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P., says:-The law u-hkh injluts paiaUy \fler feiuiljy en a parent '^•'10 IS nmmllms to have hit chiUvacctnaled is momtrous, and ou^^ht to l,e repealed. ' -^ V mi ^giving isJt of an ■ . . /'"." '™'/:'6' sympaJh,se luilh, and ez>en applawi, a faihcr u-lui, with ihe presuthci dread and v. in „smu,d,s willing to snhmit to multiplied jmiieal p/naUiet rather limn expose his'^ MLi la the rh injeetion so ghastly as raeeinatian.—HiR Thomas Watson, M. I>. I'. K. c. s., I.oii.lon, KiiL-lainl I have seen hundreds of children killed hy Vaeeination.—\)\^. WM. lllicilMAN, M.li.C.S. Lwi.luii, Ijij,'. I am ttrongly opposed to Compulsory V'aecinatiou.—\\v.v.\.v.\.ius t-llbrls will be made at Ihe next liieeliriKnrthe I'rovinciul I^.j;islature to imliree you to enact n law making vaccination cotnim!sor>\ I respeclfolly snhrait ihat this measure is both unjust and unnecessary. Permit me tu slate a few reasons why vaccination tihoulcl not be enforced : VitCFlnittlon D»L>N X»t Afrord Proterlinn from Nninll-Pox. This nroDosilion is self evident, from the fact Ihat thousands of vaccinated peonl^ die ofsmall-pov, and tens of thousands of vaccinated [Hjople have the disease in all its form*. Whoevi:rhis c-loselv watched Ihe course o'' the small.pox epuh-mic tn Montn-il fr.iui which we have just eniereed must <:.in -hide th u i-ic. ;..ir,>n is ,,'le^tr iiseliss as a pmlcclion from SUM Ipnv, Much .)f wh.il h.s Iranspired in our smillpox hospi. t.ds his hcen suppressed, esneciallywhilever was likely lonper- ""i I"'-''''"*' ^^^ proEress of vaccination, which has proved a Soldmharsesi m ihe vaccinators. But notwilhstandins the €s>.is|,.rncv ..f >il,„v. ro'iivn) „ f„„ .,m.-in1 r.p...^. l>rci.'mnl wilh proof ag linst v.accination. an I provini; beyond question (hat a lartte proporlion of the patietits admitted into our siu.illniix hospitals had been v.accinated, and ihat manv of them died, some «iih l:vK, and others with three vaccine marks upon llieir bodies. I refi-r In the ofhcinl report from ih- " Civic H,5sp:ial." dnted AuL'usl irth, ISS.'!: "(rp to ihisd.ite, l.rt palienis sufTerini; from smallpox h.ivc been admilled ii. ihe Civic Hosnilal .■ of these «eye"ty-three were vaccinated, M had a«6- mark. 13 /a'.> marks, and i tht-ee marks." I ref-r lo ihe cilTlc! d rcunrl from " St. Rorh's Hosnilal," dal.d 0.t.>l,er22i-,d.lH,s.'i ; " >:-,-.-,iber of patienls admilled since Aprd, iisd; of thise. onn hundred and ninety- seven were vaccinated!" I refer tothc official rcnirl from "Si. Camllle's Hospllal." Novemlu-r Isl M Tth, ISS.'S : •' riicrc are now in this hospital l.^S smallpov palieuls ; „r ihese. nlnrtv.foiif- ivcre ■■aecinatrd. AmonK the il.-ad .-.re l-.irhe -.nlw -M-r,- -.aicinnlrd." I refer to Ihe official rrnort from " Si. Saviour's Hospital.'' Aov. Ki lo Tth, Is.S.'i; "Tliirleen smallpox palirnls were ad- juuied ; of Ihese. nine were vaccinated and /o«»- (only) unvacciuaU'd.*' I refer lo the offici.al report from " Crystal Tnlacc Hnsphal '' November 'ieth up lo and in- b> lini Doc. 5th, IHxri : " Number of palienis a.lmiiied, .lO ; of Ihese, nineteen were vaccinated." I r-'for to tlip ofljcial report from "Si. Saviour's Hospital," sej-oiKl report. November S.Slh up lo and incllidini December (ilh, IS-i.T: " Nuniher of piiieius admilleUl : of these, four bear evidence of vaccination, and two were not vaccinated. 1 he lernble snnllpox epidemic from which we have just emerqed Is friiiifiil in vitally impnrtant lessons which we shoulil seriously heed. The first lesson is thai thorouuh sanltfltlon is the only known available measure for ihe nrev.niii.ii of^inall. po.v epidemics. Thesccondis, that Vaccination isuHerlv useies.saiid affords no protection whatever ,aBa!nsl sm.all- pox ; for proof we refer to the official reports from our smallpov hovpjials, which show llial scores of thorou([hlv vaccinated people have been .slricl-e'i wilh sm.allnox : and further, that manv have died from smallpox, who had one, twO and three vaccine marks on their bodies. The third is. thai vaccination often results in Ihe serious impairment ofheallh, and sometimes picbi'es loathsome and lifelone diseases of the blood, the skin "" facts inconleslably prove. In his " Report on Small-pox Epidemics in Berlin, (Ceimany), ill 1S71, Privy Councillor, Or. Muller, aives the followini; offiiialteslimoHv: Out of :l,fi.V2 cases of deaths bv smallpox recorded in Ifcrlli. in !X71, 4S4 vere „f rnci'nnictf chiUrnt finiltr fire yrats «/ai;e, occurring as follows, and yielding the roUowing iKTCetilages : Case^ of .Small-pox in Vac- cinated Children. Cndcr 1 year 17fl Under 2 years 2ns Under 'i years ilt.") Under 4 years 244 Under .') years l".^ l.VJl Ilealhs of sane, 91) 127 111 78 m Percent, of Deaths. 6A.»a 4'J.82 .S7.02 34.WI 811.42 40. OS Total This record is fr ,m a recent work of Ihe (treat statistician, Dr. Kolb, of Muniidi, and affords iinunswerahle proof of the worthlessnes.s of v.iccinalion as a proleclion from smallpox. See also Pavtiaiiientary Ketiirns : attii Ktturns of Registrar- Crnerixl of England : and Er'tdence giitn be/arc Committee or hr:lish Home o/CommoKs, 1SU7.) H«W VACCIMATIIIN HAS "sTAMfEIloUT" SMALU-FOX IN KKGI.ANU AND WALES. V ss'.a In c 1 u« on was made compulsory by ha of Parliament in Ihe r H-S : and again in 18«7, and still more stringent in 1871. ,. — ngent ... I.s.i.T uehave had three epidemics of sma1l-pox, each norc severe than the one [ireceding. X>eaths from sma11-i»x 14.1i44 'iO.Ofilt 4.840 I I..* iMiif. ft* — ftrt, 21. i«ii:t_ii4 . n.'i, n.l. isTO 71 aeas; of population from Isl to 2d epidemic 7 per cent. Increase of small pov in the same period, nearly . . 50 per cent. Increase ofnopulilion from 2d to 3d epidemic, .. 10 per cent! Increase of smallpox in ihe same period 120percent Deaths from smallnox in the first ten >-ears.ifterthe enforcement of vaccinalion. l'*54 to 18fl:i a^.-'ilfi In the second ten years, l.sli4 to 1873 .!.....'.'!.'...,,'.. .70^458 Fromn teller t< tlie Right Hon. O. Sclaler lioolh, M. P.. lebruary, 1.S77. liy C. T. Pcarcc, M. R. C. S. LATEST Ol-FICIA L EVlllENCE Ol" Till! RKSILTS OK VACCINATION IN LONPON. loll" '■'-i''"''''''-':'^"'"'''!! ill liis Aitniml Xummarv for Ihe yeir 1880, tabidaies the small-pox mort.alilv of London for the last SO years as follows : Decades. F.slim.atcd mciii Sm.all-pox pooulation. Dealhs. I8.'ii-rn, 2.r.70,48i) 7 liio l*"-"0, 3,018. lin 8 347 '871 -80. 3,46«,48« 15,643 It is absurd lo say, in ihe face of these returns, that vaccin- .-ilion has .aved ihousanils of lives, or th.at the niortabu would have he'-n greater bul for vacclnalion, or that the dealhs accrue, as Dr. W. 11. Carpeiiler maintains, from the " unvaccinated residuum, seeing thai in the first decade, when but few, com- paratively, uere varciualed, the morlalily was not half as great as in the l.ist, when 8.1 per cent of Ihe infant population had received ihe henelit of the state-endowed prophyl.aclic. These lads 'counled wilh ihe additional one Ihat during the 2IJ weeks, pikIiuk Julv 2, 1.835 persons died in London of small, pox, 422 of wh. mi were under five yearsof age, show an enor- mous iiiciease of sui.il|.pox\ are ulierly subversive of the claims of v.accinallnn. 1 will cl.se ihis section of evidence by Ihe following two refer- en.- s an i leave ihein lo speak for themselves : "Of the OFiO cases of smoll-pox, 870. or 1)1.5 per cent of the whole cases have been vaccinalej."— .I/«ri,i«'j Retort of High- K-nte llox^ilat /or 1871. "There wi're 43 cases treated in Ihe Hromley hospital, hclween April 2,-1 .and June 29. Of confluent small-lxix. there were 10 cases; of discrete, 13; of modified. 13. All the cases had been vacclnated-three revac- Clnated."~A. Xkolson. /,. A'. C. /•., i.aneet, Aiis'll, 1881. H. VKFclnntlon noos Not .'WItiKatc Hmnll-Pos. In pruof of Ibis siati'incrl, ii is onlv necessary to stale thai all the smallpox h..spii,d returns, ;,./(/,/, ,,n;r'lhe whole period of nil efidewie, show an average death-r.ate of 18 per cent, h-ing as high as in the l.a.st cenl.iry before vaccination was inlriiduced. I have h.ad ahundaiit proof afforded in my own personal experience wilh siii.allpox ihal vaccination does not mitigate siiia pox, for I have seen as bad and as malignant cases of small. pox ill the vaccliciied a. in the unvaccinated. hundreds nf » loin died, allhoiigh Ihry were supposed to he protected. In nildilioii lo ihis I have known many persons vaccinated into smallpox, and aftervards die of the dii«a.sc. .(] III. ViK't'liiutioii i'oiiiiniiiilrntCN l» llio llciillhy iiiiiiij' IllHPiiiipa inori- I.onlUN<>ino iind t'nlnl thiiii Niniii|.|M>x. t)r. \y. J. (■..llins fnr M years I'„l,li,- WuxmUur of I.imdon.' iMiKlaiul, lestifie.l hcfori: n (.oinnultoc of Ilit llritish hiiiisp ,j( commons that he h.i.l "often hcen tliilclreii wuli sj nliiliiii- eruptions ancr vaLcmation whose pnr.-ms »cre frte from lahit." He teslihcd also that scrofnia. convulsions, abscess, Uriirium, erysipelas ari.l phagedenic nliers, pneuT,-onia, diurihiia and ..«: ;-'"ir i'*' "9 "";?"« "ntommoii erisninn after vaccination. Sir Cnluig Kardly died from pyaimia after rcvaccinalion." Atlnhu es llie increase of scarl-l fevei and measles to vacin. nlion. Ilr. Lolhns "has vaccinated thousands, but at hist abandoned tlie practice and save up al least ^[.00 a year 1. >ing. Dr. I'carcc— Iheeii yso I, , .eminent Enijlish slatislician and writer on .smallpox and vaccination-connrms ihe testimony of |lr. C-ollin-, and quotes several eminent aulhoritics who have observed much more. Indeeil, his le.stimony beforethe committee is so start ling hoiiesly even his enemies confirm. )r. Jonalhan, Hutchinson, F. R. C. S., England, says, . I here can be no doubt that the danger in liansmitling syphilis IS n re.ll and important one." Dr. De I'atI, P.iris, reported Jr,0 of such ca.ses to the French academy of medicine. ^ Dr. Mallard, of the local government board of London, s,ays : , mere arc numerous cases on record to prove that the vaccine virus and syphilitic virus may be inlroduccil at the same spot bv the .s.ame puncture of the v.accin.iting hncel." In addition to the above a volume could be filled with the opini.jns of leading physicians in all parts of the civilized world, showing that many diseases of ihe skin, the eyes, the t;iis, and me l.irms, are imparted by v.aciine virus. It IS high, lime in the interet of humanity and science, losloo VALLlNh VIKI'S, /'orit is ,. ,t lymph, is cunsiitmed of hlood corpuscles in projjress of de trurlive fermentation; ami r that reason alone, it is a physiol, ;ical crime to infuse it into I /t, , 1 ,? ■■','""""" ^'"S- ►'linfii >■■<= •■•Iso present in tvi,v//k M»-,«, in the form of small roumi ce.'s, which have molecular movements. 1 hese cells are in a state of /-ermrn/ or zymosis, ami are the miomorci Ttiaina- or pathogenic globular bacteria. I nese b.-irteria are found in l.irge numbers in f,i,,/»,- vvVn.(, ol which Ihey are nut only the .ictive element, bnl the f.i tor i.i transpl.-inting filthy diseases of the M.iod and skin in the human uony. Ihli vims or i,>rruf/i„x it obtained by imssing small- 1.0.V through cattle as follow., : A c.df or heifer is inoculated on Is shaved abdomeu in about 00 places. Upon the i unctures thus made resu;',-! form. The ve^icles run tiicirdue course and the vaccine ririis which Ihey contain is ready for use in about SIX uays, for use, namely, from the living animal f.>r the ,iurpose of yaccinatin-; human victims. IVuly this mmne Tin,., h n poisonous ichor, a heterogeneous sublancc, a blood-poi-on by me.yis of which the germ ofnumberless diseases is planled which destroy the lives of thousands niMin Ibousanils of our race. IHi» It ■» ol>|*c7taU lu thin thtit It Is only liumniilipwcl vliim tl.nt can give those d.ingerous and disgusting diseases; and tli.il we are not m any danger from them with calf lymph or bovine virus. ,„'i' '"' "**'="''''''''* '■"•"• Tbe London /.«»,■.■/ of June 22, ISiS, says: " Tlus notion lliiil aninial lym/>h cmid he tree from changes o/sy/iliHilic cnnlaiiiinalion is so fallacious tllal -o't are siirfrised to Sfe nr. Martin of Boston, Mass., rrtrmliict it." I, r-c '^■=™''""'. M.D., of the University of l.eipsic, says: f.ightecn school girls aveiaging 12 years of age, were revac- cinated, and thereby syphilised. and some of them died. ' ' Vet the lymph, the svphilltic lymph, used in this case, w-as obtained from the Official Royal KM.iblishmciit for the new regenerated ' or *animaii/cd ' vaccine lymtib." A recent experience has created a profound and painful in- lerest throuihout (".ermany. On the 17th June, 18(t.i, on the peninsular Wittow, Isle of Riigen, seventy-nine children were vaccinated with hiimaiiiied Ihynios lymph, obtained from Ihe Royal Vaccine Institution, Stettin, and with three exceptions all were attacked in the second week after the operation with a pustular eruption. 'I'he vaccinated children commnnicated the infection f/w/>c//i,-u CoMlaf;iosal to their parents, brothers and sisters, and ihe number of sufferers rose to SSOoiit of a population of 5,000. The disea-e, writes Dr. Koelher, .Medical Adviser to the Imperial (iovernment, was conveyed by the vaccination, hut according to a most searching official investi- gation, the vaccinifors were found to be free frimi eruption. Dr. koehler says no adults died, and he omits to stale the number of fatalities amonijst children. Dr. Schw.ibe, of l.eipsic, referring to the terrible mischief created by this serious occurrence, says: "At Jast, after ten years of the Imperial Law of 1S74, central institutes for Ihe regeneration of cow-lymph by means of calves have been organized by (Jovernnient, because the mischief ilone by hiinianized lymph can no longer be denied. And now comes the published account of widespread dise.ise audi infection caused by v.iccinnating with this regciier.iteJ lymph obtained from a Royal Central Institution '" In the island of .Madeira, Dr. Julius Ooldschmidt, himself a believer in v.iccitiation, says that from 1871 lo 187:1 an epidemic of smallpox carried offlOO? inhabitants, which would represent .ibout 7,000 cases, a large number in a population of 120,000. 1 his serious tnnlmak^t'.is />rireiM /lya ,^'eaeral n-.ritctination 0/ Ihe fopulation, in ■H'liith I'Oth vaceinatej ami umiaccinatej were attacknl and Jrstroveil. „ ">■• K. Ilrudenell Carter (f. R. C S., I'.nijlai.d,) thinks that syphilitic contaniiuation by vaccine lymph is by no means an unusual occurrence." Dr. Crcighton, of Cambridge Universily, Kngl.ind, gives the history of 12 cases of bovine li.berctilosi.s (consumption) in linman Imin's. (.See also evidence of Drs. Oartli, Wilkinson, Bakewell, F.pps, and many other eminent English and Euro- pean physicians as to the terrible consequences that often result from vaccination. I have seen children die from corrosive ulcers prodoced by vaccination. I saw two children rendcreil blind for life by vaccination; one of these children had its eyes literally eaten out of Its bead by the disease. I know of ma»v c-ases ofsevere erysipebis following vaccination, one of which was fatal. I know cf icverai cases of v.icciualiou followe.l Ipv such serious consequences as lo necessitate amputation of the arm to save Ihe lives of Us victims. IV. Tarciiindoii Nkaiild irot b« C«in|>nlHnry, (1.) Because no man, and no «« of men, have any riyhl lo (VO///C/ any person lo undergo any surgical openition whatever ag.iiusi his or her will, (2.) Ilecaiise of ihe iuiiuent danger of being afflicted with a loathsome disease which may become hcredilary, or which may prove fatal. ■ (!t.) Itecaiise i„> vaccine virus can be proved free from disease. (4.) Because it is iriati iiial empiricism, unwarranted either in science or by the results nf experience. (11.) Ilecause it Is a fraud and decep- tion, ffl.> Ilecause those who advocate it are in absolute ignor- ance of what will follow it. (7.) Hecause il is one of the worst forms of quacker;^ supported by the state that enforces it. (H.) Hecause it is an injustice to those who refuse to comply with 11, in that it exrtndes them from the benefits of our public edncatiimal institutions, and condemns to illiteracy those who will not risk being physicially injured or diseased. (^.),Hecau«e it is an outrage on personal liberty and the nat- ural rights of man. No country can be called free, when a man has iiot perfect control over his own health, bodilv. nienlal an I phydcal. I'he legislature has no more right lo forbid Virtue and health ih.m it has tocommaud vice and disease, (10.) Hecause human beings have certain n;iiiir.il, es-enti.,!, inalienable.^ undying rights which inhere in and grow out of their constitutions as humr.n beings. 'I'bese natural rights shoidil be sacred from .hetoticli of alt persons, and ought esp.;c- inllvlo be prutected against the compulsory enforceuienl of any shifting medical dogma or empirical treatment of small-pox, and should be absolutely free from legislalive encrouchllient ii)ion personal liberty and the right of private iudgment. All men have_ an equal right to their respectiv'e religious opinions and practices : why should they not all have an equal right lo their respective medical opinions and practices? The above reasons are supp.irtcd by statesmen, scientists, physicians and others, in overwhelming numbers, and it is false to s.iy that the vast m.iiority of intelligent and educated pln'sicians approve of vaccination. It is political physicians who desire the passage of this law, which meins an aj- propriation to carry out its provisions, and which appropriation foes into their pockets. Enact this law and furnish money to pay ingenious statisticians for misrepresenting facts and figures to bolster up a medical fraud, and increased demands will he made on the treasury to enrich the only persons tienefited bv varcipation— the doctors. Enact this law and yon create a medical despotism in comparison to which the priestly despotisms of the past aie but .is molehills lo.mountains. It is not bv "st:ite.qiiackery," hut by sanitary science, and personal hygiene, that epidemics vi smallpox are to be prevented. It is argued that only a few "know-notln'ngs" and " nobodies*' oppose vaccinalion, and that a great in.ijority of the niedic;il men are in its favour. 'ITiis is untrue, but were it as true as it is false it would not alter l\\&/acts. _Tlie "great inniirity" f.jniosed Harvey'.s discovery of the circulation of the bloo(l fiir 40 years. The "great maj'irity " bled the people for a century and sluightered thousands in the sick-rottni. . The "great majority" inocidntefl the jieopfe with small-rox till, as now by vaccination, they killed thousands by spreading small-pox and death, out, the flesh dioppetl off the bones, and tlie bones" themsei\-es crumbled into dust. The "great m.ijority" have bitterly opposed every real and scientific advance in medicine : thev hive filled the worhl with incurable diseases and rendered "quackerv " respectable by the ontr.igeoiis ^«/7f^-^rr of the/>-,i,/I'.rj/,o/ itsel/". disgusting all sen- sihle and thnughinil men by their hig.itry, chicanery and frauvl, the king of which U—r-arrination. The burning rpiestion of to-day is Ihr.l (vf compulsory vaccin- ation. The strength of its defenders lies in angry abuse of opponents, and the invoealion of the civil pow?r lo silence :\m\ crush them by threats, fines and imiirisonnient. The agitation iigainst vaccinalion is based vm truth, justice and liberty, a trin- ity which must prevail. Already in England the law hasb-conie a dead letter in many large towns from sheer impossibility of theaiithinities to enforce it : in many others mutual defence societies are formed lo nay the fines of those prosecuted, and thus to selthe hated law at defiance. The anti-vaccination movement is gaining power and influence among the most intel- ligent classes in Europe. In England fifty-two members pledged lo vote for the .ibolition of compulsory vaccinalion have been elected to the present house of commons, and eight others have promised to vote for a conscience clause— that is. the exemption of parents who shall make a formal declaration that Ihey serious- ly obiect to vaccination, and shall thereon have their children registered as unvaccinated. If the press of Canada would allow a fair discussion of Ihe vaccination i)uestion, the delusion would not last another five years. It is my belief , based on careful scientific inquiry ard suiiportrd by .in experience derived from twenty-yekrs' medical practice, (!) that vaci-ination is an active factor in propacating smallpox, hv creating a susceptibility fothe rlisease (vaccine nUS being smallpox at its ha.se\ I jiossess abundant nroof that scores of infant children were vaccin- ated directly into smalloox during the l.ne ei.:. demic in this cUv. (2) That vaccination is an .ict.ve factor in germinalnig scarlatina, measles, chicken-pox, and other diseases of the zymotic class, (tl) That vaccination is the cause of many fihhy diseases of the skin, hair, nails and blood. r.KNTI.KMRN— I should be false to n.yself, and (al.se to the best interests of humanity did T not record my conviction, based on irrefutable facts, that vaccination is an unmitigated curse, anil the most destructive medical delusion which has ever iifllicted the hum.in race. In the interest cf humanity, in the interest of beallli, purity and truth, in the interest of true .science, on behalfof tens of thousands of innocimt and helpless children, I ask you, lo refuse to blot Ihe statute books of this Province, with a law fraught with such dire and everlasting evil lo our innocent babes, as this proposed law for the compubsory vaccination of infant chiMren. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Yours, with great respect, ALlJtAMBlS yt. BOSS, w B., Membe'ofthc ( oll,-t;ts of I'liysicians and Surf;eo«sof the Prmnccs o/Qiiehcc, Ontario and Mmnitoba. Mo.NTREAL, March lOiii, 1886. U-