measuresof the strictest character, n1ust, according to l.iw,be incorporated in the delicate inner economy of thehuman body, eYen of tho tcntler infant; and this, notIIomroopathotically, but the full fresh matter, tliemore the better for tho well-being of the humanfaluily ! A merely cursory look into history, shows12 TllE EVILS OF VACCINATIO:N.us that Leprosy came to an end; afterward:;, thePlague also; Syphilis lost its epidemic chal'actcr, &c.Have human exertions done this'? or docs, in thenature of these evils, also lie the foundation anrl durationof their existence? and has crerything it:; time?Ilow shall I comprohcnd that, like those contagiousdiseases, tho sniall-pox will also dissoh·e itself anddisappear, if the poison is kept in the body artifich1lly,as a standing article, by continued inoculation.Let us suppose that the cow-pox-lymph be, what itis certainly not, a perfectly harmless n1atter, for thereception of which we in fun reach out our arms: whocan give us security, that in vaccination and 1·c-vaccination,no other diseased mattel's arc introducedinto our bodies? But as the vaccine-poison is, was,and will remain, from its first origin, nothing elsebut a poison of a narcotic character, whicl1, in itsdivisibility, exceeds even prussic acid, must we thennot ask, whether we, under all circumstances, canbring it into our body with impunity?In regard to the sma1ler poisons: itch, !<yphi1 is,nervous fever, cancer, the public and physicians arevery careful with a little out, the least scratch, thebite of a leech, a plaster, and particularly with thelancet for ven-esection, because everybody knows theterrible consequences from any such neglect; expe-1·ienco teaches, "tltat, if a lancet, besmeared withfnatter fresh out of a sniall-pox pustule, is im1nerseclinto a i 1ein, the same effect is produced, as when thesmall-pox poison is b1·ou9lit into inner organs."The symptoms of yaccination are those of intoxaTUEEVILS OF VACCL.'i'ATION. 13tion, often si1oilar to those of poisoned wounds :fc\·er, vo1nitiug, diarrho::a, swelling of glands, vehementlocal inflatnmation, &c. ; nature clearly expressesher incligntttion against the unnatural intrut:!ion, In the face of such experience, and againstthe conclusions of my own reason, I am asked toluwe fait!t, and to be content, in tlte siniplicity of rny}wart, with tlii.s paradox:"Small poisons, brought in the least scratch, aroinjurious; they poison, au<l 1nust be carefully aYoi<led;but the greatest of our poisons, brought into thebo<ly by G, 8, 12, 18 lancet-cuts, are not only notinjurious, but they cannot do any harm, they ne\·erhave done, antl they ncYcr will do hann; this fuithis the faith of the country, and 1nust not be attackedby the conclusions of 1niserable reason. 'ro call theexcitement of the body, after vaccination, a violentindignation of nature, is wicked: it is the incomprehensibleact of transubstantiation, in which tho bodilypoison is sw,tllowctl and digested by the lancet-poison,antl n1an rises out of such digestion purifiedfrom the small-pox-poison."This is one of those thcoxics, of which Goethesays that they are gtcy, an<l llamlet that they are,wt true. If I would assu1ne that a rational beingor govern1nent intended to poison first e,·erybotly,in order to cure them afterwards, all the world wouldcall 1110 1n:ul; and yet goycrnrnents order CYory yearthousands of people to be poisoned by small-poxpoisons,and are in ecstasies about the progress andblessings of art. Nobody calls this madness !2•14 TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION.SECOND TilBSIS.YACCINATIO:N BEFORE TIIE TRIBUNAL OF TRUTII.§ 5. IIai•e ive gained or lost by vaccination? Shouldwe continue to vaccinate and be 1Jaccinatecl?In the large cities of tho United States of America,and all over tthe old settled })Urts of this country, tinot-vaccinatccl person is of seklom occun·e11co; butwo find a great many who ha-ve been two, three, fourand :fi,,e times vaccinated. Should we then notrightly expect that this country, before all others,shoulJ distinguish itself by the remarkable he:.ilthincssof its younger generation, and that it shouldshine a beacon-light for those millions who eithervaccinate not at all, or a,t least very carelessly? l-Io1vashamed those stupid barl)arians must be ! how beautifulin growth a.nd face the wise Amcrican,-and howmisformcd, pock-marked, wasted, sickly the Greek,the Oriental, the l\Icxican, and all barbarians must be,,vho do not immolate themsel,·cs and their children tovaccination? The f(itigues of a campaign, tho exposureto deprivation in the ·wilderness, ancl in thecounnon life-scramble of social relations, should notleave an impression on such youthful heroes of art,while those, who laugh at vaccination, are so able tobear already so much !But is this so ? The unfortuna.te remaining few ofthe soldiers that went to l\Icxico, tell a terrible taleof the contrary ! While the vaccinated English andFrench in tho Crimea, arc decimated by the smallestTUE E\'ILS OF VACCINATION. 15exposure, the not-vaccinatecl Turks and Russians1,ear up un<lcr the Ramc circumstances with greatelastic tenacity! "\\'!tile in 1\f1·ica, the source of thesmall-pox, so1nc die of it, we arc thinned by the tcrrihlcconsequences of vaccination: small-pox, itch,typl1us, and CYcry kind of pustule-diseases, many ofwhich . were entirely unknown, before vaccinationca1nc 1n use.'.l'hcrc is a happy configuration and manngcmentof the soil here; the population is not densely packedas in other countries; we <lo not live under thepressure of poYcrty, of famine, or other particularcalamities: there was no war in our midst, and theircxican ca1npaignw ns not au exhausting one; weenjoy liberty; marriages do not find obstacles: thus,every frn·orablo clement con-curs for a prosperousphysical progress; and yet ,ye ha.,·e not gained ina healthy development of the body, but we haveclearly lost. Every new genc1·ation hastens forwardsto bodily destruction, as if a worm was secretlygnn.wing at the root of life. This wonn is thes1nall-po.1i:1 oisan: tho gcnnine as well as the inoculatccll'accinc. Its existence, without external pustule,is proved by chemistry; and its remova.l out ofthe reach of the hu1nan organiz(l.tion, not its increase,is asked from true science. ..A..rsth ould remo-vei t byscientific cal'c; Nature ejects it by pustulnr nud othc1·eruptions. It is ti:nly a pity, that at present fewonly bring their l)Oi~on to the surface, and thus haYea short struggle, "·hich is remunerated by duniblehealth afterwards. The life-process of the ·fhuds16 THE EYILS OF YACCINATION.and of tl1e nerYous system, is so 1nuch interfe-recl withand weakened by the stca<ly "·orking of the poisoningmethod of vaccination, that a great 1nany of tl1epeople have become too miserably feeble to clri\·e thetough small-1)ox-poison out of the system. The poisoncontinues to be produced in the hearth of digestion;uninterrupted by scientific interferencct it remainsin the interior organs, pnrnlyzes and undcr-1niues the "·hole machinery of the human 01·g,1nisn1,appears to the superficial observer, in various formsof diseases of the sensibility, as well as of the irritability,re-production, secretion, and propulsion. Thesame poison produces in different organs and syste1ns,in different bodies, families, nations, and zones,different effects, but giYes alwa,ys the diseases, particularlythose of children, a 1na1ignant character.This is the absolutely sole and satanic protection,vaccination ever offe1·s.§ 6. "But," says Professor Dr. von Rapp, "youcharge vaccination with various injurious effects,which cannot properly be i1nputed to it. The diseaseswhich you attribute to vaccination, liave alreadyexisted long before; or, if they are only now moreaccurately distinguished, they ought not to be derivedfroin vaccination!"I assert, and am ready to prove, that the sniallpox-poison and the vaccine-poison are identical. Aslong as this fact is not clearly ;:efuted, and as longas it is not proYed that both of these poisons arc ofan essentially different nature, so that the one canserve as the antidote of the other, so long is it indifTTIE EVILS OF VACCINATIO:l(. 17ferent ltow 1111tcho f injury in a disease is to llc attrihutc<l ti) one or tho other. They both together doinjury, only that, in tho one case, tho injury is anatural struggle for health, while in tho other, of vaccination,the injury is a culpable act of man. 'l'hcvariety of injury is far greater and 1noro exte11sivethan above n1entioned, for it is infinite, incalculablo.Thero is not one 1nodicinal poison that has only oneeffect, and the vaccine-poison would alone be anexception!If we, for instance, look at the multifarious effectsof tartar emetic in different doses: pustules, othereruptions, nausea, sickness, pain in the stomach,vomiting, diarrhooa, cholera, J)erforation of the stomachand intestines, colic, infla1umations and paralysis,gangrene, affections of the nerves, muscular,veakncss, suffering in the breast and head, disturbancesof tho senses and mind, palpitation, asthma,congcstion11h, c1uorrhage, feve1·, &c., &c.; if we considerthe legion of sy1npton1s produced by a narcotic,sboulu we then believe that tho n1ost subtilc poisonwhich exists uuder the sun, the most powerful poisonthat tyrannizes the whole ca1·th, would NOT possessthe greatest power anu multiplicity of effect?'' \r cry well, but all those diseases you impute toyaccination, ha.ve existed bcfol'e," &c.The forms, I will grant, have existed ; the constructionof the human organism does not change ;the natnrc of diseases remains always the san1c, andtho necessary crises follow always tho same law~.Ercry difference we sec, consists only in tho dif-2*••••18 TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.ferent reflexes. There were, and will always he,different kinds of vomiting, without tartar emetic.Unfortunately, there arc many pathologists whowill treat diseases according to their sy1nptoms, asLinne the plants, after their filaments. In the attemptat the removal of human miseries, it is most importantto look for their seed, their origin. Ile whosays: fire is fire, lies under a mistake! for woocl,-oil,pitch,-alcohol fire, each of them requires a differentmeans for extinction, yet fire ,existed always, but notthe knowledge of its nature, its seed and origin.Ile who pours ,vatcr on burning oil, commits nogreater wrong than the physician who treats diseasesby system only, their foundation may be the smallpox-poison or not. The most simple disturbanceof the stomach, produced by this poison, can thus bedriven into the most violent nervous fever, in consumption.Can we then console ourselves with thereflection, that nervous fevers and consumptions liaiieezisted before f The forms have existed, and willremain the same, ]Jut the causes change, and deter-1nine the weal and the wo of the encl, and themanner of the active interference of the physician.'\Vhere the effects of tartar emetic arc visible, therewe have a ta1·tar emetic disease before us, be it inflammation,spasms, cholera, or pustules: should ,vehere, although these diseasejorrns ltave existed before,and although these for1ns have been successfnllytreated with tartar emetic and ipecac., again proscribetartar emetic ?-lliost assuredly not !-Andprecisely so it is with the small, pox ! ,vherevcr inTJIE EVILS OF VACCINA'fION, 19n. <lisease-fo rm the small-pox-poison is active an<lvisible, or only discernible by the sy1nptoms, therewe ha.re a s1nall-pox-discasc before us, be it pustules,gastro-malaria, croup, whooping-cough, cholera, spinalaffection, consumption, &c., &c. As little as w,c wouldcure vomiting, as above said, with tartar emetic, we'would pretend to cure small-pox with small-pox, orwith things that baYe affinities with tho small-pox,viz. : whey, milk, beer, bad potatoes, ancl such things.Every contagious disease must continue to exist,although time may change its form even, till theremedy is foun<l for its destruction : its momentarydisappearance is not more tl1an an optical delusionof the mind. I therefore 1nust certainly acknowledge,that sufferings arising from small-pox-poisonhave always existed, but that is the very reason whywe ought to be constantly on the look-out for it.Since the 1nore general introduction of vaccinationa1nong the people, diseases haYe slowly increased;for wo fintl on the Elysian fields of Pathology, besidesthe old and cu11.-rentlti seases, o. crop of other diseasesRpringing up, partly entii·cly new, partly the usualones with malignant character and unusual tcnacity,allof which have clearly their foundation in thes1nall-pox-poison, and require quite a different cw·exncthod.The following is a rapid glance at the pitiable acquisitionof our century, which may produce at leastone good effect : " that it will lead to reform in 11Iedicine,and call the attention of observers and thinkers20 TllE EVILS OF VACCIN.ATION.to an examination of the i1nmcnsc urea, the small-. .pox-poison now occupies :1. Diseases of tlie Sensibility.The English, who have bi-ought vaccination intoexistence, haYc felt their blunder £rst in its progressiYedestruction; they always pi-ccc!lc us 1rarninglywith the punish1ncnt of terrible scourges, like angina,croup, typhus, softening of the sto1nach, putrid fe,•er,cholera, and of other internal small-pox forms. Andwe ?-of course-we follow!About fifty years after tho first vaccination inEngland, Dr. Home complains:"That the formerly more frequent inflammatorydiseases have decreased, but that the number of thoseof an opposite character have immensely increased.The first, of which Sydenham speaks so much, do notat all exist in London any more; and in Edinburgthere is hardly seen a right strong infiam1natoryfever. The lingering putrid, or nervous fever, (typhusne1·vosus,) is most common; and what is particularlyremarkable, this slow fever attacks principallypersons of an age which is generally most prone tostrong inflammatory cliseases, viz., the years from 18to 30. This increase of such debility-fevers is clearlythe consequence of the fact, that the people a,ro gettingevery day less vigorous and weaker in general,&c."E\'erywberc, where vaccination was introduced, thesame unhappy state of the human organism bcca1ncvisible; an<l the longer and the more cxtensiYely peo••TilE l~VILS OF VACCINATION. 21plc in<l11lgeind this luxnry, the clearer began physic.:ia11slo write on typhus, which follows vaccinationlike its shadow, fro1n place to place, from station tostation. A general weaknes~ of the Jnuscles andnerYes iB thrown OYer all the people that worship thel\Ioloch of Yacciuation. 'file slightest affection, if notYcry ten1lerly touched, takes soon a nerYous turn,gets gangrenons, and laughs the physician in thefacc. IL is n1ost painful to obserYe the continuedincrease of i-pinal irritations, curYatures of the spine,palsies, chronic nervous suffering,.;, ini-anity, melan.choly, suicidt', mental debility an<l softening of thel>rain, apoplexy, l1ypochondry, hystcry, dizziness,cramp:1, neuralgias, ischias, tic, ncrYous headache,disturbances of the senses, a1nanrO$e, hard hearing,general weakness, want of reaction in diseases, lossof sleep, &c.2. JJiscases of the Irritability.lJenl'.ibility ancl Irritability are fellows! Therefore,weakness of 1nnscles, particularly of tho involuntary,which stand near the inner life ;-tre1nbling,rho1uuatic, gon ty, stiff, contracted, useless me1nbers,p,tins in hip aud back, swellings of the bones,caries, &c.3. Diseases of tlie Re_ptoduction.The stoinach ! tho stomach ! ancl always the stomacht yet once n1ore ! the stomach phiys the part ofthe hero in tbis present dr,una. The digestion ismiserable, I would rather call it hysterical. Phlegm,22 TEE EYILS OF YACCINATIO:s1.acidity, bitterness, heart-burn, :flatulence, wonns,carrion-stools, bad urine, constipation, cliarrhoca,pressure, cra1np, vomiting, softening of tbc stomach,dysentery, typhus (small-pox of the intestines) cholera,a pitiable condition of the sexual oxgans in1nalcs and females, queer appetite and s]eep-allthese exist and alternate with each other in Babylonianmixture.4. Diseases of tlie Secretion,.The spleen suffers precminenily, and ren1inds us ofthe diseased condition of the milt in do1nestic animals Jnext, the liver and other glands, particuhirly the mucous-preparing glands of the inner coating, in consequcncc of which, whooping-cough, croup, hectic consumption,influenza, scrofula., dropsy, chlorosis andscorl>ut, arc so frequent. Tho itch has emancipatc<litself from the "scientific itcli-rnite ;" syphilis seemsto assume again the cxanthcmatic cbaracteT. Bothshow an immense number of infected victims ; bothlike the company of the small-pox-poison;. and allthree giYe away to the same 1'emcdies. The skin, infortunate cases, breaks out in many sharp eruptions,viz., pustules, papuh:e, tetter, cxanthe1ns, furunclcs;the miserable urinary organs help themselYes sometimesby urinous, the intestines by hren1orrhordaldischarges1 of a certain degree of heat and acridity.5. Diseases of P1·opulsion.The human heart shows itself here most clearly asthe organ of feelings. Ilappiness, joy, pleasu1·c,•TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATIO:N. 23on1otion, affection, passion, inclination, longing, baYclost their poetical rose-color; a more <lark, melancho-1 ic ten<lency has entered the chambers of life. Inthe s:ime manner, as the stomach docs its unpleasantsoccagc-scrvicc, docs the heart it,, duty of dri,·ing onthe hlootl-circulaLion, with reluctance antl difficulty.The blood bas beco1ne blue-black, weak and thin; thesertun greenish; bleedings are frequent; there is aninclination to mortification, passive congestions, palpitations,piles; all fevers antl 1nomentary syn1ptomschange quickly, and the corpses turn soon blue andputrid.§ 8. All these disturbances in tho happy, healthy,lively interchanges between the organs of man, ha\'eexisted and will exist. But as the bite of a good orbad dog, is to be judged, not according to externalaspect, but according to the tooth that tlid bite: wemust also in diseases of our times recognize the maskof :i poison, which spreads desolation, sickliness, misery,pa.ins, tear~, and often premature death amongtho people. Tho fresh and blooming grave of thevirgin, tho noble courage and strength of the youngman, wither away under its secret influence. Oftenclo we sec a young corpse, but not the fatal "'capon!Call it the gen11ine, or tho vaccine-poison-enough!it is in Yarious ·ways tho pox-J)Oison. Such misery ispreYontcd, ·when Na.turo or A1·t succeed in throwingthe poison from the interior to the surface;* ancl this..* As most signally in the case of .\[rs. J. L-y here in Phila- llclphia, by the breaking out of a most Yiolent atlnck of small-pox,nnd in very many other cases I had hero in my bands.-Dr. S.•24 TilE EVILS OF VACCINATIOX.1nost radically, in its true original forn1 as s1uall-pox,or in bastarcl-forn1 of any other matter-expulsion.The strength of the body used up in the sirocco offever, is seldo1n able to drive the 1oattcr out by urine,sweat or in hro1norrhoidal crises. Nature generallyand tyrannically calls for pus. Nature is in smallpoxfully satisfied with suppuration, and blooms afterwardsonly the more beautifully. The bastartl-formH:pustules, itchy antl tettery eruption, boils, furunclcs,gum-boils, suppuratccl, glands, sore fingers and feet,appear often as after-crises, the fayora.ble influenceof which, for health, ought to be higher valued thanit i::;. N aturc does not higgle with herself; she punishes,when it is done with the above-mentioned ills,for the natural law revenges itself by natural punishment.Well then l will we rouse Nature further yet torebellion, by vaccination? ,viii we further defy herclearly-announced law? Let it be granted for a momentthat we could do it, while we really cannot doit: woul<l we then be irresolute in the choice betweena mark in the face, and a deep drought of the sufferingsof life? A silly girl might, perhaps, fear thesmall evil, because she sees it, an<l choose for it thousandtin1es greater ones, which she sees not and knowsnot. But should the physician immolate at the altarof cosmetics, the happiness of life and fa111ilics?The present mode of treatment, and the progress ofmedicine in this respect, lessens the fear of disfigurationvery 1nuch; the method of shutting tho patientup in hot beds and rooms with his disease-exhalations•TUE EVILS OF VACCL'IATIO~. 25-of lrtting his rlry lips languish for water, and hisbnrniug, parched skin bake in fever, is forgotten, andbas made room for .~ more 1·ational, cooling trcat-1ncn t, by means of which an intelligent physician canprcvcn~ ahnost, if not quite entirely, tho dis£guringeffect of the disease. But so long as the Chinese writewith their present signs, so long is their progress imJ)Ossible; and therefore, give the physician a, diffe1·cnteducation. De not 1uystifi.cd yourself by illegiblesigns and unintelligible sounds.§ 0. Our present poplllation gi,·e us tho best opportunityfor drawing comparisons in regard to the influenceof ,, accination. ,v e can divide our fellow-beingsinto throe classes:1. In those of fron1 1 to 25 years of age; nearlyall vaccinated, and many re-vaccinated.2. In those of from 25 to 50 years of ago ; bornl1crc, and mostly vaecinatecl!, and some re-vaccinated;and3. In those of from 50 to 80 years of age, not atall vaccinated in childhood.Let us now compare the last class with the firstand second. Justice is the basis of society. Thepeople of this third class can and shall sift the presentand the pnst, soh·e doubts, clear up darkness,and honor truth, whether their children and grande11iltlrcnhn,·c gained or lost on strength, fullness and·well-being of life, by \r accination. 1\.ntl truly, ourseniors, who ha,·e lived and acted so infinitely morethan wc,-who baYe seen and fought the battles offreedom, and cultivated the wilderness, while we826 TlIE EVILS OF VACCIN.ATlON.always enjoyed the blmisings of peace ancl plenty,ourseniors, I say, stancl like strong oaks before us;they hardly know anything about nerves, spine, sto111-ach, nothing of mucous discascR, nor of interior ulcerations.The grandfather sighs with feelings of pityand contempt: ",Yhat miserable fellows our descendantsarc ; each of them req_uircs more of niedicalattendance in one year, than I had in my whole life!"He digests yet with case; is not oppressed by hismeals; his ideas arc clear autl flowing; he is in thefull enjoyment of his well-preserved body for allfunctions, and his head performs readily its duties;he has not squanclered his money for medical quackery,and enjoys contentedly the means wLich hisexertions and fortune haYe accumulated around him.The matron who has for twenty years or more fulfilleddomestic duties, and who has borne, probably, manya seYerc trial,-look at her, llow well preserved sheis; how actiYcly, cheerfully and healthily she ¼llOvesabout,-she is perplexed at things she cannot understand.She must buy for one daughter false hair;for another she has to cook something particular, herstomach being so very delicate; her grand-daughtershe has to take to the country, on account of weaknessand a troublesome cough; another grand-childshe has to give cod-liver-oil for glandular difficulties;a third has a swollen goitre-neck; and a fourth husto be brought to the dentist; and-let us sing a loudhosannah for the vaccine-lancet !-the fifth must hesent to an Ortbop .". e<licI nstitute. The poor old ladyis puzzled about this new name; she cannot pronounceTIIF. EVILS OF VACCINATION. 27it.! \Vh:tt a pcrvcrtCll ,yorld ! The old arc ;1trong,tl1c young weak: the oltl nurse the young! .A.11y ouaf!cil people attest, whether the scale of domesticha ppine~,; has sunk or risen, since ·vaccination hasheco1ne general. Speak you, agc<l pastors of thelan<l, whether joy or prc1naturc suffering has growni11 your fol<ls ?-say whether you hear yet in yourt-cinplcs the sa1ne clear sound of voices you beard formt·rly !-wl1cthcr you sec yet the healthy, rucl<ly faces,you iuhnirccl in your youth, arouncl you! You olderteachers of schools hear witness whether there arcn1orc docile antl healthy children, or more pale, weak,scrofulous, tettcry, itchy, coughing ones no"•, thanthirty or forty years ago! Tell me, 0 physiologist,whcrcfrom comes the smaller stature of the people?-the less 1narkctl formation of n1usclc and tlcvclopu1c11?t -the miscraJ.,le condition of the mouth ?-tllclanguid expression of the physiogno1ny ?-th! green,yellowish hue of the face '?-the lower degree of"·armth of the bo<ly '? .And, finally, let us call on thes.erYants to tcstif,.of tho horrible excretions of thebo1ly-of the disgusting sweats in bctl-of tho loathso111condition of the body-linen-of the stench ofclunuber-Yesscls-of the decided carrion-smell of theclothes often in the cleanest and best families.Speak, then, parents, priests, teachers, physiologists,i;crvants ! Your obscrvn,tions and conclusionswill un<loubte11y1 c oincide in one point: that theren1nst he at the foundation of this internal an1l externalcorruption of the people; a co1n1non cause, a cau~eof destructire effect. Let us consider our fa.ir land28 Tlll:J EYILS 011 VACCINATION.a garden, and its inhabitants the plants of this garden:Is all in this garden in order, perfection andsplendor ?-If this is not the case,-has, perhaps, thogardener a wrong method, or the root of the plants theworm ? Or do, perhaps, both causes exist? It istlie unnatui·ally inoculated, and tlte natu,-al smallpox!Let the moralist think of this. Let the hea1·tbrokenmother ans,ver thus the bitter sighs and thehumble questions she sends ·with tearful eye up toheaven: why her darling thrives not? why it Ruffcrsso 1nuch? and why it is taken from her? Do notconsult in this great question, of the weal and woe ofour blessed land, the dim lights of University-liliputs,the jargon of arrogance, the self-complacency of scientificstupidities. A few instances do not prove agenerality, and blasphemy cannot hold it up! Thefree ey_e looks its age into the eye, and judges thewhole llom above!§ 10. Shall we have, then, the fearful small-poxagain? Shall we, perhaps, venerate it as a benefit?By no menns! But befo1·eI qualify my answer, tellme, my friend, " "\Vhere has the small-pox beenthese last fifty years? that is, the small-pox youfear so much; we will call it the ltisto,-ical smallpox?"-"The malignant small-pox of the 16th, 17thand 18th century, which made its appearance in somurderous a manner1 often even with all the terrotsof the bubo-plague, and against which medicationdid nothing, - where was it in this half of ourcentury?" I-las it, pelchance, been kept and preservedamong those who were not vaccinated; perTUI;EVILS OF VACCIN.\TIOX. 2!)haps, where the scctl ancl root of the small-pox grew?No! No,rhcre on the "·hole earth! Let us examinetl1c principal years of terror of the last three centuries.'l'hey arc :l . .For the wltole cartlt: 1586. 1723.2. Fo1· ..11merica:i.\Iexico ; Ilispaniola. 1518.South 1\.mcrica. 1728. 1750.North A111erica. 1717. 1738.lln<lson Bay. 1781.!3. For ..1lftica: Cap. 17 55.4:. For EuroJJC:l',. .., NortlLRus::;ia. 1580. 1605.Faroe Islaucls. 1651.lee land. 17 07.Engl:intt 1660-1GD2. 1729-17 4:0. 17 52.1763.IIollancl. 1562-1563. 1636. 1666.B., So1dlt-France. 15-11. 1568. 1577. 1666. 1693.17 41.-17 45.Italy. 1551. 15G7. 1717-1725. 1753-1755.Switzerland. 16:26. 168G. 1697. 1735. 17 -16.Spain. 1:517. 1529. lf,6-1. lll-!8-1651.C., JJidille-Gcnnany and IIungary. 1519 .. 1530. 1542.1.:,;i2. 162-1--1629. 1633. 1657. 1666.1G78-1G7fl. 1680. 1606-1697. 1700-liOG. 1711-1714. 171,3-1717. 17J8.1778. l 708. 1801. 1805.3*30 TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, thehistorical small-pox lea\-cS us suddenly. The earth,vaccinated or not vaccinated, <lid not yet sec jn theselast fifty years a time like the above-mentioned.Did the murderer of millions run before a wo1uanLadyl\Iontague-who, in 1722, came f1·om the landof the former paradise bringing a modern Eva, instockings-Inoculation-for an Adam's apple alongto England? Or dicl the scourge fly before the vaccinatinglancet of the German Plett, 1790, or of themore scribbling Jenner, to whom a milking countrywenchoffered the apple of temptation? Prove to methe existence of the historical sma11-pox at this time;and I will not yet believe in vaccination, but I willnot scold aed condemn it. But, surely, small-poxwas gone !-did not exist any 1nore !-long beforevaccination was introduced! For, although on the28th of l\Iay, 1799, the first cbilcl got vaccinated inGermany, the system was not generally introducedbefore 1820; and long before this year the historicalsma11-pox had disappeared ! Without waiting formedical experiments and government ordinances, thedisease changed its terrible character into a betterone, and showed itself only sporadically.Dr. Elsasser reports, that from 1808 to 1810, onlya few cases of small-pox had been observed, and thatin the kingdom of Wwtembcrg, during those terribleyears of war and famine, from 1813 to 1817, only2385 cases made their appearance, of which not onewas malignant.Schnurrer says, in 1816: "This year's small-poxTIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 31•is more identical with the regular old disease, thantlrn.t of the tw·o preceding years; there was thespe<:ific smell wanting, and the third stage, where theeruption loses the red circle, and stands like waxdropson the skin; the contents run out, or wereresorbe<l, and did not forfn tho usual scab."The i:ame eminent physician re1narks, in his Chronicleof Ep'demics, (II. p. 290 :) "The view that thosmall-pox, without vacl}ination, would have becomeby-and-by milder, and £nally disappeared, gainsstrength by the observations made in tho yearsJ 816, 1817 ."Tho central vaccine-physician, Dr. Seeger, of Stuttgart,writes, 11 that ,Yurtemberg remained from 1818to 1824 entirely exempt fron1 small-pox, and tl1at from1825 to 1830 there were so few cases, and these solight, that it was hardly worth while to speak of it."Ile cites then "\Te zin, who says, " that the frequentcases of variolcs and varioloids are not the consequenceof the temporary protection of Yaccination,but that small-pox-epidemics appear only in ,certainlonger intervals; and that in the first thirty years ofthis century, the small-pox would not have epidemicallybroken out without vaccination."Let us farther hear the classica.l authors on smallpox,the learned Lentin, and the penetrating Sarrone:"}.Juch foundation as the opinion of thosen1ay have, who believe, to be able to mitigate, toi1nprove, nncl, as it were, to dilute the malignity oftbe nat'tlral small-pox, by repeated vaccinations, thoobservation will always stare in their face, that when•32 TllE EVILS OF VACCINATION.one who is vaccinated, is cxposc<l to natural infection,the disease will always appear in its true .form, an<l1nOtStl!wJ itlt a 111ali9na11ct l,aractcr. "*.A. lthough we have h:ul, in later years, in spite ofthe general introduction of vaccination, a great dealof small-pox au1ong us, the' real ol<l historical snrn.11-pox did not appear. ,r11cre then is this ~Ietlu!-a?She is not here !-has she perhaps hidllen herself inyour interior ?-She is not among about 250 millionsthoroughly ci,,ilizcd men !-1)erchan~c you :find heramong your 600 millions other fellow-inhabitants ofthis earth, who know nothing of a Lady l\lontagueand her inoculation-epistles, nothing of Jenner andhis country-,vcnch, nothing at all of vaccination!No! she is not there either! a.n<lm, ore woudcrful yet,think only! these not-vnccinated barbarians haveand ha Ye had no small-pox; they liYe and exist hapJlierthan you, who suffer fro1n an avalanche ofinternal miseries: you who arc a weakling, notwithstandingyou are vaccinated "secun<lum artein !"Not even the Indians of Quito ha\·e ij11e sn1all-po:xany longer, (for liumboldt would certainly ha.Yomentioned the fact,) although Iloff1nan tells us thatthey suffered formerly fro1u the most malignant ki111l.Now, think yourself a collectjou of faces and bodiesof all countries and nations, accurately painted,* The truth of this assertion is proYed by daily experience. Imyself have been, in my younger years, repe,\tedly v.1ccinated;nnd ns soon ns I ,l'"ith my eh1stic constitution was cxposl!l lo infection,l got a ,·cry :se,·cre attatk of confluent mnlignant small-pox,which infeclc(l agnin my whole vncci nntcd honschold.-Dr:. 8.TUE EVILS OF VACCINATIOX.regarding color, features and formation: what a fieldfor reflection and investigation on vaccination andnot-vaccination! The result of such meditationsgi,·es us the true wisdom about vaccination. The,rhole vaccinatory witchcraft is as great and infamousa lie as the infallibility of the Pope, in which likewisemillions have faith ; they clie for their lie, while,ve vaccine-worshippers perish on ours!Vaccination has not protected us; it could not doit, because the sanall-pox had al ready left us and thenot-vaccinated "'orld, Lefore its introduction, or, asI will presently show, had taken another turn; it,vill not protect us, but rather lead us deeper and1norc steadily in their arms. The great Sarronc says;",v • e h::tve observed, after many a vaccination, thatthe infection spreads by this very means, when weexpected it the ]cast!"To what Fernelius says already, in the sixteenthcentury: "It is true, we are many years, in succession,free fro1n tl10 inroads of small-pox, but we oftenhave found ou1·sclvcs unexpectedly attacked, andnearly destroyed!" we have to subscribe, this veryday, our bloody signature, while we mnst recognizetl1e oppa1·cnt modification of the external form, for11. n1iserablc illusion, when we find this vauntccl modificationexisting in a transfer of the disease fromthe exterior to the interior life-organs.••34 TilE EVI! OF VACCINATION.TIIIRD TIIESIS.Y,\CCINATION rs A CRI~1E.§ 11. Ou.r actions arc generally basctl upon threemotiYCS:l. Upon faith (blind belief;)2. Upon ltabit (false experience ;)3. Upon lcnowleclg(et rue cxporioncc.)EYcry other 1noti,·e, as passion, &c., "~ excludehere at once. ,v e must acknowledge, that we arewanting the preceding necessary insight into theeffects and consequences of Ya.ccination, and that wetherefore cannot giYc a ratio~al account of it, andcontinue its application, as a mere senseless habit, aslong as we cannot refute the truth of the followingpositions:1. The cause and tlre nature of tlte snzall-poxpoisonancl nf tlte sinall-po.r is not known.Vaccination is the apocalypsis of medicine. Claircausays: " Laws arc, in the widest signification,the nccessa.ry conditions and relations of things,which flow from tlteir very nature, and in this allcxistcn~ has its own laws: Goel and the materialworld of botlies-thc spiritual and ani1nal creationallli.tYC their laws!" "\ra ccination is not foundedupon ariy la:w of nature; it is truly an outlaw!2. lt is the san1e witlt tltc vaccine or cow-pox! ,v cknow of it not 1norc than what that country-girl toldthe youthful stadent Jenner. Jenner bclievctl it inTITB EVILS OF YACCJXATIO.N.the true Engli:ih fashion ; he told it farther ; and physicians,laymc11, kings anil nations, plunged wildlya11ll l1li1111liyn tile Htn1e faith, ·which :;oon became soauthoritati\·e ancl unconditional, that e,·ery doubterwas treated with contempt and cxco1nmunication, andpersecution. The faithfully-believing people soon1nixe<l the thing with th person, autl accon1cd tophysicians the ability of 111ovingt he powers of natureafter tltei,. own pleasure, ancl ,created tl1us a larger:nul farther pri vilcgc for the n1edical profession.'l'ltc exccssi,·e veneration for this institute, was richlynourishc<l hy the ti111id thought on the terrible smallpox,which was lookcll 11pon as tho 1nost horriblescot1rgc the lnnnan fan1ily had been i;ubjcctctl to.Iu1pu<lencc and self-complacency copulated with it athought of cli,·inc origin and 1u1aYoidal,lo necessity.Notwithstanding all thi11,w e physicians do, in reality,know nothing 11,orc about tho cow-pox, than what thotc1npting country-Eva has told her admiring J enncr.Ea Jude.r eist ante nzinisteriu,ni nzortis.:t Of tlw e;ff'el'to f' the cow-z:,oJ·0, 1· vaccination, 1aeonl!J l.·11owt,h at ,nan and cow get sick and suffer froinit. It produces clearl!J all tlie symptoins of· a mosttl10,.011glpto isoning. Astrology is the moral <liseaseancl weakness of the Orient; tho Yaccination-faiththat of the Occident. There are in the Occident, as,rcll as in the Orient, Llind gropers, who act "-ithoutknowledge of cause and effect.-1,. ]Jou• tlw cow-po.1·-poison should insure man, weCttnnot ,1t•en clrl'am, .fin· less JJli!Jsiolif/ically tltinl,.,Yhen the belieYcrs of :.\Ietcmpsychosis, the Tartars,•36 THE EVILS OJ;' VACCINATION,swallow pills m:ulc of the excrements of tl1eir higbpriestfl,-as Forster and IIastings tcstify,-the filthyusage rests upon a deep thought, upon an idea ;-butthe vaccination?5. The rnedii:al science has 110 power over the s111allpox-poison; it is confined to tlte defence! • If we hada c1ear insight into the effect of the lancet, and wouldre1nain silent about its destructiveness, we "·ould deservethe execration of the ""orld ! But vaccinationis the child of faith, a kind of talismanery, supportedby fea,r and cherished by laziness. Habit, scienceand Jaw, have declared:1. That vaccination has not the least injuriousinfluence upon the life and hea.Jth of those who arevaccinated.2. That vaccination offers the best possible securityfor the extermination of a tendency of beinginfected by small-pox.3. That vaccination is the only means by whichsmall-pox and its destruction can be finally banished.These three articles of social faith have p]ayed thegreatest mischief with presu1ned wisdom of legislativepowers, and have fooled the millions~ for a rfallywise man only acts thus, when he knows fully whathe is about. Faitlt is not knowledge.A state-faith is not exactly a crime for itself;but it is an evil, and a very great one, when the lawswhich are based upon and dednced from it, and whichshall tend to happify society, lead to the very oppositeresult. :i;.,eut s then examine these three article!!of faith more minutely.•TUE EVILS OF VACCINATIO~. 37FIRST ARTICLE OF Fi\ lTII,§ 12. 'l'hc sun-ray warms; the n1oonlight cli:_n-ms;the wttler nioistcns; and poison poisons. .All this"isnothing new; and go,·crnment knows it too, when itspeaks so sweetly to the nation: "Not tlie least lia,·nic-omi:s fro11i vaccination!" E,·cry medical report,cYcry look into the lists of death and their causes,prove& it; and yet til1eg o,·ernmcnt says gladly, "0 !not tlie lrast harm ltas been done by i•accination !".The first is a senseless lie; the second a consciousone-a Persian lie ! But the Shah lies, and, therefore,all Persiitns lie! Tbns tl1c go,·ernmcnt-officersand the Faculty lie, and the uncounted masses offool!; mcl'l·ily follow i;uit ! Et nemo injecit in eu,nn1anu111. :\Iarc. i. 31." 001110 in, 1nadam ! be not afr:iid ! Does tl1is littleone belong to you? So, so ! ,vhat a lo,·cly •b:tbe ! truly, it young hero! a perfect ideal of health!"oxclai1ns the vaccine-physician to the trembling motlaer,who is full of doubts and misgil'ings. '· IIcrc !• •·cad yourself; read the new law, provided by thewiso legislators of n1odcrn Athens. It says: Traccinationdoes not do tlie least Jia,-m !'' This o,·ci·powcr::ithe last gleam of God-given instinct in the doubtingn1othcr-soul; tl1c snow-white, pure little arms arcbared antl offered, antl the poison 6-12-18-:Z~times incised; for it is of acknowledged importance;"that tlw i•acci,u-poison should be forced into tlie untcillingbody in SUJ.<'FICIENT quantity! TTTE MORE TUEDETTER! !"Philanthropist, let us pray in the words of tho438 THE EYILS OF VACCINATION.holy Crucific<l: "Father ! forgi,·e them, for theyknow not what they do!" antl they honestly acknowledgethe fact.General measures "e base upon general laws!The law of Nature is, that she rewards us "'ith pleasurablesensations, as often ,ls we haxe sa.tisfie<l oneof her calls. Is, therefore, vaccination ~ naturalnecessity ? \Y ould the child, tl~n, feel so 111is.erably,and be sick after it? Instead of this, the so,·ercignnature of the child declares a, reYolutionary war, assoon as it is poisoned with the vaccine-lymph. Thepowers of self-protecting nature and of the unnaturalinvasion, are drawn up like two hostile arn1ies, infull battle array. The invading poison attacks; thecombatants get heated; the struggle becornes Yehen1ent;the child is dismayed; the fever rages; theskin burns; the pulse runs high and quick; it storms.'' For God's sake, doctor!" exclaims the 111other,ringing her hands, "n1y child ! my darling child !Yaccination has hurt it ! "" Cahn yourself, good woman, this is nothing butthe vaccine-fever-the extinguishing feyer ! "Jlfotlier.-Thc cx-tin-guishing fever?JJoctoi·.-Y es ! the same.11Iother.-"\Yhat is there to be extinguished? ~fychild was pci-fcctly healthy; it was never yet thelcar,t unwell, .As little as I and my husband--• IJoctor.-(Shcltered behind his medical and mysticalprcrogati,rc) You do not understand that; you betterquiet yourself. Read here the laws an enlightenedlegislature ha.s made and provided !•••TUI-: EYILS OJ' V.\CCINATIOX • 39. Auel the disconsolate mother is silent! and thedoctor is silent too !The storm rages on. The suffering chikl screams;throws itself about; cannot fintl rest. The m9thcrprays, nncl peace ensues. Nature has conquered!\'ictory ! Yictory ! The chilcl i fl quiet antl exhausted.The tnolher s1niles through her tears. ·victory ! Triumph!The hostile, poisonous intruder, is repulsedto the i-pot where he first invaded. There be is!Shut up, fctterc,1, capti\'e lies the wild destroyers intheir holes; but fiery rc<l and swollen for angea·, looksYictorions Nature out of the inflamed arm ..1.liotlter.-O ! God be thanked ! the eruption ishere; what anxiety I )rn,\'C had !IJoctor.-Y ou sec, 1ua<lu1ne; i;uch things you donot unclerstnn<l: as I have told you before.J.llotlwr.-0 yes! I was wro11g, and beg your pardona thousand tin1es.The sacred order of Nature is snYetl, the anarchicalin,·asion of the poisonetl lancet Rubtluctl, andmartial law proclaimed. 1'he htw of Na.ture is: ejectionby suppur:Ltion ! '.l'hc pox suppurates, faHs off in·ugly scabs. But the general welfare of Nature hassuffered by the fri,·olous war . •1liothl'r.-)Iy little one looks yet very pale; onecan sec how exhausted it is.J>ocior.-'I'hank Gotl, n1ntlame! tho re-actiYof e,·crwas :,plcndill; and no\\· you cnn be assured, that itwill nc\'cr get the s1nnll-pox.1lioth1:r.-O ! how shall I express my gratitude toyou!••••40 TllE E\'ILS OF VACCINATION.Let us now· look deeper into this hocus-pocus ofvaccination. The infantile organism is the purestexpression of natural perfectibility. To interrupt it,is a great t~rin1e; but to interrupt it sensele;;sly, i!'I :imonstrous crime. Let us be grateful to God, whodirects the e,·il to turn to good. Let us revere theguardian angels who watch unceasingly over our cradles.Let us admire all-powerful Nature, which is notso easily brought into this serious :incl lasting clisordcrby our perverse intrusions; for otherwise, there wouldhardly have remained a, human being alive. But letus not praise vaccination, even if a great many childrenget alive through it. Nature is great! A mostastonishing proof of tl.1isg i,·c;(a) Those children, particularly boys, whose stronghealth will not accept any poison at all, who do notform those vaccine-blisters, but who, as it were, rejectindignantly tlte intrusion, and throw out the poisonagain by clifferent kinds of eruption ::ind ulcerotions.(b) Such who have carried out of tl1c Yiolent struggleof the natunil small-pox, the reward of perfectlypure bodily health; and(c) Such to whotn a kind of family immunity mightbe ascribed; that is, a n1ixtnre of fluids, the chemicalvitality of which would rather permit a hnndi-cd otherdisease-forms, than the small-pox, (and vice versa.)Oaznl Yaccinatctl a boy in Yain;'l'hc second timtl-in Yain !The third time-in Yain !The fourth time-in vain !He then made him take a, quantity of puh-crizcd••TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 41kine-pox-scabs in a soup. On the fourth day, thepoor hoy begun to vo1nit violently, and to suffer fromnervous sympton1s. '£his condition lasted for sixda.ys, and finally there appeared on his body onehundred and eighty kine-pox-pustules. ,vbcthcr thestomach of this victim of one-sided scientific perversity,thrc,v its grateful acknowledgment for suchfa,·ors right iuto the face of the expcrin1cntalizingDoclor, is not 1nentioned.§ 13. The tender age of infancy is very susceptihlcfor external influences ; why not also for anykincl of poison'? And it would have to succun1boften to the change in temperature, to carelessnessand pcr,'crsity in education, and many other untowardcircumstances arising from false views andinherited prejudices, if our kind Creator ltad notprovided safeguards for all emergencies. This guardforn1s the tendency of tho child to oppose e,·eryintrusion and attack, by a wonderful re-action. ,v cha.vc seen sucl1 a spcctaclo in tbc preceding pages!,v ;uld to Go<l th:1t the struggle be al\\'ays so fortunate; I would be silent, aucl suppress 111yin dignation!But it is not always :.o ! The susceptibility,as well as the rc-acti,·e power, and therefore also theresult of tho physical struggle arc so different, andya,rying in 1nau11cr and strength, as the 1nillions offlowers of a 1nc,Hlowc, ut down by a hail-storm. :i\Ianya book 1night be written on this subject alone, but Ihn\·e neither time nor space, nor inclination for sucha task.Si-:cOND RcENF.: - The hostile invasion of the4*•••42 TEJ<; EVILS OF V.ACCINATlON.•beastly pox is a,lso totally l'Cpulscd by the powers ofnature, (e.i:ercitus vitm ;) but the marauders arc notonly caught hy the arm, and rlriYcn out of the land,but all the boundaries are infested, molcstcLl, andexhausted ];y these.Besides, and aJter the vaccine-eruptions, variousskin-affections make their appearance in c11ilclrcn: a1papula; b, cx.,'lnthemata; c, pustules; d, furuncles,which trouble the little ones 1nore or less, or whichthey secretly breed for years. "The child will notthrive; there is always something the matter withit ! "JIIothet A.-i.\Iy child has got au eruption all overthe body, like. heat-blisters; it has scarcely any restfor itching; on its cheeks and lips there arc poisonblisters,and it is sore here and there ..11fother B. - i.\ly good for-nothing nurse left theother day the door open; my three chikh·en havetaken severe colds. I haYe sent her off. i.\fy poori\Iolly has got now erysipelas, Lizzie something likenettle-rash, and Tom even the measles. They • areall ,·cry unwell, indeed; but the worst is that weapprehend with the babe-the scarlet feYcr !.1Wother 0. -I am afraid that my children havehandled the mangy cat of our neighbors; I neverwill be again the neighbor of tt baker. It is unbearable-all n,y children ha,c the tetter: Charles onthe head (jlavus;) John in the face (i1npetigo larvalis,)and Bob on his thighs ( i1npet. sparsa.) It isa very disagreeable sight, ant1 sn1ells so bad1y. Theworst of all is - and I am fully satisfied of it-the••TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 43Doctor has m:-i<lc a 1nistake, and not thoroughlyextinguished the !:unall-pox-poison, for my boy Jameshas got, hesicles the vaccine-pustules, the real smallpox,(1•ariola, varioloids, i•aricell:.e.) Yet I must saythat the boy has had the extinguishing-feyer Yeryse\·errly: at least the Doctor sai<l so.Jlotlzer .D.-1\.ll 1ny happiness is gone; I was tcohappy! Since my unfortnnatc boy has been vaccinnted,he hn!i been n perfect Lazarus. E\·ery partof his borly brraks out in 1nost painful boils andnbscesses in the arm-pits, on the neck and body ingeneral; his arms and feet appear to be full of n1attcr;the poison comes even out at the ends of hislittle fingers (panaritia.) i\Iy only consolation is,"that the pale poor little thing can cat well.As the unprofcssignal fathe1· doubted for1ncrly, soi,- now the physician startled: "11[ea culpa! rnear11a.i-imac ulpa!" 'l'he <listrcss of the n1iserable parents<lriYes the blnsh of embarrassment in his face."IIcn1 ! II cm ! but no !" ho <loufcnsh i1nsclf; "no,the Yaccinntion cannot be the only cau:-c of all thispitiful woe; all the wot·ld vaccinates, and law-makers,even in the 1nost progrcsRiYc and enlightened comn111nitics,order it! I then will Yaccinate as longas go\·erninent and the people dc8irc it." The son ofIlea rcn, in China, orders the i\Iantlarin to be whipped,·who again has the people whipped: "Lege leg is Doctorlegcni serv{'lbo seri·us, nee non pliysic1rn longus !.17.\ 012111' boi•es IJeo cur~ surtt?§ 1-l. TurRD ScENE.-Thc ground is less guarded;the laneet-nr111y penetrates deeper into the lnnd, into••••44 'THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.the intestines of the country. They find thcn1wonderfully fortified. E,·erywhoro electric battcriei<,(plexus), like small fortresses, with star-like ramifications,su1Tountl the grey-redtlish nervous knots,(ganglia), the arterial streams; the principal fortificationprotects the stomach, (ganglion. solate,) andtwenty-four to twenty-five such detached forts on eachside of tho spinal column defend the spinal n1arrow.The rapport 1vith the head, ·with the members of thewhole body is secured. Thus prepared and armed,nature awaits the attack of tho kine-pox. Theyapproach; nature defends 1.ierself by violent fever,tho child burns, calls for water, moans pitifully, letshead and limbs hang loosely ; the heat increases, thoncr1•es of the spinal marrow hasten to succor, bycramps and convulsions: John ~ies the second clay;thotendons jump, tho cerebrum participates, sopor,contortions ensue : Charles <lies on the fourth, sixth,tenth day ;-tho struggle gets finally weaker, is continuedyet for some weeks: David dies of hecticfever!J.1:lotlter.-0 God ! my child! 0 doctor ! n1y poorchild, it is dead ! I ought not to have had it vaccinated!J)oct01·.-Here the teething is tho cause, madame,a. Yehmnent fever, an inflammatory fever, was complicatedwith the teething.11:lotlier.-Yos, yes! and this fever was-what youcall-the extiinguishing fever I O God ! my child !Doctor.-(Sighs and sneaks a.way with deep andvery painful emotions.)TJIE F.\'ILS OF \TACCINATIO;:... 4iiIt is n beaut if nl, a very wise law, this vaccinationlaw! The brute-pox has gained some advantage,and reaches now the niucous uwnibranes. It is principallythe nerve-fortress of the ston1ach, which resistsvjgorously; the storn1 rages in the arteries, (abdominalpulsation;) the mucous preparing glands (n11tClJJrtr129landulx) envelope the enemy with toughphlegm; he is subdued. Nature conque1·s and triumphsltere by cliarrltc'l'a: Tom cuts himself through;Bob suceu1nbs in the flight; tlte1·eb, y vomiting, Georgegets through, but is severely ,vounded; Ilarry falls.'l'he discar<lc<l enemy runs now wildly up ancl down;James saves hin1self; ,Yash dies of cholera tie syn1ptoms;the fortresses (ganglia) inflame autl discharge,vhatcver they can (cl1olera.) The main body of thepartially-subdued enemy takes 1·efuge in the blindgut;establishes itself there :-Ike is saved with greatdifficulty by :irt; Clun·les's stomach gets perforated;he clies of softening of the stomach.-Firc ! fire! thecncmy'i; fire-torch blazes in the intestines! Sam can1uinlly be Rnatched out or ti o flames; Neu dies ofenteritis. The poison-pox takes the burning place!True, faithful N1iturc, succutubs not yet; she struggle,-for life ancl death, and Rhe succeeds to take holdof the leaders of the in,·ading l'cbcls, and shuts themup in the exant he1n of the coating of the intestines .• . Agnin she proclairns and executes m:ntial law: slte•ejects p1111. But here on the inner coating of 1nnnthe execution ii:; far inorc difficult than on the cxbernalsurface. 1\. sensible physician helps Fred throughin the process of ejection (typhus, nervous mucous••4G THE EVILS OF VACCJNATIO~.feyer); the ulcers in the intestines suppurate nn<lheal; but with Anna they heal not,-she dies!IIelp ! help ! tho child suffocates; the brute-poisonmoves from the stowach into the breast. ,Yhat aterrible catarrh ! Lizzie sinks under her chokingcough, and Emma, with asthmatic want of breath,under convulsions. Dost thou hear the distressingcall of Nature, the whooping-cough : this horrible,pitiable woe of a child? Dost thou sec the colossalmass of phlegtn by which Nature tries to defend herself,as long as she docs not feel her fever-strengthequal in a match with the poison-power?IIow rapidly does the scourge progress! The terriblyominous co1nmotion begins already the first,fourth, seventh, and ninth day after the vaccination;many, many ch ldrcn fall its victims; an<l again,others arc more fortunate; hut mostly some miseryremains. The mucous membranes, particularly thoseof the organs of the senses and generation, (in adults,)attest the sufferings and dangers originating in theinoculated kine-pox-poison. Ophthahnia, otorrhoo,fiuor al bus, prurigo, &c., &c.§ 15. ,Yha.t a sea of tears, what an unboundedfield of misery lies behind us ! Let us add to this thedeacl, the inYalitls, the infinn, that come forth out ofthese struggles! The field on which the battle wasso fiercely fought, is before u's, disordered, ruinetl,weakened, devastated; it is the extcnsi,·e .field ofdigestion and breatliiny, the basis, the root of life.Not enough that these terrible traces arc re-proclucedyear after year, but the poisoning goes on ngain and• ••••TllE EVILS 01,' VACCINATION . • 47 •again, and poison is lieape<f into the already poisonedlio<lies. 1\..n<tlh is is the reason why the affections oftho 1nucous me1nbranes, which were forinerly onlyone-half of :~11 diseases, haYe now increased to fi,·esixthsof their number. Thou misen1.blc abclomen !•tl1ou miserable chest! Is Pandora:s box not yetc1npty '!* •Gone is all faith in the doctrine of (( not the leastinjury." Nothing has gained but the history oferrors and fallacies; its pages show innumerable newcxpcri1uents. The people have acquired by this raccin:ilion:1 .. A. glorious degree of sickly sensitiveness of the:-ito111aclatn d intestinal canal, accompanied by openancl hidden disturbances in tho whole digestive ~ppa-1·atus, viz., diarrhroa, dyspepsia, phthisis dyspeptica,liver and spleen suffering, never known before.2 .. A.n entirely new disease (since 1806) which dollllcstieatesitself every year 1norc firmly, the typltus,·which is a mucous fever with ulcerations and pox()ruptions in the abdominal viscera .3. The daily ntore frequent appearance of a uewchildren-disease, which i\Iillar obsen·cd and presented(17 55) as the first fruit of inoculation in England: the asth1na ~Iillari.4. The poor children haYe gained, or rather regained,in immensely more malignant form, (since180u,) the long before forgotten inflammation of the •wind-pipe-croup. .,\.s formerly, in England, Nature* ,\11,wcr: Xot ns long ns the box of Pnn<lorn is the Yncciniitingcnsc of instruments!•••••48 • 'TlIE EVILS OF \'.ACCINATION .revolted (1738) against the iuoculation of tl10 hu1nansmall-pox-matter, and triecl valiantly to re-1110,•tah epoison by means of c:itarrhal gangrenous augina inthe thront; as children for nearly forty years sufferedthe tortures of horrible straugulation-difficultics, andmany thousands of the1n wretchedly 11erishc<l; soappears now here and•everywhcrc, where vaccinationis introduced, the croup, somewhat milder, becausethe kine-pox: is somewhat; milder, and tortnres,frightens, sickens and kills ( already so1ne fortyyears) tho innocent Yicti1ns.5. The whooping-cough has gained in strength andextent immensely.6. The human family in general, has acquired a.monstrous increase in consumptive and hectic diseases,which mostly originate in the digestive apparatus(plztliisis dys1Jeptica.)7. An entirely new disease, softening of the stom-.ach, (v. Jaeger and Oamerer,) has been added since1811-1813, to our already immensely large catalogueof dest1·uctive diseases.8. Our young women l1ave gainc<l, since ] 822, agenerality of chlorosis and fiuor albus, of which wedid not drearn before.9. The whole human fa1ni]y ha Ye been enriched bythe acquisition of the Bengaiian poison-snake-hydrophis;the tropical wil<l pox-roison, the cholera; whichnow has established itself among us thoroughly andhabi tuitll y.10. Our generation has, besi<les all this, ga,ine<l afar greater susceptibility for the small-pox-poison,••'l'Uls £YILS OF YACOINATIO~. 4Vwhich will 1·a \'a~c in the abovc-111cntioned tliscascfonnsof the 1nucous n1e1nbrancs in the interior of theorganisn1, till the feeding of the poison l,y vaccination,onlcretl e,·cn by law~, sanctionecl by usage, anclhc\11 up hy the faculty, is forbi<l<len under severepenalty. 'l'hen only will Na,turc he able to recoverall her own i ancl then will the external small-pox reappcar as a redeeming mcaus for the internal destruction.Doctor.-Bring your habe now for vnccination !JJiolf1 rr.-liow you have frightened me, I tren1bleall o,·c1· !Dor-to1•,-V{hy? what is the matter?1l[o//ier.-Parclon 1nc; but I feel a perfect horrorc1·ceping o,·cr 1ne at tho mere thought on vaccination,since n1y poor Charles has died in consequence of it.IJoetor.-O nonsense ! Clrn.r]cs did not die on Yaccination; tlo not believe such a thing. Ile got dysenterywhile teething. •JJ[otlter.-I beg you to wait another year; Tomis now very delicate intlccd ..Doclor.-Only the better! and I have this verymoment excellent, fresh Yaccinc-lymph.JJiotlu:r.-In God's name be it done! But, doctor,the rcRponsibility rests on your shoulders!r Niue <lay:-. after this cou,·cTsation and followingYaccination, 'rom was a corpse, with two ,acc1ne-1Jlistcrs on each arm.§ 16. Founru SCEXE:- The l)oundaries and the• gates of the lan1l arc poorly gnarde1l; the first ad,·anccof the fever-troops is iuacti,·c. Nature, impotentlyr,50 TIU, EVILS OJ..' Y ACCIN ATION.urging on the miserable powers of the bo<ly, strugglesagainst the beastly pox in the spheres of the mucot!smcinbranes. There is a great deal of mucus, butnot sufficient to stifle and s1nother tho enemies. '.l'hopolice-force (the u•onns) of tho intestinal canal is increased.This moastu-o is for some time succes::;ful;but tho intruding poison soon oYerpowers the wormsalso, and the skirmishing in the streets makes theassistance and interference of a physician necessary( antlwbnintica.) EYon now the quiet is of shortduration!The poisoning eruptions sneer at the catarrh; theymove i11to the throat, drying, burning and exhausting;the thirst is enormous; the irritation of the eyesand the nose, and the sneezing, torturing. Theylaugh at Nature antl 4,rt; for they delight to pla,y intho most various catarrbal forms :-not in storm andrain,-no ! in the most beautiful, warm, dry weather,• in the full bloom of the fields. They play for monthsand years, up and down like ebb and flood. Nothingwill draw tbc enemy out of bis positions. "It isalmost to despair," exclaims the physician, "that isno cataarb ! I was deceived ! \Vhat a. suspicioussmell ! it is clearly infectious ! It rniist be a poison;it consumes the child's color, flesh, roundness andnerYous energy. You sec how it shrinks, as if frightened!-how h-ritable, pale, tiny and miserable it is!I must assist poor Nature!" And observe how Naturegratefnll_y and readily gathers het strength, andcalls on the serous texture for assistance. Tho •struggle is slowly renewed ; the poison storms on thoTILE EVILS OF VACCINATIOX. 51one i;idc fron1 the 1uucons 11c11 nbrancs against theseros:1, anrl nttacks on the otl1cr si1lc the ~crous innercoating of the vessels. 'rhe bent and excitement islicrc, anrl is there, and soon burns the head, (.A1·aclt-11oicle;a) soon hnrn the joints, (8ynovial menzbranes,ln1rs,1m• uco.g,,,);- the fever rages-the life struggles allover in the blootl-Yesscls, nerves, fibres, &c. ; the tlinphrag1ncntcl1es fire! The rebels cut and thrust hereand there through the hca,1, cl1cst, ston1ach, spleenancl liver; no 1ncntl1er of the body will net. E,·eryfunction is at :L stand-still. The prime of the poisonfitlls fin:11ly also into the centre; the inner coating oftl1e pcricar<litun inflan1e•s. !low then the heartstonns in anxiety aiul despair! how the pulsation1·uns wil1l ! the stinking breath indicates a retreat ofthe enemy, (contagium ;) the room is pc~tilcntial.Open the windows ! air ! IIo,Y the nerYes tremhlc !"h:it ii tumult an,l upro:u· ! (1·octifoe bti.s ;) the tongueis in a trc1nor. ,vater ! water! IIcroically couragt•ons, ob:-;crYcs the physician, he quiets and cool:,;nntl orders the xoute ! 0 heaYcns ! Sam sinks in thestorm ! .Jim 1nakcs u last effort. The skin steams!-pestilential s1ncll !-the enemy fices; victory! theeri,-is has arrived! Out of all openings flies t11e pest-Others arc ficrhtin"' yet. If we had only ncrYCS a1ul 0 r,., ..YC:lscl,:,c omplains the serous party !-Take courage,exclaim~ Xaturc; the watchword is: Life or death!)'on arc co1nplctcly :-hut-up ,:acs; exhale, hy all1nca11~i,n stead of your usual Yapor, \\·ater; tlrown thei11cc111liarie:--..A .11tsl ec, the di~case is extingui,-hedin the watery effusion: (lq;dro<:epltaluasc utus, l1ydro-•52 TilE EYILS OF VACCINATION'.tliora.i-,l q;clropsp cricardii, .1l11asarcal,t ydrops tunicceamnios, ltydrocclc, l1ydrartli11.~&, c., &c.) 'l'hcformation of furuncles and abscesses fail not to niakotheir appearance in the later time of 1·econvalcscc11cc;the law, ejection by pus, must be fulfilled.§ 17. Let us examine, for once, the viscera of ananimal that has been butchered; tho glassy shiningexterior, f. i. of the intestines, of a bladder, &c.,shows the serous texture which the wisdo1u of theCreator has 1nuch condensed, and left without bloodand nerves. In such textures are sac-like enclosed allthose viscera, that arc most necessary for life, viz.:the brain, the organs of sight and hearing, tho lungs,the heart, the liver, the spleen, the stou1ach andintestines, the kidneys and blac1dcr, the joints, &c.The inflammation of these sacs is very painful, violent,and rather difficult to 1nanagc, because it ii;generally combined with erysi pclas; it affects oftenmost seriously the organs themselves, which the sacsare to protect, and thus even life itself. The 1nctlicalguild throw in this sanctum the poison fire-brand ;they carry the terrible furies of death, suffering, andsickness into the very life-springs, and exclaim :" There is net tlte least injury done !"First Motlier. What a most awful afiliction ! Think,my neighbor's lovely boy has died this mon1ent !Second Mothe1·. Is it possible ? That fine, handsomeboy, ,vho began already to walk, autl laughedso sprightly, is dead?First JJIIotlwr. The same! his poor father is nearlycrazed; it "·as his favorite.•Till, E\.ILS OF YACCIXATION.1fseco111Jl liotlier. Ent I h:n·c seen th<' d1ilcl onlythe other ,hn.·., as well m; ever!J<'irst Jlfut!ter. Last week ho was vaccinated; hethen began to 1,ickcn, got inflaru1nation of the brain,a ntl <lic<l.Secontl J.liutlif'I'. A good 1nany children die, now-a<lay~, unilc•r similar circumstances.First ]lfutlter. The father accuses loudly the physician,as the cause of the cleath.l:Jcco11id1 Iotlie,·. Our houses of refnge arc nowchangcu into hospitals by the introduction of vaccina-• tion.Fil'1;Jt Jlotlw,·.A nother neighbor's three daughtersha Ye been rc-vaccinatc1l latcly; one of them has n6whip-disease; another is as ugly, ycllo"~ and lean asone can be ; and the third, a, truly excellent girl,congbs all night, and is very weak. ,re hear herscreams in our house; she has such terrible painsand stitches in her breast and left side.Sec:oncl1 1lotlier. A friend of 1nine became bedridden,for a long tin1c, after re-Yacciuation. Sud<lcnl_ys he got most awful car.ache ; three physicians"·ere called in. But all their cndc:1xors to help werein Yain. Finally, ,L tnn1o'i· forrued in the car. Thephysicians took it first for a polypus; it showed itselfto l.,e aftct·wards an :tbsces1-, which di:schargctl ao-reat deal of ,·cllow water; and now she hears withh •' that car 11ot .i sound; you would hardly know thepoor woman.Pir.~t 1liotlwr. The sa1ne thing happcnctl to afriend of my ltusLantl's; but, in his case, the tliffi!i*54 • TUE EVILS OF VACCL.'{ATION.culty settled in the eyes. On one e~·c he is entirelyblind now; the otl1er is so weak, that he cannot hearany light.Second JIIotlte,·. Our Doctor has vaccinated hin1-self four times. The last ti1nc, two months ago, hogot very sick. As soon as he had recovei:ccl, andbegan to make visits, he got the real small-pox, andsuffers now dreadfully, he has lost all his hair.§ 18. The FIBRINE exists in otu-chyme, and in grcntquantity in our blood, and forms the principal flubstanceof our flesh. l\Iuscle and tendon differ from•each other, like the external .and internal skin of theli11.s;t hey al'e therefore one and the same substance;and it makes no difference that the flesh is red, nnclthe tendon silvery. This beautiful silvery-shiningtexture is the fibrous tc;1Jturew, hich gives the bodyits elasticity. It surrounds all our bones, surroundsour whole brain, as well as its single divisions, ourspinal marrow, all our nerves, our eye, our heart,all our blood-,•essels: forms firm capsules round ourjoints, sheaths ligaments di,·isions for the mechanismof our life. It is, therefore, besides the bones,the firmest protection for all our organs. Thisvery firmness is their own defence: while tho scrosaarc protected by their vapor and water, the mucousmembrane by mucus, the external skin by the fut.'.l'his is the reason why tho Creator gave to the fibroustexture so little conductibility, particularly of poison.J3ut even this bulwark is reached by tho vaccinepoison! Do you not sec and feel tho track of thisbeast: the dreary vestiges through the regions ofyour nature, till it nrrived there?TIIE EVILS OF '\"ACCIXATIOX. 55Look at the im1nensc nuu1ber of rickety children,i ncrt'asing, year after year, at.. the most rapid rateever since. anr1 wherever other nations have imitatedthe vaccination of the English ! 1\.s horrible ns now,our forefathers did not see this disease ! C1·ooked,blintl, lame, hunch-backed, full of suppurating boils,era1np, with deall-pale, <listorte<l pain-features, mov('sthis worl,1 of poorest children before our eyes. "'hati,; man? you i-igh !-but ask-rather exasperated:lVltat <lid rnan do? and he a pl1ysician, too? :igovernment? ,Yith tears of gratitude buries even acloating 1nother such a 1niserahle being, whose lifell'Ottlcl have been a torture to itself. "Not tltc leastinjury!" for the child riRes an angel to hca,·eu !IIcre the thought dies! the pen is sil<'nt ! the _((ftltHccne is too tragic! A feeling of sorrowful indign:ttio1!a lone speaks yet. Let others then talk.,Yhcn Abraham, at tl1e command of God, waspreparing to sacrifice his son Isaac, God sent a r:unnear him, in his stead. Ch1·i:-t says: Nobody willgive his son a stone, when he asks bread. "·hat docsthe public do, when the physician poisons his ownchild'? Let us hear what Ileitn says: (Pockenseuel1en,/'i. 533.)"Dr. D., in S., Yaccinatccl his own, perfectlyhealthy child, about one year old. The suppurntionfcvcrwas so strong, anti the pustules flouri,;heμ so£ncly, as Dr. B. had scldo1n seen it. But, ever si1iccthat, the child began to be sickly, had nearly alwaysHome diarrhcca, increased thirst, some cough-onefuruncle after another n1atlc its appearance-the last56 TTIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.a very large 011e,l lesides some other s111allcro ne~, onthe scat of the child, broke eight days hcfore itscleath. Yet the eliiltl tried anxiouf;ly to Sa.Ye his footfrom every touch, while it tlicl use it, and wliilc itwas yet happy and frolicsome, as 1nuch as its 1na11ytroubles permitted it. The foot retained, for somedays yet, its natural color anu fonn, and the fathercould therefore ascribe the infla1n1natory exciten1cnt,which expressed itself in loss of appetite, thirst, andnightly orgasms, only to teeth-development, (ah!) orto the swollen inquinal glancls, (ah! ah!) or an irritation(wha,t kind?) of the isehiaclic or of the crural• nc1Tc. The continually increasing heat (what heat?)1nade the father think of an inflau1mation of thofibrous muscle-sheathing of tho foot; the clearly-expresseddesolation, tho want of appetite, the oftenrepeatedattacks of involuntary nausea, indicated tohim bilious eo1nplieations. The foot began, finally,after a few clays, to get very hot, and to swell considerably,while the color of the skin remained yettho san1e; anti now there could be no doubt of aninflammation of tho periosteum. A Yomiti,·e rcmoYe<l,nearly indigested, everything the child had takentho last few da.ys. In the following night, tho heatincroase<l more and 1uore. Three leeches, :and thorubbing-in of mercurial ointment, pi-otlucccfl irst som!lch alleviation, that the poor child, who had notslept for twenty-four hours, fell asleep, and slept firehours in succession. But, the next morning, it wasclearly d~ible that the child':-; strength was rapidlysinking; it ground its teeth, and rolk•<l the c,vcsTTTE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 57while <loiing. ,vhen :iwakc, it h:Hl full COIJ!-ClOUSnes,;,un<l begged, with fon<lling caresses, (its father!itg physician!! its poisoner!!! its tnurderer ! ! ! !) forh~lp. The forenoon, it was very restless. In the afternoon,there was s01ne <1uiet; and now appeare<l inthe middle of the shin-bone, a hluisl1-re<l i;pot, and011 this some nut-colored pnstulc::i1 filled with matter ;although the little sufferer son1ctimcs started up, as iffrightened; he rcmainctl pretty <1uiet till two o'clock,when he liegan to show difficulties in breathing. AJ1cn1pty choking got soon combined with this cl.u-..nginghartl hreathing, which rctnruecl 1norc antl 1norc frc<1ue11tly, an1l lastetl longer and longer, au<l finallycca,;e1l in the forenoon, about ten o'clock; the hreathinggot now 111or(<) liflicult yet, so that no respirationwmi had, with'.>ttt exertion a11<l groaning; the innocentvictin1 retained all this ti,ne, consciousnl'ss, antian1l prayed for J'Clicf (to whorn '?) A. tepid ln1Lh f-.Ub<luc<l 011cc 1norc the attacks for J1alf an hour, but aftertl1:1.t the chil1l Rank very rripiuly, and death relievedtl1c s-ufferer about two o'clock, four weeks after thevaccination."-" 'l'hc dissection conriuccd even the1\-rctchecl father of the f:tct, that the sole cause oftl1e tlii;case and death of his own child was h1s ownact, and nothing but the vaccination!"'l'his heinous crime, this history of cruelties, isnarrated hy a father, by a pl1_yf-icianb, y so eminenta 111:tn a~ Dr. Ilcim, in his official reports; and yet •physicians uarc to assert, and goYcrnments uarc tocontend: " F,.acci11ation cloes not do tlte least injur!J !"' I could cite here, from the same pages,•••58 TlIE E1ILS OF VA.CCJN.\TION.more atrocious details of kacl1c.1·ayn cl paeclartlirocac,•,of which Dr. Scyfer, in IIeilbron1, gives the sacldetails. EYery honorable and discri1ninating physiciancould add to his catalogue of horror::;, theknowledge of which would make our hair stand up.But enough ! Be silent reflection !§ 19. SIXTH SCENE. - The rebels triuu1ph ! thebeastly hordes of the vaccine-poison conquer the land,settle down, and establi::;h themselves in it. Tl1e throneo!monarchical nature, tlte brain, is vehemently shaken,or even softcnecl ; the 1nountain-passes and thci1·springs, the marrow and its nerves, arc blocka<lc<l,teased, or also softened; tlie fortifications of thebody (the ganglia,) and the 1nagazines of industryand economy (the glandular system and the 1nucousme1nbranes,) arc in their po,Yer. The fever-troops ofthe nerves and of tho blood lie beaten and prostrated.The guard alone, the ·animcc vitw, stand yet firmly,and is not conquered.She alone continues the struggle, in periodicalattacks and skirmishes. Thcso attacks proceed fro1nthe heights of the spinal colu1nn, inn1ding soon thodominion of respiration, soon that of <ligcstion, soontba,t of generation, soon that of the mcch.anis1u ofthe body, (intermittent fc,·cr.) Nature rallies alsoonce a year, generally for a pitched battle, (so1nc1uore violcn t :u1d decisirc fever or inflau1mtai on.). But she is. unable to gain, nnassistc<l, a, co1nplctevictory, cramped as she generally is lJy drug-interference,ancl if a sensible physician does not helpher in her efforts.•'IHE I:\'ILS OJ:' YACCINATION. 59Tho proccsiws of d0Yelopn1cnpt lay in the chiluthe lJrincipnl role ; therefore the vacciuc-poison-rcbels1nix thcn1sclvcs n1ost rca11ily in the organs,. particularlyactive in these processes, and thus the ruin ofthe organism is secured for life.\Y c sec here, in this picture, how human life iset11hittcre1la ntl SJ)Oilcd-a, life that is ncrcr healthy,and seluo1n rea1ly sick- the comfort of the drugsliop.Since the creation of human beings, therenever was such o. variegated, topsy-tnr\·y chaos ofi;uffcrings of the spinal cohnnn, as at the presentti UH!: no wonder that physicians and patients feel asif they should despond! 'rhere remains only oneg11in for u!>..:....l'cjoicca, ntl erect triumphal archesfi·o1n the birth-place of the wench, who instructedJenner in the vaccine-mysteries, to the ball wherethe :1\Iassachusetts legislature lately hatchccl theirvaccine-law, besides other sin1ila,rp rogrc11siYlcc gi;;latire 1ncasurcs, that astountl the civilized worldrc,joicc of the grand acc111isitionsm ade by n1ccination: the 111iraculo111O1R TJ!OP.BDIC INSTITUTES AXD'l'IIE WONDER"FUL TENDON-CUT !-rejoice, :1\Iadame, ofthe discovery of thy hidden steel-supporters ; tlto1iltast 11ot a s111all-po:c 1nark in thy yellowislt-palej"((ce !Ilci1n says farther: " The scrofulous diathesis a1,pcarswith others at once, in tho eyes and enlargedglands. 1'hat vaccination increases scrofulous tcntlencies,antl develops its visible products, is a factthat cannot be denied.". Hcjoice, then, of thy feeble, brick-reel, or blearing•60 THF. EVILS OF YACCINATION.eyes, which look like window-glasses in winter time !-rejoice of thy glandulous, kn&tty, enlarged, tnntterdischargingneck ! -rejoice of thy stun tcd, erookc<lgrowth, of thy Ron1an-X-figure ;-thou hast not onesmall-pox-1nark on the surface of thy body. Drinkcod-liYer-oil, be moxa,-ctl, cut, stuck antl burnt, rt]nthrough all the healing institutions, science and lnunbug1nay hase established: if thou bclieYest that tobe better than to have possibly a light mark in theface, over ·which thou mightst jest and rail, and withwhich thou couldst dance, sing and enjoy life.§ 20. If all this come already to pass on the greenwood, yet the ideal of health, what shall become ofthe dry, that is, of the children produced by such amiserable generation as ours is at present ? \r accinationtreats them all alike; all arc vaccinated: thechild of the drunkard, of the famishing, of the syphilitic,of the cancerous, of the gouty, of tho old man,of the voluptuous mother, of the consu1nptive, of thodropsical, of the leprous, of tl1e fool, &c., &c. Horribilediet it!SEVENTII ScENE :-The physician stands deeplymoved before the lifeless body of his Yaccinatecl victim;the wailing of the stricken .fa1nily cuts his h cart,and causes him the 1nost painful feelings. Ile woultllike to justify himself, and cannot find anywhere anoutlet. I-Ic hunts in the wiclo e1npire of possibilitiesin Yain for a name-in vain eYen for a pretence.I-Ie struggles with himself; he must acknowlcclgo itto himself, he 1nust confess ucforo the whole "·oriel,that the child has <lied on the reaction of vaccination .•TIil-: f)Ylt8 OF \'ACCIXATIOX . 61•It is so perfectly clear a case, that all talking nncltninciug is in vai 11. \Vb~rcvcr tables of vaccination:u·e l'cgnlarly ancl ciirefully kept, tho una,·oirlahlotrnth stares in the eyes of every rcacler, that vaccinationitself alone kills a largo nmuher of chihhc11,while it givc-s to every other disease ,t 1nalig1rnnt character!'\\'hl'n a criminal is cxccntccl, the wholec-ouutry is aronsc<l; hut nobocly says anything abouttlw thonsan<ls slain by the act of vacci11ation ! 'l'hetarth eovtrs thc111 c1uictly. It is ~ai<l, lice dca<l aredumb ancl do not spealc. It is false; they do speak,a 1111 accuse science, government, a111l the peoJllt', allco11ct•rnt•1l. 1Vltoet'e1· supports and prai8e:s a fals11•1111'(/wtul,p holds it as a tnw one, 11111ssot me time orotft,,,· xu.ffi:r jo1· all the 1•ieti111.s lain b,1;i t. Docs theaxe of the executioner compare "'ith a false medical 111etl1otl?IIas ii llerod, a Pharaoh given tho royaldccl'Ce: '· 1~accination clo1•ns ot clothe least ltann ?" or;L legislature of an enlightened State of our Union int lie 1 Uth century ? '\You kl a u1erciful connnu nity ofChristians coudemn all their d1ihlrcn to clca th antl111isery? or is :;t1clt a, state of affairs the work of Sa- .tan ·1 ,vith 1i::1i11fucla re deliberates ii jury about theverdict orer life and death of a, criminal outcast,whose existence is a curse to tho community; and •another jury, co1nposing parents, brothers and sisters,clccille without he:iitation orer the fate of their innocentrelation, who is noYcr eYcn hcanl in the case.0 Lord, deliver us fro1n ci•il !Through a lutly, (l\Iontaguc,)-through Jenner'scountrv-«irl,-throu!dl woman, then, again, this sin • 0 ~662 TIIE EVILS OF VACCINATION.has como into the world, and death by this s1n. Thefemale sex, and principally_ the :roung 1nother, hasmost to snffe1· fron1 it. That is Goethe's curse of •Nature! i\liserable expiation ! The conscience of thefather and of tbe physician reYolts against tl1e abomination.,,ill the public and the goYernment remainquiet?Already in the year 180], two years nftcr Dr.Ballhorn, in Ilanover, (in iiay, 1799,) hacl Yaccinatcdthe first child in Germany, Dr. Sybel wrote: « Itcannot be <lenied, that, ( with :ill rcP-pect <luc to Yaccination,be it said,) not oYery one who is Yacciuatcd,is saved, and that a great many examples bring beforeour eyes the most deplorable cases, where, hy n1eansof this celebrated discoYery, father and u1othcr havobeen carried away fro1n their children, and that wholefamilies haYe l)ecome victims of cleatb. Cases, "'heretbe most unfortunate consequences re1nained behind,l1ave brought upon this new n1ethod the u1ost Yiolcntexepra tions." Such was the dirge of the physicianson the continent of Europe, soon after th<l introductionof vaccination. ,v1uit will the tuno bo now, afterit has decimated and destroyed the human fa1nily?SECOND ARTICLE OF FAITII.§ 22. "Tlte vaccinc-po.1~; -rtert lte bestp ossible sccu-1·iilJ/ 01· the extinction of tlie tendencl/ to be injectedby the real small-pox;" exclaims with satisfaction, theeasy, thoughtless wanderer on tho beaten track, andscience shakes grimly tho mane.Diseases aro the effects of diseasing causes; eachTTIB l,VILS OF YACCINATION .•<li sea~e ha~, like tho plant, its seed, its own 1-.1:1i 11, itsnature, its course, its fruit and its end. Ile whodocs not know all these thing", can neither protectf1·01n its poison, nor extirpate it. 1\s long as thephysicians 1nust acknowle<lge that they do not un<lerstan1leither the cause, or the nature of the small-pox,1Lsw ell as of the kinc-pox1-tbat the 111anncrin whichl he Yac<-4'ica cts, is to then1 u. terra incognita, andthat they rlo not know how to attack the s111al1-poxpoison,-so long remains 1·accination a medical foolery;OH account of its conse<1uences, a crime again!'thumanity; and, whcrcrer the J,iws re<1uirc it, a legalntrocity. 1\11 iinmense a1nount of learning and investigationhas already been ap11liccl, for the purposeof ascertaining tho place of the origin antl nativityof the small-pux-,i·ltether it comes from Arabia,frotn the Red Sea and Egypt, or fro1u Ethiopia, orthe interior of .A. frica-of which, although so near toci1·iliz:ttion, we really know notl1ing. They weresought fo1· in the works of Jicro<lot i in the first chapterof the Exo\lus of iioses. Some thought to fintlthe1n with Pharaoh and Job, in Syric Orfa, on the"·ood-confincs of the cold zone, and where the pcppc•rgrows.Connuercc, h·arelers, soldiers, l1eggars, haYe beennccn~e(l of 11a,·in1; brought the disease, and yet.the11oiso11is a prod net of )-our own body; an(l 1iceauseyou • will not bclie1·e it, Kat11rc throws ir uncercmowuioush· into your face. Seek, then, here for iit ! here• •you will find it ! \\'hat cle1·onr:;, is not a, l>pirit-aIJreath ! Can you not touch the pustules and boils••• •64: TllE EVILS OF YACCINATION.with your own 11antls? 1\.ntl yet yon opine it to he aspirit, whom you think to be al>le to rxorcisc with ll1evaccination-spell! The pus is the clrci-::o! f the poison;why do you not unclrcss it? • You 1nust sec thepoison naked, and then you will recognize it as thecreeping hydra, of your life, of which you have totake care; you will then sec that it is the 1nothcr of111anyla rge antl small children, to wlio1n n•ographygiYcs 1nany different names. Tho large chilL1ren arcthe cpide1nics of pest, small-pox, cholera, ycllowfcver,grippe, of 1nany pituitous ancl nervous fevers,of tho PUS-FORMS of genus Honw; the smaller oneshave been already mentioned aboYc. As a metal appearsbefore your eye in various colors and forn1s ofcrystallization, soon 1nixcd, soon pure, soon wo•·kecl: soshows the human poison itself soon more hidden ; soonfree in the softening of the sto1nach, clyscntery, cholera;soon sta1npccl in typhus ulcerosus, and in thesuppurated precipitates on the surface of your body.And when it has gainc<l the clay, as at present, principallyby vaccination, every disease dresses itselfafter its fashion. The poison is 1nore honest thanyou are active. You persecute the wolf, the hear,and innocent dog, ( '"ho1n your heartless children ha ,·etcasetl to mad1tess;) you pay pren1iun1s for their extermination: but yon let the poison 1nurdcr rnyri,uls;•and yet you can touch it with your h<1nds; it appearsquite matcrtally iu and on yon. •§ 23. llistory proYcs clearly and indisputably thedestructive effects of this poison; and yet c,·cry oneruns as if mad, iuto the anns of Jenner's country-•• •TilE EVILS OF VACCINATIO~. 65~irl ! \Ye may indulgingly excuse such insane thingsin an impulsi,·e, J)assionate, young antl inexperiencedfellow, but the deliberate wisdom of graYe age, ot1ghtto guard against such juvenile ebullitions. Takeyour Thucydidefl, upou whom you prided yourself so1nuch, when yet a boy, read how beautifully he describestho tliscaso of Rome, which spread oYer the,vorhl ;-how there was (;.131 J~. C.) l!Ot a youth tobe found fit to he a sol<licr; reiul his .A.thenian pest,and the hattlo of rotidma ;-hear what St. CJt)l'iansays about tho epidemy of tho Occident, (:2;j0 D. C'.,)which lastecl fifteen years, whence "·o t·etaiu yet,•"l,lack," for tho Ohristian 1nourning color ;-hearthe co1nplaints of tho angel-pure .Actius, (557 B. C.,)ab~ut the bubo-pest, which sho,Ycu a p:u·ticular predilectionfor children. .At iiaho1nn1ed's birth-clay (;j7:2)throws N aturo i-1nall-pox in your face. She ,-rishedto he long before un<lerstood; but you were a la zyfool,and remain it truly to this day. She took yon 589-5D-!-, by the nose wilh sneezing, yawning autl c1eath;you tliccl and exclaimed, Goel help! "Now;· saysKature, "I will then let influenza knock CYery centuryat tho door of the lnunan family .• , In ,·ain !The crus,Hlcs ca1ne, the body followed the spiritualimpulse; un<l even tho c:liihlish organis1n was (1211)carried awny hy this blintl powrr; 50,000 children11ilgrimize<l ! In vain! "Go, then," exclain1s Na,tnrr,in dcspafr, "go, 11~cle:<bs lack leatl-colorctl antl1rax, fire-reel .A.ntonius-fire; thou Jorllan-itchle pros~·: !hon e11i,-;copal-Yioloct arbuncle; a11cl thoul\longolian plica, (l:?Su :) pcrYcrse 111cn ask for blackti*•66 TilE EVILS OF VACCINATION.and wl1ife, I mu'-t then ~enclt hc111a nu1nhcr of brr1·1·cnyears of famine, followed by <lcath !" Thero oan1e(1348) the black death over all nations; it i·olle<l inblood and ne1Te-matter. IIunrn,nity saw now, eC'rtainly,black and white, but did not con,prchencl thefriendly intention of Nature, who showed then1 here1nore clearly yet, than in Athens, that the poison isnot a spirit, but a visible and tangible nm.! tcr, whichlikes to <lress i tsclf in pus; • and that suppurating carbunclesand bubons SU\'C life, as, now-a-day~, thosma.11-pox. P<Jst au<l small-pox reign then supren,cly! and both have gnawed the human family to piecesin a terrible manner, and ·nothing was done but tocount tLe vestiges and the corpses that were slainduring three centuries. Ohemi.stry did not seelc fortlte lcilli119to oth; an<l 1Iedicine di<lf or th.it very reasonnot blunt its sharp edge.--Finally, there appearsa lively fellow·-the English student Jonner.-"Astudent of 111ediein!e" exclain1s Nature, like a happybride, "be must, of course, understand n1c, and especiallythe exploring art-chcn1istry !"-Dut Jennerwas quite TOO natural ; he did not stick to the udderof the cow, brit ran after a country-wench. Alienaubera suxit. Deceived Nature conjured up in her furyentirely now diseases in the present century. Notwithstandingthat, the other diseases also do no longercorrespond with the condition of the weather or aliments,but as a curse of Nature destroy our intestines;the people shout in blindness: "Victory ! triun1ph! no 1norc small-pox! Ilurrah for Jenner andhis girl!" But that destructive poison, which is no•THE. EVILS OF VACCINATION. 67Rpil'it, bnt Yisihlc, tangible, s111cllablc, tasteablc, andeven aucliblc, that tooth of our age gnaws on antl on,an<l will yet niauy years n1akc its sharpness felt.'J'hat poison, generally called small-pox-poison, goc!'!,and will go unrcstraincilly its historical and cha.ractcl'isticcour!-\Ct,i ll it is totally cratlicatccl. It boastsiu11)uclcntlyth, at it will always again proceed whcrefl'mnit proceeded fir:-t. There is the origin of thes1nall-pox.-llcim says: "Thus tlte trutlt of a 11pontaneo11sidiopathic deL•elopment of .,mall-pox-rnatter,out of conclitions and ci,·cumstances entirely unknownlo 11s, ivitlwut tlie injl1wnce of infection, is beyond alldoul,t e.~tablisltecl."11hc people stuck faithfully to all that was orderedfor them; but what docs science and go\·ernment do'?The people arc certainly dcceiYcd in their expectations;thry suffcrcll in11nensely fro1n vaccination; theyl>orc willingly strict quaro.ntine 1neasurcs; ancl yetthey hall an<l h:t YC s1nall-pox, rarioloids, &c. ;-if wewill cYcn o,·erlook the gcncrnl bodily injury inflictedby .n these prc,·eutivc means, wl1ich so frcrpientlyend in death. IIeim, the penetrating thinker andphysician :ultls with deep foresight:"The diseaso must consist in a, change of the ehe-• n1ico-clcctrical process of the nervous system, "·hichis pro,·ed by the affections frou1 which single p:irts ofthe spinal systc1n snffcr, by t11c constant pains in certainregions of the body, particularly of the neck andback ;-b,v the seizure of the great connecting ner,·csunder ruultifurious crampy, dyspeptic, nauseous syn1p68TJIE EVILS OF VACCINATION,toms, more yet by the undcnicd influence on hrematosc. "Eichhorn confirms I-Iei1u's Yicws, by saying:"It is certain, that the small-pox-mattc1· formsitself in the blood and lymph-system; it is, as it were,hatched in the lymphatic glands, and communicatedfrom the centres of this system to the blood andncrYeS.''Nature i;peaks out of infants without falsehood anddeception. T lie infant is personified trutlt; it showsin the lap of the mother, at the entrance into thoworld, in the swaddling-clothes, the presence of thosmall-pox, no 1natter whether the mother has hadthem or not. Poetic superstition insists with tenacityin older children, often on external infection.§ 24. The younger an in<li,•i<lual is, the more frequently,but also the purer, is the poison formed.iYhy don't you seek it in its cradle here? Arc youafraid of Fred. Hoffmann and his friends: Boyle, Sydenb:un, Schulze and Cullen, whose mcchanico-dynamicrosary has been prayed for, for a century, by.i:hcn1edical profession,-without being hear<l by Ilaal?\Vhy will you not, like .AutcnTieth, at least mon1ental'ily,free you1·self fi:om the old system, in order totry once the views of the humoral pathologists, if itwere even Sylvius, who considered the body to be achc1nical laboratory, and life a chemical process?Try it; teru: yourself loose fro1n nosological <listinctions,from local phenomena. A decided disease ofthe fluids uceds the eye and the light of chemistry !•TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION. GD~he is tho swonl 0f the present time, tl1at cnts topieces the Yaccination a1, vain foolery. As certain asthe A.thu1tic Ocean cannot be swallowed and tligcstc<l1,y the river Delaware, as certain ca.n the small-poxpnisonnot be swallowed and digested by the kinc-poxpoison.But you can find their filthy excrements.IJiscriutinate ! As little as the ocean cares for theDelaware, as little docs the small-pox care for vaccination.Docs not our time, with its im1nense numberof casc-s of itch antl syphilis, of external and internalpox, whose hero is the choler.a, prove the whole doctrineof vaccination to be a falsehood, and the hiwordering it, a crime? Docs it not show its entireusclcssne~s as a p1•otection-ma11oouvro?Ilow the science par excellence wails! Dr. Elsasseralready complains some thirty years ago:"The kine-pox ha.ve, in the whole, disappointed usin our expectation of their protective viilue. Vaccinationhas not been able to re1nove the tendency tobe infected by sma11-pox. The vaccine is generallyovcrcon1c ancl alienated by the real small-pox."'£he pt·incipal vaccination pl1ysician of the kingdomof '\'nrtcmherg, Dr. Seeger, says niiivcly:"\Ye lrnxe indeed, NO CRITERION to deciJe, whenan\l in what tlegree the protecting power of goodn1ceine is decreased or extinct in an indi,·idnal. ,Y chave :NO CJtITI1RION for the clegrec of the susceptibilityfor sn1nll-pox of a person. We have NO CRITERroxto <letenuinc the period of the duration of theprotection. Individuals who hiive been formerly vac70TIIE EVILS OF VACCIN,\TION.cinaterl, arc, before a11 otl1c1·sl,i able to be attackctlby small-pox; (of course, dignus est operarius nzercedcsua !)" Elsasser SO!JS:"Iu •the course of a general epidemy, a great manyof the not-vaccinated-children get the lightest kindof small-1)ox. In Baden, "'here the law requiresgenera1 yaccination, was the last small-1,ox-epiden1yat least as destructive as forn1erly. !{inc-pox anclsmall-pox arc often found combined, each taking itsown course, and both interfering with each other."And Ileim adds :" The regular small-pox, care not the least for thebest flourishing vaccine."Once more ! The disease is yet as malicious as itwas at the time of the Arabs, who gave the first descriptionof it, tRhazes,) and cares not a farthing forvaccination ! Besides, the v.accine-pustule and vac- •cine-mark may stand every kind and Yariation ofsmall-pox, antl other similar matter-expulsion possible,at a time when there exists a small-pox epidemy.It is certainly a very convenient faith, a sweetsoundingsyi-en-song, a very nice practice, thatleaves the mintl perfectly at ease to think and assumethat the vaccination hocus-pocus bestows Achilleaninviolability; .ancl that the medical holy water purifiesperfectly; and that we, therefore, may carelesslyviolate the temple of I-Iygioa, tho temple of 1Esculnpc,and that we may continue to gluttonize, to ca1·ouse,to dissipate without punishment. JJorninusv obiscu1n.'Deus se irrideri non patitur.TUE EVILS OF Y ACCTh-ATION. 71TUIIUJ ARTICLE OF F,\ITII.§ 2i). "Vaccination is the O:SLY reliable 111eansto banisli tlte snuill-pox witli its destructive consequen<:eH." 1Y c will not even think of its hanishn1cntat all, "ne dcsinas in piscein ;" it should ratherbe callctl their firm settlement in the country, becauseeYerybody will, with the great Sarcone, who (1753 to1755, and 17G0 to 1768) saw in Naples the most malignantand fatal epidemics, "easily co1nprehend, thata body eneumbe1·ecl with the s1nall-pox-poison, canonly then gain health, when the s1nall-pox come totho surface, or wl1cn the in1purity, that traYels aboutin the blood and fluids of the hotly; is ejected throughthe usual channc ls."But if a man has no poison in himself, and it isrORCED into hi1n by Yaccination and rc-Yaccination,the disposition to it must finally show itself. Greenwoo(l geh; dry, and burns! Iu the first case, mangets careless against his cnen1y; in the other, he isthrown treacherously in his anus; and science restsquietly and self-complacently on the easy conch ofroutine, instead of searching for further and morerational means, because Pythia. bas clairvoyizcd ofthe "only" remedy:-" the gold of Ophir."I have already mentioned above, that the infectionspreads after ;llt\ny v1tcci11ations, through this veryn1attcr, when it is the least thought of. The sn10.llpox-diseaso could, therefore, never leave us, even ifits time hnd run out. The people hold it closely and:fi.r1nlyin their arms. The plague which devastated(in the 17th century) Ew·ope so frequently, seemed,••72 TilE EVILS OF VACCINATION.according to Scbnurrer's ingenious view, (Cbron. ofEpicl., II. 203,) in 1666, to dissolve itself for "\YesternEurope, into other milder diseases, f. i. dysentery,purples, scarlet fever, infla,mmations of the throat,&c. Henssler shows the sympton1s of the later syphilisin the symptoms of leprosy; and even. this V cnusbad lost, for some time, tl1e wings of catarrh andexanthcm, (which she at present secu'IS to re-assume.)In a great many other contagious and fatal diseases letus recognize the san1c process of dissolution in theirhistory of pathological development. I-low shall andcan the same take place with the small-pox, if weassiduously and continually prevent it with all might?Throw 3,way reason and history! Be it so !-Thelast few years ought to open our eyes mightily; and,where this is not the case, there can't exist eyes atall ! With a false passport, under different well-knownfamily-names of diseases, mostly in the stolen dressof catarrh, sneaks the small-pox-poison tlu·ough thecivilized, vaccinated world; it torments the stomachand its fellows; irritates, lames, and softens ournerve-marrow; throws the ,yholc economy of ourbody into misery; veils the soul, antl troubles us yetin our dreams. ""\Vhat is the matter?" exclaimsDruggy, "tho diseases will not heal propei·ly ." "A.ndI," sighs Lilliput, '' am quite out of all prcceclencc;I cure, and nobody gets well! ~Iy prescription willnot answer the object." ;rhc old-woman-practice isat its wit's-encl !-!lave then the stormy times turnedthe medical science also upside down '?-The physiciansvaccinate furiously on and on; and sec, theTUE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 73false and treacherous vaccine goes laughingly to bedwith the s111all-pox-poisona,n d feeds and caresses it!)le<licinc stand,;, confusccl Lefore the people ! Thopromised l>anishtncnt docs not really exist; on thocontrary, the people co1nplain louder, -for like1narauders 1novcs tho poison, <lcstroying, laming intheir interior about, for n1onths and years. Ilighaud low inuuolate, in despair, to superstition, tosy1npathy, to Spiritualism, iu Yain ! - You, thou,hcnign Nature! help us; I tlu·ow myself on yourbreast ! - 1\nd sec ! she sends her fever-troops, andthrows tho 01101ny, in small skirmishes, or in onepitched battle, partly out of tho openings of thebotly, partly out in blisters ancl boils. Liberty! real,Round liberty, of lifo ancl happiness, is now felt bythe grateful sufferer, but the d1·ug-guild and popularinfatuation exclaims against it-and vaccinates againand again, instead of forbidding it at once. •TnE S.lIALL-POX-POISON EXISTS! It shows itselffar more frequently on the internal mucous membraneof tho thro3.t, nose, eyes, tongue and mouth,in the intestines, &c., than on tho external surface.If it docs not mako its appearance, we can withmathcn1atical certainty calculate, that it will breakout in a wilde1· form, as decomposing, putrid, contagiousdisorder and cholera. Tl1e government ought,therefore, rather to offer prices for the wholesomediscovery of n1eans, by which tho poison coulu againbe brought fro1u the interior of tho human body toits surfac<'. But, instead of \u·ging science to learnto act specifically against the poison itself-instead7 •74 TUE EVILS OF VACCINATION.of forming medical battle-lines against the cnc1nyth.o old beaten track is followed on and on, a systematicprescription is written, and the }leoplo arcvaccinated for their own destruction!Deus sit testis inter nie ancl inter te ! Quid vidistiliypocrita? Scientiani profanasti ! terra1n tua1n perdidisti! populum tuuni occidisti.§ 2G. ".11ccordin,qt o yoiu· lanientations, tlterc ouglttto be an itnconinionly large nu1nbe1· of patients ancldeatlis !" Certainly! ancl I will even acknowledgethat there arc seasons s01netimcs remarkably freefron1 fatal diseases. But, we must discern betweendisease-condition, and the brealci11go ut of diseases.Sickly is tho by fal' greatest number of tha people,ca.rryiug, as they do, in themselves, the latent poison;but, while some are perfectly conscious of theirn1iserable con<litiou, there arc many others too careles~of their own self to perceive it."I liave always had an e:ccellent stoniacli and perfectdi;estion: now I liave to be extre1nely care_f1d-alittle too miiclt, or not enough, 11psets nie; the sn1allestfaitlt in 1ny diet p1·esscs and puffs rne up, ancl punisla!Sme witli exci·uciating su.ffetings !" The digestion ischangeable, slow, difficult and painful; the appetitesmall, and asks for piquant and cool things, viz. :ham, salt-fish, salad, fruit, acids. Breakfast is theworst meo.1, a,nd a sensation of faintness compelsthem to eat something: for otherwise the conditionof the body, without food, would be unbearable. Ifthis weakness jg helped by eating, another unpleasantnessappeal's: fullness, distension of the sto1nach,•THE E\'IT.S OF VACC:tNATIO::-i. 75in,lolcncc, anil drcnrsinc~s. The sufferer feels in anuncomfortable 111anncr, which is often painful in thepit of tl1c stomach, where n1lll how the sto1nach issituatc,1, aml that the digestion is not readily, butlazily, i1npcrfcctly, nn<l unwillingly performed."JlI!J -~toniachi s a zJe1fectv inegar-factory, 01·p torl11cr>no1t1l, ing out z,ltleg11i:I spit 11p nothing but saltII s . h 11ttt!l8e8. , 01nctlmcs, t ere appears s01ne nausea, orso1nc 1:1lighYt Otniting; and a slight diarrhcca relievesnn1ch. Things arc wrong in the abdo1nen: it ru1nbles,pinches and swell:;; stitches arc often felt in the leftside ; the abtlon1cn hang:; down like a drummed andinacti,·e sac; the back co1nplains, knees and feet feeltired; there i~ less urine than usual ; but, whn.t thereis, is bad, au<l somewhat acrid; wincl and stool s1ncllcarrion-like. The l:1ttcr contains much slime, andoften worn1s. The empti1wss uncl fullness of tlte6to11uu:lr,e,f lect upon tho hea<l; the F0IOIER, as headache,dizziness. '· Ifi•el," s,iys 1ny neighbor, '' as ifI ltc(d the very 11ii8c:ltirifn 11l!J ston1acl1"-nnothcrcou1plains: "J J1ai•ea scnsatio1ia s if rny i·ictuals wet·ein niy liead ;''-the LATTER, as merely thick, stupidfading: the cn1ptiness, at night, as sleepiness, terribled1·eam~, &c. ; the fullness, as sorrowful, heavysleep. The hail' of tho head decays. The conditionof the head indicates clearly tl1e condition of theston1ach. This cn1ptiness and fullness of the stomach,is with others rcfiectell in the respiratory sphere.The interior of the throat of s01nc swells up withchcn·.r-rcd color, autl grcy-,rhite pm;tules appear;the Yoice suflers. There is generally something tho•7G TllE EYILS OF VAC'CINATIO~.matter in the throat ancl back. "\Vith others, again,we find a. ~nuffiing, ca.tarrhal irritation of the nose,throat, winclpipc, chest, when a. <lry, hot, siroccobreathis exhaled iip from the throat. Ile longs instinctivelyfor water, swallows greedily quite unusualquantities, and yet excretes comparatively very littleby sweat and urine, as if fire was scorching hisinterior. Ile now pcrcei,·cs that there is 1uuch )i('a,tin his body, particularly as he finds that his excrementsarc also very hot; and yet he feels, on theother side, how little animal heat his body reallypossesses, bow sensitive his external sw-facc is, particularlyhis spinal column. Ile docs not avoid theburning rays of the sun; he stands before a red-hotstove, and presents his back to the heat, and expresseshis grateful feelings, by exclamations of " Oh! ah!0 how lovely!'' and other expressions of comfortableness.He then takes, with tl1e greatest excl'tion, awalk-and sighs, with a quid of tobacco or a segarin his mouth: "I certainly sltall one of the.•e daysdie froni beloiv itpwards .'" till finally a cup of stronghot coffee, or a glass of hot punch, restores somekind of an equilibrium. At another time is theexterior condition of the temperature quite the opposite.An unpleasant, dry, burning heat, lames anddestroys the strength; he hastens to take a bath.Ile feels best in the open au:. As soon as the firstdigestive labors a.re over, ho enjoys again some comfort,and feels able to exert himself somewhat; he iscontent, till the debility returns fro1u the sto111a.cl1.Connected with these symptoms is a tired, n1elan-•'IJIE EYILS OP VACCIXATION. 77cl1olic, or an excitable, nervous 1nanner about him,which mnaciates one, while another fattens, spongelike,-a third yawns eternally, and sighs without anapparent causc,-a fourth, tho n1ost fortunate of all,has on his body ahniys something to scratch, or toplaster.The fire of the eye, the color, the fullness and theexpression of the face expires slowly with the decreaseof tho elasticity of tho muscles and mental activity.Every other weak part of our body begins now tomake itsclf felt. Tho plethora complains of delJility,l,lood-congestion; the blood-vessels enlarge; the 1nensesbecome too copious; tho parturition difficult. Oldcolils, sore throats, worms wake up; rheumatic painsmo,·e about like marauders; tho piles give unusualtrouble; tho gout is more irritable and painful; thoeruptions ancl salt rheun1s get livelier; scrofula. appearsin all sha<lcs as la rnala,j,ie du jour in the foreground;the tuberculous sufferer coughs early anclla.to in cnunpy attacks; the consumptiveg oes out likea light, or swells up; dropsy returns; jaunclice conCC'abitself bchincl a green, yello,vish, clay-color;hystery is playing much 1nischief; syphilis ancl itchwill not heal radically; and a kincl of intermittentfc-,·cr appears renclily after a 1neal.Thus-with these cl1anges in the digestion, in thefeelings of weakness in tho nn1scles, ncrYes, senses,::ioul :u11l heart; in the clecrease of eYen body-temperature;of sleep, and his usual in1bccilitics-li,·esthe poor alrcacly infected sufferer, without consultingn physician, generally following his inherited super-7*•78 TilE EVILS OF YACCINATION.stition, and his perYerse instinct., in an unsatisfactorycondition about hiu1sdf, whether he be well or ~ick;he e,·en considers it hartlly worth while to 1nolcsta physician with his con1plaints, or to lio1it hislabor. Although many a father might perceive (ifhe would only take the trouble to look) that some:thing is wrong about the health of his family; thatthere passes not a clay without con1p1aiut; that hiswife fades unusually early aivay; aucl that l1is childrenremain 91·een, and will not bloom ; that theyvery often get fever attacks, anll waste away, or ejectmatter by suppuration from their bodies ;-.althoughhe could see, that everywhere in other familic•s thesame sad condition exists: he really sees nothing,thinks nothing, and does nothing. 'l.'inieo f n1illity!Vive le zero !This imperfect description of a state, where peopledo not yet conside1t·l ie•selves sick, indicates the generalhealth-condition fo our po1lulation, undermined asit is by the small-pox and vaccine-poison. '.l'he l)eoplcare, in reality, far more diseasecl than they tl1inkthemselves. It indicates the dark cloud that hangsover our life-horizon, the seed-field of the worl<l-contaginm,and confirms the olcl, but highly importantposition: that in no disease the sympathy with heart,brain and exte,·nal skin, is so great, as in affectionsof the mucous membranes; and th:i,t they arc thedeeper and the more tenacious, the less or the 1noreremote from them the pain is. The legitiu1atc, mostradical, and, therefore, most fortunate excretion ofthis poisonous matter, is, according to experience,TTIE F.YIT,S OF YACCI~ATTO:\". i9n1ccliatc1lh y the l1rC'rrkingo ut of tl1c small-pox; a factt\w t, in later ti111c,;h, a,; happily often O(:Cnrrcd in the1110s~ i;ati:-factory 111anncr. Yet people l;nncnt aboutit: :111d 111i:-;er11l,licn,j nrious vacci1uition is continuouslyHent in the ficl<l against it. "\\'hat ,vill our ex- •pcriencc be, when 111:tn hi1uself complains, and thecPn(rifugal z,ower of J...,.nturef onns diseases out ofthose yet quietly rei;ting 1li~cuse-1natters; and whatis ,rortiC yet, when, by-and-by, the ce11tn1,etnlp owerof the poison pervades all the various interior provincesof our organization? Then only, when mi!-cryantl wrctche<lncss grin1 us with our vaccination-marksflCOffinglyi n the face,-then only win WC hasten tofill the lamp of salvation with the oil of true :-cience.The i:;mall-pox-niattcr creeps at present through theini-icle of the people only, as it were, in great andc1ark passages. lJToe to ltini wlio feeds tliis snalre byi•accinc !§ 28. The s1uall-pox-matte1· is a poison producc<lin our own ho<ly, in our stomach, as soon as Olli' ritatality,be it in consequence of the condition of ourlife, or of the years in which we have li,·cd, siuks belowthe nonnal standard, and passes over frou1 thevital-chemical more into tbe chcmico-vital. In theperfect nu1n wh,o is healthily nourished, like a strongtree, all che1nistry falls too s.hort; but not in theoppm,itc case. Ilcrc is the sickening small-pox-mattereasily demonstraLlc. That this 111atter cannot beB1•acci11r,te(olu t of the botly, but only impeded by aradical change in the order of life, and removed hy a,sensible interference of a natural cure-method in its••80 TIIE EVILS OF YACCIK.\TIOX.effect and continuous 1lcYclopn1cnits, beyond contra,llictionclear. Our life autl n1e<lical treatn1ent 1nustbe changed : these arc the only real protective meansagainst the malicious and destructire ene1ny of the• ,'l"clfare anll increase of the human fan1ily. Let usthen submit !-Vaccine has changed the ci\'ilizcdworld into a deceptive pool of evils, the na1nes ofwhich blind yet the people; it has in reality producedno other benefit, if benefit it be, but a nun1cricallyimmense iucrea.se of physicians. Him, wl10 is ripefor the sniall-pox, 111ill and can:, save nothing but tlteejection of the rnatter. To vaccinate hi1n wlto has gotno snutll-pox-rnatteri n ltini, 01· wlw is not yet pi·eparedfor their ejection, and then congratulate liini asbeing safe froin tlte disease, is a PEllNlCIOUS SI:'IIPLI·SITY, but not a SANCTA Sii\Il'LICITAS; it is SUBLI:'IIELYRIDICULOUS. Whoever is unable or unwilling to freehimself at once and entirely from this sweet Baal'sfaith, may have the pleasure to look at the childrenwhom my intervening protest has already saYcd fromvaccination. The difference between Yaccinatcd andnot-vaccinated children is striking, and so palpable,that words arc unnecessary. In families, those thatarc vaccinated, always giYe me the most trouble. Ifyou wish to be better satisfied yet, raise beside ,i vaccinatedchild, an nnl'acciuated one! Cease to playf1·ivolouslyw itil the life-happinesso f your chilcl! Letus by a11 means restore the beneficial loYc-rclationwith good olcl 1nothcr Nature, by the wcll-regulatetluse of her natural gifts, and by the purer applicationof her pure remedies; and Jet us drive the poi~oning•TTIE F.VILS or YACCl~ATIO~. 81i1np,t he goocl-for-nothinvga ccine,o ut of the countrv.V L~t u:; accu~c none! Go\'ern1nont and phy:;icians11a\'e accc<l in good faith. A.lthough we must standconfusetl a111ol vcrwhchnetl in painful :-ilcnce Leforethe past follicK, let us learn fro1n it for the future!Purlo,·e i·icti in ,ws ipsos descenclamu.~, resipisi:amus.IEomini.~ errare, i11sipil!ntis i•ero in errore perseverare !"\Ye tleciclc1lly re<p1ire this:1. That every regulation imposing Yaccination, beat once aLolisheu.2. '!'hat every physician and government warn thepeople against vaccination.3. That every pl1ysician who Yentures to Yaccinate,be made responsible for tho injury done by his act.4. That ·the legislati,·e bodies will enact laws forthe prohiliition of Yaccination, for the reason that theoperator exposes himself to the danger of injuring,01· e,·en killing an innocent hmnuu being.5. '.l'luit the go,·ernu1ent make it an object of particularcare, to try to retrie,·e the i1n1nense injurydone already by Yuccintttion, by establishing bathingestablisluucnts, &c.§ :3D. IIow much 1no1·e prosperous woukf this soe1ninently blessed country be, if vaccination halln<),·er been introduced, or woulcl ha.ve been forbiddenas a, sanitary 1nca1>urc! and how 1nuch happier wouldthe people be in !<Oul and body, and general 1yclfarc,had they ncYcr been Yacciuated !•The ];it tcr question ha:-, as far as the bocly is concerned,heen already answered; the former is a. n1attcrfor the consideration of the goYernmeut. '.l'he••82 TllE EVILS 01' VACCI~ATION.continuetl encro:1.clunent of poison in the physicalstate-body, is clearly an important external eventanhistorical "fait accompli," the cause of which canchange in the sa1ne manner as it has shown itselfinjurious in the single organism, the meta1uorphosisof the organiz,ltion of the state, and, if persiste<l in,may impede and destroy society in its free de,·elopmentand progress. The political life of a nation isrnostly the exptession of tlie.h· physical condition.Not tlte spirit nourishes tlte body, as Virgil says, buttlte body the spirit. •"\Then organizations that are not poisoned, butharmoniously conditioned, liYe socially together, wecan comprehend how easily a unite-tie of order,morality, antl welfare may embrace them. Let usfurther examine, with Foster, their connection withregard to tho sound stomach. Tho quality, q1.1antity,the combination of food have the greatest influence,not alone on the momentary impressions which oursoul receives, but also on its social disposition orhumor. A man is, no matter how sober he n1ay bebefore a n1eal, not what be is after it. A glass ofliquor,· a, cup of coffee, gh·e different degrees ofvivacity, of activity, of irritability, despondency, orhilarity. One kind of food, because it lies heavilyiu the stomach, makes us 'morose and fretful; another,because it is easily digcstetl, disposeti us toamiability ancl. kindness. Tho use of Ycgetablesalone makes, because they are not nutritious enough,tho body weak, and predisposes us to quiet, laziness,and mildness ; the uso of nutritious meats and fluids,•••TJJE EVILS OF VACCINATION. 83which stimulate the nerves, produces rcstle11sncss,cxcitc1ncnt, and courage. In these habits of nutrition,originate habits in the bodily constitution andorgans, out of which the various temperaments formthmnsclYes. Long experiences had taught the ancients,that the knowledge of Dietetics for1n an importnutpart of 1noral philosophy, The ancient Persiansa111l Ureeks acted in the areopagus upon important1nattcrs only before mcal:i. Those people, who in theh cat of n1cals, or under the vapor of digestion, consultabout ,important affairs, show, in their assl)n1-hlages, Yiolcnce and stormy excitement; nntl theirresolutions arc often unreasonaLle and rebellious. Ifthis i., the case with the healthy sto1nach, what shallwe expect of one that is poisoned'?l\[a11y a disorder and 1·ow would not take place,•if the small-pox-poison did not irritate, torture, andoften paralyze the digcstiYe apparatus; ancl it wouldnot be cliflicult to deri,·c n1any a disorderly tu1nult ofour c1ninr11t1 nc11,a nd their unbeco1ning violence in •the legislati,·e ,cha1uhers of our governments, fromthat s:unc source. ?IIoro yet! The vaccine antlsn1all-pox-poison penetrates into the very mass offl ui1ls of the people ; the ioliole lifc-dispo!-ition, therefore,that is, the whole revelation of their n1ind anclheart, gets disturbed; their intelligence, their conviction,their principles, their religion, tli,,cir ideas offrccdo1n, right and duty, their character and fate,becotno injuriously affected and changed. The disharmony· of the organs must necessarily drag tho1nincl into the botlily quarrel, and the intellectual•84: THE EVILS 01:' YACCINATION.antl physical tlerclopmcnt of the in<livith1al crosseach other most disturbingly. Tbe body and thosoul of man can neYer be thought as separated inthis life. Such serious physical cbangeR, as a manyyears' continued poisoning, inust of necessity havethe n1ost <lecisiYcin fluence upon the political horiionof the country. A. von Ilumboldt says:" The influence is eternal, which tho physicalnature exercises over the moral disposition of man;".r\nd Schnurrer adds :.. Physical eve!1ts have really, in evex:y period ofhistory, if not incited) at least laitl hold of the fatesand epochs of the humain family."••••••••CONCLUSION.TUE FALL OF JIIAX. •Now the country-wench was more 11ubtle, than allpersons else, and she said unto Science: "ShouldGo1l have said, ye shall not cat of CYcry thing of thecow'?"And Science said unto the wc11ch: 1C\Vc 1nay catof the cow ,yhutevcr is wholcso1nc-the flesh and tho111ilk. But ,vc 111ust not cat the ficsh of a cli.~easedcow, or drink the 111ilk of a sick u1ltlcr; least of allnn1st we take into ourselves the diseased ca·uption ofthe kine-pox. ;\lost painfully do I recall the year;;of tnurrain, ,.,..henG od said: 'Ye $hall not cat of thecow, nor shall ye e\'cn touch it, lest ye die!'"1\nd the ,rcnch said unto Science: "Ye shall surelynot die; for God kuoweth that, in the dny ye vaccinatewith the kine-pox,-yc need not swallow it,ycwill wrest yourself fro1n fate antl necessity, intofrec1lom, be cxc1npt fro1n sninll-pox, hantlsomcr,stronger antl 1norc spiritual than c;-cr !"1\1ul when ~cicnce saw that such easy work was1norc plcasau t than racking the hrain, she sum1nonctlhcl' n1an, the physician, to yisit the cow in the r,;tablc;auil hr, too, comprehcntlctl th.it tltis practice woulll8•86 CON CL USIO:N.be more comfortable. .t'\nd tbe eyes of both "wereopenCll," and they knew that the Lord had tlissolrcdthe murrain and the small-pox, though Jenner hndnc,t, and co,·cred their nakedness with Yaceine-rcportsand optin1ist reasonings. ,..And they heard again, in our day, the voice of theLord walking in the garden of the peoples, with influenza,small-pox, typhus, cholera, yellow-fe,·cr; "·ithnutny other 1naliguant and putrid e,·ils. Antl thephy:;ician "hid hi1nsclf" behind the 1nedical collegeand goYcrnment frou1 this clear truth .. And the Lord called from a1nong the c0111plainingpeoples, saying: "Physician, where art thou?"And the phys:iciai:ai nswered: "I heard the wailof the peoples, and I was afraid; for I know not lwwto lteal the wounds I have inflicted, and therefore Ihid 111yself.".1.\.nd the Lord said: ",vho told thee that thouhad,;t acted without sense and reason? IIast thounot-in 1nockery of all sound sense, and merely followingthe tattle of a country-wench-thoroughlypoisoned my peoples?"And the physician replied: "The college where Istt1Cliecla, ncl all n1y medical brethren advisecl rne tovaccinate, and so I Yaccinated !"And the Lord said unto Science: "1Yhat is thisthat thou hast done ?".A.nd Science answered: "A country-wench asserted,that sbe woul<1 not get the small-pox, because shehad bacl the kine-pox."And the Lord said unto the girl: "Because thou••CONCL'C'SION. 87hast rlonc this, thou sl1alt suffer moc.t from Yaccination;thy youth shall not 1,100111 as the flower of theficlcl; thy :;pine :;]1all c111·,·e1 11Hlt:t1h· e inner pr)i:;on;thy i-ick ho<ly shall hi111lert hy 11<.!,·elopmcnat,n 1l thoushalt cat steel and earth. There shall be e1nnitv be- •tween thee and 1ne<licinc. • If thou scckcst help fromthe cow, 111ilk and whey shall hnnn thee; an,l thereshall I.Jc little joy for thee in the drug-shop, or 011 theorthopxrlic be1l, or iu the ten1lo11-cut, picrciug thyheel. • .,\ntl when thou becomc;;t a wife, thou shaltlook greenish-yellow, and ha,·c many sorrows, ,rhc_p.. th uu art ulcsscd; thou shalt bring forth thy childrenin pain and angui!<h, with the help of a physician;anll tho poison shall be divitlcd l)ctwocn thee an<l thychilrl."Ancl unto the man the Lord said: "Decau~c thouhast hearkened to the Jll'attling voice of a foolishcountry-girl, and pcrn1ittc,l thy house to be fillet! withpoisonous 1nattcr, which divine Nature founcl to heu 11Jitc 1•e1.f1o r a bcallt, an<! therefore <'Jcctetl it, thywife and thy children, iusteall of hC'ing the !rnp11inessof thy existence, 1-hal1 cause thee nn1ch trouble, andanxiety and cxpeni'ic; thy marriage shall !.,ring forthf1lr thee thorns and thistles, instead of joy and Llc~s-•But the Lord droYc the 11hysician out of Paratlisc,nn<l placed hcforo the garden of fan1ilirs and people,the flaming cherul,: "or a severe Law, which is thercl-inlt of rational research, and which will lcu.d hu-1nnnity to a. 1uorc prospcrou:a: future hy a return toN u.ture."•
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