Chapter VIII: Part 8

“The plague was a less destructive distemper than the Small
Pox, yet no plan similar to the quarantine laws has been
established to extinguish this infection; and one which was
lately proposed in Parliament was discouraged as injurious to
personal freedom.”

“But surely every man susceptible of a dangerous contagion
has a natural right to hinder persons who are contaminated
with that disease, from touching or even approaching him. The
exercise of this right is a species of self defence; which for
the public safety may assuredly be regulated by law, without
infringing any reasonable notions of political liberty.”

“It is therefore much to be wished, that to preclude all
persons infected with the Small Pox from mixing with the
public, a law should be enacted to confine them strictly to
their own houses, or in hospitals appropriated by the parishes
for that purpose, as long as the infection is upon them.”

“The plan is simple, to enforce it would be easy; and the sole
inconvenience would be a temporary confinement of those persons
whose enlargement spreads poison through the land.”

“By such a measure, the infection of the Small Pox, for want
of subjects to act upon, would necessarily decline, and soon
become extinct; and multitudes of human creatures would be
annually preserved from disease, blindness and death.”

It will now be seen that this interesting medical and historical authority shows us that, while quarantine or isolation had been used to some extent in old times in the prevention of the plague, yet it had never been applied to smallpox, and that a law proposed in the English Parliament in 1815 to make isolation compulsory was defeated; but Dr. Moore distinctly tells us that such a law or practice, if enforced, would by itself extinguish smallpox!

Now, this admission I regard as very significant and conclusive in this contention in coming from Dr. Moore, who was a medical authority in Jenner’s day, being a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Surgeon of the Second Regiment of Life Guards, and was also so close to Jenner that he dedicated his book to him, and was not only his chief assistant in the new scheme of vaccination but held the important office of “Director of the National Vaccine Establishment,” which was the government institution controlling the production of vaccine virus and the administration of public vaccination.

Surely, therefore, we could have no better authority than Dr. Moore to admit and establish our present contention against the modern evil of compulsory vaccination, viz., that there is surely something else besides vaccination that has prevented or reduced smallpox epidemics in modern times, and that something is the benign and rational remedies of sanitation and isolation with certain natural and human changes and improvements in conditions of human life and health; and not the irrational and malign remedy of propagating and inflicting general disease upon the people, as falsely taught by the extreme vaccinators.

FURTHER PROOF FROM THE ENGLISH MINISTER OF HEALTH THAT SANITATION PREVENTS SMALLPOX MORE THAN VACCINATION. POORLY VACCINATED LONDON MORE HEALTHY THAN MUCH-VACCINATED BERLIN

In a speech by the Hon. John Burns, Minister of Health for England and Wales, in the House of Commons on April 11, 1912, he gave the following clear statement showing that vaccination cannot be alone credited with the reduction of smallpox, but that, as a matter of fact, smallpox had declined as vaccination was reduced and as sanitation and other benign conditions of human life had increased. These most significant facts are fully expressed in the following extract from the official speech, which speaks clearly for itself and needs no further comment here.

“I am not at all alarmed by the comparison made with
Germany.... I entertain the respect for figures tempered by
fact, which every responsible man ought to have. Just in
proportion as in recent years exemptions (from vaccination)
have gone up from four per cent. to thirty per cent., so
deaths from smallpox have declined.... The facts are these:
I am right in giving these figures with regard to London.
During the time that I have had the honor of being at the
Local Government Board the following have been the deaths from
smallpox in a city of 4,500,000 inhabitants: 1906, no deaths;
1907, no deaths; 1908, no deaths; 1909, two deaths; 1910, no
deaths. So that in five years there have only been two deaths
from smallpox in a city of 4,500,000 people. Not even Germany
or Berlin can transcend those figures by the increasing
cleanliness, increasing sobriety and greater attention paid
both by the community and individuals to removing all causes of
smallpox, and nearly every other disease.... I believe that all
this fear and panic, all this talk about plague and smallpox,
is due to misconception and misapprehension of social facts.
These diseases are in a very different position from what
they were in ten, twenty, thirty or forty years ago, and it
is a creditable and a happy circumstance that I, as Minister
of Health for England and Wales, am enabled to state that in
regard to the administration of public health no other country
is comparable to ours, and I am pleased to have heard such
hearty recognition of our efforts from the different speakers
this afternoon.”

I therefore think that this close study of vaccination facts thus far presented must convince every reasonable mind, lay or medical, that if these benign conditions of sanitation, isolation, etc., had been generally adopted and enforced for the past century, in place of the dangerous remedy of general or compulsory vaccination, smallpox would have become extinct before this time and as much of a medical curiosity as Plague, Cholera, Typhus and Scurvy now are, which at one time slaughtered their thousands every year!

I also believe that it is probably due to this evil practice of general vaccination, which is simply the propagation and infliction on the general population of actual smallpox in one of its various forms, that the pestilence of smallpox has been kept alive as a still dangerous menace to human health and life, ready to burst out into conflagration wherever vaccination is recklessly and extensively used, as in the recent case of Japan, or where sanitation is grossly neglected, instead of being now a medical curiosity, like the other great plagues of the past which we have successfully extinguished without any vaccination. And as smallpox is the only one of the ancient plagues that we have deliberately cultivated, propagated and constantly inflicted upon the human population, under a barbarous and false theory of thereby preventing disease, is it any wonder, in common sense and common logic, that we have so signally succeeded in keeping this ancient plague alive by this strange medical malpractice, while the other ancient plagues have become extinguished?

ONLY A LIMITED AND VOLUNTARY USE OF VACCINATION SUGGESTED AND APPROVED. FORCED VACCINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN CONDEMNED

I firmly believe that vaccination should be used only, or chiefly, in smallpox hospitals, or elsewhere, by doctors and nurses whose professional duties require them to be exposed directly to smallpox infection and who necessarily have to take the professional chances of injury or infection from either the smallpox or the vaccination. If, therefore, vaccination confers any protection or immunity from smallpox, even for a short or limited time, it is, of course, proper for doctors, nurses and attendants to make use of this protection as far and as frequent as they may wish or consider necessary. It is, of course, also proper for any person, whether exposed or not exposed to smallpox, to voluntarily resort to vaccination whenever he may see fit to do so, or as his doctor may advise, as this is the unalienable right of Medical Freedom for which we contend and to which all citizens are entitled. But to force the whole population, and particularly little children, to submit to the dangerous operation of vaccination, when the merest fraction of this population, or not one in a thousand, would ever be exposed to any probable chance of actual contact with smallpox, and therefore not requiring any protection against it, would, obviously, be a very absurd, unwise and dangerous practice; because to thus vaccinate the mass of this healthy, unexposed and unendangered population would simply be widely extending disease and infection where it did not already exist, and would be inflicting a form of artificial smallpox on the whole population which, as I have already clearly proved, might be more dangerous in the long run than the ordinary chances from natural smallpox itself. This is particularly true when I have shown from high medical authorities that vaccination gives only an evanescent protection, or immunity for short periods of time, from a few months to a year, and requires to be continued at such short intervals and doubled or repeated at each interval, which frequent repetitions greatly increase the chances of incurring more injury from the many vaccinations than from smallpox!

Where, however, vaccination is used by the doctors, nurses or attendants at the smallpox hospitals, or by any other person actually exposed or likely to be exposed to the disease, the case is entirely different and the burden of the chances and dangers is safely shifted and greatly reduced, as, in this case, the artificial disease of vaccination is inflicted to protect the vaccinated person from the natural disease of smallpox only where this disease already exists and actually endangers the person exposed to it. This is entirely different from the practice of inflicting and spreading disease widely where it does not already exist, as in the evil system of the wholesale vaccination of school children and the general population who are not exposed to smallpox and may never be exposed to it in a lifetime. The absurdity and uselessness of vaccinating school children where no smallpox exists, and where there is no chance of being exposed to it, is proved by the short period of protection given by vaccination and now admitted by vaccinators; because the limited protection given by vaccination at such a time, when not needed, would probably have expired by the time it was needed by the appearance of any epidemic or sporadic case, thus making the previous vaccination needless and another vaccination necessary. As a fresh vaccination, therefore, is the only thing that gives any sure protection, and this for a few months only, there is surely no use in vaccinating any children, on the vaccinators’ own showing, until they are actually menaced by the presence of smallpox infection or epidemic.

ABSURDITY OF COMPULSORY VACCINATION OF CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE WHO HAVE HIGHEST IMMUNITY AND VITALITY AND LOWEST DEATH-RATE OF ANY PART OF THE POPULATION

To single out children of school age for this application of wholesale and compulsory vaccination, as is done under the present evil school vaccination law which has been originated and sustained by our medical societies, is particularly absurd, mischievous and unethical from a true medical, sanitary and hygienic standpoint; because it is a most extraordinary fact, which seems to be little known by the doctors or the laity, that children of school age have the greatest immunity from all disease and the lowest general death-rate of any part of the population, and to a most surprising degree, and are therefore in less need of the alleged protection of vaccination than any other part of the population! Whereas it is generally falsely assumed that they are in most need of such protection. This relative immunity and vitality is, however, so great that children of school age from 6 to 19 have only five per cent. of the total deaths from all causes, although they constitute about twenty-five per cent. of the whole population! The children of school age have therefore about twelve times the immunity and vitality of the infant age under six years and about six times the vitality and immunity of all the rest of the population over nineteen! See Report of the New York State Department of Health for 1912, page 125. See also my pamphlet, “The Crime Against the School Child,” 1915, pages 32-33. This extraordinary fact alone condemns all compulsory vaccination of school children as a most medically incongruous, barbarous and unnecessary practice. But this evil creation of our medical societies will never be given up by our infallibilistic vaccinators until the common sense of the laity is firmly asserted to make all vaccination in schools or elsewhere free and voluntary and to demand the repeal of the evil compulsory vaccination law wherever it exists, which has probably killed three times more children than smallpox in the last ten or fifteen years.

VACCINATION A POOR PROTECTION AGAINST DISEASE. FLAGRANT AND FREQUENT FAILURE TO PROTECT FROM SMALLPOX OR TYPHOID FEVER SHOWN BY MANY TYPICAL INSTANCES AT HOME AND ABROAD

At the outset I stated that I did not need to discuss the merits or demerits of vaccination in its alleged preventive or immunizing power against disease; and while these merits had been much exaggerated, yet, whatever they were, small or large, did not matter much, as the chief question was the danger of vaccination to health and life. This was also the chief question with the evil predecessors of modern vaccination, viz., the old smallpox inoculation and Jenner’s arm-to-arm vaccination, both of which were admitted to have some protective power against smallpox, yet both were finally condemned and prohibited by public opinion and penal law because they were found to be very dangerous to human health and life and actually caused more disease and death in the long run than they prevented.

I think I have already proved in the preceding pages, without any doubt, the serious dangers of modern bovine vaccination to human health and life, and that it now, in fact, often causes more deaths than smallpox, particularly in infants and school children, and has also been the cause of many dangerous epidemics among animals and mankind; and that for these capital reasons all compulsory vaccination should be absolutely abolished and prohibited, and voluntary vaccination only allowed.

In order, therefore, to show the meager or limited protective power of vaccination and its common, proved and admitted failure to protect from epidemic disease, I will now give several typical examples of this failure, both with the more common smallpox vaccination and the more recent typhoid vaccination, so as to complete this indictment against the medical malpractice of compulsory vaccination in all forms and leave nothing further which need be said on this subject in these pages to bring conviction to every reasonable mind that the barbarous medical scheme of compulsory disease is a very dangerous and fallacious mode of improving public health.

EXAMPLE FIRST. From Report of Registrar General of England for last great epidemic year of 1902:

Population of England and Wales 33,000,000
Total Deaths from Smallpox 2464
Vaccinated Cases 821
Unvaccinated Cases 791
Condition Not Stated 852
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2464

Surely there is no proof here that vaccination is much of a protection from smallpox, but rather the very reverse, because it is here shown that the majority of fatal cases are vaccinated.

EXAMPLE SECOND. During the last great smallpox epidemic in New York City in 1901 and 1902, the City Department of Health issued a printed circular to doctors, dated in 1902, which clearly acknowledged that the majority of all cases in this epidemic occurred in persons who had been successfully vaccinated a few years previously, and not in unvaccinated persons! This statement was signed by Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, Commissioner of Health, and Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, Chief Medical Officer, and was in part as follows:

“Experience in the recent outbreaks in New York City, contrary
to the general opinion, has shown that the majority of the
cases occurring here are not in unvaccinated persons, but
in those who have been vaccinated successfully some years
previously.”

Dr. Lederle, who signed this statement, is now a manufacturer of vaccines and serums in New York City, and Dr. Biggs is now the Health Commissioner of the State of New York at Albany.

EXAMPLE THIRD. Health Officer Raymond of Brooklyn stated in the _Brooklyn Eagle_ of June 5, 1902, that in the epidemic in Brooklyn in 1902, in the first half of that year, there were 357 cases of smallpox and that 322 of these cases were all vaccinated and only 35 cases unvaccinated!

Surely these last two examples, right at our own doors, show that vaccination is little or no protection, or, to say the least, is a very poor protection, from smallpox, or has such a limited duration or period of protection that it fades out very rapidly and needs to be renewed and repeated frequently, with great possible danger to health and life, as already proved, and admitted by medical authorities previously quoted, so that this “cure” not only often fails but may become finally worse than the “disease.”

EXAMPLE FOURTH. Smallpox in Germany, the best vaccinated country in Europe, as given in U. S. Public Health Report for January 23, 1914:

_Record of Smallpox Cases and Vaccinal Conditions for Three Years, 1908, 1909, 1910_

Total cases 917
Vaccinated and re-vaccinated 671
Unvaccinated 143
Unknown 28
Vaccinated unsuccessfully or too late 75
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917

Here we plainly see that in this much-vaccinated country--the pride of vaccinators--the cases of smallpox among the well vaccinated and re-vaccinated were _over four times_ the number of cases among the unvaccinated! Surely this example, with the two previous ones, clearly proves that vaccination is not very much of a protection! And surely there is nothing in these examples which any vaccinator can get much comfort from or use as a moral or medical justification of the shameful and evil practice of forcing compulsory vaccination upon the whole community under the shocking falsehood that it is the infallible and only protection against smallpox! And surely these forceful and humiliating facts give a stinging rebuke to this false contention.

EXAMPLE FIFTH. The fully vaccinated U. S. battle-ship _Ohio_ versus the unvaccinated City of Niagara Falls, N. Y.

A smallpox epidemic raged on this battle-ship at Guantanamo, Cuba, in December, 1913, and January, 1914, with these figures:

Population about 1000
Smallpox Cases 29
Deaths 5

Per contra, an epidemic existed in Niagara Falls from 1912 to 1914, inclusive, as follows:

Population 40,000
Total cases of Smallpox 550
Deaths from Smallpox 1
Deaths from Vaccination 3
Never vaccinated 483
Vaccinated over five years 26
Vaccinated for less than 5 years 5
Not stated 36
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550

Logical comparison of the vaccinated ship with the unvaccinated city, as follows:

The vaccinated ship had twenty-nine cases and five deaths per thousand population.

This same ratio of disease and death applied to the 40,000 population of Niagara Falls would call for 1160 cases and 200 deaths! Whereas the cases were actually only fourteen per thousand population and the deaths one fortieth of one person per thousand population, while the known deaths from vaccination were three!

It is surely not difficult to decide here as to which makes the worst showing, the vaccinated ship or the unvaccinated city! And while vaccinators are very fond of referring to this case of Niagara Falls as a great example of the virtue and need of vaccination, we think it must be obvious that the less they say of this case as compared with the vaccinated battle-ship _Ohio_, the better it will be for the cause of vaccination and the logic of the vaccinator. Here we see five deaths from smallpox in the well vaccinated battle-ship with 1000 population, and one death from smallpox in the unvaccinated city of 40,000 population, which is a ratio of mortality, on basis of population, _two hundred times greater_ in the well vaccinated battle-ship than in the unvaccinated city!

Besides this difference of smallpox cases and deaths in favor of the unvaccinated city, there were three deaths from vaccination in the Niagara Falls population or three times more than the deaths from smallpox!

For some of these facts as to Niagara Falls see the Report of the New York State Department of Health for 1914, page 102. The three alleged deaths from vaccination are denied, as usual, by the health officials, but we have convincing evidence to prove them as most probably due to vaccination. These three fatal cases were: Miss Hull, school teacher, vaccinated when she was suffering from kidney disease; Bernard Moran, a very old man, vaccinated when he was suffering from heart disease; and John George Chambers, a strong man, killed by a clear case of acute blood poisoning or septicemia with complications immediately following the vaccination and extending from the vaccination sore.

EXAMPLE SIXTH. The flagrant failure of Typhoid Vaccination in the U. S. Army in England and France.

The following extracts are taken from the Report of the Chief Surgeon of the A. E. F., printed in U. S. Public Health Reports for March 28, 1919, entitled: “Typhoid Vaccination No Substitute for Sanitary Precautions.” These extracts tell their story, most plainly and positively, as to the abject failure of typhoid vaccination to protect from disease where and when this protection is really needed, that is, where serious actual infection exists due to unsanitary conditions; and they also prove the necessity and superior value of sanitation as a protection from disease. I now quote these extracts verbatim as they appear in the official Report. They speak clearly for themselves and need no comment here to emphasize their great force and significance as a strong argument against compulsory vaccination from the vaccinators themselves.

“In July, 1918, a replacement unit consisting of 248 men from
Camp Cody, N. Mex., reached England with typhoid prevailing
extensively; 98 men, or 39.5 per cent., had typhoid, and the
case death-rate was 8.42 per cent.

“It was evident from the investigation that the men were
exposed to infection through contaminated drinking water while
en route to the port of embarkation in the United States. The
unit had been vaccinated a few months prior to the occurrence
of the epidemic. Most of the patients presented the typical
clinical features of typhoid.”

“In August, 1916, a small but severe epidemic occurred in a
detachment of Engineer troops stationed at Bazoilles. In this
unit fifteen cases of typhoid occurred, with a death-rate
approximating ten per cent.”

“Following the offensive in the Argonne sector, typhoid and
paratyphoid began to be reported from practically all divisions
engaged in that offensive. It is quite evident that the initial
cases were due in large part to drinking infected water.”

“More than 300 cases of typhoid-paratyphoid may be attributed
to the Argonne offensive. Eight hundred and seventy-four
typhoids and paratyphoids have been reported in the American
Expeditionary Forces since October 1, 1918.”

“A small but severe epidemic occurred in the Joinville
concentration area in December and January. In a group of
Medical Department units (evacuation and mobile hospitals
and sanitary trains) concentrated there seventy-five cases
occurred, with a case death-rate of approximately twenty per
cent.”

“The records of this office show that patients with typhoid
have passed successively through camp, field, evacuation, and
base hospitals without any documentary evidence that typhoid or
paratyphoid was even suspected. There are records of a stay of
two weeks or more in a single base hospital without diagnosis,
and not a few records are on file showing that it remained for
the pathologist to make the diagnosis at the autopsy table.”

“The vaccinated individual protected against general systemic
infection may still act as a carrier of typhoid infection,
and frequently shows clinical manifestations of local disease
of some portion of the gastrointestinal tract, while the
characteristic symptom complex of typhoid fever due to general
infection, namely, continued fever, rose spots, and enlarged
spleen, may be wholly absent.”

“Many cases originally diagnosed as influenza in the American
Expeditionary Forces have subsequently proven to be typhoid.”

“Intestinal types of supposed influenza should always be
considered as possible typhoid until proven otherwise.”

“The frequency with which atypical, mild, unrecognized cases
of typhoid and paratyphoid fever has occurred in the American
Expeditionary Forces among vaccinated men makes it absolutely
essential to surround all such cases of undetermined fever with
the same precautions which it is found necessary to apply to
established typhoid or paratyphoid patients, to avoid contact
infections in the wards among other patients and hospital
personnel.”

“Several protocols have been received in which the complete
pathological and bacteriological pictures of typhoid fever were
recorded but the cause of death was entered as ‘peritonitis,’
‘perforation of the intestine,’ ‘broncho-pneumonia,’ ‘acute
enterocolitis.’”

“Typhoid fever is increasing in the American Expeditionary
Forces--so are the paratyphoid fevers.”

“Vaccination is a partial protection only and must be
reinforced by sanitary measures.”

It will be noted that not only does the above official Report contain a frank, full, and free admission of the outright and inexcusable failure of typhoid vaccination to protect from typhoid fever where it is most needed, viz., where “sanitary precautions” do not exist, but it also clearly shows some other serious evils which I have repeatedly charged to the practice of compulsory vaccination, viz., it shows how frequently false diagnoses are made of vaccinated cases, either wilfully or inadvertently, so as to conceal the actual occurrence of typhoid fever in vaccinated men and report it as some other disease, such as “Influenza,” etc., and thus conceal the failures of vaccination. It also shows that many cases of death from typhoid fever in vaccinated men are reported as not due to this disease but to some of its terminals or complications such as “Peritonitis,” “Broncho-Pneumonia,” “Enterocolitis,” etc. By these mistaken, or wilfully false, reports, the failures, dangers and fatalities of vaccination are often concealed and denied, thus verifying my charge of serious medical falsification in these matters, which I have openly and publicly stated for years past and challenged denial or disproof.

EXAMPLE SEVENTH. Failure of Typhoid Vaccination in the U. S. Army in America.

In the _Journal of the American Medical Association_ for February 15, 1919, there is a report of a bad epidemic of Typhoid Fever which occurred among the vaccinated men in Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, in June, 1918. In this case infection is reported to have come from ice cream which the men had eaten, and the rather pitiable and ridiculous excuse is given for the failure of the vaccination in this case, that the infection in the ice cream was so virulent or in such “massive doses” that the protective power of the vaccination was not sufficient to overcome such “massive” infection, and hence the vaccination failed to protect the men and they succumbed to the disease, notwithstanding their extensive and repeated vaccination! This is, of course, another and equally positive admission of the failure of typhoid vaccination, but, unlike the previous example, it is a rather ridiculous or farcical admission, as it attempts to excuse the failure by saying that the “doses” of infection in the ice cream were so “massive” that the vaccination was overpowered and could not be expected to overcome such odds! In other words, vaccination will protect you where there is no dangerous or serious infection to be guarded against, but will fail where any serious or “massive” doses of infection are present! This is equivalent to saying that vaccination is a good policeman for any town where there are no lawbreakers and no disorder, but is no good where there is any serious crime, violence or danger. Vaccination, we are thus told, is a good bulletproof armor provided you shoot only pop-guns against it, but it is no good to resist real pistol or rifle balls! This is just about what opponents of compulsory vaccination have been contending for years, and this is therefore one of the chief reasons why we now contend that no such ineffective, unreliable and dangerous remedy should be forced on any person, child or adult, against free will and consent.

SUMMING UP--THE CASE PROVED

To sum up briefly, I think it may now be seen that our several cardinal points against the evils of Compulsory Vaccination have been proved by impregnable legal, medical and historical facts and out of the mouth of high authorities on vaccination. These cardinal points may be stated in seven numbers as follows:

FIRST: The illegality and unconstitutionality of all compulsory
vaccination and its gross violation of Medical Freedom and
Bodily Sanctity, which are unalienable American rights equal
with Religious Freedom.

SECOND: The medical barbarism and malpractice of all compulsory
medicine and compulsory disease as being opposed to all true
standards of medical ethics and logic.

THIRD: The poor protective power of vaccination, which gives no
immunity from smallpox except for short periods of a few months
or a year and requires frequent repetition, which is obviously
ineffective as a protection and dangerous as a remedy.

FOURTH: That sanitation, isolation and hygiene have been and
are the chief means of preventing and suppressing smallpox
epidemics independent of vaccination.

FIFTH: That vaccination is very dangerous to health and life,
causes epidemics in animals and mankind and is oftentimes more
fatal than smallpox and now causes more deaths than smallpox.

SIXTH: That vaccinating doctors and health officials most
shamefully deny and conceal injuries and deaths from
vaccination and falsify our vital statistics accordingly.

SEVENTH: That the practice of inflicting on the human body a
compulsory medical disease, which is dangerous to health and
life and causes many deaths every year, is obviously illegal
and a medical crime on the people which must be suppressed.

CONCLUSION

As soon, therefore, as this crushing fact of the great danger of vaccination to human health and life enters the mind and conscience of the mass of the people, and is fully grasped by the legislative, the judicial and the executive minds of the country--from whom it has been so long concealed by medical falsehood in high places--this enlightenment will, I firmly believe, result in the permanent abolishment of all compulsory vaccination, if not in the penal prohibition of general vaccination, as being now more dangerous than natural smallpox; and to that great fact and to this final and prophetic thought, Mr. President, I ask your careful attention in closing this exposure of vaccination horrors and medical mendacities.

Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. M. HIGGINS

Dated at 271 Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
U. S. Constitution Day,
September 17, 1919.

AMERICANISMS

MEDICAL FREEDOM IS AN UNALIENABLE
AMERICAN RIGHT

MEDICAL COMPULSION,
LIKE RELIGIOUS COMPULSION, IS UN-AMERICAN
AND MUST BE ABOLISHED

NO GOVERNMENT WITHOUT CONSENT
OF THE GOVERNED

NO MEDICATION WITHOUT CONSENT
OF THE PATIENT

NO COMPULSORY VACCINATION

NO COMPULSORY INFLICTION OF DISEASE

“IN THE DISCARD”

“The world has just destroyed the arbitrary force of a military
junta. It will live under no other. All that is arbitrary and
coercive is in the discard. Those who seek to employ it will
only prepare their own destruction.” President Wilson, in
Message to Congress, August 8, 1919.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See U. S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin 91, Dec., 1913. Also “Preventive Medicine,” by Dr. Rosenau, 1914, page 410.

[2] See U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin, Oct., 1914, page 591, Smallpox on Battleship _Ohio_ confounded with Influenza.

[3] This subject of Alimentary Freedom as an unalienable right of the people in time of peace has been treated in a separate pamphlet issued November 25, 1919, entitled “Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs.”

[4] A change has recently been made in the law in England whereby the medical profession obtains control of the Ministry of Health, which is believed to be a change for the worse; and this illustrates the constant effort of the profession to increase its power over the people and to control all health matters, which, for the best interests of the public, it should not be allowed to do.

[5] The term “pemphigus” means a disease with _bubbles_ or _blisters_.

[6] See eruption in Fig. 12.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

On page 11, “COMPULSORY DISEASE” has been corrected to “COMPULSORY VACCINATION” as per the table of contents.

Italics are represented thus _italic_.