The vaccine watchman / W.D. Stokes.

  • Stokes, W. D.
Date:
[1888?]
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Credit: The vaccine watchman / W.D. Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pounds every year. Small-pox, when taken in a natural way by infection cannot be so dangerous as when inoculated into the body by vaccination, which is inoculation. Some honest physicians, who were public vaccinators, have given up the practice with disgust, and are now spending time and money to make known the awful effects of vaccination. Many found that it caused small-pox, consumption, and other diseases, which resulted in death. Dr. Collins writes as follows. A lady had herself vaccinated, it produced the worst form of small-pox, which proved fatal. Dr. Collins vaccinated a child ; a few days after, the child was taken with small-pox and died. This same physician says that there were eight children vaccinated, and soon after vaccination small-pox appeared, and on the ninth day of the disease, with one exception, all died. These are his own words. “ I have met with many similar cases during certain epidemic outbreaks of the small-pox, especially when I have inoculated with fresh lymph from the cow, which, by the way, is obtained by first passing the small-pox virus through the body of the animal, and is then said to possess the power of rendering the human body unsusceptible to small-pox contagion, but which, in reality, is often the means of giving the disease it is supposed to prevent.” (Dr. Collins, M.D., M.R.C.S., England.) This is a murderous practice, philosophically viewed. One, not only unnatural and disgusting, but an insult to common sense.—W. D. S. Many physicians say that the filthy practice of inoculating cows with small-pox is carried on in other countries to keep up this money-making business. It looks very much like it. For in Germany the vaccinating law is strictly enforced. The child is vaccinated in infancy, vaccinated at school age, vaccinated again in case of epidemic or an outbreak of small-pox, and the males are vac¬ cinated again on joining the army. See, in spite of this flimsy barricade of double and triple vaccination, one million of Germans were struck with small-pox