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PREFACE
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WHAT DOES VACCINATION DO TO THE BODY? Letter from Dr. Milton Fried, D. C.,
VACCINE CANNOT BE MADE SAFE Letter from mother whose child was killed by salk
CASE HISTORIES vaccine
CHAPTER 8: DEATHS FROM VACCINATION Nashville Banner, June 13, 1959 A FATHER ASKS:
FIVE HUNDRED KILLED BY VACCINATION IN FIVE "ARE WE GUINEA PIGS?"
MONTHS IN U. S.
SOLDIERS DISABLED AND KILLED BY TENNESSEE IS TO HAVE ANOTHER MONKEY
VACCINATION TRIAL
PHOTOGRAPHS OF VICTIMS OF VACCINATION ONLY THIS TIME IT’S OVER MONKEY JUICE
VACCINATION DEATHS NOT REPORTED BEN GAMBLE, Edenwold Road, Nashville, Tenn.
VACCINATION DEATHS IN COLORADOCHAPTER 7: THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
OTHER DISEASES CAUSED BY VACCINATION Letter to Judge Homer B. Weimar from Duon Miller,
GOVERNMENT REPORTS REVEAL MORE DEATHS 1959
FROM VACCINATION THAN FROM SMALLPOX
30,438 SOLDIERS WERE STRICKEN BY
The Nashville Banner, Thurs., July 9, 1959 SALK
VACCINATION DISEASE
SHOTS BLAMED BY POLIO VICTIM’S FATHER
DEFECTIVE TEETH AND EYESIGHT TRACED TO
VACCINATION
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE CAUSED BY Address by Miss Lily Loat January, 1927.
VACCINATION
WHAT OTHER AUTHORITIES SAY ABOUT LETTER TO GOVERNOR KNIGHT from E McBean
VACCINATION AND DISEASE 1956
VACCINATION INCREASES COMMON DISEASES VACCINE ECONOMICS — as quoted by AMERICAN
SUCH AS MEASLES INFLUENZA, CHICKEN-POX, CAPSULE NEWS, Washington, D. C. February 9,
MUMPS, SCARLET FEVER, ETC 1957.
CITY SURVEY BEFORE AND AFTER VACCINATION
SHOWS INCREASE IN DISEASE "WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE" By Dr. T. M.
CHART SHOWING INCREASE IN DISEASE BEFORE Schippell, N. D.
AND AFTER VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
FALSIFIED SMALLPOX REPORTS
POST-WAR GERMANY REVEALS TRUTH ABOUT THE POLIO MUDDLE---THE NATIONAL HEALTH
VACCINATION FEDERATION BULLETIN 1959
WHAT DOES VACCINATION DO TO THE BODY?
VACCINE CANNOT BE MADE SAFE
CASE HISTORIES
The purpose of this volume is to provide a working reference of various statements regarding
vaccination and not to offer a "cure" of any specific disease in any specific individual.
Preconceived opinions regarding vaccination will not be changed overnight nor by the reading
of a single book. Herein are the opinions of many great scientists and doctors (of many
schools). Many have spent a life-time of research—of trial and error before making their
statements. The reader has the privilege to accept or to reject the statements after due
deliberation.
Thus we feel this volume should not be considered a dangerous book for the layman but a
thought-provoking treatise.
The Publisher.
PREFACE
For the past 2000 years physicians have been looking in the wrong direction for the cure of
disease. Their worse than useless practice of killing germs with poison drugs has never — and
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During the Dark Ages, before the introduction of improved nutrition and sanitation, the world
was intermittently visited with epidemics of smallpox. The cause was stubbornly ignored and
the seeds for more disease were sown when vaccination was brought into popular use. This
infusion of poison injected into the blood stream of the masses only served to intensify the
disease in some cases, suppress the symptoms in others and create new and more serious
diseases in still others. So, with the passing of years we have seen this misbegotten child of
ignorance grow into a Frankenstein monster of immense proportions that moves relentlessly
forward, grinding under foot the multitudes that throng its path.
Through the lethal power of this poisoned needle, the simple zymotic (contagious) diseases
of the past have been devolved into the horrors of the present — our terrifying and expanding
crop of "killer diseases". Many of these strange "mystery diseases" that baffle the entire
medical world, are the sordid products of vaccine poisons that disturb the chemical balance of
the body and interfere with normal functioning.
All these medically-made atrocities are far worse than smallpox or any of the other eruptive
diseases that nature provides as a means of expelling the accumulated poison waste from the
abused body. This interference with the balanced economy of nature has multiplied the
problems beyond the power of science to control.
Our worst epidemics now are epidemics of vaccination in which more people are killed
every year by "vaccinal diseases" than by the diseases that the vaccinations were supposed to
combat.
Complete freedom from disease can scarcely be found except in remote islands or isolated
communities that have not been invaded by medical mischief and commercialized products. Is
our proud civilization to be degraded, corrupted, and destroyed by its own inventions designed
for selfish profit and exploitation of the race?
Vaccination, instead of being the promised blessing to the world, has proved to be a curse of
such sweeping devastation that it has caused more death and disease than war, pestilence,
and plague combined. There is no scourge (with the possible exception of atomic radiation)
that is more destructive to our nation’s health than this monument of human deception — this
slayer of the innocent —this crippler of body and brain — THE POISONED NEEDLE.
Eleanor McBean
CHAPTER I
THE POISONED NEEDLE
"Truth wears no mask, seeks neither place nor applause, bows to no human
shrine; she only asks a hearing."
The increasing flood of evidence against vaccination and the growing for the un-suppressed
facts about this "touchy" subject have literally forced this book into being.
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As this work has progressed and the extensive research has been carried to trace down and
organize the material for this manuscript, other valuable long concealed records, that I had not
expected, have come into my hands as if by some unseen power. It is to be hoped that the
information contained within these pages will help to sweep away the tragic errors that cloud
the minds of the people as well as the physicians. It is urgent that the living words of TRUTH or
some other force be applied to abolish that deadly weapon, THE POISONED NEEDLE, which
has been the menacing road block standing m the way of progress in the healing field for these
many years
Vaccination and the false germ theory upon which it is hinged has led mankind far astray and
has severed the fragile thread that offered medical theory and practice a hope of becoming a
science. Under the sway of our present degenerative medical methods the health of our
people has declined to the lowest point in history. The 1955 survey showed that over 90% of
our population is below par mentally or physically. According to life insurance records, army
reports, hospital statements, government statistics and physical examinations for marriage
certificates and employment, etc., it is revealed that there is hardly one normal, healthy person
in a hundred. The Cancer Foundation states that one out of every four is marked for cancer.
The figures on heart trouble are even worse than that and the other "killer diseases" come in
for their toll. Practically all the rest of the people have symptoms of less serious diseases;
these symptoms being headaches. constipation, weak eves, dental caries, colds, pain,
stomach trouble, etc. Most, if not all, diseases are avoidable and curable (at a certain stage)
but not under the deceptive medical method of poisoning the well and the sick with vaccines
and drugs and mutilating them with unnecessary operations.
When socialized medicine was threatening, a meeting of medical officials was called to discuss
just how many and which operations would really be necessary if there was no profit in it. It
was decided that only 3% would be considered essential under those conditions. This
information came from a medical student whose instructor had attended the meeting.
After a glance at the medical records covering the past 70 years of what boastfully called "our
great strides of medical science" we can hardly help wondering if those seven league
strides haven’t been in reverse, because there a marked decline in our nation’s health and a
shocking increase in the killer diseases during those very years. The acute diseases that were
to have been conquered by vaccination have only been masked and "save face" or
suppressed until the retained poisons corroded the internal organs and developed into
dangerous chronic diseases.
The following table gives us an idea of what our present faulty methods are doing to our race:
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Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, stated: (Scientific Monthly, July, 1925):
"Although the adult individual today has much less chance of dying from smallpox, cholera, or
typhoid, than he had 50 years ago, he surely has more prospect of being tortured by some
form of cancer, afflicted with slow diseases of the kidneys, of the circulatory apparatus or the
endocrine glands, and of going insane . . . Modern medicine protects him (attempts to) against
infections which kill rapidly, but leaves him exposed to the slower and more cruel diseases."
Annie Riley Hale, in "The Medical Voodoo" speaks of "medicine as ‘a system of healing which
after 5000 years of trial and error’ is describing itself as ‘a science in the making’, whose
proudest showing to date is, that it has enabled the race to ‘swap’ smallpox for cancer and
typhoid fever for diabetes and insanity, may still be worthy of credence and patronage by its
devoted followers. But what justification can there be for putting the whole power of the
government back of such a system, and the public treasury at its disposal, to spread
misleading propaganda about its own peculiar doctrines and methods, to force them on the
helpless?"
Although there are a number of far more successful and efficient systems of healing in this
country, the medical system is the only one that gets endorsement and support from the
government. All our tax supported Departments of Health, hospitals and institutions are under
the domination of medical personnel. In spite of the financial support, public confidence and full
scale experimentation and testing of all their methods and theories, the medical school of
healing has utterly failed to control any of the killer diseases and doesn’t have a sure cure for
even one of the mild diseases. Smallpox and other epidemics were largely controlled by
improvements in sanitation and nutrition years before vaccination became popularized. Yet a
tremendous sum of money is poured into the medical coffers every year with no accounting
made for its use and no benefits received. Isn’t it time that this squandering of public funds be
stopped and the better qualified practitioners be given a chance to salvage the wreckage
before it is too late?
After half a century of medical practice, Dr. John Tilden made the following observation,
regarding inadequate medical procedures:
"Ability to cure has not kept pace with diagraosis, and today we behold the scientific paradox
of skilled physicians sometimes knowing exactly what disease the patient is suffering with, but
unable to cure the disease. . . Ability to diagnose, but impotence in curing, is the true status of
scientific medicine.
"Clinicians are floundering about in a sea of speculation and uncertainty concerning cause and
cure; and the best of them declare that autopsies prove that almost half of their diagnoses are
wrong." (Dr. Charles Mayo, in a radio broadcast stated that at their clinic, autopsies show that
they get only 20% diagnoses right.)
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"Every part of the body is represented by a specialist. The irony of all this professional
perfection (?) is summed up in a few words, namely, diagnosis is an elaborate system of
summing up effects without a scintilla of knowledge of cause, and treatment is a stupendous
scheme of palliation, with braggadocio concerning immunization. But the question will not
down: How is a disease to be prevented or cured when the cause is unknown? All 400 or more
so called diseases are nothing more than expressions of our general systematic
derangement—states which I am pleased to name toxemia, or healing crises. Toxemia is a
state of body poisoning — self generated or induced by vaccine serums, drugs or other
poisons." ("Philosophy of Health," by Tilden)
R. T. Trall, M.D., was another doctor who gave the medical method a long and thorough trial
before abandoning it as a failure. He turned to nature and its simplicity and upon its sound
basic laws of healing he brought about miracles of recovery from all diseases. After trying to
justify the inconsistencies of medical theory he had this to say:
"Why has not success in treating disease kept pace with the extraordinary progress of
knowledge of other sciences? The answer is ready: A successful practice of the healing art
must be based upon the laws of life, the economy of vitality. The only foundation, therefore,
of true healing is correct physiological principles; and here is precisely where the whole
orthodox medical system of the present day fails — utterly and totally fails. It has no
physiological and biological science upon which to truly practice the healing art."
These are strong words coming from medical doctors who know the system thoroughly.
Medicine is a paying game — financially speaking — and for successful practitioners to leave it
for the sake of honesty, integrity, and idealism. indicates that these cherished qualities are
lacking in that branch of business.
It is this lack of correct physiological and biological principles that has enabled the medical
profession to foist such an unscientific delusion as vaccination on the public.
The false "germ theory" of disease, upon which vaccination is based, has been the "blind
leader of the blind" that has dragged the medical system and the Impressionable public deeper
into the morass of confusion and disease. (The germ theory is discussed at length in the
chapter titled ON FRIENDLY TERMS WITH GERMS in Book II.) However, our present
concern, in this chapter, is
merely to point out the instability of the nebulous theory of "anti-bodies" which is the main prop
that holds up the dead corpse of vaccination. In volume 6 of THE HYGIENIC SYSTEM, Dr.
Herbert M. Shelton brings into sharper focus this "tricky" subject of anti-bodies. These
elusive little nothings have fooled the people and served the uses of the doctors but have
vanished into theory when subjected to the clear light of scientific investigation.
Dr. Shelton writes: "The whole of the modern medical practice of vaccine, serum and antitoxin
therapy is based upon the supposition that the body manufactures substances called anti-
toxins, anti-bodies, antigens, etc., which are capable of meeting and destroying toxins that get
into the body. The idea seems to be sound, although it is possible that the work of destroying
such toxins is that of the detoxification carried on by the liver, and lymph glands, etc. Anti-
toxins, antibodies, antigens, etc., have never been isolated. They have only been assumed,
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while the practice based upon their assumed existence has been both a failure and disaster.
However, this may not be due to their non-existence. If they exist it is impossible to separate
them from the proteins of the animal’s blood (in making vaccines) and these proteins when
injected directly into the blood of another animal (or human being) are very poisonous. Besides
this, there is no evidence that the anti-toxins of one species can be made use of by another
species. Where vaccines are employed, it constitutes the introduction of actual disease matter
into the blood. That is, the supposed causitive germs or some product of the disease is
introduced into the body. The consequences are often terrible. Real benefits are never
observed.
"If the hypothesis that the body manufactures anti-toxins, anti-bodies, etc., is correct it still
remains to be proven that the body ever manufactures these greatly in excess of the need for
them. It cannot be shown that ‘free’ anti-toxin, anti-bodies, etc., are suspended in the blood
serum and can therefore be transferred to another animal in sufficient quantities to be of use to
the receiving animal. In keeping with a general law of life, it is very probable that the body does
manufacture an excess of anti-bodies, but it cannot be shown that it retains these after the
need for them has ceased. On the contrary, in keeping with another general law of life, it is
very probable that the body begins to get rid of them the very instant the need for them
ceases. If they exist they are chemical substances produced to meet an emergency and will be
cast out as soon as the emergency ceases to exist."
The renowned Dr. Antoine Bechamp, one of the world’s foremost scientists and
bacteriologists, observed that the micro-organisms that are ordinarily called germs, evolve out
of decaying cells they helped to build, and take part in the decomposing of the ever changing
life substance and help to form it into material usable again by nature. Thus, when germs are
found within a sick body it is not that they entered from outside and caused the disease. It is
because they developed from the decaying cells within the body and have an important part to
play in helping to handle the waste and destruction brought about by serums, drugs and other
poisons forced upon the body from without. Perhaps our modern bacteriologists have seen this
activity of the "microzymas" and jumped to the conclusion that they are anti-bodies fighting
disease and that they (the doctors) must inject more oL them into the body by way of vaccines.
But anyone with common sense and reasoning can see that this would only interfere and
disrupt the well organized efforts of nature. This is the reason why vaccination has taken such
a heavy toll of lives and has produced such widespread disease.
"Nature makes no mistakes and violates no laws. She is uniformly governed by fixed principles
and all her actions harmonize with the laws that govern these actions." (THE HYGIENIC
SYSTEM, p. 48 — Shelton —)
"The best, indeed the only, method of promoting individual and public health is to teach people
the laws of nature and thus teach them how to preserve their health. Immunization programs
are futile and are based on the delusions that the law of cause and effect can be annulled.
Vaccines and serums are employed as substitutes for right living; they are intended to supplant
obedience to the laws of life. Such programs are slaps in the face of law and order. Belief in
immunization is a form of delusional insanity." (PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL HEALING — p.
478 — Shelton)
Dr. J. W. Hodge had considerable experience with vaccination before he denounced it and
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wrote a book on his collected data. In his book THE VACCINATION SUPERSTITION (p. 41)
he states:
"After a thorough investigation of the most authentic records and facts in harmony with the
physician’s daily observations and experiences, the conclusion is drawn that instead of
protecting its subjects from contagion of smallpox, vaccination actually renders them more
susceptible to it. Vaccination is the implantation of disease — that is its admitted purpose.
Health is the ideal state to be sought, not disease . . . Every pathogenic disturbance in the
infected organism wastes and lowers the vital powers, and thus diminishes its natural resisting
capacity.
"This fact is well known and so universally conceded that it seems superfluous to cite
authorities. Nevertheless, I shall mention one. The International Textbook of Surgery. Vol. 1. p.
263, is authority for the following statement:
"‘Persons weakened by disease or worn out by excessive labor yield more readily to infection
that healthy individuals.’
"If this is true, it explains why, in various epidemics, smallpox always attacks the vaccinated
first, and why these diseases continue to infest the civilized world while its allied
(unvaccinated) ‘filth diseases ‘ have disappeared before the advance of civilization, through the
good offices of sanitation, hygiene and improved nutrition."
"After a careful consideration of the history of vaccination gleaned from an impartial and
comprehensive study of vital statistics, and pertinent data from every reliable source and after
an experience derived from having vaccinated 3,000 subjects, I am firmly convinced that
vaccination cannot be shown to have any logical relation to the diminution of cases of
smallpox, and —
"1 — That the practice of vaccination has been the means of disseminating some of the most
fatal and loathsome diseases, such as leprosy, syphilis, tetanus and tuberculosis;
2 — That vaccination is not only useless, but positively injurious,
of protecting its subjects from contagion of smallpox, it actually renders them more susceptible
to it by depressing the vital power and diminishing natural resistance;
3 — That immunity from all diseases is to be realized through the attainment of health, not by
the propagation of disease;
"4 — That it is never necessary to set up one disease in a healthy organism to protect against
another; that such procedure is an appalling violation of the basic principles of hygiene and
sanitary science;
5 — That the performance of the vaccine operation in the very nature of the case, violates the
cardinal precepts of modern aseptic surgery, the aim of which is to exclude the products of
disease from the organism, and never to introduce them;
6 — That there is no evidence worthy of the name, on record, to prove that vaccination either
prevents or mitigates smallpox;
7 — That many healthy children have died from the effects of vaccination;
8 — That millions of vaccinated people have died of confluent smallpox while having the
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CHAPTER II
SMALLPOX DECLINED BEFORE VACCINATION WAS ENFORCED
"To mistake inferences or axioms for facts has been a curse of science."—Sir Clifford Albutt, in "Nature."
The simple fact that we have less smallpox now than we did 200 years ago, does not in any
degree prove that vaccination caused this decline, although the promoters of vaccination have
taken upon themselves the full credit for this improvement.
The most noticeable decrease in smallpox and other zymotic diseases began with the
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sanitation reforms just prior to 1800 and the improvement in nutrition brought about by such
health crusaders as Trail, Graham and Jennings around 1840.
THE NUTRITIONAL TEACHINGS stressed natural whole grain bread instead of white bread,
fresh fruits and vegetables free from salt, sugar, chemicals and other harmful preservatives
and the rejection of coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco, drugs and other drastic poisons. Meat and
other low grade proteins were denounced in favor of nuts, beans and other such proteins with
more health value and less toxic effects.
The age-old "terror diseases" such as plague, black death, cholera, etc., that were previously
believed to be contagious, responded at once to this health program and soon declined to the
vanishing point in countries that adopted the sanitation and nutrition improvements. They are
diseases of nutritional deficiency and imbalance just the same as all other diseases.
A glance at the following table of official statistics from England and Wales shows us how
smallpox deaths declined only after the people began their opposition to the vaccination law
and an ever increasing number refused to be vaccinated.
Here we see that at the time when nearly all (96.5%) of the babies were vaccinated, smallpox
caused almost 4,000 deaths in that 10 year period; but, when the vaccinations were resisted
until only 39% would submit to it, the death-rate dropped down to only 1.4 cases.
Before the passage of England’s compulsory vaccination law in 1853, the highest authentic
smallpox death-rate was only 2,000 for any two year period, even during their most serious
smallpox epidemics; whereas, after almost 20 years of compulsory vaccination there occurred
the most devastating scourge of smallpox in 1870 to 1871 that the world has ever known. It
took 23,062 lives in England and Wales and spread over Europe in all the countries where
vaccination and inoculation had been practiced on a large scale. After that the vaccination laws
were enforced even more rigidly until the people began to notice that smallpox was not
decreasing by this practice but continued to ravage the homes of the vaccinated. During the
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same epidemic in Germany 124,948 people died of smallpox. All had been vaccinated
(according to their carefully kept records.) "In Berlin alone no less that 17,038 persons had
smallpox after vaccination, and 2,884 of them died."
In Sheffield, England where 97 per cent of her 200,000 inhabitants had been thoroughly and
frequently vaccinated for many years a smallpox epidemic swept the city in 1887 that caused
7,101 cases and 648 deaths.
Preceding this, the large manufacturing town of Leicester, (England) which had been even
more thoroughly vaccinated up to the time of the 1870 epidemic was the hardest hit of all the
communities with over 3,500 deaths per million in the first year of the epidemic. This
completely destroyed their faith in vaccination and the rich and poor alike rejected it and
adopted sanitation with the result that smallpox epidemics were soon eliminated from that city.
"I find that of the 155 persons admitted to the Smallpox Hospital in the Parish of St. James,
Piccadilly, 145 had been vaccinated."
In Marylevore Hospital 92 per cent of the smallpox cases had been vaccinated.
Marson’s report of Highgate Hospital for 1871 states that, "of the 950 cases of smallpox, 870
(90%) of the whole number of patients had been vaccinated."
At Hempstead Hospital, up to May 13, 1884, out of 2,965 admissions for smallpox, 2,347 had
been vaccinated.
After these vaccination epidemics, more and more people refused to comply with the unjust
vaccination laws and as a result of this and the improvements in sanitation and nutrition,
smallpox took a drop and continued to decline until it is rarely seen at the present time.
"In 1942 one case of smallpox at Seindon (Britain) resulted in the vaccination of a large
number of people. Only three cases of smallpox occurred and these all recovered, but 12
vaccinated individuals died from inflammation of the brain. (This is a common after effect of
vaccination.) In the same year near Edinburg, Scotland, eight people died of smallpox (six of
which had been vaccinated) while ten died from the effects of the vaccination. .
"I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is
a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from
smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of
England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more
people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease
in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer
(London, Feb. 1947) ‘How could an operation that was declining be responsible for the
extermination of smallpox?" (Vaccine and Serum Evils, p. 23, by Dr. H. M. Shelton)
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Records in all countries show that the so-called, contagious diseases declined quite rapidly
with the introduction of sanitation and nutrition reforms, with the exception of smallpox and
diphtheria which were kept active by vaccination in a large number of authenticated cases.
The following condensed records from various countries give a cross section of the available
evidence that bears out this point.
In 1929 while India was still under British rule with its compulsory vaccination laws, the League
of Nations’ Health League referred to India as, "the greatest center of smallpox in the world
today." The records show that in the large cities where vaccination enforcement was most rigid
"the smallpox death rate has been generally far greater than for the country as a whole" where
complete enforcement is not possible.
The report of the League of Nations’ Health Division for Oct. 1953 reluctantly admits
vaccination is not all it ought to be when it says in part: "In spite of the great efforts made by
the health authorities in promoting vaccination, smallpox is not on the point of extinction."
After the limited health improvement programs we find that the plagues and scourges, all
declined noticeably except smallpox and respiratory diseases (tuberculosis) which is a
common after effect of vaccination.
Edward Jenner had promised that vaccination would wipe out instead, all other diseases, even
the most persistent and deadly more rapidly without any serums than did smallpox with its
repeated vaccinations.
Around 1900, after the improvements in health due to sanitation and nutrition had had time to
be weighed against that of vaccination, most of the people of England began to refuse
vaccination, which resulted in a greater decline in smallpox, but in certain cities of India the
British government was still able to keep up rigid enforcement. The following chart shows the
high smallpox death-rate in three of these Indian cities as compared to the decreased death-
rate in London after the clean up (health) campaign:
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Although India was reported by the League of Nations as the greatest center of smallpox in the
world in 1929 it has improved since gaining its freedom from Britain and relaxing its
vaccination enforcement program. This leaves the over vaccinated country of Mexico holding
the dubious honor as the world’s worst smallpox center.
The following chart shows the comparison between Mexico with its sparse population of
16,500,000 (1930 figures — approx.) and British India with its dense, congested population
(300,000,000 — approx.) In spite of the disease breeding conditions of India’s cities with
inadequate sanitation, nutrition and housing facilities and the polluted water, lack of sewers,
extreme heat, etc., the smallpox death rate is far lower than that of completely vaccinated
Mexico.
This black record could exist only in a country where vaccination laws are rigidly enforced. The
Mexican law prescribes:
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people by nature they would have been destroyed by this time reduced to imbecility, by this
continuous blood poisoning practice.
In Jenner’s day, smallpox was practically unknown in Mexico for which he promptly claimed
the credit. In 1811 Jenner wrote to Dr. Lettson as follows:
"For the great and grand effects of vaccination the eye must quit this little spot (England) and
survey it among other European countries and still more particularly among the vast empires of
Asia and America. In Mexico and Peru the disease is nearly extinct.
Jenner didn’t wait around to see the results of his terrible invention. Even he admits that
smallpox was almost unknown when he started his work of destruction. Today, vaccination has
so intensified the development of smallpox that all vaccinated Mexicans have either had it or
are in danger of getting it.
Mexico has had the good sense to abolish the barbarous practice of capital punishment and
the cruel and useless practice of vivisection which puts that country a step ahead of United
States in that respect. It is to be hoped that those people who fought so hard for freedom and
democracy will also be able to throw off the heavy yoke of medical oppression.
Dr. Charles Ruta, professor of Materia Medica at Parugia University, Italy, presents some
interesting figures comparing the smallpox deaths of the vaccinated soldiers with the women
and boys outside the armed services. Vaccination is stressed in that country (which accounts
for the high smallpox rate among all ages) but more thoroughly enforced in the Army. The boys
are inducted at the age of 20 years. The figures show the death-rate from smallpox is about
twice as high among men over 20 (soldiers) as among women of the same age.
Dr. Ruta traced the records for many years following this published record and the results
continued with the same high death-rate among the completely vaccinated soldiers and with
the lower death-rate among the rest of the population.
Although England was the first country to adopt compulsory vaccination laws her people soon
found it was a disastrous practice and fought to have the law abolished. About the time of the
First World War the English people had succeeded enough in resisting the law to notice a
considerable decrease in small-pox, aided of course by the sanitation program. Germany and
Italy were still trying to enforce vaccination on the entire population. The following chart shows
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The League of Nations’ Monthly Health report for October 15, 1929, gives a report on Egypt
with an effort toward justifying the re-occurring smallpox epidemics in spite of the compulsory
vaccination laws. However, the "whitewash" doesn’t cover the inefficacy of this useless
practice. The report states:
"In Egypt, vaccination is compulsory under the Decree of 1890. . . Penalties are provided for
infringements . . . It has not been found possible as yet to enforce vaccination everywhere, and
smallpox continues to claim a fair number of victims every year. The last great epidemic broke
out in 1919 and extended into 1920. More than five and a half million persons were vaccinated
during these two years, and this completely arrested the spread of the epidemic. In 1921, the
number of cases had gone down to 92 as compared with 7,895 in 1919 and 3,004 in 1920."
The epidemic wore itself out in two years and the vaccinators claimed that it was the serum
that arrested it. If vaccination could arrest an epidemic at all, it should - certainly do it in less
than two years. If there had been no vaccination at all there would have been a much lower
smallpox rate as is proved by world records where the facts are not falsified.
The fact that there was less smallpox the following year was no proof that vaccination curbed
it. Isn’t it quite logical that all those who were in a condition to develop it did so during the long
two year epidemic, so there would not be many to contract it the following year?
The following report put out by the League of Nations’ Health (?) department is a typical
example of how the medical schemers influence the average, unthinking person with data that
appears to be true and convincing.
Here we have a number of statements that are hard to reconcile with known facts. For
instance: (1) In June 1925, the population of Egypt was estimated to be 13,964,900 yet the
report said they gave 14,660,000 vaccinations. Since there are more vaccinations reported
than people, either the figures are fabricated or the vaccinators didn’t really believe in
vaccination and knew it would not protect for even one year so they re-vaccinated thousands
of people with the vain hope that the repetition of failure would in some way reap success.
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(2) In the first report they blamed the frequent outbreaks of smallpox on the claim that it was
impossible to enforce vaccination on all the people. Yet their figures in the second record
showed the number of vaccinations exceeded the population.
(3) The first report stated that their widespread vaccination campaign in 1920 which reached
5,500,000 people had completely arrested smallpox and the following report of 1931 made it
clear that the complete and thorough vaccination campaign succeeded in conquering
smallpox, even to the point where there were no deaths at all from that cause. This type of
propaganda has a tendency to lull the people into a sense of false security which leaves the
real cause of disease unchecked. Let’s follow the record a little farther and see what
happened.
The five and a half million vaccinations in 1920 were supposed to have brought smallpox
under control, yet in 1926 (only 6 years later) the second report tells of a sweeping smallpox
epidemic in which 2,677 were stricken and 544 died.
In spite of the 5,500,000 vaccinations in 1920 and the 14,600,000 vaccination in 1926 and all
the vaccinations in the intervening years, including the compulsory vaccinations of all infants,
there occurred another larger and more terrible smallpox epidemic in 1932 (only 6 years after
the alleged complete control of smallpox in Egypt). This sweeping epidemic continued for two
years, aggravated, of course, by the meddling vaccinators. By the end of 1934, 7,650 cases
had been reported of which 1,373 had died. Where is the remarkable success of vaccination
boasted of by the medical faction of the League of Nations?
"These figures speak for themselves and eloquently proclaim the utter futility of vaccination as
a preventive or mitigant of smallpox." (Swan — "The Vaccination Problem" — p.291.)
In their monthly Epidemiological Report (RE 132) dated Nov 15, 1929, this one time great
organization revealed its biased confusion on health matters by stating:
‘It will therefore be plain that, if the conclusions are to be accepted, and allowing for individual
peculiarities, re-vaccination should be repeated, three or four years at least, or even more
often."
Joseph Swan comments on this in his book ‘The Vaccination Problem’ page 288 by saying ‘All
these demands for frequent re-vaccination may be to an absurdity by asking a simple question
— ‘How is it that in England, abandonment of even primary vaccination by approximately half
the parents during the past 25 years, and the almost entire neglect of re-vaccination at any
age, have been accompanied by the lowest smallpox mortality rate on record?"
Alter smallpox vaccination was found to be so financially profitable doctors and serum
manufacturers, serums for other diseases were invented and enforced with the same financial
increase but also with the same decrease in the elimination of the disease. Diphtheria is one of
the most notable examples of this.
The following table is one of the many records that show how the unvaccinated diseases
declined more rapidly than those that were supposed to be wiped out or controlled by
vaccines. (This report was compiled before serums were invented for the other diseases
shown.)
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Here we see that measles decreased 94.1 per cent during this period; scarlet fever
decreased 99.7 per cent; whooping cough decreased 91 per cent while diphtheria, the
disease that was supposed to be conquered by serum immunization decreased only 88.8 per
cent which was the least of all. If left alone it would have declined at the same rate as the
others, or even faster because it was the least prevalent.
It will be noted that in 1861 diphtheria was the least fatal of the children’s diseases. But
according to this report of the Ministry of Health, the 1948 record shows it to have increased to
the second most deadly of the children killers with its 105 deaths per million, while whooping
cough was only slightly higher with 121 deaths.
Another report issued by the British Ministry of Health gives the diphtheria death-rate from
among 4,000,000 children who were not immunized. It gives a five year period (1945 to 1949)
in which the diphtheria death-rate declined from 551 cases in 1945 down to 63 in 1949. What
caused this phenomenal drop of 87 per cent in only five years when the record of immunized
children showed a decline of only 88 per cent in an 87 year period of immunization? The credit
cannot be claimed by the serum makers because these children were not "protected" (?) by
any vaccines.
The Ministry of Health attributed the rapid decline of the other diseases, to improvements in
sanitation, nutrition, housing, education and social conditions, but diphtheria and smallpox
were claimed to have declined because of "prophylactics." If vaccination and immunization
were preventives of smallpox and diphtheria they should at least keep pace with the decline of
other diseases.
Although France had rejected immunization after seeing the disasters that followed its use she
was pressured into submitting to it after German occupation. By 1941 most of the French
children had been inoculated after which the diphtheria incidence rose to 13,795 by the end of
that year. By 1943, diphtheria had increased to 46,750.
At the beginning of the Second World War immunization was made compulsory in Germany
and the diphtheria rate soared up to 150,000 cases (1939) while in unvaccinated Norway there
were only 50 cases.
Space in this chapter does not permit the reviewing of the numerous records that condemn
immunization. More on this subject will be given in the chapter on DIPHTHERIA AND
IMMUNIZATION in Book II.
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The over-all picture for United States has been toward a steady decline in smallpox since the
gradual abandonment of vaccination laws in the various states. Only a few of the more
backward states and some of the medically dominated institutions and businesses still impose
compulsory vaccination laws on the people. In 1902 when vaccination was endorsed by the
majority, the death-rate from smallpox was 2,121. By 1910, vaccination disasters had caused it
to lose favor to such an extent that the smallpox death-rate dropped down to 202. The serum
makers used the frenzy of the First World War to work up a nation wide vaccination campaign
that raised the smallpox death-rate up to 358 (1919) and by 1921 it had increased to 642.
When the people began to notice that the vaccinated were the ones who suffered the worst
from smallpox and flu (an after effect of vaccination) they lost faith in it to a large extent and by
1927 the deaths dropped down to 138 where it has been fluctuating every since.
In contrast to our diminished smallpox rate under optioned vaccination we have an excellent
example of compulsory vaccination in our (U.S.) dominated Philippine Islands. In a 10 year
period (1911-1920) 24,436,889 vaccinations were given which resulted in 75,339 deaths.
Before vaccination was introduced the highest death-rate in the Philippines, even during
epidemics was only 10 per cent of the population. After many years of thorough vaccination
and re-vaccination the death-rate rose to 74 per cent which is the highest in history. In United
States (1919) when vaccination was indifferently accepted, the death rate from smallpox was
only 358, while in the Philippines (1919) under strict vaccination enforcement the death-rate
from this cause was 18,213. In 1920 in vaccinated Italy, the smallpox death-rate was 12,155
as compared to only 508 in United States during the same period.
In spite of these cold facts and thousands of others like them, the promoters of vaccines insist
that vaccination has been a blessing to the world and has reduced disease. This all goes to
prove the old saying that figures can’t lie but liars can figure.
CHAPTER 3
VACCINATION HIT BY DOCTORS
It often heppens that the universal belief of one age - a belief which no one was, not without an
extraordinary effort of genius and courage could, at that time be free - becomes to a subsequent age se
palpable an absurdity that the only difficulty, then, is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared
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From its inception down to the present time vaccination has been denounced as
dangerous, disease producing and even deadly, by all thinking doctors who have
investigated the facts and have had the courage to voice them.
A few of these published statements from prominent doctors are presented here:
From Dr. Alexander Wilder, Editor of the New Yolk Medical Times, Professor of Pathology in
the United States Medical College of New York and author of WILDER'S HISTORY OF
MEDICINE, we have this observation:
"Vaccination is the infusion of contaminating element into the system, and after such
contamination you can never be sure of regaining the former purity of the body. Consumption
follows in the wake of vaccination as certainly as effect follows cause."
"Vaccination does not stay the spread of smallpox nor even modify it in those who get it after
vaccination. It does introduce into the system, and therefore contributes to the spread of,
tuberculosis, cancer and even leprosy. It tends to make more virulent epidemics of
smallpox and to make them more extensive. It does just what inoculation did - cause the
spread of disease."
"Examination shows vaccination a complete failure. In this single year, 3,994 vaccinated
people died of smallpox; the total number attacked exceeded 29,000." (All were vaccinated.)
"I have very little faith in Vaccination even as modifying the disease, and none at all as a
protective in virulent epidemics. Personally, I contracted smallpox less than six months after a
most severe re-vaccination."
This doctor was in the vaccination business; his livelihood depended on it and he wanted to
believe in it. In Trinidad where vaccination was compulsory he had ample opportunity to
observe the full effects of it on a large scale, yet he voluntarily denounced the practice as a
failure.
"In looking over the history of vaccination for smallpox, I am amazed to learn of the terrible
deaths from vaccination, amputations of arms and leg., foot and mouth disease, tetanus
(1ockjaw), septicemia (bood poisoning), cerebro-spinal meningitis."
"I believed that vaccination prevented smallpox. I believed that if it did not absolutely prevent it
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in every case, it modified the disease in some cases, and I believed that re-vaccination, if only
frequent enough, gave absolute immunity. Experience has driven all that out of my head; I
have seen vaccinated persons get smallpox, and persons who had been vaccinated get
smallpox, and I have seen those who had had smallpox get it a second time and die of it."
Professor Adolf Vogt, who held the chair of vital Statistics and Hygiene in Berne University
for 17 years said:
"After collecting the particulars of 400,000 cases of small pox I am compelled to admit that my
belief in vaccination is absolutely destroyed."
"I have been a regular practitioner of medicine in Boston for 33 years. I have studied the
question of vaccination conscientiously for 45 years. As for vaccination as a preventative of
disease, there is not a scrap of evidence in its favor. Injection of virus into the pure
bloodstream of the people does not prevent Smallpox. Rather, it tends to increase its
epidemics and makes the disease more deadly. Of this we have indisputable proof. In our
country (U.S.) cancer mortality has increased from 9 per 100,000 to 80 per 100,000 or fully
900 per cent increase, within the past 50 years, and no conceivable thing could have caused
this but the universal blood poisoning now existing."
"I can add my testimony to the others . . . that vaccination contributes to the great increase
in cancer.
"Personally I have grave doubts as to the efficacy of modern serums and vaccines and am
convinced that commercialism has exercised a considerable influence upon some phases of
modem medicine."
"We have no proof of the boasted effectiveness of any form of anti-toxin, vaccine or
serum. The true figures on vaccination for smallpox have never gotten before the public,
though they can be seen in the files of the various departments of the Army as well as the
government, if one cares to look for them. If the record of vaccination in the Philippines alone
were ever to become a matter of general knowledge it would finish vaccination in the whole
country, at least among those who are able to read and think for themselves. After three years
of the most rigid vaccination, when every Philippino had been vaccinated from one to six times,
there occurred the severest epidemic of smallpox that the Islands had ever seen, with a death-
rate running in places to over 70 per cent, and in all, well over 60,000 deaths. Is it any wonder
the public is getting a little suspicious of us and our vaunted 'medical discoveries?' The
wonder to me is that there are still millions of them willing to submit to vaccination and serum
treatment."
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Alfred Russell Wallace D.D. who spent many years doing research all over the world,
collecting data on both sides of the vaccination question had this to say:
"While utterly powerless for good, vaccination is a certain cause of disease and death in many
cases and is the probable cause of about 10,000 deaths annually in England, by five diseases
of the most terrible and disgusting character."
L F. Cornell, M.D., President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of New York said: (1868)
It is my firm conviction that vaccination has been a curse instead of a blessing to the race.
Every physician knows that cutaneous (pertaining to the skin) diseases have increased in
frequency, severity, and variety to an alarming extent. To what is this increase owing?
Contagion may account for some of the varieties; in a large majority, however, to no medium of
transmission is the wide spread dissemination of this class of diseases so largely indebted as
to vaccination."
"Never in the history of medicine has there been produced so false a theory, such fraudulent
assumptions, such disastrous and damning results as have followed the practice of
vaccination; it is the ultima thule (extremity) of learned quackery, and lacks, and has ever
lacked, the faintest shadow of a scientific basis. The fears of the people have been played
upon as to the dangers of smallpox and the sure prevention by vaccination, until nearly the
whole civilized world has become physically corrupted by its practice.
"The life-blood of nations has become the cesspool of vaccinators wherein they have poured
the foul excretions that are thrown off from diseased beasts, nature adjudging it too vile to
contaminate the system of any living creature.
SCROFULA, that hydra-headed monster of pathology, whose ramifications extend into and
complicate nearly all the diseases that flesh is heir to, and whose victims are as the sands of
the seashore in number, is one of the oldest children of vaccine poisoning.
"SYPHILIS, that disreputable disorder, that sinks its victims below the scale of decency, and
hounds them to dishonorable graves, has been carried by the vaccinator's needle into the
homes of the innocent and virtuous, and there, with consequent suffering that defies the
imagination of man to depict."
"When a mad dog enters a community and bites a child, the whole population rises up and
demands the death of the creature, and desires that all available means be immediately used
to eliminate from the system of the child the virus that has been so cruelly inserted. The action
of the people in this case is a very natural one; but let me tell you that where tile bite of a mad
dog has caused death in one case, the mad doctor with his calf-lymph and poisoned needle
has caused tens of thousands of deaths.
"Vaccination is the most outrageous insult that can be offered to any pure-minded man or
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woman. It is the boldest and most impious attempt to mar the works of God that has been
attempted for ages. The stupid blunder of doctor-craft has wrought all the evil that it ought, and
it is time that free American citizens arise in their might and blot out the whole blood-poisoning
business."
"At the present time, the medical profession prescribes innumerable poisons, such as arsenic,
strychnine, morphine, mercury and other destructive drugs that ruin the health of the human
race . . . and the greatest of all delusions is the GERM THEORY, and the consequent
introduction of serum therapy, with its various antitoxins
"Notwithstanding the fact that these medical delusions have been the cause of more injury
and death than pestilence, famine and war combined, the medical doctors have agreed to
meet each other half way, on the common ground of self-interest, for the purpose of
formulating and enforcing the tyrannical laws to prevent anyone outside their ring from
practicing medicine."
The following public confession was made by J. W. HODGE M. D. of Niagara Falls, New
York:
"To affirm that there never has been any scientific warranty for a belief in the alleged protective
virtues of vaccination and that its practice is backed by ignorance and indifference, is a sorry
charge to make against the medical profession...but the charge, I regret to say is only too true.
I know whereof I affirm, for I, too, must plead guilty of the charge. Before discovering my
mistake I had vaccinated more than 3,000 victims, ignorantly supposing the disease I was
propagating to be a preventative of smallpox. Having taken for granted what my teachers had
asserted, I was a staunch believer in the alleged efficacy of vaccination as a prophylactic
against smallpox. I remained in this blind and blissful state of ignorance for several years, and
not until I acquired a little experience in the school of observation and reflection did I discover
that my faith was pinned to a shameful fraud.
"The first real eye-opener I received upon the subject was while I was practicing my profession
in Lockport. At that time (1902) smallpox made its appearance in this city and soon attained
the proportions of an epidemic. At the outbreak of the disease more vaccinations were ordered
by the Department of Health and I was officially appointed Public Vaccinator. My duty was to
go from house to house and vaccinate all persons who could not present recent vaccination
scars on their bodies, and to re-vaccinate all those who could not give assurance of having
been vaccinated within a period of two years.
"Just before and during the prevalence of this epidemic I vaccinated nearly 3,000 victims,
using the so-called "pure calf-lymph" obtained every third day 'fresh' from the vaccine farm of
the New York City Board of Health. Much to the disgust of the people, and more my own
surprise and chagrin, I was confronted with a large number of cases of vaccinal
erysipelas, as well as several cases of phlegmonous axillary abscesses following as results
of vaccination. This is not all; a number of those vaccinated were attacked with confluent
smallpox at periods varying from twelve days to three weeks, after having been rendered
‘immune' (?) by vaccination.
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smallpox, I could not account for and they confused me as I was not able to see where the
'protection' came in.
"With Pascal, I 'considered the affirmation of facts more powerful than assertions of men'.
I then began a careful study of the relations existing between smallpox and vaccination, with
the ultimate result that I was forced to entirely abandon all faith in the medical dogma of
vaccinal protection against smallpox. During the epidemic, I had under my inspection 28
smallpox patients, all of whom, with one exception, had been 'successfully' vaccinated.
Several of these patients had been re-vaccinated before contracting the disease. THUS I WAS
FORCED, THROUGH THE STERN LOGIC OF DISAGREEABLE FACTS, TO THE
UNWELCOME CONCLUSION THAT VACCINATON HAD NOT PROTECTED THESE
VICTIMS OF SMALLPOX.
"After the revelations of this dismal experience had dawned upon me I determined to make a
careful study of the printed data on vaccination. After a thorough investigation of the statistics
of smallpox epidemiology collected ffrom various parts of the world, I was treated to another
great surprise, namely, the world's greatest statisticians on smallpox and vaccination fully
corroorated the experience that I had met with in the Lockport epidemic.
"Previous to this disappointing experience I had read only the usual literature on the subject,
found in libraries and medical schools. I had heard only the "expert" (one-sided) testimony of
the pro-vaccinists. I knew but one side of the question and was like the one of whom John
Stuart Mill spoke, when he mid:
'HE WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN SIDE OF THE CASE KNOWS LITTLE OF THAT.'
"After a careful study of the history of vaccination and the extensive experience in its use, I am
thoroughly convinced that:
"(1) Vaccination is utterly useless as a preventive against smallpox, that millions of vaccinated
persons have died of smallpox.
"(2) The practice of this degrading rite is enforced by doctors as a dogma without being
understood; that like other infamous dogma it is good only for "fees"
"(3) Inoculation as unanimously believed in and practiced by the "regular" doctors for 100
years was guilty of multiplying smallpox....
"( 4) Smallpox epidemics were checked by cessation of inoculation and not by the introduction
of vaccination.
"(5) Smallpox continued to increase under vaccination until sanitation and improved nutrition
came into more general use.
"(6) Health measures have controlled smallpox, and vaccination has claimed the credit.
"(7) Vaccination protects from smallpox only when it kills the patient before smallpox develops.
"(8) Vaccination has been the means of disseminating (spreading) consumption, cancer,
syphilis, and many other fatal and loathsome diseases.
"(9) Tuberculosis is a disease common to cattle and to human beings and has frequently been
conveyed by vaccination from the former to the latter, by way of vaccination.
"(10) Edward Jenner shaddled a legacy of disease and death on the human race and
incidentally made $150,000 by the transaction.
"(11) Many doctors and some editors are making money by propagating this curse.
(vaccination)
"(12) Vaccination is called 'successful' when it succeeds in making healthy people diseased.
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"(13) Disease as the result of vaccination is the logical harvest from the seed sown.
"(14) Vaccination has no scientific basis upon which to rest its claims and no analogy in any
ascertained principle or law in nature.
"(15) The so called 'spontaneous cow-pox' (from which vaccine is made) is a myth; the
disease so named, being tubercular or syphilitic in its nature.
"(16) When vaccination kills its victims the facts are suppressed and the death certificates
name other diseases as the cause.
"(17) Compulsory vaccination has been abolished in England, Switzerland, and certain other
countries, while laws sustaining this crime still disgrace the statute books of many states in
free (?) America.
"(18) Vaccination is one of the foulest blots on the escutcheon of the ‘nobel art of healing' ".
CHAPTER 4
THE HISTORY OF VACCINATION
"A mere assumption of belief unsupported by demonstrable facts is always open to criticism. It is easy to
be carried away by the beauty of an ideal or entranced by the overwhelming appeal of a pet delusion . . . .
We hav, had much to learn but even more to unearn. Many think they are thinking constructively when
they are merely rearranging their prejudices." —George S. Weger, M.D.
It has been claimed, by an unenlightened few, that vaccination is based on scientific principles
and is of comparatively recent origin. But these claims have been proved false, first, because
inoculation was practiced and abandoned as useless by primitive tribes many centuries ago,
and second because Jenner and the modern experimenters in vaccination were not scientists
and did not test and prove their theories by any scientific criteria before launching the
hazarduous practice on the public.
For many years Edward Jenner was acclaimed a hero for what was thought to be his
discovery of cow-pox vaccination. But this dubious honor was later admitted to belong to
Benjamin Jesty, whom all the chroniclers name as the one responsible for the original
discovery of cow-pox inoculation. Jesty, a farmer, Plett, a teacher and Jensen, a farmer, were
named as ‘successful experimenters" in the field of cow-pox vaccination several years before
Jenner’s first inoculation These and all subsequent vaccination experiments were then, and
still are, haphazard and unscientific attempts at solving the problem of disease prevention.
Before we trace the ancient history of vaccination let us review some of the outstanding
authorities who recognized that:
Many of the world’s greatest thinkers, scientists, statesmen and even doctors have
condemned vaccination as being a crime against humanity, a fraud promoted for private gain,
an insult to the race and a blot upon the name of civilization Yet, this treacherous practice of
blood pollution, which was cradled in the lap of. ignorant savage tribes, has been adopted by,
supposedly, enlightened government of the present day and forced on the protesting
population—for profit.
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"Vaccination is not in any sense scientific; doctors never know what the result will be in
any case; they don’t absolutely know that it ever prevented smallpox; they never know
when they have pure vaccine; the practice is born of pure superstition; and it has been
a breeder of many kindred fallacies."
Florence Nightingale, the world’s most famous nurse and an authority on smallpox by right of
extensive experience, said:
"Everyone who knows anything about public health questions will agree to the practical unity of
epidemics, and the determining causes, and that exemption from. . . disease must be sought
not by any one thing, such as vaccination, but by inquiring into and removing the causes of
epidemic susceptibility generally."
Alfred Russell Wallace, in his famous book, "The Wonderful Century (p. 314) says:
"The successive Vaccination Acts were passed by means of allegations which were wholly
untrue, and promises which have all been unfulfilled. They stand alone in modern legislation as
a gross interference with personal liberty and the sanctity of the home; while as an attempt to
cheat outraged nature, and to avoid a symotic disease without getting rid of the foul conditions
that produce or propagate it, the practice of vaccination is utterly opposed to the whole
teaching of sanitary science, and is one of those terrible blunders which, in their far-
reaching evil consequences, are worse than the greatest of crimes."
Among our best authoritative sources of information are the actual government records
showing the
The report of Dr. William Farr, Compiler of Statistics of the Registrar-General, London.
states:
"Smallpox attained its maximum mortality after vaccination was introduced…..The mean
annual (smallpox) mortality to 10,000 population from 1850 to 1869 was at the rate of (only)
2.04, whereas (after compulsory vaccination) in 1871 the death rate was 10.24 and in 1872 the
death rate was 8.33, and this after the most laudable efforts to extend vaccination by
legislative enactments."
Other authorities and numerous records and case histories showing the failure of vaccination
are given elsewhere in this book.
The truly great minds of the world recognize the balanced economy of nature and know that
when the chemistry of the body is thrown out of balance by faulty nutrition and other causes,
toxins accumulate and the entire physical organism marshals its healing forces in an effort to
meet the emergency and make adjustment to the condition. This healing effort may be
expressed in many ways, such as accelerated circulation and fever, disturbed breathing,
intensified bowel elimination (diarrhea) and mucous discharges to expel poisons, eruptions,
swelling of lymphatic glands such as the tonsils to handle the overload of toxic waste, pain,
indicating the presence of irritants, etc. All this display of the vital energy at work to restore
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normalcy, is interpreted by the average physician, as disease and something to interfere with
by giving poison drugs, vaccines and crippling operations. , Modern medical methods delay
and frustrate the unexcelled healing efforts of nature.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the few enlightened physicians expressed this point in one
powerful sentence when he said:
When we read of primitive witch doctors experimenting with inoculation by rubbing the pus
from the diseased into scratches on the body of the well, we look upon it with tolerance
because they did not have enough knowledge about physiology to understand that nature
does not produce health by contaminating the blood stream with filth. Although we are willing
to make excuses for the mental immaturity of those backward races, what excuse can be
make for our modern doctors who do the same thing — on a larger scale — with a longer
needle?
Vaccination has been a tragic failure because it is based on the false theory that disease is a
ruthless enemy that must be fought and killed by poison drugs or outwitted by (supposedly)
implanting anti-bodies from vaccines into the blood stream. These mythical anti-bodies are
said to make war on disease germs. But germs are not the cause of disease in the first place
and are useful wherever they are found in nature, whether they are serving as scavengers
working on the decaying waste products, or whether they are helping with the decomposing
and renewing of cell structure that takes place continually, they are inseparably a part of the
great pattern of pulsating life. (For detailed, scientific experiments proving the importance and
nature of germs, bacteria, microbes, etc., read the findings of Antoine Bechamp as recorded
in the remarkable book, BECHAMP OR PASTEUR, by E. Douglas Hume — English Pub. see
bibliography.)
As has been stated before, disease is a cleansing effort of the body in its attempt to rid itself of
excess poisons, waste matter, obstructions, and incompatible food. DISEASE IS NOT
SOMETHING TO BE CURED; IT IS A CURE.
Germs do not attack from without; they develop within the cells themselves when the need for
them occurs. The whole framework of vaccination is based on the misconception that germs
cause disease and must be counteracted with vaccines. But this procedure can bring no other
result than harm.
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TUBERCULOSIS, CANCER, AND LEPROSY. It does just what inoculation did — cause the
spread of disease."
"The Surgeon-General of the United States Army innocently recorded in the 1918-1919 report
that ‘for all officers and enlisted men, Americans and native troops in all countries where U.S.
troops were serving, tuberculosis of the lungs was the leading cause for discharge; and
among American troops at home and abroad there were 31,106 hospital admissions for
pulmonary tuberculosis with 1,114 deaths, in the period of this country’s participation in the
First World War.’" (Medical Voodoo, p. 27)
No tubercular men were inducted into the Army. It was alter the blood poisoning vaccinations
at camp that diseases of every description developed. Then the men were invalided home by
the thousands and dumped on society as physical and mental wrecks. Many of these men had
never been in battle nor had even left American soil.
Dr. E. C. Rosenow, an experimentalist at the Mayo Clinic, recorded in the Mayo Collected
Papers (Vol. II, p. 92) that he found "the vaccine serums injected into guinea pigs tended
to localize in the lungs."
Edward Jenner inoculated his 18 months old son with swine-pox, on November 1791 and
again in April, 1798 with cow-pox. The boy was never very well after that and died of
tuberculosis at the age of 21.
In Baron’s Life of Jenner, (Vol. II, p. 304) we learn that, "On the 14th of May, 1796 . . .
Jenner vaccinated James Phipps, a boy about eight years old, with the matter taken from the
hand of a dairymaid infected with casual cow-pox.
After waiting six weeks Jenner inoculated this boy on both arms with smallpox matter, taken
from the arm of a boy with smallpox. Several months later Phipps was again inoculated with
the variolous matter (smallpox pus) but no effect was produced."
The inoculation didn’t "take" so on the strength of this one experiment and its questionable
interpretation, Jenner based his claim that one vaccination would "forever secure a person
from smallpox." No time had elapsed to prove whether it would last a lifetime or a month or at
all; but without any proof or any scientific basis or evidence for its practice, the doctors and the
government adopted it and made it compulsory, no doubt, seeing the gold mine in profits that it
would yield.
James Phipps was declared immune to smallpox but be too, died of tuberculosis at the
age of 20.
"While walking with a friend one day they passed young Phipps, when Jenner exclaimed, ‘Oh,
there is poor Phipps; I wish you could see him; he has been very unwell lately and I am afraid
he has got tuberculosis on his lungs. He was recently inoculated for smallpox, I believe for the
20th time, and all without effect.’"
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As was previously stated, neither Jenner, with all his fanfare and praise, nor the obscure
Jesty, was the discoverer of inoculation. It was a "carry-over" from very ancient times when
superstitious fear and guess-work dominated the healing field.
An idea of its ancient origin may be gathered from the "Lecture Memoranda,"XVII
International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913, which states:
"The practice of inoculation for the prevention of disease is one of considerable antiquity. The
period of its discovery can only be conjectured..."
"Dhanwantari, the Vedic Father of Medicine, and the earliest known Hindu physician, who
lived about 1,500 B.C., is supposed to have been the first to practice inoculation for smallpox.
It is even stated that the ancient Hindus employed a vaccine, which they prepared by the
transmission of the smallpox virus through a cow." (History of Inoculation and Vaccination, pp.
6, 13)
This common practice of disease transmission of both ancient and modern tunes, undoubtedly,
has a strong relationship to the plagues and epidemics that sweep those countries where
vaccination is still practiced.
If this method of disease prevention had ever been successful, smallpox would have been
eliminated from the world centuries ago, but smallpox persists in localities where vaccination is
compulsory and declines where it is abandoned in favor of sanitation and hygienic measures.
The practice of inoculation spread like a noxious weed, from the savage tribes of the forgotten
past into the civilizations of Africa, Arabia, Tibet, India and finally into Europe and America.
Dr. Clements in his pamphlet, "A Superstitious Custom" traces the inoculation practices
through the various modern countries previous to Jenner’s day. He writes:
"In 1673 inoculation against smallpox appeared in Denmark; and in 1778, on recommendation
of the medical fraternity, two inoculation houses were established by the king in the capitol.
"In Italy, inoculation was secretly practiced by the Neapolitans from early times. It was freely
performed by nurses, who inoculated infants, entrusted to their care, without the knowledge of
the parents.
"In 1722, Dr. Wright, a surgeon of Wales refers to inoculation against smallpox in the British
Isles as ‘a very ancient custom.’ (Jenner didn’t begin his vaccinations until 1796). One William
Allen, then 99 years old, said inoculation had been known and used during his entire lifetime,
and he well remembered his mother stating that it had been commonly done all her life, and
that she got smallpox that way.
"The first record of inoculation in France appears in 1712, and in 1763 a fatal epidemic of
smallpox occurred in that country that wiped out a large part of the population; it was attributed
to inoculation and for a time the Government prohibited the practice. Five years later, on the
insistence of the medical faculties, this decree was rescinded and by the latter part of the 18th
century inoculation was again commonly practiced in that country.
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"The first record of inoculation in Ireland appears in 1723, when a medical doctor in Dublin
inoculated 25 persons. Three of these died as a result, and the custom was abandoned for
some time.
‘Inoculation appears to have been first introduced in Germany in 1724. It soon fell into
disfavor, however, because of the many deaths in Berlin from smallpox, as a result of it. After
many years of diligent medical propagandizing, the doctors were able to get the people to
accept it again.
"In 1754, Peverani introduced inoculation for smallpox into Rome, but smallpox soon began to
spread and opposition rose to such a pitch that the practice was discontinued, until the medical
profession, after years of labor, persuaded the people to again submit to it.
"One hundred forty-two years later, Carlo Ruta, Professor of Materia Medica at the University
of Perugia, Italy, protested against the deadly custom in these scathing words:
"In Ancient Greece and Rome, the MIGHTY NATIONS OF MIGHTY MEN, there was no
inoculation — no vaccination — and no smallpox." These nations have been known down
through history as being famous for their general habits of health, cleanliness and stability as
well as their vigor and strength. Among the Greeks and Romans smallpox was unknown until it
was carried there by the inoculators from other countries.
INOCULATION IN AMERICA
In America, inoculation for smallpox appears to have been first introduced in 1721 by Cotton
Mather, a clergyman. His method was that of taking a toothpick and dipping it into the pus from
a pustule of a smallpox patient and smearing it into a scratch on the arm of a well person. He
inoculated 224 persons during the first six months of his experimentation. Six of them died
from poisoning, six had no apparent reaction at the time and the rest suffered reactions of
varying intensity.
"He was bitterly attacked for recommending such a practice," says Dr. Clements, "and for a
time his life was in danger. This incident encited strong opposition to inoculation, in this
country . . . A public meeting was called in Boston where the practice was deprecated as
causing the death of many persons.
"It was contended that the operation was likely to prove most dangerous to those submitting to
it. In the meeting the following resolution was agreed upon and published by the public
authorities:
"A resolve upon a debate by the people of Boston concerning inoculation of smallpox, on the
21st day of July, 1721.
"It appears by numerous instances that it has proven the death of many persons even after the
operation, and brought distemper upon many others which have in the end proven fatal to
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them; that the natural tendency of infusing such malignant filth in the blood is to corrupt and
putrefy it, and if there be not a sufficient discharge of that malignity by the place of inoculation
or elsewhere, it lays the foundation for many dangerous diseases; that the operation tends to
spread and continue the infection in a place longer than otherwise might be (as in the case of
smallpox); that the continuance of the operation among us is likely to prove of the most
dangerous consequences.
"By the Select Men of the Town of Boston, July 22, 1721"
We observe, here, that the Founding Fathers of this country were intelligent men who were
vitally concerned with the health and welfare of the people whom they governed. Although this
was years before our revolution, these same men, no doubt, played a part in shaping the
destiny of this country. This was also before the medical association got its strangle hold on
the health of our people and prostituted the art of healing to the business of making money
without giving "full value received". Those leaders with ideals and high purposes were not able
to hold the gilted-edge vaccination monster at bay very long. The high pressure "tactics" of
the serum promoters finally corrupted the minds of the people and they were induced to submit
to full scale vaccination in many states. America, today, is unfortunately, one of the most
lucrative fields for medical exploitation.
Our Constitution promises the people freedom but the enslavement of compulsory vaccination
hounds the employees and personnel of our tax supported institutions such as Civil Service,
county and state hospitals and institutions, state colleges, military service, many public schools
and some entire states. There is absolutely no proof of benefits from vaccination and no sound
basis for its compul
sion but it is forced into operation from year to year and the outraged taxpayers are forced to
pay for it.
The useless and hazardous but inflexible law that requires vaccination in order
to travel abroad brands U. S. as backward and unscientific. Other countries have learned the
fallacy of vaccination and discarded it as worthless and deadly.
"Medical schools claim that the theory of inoculation is based on scientific facts but history
proves that this claim is false. What are these so-called, scientific facts? Where are they (if
any)? Medical history discusses many theories and hypotheses, but it describes no scientific
facts. It is a gross misrepresentation to hold that the superstitious practice of barbarians ‘is
based on discoveries made in the fundamental sciences,’ or on scientific facts." — Clements.
The testament from medical history itself proves that smallpox increased tremendously after
the enforcement of vaccination and at the present time there are far more deaths and diseases
from vaccination itself than from the diseases the vaccinations are supposed to prevent.
Figures and case histories to support this statement are given elsewhere in this book and in
many other books on vaccination.
Lady Mary Wortly Montague was said to have been the one who introduced inoculation into
England in 1717 after she returned from the Orient (in Turkey, where her husband was an
ambassador). Inoculation was in its popular experimental stage there at that time. The custom
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had probably been taken by the Arabs into Africa, notably, those countries near the Red Sea.
From there it may have been taken into Europe by way of the Bosphorus. When Lady
Montague spoke of this practice of arm-to-arm inoculation to Jenner he said:
"Ay, but the Glouchestershire dairymaids have a better trick than that. They say that if a person
takes the cowpox from the cow, he will never after have smallpox. Now cowpox is smallpox of
the cow. Cowpox is not infectious; a person once having cowpox will never have smallpox
afterwards, and there are no dangerous results to be anticipated, as there are with (arm-to-
arm) inoculations."
All these claims have been refuted by scientific findings, but as Jenner was not a scientist he
was satisfied to accept the opinions and superstitions of unlearned dairymaids. Science has
later presented sound proof that cowpox is not the same as smallpox and does not protect
from smallpox or even from cowpox.
Space will not permit the quoting of all the qualified authorities who brought forth evidence that
cowpox has no relation to smallpox and cannot immunize against it. A few will show the trend
in this direction.
Joseph Swan, in his comprehensive work, "THE VACCINATION PROBLEM" (pp. 87 — 102)
gives the results of government surveys and reports of doctors and scientists who investigated
this matter. He reports Sir Thomas Watson (the distinguished surgeon and a believer in
vaccination) who said:
"A little consideration will suffice to show that the vaccine disease is suigeneris. In no sense
does it own its origin to smallpox. There is no such relation between the two. . . The true
attitude of cowpox towards smallpox is an attitude of antagonism." (British Medical Journal,
Jan. 17, 1880)
"COWPOX HAS NEVER BEEN CONVERTED INTO HUMAN SMALLPOX, AND IN THEIR
CLINICAL HISTORY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY, NATURAL COWPOX AND HUMAN SMALLPOX
ARE SO DIFFERENT, THAT THE COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGISI’IS NO MORE PREPARED
TO ADMIT THEIR IDENTITY THAN HE IS PREPARED TO ADMIT THE IDENTITY OF
COWPOX AND SHEEP-POX OR SMALLPOX AND THE PLAGUE." (p. 328, Bacteriology and
Infectious Diseases, Fourth Edition, by Crookshank)
Dr. (later Sir) William Osler, one of the most highly respected medical authorities, although
an advocate of vaccination was forced, by factual evidence to admit the dangers attending this
practice. He did not endorse Jenner’s exaggerated promises of lifetime immunity without
danger. In his "Principles and Practice of Medicine", p. 330, 8th Edition, he wrote:
"With the greatest care (in vaccinating) certain risks are present . . . A quiescent malady may
be lighted into activity by vaccination. This has happened with congenital syphilis, also with
tuberculosis." (emphasis supplied)
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When Jenner promised the world that his cowpox vaccinations would give lifetime immunity
"with no dangerous results" as with the usual inoculations, he admitted that inoculation had
always been accompanied with danger that all recognized. It was not long, however, before
Jenner’s cowpox vaccinations were followed by death and disease and that practice was also
branded as dangerous and deadly.
Regarding the increased death-rate due to vaccination, Herbert Spencer states in his Facts
and Comments:
"Jenner and his disciples have assumed that when the vaccine has passed through the
patient’s system he is safe against smallpox, and there the matter ends . . . I propose to show
that there the matter does not end. The interference with the order of Nature has various
sequences other than those counted upon. Some have been made known.
"A Parliamentary Return issued in 1880 (No. 392) shows. . . that there was a decrease of
6,600 (per million births) in the deaths of infants from all causes; while the deaths caused by
eight specified diseases, either directly communicable or exacerbated by the effects of
vaccination, increased from 20,524 to 41,353 per million births per annum — more than
double. It is clear that far more were killed by these other diseases than were saved from
smallpox."
Vaccination was made compulsory in England in 1853. Judging by the data from the above
quoted Parliamentary Return, it would appear that after 27 years of enforced vaccination, the
death rate increased only among the vaccinated diseases. The decline in deaths from other
causes was, no doubt, brought about by the improvement in sanitation and nutrition that came
into prominence about that time. It was around 1840 that Sylvester Graham, Dr. Trall and
other pioneers of the new health movement emphasized the importance of correct nutrition
and through this teaching they helped raise the health standards that saved many lives. If
vaccination had not been persisted in, the great improvements in sanitation and nutrition would
have had a better chance to eliminate disease. But as it is, we now have a greater scourge of
killer diseases than at any other time in recorded history; and much of it is traceable to
vaccination.
Dr. W. R. Hadwin who had considerable experience with smallpox patients in the hospitals of
England and had seen the tragic results of vaccination, gave lecture in Liverpool where he
discussed the typical excuses and evasions made by Jenner regarding the complaints and
failures of his vaccinations. Excerpts from this lecture are as follows:
"Now, after Jenner had written a paper on this wonderful legend of the dairymaids, there came
forward on every hand no end of cow-doctors who had a large experience in the matter, and
had literally flooded him with evidence of people who had had cowpox vaccinations and later
contracted smallpox.
"Here was proof that he could not ignore . . . But Jenner was one of the most resourceful men
in excuse making that ever lived; let anyone read his and there will be no difficulty in coming to
that conclusion.
"‘Ay’, said Jenner, ‘There are two kinds of smallpox; there is a genuine kind and a spurious
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kind, (laughter from the audience) and those who have been vaccinated and had smallpox
afterwards, they have been vaccinated with spurious cowpox, but those who have been
vaccinated and have not had smallpox afterwards, they have been inoculated with the genuine
variety.’" (laughter)
Jenner had no answer when asked how to tell the difference between spurious and genuine
cowpox. Neither he nor anyone else was able to find a safe vaccine, yet the vaccinations were
continued without interruption with the same questionable vaccines that had no proof of purity
or assurance of safety. The people reminded Jenner that a person is just as dead whether he
died of spurious or genuine smallpox and it was little comfort to know that he and the
government approved of the vaccine used.
When Jenner was confronted with the evidence that a group of people had been vaccinated
with the same batch of vaccine but some had developed smallpox and others did not, he told
them that those who were unfortunate enough to get smallpox must have been vaccinated too
soon or too late after exposure to smallpox. But he never was able to determine just when was
the right time to vaccinate. As many of the casualties were among his own patients it was clear
that the whole procedure was operated on a basis of guesswork.
In spite of the obvious failure of vaccination, Jenner applied to the English Government for
money to promote his scheme. It was on the strength of the dairymaid’s story and his
groundless promise of lifetime immunity, and his unscientific experiment on James Phipps that
Parliament gave him 10 000 in 1802. Either Jenner had an unusual gift of persuasion or the
English government was a victim of "wishful thinking" for in 1807 Jenner talked them out
another 20,000 pounds which amounted to 30,000 pounds in all, ($150,000) public funds with
which to propagate his vaccination diseases and death throughout the world.
When Jenner made the statement that one vaccination would give lifelong protection against
smallpox he seemed to expect that people would regard him as some great Oracle whose
words would never be questioned. Even after deaths had occurred from vaccination he
brazenly submitted a manuscript to the Royal College of Surgeons entitled, "An Inquiry into
the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccine" in which he again stated his theory, " . . . What
renders the cowpox virus so extremely singular is, that the person who has been thus
affected is forever after secure from the infusion of smallpox; neither exposure to the
various effluvia nor the insertion of the matter into the skin producing the malady."
The complaints continued to pour in but Jenner ignored the facts and like one possessed by an
obsession he wrote in his third publication an answer to the objectors as follows: "Some there
are who suppose the security (Immunity) obtained through the cowpox will be of temporary
nature only. This supposition is refuted, not only by analogy with respect to the habits of
disease of a similar kind, but by incontrovertible facts, which appear again its. . ." (Baron 1, p.
490)
Where (we ask) are these incontrovertible facts? No one has seen them and Jenner never
did bring them forth. But Jenner and a certain class of doctors had discovered that vaccination
could be a paying business even if they couldn’t make it work; so from then on, the colossal
advertising program was set up to propagandize the population into believing in vaccination.
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Lord Lyttleton must have had a stake in this multi-million dollar enterprise when he stated in
the House of Lords: "It is unnecessary to speak of the certainty of vaccination as a preventive
of smallpox, that being a point on which the whole medical profession has arrived at complete
unanimity."
This statement was not quite true because all the enlightened doctors, (of which there were
not a great many) condemned vaccination. But the words of Lyttleton had their desired effect
on the people and that was the purpose of the speech. Everything possible was done to
suppress the facts that revealed the dismal failure of vaccination.
According to Thomas Morgan in his Medical Delusions (p. 48-49) "Jenner soon discovered
that vaccination did not give immunity from smallpox, including some who had been vaccinated
by himself and had died from it. Not wishing to bring vaccination into disrepute, he endeavored
to suppress reports, and in writing to a friend, said, ‘I wish my professional brethren to be
slow to publish fatal results after vaccination.’ and in 1810 he wrote: ‘When I found Dr.
Woodworth about to publish his pamphlet relative to the eruption (smallpox) cases at the
Smallpox Hospital, I entreated him in the strongest terms, both by letter and conversation, not
to do a thing that would so disturb the progress of vaccination.’ (Barron’s Life of Jenner)
"The foregoing plainly proves that Jenner himself was aware of the utter uselessness of
vaccination; but, having received the bounty from the government he preferred to resort to all
kinds of schemes rather than acknowledge its failure.
"From its inception until the present day, the vaccination scheme has been an endless record
of lies, deception, fraud, juggling statistics, and falsifying death certificates in order to preserve
vaccination from reproach and to secure its continuation. . . and all this after more than a
century of terrible experience, which has demonstrated that vaccination has killed more than
smallpox, besides crippling and disfiguring millions more."
In his work on The Value of Vaccination (pp. 68-69) Dr. William Winterburn says that even
"The Royal Jennerian Society" (under Jenner’s direction) in its second report in 1806,
"Admitted having seen a few cases of smallpox in persons who had passed through the
cowpox in the usual way." He says further:
"In the same year the Royal College of Surgeons issued a circular letter to 1,000 of its
members asking their experience with vaccination. They received 426 answers, with the
information of 56 cases of smallpox in the vaccinated, 66 cases of eruption and 24 bad arms."
The London MEDICAL OBSERVER, (VoL VI, 1810) published particulars of "535 CASES
OF SMALLPOX AFTER VACCINATION — the operation having been performed in some
of them by Jenner himself — including their names and the authorities reporting them;
and similar details of 97 FATAL CASES OF SMALLPOX IN THE VACCINATED, with 150
cases of serious injury arising from vaccination among whom were 10 medical men —
with their names and addresses — including two professors of anatomy, who had
suffered from the operation in their own families." (Medical Voodoo — Hale p. 85)
Winterburn gives additional proof of the failure of vaccination to protect from smallpox, in a
report of a "Severe epidemic in Marseilles when 2,000 vaccinated persons were stricken
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with smallpox; and the epidemic of 1831 in Wurttemberg when 995 ‘protected’ ones
succumbed to the prevailing malady."
When Jenner was faced with the disturbing fact that vaccination with cowpox was as much a
failure as the previous inoculations with human smallpox, he invented all manner of excuses
which were as unconvincing as they were useless. His one—track mind seemed to admit no
other thought except pus. So when cow or human putrescence didn’t prevent smallpox he
continued to experiment with other varieties. He noticed that in the suppurating cracks in the
feet of diseased horses there was a putrid mass of pus. This disease was called "horse
grease" by some people but was considered, by some veterinarians, to be a form of syphilis of
the horse. Others said it was a type of consumption or wasting disease. For some
unaccountable reason, Jenner thought this pus would be a good addition to his discredited
vaccines so he injected it into a cow and produced a disease in the cow. With the concoction
of pus from the diseased horse and cow he made a serum. When the people learned what he
had done they protested so violently that Dr. Pearson wrote to Jenner immediately and said,
"For God’s sake take the horse out, or you will damn the whole business."
Following that incident Jenner wrote to a friend and said, "I am on the look-out to be able to
make a fortune; and to appease the public." Then, as Dr. Hadwin related in his famous lecture,
"Jenner decided to take the horse out. But he was still faced with the problem of finding
genuine cowpox. This he was never able to do. . …In sheer desperation, he fell back upon
spontaneous cowpox although he had declared previously, it was absolutely useless in
preventing smallpox. And it is this spontaneous cowpox vaccine, this which was denounced by
Edward Jenner, this which was scouted by the so-called inventor himself as absolutely useless
in protecting against smallpox; this is the stuff that is being used today under the name of ‘pure
calf lymph smallpox vaccine’ and before which the medical profession is bowing, while
professing to follow in the footsteps of Jenner.
"There is not one medical man in 10,000 who has ever seen cowpox in a cow . . - and very few
who have seen a case of smallpox so they really know very little about it. There are two things
the medical profession should learn: The first is to know smallpox when they see it; and the
next Is, to know how to treat it when they do see it." (The Vaccination Delusion, by W. R.
Hadwin, M.D.)
"We will suppose" said Dr. Hadwin, "for the sake of argument, that cowpox is smallpox (as
some doctors still claim) and that when you give a person cowpox -----that is when you
vaccinate him — you give him a mild (or severe) sort of smallpox. Jenner himself, said,
‘Cowpox does not prevent smallpox; it is smallpox.’ So that, according to that theory, you are
literally "smallpoxing" a person when you vaccinate him.. . Jenner said, ‘A person once
vaccinated is forever after secure from smallpox’ and that, ‘re-vaccination would rob his
discovery of half its virtues.’ But what is the medical propaganda telling you? The doctors
know that vaccination will not protect you against another vaccination. If one cowpox
inoculation will not protect you from being cow-poxed again, how on earth is it going to protect
you from being smallpoxed? Why, the very theory of re-vaccination is condemnatory of the
whole creed. If it cannot protect against a mild form in vaccination how can it protect one from
a serious form of smallpox? The most amazing thing on earth is the fact that the medical men
cannot see this." (The Vaccination Delusion — Dr. Hadwin)
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"In his article, ‘The Fraud of Vaccination,’ published last week in "TRUTH, Dr. Hadwin made
some remarks not altogether complimentary to Jenner, the (self proclaimed) discoverer of
vaccination. These remarks led one reader to denounce both Dr. Hadwin and myself — Dr.
Hadwin for libeling one of the greatest benefactors of humanity (she thinks) and myself for
propagating the libel. Dr. Hadwin is well able to take care of himself. For my own part, not
wishing to do any injustice to the name and fame of the late Dr. Jenner, I asked Dr. Hadwin
what he had against him and he replied by sending me a pamphlet he had written on the
subject. This I have compared with the account of Jenner’s life given in the "Dictionary of
National Biography," and the result is so illuminating that I will now give the salient facts as
briefly as possible.
"To begin with, it is clear that Jenner never possessed anything that would be recognized
today as a medical qualification. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a country doctor and
apothecary and at 21 he was sent for two years as a pupil to Dr. John Hunter of London. At 23
Jenner returned to his native village and started to practice as a surgeon and apothecary. He
continued for several years as just a plain, unqualified country doctor. At the end of this time
be made his first bid for fame. In l787 he sent a paper on "The Natural History of the
Cuckoo" to the Royal Society, and as a result, with Hunter’s influence he was elected F.R.C.
Three years later he applied to St. Andrew’s University for an M.D. degree, and as St.
Andrew’s, in those days, was not squeamish about degrees so long as the fees were
forthcoming, Jenner became Doctor Jenner for the modest sum of 15 pounds. (about $75.00 in
those days)
"As for the vaccination discovery it appears to have been founded upon what Dr. Hadwin calls
a superstition among the dairymaids" (The editorial continues with the history of vaccination as
already covered in this chapter so I do not think it is necessary to repeat it He concludes his
article with this paragraph:)
‘What strikes me as remarkable about the whole affair is the ease with which Jenner got his
theory accepted . . . It is true that medical research in the 19th century was not what it is today,
but even then the picture of the whole of the College of Physicians and Surgeons swallowing
the theory of an unqualified country apothecary, based on one totally unreliable experiment,
seems scarcely credible…..I should imagine that he was one of those unscientific researchers
who are always on the lookout for facts to fit their theories, instead of first making of their facts"
Dr. J. W. Hodge, of New York, had extensive experience with smallpox epidemics and
vaccination epidemics also. Out of his wealth of knowledge on this subject he wrote on all its
phases. In a published article dealing with "Some of the False Claims, Erroneous
Deductions and Self Contradictions of the of the Vaccination Dogma" he stated:
"At first it was confidently asserted that vaccination would exterminate small-pox. That claim
has been abandoned by Jenner’s most enthusiastic followers and the claim that re-
vaccination will exterminate smallpox, was set up in its stead. The proof that the theory and the
practice espoused by Jenner have been everywhere abandoned is found in the fact that all
vaccinists now admit the necessity of re-vaccination, but do not agree on the period that may
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"If you ask how often it must be repeated, you will be confronted with a babel of discordant
replies You can choose any answer you please from ‘once only’ of the original Jenner up to an
indefinite repetition, ‘until it no longer takes’, as now prescribed by the Chicago ‘Vaccination
Creed’"
This "Vaccination Creed" formulated by the Chicago Health Department in 1902 stated "True
vaccination repeated until it no longer "takes" always prevents smallpox. Nothing else does."
"The above dogmatic deliverance aptly illustrates the recklessness of the disciples of Jenner in
making bold asseverations in favor of vaccination which scorn the slightest attempt at
verification."
The frequent and variegated vaccinations given to our service men give us a full-scale picture
of what "repeated vaccination until it no longer takes" will do to the body and brain.
Thousands of our healthiest men at the prime of life were rendered insane and millions of
others were infected with disease of every description including the very ones they were
"protected" against. A typical example is that of our Philippine soldiers. According to our
military records: "Every enlisting soldier is subjected to vaccination at the time of being
recruited, and revaccinated, not only on entering the U S Army, but also as often after that as
seems advisable by the Army medical authorities " Chief Surgeon of the U. S. Philippine Army,
said in his report, regarding the high incidence of smallpox among his vaccinated men "I can
say that no Army was ever more thoroughly looked after in the matter of vaccination than ours.
AND RE-VACCINATION MANY TIMES REPEATED WENT AS REGULARLY AS THE DRILLS
AT A REGULAR POST." (emphasis supplied)
Yet, the records show a steady increase of smallpox among these men:
In 1888 — there were 76 cases of smallpox and 21 deaths from this cause.
In 1890 — there were 207 cases of smallpox and 78 deaths from this cause.
In 1900— there were 246 cases of smallpox and 113 deaths from this cause.
246 cases of smallpox and 113 deaths among the thoroughly and frequently vaccinated men
would hardly bear out the claim of the Chicage Creed, that says:
Jenner and his followers had committed themselves to the view that Vaccination gave life-long
immunity to smallpox. Therefore, they asserted that re-vaccination was not merely
unnecessary, but impossible."
Dr. Pearson, one of Jenner’s strongest supporters said, "If a child can be reaccinated, then it
can take smallpox; therefore, vaccination is not an equivalent for smallpox and where, then, is
the good of it?" (Medical Gazette, 1831)
Dr. Pearson also stated, "It has been found that a person whose constitution has distinctly
undergone the vaccine disease is in the future, unsusceptible of that same disease." (I wonder
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Here is an authority on the Jenner theory who promises that if the vaccination "takes" then a
person cannot ever have another vaccination that will "take". This fortunate person is then
supposed to be immune to both smallpox and vaccination reactions (vaccina).
The cases of smallpox and vaccination diseases and deaths continued to increase in large
numbers among Jenner’s prize patients so he and his supporters had to retreat behind a
bulwark of excuses. As usual, these failed to shield them from the rise of public indignation, so
Jenner had to discard the impossible claim of life-time immunity in order to hold onto the
vaccination fantasy at all.
Although they had previously taught that re-vaccination would cancel any hope of protection
from vaccination, they nevertheless, changed their policy and advocated re-vaccination. They
had learned, undeniably, that vaccination would not work and were to learn later that re-
vaccination was even more disastrous but it was continued in spite of this.
"Nothing is more likely to prove hurtful to the cause of vaccination and render the public
careless of securing to themselves its benefits, than the belief that they would require to submit
to re-vaccination every 10 to 15 years."
Years later, the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia shows the change of policy when it
states:
"It is desirable that the operation (vaccination) should be repeated at the age of from 7 to 10
years, and thereafter, if it be possible, at intervals during life." (The more often the
vaccinations, the greater the revenue to the doctors and vaccine promoters. This is the prime
consideration in this business.)
Since numerous examples of the failure of re-vaccination are given throughout this book, only
a few will be mentioned in this chapter to show its position in the history of vaccination.
Dr. Sobatta, of the German Army gave a report of 154 soldiers who had been vaccinated four
times with a lapse of a year and a half between shots. 146 of these cases had reactions of
vaccina, indicating that the vaccinations and revaccinations did not protect for even one and
one-half years.
Percent of
Vaccinations of Boys reactions unsuccessful
Reactions
1st 30 7 23 23
2nd 23 9 14 39
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3rd 14 6 8 36
4th 9 3 6 33
5th 6 4 2 67
The report stated that the 7 boys on the top row (including the 4 who had had smallpox) had
reactions of vaccina indicating that neither smallpox nor revaccination had protected them for
even three weeks. The 9 boys on the second row who had reactions showed that 67 per cent
of the group did not have immunity that lasted even 8 days. Then the 7 boys on the top row
who had been re-vaccinated were re-vaccinated again and 6 of them "took" which showed that
86 per cent of the group did not receive the promised immunity for as long as one week. The
other boy in that group of 7 was reported as unsuccessful because he had developed
dysentery during that week. This is an interesting point because it bears out the contention that
when poisons are introduced into the body the healing mechanism attempts to expel them by
way of diarrhea, mucous discharge, eruptions, etc. The diarrhea was, no doubt, one of the
reactions of vaccina which would indicate that his vaccination also "took", making re-
vaccination a 100 per cent failure in that group.
This is concrete proof that vaccination or re-vaccination does not protect against itself, or
against smallpox and has no constructive quality to recommend it.
One of the favorite arguments of the exponents of re-vaccination is the claim that the re-
vaccinated nurses in smallpox hospitals do not get smallpox. It would be more accurate to say
that the records of the casualties of these re-vaccinated nurses are not made public. We read
in the chapter on Falsified Death Certificates (Book II) that it is an accepted custom among
doctors, to withhold from the death certificate the real cause of death when nurses (and
sometimes when patients) die of smallpox after vaccination; some other causes are given.
However, occasionally the private records are seen and it is then found that the vaccinated
and re-vaccinated personnel show a higher incidence of smallpox and other diseases than do
the unvaccinated laymen.
Many records and testimonies were brought forth when the Royal Vaccination Commission
was making its investigation of this re-vaccination question. W. J. Collins, M.D. and J. A.
Piecton, two of these Commissioners, after weighing the evidence of hundreds of witnesses
who had testified before the Royal Commission, recorded their joint conclusions on this matter
in the minority report (p. 61, par. 152) as follows:
"When we consider the large number of attacks and deaths by smallpox which have occurred
among our thoroughly re-vaccinated army . . . as well as the number and fatality of re-
vaccinated persons attacked by smallpox in London and at Warrington and Dewsbury, we are
forced to the conclusion that the remarkable immunity recorded in the cases of nurses in
smallpox hospitals cannot be accounted for by the fact that they have been re-vaccinated.
"In the hospital at Bicetre during the siege of Paris, in the midst of a larger accumulation of
smallpox patients than has ever been known before or since, the immunity of those
attendants and doctors who neglected re-vaccination was even more marked than in the
case of the orderlies who were nearly all re-vaccinated. We attach considerable
importance to the narrative given by M. Colin, Chief Medical Officer to the Bicetre Hospital
during the siege.
"The point of this narrative is that while 15 of the re-vaccinated or well protected orderlies took
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the disease (smallpox), not one of the 80 who composed the medical and nursing staff, so
many of whom had neglected re-vaccination, was attacked.
"It is sufficiently clear," declared the Royal Vaccination Commissioners, "that M. Cohn, though
an impassioned advocate of vaccination, was so struck with the complete immunity of the
medical and nursing staff, who by their neglect of re-vaccination appeared to offer less
guarantee of protection than the orderlies, nearly all of whom had been re-vaccinated under
his own eyes, that he thought it necessary to attempt some explanation." (THE VACCINATION
PROBLEM, by Swan, p. 8)
Japan is one of the most glaring examples of the failure of vaccination and re-vaccination. Dr.
Ruta, in his review of world statistics on smallpox reported:
"Between 1886 and 1892, there were 25,474,370 vaccinations and re-vaccinations performed
in Japan, which meant that about two-thirds of the entire Japanese population, already
vaccinated by the law of 1872, were re-vaccinated. During that 7-year period (1886-1892) of
thorough re-vaccination, there were reported 165,774 cases of smallpox with 28,979
deaths."
When our U. S. Army of occupation moved into Japan after World War II, we could have been
the means of liberating these needy people from this curse of medical ignorance, but instead,
our medical, drug and chemical companies moved in also with their program of exploitation,
and as a result, under the MacArthur regime, "The people were given the largest immunization
and vaccination treatment in history. Every Japanese, received two smallpox shots making a
total of 160 million vaccinations." (LIFE — Aug. 22, 1955)
CHAPTER V
CANCER CAUSED BY VACCINATION
"The chief, if not the sole cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination."—Dr. Robert
Bell, the famous cancer specialist of the British Cancer Hospital.
We do not claim that vaccination is the only cause of cancer although Dr. Bell (quoted above)
observed so many cases of cancers at the site of the vaccination and elsewhere, but directly
traced to this cause that he affirmed that vaccination was the cause of the great increase in the
cancer rate.
Dr Bell is just one of the many authorities who have been faced with the uncomfortable
realization that the blood contamination from vaccines is one of the leading causes of cancer.
"I HAVE REMOVED CANCERS FROM VACCINATED ARMS EXACTLY WHERE THE
POISON WAS INJECTED."
"Cancer was practically unknown until cowpox vaccination began to be introduced. I have had
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Dr. Herbert Snow, Surgeon of the London Cancer Hospital, had this to say:
"I am convinced that some 80 per cent of these cancer deaths are caused by the
inoculations or vaccinations they have undergone. These are well-known to cause grave
and permanent disease of the heart also."
Dr. Dennis Turnbull, who had studied cancer for 30 years declared:
"I have no hesitation in stating that in my judgement the most frequent disposing
condition for cancerous development is infused into the blood by vaccination and re-
vaccination."
Dr. Forbes Laurie, late Medical Director of the Metropolitan Cancer Hospital, (London) said:
"No candid and scientific inquirer who has read the works of such authorities as Doctors
Creighton, Crookshank and Scott Tebb, can be surprised that an alarming increase in cancer
is now evident. Those who adopt the brutal practice of calf-lymph vaccination are but too
surely sowing the wind which they must inevitably reap as the whirlwind, a whirlwind of
corruption, disease and national deterioration. Where the so-called, human lymph is
employed, syphilis, leprosy and tuberculosis follow in its train; and wherever calf-lymph is
used, tuberculosis and cancer spread like a conflagration.
Sir Thomas Paget (M.D.), tells us that "the progress of vaccine infection in the blood shows us
that a permanent morbid condition is established; in the tissues themselves, it is also
established by this specific poison."
Dr. Benchetrit states that serums and vaccines "are principally responsible for the increase of
those two really dangerous diseases, cancer and heart disease."
Dr. F. P. Millard, prominent Osteopath of Toronto and President of the National League for
Prevention of Spinal Curvature says: "Abolish vaccination, and you will cut the cancer death-
rate in half."
Although there have been thousands of cancers caused by vaccination space will not permit
the reviewing of the case histories or even a small fraction of them. The photographs below will
give an idea of the tragic condition and intense suffering brought about by this curse of the
modern age — vaccination.
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She was treated by more than a dozen doctors and cancer specialists
but the condition grew steadily worse until death relieved her of her
agony. Before her death she requested that a photograph be taken of
the cancer in order that others might see the results of vaccination and
be warned, in time against this ever present danger of vaccine
poisoning.
The cancer does not always start immediately. It usually takes months
or years for the poisons to degenerate enough tissue for a cancer to
form.
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The 1955 advertising circular sent out by the American Cancer Society, states:
"Cancer will strike one of every four persons now living according to the present
estimates.
"MORE CHILDREN FROM 3 TO 15 YEARS OF AGE DIE OF CANCER THAN FROM ANY
OTHER DISEASE".
This is a shocking, tragic situation when we consider that just a short time ago — less than 50
years — cancer was unheard of among children. It was, even then, a rare disease associated
with old age degeneration. But today, after the intensive vaccination programs conducted
several times a year in the schools, cancer has become so prevalent that it is now taking a
death toll among the children that is almost unbelievable.
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According to the report of the American Cancer Society, "The cancer death rate has increased
from 65 persons per 100,000 in 1900 to 134.8 persons per 100,000 in 1948."
Newsweek magazine (April 25, 1955) stated that cancer took 128,000 lives in 1933. In 1953
(just 20 years later) the death rate from cancer had increased to 224,000 with an estimated
cost of $175,000,000 in hospital bills and $12,000,000 yearly loss of productivity of the
afflicted.
The recent 1955 report of the American Cancer Society, stating that cancer strikes one out of
every four persons in the United States, means that 25 per cent of the people are cancerous.
Our present population is 160,000,000. Every fourth person, or 25 per cent of our population
amounts to 6,400,000 people. Is this our present cancer rate, as compared to only 224,000
two years ago in 1953? If these figures are right then our cancer rate has increased from
128,000 in 1933 to 6,400,000 in 1955 which is an increase of 6,272,000 cases of cancer in the
short span of 22 years. This staggering increase in a preventable disease is a grave
reflection upon our present system of living with its popularized blood pollution practices by
way of vaccination campaigns and mass poisoning as a result of government enforced
spraying of fruits and vegetables with deadly lead arsenate and other poisons. The power
politics of the drug and chemical companies have also influenced legislation to set aside vast
sums of the taxpayer’s money with which to buy their poison chemicals, such as chlorine,
fluorides, etc., for contaminating the public water supply and for enforcing tuberculin testing of
cows. The people are told that these practices are beneficial but facts disclaim these
statements. (See the chapters on DRUGS vs. HEALTH and THE CASE AGAINST
TUBERCULIN — Book II)
Dr. S. S. Goldwater, New York Commissioner of Hospitals pointed out in The Modern
Hospital Magazine that the present measures used to check contagious diseases may permit
of longer life — but not of stronger life. As a result of the drugs, vaccines and other
suppressive treatments used to check diseases, he says that, "chronic diseases are growing
at such a rate that America may become a nation of invalids. Over half the hospital beds
are filled with chronic sufferers, both old and young." (from Health Practitioner’s Journal,
June, 1944)
There is no argument against the urgent need for the prevention and cure of cancer. Doctors
as well as laymen recognize the dangers of this advancing menace; but there is great
confusion and conflict regarding theories and practices used in treating cancer. The medical
and non-medical schools of healing have opposing views which set up a state of warfare
between them instead of the unity and cooperation that should prevail in order to solve this
critical problem.. A few of the drugless doctors are using cancer treatments that are 80 per
cent more effective in removing cancer than those used and endorsed by the medical
profession as a whole. But the monopolistic domination of the A.M.A. constantly thwarts these
efforts toward improvement because they cannot collect the fees.
It is no secret that the newspapers are also muzzled by the A.M.A., and are not permitted to
publish any health news, or information or advertise any books about health without the
sanction of the Medical gestapo through their hirelings in the Better Business Bureaus. If
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health information reflects unfavorably on the medical profession or exposes its rackets it is
immediately suppressed no matter how factual and critical to life it may be. The health books in
tax supported public libraries and schools are also limited to the out-of-date, erroneous,
"slanted" data passed upon or written by medical men.
Because of this medically made iron curtain, the public is shown only one side of the cancer
picture and is constantly being drilled on the one theme endorsed by the medical hierarchy —
that "there are only three proved ways — and only three — to curb cancer (1) X-ray, (2)
radium, (3) and surgery, either singly or in combination. . . " (From CANCER FACTS — 1955
— by the American Cancer Society)
If it is true, as they state, that the medical profession has three proved ways to cure cancer,
why is there such a rapid increase in cancer every year? Why do we see thousands of deaths
occurring all the time, of those who have been treated by these "proved" methods? Also, why
do we have this never ending fund raising cancer campaigns to support laboratories that are
supposed to be hunting a cure for cancer? If one of these claims is true, it cancels out the
other; that is: if they have a proved cure for cancer then it proves that the cancer campaigns
are merely money making schemes for the pleasure and profit of the promoters. On the
other hand, if they know that they have no cure and are deliberately taking money (large
sums) from their patients under the false pretenses of offering a proved cure THAT DOES
NOT CURE, but instead OFTEN KILLS THE PATIENTS, THEN THEY ARE ENGAGED IN
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES and should be dealt with accordingly. The law is not lenient with
fraud cases, even when they do no bodily harm. Many innocent drugless practitioners and
writers of non-medical health books have been barred from the mails on fraud charges merely
because they disagreed with accepted medical theories. (See chapter on MEDICAL
INTERFERENCE)
Medical authorities, themselves, have estimated that "over 90 per cent of the medically
diagnosed cases of cancer die of it in spite of frequent applications of both surgery and
radiation." Dr. James Ewing, one of the "expert witnesses" at a Senate hearing, admitted this
high death rate of medically treated cancer and further voiced the pessimistic view that he "did
not believe there is any reasonable expectation of a great discovery entering the cancer field in
this age." This indicates that he also believes that the cancer campaigns and laboratories are
merely in the business for profit.
Although most of the confessions of failure have been made in the privacy of the medical
conference chambers, a few of them have reached the public by way of reports in medical
journals and sometime through legal investigation. One of the voluntary confessions was made
by Dr. Raballiati, who stated, "In the early part of my career I performed over 500 major
operations for cancer and growths, and it was the uniform lack of success with the knife that
caused me to search for other means of more effectively treating cancer — though without
success."
At the Atlantic City Convention of the American Medical Association, when each cancer
specialist was asked what was the cause of cancer, each one in turn admitted he did not know.
One of them said, "I admit I know neither the cause nor the cure of cancer — and neither do
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This statement, no doubt, voices the orthodox medical view regarding cancer. If they did know
the cause of this disease they would not use the three hazardous treatments they claim are the
only "proved cures".
CANCER — NO MYSTERY
Outside the medical field and among the few independent physicians who dare to think for
themselves, there are to be found those who do know the cause and cure of cancer because
they understand the underlying cause of disease in general. Only when this is known can the
right approach to prevention and cure be attempted with any certainty of success.
Dr. Herbert M. Shelton is one of these men with a clear view as to the cause and control of
disease. In an article in The Hygienic Review, for April, 1949 he writes:
"They (the medical profession) insist upon viewing cancer as some spontaneous horror that
suddenly springs upon its victims from out of the void. They refuse to recognize the office of
the general causes of pathology in the production of cancer.
"So long as cancer "research" is only a search for a "cancer secret" that, after all, is but a
figment of the imagination, their experiments will continue to be sterile repetitions of
experiments that have already been performed .
"What, then, is the cause of cancer? It is an evolution out of toxemia (poisoning). Toxemia
is a chronic state, due to ones enervating (depleting) mode of living. Toxemia produces the
chronic local irritative conditions that form the site of cancer. External irritations such as
tobacco, mineral oil, alcohol, spices, coal tar products, drugs, etc., may and do add to the
cause in many cases, but it is noteworthy that only a few of those subjected to these irritants
develop cancer. In the absence of sufficient tissue degeneration from chronic toxemia, the
body successfully resists these irritants."
J. Ellis Barker has this to say regarding the cause of cancer (This quotation is from his book
on cancer, foreworded by Sir Arbuthnot Lane, famous English Surgeon and physician to the
Royal Family of England.):
"The cause of cancer is two-fold: (1) chronic poisoning and (2) vitamin starvation." (The
required vitamins do not include the manufactured products by that name many of which are
coal tar products and injurious in themselves. The only vitamins worthy of the name are to be
found in natural, unprocessed foods such as vegetables and fruits, nuts and grams Eleanor
McBean) "The poison may be introduced from without or generated from within. In the former
class are aniline and paraffin fumes, deep burns of any kind — including X-ray and radium
burns, and arsenical poisons (as in arsenic insecticides sprayed on fruits and vegetables)
whether breathed in through the lungs or taken as medicine into the system through the mouth
or by subcutaneous injection." Mr. Barker quotes other authorities to show that "continued
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medical use of arsenic, even in extremely small doses, may lead to cancer after 20 years or
more, and even after the discontinuance of the drug." He referred to the Silesian miners in the
cobalt mines of Schineeverg, "who developed a most unusual form of cancer, cancer of the
lungs, from breathing in arsenic after having been employed in the mines for more than 20
years." (Medical Voodoo, p. 207)
Dr. George S. Weger, a "reformed" medical doctor who rose head and shoulders above his
colleagues, summed up the cancer situation, in his "Genesis and Control of Disease. (p.
334). He wrote:
"No germ for cancer has yet been found, and, in the author’s opinion none ever will be found.
Cancer is one disease that is distinctive of toxemia, (poisoning) plus trauma, plus irritation. It
occurs most frequently in selective areas but may be found anywhere in the body. No infection
of secondary nature is necessary to make this abnormality a cancer by conversion from
something else. If a cancerous mass breaks down, softens, and suppurates, it is usually in a
late stage and signifies a serious breach in the defenses — the vitality of the individual — and
the toxemia then immediately takes on the characteristics of sepsis which destroys the life of
the blood.
"Some specialists advance the theory that cancer activity is dependent upon a vegetable
parasite, a protozoa, identified as Trichomonas. It is conceded, however, that this parasite (if
any) is not capable of producing cancer without the accompaniment of two other important
factors: first, proper soilage (toxemia); second, continued irritation or injury."
Another cancer authority who recognized that toxemia or internal poisons cause cancer, is Dr.
Robert Bell, Vice-President of the International Society for Cancer Research. His
statement in The Medical Record for March, 1922 reads as follows: -
"Cancer is rooted in every drop of blood in the body, and we may as well expect to stop the
growing of apples by picking them off the trees. . . as to expect to destroy malignancy in the
human body by attacking the outward growth….. For depend on it, every cell of the body is
affected, and has been affected for a long period, prior to the appearance of the local outcrop. .
. In my view, cancer is the outcome of prolonged toxemia, and a vitiated (polluted) blood
supply affecting the nervous system and the efficiency of the endocrine glands, which explains
the absence of healthy-metabolism and the dire disturbance which we call cancer."
Without going into technical detail on this subject it is, nevertheless, important to show the
relationship of the lymphatic glands to vaccinal cancer. The lymph vessels form a fine
network that interpenetrates the connective tissue and covers the entire body. The continuity of
these lymph vessels "is interrupted by interposed nodular aggregations of lymph tissue which
are known as lymph glands." (Textbook of Anatomy — Cunningham) One of the functions of
the lymph glands is to filter the poisons from circulation before they reach the cells. When an
excess of poison is generated in the body or is introduced from the outside as in vaccination,
the lymph glands become enlarged in an effort to collect and hold in abeyance, the
accumulation of poison. In the case of blood poisoning or a bite of a poison insect a lump
usually forms under the arm or in the groin, to meet the emergency, but disappears again
when the condition has healed. In the case of the continued intake of poison such as tobacco,
coffee, drugs, etc., the glands most effected keep enlarging to accommodate the inflow of
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poison. A protective coating of tissue is formed around the gland to protect the body from
collected poisons. It is this wonderful defense mechanism that the body provides against the
ignorance and willfulness of the individual, that the doctors attack as an enemy. They call it a
wild growth of tissue — a cancer or tumor. To cut or burn (as with radium, X-ray or surgery)
this bulwark of protection is to add insult to injury and allow the self-generated poisons to flow
unchecked through the body and do serious damage to the vital organs, tissues and glands.
Dr. J. Morrison, former Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the Medical Department of
the National University at Washington, D. C., had ample opportunity to observe the lymphatic
involvement in cancer and other diseases during his many years as a specialist in nervous and
chronic diseases. He was formerly a member of the Medical Council and Examiner in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, (Ontaria, Canada). Regarding cancer he said:
"Cancer can only attack the organs and tissues moderately or abundantly supplied by
the lymphatic circulation . . . Therefore, cancer is a disease of the lymphatic system "per
Se" in the same sense that tuberculosis is regarded as a disease of the lungs or respiratory
system."
Speaking of causes he had this to say: "Two well-known causes of this fatal malady are, (1)
nicotine (tobacco) poisoning and (2) vaccination, which is certainly the most prolific
cause of both external and internal cancer. . . Vaccine virus poisons the lymphatic system,
impairs its function and lays the foundation for internal cancer, for which there has hitherto
been no (successful medical) treatment or relief."
In Ontario, Canada, vaccination is very, very seldom performed and it is not a mere
coincidence that cancer is exceedingly rare there. On the other hand, Massachusetts, in the
United States, is one of the nine backward states that defy the Constitution in forcing
vaccination upon school children The cancer rate is so high there, that there have been
established more cancer hospitals per population than in other states not under compulsory
vaccination laws. However the multiplying of medical hospitals has never solved the cancer
problems because their methods defy the laws of nature, ignore the cause and purpose
interfere with the orderly healing efforts of the body. As long as continue to attempt to remove
the cancer without of poison) so long will they meet with failure or, at best, see the temporary
appearance of success. Some of the patients may survive the medical treatments and have
no return of the cancer, so far as outward symptoms are concerned, and yet the interference
with the protective efforts of the lymphatic system may release the poisons into the blood and
cause heart trouble or some other chronic disease.
Some of the most observant doctors have recognized the hazards of cutting or tampering with
a growth on the body. Dr. Leo Loeb, of the University of Pennsylvania, sometimes referred to
as "the father of cancer research in America", said that he learned early in his cancer
practice that "merely drawing a silken thread through a benign, slowly-developing tumor
would transform it into a malignant, rapidly developing one," and that cutting with a knife
had the same effect.
In spite of this knowledge among the best qualified authorities, the cutting and burning is
continued (with X-ray, radium and surgery) — no doubt because it is so profitable. The latest
cancer propaganda urges the women to do some self-diagnosing and hunt for lumps on the
breasts. These lumps are nothing but overworked lymphatic glands and since most people are
toxic they will find some that will feel tender. The medical advice is that they should rush to the
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nearest hospital and have them operated on, but the advice of common sense and sound
reasoning is to leave them alone and do some internal housecleaning in the form of fasting
and proper diet.
The American Cancer Society, in a circular entitled FACTS AND FALLACIES ABOUT
CANCER says: "Cancer is not caused or cured by any known diet." Since most of the
statements in that leaflet are false, this one is not to be taken seriously either. Abundant
evidence to the contrary proves this claim to be without foundation in fact.
Dr. Willard Parker, who for 30 years held the chair of surgery at Columbia University
Medical School was quoted as saying:
"Luxurious living, and particularly excess in animal food, increases the waste products of the
body, which if retained in the system have a tendency to produce abnormal growths . . .
Cancer is to a great degree one of the final results of a long continued course of error in
diet, and a strict dietetic regimen is, therefore, a chief factor in the treatment — preventive and
curative."
Another authoritative voice to be heard on this subject is that of Dr. Horace Packard who in an
address to the Homeopathic Surgical and Gynecological Society of Chicago in 1915 said:
Mineral salt, needless to say, does not mean common table salt (sodium chloride) which is a
poison irritant in itself, and excessive use of which can cause death in a few hours. The foods
high in mineral salts are fresh vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts, grains, sea plants, etc.
This partly accounts for the remarkable recoveries of cancer patients who had been given up
as hopeless by the medical doctors but who went on a simple fast followed by a grape diet or
carrot juice diet at home. Many reports have been received of recovery from cancer of the
stomach after a systematic raw carrot juice and vegetable diet but the carrot juice had a
negative effect on cancer of the liver. Many cases of external and internal cancer have been
reported cured as a result of a fast followed by a 30-day diet of fresh (unsprayed) grapes.
Some used crushed grape leaf poultices on the external cancer. Others have recovered on an
extended fast including water but no food or juices. One cancer patient did not respond to this
or any other treatment. She had been under medical care and had received the full course of
X-ray, radium and surgery, before she decided to go to a drugless sanitarium to try the fasting
and diet regimen. Even fasting cannot save the patient when cell degeneration has advanced
to the point where a large percentage of a vital organ has been destroyed. However, even
these hopeless cases experience an easy and more painless death by fasting, this is far
superior to morphine or other drugs.
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Since fasting (the foundation of healing) is not taught in the schools, not even medical schools,
where healing should be taught, how shall we learn the correct technique of this important
healing measure. Few writers are sufficiently experienced in fasting to be qualified to write on
this subject, therefore there are only a very few dependable books available that should be
used as guides. As wonderful as the fast is in eliminating pain, and disease it should be
preceded by a thorough study of the technique of fasting in order to know what to do about the
reactions or healing crises that occur from time to time as the accumulation of toxins are
brought into circulation to be eliminated. These reactions may be in the form of fainting,
vomiting, diarrhea, coughing or some other violent cleansing effort. Unless the patient
understands the situation he may become alarmed and call a doctor who would give drugs to
suppress the discharges. All drugs are poison and poisons at this critical time could cause
death. The most experienced fasting authority in this country is Dr. Herbert M. Shelton who
has fasted thousands of patients with almost miraculous results. Therefore, his book on
fasting, (Volume II— of THE HYGIENIC SYSTEM) is the standard authority on the subject.
THERAPEUTIC FASTING by Arnold De Vries is another reliable book. This author fasted 45
days to test this system after studying many of the best books on the subject. There are
several other books that cover the subject of the fast but do not give sufficient data on breaking
the fast and how to follow it up. The right way to end or break the fast is as important as the
fast itself and can be dangerous if the wrong foods are eaten at this time. The appetite returns
after a complete fast and the patient may be tempted to eat some of the same foods he
considered nourishing before the fast, only to learn that his body chemistry has normalized
during the fast and many wrong foods will react as poisons. For instance, one person broke
the fast on two chocolate bars and soon died as a result of it. Chocolate contains a poisonous
drug (theobromine) which is almost as harmful as the drugs in coffee. Another person broke
the fast on beef steak and fried potatoes and also died soon after. No one dies of a fast if it is
properly conducted and terminated. Most medical doctors think that fasting is starving but the
average person, even a sick person, can fast 40 days before the starvation process even
begins to take place. This point is usually indicated by the pink, clean tongue, which has been
gray and coated during the fast. This is the cue to break the fast, as the cleansing is
completed. If the fast is continued after that point the body begins to use some of the tissues of
lesser importance in the starvation process. Fasting is never intended to extend into the
starving period, therefore fasting is not starving.
The newspapers quoted the doctors as saying that Bernarr MacFadden died of a three-day
fast. They also quoted his lawyer as saying the same thing. The lawyer, Harry Gilgulin, was
shocked when he read the statement he was supposed to have made. Excerpts from a
published letter (Hygienic Review, Jan 1956) refuting this statement are as follows: "I could
never have made such a statement since I myself fasted some eight or nine times for a total of
175 days and benefitted enormously from each of these fasts. . . Three of my fasts were of 30
days duration and my wife’s two fasts were of 34 and 30-day duration.. . As a staunch
supporter and enthusiastic advocate of hygienic living and an ardent believer in fasting, it must
be obvious to you that I could never have made the statement attributed to me by the
newspapers.
"What I did tell the reporters was that whenever Mr. MacFadden didn’t feel well, he would go
on a short fast of several days duration . . . He had fasted three days but broke the fast
improperly by one small glass of fruit juice in the morning and a meat meal with eight or more
pals of butter in the evening and that the improper breaking of the fast is not only dangerous
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Mr. MacFadden was taken to the hospital and what they did to him in the way of shots and
medicines was not stated, but he died soon after being taken to the hospital. People do not die
of three day fasts, especially athletic men like MacFadden who are used to fasting. I talked to a
man who had just completed a 21 day fast to restore his eyesight. He had been totally blind for
9 months. The fast had cleansed his blood stream enough to enable the opaque film over his
eyes to dissolve and he was reading a newspaper when I met him. Soon after that I talked with
a man who had just completed a 60 day fast to cure a persistant case of psoriasis. He was
entirely healed after the fast on water — no food or juices — and had so improved in health
and strength that he was helping the workmen dig a swimming pool at Dr. Bernard C. Jensen’s
health sanitarium where he fasted.
"The effects of fasting are certain. There is nothing hit-or-miss about the process. It works
always in the same general direction."
This deviation into the subject of fasting and diet may seem a little off the subject in a chapter
on cancer yet it is of great importance in that it offers the best solution to the cancer problem.
In fact it is the basis of healing of all diseases, with the possible exception of those which are
products of the imagination. Even in those cases a fast would help the mental and emotional
re-adjustment.
Since beginning this chapter on cancer my attention has been called to a severe, seemingly
hopeless case of cancer of seven years standing. The woman has been a bed patient, unable
to walk for many years. Recently she abandoned her medical treatment and, as a last resort,
decided to try what her doctors called a "crackpot diet." This simple diet, so frowned upon by
medical men, is nothing but freshly made carrot juice, one or two quarts a day, a glass or so
every hour. After six days on this carrot juice she had the first peaceful night’s sleep, without
pain, in seven years. At the end of two weeks she could walk, with aid, to the car and go for a
ride. Distressing reactions will no doubt, be experienced within four more weeks but she will be
prepared and understand what to do. She has learned that there is hope of recovery from
cancer and all diseases when the simple laws of nature are understood and followed.
The medical profession boasts of having "three proved cures for cancer" namely X-ray,
radium and surgery, and yet the cancer-rate continues to mount year after year. When people
ask the reason for this, the doctor’s favorite answer is: "The patients came too late — early
diagnosis would have saved them." We might be able to believe this argument if it were not for
the fact that there never was a time in recorded history when there was so much early
diagnosis as right now in this country.
This mass diagnosis starts at the tender age of four and a half years when the children start to
kindergarten. The teachers are instructed to examine the children every day for obvious
symptoms of disease and report it to the school nurse. The nurse examines them, herself,
each week and reports her findings to the doctors and the doctors and dentists come in for
their check once or twice a year to round up considerable business for themselves by
frightening the parents into needless treatments and operations for their children. The tonsils
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are the most vulnerable targets of these "mixed up" doctors. Tonsils are very necessary
lymphatic glands of filtration that enlarge when the body is overloaded with incompatible foods
and drugs. Certain drugless doctors claim and have proved that enlarged tonsils are 100 per
cent curable under the right non-medical treatment.
The public is bombarded with cancer literature stressing the need for early diagnosis. The
people are even told to do their own diagnosis — hunt for lumps on the breast, growths,
moles, sores, etc., that could be treated as cancer. And yet, the doctors, themselves, don’t
even know how to detect cancer in many cases. No wonder there is so much confusion,
suffering and death with so many blind leaders of the blind. On page 8 of the Doctor’s Manual
put out by the American Cancer Society we read:
"It is a well-known fact that a considerable number of malignant tumors are not
recognized by the doctors themselves when the patients present the early symptoms of
the disease. The early diagnosis of cancer is the one factor of greatest importance in the
successful control of the disease, but unfortunately the early symptoms of cancer are not
distinctive, and serve only to arouse suspicion of the presence of the disease . . . In most
situations, the dictum holds true that the more certain the diagnosis the less the probability
of cure."
So here we have the admission from the medical cancer field, that they are not sure how to
detect cancer until it is too advanced to be cured.
I have had patients tell me that when they went to the doctor with a painful lump the doctor
said it had not reached the cancer stage and they had nothing to prevent its developing into
cancer but to come back in a few months when it had turned to cancer and they could use their
standard "cures" (?) radium, X-ray, and surgery.
During the frenzy of one of the Cancer Week scare campaigns, someone asked the question,
"Is there not some danger in developing "cancerphobia" in the public mind by this scare-head
publicity?"
Dr. John Cerster, chairman of the New York Committee of the Society for Control of Cancer,
replied that "it would be a good thing if it did; anything that would scare the people into going to
a physician for an examination would be beneficial."
The financial benefit to the doctors is apparent but the benefit to the people is in reverse ratio
to the amount of diagnosis and treatment given. This is obvious since the cancer rate has
quadrupled within the past ten years.
Dr. G. Earl Thomas has charged that, "CANCER IS THE MOST PROFITABLE DISEASE
THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE A.M.A. HAVE."
One of the noted American cancer authorities, Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, senior surgeon of the
New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, denounced the popular medical claim that cancer is a
"surgical disease" when he stated:
"Cancer is not a surgical disease. Neither surgery not X-ray nor radium have changed,
in anyway whatever, the ultimate mortality of cancer in forty years. It was 90 per cent in
1884. Now it is 92 percent".
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For more details on the other side of the cancer question see the book, IS CANCER
CURABLE? published by Health Research.
CHAPTER VI
SYPHILIS AND VACCINATION
"If syphilis were as infectious as most medical men believe it to be, there would not be an uninfected
person in the world."—John Tilden, M.D.
Dr. M. Ricord, one of the most noted authorities on syphilitic affections, in a lecture to medical
men in Paris, said:
"At first I repelled the idea that syphilis could be transmitted by vaccination.
The recurrence of facts appearing more and more confirmatory, I accepted the possibility of
this mode of transmission, I should say, with reserve, and even with repugnance; but today, in
the face of all these facts I hesitate no more to proclaim their reality Who, pray, will run such a
risk to escape smallpox?"
Dr Brundenell Carter, surgeon to St George s Hospital, London, observed: "I think that a
large proportion of the cases of apparently inherited syphilis are in reality vaccinal; and that the
syphilis in these cases does not show itself until the age of from eight to ten years, by which
time the relation between cause (vaccination) and effect (syphilis) are lost sight of."
Dr. Ballard, one of the vaccine inspectors for the English government stated:
There can be no doubt that the vaccine virus and the syphilitic virus may both be drawn at the
same time, upon the same instrument, from one and the same vesicle. The vesicle which is
thus capable of furnishing both vaccine and syphilitic virus may present, prior to being opened,
all the normal and fully developed characters of the true Jennerian vesicle as ordinarily met
with"
In his book entitled COMPULSORY VACCINATION, from his years’ world wide research, Dr.
J. M. Peebles (M.D., Ph.D.) gave an account of seventeen school girls who developed syphilis
as a result of vaccination at Lebus, near Frankfort Yet the vaccinator’s report stated that the
vaccinations were from the regular, official calf-lymph "absolutely pure, glycerinated, sterilized,
all germs but the ‘vaccine sporule’, destroyed, hermetically sealed until used."
"Think of it, fathers and mothers, who would bring your daughters up to be comely, chaste and
pure, that your state and municipality should place you under absolute compulsion to observe
a rite to taint these maidens with the disease against which civilization revolts."
Nichols adds, "At the present time little children are subject to the assault (with a deadly
weapon—the poisoned needle) , and a healthy, unvaccinated child, in the eye of the law, is
considered a nuisance and as dangerous at time of an epidemic as a mad dog."
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"Viewed in this light," Nichols continues, (in his BLUNDER IN POISONS page 41) the blunder,
perhaps of greater gravity than that of transmission of tuberculosis by vaccination, again
becomes the crime; vaccination for mere business interest would be (and is) a deliberate
assault on the health of a community, and the medical man committing the assault might well
be termed ‘a perverter of common sense and an enemy of the human race’ ".
"Think of the unparalleled absurdity of deliberately infecting the organism of a healthy child
with the poisonous matter obtained from the sores of a sick animal, under the pretense of
protecting the victim of the ingrafted disease, against the contagion of another disease.
"So-called successful vaccination is nothing less than the implanting into the body, the virulent
products of diseased animal tissue, with the effect of inducing actual disease. The
performance of such an operation, in the very nature of the case, violates every principle of
modern aseptic surgery, the legitimate aim of which is to remove from the organism the
products of disease and never to introduce them."
So enormous are the profits from vaccination that many efforts are made by members of the
medical profession to minimize the dangers of syphilis caused by vaccination. One of these,
Dr. Henry A. Martain, of Boston wrote a paper denying the possibility of syphilitic infection
from this cause. The London Lancet (Medical Journal) in criticizing this paper said: "The notion
that animal lymph would be free from chances of syphlitic contamination is so fallacious that
we are surprised to see Dr. Martain reproduce it."
Professor Fournier said: "A real and serious danger incurred in vaccination is that every
(vaccinated) individual is destined to undergo, one or several times in his life the danger of
vaccinal syphilis. For myself alone, I have knowledge of two actual epidemics of this disease
(vaccinal syphilis)".
In the Encyclopedia Britannica (9th edition) under the heading "Smallpox— Cowpox," Dr.
Charles Creighton says:
"The real affinity of cowpox is not to smallpox, but to the great pox (syphilis). The vaccinal
roseola is not only very like the syphilitic roseola, but it means the same sort of thing. The
vaccinal ulcer of everyday practice is, to all intents and purposes, a chancre (syphilitic ulcer)."
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"The photographs, Fig. 1 and 2 show the marked similarity between the smallpox vaccination
roseola and the syphilis ulcer.
In his voluminous work on vaccination Crookshank tells us that "Auzias Turenne, of France,
was the first to point out that cowpox is analagous to syphilis; but even the earliest opponents
of vaccination regarded the disease as "lues bovilla", (syphilis) and it had even been
suggested that the cow had derived the complaint from milkers who were affected with
syphilis. However, there is no more ground for believing in the latter theory than there is for
believing that cowpox is produced by milkers suffering from smallpox.
It is the course which the malady runs which brings it so closely into relations with
syphilis…….There appears to be very little doubt that syphilis may be transmitted by
vaccination; but many cases which are attributed to syphilis are unquestionably the full effects
of cowpox virus; and nothing could more clearly point to the analogy between the two diseases
than the difficulty in diagnosing the exact nature of vaccinal accidents (diseases)".
"Again, if we study the effects of syphilis artificially inoculated on the human subject, the
appearance in some cases are strikingly similar to inoculated horse-pox. Without entering into
a prolonged discussion of this subject, I will refer, as an example, to the progress in Dr.
Ricord’s cases of syphilization. As in inoculated horse-pox we have the stages of papule,
vesicle, ulcer, scab and scar; and no one can compare his plates with Jenner’s without being
struck with the similarity in their appearances. (See Fig. 2 and 3)
Fig. 3
"The results of the artificial inoculation of syphilis were unknown to Jenner, but if they had
been he would scarcely have failed to have observed the likeness between them. So striking
indeed are the appearances, that it is possible that. by judicious selection, a strain of syphilitic
lymph might be cultivated which would produce in time, all the physical characteristics of the
‘vaccine’ vesicle."
MORE EVIDENCE
"To the scientific physician, conclusive evidence of the real affinity of cowpox is furnished at a
glance, by the pathological diagnostic table of M. R. Leverson, M.D., Ph. D. . .. which was
read before the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis, (Jan. 1896)
and has been unquestioned by the profession.
"The table which I now present to you, is a condensed statement in paralleled columns, of the
primary and secondary symptoms of smallpox, cowpox and syphilis, from the separate
descriptions of the most renowned authorities upon these several diseases. It shows an almost
complete likeness between the two latter and the total unlikeness of each to (natural,
uninduced) smallpox. Here we have some of the highest authorities who have produced the
clearest evidence showing that vaccinia (vaccination disease) is modified syphilis. The
chronic and protean manifestations which, at times, follow vaccination must have impressed us
all with their close analogy to syphilitic lesions."
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SMALLPOX
SYPHILIS or Greatpox
1 — Eruption local, deep, in the corium of skin or subcutaneous tissue, or in the mucous
membrane.
2 — Constitutional symptoms do not precede but follow the eruption in all cases.
3 — Pustule always the same, first a papule rapidly becoming pustular without perceptibly
passing through a vesicular stage, 7 to 10 lines in diameter, scooped out, deep funnel-shaped
with sloping often elevated, .not perforated by a hair, has a fungoid membrane at floor,
tendency to a gnawing ulceration.
4 — Absolutely the same as the cowpox.
5 — Similar to the scar of cowpox.
6 — Absolutely the same as the cowpox.
7 — Not infectious.
8 — Inoculable.
9 — Absolutely the same as cowpox.
"The smallpox patient, upon recovery, is free from the disease even if he is marked by scars.
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"On the contrary, there are various subsequent manifestations in vaccination, or cowpox,
which are remarkably like those that appear in what are known as secondary and tertiary
periods of syphilis.
"We have tabulated in parallel columns some of the many manifestations that appear in both
these diseases, and a glance will reveal their striking similarity."
MANIFESTATIONS OF AFTER-EFFECTS OF
Smallpox, to a large extent, went out when improved sanitation came in, except in countries
where vaccination is compulsory. There the smallpox epidemics continue to ravage the
population at frequent intervals.
Un-refutable, scientific evidence proves that smallpox and cowpox are not the same disease,
therefore, cowpox vaccination cannot introduce anti-bodies into the system that fight smallpox,
as is claimed by the medical doctors.
As stated before, smallpox, (as well as disease in general,) is an enforced cleansing effort of
the body. If the patients get eruptive diseases, like smallpox, after vaccination it merely
indicates that they have internal vitality enough to throw off some of the excess poison in this
violent way. Usually, however, the vaccine poison so lowers the resistance of the body that it
cannot rally enough reserves for a defensive action in the form of an eruptive disease.
Therefore, the poisons are retained where they corrode and destroy the tissues of the heart,
kidneys, lungs and other vital organs. This suppression of symptoms and masking of one
disease with another — this delayed reaction in disease causation — is what the medical
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Dr. Chauven, in an address before the French Academy of medicine, October, 1891, reviewed
the results of his years of detailed and carefully tested experiments. In the face of undeniable
facts he was forced to the conclusion that:
(1) "Vaccine virus never gives smallpox to anyone." (Although it produces many diseases,
some of which resemble smallpox and are diagnosed as smallpox and are more damaging
than smallpox.)
"Vaccinia is, in all probability, a modified form of syphilis, as has been clearly pointed out by
Doctors Charles Creighton and E. M. Crookshank, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in
King’s College, London, two of the highest authorities on these subjects."
CHAPTER 7
OTHER DISEASES CAUSED BY VACCINATION
"Are we the issue of an inferior stock, or are we inferior representatives of men who were physically and
culturally our superiors?"—From Genesis and Control of Disease — Weger
Even now, in what is sometimes called the enlightened age, we still hear some people, (not so
enlightened) claim or repeat what they have been taught to say, that "vaccination has reduced
smallpox and certain other diseases, and has been a blessing to mankind." Those who make
this claim have not bothered to consult authentic records or become acquainted with the most
elementary facts on the subject.
When traced down, these statements are found to originate from the fabricated propaganda of
those who profit from the sale of serums and drugs. Unfortunately many of these people are in
places of authority where they influence the thinking of students, writers, public officials,
teachers and others who mold the thinking of the masses. These errors in theory and practice
have steadily reduced our nations health to a state of crisis in which 90 per cent of the people
are either critically ill or below par, physically or mentally.
In addition to the vaccination diseases treated separately in other chapters, there are a number
of other serious diseases that have been traced directly to vaccination. Some of the most
noticeably persistent of these will be treated in this chapter.
Dr. D. Killick Millard, Medical Officer of Health, (Leicester, England) in reporting on this subject
stated (in his book THE VACCINATION QUESTION):
"It cannot be denied that vaccination causes, in the aggregate, very considerable injury to
health, most of it only temporary (?) but some permanent. It is true that the deaths certified
as due to vaccination . . . have several times outnumbered those from smallpox, while if
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we have regard for the amount of ill-health caused by the two diseases . . . it looks as if
vaccinia were becoming, so far as the community is concerned, the more serious disease of
the two."
The Report of the Surgeon General of the Army, (1919) vol. I, page 37, gives the number of
admissions to hospitals during the year 1918, on account of vaccinia (vaccination disease) as
10,830.
The Report of the Surgeon General of the Army, (1918) gives me the number of admissions
to hospitals during the year 1917, on account of vaccinia and vaccinal-typhoid combined as
19,608.
Here we find that in only two years of the war and in only one army there were over 30,000
soldiers hospitalized by vaccination. This does not take into consideration the thousands
who were seriously ill but not critical enough to be hospitalized, nor the cases of chronic
disease that developed later as a result of the cumulative effects of poisons from vaccines and
drugs.
Herbert Spencer, in his "History of Epidemics in Great Britain" voiced the sentiments of the
best authorities when he said:
Charles M. Higgins made an extensive and thorough world-wide investigation and study of the
vaccination question and reported most of the pertinent data in his book "The Horrors of
Vaccination Exposed." In his effort to bring the dangers of vaccination to the attention of the
people he, for several years, carried a paid advertisement in one of the large New York dailies,
challenging the New York City and State Health Departments to open their books, and he
"would undertake to prove from their own records that THERE HAD BEEN MORE DEATHS
FROM VACCINATION THAN FROM SMALLPOX IN NEW YORK, EVERY YEAR FOR THE
PAST 15 YEARS."
His challenge was never accepted. The facts were not reported to the people and the killing of
innocent children has continued without interruption, down through the years.
In his book, "Vaccination a Disastrous Delusion" (p. 13) Ernest McCormick, discussed the
findings of the researcher, Sir James Paget as follows:
"In the same cause he finds a probable explanation for the defective eyesight and dentition
which have become so prevalent, giving examples to show that, owing to the teeth and sense
organs arising out of the dermal layer in the embryo, skin diseases, of which vaccination is
one, are likely to produce abnormalities in all of these. According to the LANCET (British
Medical Journal 1904) 85 per cent of school children have defective teeth and 3,000
servicemen (all vaccinated) were returned from South Africa, from that cause alone, while the
Navy is still worse in that respect.
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Sir William Osler (M.D.), in his PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, in discussing
the various characteristics of vaccinia says:
"About the end of the first week: Generalized vaccina; impetigo; vaccinal ulceration; glandular
abscess; septic infections; gangrene."
Dr. Osler is one of the most completely accepted and respected authorities on medicine in the
world. He was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians (London), and Honorary Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins
University, (U.S.). He knew the financial importance of vaccination (to the medical profession)
and he knew the professional hazards of making any unfavorable statements about
vaccination, yet he publicly admitted that some of the most loathsome and painful diseases
including leprosy and syphilis were caused by vaccination.
Ricardo Corfield, of Lowell Ave., Providence, Rhode Island, was vaccinated at the age of 5
years and 4 months in order to secure admission to school. His arm swelled and the ulcer
enlarged until pieces of decayed flesh dropped off leaving the bone exposed. On September
5th the tendons under the right knee became so enlarged and painful that the child cried out in
agony. An incision was made and more than a quart of putrid, brown matter exuded. The shin
bone rotted off." (from — "Victims of State Poisoning", published by Liberator Pub. Co.,
Minneapolis, Minn.)
"The Department of Agriculture, in its efforts to suppress the foot-and-mouth disease traced
the disease to the vaccine virus imported into the United States by our manufacturing chemists
and sold to our people. The investigation revealed that the virus, used upon calves in the
District of Columbia, communicated the foot-and mouth disease to them." (From the
Declaration by the late Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, in an address to the United States Senate,
February 25, 1909.)
From the FARMER’S BULLETIN, (page 15) April 22, 1915, published by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, we have the following statement:
Dr. William Hitchman, Consulting Surgeon to the Cancer Hospital of Leeds and formerly
public vaccinator to the City of Liverpool, expressly stated that, ‘Syphi1is, abdominal
phthisis, scrofula, cancer, erysipelas, and almost all diseases of the skin, have been either
conveyed, or intensified by vaccination."
Dr. Peebles, (world renowned researcher and authority on vaccination) stated in his book on
Compulsory Vaccination:
"We shall never stamp out smallpox, cancer, consumption, or leprosy, so long as we
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continue to STAMP THEM IN through the idiotic and vicious practice of vaccination. The
Germans endeavored to stamp out syphilis by stamping it in with syphilized vaccine. They
have abandoned that practice now and in time they will abandon vaccination altogether."
In the Encyclopedia Britannica (9th edition), under the title of VACCINATION, by Dr. Charles
Chreighton, we find some carefully authenticated statistics showing that vaccination has
caused a great many cases of syphilis, cancer, tumors, scrofula, eczema, tuberculosis,
etc.
In his VACCINE AND SERUM EVILS (page 6) Dr. Herbert M. Shelton discusses some of the
complications that often accompany or follow vaccination. He writes:
From the high ranking medical authority Dr. William Osler we have this concession:
Under the topic heading, INFLUENCE OF VACCINATION UPON OTHER DISEASES, Dr.
Osler says:
"A quiescent malady may be lighted into activity by vaccination. This happens with congenital
syphilis and occasionally with tuberculosis . . . At the height of the vaccination, convulsions
may occur and be followed by hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body)."
Our recent "vaccination" wars have presented a dismal picture of paralysis among the soldiers
with large hospital wards filled with paraplegics (paralysis of both sides) and hemiplegics
(paralysis of one side.) Thus we see that the doctors know and the government knows what
vaccination is doing to our service men and civilians. Why have they turned their "blind side" to
it and allowed it to continue?
Not only do vaccine poisons cause some of the strange and terrible diseases that baffle the
doctors, but these same poisons also increase the incidence of the common "zymotic"
diseases such as measles, chicken-pox, mumps, scarlet fever, etc., which are usually referred
to as "contagious diseases." These diseases are not contagious but are merely cleansing
measures of the body in its effort to eliminate some of the excess poison and waste matter.
Wherever an honest survey is made after a vaccination campaign it is noticed that there is
always a marked increase in disease. Thomas Morgan, in his "Medical Delusions" reports a
survey that was made of the city of Youngstown, Ohio, after a general vaccination order of
school children. "It was found that nearly all the cases of scarlet fever, measles and diphtheria
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What is true of this city is true everywhere, and any close observer can satisfy himself in this
direction."
After reading this I decided to "satisfy myself in this direction" as suggested; so I obtained a
LOS ANGELES COUNTY HEALTH INDEX, which gives the weekly record of diseases for the
entire year (this was 1954).
I was amazed to find that the common diseases mentioned by Morgan, more than doubled
after the annual June vaccination campaign. The figures are given below and will speak for
themselves.
In numerous reports we find incontestable proof from government records and hospital data,
etc., that smallpox increased in the countries having compulsory vaccination. It is only natural
that it should do so because the admitted purpose of vaccination is to engraft a mild form of
smallpox into the patient. Because there is no test and no control that can assure a mild case,
we find that the induced disease is often more severe than natural smallpox, and frequently
terminates in death.
In disregard to the known facts and the statements of the world’s greatest medical authorities
on the subject, the Los Angeles (city and county) health departments claim that their annual
vaccination campaigns have absolutely wiped out smallpox in the county. In this large
population of 4,000,000 people (Los Angeles county) with its thousands of people infected with
disease in each vaccination drive, and the increase of all other diseases after each of these
blood 5 poisoning sprees, the record department omits from the records all the smallpox
cases and issues the report that "there has not been one case of smallpox in the county
for the past ten years." In the complete record of 48 diseases reported, jsmallpox was the
only one on the list that showed no report of cases.
When a "cover-up" job is over-done it makes people suspicious so I went to the County
Hospital to check more closely. They willingly gave me the information I asked for on all other
diseases except smallpox. The record department flatly refused to let me see those records or
even know if these were any cases at that time in the hospital.
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Disgusted, but not discouraged, I walked across the grounds toward the contagion ward and
met a nurse coming from there. I walked with her and chatted a bit then asked her if there were
any cases of smallpox in her department. She said, "Yes". I asked how many there were and
she said, "I haven’t any idea." I said, "I take it from that, that there are more than a half a
dozen?" She said, "Oh, yes — I haven’t been assigned the job of counting them so I really
don’t know." I said, "Are you sure they are smallpox and not just chickenpox" She said,
"They’re smallpox. We keep them separate from the chickenpox."
I rushed back to the record department and told them what I had learned and demanded to
see the records that should be public property in a tax supported public institution. The girl
looked worried and went into the inner office and called someone on the phone. When she
came back she said that the smallpox report was not available as it was being worked on. So
there we have the answer.
Whenever we see a statement about smallpox being wiped out by vaccination, we can be quite
sure that the cases have been concealed in the "closed" contagion ward and the records have
been worked on. Other investigations have shown that in this official scrambling of figures, the
mild cases of smallpox are placed on the list of such diseases as chickenpox and measles,
while the serious cases are recorded as syphilis, scrofula or something else
George Bernard Shaw said, "During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century,
I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the
credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the re-vaccinated cases (of
smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not — except smallpox."
In the American Sector of Occupied Germany, when the American medico-drug combine
moved in for a sweeping vaccination campaign, the Germans begged to be spared, on the
ground that they no longer had the hospitals, help, medicines or equipment that would be
required to take care of the outbreak of disease that would and had always followed
vaccination campaigns. Germany had been under compulsory vaccination in previous years
and her doctors had made lush profits from the crop of diseases induced by each vaccination
drive. When it was seen that the profits were to be made by the foreign invaders (America),
they admitted the uselessness of the practice, as well as the physical and financial
disadvantages to their people.
"Citing an admission by Sir James Paget that vaccination probably effects a permanent
change in the components of the body, he inquires whether it is likely that the constitution can
be altered in relation to one invading agent (like vaccine serum from diseased animal tissue or
pus or from drugs) and remain unchanged in regard to all other invading agents. There is
every reason . . . to believe the contrary, and to think that a system which has taken up a
morbific principle, even though it should acquire thereby, immunity from cognate disease, must
have its power of resistance to perturbing influences in general, diminished.
Mr. Spencer (Herbert) finds evidence of this general relative debility in the greatly increased
severity and enlarged incidence of many diseases such as measles, chickenpox, and
influenza, which, before vaccination became general, were of relatively rare occurrence
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and trifling in their effect. By a comparison of the infant mortality returns in quinquennial (five
year) periods before and since compulsory vaccination, he finds that ‘the mortality from 8
specified diseases, either directly communicable or exacerbated (aggravated) by vaccination,
increased from 20,524 to 41,353 per million births per annum." (From — Vaccination a
Disastrous Delusion, by McCormick - page 13.)
The backbone of the vaccine argument is that it has been made safe —modified — by
passing the virus through a cow and later all the harmful organisms are supposed to have
been killed in the processing and glycerinizing, except a few select ones that are earmarked to
produce the anti-bodies in the human organism.
The absurdity of this is too apparent for any serious argument. (See chapter on HOW
SERUMS ARE MADE — Book II) It has been scientifically proved and tested that what is
promised for vaccine virus is not so. Dr. Cameron, summed this up in his report before the
Lyons Commission when he stated:
If the vaccine virus had been modified or made safe by passing it through the body of an
animal and then processing it, there would not be the ever-increasing list of deaths and
disasters from vaccination. A few of the many examples of this will be given in the following
pages of this chapter. Most of the cases are selected from the Rowton survey of Denver and
Colorado Springs, Colorado. (The addresses are omitted, but on file.)
CASE HISTORIES
Earl Richardson, (Colorado Springs) was vaccinated by the local doctor when six years of
age. Up to that time he was strong and healthy, but 9 days after the vaccination he developed
an illness accompanied by extreme nervousness that the doctor diagnosed as St. Vitus
Dance. He was given an examination and found the heart and other organs to be sound and
unaffected. A few days later complications set in and the doctor was called again. On
examination he found that the boy had developed a valvular heart condition. The mother
took him to Kentucky to three heart specialists who all declared that it was due to infection.
One doctor said the ailment was probably due to vaccination, as he had seen some other
cases of valvular heart trouble develop after vaccination. Four years later, when Mr. Rowton
had his last interview with this family, the child was still too ill to attend school. His mother said
he often had to sleep sitting up in bed on account of the heart condition.
It’s a strange law that compels children to be vaccinated in order to attend school and
then disables them so they cannot attend — anything.
According to NEWSWEEK, April 25, 1955, heart trouble, our number one killer, takes
794,000 victims each year and 10 million Americans suffer from it.
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Less than a third of the deaths were caused by heart trouble 20 years ago. "Today, it causes
more than one death out of every two.
"The cost is staggering: Industry loses the work of 653,000 men annually because of heart
disease disabilities; annual compensation and pensions to veterans total $168,000,000."
Many of these same industries that are pressed with heavy disability costs are the ones that
require compulsory vaccination of their employees.
The heart is the strongest muscle in the body and it takes an extreme amount of poison or
abuse to impair its functioning. Tobacco, liquor, drugs, cola drinks, poison preservatives in
foods and poison spray on farm produce, in addition to the incompatible, devitalized foods are
some of the other poisons that corrode the tissues of the heart as well as every cell in the
body. Arteriosclerosis, which accompanies about half of the heart deaths, is also a disease
which is induced by body poisoning, over-eating of incompatible, devitalized foods and
depleting habits.
Lena Long, (Denver) was vaccinated in October, 1922, in order to attend school. In four days
her arm began to fester and she developed a high fever. She was extremely nervous and
confined to her bed for about a week. A little later she developed pneumonia with symptoms of
tuberculosis. The doctor checked the family records to try to find tuberculosis in the family or
ancestory but none was found. The last report from the mother, Mrs. S. A. Long, was that Lena
was still unable to attend school and was suffering from tuberculosis. Mr. Long (Lena’s father)
was vaccinated the same year, in December, after which 12 boils developed on his neck. This
gave him a great deal of trouble. He had never bad a boil before that time.
Mrs. Donnelly, (Denver) was successfully vaccinated for smallpox on December 21, 1922. A
few hours after the injection she began to experience severe reactions which developed into
scarlet fever in such a serious form that she was rushed to the hospital where she hovered
between life and death for several weeks.
Katie Blessant, (Denver) was given toxin-anti-toxin for diphtheria. In a short time she lost her
voice and soon after that she developed kidney trouble and stomach trouble which she had
never been bothered with before.
Earl Rohsbecker, (Denver) was vaccinated for smallpox after which he developed Bright’s
disease (an advanced form of degeneration of the kidneys). The doctors do not hold out much
hope for his recovery.
Raymond Nelson (Denver) was given diphtheria toxin-anti-toxin after which he developed
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paralysis. His son was given the antitoxin also, and died of it.
Mrs. Black (Colorado Springs) was vaccinated for smallpox and soon developed spinal
meningitis. The case was so severe that the attending physician had to call in assistance from
Denver.
VACCINE POISONING
David, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Robinson, was vaccinated on November 6, 1921. By the family
physician, in compliance with the school requirement. After three days his arm festered and
was inflamed. Then for several weeks the vaccination seemed to be healing but continued to
be sore and inflamed. In February the glands in his neck began to swell and some lumps
formed under each arm. Some of the lumps decreased in size but all were painful so the
doctor lanced one of the larger ones. It never did heal properly and began to discharge pus a
little later. At the time of the last report (March, 1921) it had not healed and the child was still in
bed and unable to walk. It is not likely that he will be able to attend school for a long time.
"I had my daughter vaccinated on the 21st of December, 1921. In less than a week her arm
started to swell, become inflamed, and discharged pus at the site of the vaccination. A lump
developed under the arm and she was seriously ill for four months. I had her treated for over a
year with X-ray and now her arm is blistered with X-ray burns in addition to the original ailment.
Mrs. Jessie Wuns (Colorado Springs) was vaccinated for smallpox and a few days later she
developed a severe case of smallpox which lasted seven weeks.
Mrs. Anna Heller (Colorado Springs) developed sores on her arm, neck and leg after her
vaccination. Although many years have passed, it still bothers her.
Her two daughters were also vaccinated and both of them developed vaccinia and almost died
from it. Her son, almost died from the vaccination itself; then he developed smallpox 30 days
later. It left him with dropsy from which he has never recovered.
"We all had smallpox before coming to Colorado Springs but Dr. Gillett insists on our being
vaccinated every year anyway."
QUESTION: If a case of smallpox cannot immunize against another attack of smallpox how
can a vaccination be expected to do more than that when the vaccination, at best, is claimed to
produce only a mild form of the disease. Now, if there is anything at all to the vaccination
theory then a case of smallpox should not only immunize against smallpox but should, also,
protect against the effects of vaccination and re-vaccination. If it does not do this then the
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vaccination theory disproves itself — it has absolutely no sound reason for being. Since
vaccination has proved itself to be useless and hazardous why does Dr. Gillett (as well as
other vaccinating doctors) insist on vaccinating? Is there any reason except for money, at
the cost of human life?
NEWSWEEK for April 25, 1955 says that Mental Illness is rated by many experts as the
biggest health problem of the day. More than half of the U. S. hospital beds are occupied by
mental patients. Their care costs the taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year. Another
report states that there are 10,000,000 people in U. S. with mental diseases.
On a troopship returning from the Australian sector after the war, it was reported that 250 of
the 400 men aboard, were insane. Some of the excuses the doctors offered for this shocking
development was that it was caused by the heat of the jungles and the rigors of war. However,
the citizens of unvaccinated Australia didn’t go insane in the same heat and the enemy
didn’t go insane with the same rigors of war and in the same climate. It has been hinted
that the men were poisoned almost to death with vaccine serums and drugs. The normal brain
cells are richly supplied with calcium and other alkaline elements When poisons are introduced
into the system the calcium is leeched out of the soft tissues first and then the bones, in order
to neutralize the poisons. This greatly impairs or destroys the functioning of the brain, nerves,
muscles, and eyes, etc.
"There is a cry being raised concerning the lack of sufficient institutions to adequately care for
the mental cases needing commitment to them. Lunacy is terribly on the increase. Particularly
do ex-service men and women need such care. Many thousands of these men and women
were in perfect health when inducted into the armed forces. They were then given all the
"shots" devised by the allopathic laboratories and used without question by the allopathic
physicians in the medical corps. Histories of hundreds of cases were "written up" by physicians
who followed up the results of immunization in the service. It showed plainly that the
inoculations and vaccinations were responsible for the tremendous number of men and
women who, soon after being inoculated, had to be discharged as psycho-neurotics.
Thousands of these are now filling the mental institutions and few of them will ever again be
restored to normal.
"One of the effects of the poisons injected into the blood to "prevent" (?) disease is that it
weakens the nervous system and gradually breaks down the nerve centers in the brain. The
end result of this is insanity...
"Within a day or so after being admitted to the mental institution, the patient is taken to the
room set aside for the purpose and given three or more "shots." It matters not whether they
have been recently vaccinated or not, they are again given a smallpox vaccination, then
whatever serums they happen to have on hand. Thereafter, each week the patients are lined
up and given more shots. What for? Who knows? Even those who give them do not apparently
know. In one mental institution I know of, every Thursday is called "needle day" because on
that day all patients are given at least three injections. They all get the same dose whether
they want it or not. The result is, they lose weight and become sick. Their mental condition
becomes worse with each inoculation and soon they are beyond help. Mild cases become
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"After seeing the medical practitioners at work it makes one wonder whether it is the patient or
the doctor who is insane.
Ignorance spiked with greed has put a death machine (vaccination) into the hands of doctors,
and ignorance and fear have driven people into its lethal power. Emerson was right when he
said that the right use of reason and knowledge could free mankind from fear. It is certainly
true that a little knowledge applied in the right places would wake people out of their hypnotic
stupor of believing that the popularized poison could unpoison them and make them well
again.
It is the purpose of this chapter, in particular, as well as the entire book, to present the actual
photographs and case histories of victims of vaccination, along with enough authoritative data
to give some concrete reasons for abolishing vaccination. Its deadly effects have been proved
and its uselessness has been admitted by the most experienced authorities in the field.
According to the figures of the Office of Vital Statistics at Washington, D. C., there were "33
deaths from vaccination in the three years, 1949, 1950, 1951…..
Post-Vaccinal Encephalitis 22; Generalized Vaccinia, 2; other complications, 9." During this
same 3-year period there were only 4 deaths from smallpox. If vaccination kills people at the
rate of 33 to every 4 protected (?) the risk is greater than any possible advantage. (It was not
stated how many of the smallpox cases had been vaccinated also.)
In the years 1941 to 1948 there were (In U.S.) 107 deaths from "sequaelae of preventive
immunization, inoculation or vaccination". During this time there were only 78 deaths from
smallpox.
In the American Journal of Diseases of Children, Dr. Greenberg discussed the results of the
1947 smallpox scare in New York. Under the heading of Complications of Vaccination" he
admitted that 45 cases of post vaccinal encephalitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord)
had been observed and that 4 deaths had occurred up to that time. Two of the patients who
survived death developed hemiparesis and one had optic neuritis. Forty-two other patients had
generalized vaccinia of which two died and another died of ulceration of the vaccination.
So, seven died of this vaccination epidemic while only one died of smallpox and that case was
proved, later, not to be smallpox at all. It was just a case of poison ivy used to stage a multi-
million dollar vaccination drive.
In England the Ministry of Health’s report on The State of the Public Health During Six Years of
War," under the heading "Post-Vaccinal Encephalitis" stated:
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"In the six years 60 cases of this complication of vaccinia have been recorded by the Ministry.
There were 31 deaths; a figure of 50 percent, may be taken as the fatality rate of this grave
complication."
During this same period of six years there were only 13 deaths from smallpox in all of England
and Wales. The report did not state how many of these cases of smallpox were induced by
vaccination.
Neville Chamberlain M.D. was forced to admit, in the House of Commons, that in the short
period of one month (June 1 to June 30) 11 death certificates had been given in which the
words "vaccination" or "vaccinia" appeared as the cause of death, and that on six of these
certificates some form of nervous disease was entered. . . He also admitted that there were 10
other cases in which death followed closely after vaccination.
"Almost the next day he (Chamberlain) had to admit that one child in Norfolk died of post-
vaccinal-encephalitis (sleeping sickness) after vaccination and that three other similar cases in
the same district were suffering from the same disease following vaccination.
"We do not have to be medical experts to appreciate the gravity of this startling report, which
for once in a lifetime has completely broken through the conspiracy of silence with which
medical men usually surround their operations.
"Our opinion is that it would be both cheaper and more affective to remove vaccination than to
waste time and money in experiments toward removal of the dread consequences of
vaccination."
The Encyclopedia Britannica (9th edition) records results of a canvass of cities after a general
vaccination order for school children. It was found that nearly all the cases of scarlet fever,
measles and diphtheria had been recently vaccinated. Two vaccinated boys developed
black diphtheria and died. What is true of this survey is true of other cities where vaccination
is stressed.
"Vaccination induces an acute and specific disease (resembling smallpox) and also
aggravates existent latent diseases. The absorption of the vaccine virus into the circulation
excites the virus already in the system, and nature rebels, as it were, and makes an effort to
throw the poison out of the body. When there is sufficient vitality, it will be successful. But
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when there is a lack of vitality, or a low state of health, there is little or no external
manifestation in the shape of blisters, pustules, or eruptions. In this case, the poison sinks in,
or is absorbed, and remains in the body, and later develops into some organic disease,
generally of the respiratory organs.
"Nearly all of those on whom Jenner performed his earlier experiments, including his
own son, died of consumption (a disease of the respiratory organs).
"There are possibly millions, both children and adults, who are compelled to endure a living
death from the effects of vaccination, in the form of syphilis, scrofula, cancer, tumors, skin
diseases, etc."
I personally have seen a number of people lingering on for years in a state of living death as a
result of vaccination.
"During the past five months, we have collected from the newspapers over five hundred
authenticated cases of injury and death from vaccination. We present a few cases to show
how vaccination protects (?) for it is evident that when vaccination kills the patient, he is
forever immune to smallpox, protected by the immunizing potency of death. These have died
from blood-poisoning, erysipelas, lockjaw, convulsions, etc., after vaccination." (The names,
ages, dates, and locality (town) are given on page 35 of "Medical Delusions.")
"John Morrissey, 1979 Third Ave., New York, lost his two children; both died from convulsions
induced by vaccination. Dr. Sharp, who attended them, thinks that vaccination may have
been the cause of the children’s death.
"Webster N. Kinney, 8 year old son of Charles Kinney, of Westfield, was vaccinated and died
from the direct effect of vaccination, which resulted in blood-poisoning. The occurrence caused
quite a stir. Parents see that there is greater danger from poisoning the human system
with vaccine virus than from smallpox." (emphasis supplied)
"Wm. M. Lee, member of the St. Louis School Board, died from vaccination.
THE BOSTON HERALD gives names and addresses of 47 soldiers killed by vaccination in
just one month of army life, from the official reports from Camp Merrit, San Francisco, Camp
Muintauk and troops stationed at Manila for the month of January, 1899. These soldiers had
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the usual course of vaccine serums for the prevention of smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid, etc.
The diseases they died from within 30 days of the vaccinations were, smallpox, diphtheria,
typhoid, lockjaw, black smallpox, blood-poisoning, and cirrhosis of the liver.
General Leonard Wood told the Senate Committee on Military Affairs that "half his present
forces were not fit for effective service." (After vaccination.)
In the Cuban army 60 per cent of the men were frequently disabled, because of diseases other
than battle wounds.
In a published article in LIFE magazine, April 17, 1950, General Eisenhower, in discussing the
poor conditioning of our fighting forces, said:
I remember one time in Africa when we had only four divisions in the field, and I was desperate
for men, I found we had 6,000 men in hospitals in Africa unavailable for combat — and not one
of them had suffered a wound."
All these men were in prime condition when they went to war. Forty-seven per cent of our
young men were unfit for service and were rejected. This was an "all time high" record of
unfitness, indicating the decadent trend of our nation’s health. But the most perfect men were
inducted and sent to the Army camps to be shot full of vaccine poisons and other drugs. After
this drastic course of malpractice thousands of boys were invalided home as physical and
mental wrecks before they even left American soil. Others were sent to the battlefield where
they collapsed and had to be hospitalized.
During the Second World War I heard that seven men had dropped dead on the floor of the
vaccinator’s office at Birmingham after being vaccinated. I wrote to the government for
verification and learned from the printed official government statement that in just the first six
months of the war, there were not just seven vaccination deaths, but there were 62 deaths
from yellow fever vaccine alone. The men received from 14 to 24 vaccinations of all varieties
but the full report of all vaccination deaths was not given. The casualties were probably
tabulated under other causes. The report of the US Secretary of War, Henry L. Simpson
regarding the deaths from yellow fever "shots" reads in part:
The British Army finally abandoned compulsory vaccination when the numerous law suits for
deaths and damages made it mandatory.
England was the country that introduced compulsory vaccination and being a proud and
somewhat self-righteous nation, she did everything possible to make vaccination work so she
would not have to admit her guilt in this respect. But with all the subterfuge, artful persuasion
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and coercion, vaccination was at last admitted to be a failure and a calamity. Since the
vaccination law was repealed the health of that country has been steadily improving. In view of
these unrefutable facts, it is not compatible with our standards of justice and democratic ideals
for our U. S. government to lend itself to the uses of the medical and drug trusts in their
money-making vaccination schemes.
Dr. Herbert Snow, for 25 years staff surgeon of the London Cancer Hospital stated:
"Of recent years, many men and women in prime of life, have dropped dead suddenly. I am
convinced that some 80 per cent of these deaths are caused by the inoculations or
vaccinations they have earlier undergone. These are well known to cause grave and
permanent disease of the heart.
"The coroner always hushes it up as ‘natural causes’. I have been trying to get these cases
referred to an Independent Commission of inquiry, but so far, in vain."
So far the investigations have been thwarted by committees staffed or influenced by medical
men who were there to promote their own interests. Is our nation to continue on the decline
until it passes into oblivion like some of the earlier nations that invited corruption for private
gain. If we want to reverse the present trend we may have to take drastic action to dislodge the
decadent medical system from public domination and outlaw the use and sale of poison drugs
that are at present parading under the name of healing agents.
These are just a few of the hundreds of cases of blindness, paralysis, cancer, ulcers and other
diseases of vaccination that resulted in death. Most of these photographs were collected by
Anti-Vaccination League of England and America and published in VACCINATION AT WORK
and other books on the subject of vaccination.
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Willie Hood, six year old son of J.G. Hood, 4150 Lafayette
Ave., St. Louis, Mo. died of lockjaw following vaccination on
Oct. 14, 1917. (Details given in the Vaccination Inquirer,
Nov. 1, 1917)
VACCINAL-SYPHILIS
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There is no doctor or test that can predict whether or not vaccination will bring death, disability
or the potentialities of future disease. Is the risk worth the dubious promise of immunity?
VACCINATION TRAGEDY
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This child was a healthy, normal child at birth. When she was
a year and a half old she was vaccinated, after which her
eyes began to exude matter and within a week they closed
and she has been blind ever since. Dr. Blasson, Dr. Kynaston
and the famous specialist, Dr. Bell Taylor, all examined the
child and acknowledged that the blindness was due to
vaccination.
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In March 1953, Dr. George Taylor of Bradford vaccinated his five-months’ old daughter who
was suffering from a mild case of eczema and the baby died nine days later of generalized
vaccinia and eczema. The doctors are beginning to see the seriousness of poisoning the
already poisoned sick with more poison in the form of vaccine serums.
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A careful check showed that "47 per cent of women who had been vaccinated in the
second or third month of pregnancy, failed to give birth to a normal child." (p. 47,
"Vaccination at Work)"
The Consulting Pediatrician of Lanarkshire County Council in an article in The Lancet (London)
December 6, 1952 reported one of the typical cases of this survey. This woman was about
three months pregnant when she was vaccinated for smallpox. The report states: "She
developed a severe primary reaction and three months later she was spontaneously delivered
of a feeble hydropic premature infant covered with a very severe generalized vaccinia. The
child died 18 hours after birth."
Many of the new strange diseases of modern times can be traced to vaccination or medication
of the child or the mother.
Because some of the photographs of cases shown in the preceding pages have been collected
from other countries as well as United States and some of the deaths occurred a number of
years ago, some may wonder if vaccination deaths are so rare that these must be used.
Although photographs are not often made of vaccination victims there are, nevertheless, an
unbelievable number of such cases that are hushed up and the death certificate often gives
some other cause. The medically staffed health departments rarely make inquiry regarding
these cases and, unfortunately, there are very few courageous and public spirited people or
organizations who are willing to spend the time and money to make such an investigation.
However, just to show how much can be uncovered with a little effort I am presenting a partial
list of the vaccination deaths that were traced down by just one man, V. E. Rowton, in
just one year, 1921, in just one medium-sized city, Denver, Colorado. A local "Optional
Vaccination League" helped to find other cases. Most of these tragedies were reported by
members of the families or other eye-witnesses to the crimes.
"My wife, Ethel Andrews, was in good health until she was vaccinated by Dr.------ , about
November 1, 1922. The vaccination started "to take" in three days — began to fester and the
arm was swollen. About the 9th of November, she broke out with a pronounced skin rash all
over her body. On November 29, she became seriously ill. Sores appeared in place of the rash
and the doctor said it was smallpox. On December 5th, she died."
"My daughter, Ruth Yvonne, six years old, was in perfect health until Saturday, December 3,
1921, when we were advised by our family physician, Dr. C. F. Henger, to have her
vaccinated, which we did. . . About the third day her arm began to hurt but she continued to
attend school until Friday. On Saturday she complained of a sore throat. She became sick at
her stomach and vomited. Her condition grew worse. The doctors could do nothing to save her
and she died on Tuesday about 5:15 (1921)."
Mrs. H. P. Kingsley, of the Ellsworth Hotel, Denver, gave the following statement about her son
John:
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"He was in perfect health when I took him to school on Monday. He was told he must be
vaccinated before he could enter school so I had him vaccinated on the following Monday. His
knee started hurting soon after the vaccination but he went to school the next morning. That
was the last day he was ever to go to school again. The pain went to every joint in his body
and he suffered intensely for three weeks; then he passed away."
This data about the death of Mrs. Alta Vincent, 18 years of age, was given by her husband,
Luther Vincent, (Denver.)
"About November 13, 1922, my wife submitted to vaccination in order to hold her position with
the telephone company. Up to the time of the vaccination she was in good health. On
December 8th, she became quite ill with enlarged lymphatic glands under her arms. On the
10th she died."
"My wife was vaccinated by Dr. A. W. Calhoun of Denver, on October 27, 1922. At the time of
the vaccination she was not in very good health. She died a few hours after the vaccination in
our home. The doctor pronounced it heart failure."
Walter Call was vaccinated about November 20, 1922. He was able to work for a week after
being vaccinated although he was ill during the time. He died on December 8, 1922 with black
smallpox.
Hulda Berg of Denver was vaccinated for smallpox some years ago. On October 27, 1922, she
became ill with a severe headache and a rash. Dr. Kesley thought it was measles. The health
officer was called the following Sunday. He pronounced it smallpox and she was taken to the
hospital where she died soon after.
Ada McDaniels (Denver) was vaccinated twice shortly before she was stricken with smallpox.
She died on November 25, 1922.
Mr. Louis Pleines (Denver) was vaccinated when a boy and again six weeks before he came
down with smallpox, He died of smallpox on February 5, 1923.
Mrs. E. P. Haddon (Denver) was in good health until Sunday, November 12, 1922, when she
was vaccinated by her family physician, and nearly collapsed at the time. The next day,
Monday, she was ill. She was worse on Tuesday so the doctor turned the case over to the
health officer. She was quarantined for smallpox on Wednesday and died the following
Monday, November 20th.
The street addresses of these cases are on file but have been omitted for obvious reasons.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvord of South Cascade, had a healthy, robust child. It was vaccinated by Dr.
Peters. About 9 days later it began to have convulsions. The doctor was called and treated it.
He said he was especially interested because it was a vaccinated case. The convulsions
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a post mortem by Doctors Peters and Gillett, the cause of death was reported as colitis. No
mention was made of the recent vaccination.
Miss Hamilton, a school teacher, became seriously ill two weeks after her vaccination.
Smallpox pustules broke out over her back in the region of the kidneys. She died soon after.
The doctor reported the cause to be acute dilation of the heart. (This condition does not
happen without a cause. The blood-poisoning effect of the vaccination wasn’t mentioned.)
Another school teacher of Colorado Springs (name withheld) submitted to vaccination in March
in order to hold her position. She was never well after that and died on November 17, 1922.
"In the fall of 1922 we started our only child, a little girl, to school. She was in excellent health
at the time but after she had attended two months we were told that she must be vaccinated or
leave school. We were opposed to it but had to submit. Soon after she was vaccinated she
broke out with sores and was not able to attend school again for six weeks. She started again
but was too sick to continue. We called our family physician, Dr. Gillett, and he said she had
erysipelas. She passed away about 9 days later."
Mrs. Caldwell (Colorado Springs) was vaccinated and nearly lost her arm as a result of the
long-continued inflammation. Eight months later she had smallpox in spite of the vaccination.
(Or because of it)
"Our baby was vaccinated in the fall of 1921. Four days after the vaccination the arm became
very sore and swollen; inflammation spread over the shoulder and up the neck to the back of
her ear. It continued to get worse and on the sixth day the doctor said it was mastoiditis. The
next day the baby went into convulsions and died on the 9th day after the vaccination."
Reported by the mother — name withheld (Colorado Springs.)
Mrs. Ellen Cook (Denver) was vaccinated at the City Hall on November 15, 1922. "In five
days", she reported, "I was very sick and couldn’t even lift my head for several days without
vomiting. My arm was badly swollen and full of painful lumps from my shoulder to my elbow
and was purple with congestion. It felt like there was a cord drawn from my breast to my arm
which gave me intense pain. I was quite helpless for three weeks then it broke out in sores at
three different times. A year and three months has passed and it is not well yet." (February 28,
1923)
As a result of the findings of this privately conducted survey of vaccination disasters, Mr.
Rowton and his group feel they found enough evidence to prove that there is no benefit
whatsoever, but considerable danger in the popular but damaging practices listed below:
1— Schick Test
2 — Dick Test
3 — Tuberculin Test
4 — Wasserman Test
5 — Smallpox Vaccination
6 — All Other Vaccinations
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7 — Cold Shots
8 — Penicillin Shots
9 — All Other Shots
10 — Lumbar Puncture
11 — Shots For Childbirth
12 — Dog Vaccination
13 — Pasteur Treatments For
Rabies.
"Medical science is a form of delusional madness from which few medical men ever recover. Backed by
commercialism, this madness runs roughshod over the life and health of the people."—Herbert M.
Shelton, Ph.D., D.C., N.D.
In the Dark Ages when a decadent church dominated the state and religious persecution b e c
a m e intolerable, the people rebelled and demanded separation of church and state. In
countries where this popular request was not granted, those who wanted religious freedom fled
to other countries where more liberty and justice were possible. The newly discovered America
became a refuge for those who sought freedom from tyranny and subjection. The constitution,
that the Founding Fathers drew up was originally intended to protect the people from
encroachments on civil liberties and human rights, whether it be from the self-appointed
dictators of powerful financial interests, or from political, religious or economic pressures.
Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Josiah Bartlett (both congressmen and signers of the
Declaration of Independence) foresaw the medical tyranny that was, even then, laying its
groundwork for domination of the healing field. In an effort to block this threatening menace
they tried to introduce legislative measures that would insure freedom from medical tyranny as
well as the other freedoms necessary to democracy. Their efforts were thwarted, however, by
the preponderance of orthodox medical men in congress at that time, whose personal interest
stood m the way of public good. Some of these men even refused to sign the Declaration.
"The Constitution of the Republic should make provision for medical freedom as well as
for religious freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men (such as medical
doctors) and deny equal privileges to others (also trained in healing) will constitute the
Bastile of medical science. All such laws are Un-American and despotic. They are
fragments of monarchy and have no place in a Republic."
The failure of congress to establish freedom from medical domination has cost the nation
countless billions of dollars and needless loss of life and health of our citizens.
The medical dictatorship has extended its tentacles, since that time, until it now has control
over a much wider area than the church ever did. Not only is our Public Health Service
completely manned by the narrow and limited ability of this one branch of business, but it also
wields its dictatorial power over the schools, colleges, charities, churches, public libraries,
press, radio, women’s clubs, P.T.A., life insurance companies and many industries and
businesses, even the Civil Service, which of all things, should respect the Constitution in its
law against trusts.
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This medical strangle hold did not just happen with the passing of time; it was a planned
conspiracy against the American people, with an "eye" to the financial gains of the doctors. A
sample of this strategy may be seen in the following speech of Dr. W. A. Evans, one of the top
medical "bosses," and Health Commissioner for the city of Chicago, who gave these
instructions to the doctors in their annual convention of the American Medical Association
in 1911:
"The thing for the medical profession to do, is to get right into, and man every important health
movement; man health departments, tuberculosis societies, housing societies, child care and
infant societies, etc. The future of the profession depends on it. . . The profession cannot
afford to have these places occupied by other than medical men."
This pronouncement was published in the journal of the A. M. A., September 16, 1911. Just
how whole-heartedly this decree was carried out is clearly shown by how completely all the
non-medical schools of healing such as chiropractic, naturopathic, religious science, hygienics,
etc., have been excluded from such tax supported institutions as health boards, public
hospitals, army camps, state prisons, workman’s compensation bureaus, asylums, etc.
Annie Riley Hale, in her MEDICAL VOODOO has this to say of the Dr. Evans resolutions:
That ‘the future of his profession depended’ on getting the whip-hand in Public Health
Service, and that ‘the profession could not afford’ to forego the political advantage accruing
from such monopoly will be interpreted by some as a virtual confession on the part of regular
medicine that it either realized it had nothing of therapeutic value to offer the sick world, or
that it had despaired of winning the sick patronage by fair means, and must therefore have
recourse to political intrigue.
The effect of the adoption and vigorous prosecution of the Evans resolution has been to (1)
enhance the political power of organized medicine under the official name of American
Medical Association, and (2) to enable the medical trust to hamper, harass, and where
possible, suppress their therapeutic rivals — in order to destroy competition. . . Destroying
competition and crushing smaller businesses for monetary gain is precisely what the
SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST LAW was designed to prevent. Thus, the A. M. A. in carrying
out the Evans program has taken on all the offensive features and oppressive
overlordism of a swollen commercial ‘trust’."
There may be some independent medical practitioners who do not belong to or support the A.
M. A. and these would not be held accountable for the damage done by the "outlaw" practices
of the "association."
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In the MEDICAL TRUST UNMASKED, the author tells of agreements and contracts between
the medical societies and the insurance companies that are designed to defend the doctors
against law suits brought against them for malpractice in which they kill or maim their patients.
He tells that there are (or were when he wrote the book in 1935, perhaps more now) 70,000
doctors in 32 states who have knowingly entered into these agreements which are nothing
short of deadly conspiracy against the life and welfare of the people. On page 64 he
states:
"Twenty-eight of these thirty-two states grant this defense as part of the regular benefits
derived from being a member of the American Medical Association. Membership alone is
sufficient to insure the physician that he will be defended by the whole closely banded
fraternity, should he ever be sued for malpractice."
"Twenty-four of these medical societies furnish expert witnesses to testify on behalf of the
accused (the doctor). Eighteen of these societies pay all expenses incurred by such
witnesses, as well as special remuneration for testifying favorably, some of it running as
high as $50.00 a day."
These "expert witnesses" may live 1,000 miles from the scene of the crime and know nothing
about it except what they are paid to say. Is this any different from the methods of the
professed criminals of the underworld?
The patients or survivors of a medical crime are given a full course of intimidation and threats
by the doctors in order to discourage them from suing and most of them withdraw when they
see the hopelessness of winning against the "fix".
"It cannot be too strongly insisted that the prevention of claims is the object sought, and not
merely the adjustment of such claims as arise, nor the indemnification of physicians against
loss"
No provision for the welfare of the patient was made and no consideration for his rights was
deemed of any importance.
"As a consequence of its monopoly position, financial resources, and political strength,
organized medicine is able to maintain a quasi-legal status in medical societies to appoint or
recommend members of regulatory bodies. A.M.A. standards in medical education, training,
and practice are usually adopted by law. In addition, A. M. A. inspection to determine whether
its own standards have been satisfied is seldom subject to judicial review. Thus the political
authority of the state itself has in effect been delegated to organized medicine."
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"Some rather expert observations of the art of lobbying as practiced in Washington assert that
the A. M. A. is the only organization in the country that could marshal 140 votes in Congress
between sundown Friday night and noon on Monday. Performances of this sort have led some
to describe the A. M. A. lobby as the most powerful in the country."
"In 1954 sixteen individuals and groups reported to Congress that they spend more than
$50,000 each on their legislative interests. The biggest one of these groups admitted it had
spent $547,000 on this matter of influencing legislation through their powerful lobbying
groups." — from "World Predictions," 1955.
"The Tarnished Record of the American Medical Association" published by the Milwaukee
Federated Trades Council states:
The A. M. A. at its 1949 convention voted to make the $25.00 assessment permanent. It
further urged its members to engage in political action to defeat congressmen whom it
could not control…..
"In the 26th Pennsylvania district, a group of doctors calling themselves the Healing Arts
Committees mailed out more than 190,000 letters, made more than 120,000 personal
telephone calls, placed a series of 12 advertisements in every newspaper and purchased radio
time to urge the defeat of the local congressman who had supported a measure not favorable
to them."
Many laws designed by and for the benefit of the A. M. A. have been "pressured through"
without the vote or the approval or even the knowledge of people involved.
Just recently a high pressure opportunist group tried to force a measure through Congress
whereby their competitors could be barred from the mails without notice and without a jury
trial (it was defeated). That is even worse than the present law which allows the medical
trust to bar their competitors from the mails on false charges and without a jury trial.
But the victim is allowed a few days notice. This is an unfair law and should be adjusted.
The DEFENDER MAGAZINE, Wichita, Kansas (May 1955) under the heading HEALTH
DICTATORSHIP, comments: "We are getting a ‘look-see’ as to how the American Medical
Association pulls strings and controls policies of the government in-so-far as the Pure Food
and Drug law is concerned."
Former Intelligence Officer of the United States Government, Major Robert H. Williams, in his
Bulletin (April 27, 1955) states:
"Sane people are being arrested and held for mental observation without a trial, a thing I would
hardly have believed had I not seen it happen. Bills are appearing in the state legislatures
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designed to impower the state to SEIZE ANY CITIZEN and legally hold him for observation or
for compulsory treatment . …"
This is one of the Gestapo methods of eliminating honest competition. When these sane
people are forced into the mental institutions they are given frequent injections with the
"poisoned needle" and are soon rendered incapable of rational thinking or coherent speech. At
this stage they are brought before the "Board" for questioning and, of course, declared to be
insane and therefore confined permanently to the institution. A bullet in the back would be less
cowardly than this.
The word DOCTOR comes from the Greek term di-daktor, which means "one who imparts
knowledge to others — a teacher." The Latins condensed it to "doc-to-ro" and it was later
shortened to doctor. Medical doctors are not teachers. In fact part of their instructions at
medical school is not to tell the patient much. They are not, as a rule, very well informed on
the real cause and cure of disease so they could not teach it if they wanted to. A dictionary
gives one definition of doctor as "a learned person." If either of these definitions were the
criterion for issuing medical degrees it would eliminate about 99 per cent of the practitioners
from the title of doctor. Yet, they have sought a monopoly on this word in-so-far as the healing
field is concerned.
The word CURE has also been taken over by the medical trust as its private property and
drugless doctors and writers have been barred from the mails and persecuted in other ways for
teaching how nature cures or for using or speaking of a cure for some disease.
The latest encroachment on public rights is the medical monopoly on the word HEALTH. In
some states they have made it a law that no drugless practitioner may use the word HEALTH
on his advertising, signs or titles. The NATUROPATH magazine, January 1955 (published for
Naturopathic doctors) reported this situation in the editorial, by Dr. T W. Schippell. Excerpts
from this editorial are as follows:
" . . . Every day we see additional liberties of the independent practitioner trampled under foot
— more non-conformist healers jailed or driven from the country.
"There has just come to hand a letter from an independent practitioner who has long been the
head of a liberal school of healing in Chicago where he conducts a health regaining
emporium .. He is finding out the hard way, that any outstanding success in the natural healing
field brings with it, as a definite reaction, the unbridled wrath of medical men everywhere…..
"The established rule of medical fair play in this country seems to be: If you cannot beat a rival
practitioner on the market place, you must unseat him through some ordinance or statute in
the legislative halls. And that is what has happened in Chicago. Excerpts from the letter will
show the sequence of events as they happened:
"‘Some months ago I was called into the State Department of Education and Registration and
was warned by that august body that I could no longer use the word NATUROPATH on my
letterheads, doors or windows.
"‘I was informed further that I must substitute the word Chiropractor in the place of Naturopath
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"‘His beetle-like brows closed together; he clasped his hands before him on the desk and
continued to scowl at me: ‘Get that word HEALTH off your doors, windows, letterheads — and
do it quick.’
"To which remark I replied: My business has long been known as a HEALTH EMPORIUM. I
built my reputation on that designation and have spent many thousands of dollars to bring it to
the attention of the public. I can hardly remove the word HEALTH without ruining my business.’
"‘His reply was short and to the point: ‘The word HEALTH belongs exclusively to the medical
doctors. It is illegal for anyone else to use it in any manner. There is a law now in effect which
gives the medical profession a monopoly on the word HEALTH and you’d better get that in
your head clearly right now!’"
This doctor consulted his attorney and found that such a law had been engineered through the
state legislature by same underhanded methods they (the medical trust) had pushed other
death-dealing measures into operation, such as (1) vaccination, which is known to kill more
people every year than smallpox does, (2) tuberculin testing of cows which required the killing
of 1,500,000 healthy cows because of false testing in just 10 years time, with a lost of
$1,500,000,000 to the dairymen, (3) rabies shots for dogs, which increase diseases in the
animals but do not prevent rabies, (4) fluorine (rat poison) in public water supplies because
there is a cheap surplus of the product on hand and the owners want to make profit on it, also
other practices that are damaging to the public but profitable to the promoters.
Back in the middle ages, Galileo was tormented, tortured, and threatened with death because
he taught that the world was round. We like to relegate to the past such acts of ignorance and
barbarism, and believe that such outrages against progress could not happen in our day and
age. But we are having parallels of this same kind of intolerance in the healing field. For
instance, Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, Ph.D., D.C., N.D., and head of the Hygienic Movement, was
imprisoned several times in New York because he helped people overcome their diseases by
observing the laws of health. Saving lives and restoring health is considered a crime in New
York and several other states that are ruled by the medical trust, if these works are done by
any outside the medical ring. The medical field has no sure cure for any disease, so the
people are obliged to suffer and die rather than permit someone who does understand the law
of cure to aid them. Dr. Shelton is one of the few practitioners who understands the cause
and cure of disease, and seeing that New York is a city of sick people in need of help that
they were not getting, he defied the un-American medically made law of New York which
prohibits drugless doctors from practicing, opened up an office and was soon gaining fame by
his superior results in healing. For this he was imprisoned without even a trial by jury. In
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accordance with the formalities of pretended justice, an investigator of the Court of Special
Sessions in New York, wrote to the Investigator of the State Medical Board in Texas for
information about Dr. Shelton. The investigator interviewed Dr. Shelton and after seeing the
nature and quality of his work with its consistent effectiveness, had said to him, "I see nothing
in your work that is a violation of the law. Stick to it and I will never bother you." He sent a fine
report to the New York investigator which was never read before the court. The judge declared
him guilty on the opinion of the medical witness and he was sentenced to prison. When he was
released, he continued to help the sick and needy and was imprisoned again and again
because he refused to respect a law that was enforced against public good and established
without the approval or vote of the people. This did not happen in the Dark Ages; it happened
in our day, just a few years ago.
A little later, in 1948, Dr. Gian-Cursio, Chiropractor and Hygienist, was sentenced to prison
when his drugless healing system and sanitarium, THE CASTLE OF HEALTH, was becoming
noted for its successful healing of diseases that the doctors had not been able to cure. He was
framed and sentenced to a year in prison without being allowed a trial by jury. (Even a
murderer is permitted a jury trial). He was even denied an appeal. The charges were that he
was harming people although no evidence was brought forth to prove this statement. A great
many of his healed patients were anxious to testify but they were not permitted to do so. As he
was a drugless doctor he did not use drugs or any of the dangerous methods such as X-ray,
radium, surgery, or anything else that could harm a patient. His testimony was disregarded
and only that of the medical "expert witness" (?) was considered valid. So this innocent man of
high ideals and clean living had to serve a prison term with hardened criminals while his family
was left without support. So openly unjust was this case that letters and telegrams from all
parts of United States and even from England, France and Canada poured into the offices of
the judge and Governor Dewey of New York, asking that this man he given a fair frial by
jury, or an appeal to a higher court, but this was denied.
From his prison cell Dr. Gian-Cursio wrote: (To Dr. Shelton)
"It is a strange schooling that our enemies have forced upon us. It profits us in ways nor
expected by them. Prior to, during and after incarceration friendships are strengthened, men
who are brothers in arms become more determined in the promulgation of their cause and they
acquire a form of wisdom obtained by few.
"Our enemies, by making this possible, befriend us. This is a paradox that must be lived to be
fully appreciated. Persecution is a sign of decadence. When it ends with imprisonment of the
persecuted it is more than a symptom of rot of man and principles, it is a sign of death as
moral beings."
These acts of violence indicate the downward trend of organized medicine, toward its own
dissolution.
In Florida, where a compulsory Tuberculosis law has been foisted on the people, a man
dropped dead in the doctor’s office just a few minutes after the physician had given him a
compulsory "shot". In the trial that ensued, the other physicians testified that, "It wasn’t their
colleague’s fault; the patient just couldn’t take it." The doctor went free, though he was guilty of
murder as well as malpractice
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‘Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall
be done to his own body, and a surgeon who performs an operation (vaccination is
technically an operation) without his patient’s consent, commits an assault for which he
is liable in damages."
A British doctor published in a medical journal a detailed account of how he killed a patient.
The medical council held that Dr. Barton could not be prosecuted unless it could be proved
that Barton’s action did hasten death, that he acted knowingly, and that the patient actually
died. Baron told the doctors, "Thank God, you have to prove these things, otherwise you and I
would not be free." These or any other guilty physicians are not going to prison or to the
electric chair because all they have to do is to declare that their action did not hasten death.
Medical doctor’s license does not protect the public; it protects the doctors from prosecution by
the public.
"Dr. Simon Louis Katzoff, M.D. wrote. ‘DOCTORS LIVE BY DISEASE, SO THE PUBLIC
CAN EXPECT THE SUPPLY OF DISEASE TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE MEDICAL
PROFESSION.’ When it doesn’t meet the demands, the Health Boards and Tuberculosis
societies clamor for compulsory hospitalization and treatment, seizing the victim’s property to
pay them."
Not only are the health doctors with their superior methods put out of business by the medical
"wrecking crew" but the books that teach the truth about healing are under constant attack
also. The medical trust has its stooges planted in the post office department and when a good
health book gives them too much competition they have a "fraud order" issued and the author
and publisher no longer have the use of the mails. These medically made laws see to it that
they do not have to come out in the open and declare themselves as the attackers. The author
has to fight an unseen enemy who is protected by the law and does not even have to have any
proof that the book or author has violated any law. I have followed some of these cases closely
and have read the complete transcript of the court proceedings and there is no semblance of
justice in this process. The author and the book is condemned and barred from the mails,
sometimes even before the hearing. There is never any trial by jury and the decision is always
against the writer and in favor of the concealed medical opponent. The decision is based
entirely on the private opinion of a hired medical witness. The testimony and proof of
innocence of the writers are entirely ignored. as there is no jury.
In l946, during one of our largest polio epidemics in Los Angeles, I wrote a book (POLIO
CONTROL) exposing the polio racket. My statements were well documented and the doctors
didn’t like it. I believe it would have eliminated polio epidemics if it had been allowed to reach
the people. I had the manuscript examined by a lawyer before I had it published to be sure
everything was legal and in order. I had the Los Angeles Post Office authorities examine it to
be sure there was nothing in it for which I could be legally barred from the mails and it was
declared within the law. The medical trust had their stooges work for two years trying to get
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something on me so they could legally put me out of business but when they failed they
brazenly issued a fraud order without any legal grounds or lawful reasons. They knew I had
no money to fight a case with so they thought I would probably "stay put" when they destroyed
my business and put the book out of circulation. I talked to one of the post office officials and
asked what I could do and he said, "You can take your lawyer back to Washington and fight
but it won’t do you any good; those cases are ‘sewed up’ beforehand." I wrote a long and
detailed letter refuting all their false charges but this was disregarded and I was notified by
special messenger I was barred from the mails eight days before the day set for my hearing —
in other words, I was condemned without a trial. I was convicted on the statement of the
medical witness that my "book disagreed with accepted medical belief and therefore was
dangerous." (I admit it could be dangerous to the corrupt medical policies.)
On inquiring around I found others who had been barred also without cause. One of these was
Al Williams, an ex-pugilist, who had established several gymnasiums in downtown Los
Angeles, that were popular with the business men who were interested in keeping fit. He had
an especially successful weight reducing system that put the medical methods to shame. This
bothered some of the medical boys so they did some string-pulling in Washington and Mr.
Williams was soon barred from the mails on fraud charges. This put him practically out of
business so he took his lawyer and evidence back to Washington to fight the case, but since
no jury trial was permitted and no testimony was accepted except that of the medical "expert
witness" of the opposition, the biased judge passed the sentence of "guilty". He took the case
to the Supreme Court and won, of course, because he was innocent in the first place and had
a clear case. But it cost him $13,000 and three years loss of business to merely establish his
right to have his mail delivered.
The guilty culprits in the post office department were not reprimanded or required to pay Mr.
Williams damages for his loss. They were left in the same position where they could do the
same thing the next day if they wanted to. Even the world’s worst gangsters — Al Capone and
his hatchet men — were never guilty of committing as many underhanded and open crimes
against life and property as the medical trust has done in this country.
For the past 12 years Dr. R. G. Wilborn, D.C., and his firm HEALTH RESEARCH has
conducted the largest health book business in the west. Thousands of excellent books by
educators and the world’s best informed writers on health, were circulating around through the
country and raising the health standards of the people. Health is a menace and a threat to the
medical profession so the same well-oiled strings were again pulled in Washington and
HEALTH RESEARCH was issued a fraud complaint. Dr. Wilborn and this large health
business of many years standing were to be suddenly and completely ruined by one fell stroke
of the medical dictatorship. Time tested health books that have been selling all over the world
from hundreds of book stores were all at once declared to be the cause of the fraud order.
And, although the other stores would continue to sell them, HEALTH RESEARCH was to be
denied mail delivery and completely put out of business, for selling these same books.
Dr. Wilborn had heard about some of the questionable fraud order cases, so years ago before
investing in this expensive book business he checked with the post office authorities and had
one of the postal inspectors examine all his stock of books to be sure they met with the legal
specifications. The books were declared to be in order so when the fraud charges came he
knew it did not originate in the post office department The postal authorities refused to give the
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names of the attackers who were seeking to destroy the Health Business, so in concealing the
criminals the postal authorities become parties to the crime.
‘In the matter of the complaint that HEALTH RESEARCH, Dr. R. G. Wilborn (D.C.) and
(partner) are engaged in conducting an unlawful enterprise through the mails . . . The
Undersigned, (William C. O’Brian) Assistant Solicitor, Fraud Division, Post Office Dept . . .
alleges that the respondents are now and have been obtaining remittance of money through
the mails for various books and pamphlets entitled: "Commonsense about Cancer", "The
Grape Cure", "Attacking and Arresting Arthritis", "Health for All", "Getting Well", "Is
Cancer Cur-able" "The Prostate Gland’ ‘Perfect Health", "Tuberculosis, Its Cause and
Cure", "Tumors", and "Back to Eden". by means of false and fraudulent pretenses,
representations and promises as hereinafter set forth.
"That the Publication entitled "Health for All" contains information and instructions the following
of which will effectively treat and cure such conditions and diseases as sinusitis, bronchial
asthma, goiter, colitis, peptic ulcer, diabetes mellitus, arthritis, rheumatism, high blood
pressure and infantile paralysis."
The complaint goes on telling what the books promise in the way of healing. The fact that
hundreds of people have been healed of these diseases by following these instructions doesn’t
concern the medically dominated Post Office Fraud Department. The medical profession has
no cure for any of these diseases and, like the dog in the manger they intend to prevent
anyone else from curing them either, or even from having the right to choose their reading
matter that will teach them how to do it themselves. These books are also barred from tax
supported public libraries so the people are at the mercy of the disease producing medical
business unless they rise up and throw off the yoke of medical oppression.
BACK TO EDEN and the GRAPE CURE were barred once before but were reinstated because
there were no legal grounds for the action and someone had enough money to fight for them.
HEALTH RESEARCH had sold 500 copies of Back to Eden at $7.00 per copy with a money-
back guarantee and the letters flowed in from the satisfied customers who had been healed or
helped by its information. Yet, the selling of this book was one or the reasons why Health
Research was being prosecuted.
Medically operated organizations and money-making schemes such as the cancer fund raising
organizations, March of Dimes money-making racket, vaccination campaigns. etc., are allowed
to make untrue and impossible claims and promises and accept fabulous sums of money year
after year without ever performing the benefits or fulfilling their promises, yet they are never
barred from the mails no matter how brazenly fraudulent they are. If even half of the money,
that is filched from the public by these organizations, were put into the hands of some
responsible organization like Dr. Shelton’s Hygienic Society and used for public health
education purposes, the present disease crisis of this country could soon be brought under
control.
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Dr. Wilborn knew he would not get a fair trial by jury if he tried to fight the case in Washington
so he waged a campaign from his office in California and hired a good lawyer who knew the
post office "set-up", (Attorney James B. Gooding, of Washington D.C.) to fight the case from
there. When Dr. Wilborn’s letters (about the fraud complaint) reached the hands of his large
mailing list, a barrage of letters flew to Washington (Congress and Senate) asking for an
investigation of the corrupt, medically contaminated Post Office Fraud Department. Racketeers
don’t like to be investigated so the "under cover boys" in the Post Office modified their charges
immediately and admitted that the books were not fraudulent and were no longer under attack.
However, they still held the whip lash over the head of HEALTH RESEARCH if its advertising
suggested cure in any way, shape or form. The medicos still insist that the word cure is their
private property just the same as they have tried to "corner" the whole healing business.
The Health Research Case brought into view a number of other submerged cases. One
contact who had been barred from the mails wrote to Dr. Wilborn as follows: "To give you an
idea of what smaller businesses are up against in the Food and Drug Administration-Post
Office combination of the Medical Trust, let it be remembered that any company can be
put under fraud order without due process of law — just upon the opinion of any lawyer in
the Post Office Department. The fraud law was written in 1874 and needs re-writing to bring
about justice. We are still working with the authorities in Washington to get this done. Once a
fraud smear is issued, then supposedly due process of law can be carried on for its removal.
Actually, however, the set-up is extremely corrupt. It is so corrupt that the Head Trial Examiner
of the Post Office "blew his top" about two years ago and sent an eleven page report to both
the Senate and the House Judiciary Committees. He then transferred to the Federal Power
Commission. His report was a protest against pressures constantly brought to bear to have
him violate the Administrative Procedures Act which guarantees fair hearings to citizens, in
theory at least, and forbids any private contact with Examiners or Judges to influence
decisions. After his departure, more crooked decisions occurred.
"This office does not make a general distribution of the specification of charges issued in these
fraud order cases and, therefore your request for such a copy must be denied."
When Dr. Wilborn’s customers asked for the names of his accusers, the post office refused to
reveal their names. If a charge is serious enough to ruin a person’s business, reputation and
life work, is it asking too much to know who his attackers are so he can meet them in fair fight?
We like to believe that crime doesn’t pay. But we see the constant multiplication of deaths from
unnecessary operations and medically poisoned patients where the doctor "buries his
mistakes" and then collects a small fortune from the survivors. We see the multi-million dollar
"take" from the vaccination campaigns conducted at least twice a year in all American cities.
We see health businesses and writers ruined by unjust and dishonest fraud orders, in which
they have no chance of winning unless they can afford a Supreme Court case, and few health
idealists are wealthy enough to buy justice at such a price. Liberty and protection in a free
country should be the right of the poor as well as the rich. We are wondering when we will be
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Your boy or girl will have the best chance for protection before
polio hits again, if vaccine is given now. The Salk vaccine
strikingly reduced paralytic polio among those who received it in
1955 and it will protect many thousands in 1956, if it is used in
time.
This is what the people are told. Let’s uncover the facts and see what actually happens when polio vaccine is
used.
"Salk vaccine is hard to make and no batch can ever be proved safe before it is given to
children." This is an admission that was made by Dr. Scheele, (Surgeon General) before the
Atlantic City Convention of the American Association in 1955. (Reported in New York Times,
June 8, 1955.)
Being fully aware of the hazardous aspects of the polio vaccine, Dr. Scheele announced that it
was the intention of the U.S. Government to inoculate 57 million people before August 1955.
(Report from the Lancet, June 4, 1955)
$9,000,000 of public funds were gambled on this financially promising but highly questionable
venture before it was even declared safe and usable. Later, when the over dramatized
announcement was made that it was "safe" there was still no scientific evidence or factual
proof of its safety. The promoters of this inflated vaccine "scheme" expected a 5 billion
dollar profit in the first year of operation. (Direct quotations supporting this statement are
given under the topic heading, THE MONEY MOTIVE, at the end of the chapter.)
Even after the vaccine had killed 7 people and the number was mounting every day, the
propaganda committee put words into the mouths of important government officials, still
insisting that the vaccine was "safe" and must be continued.
The Cutter laboratory was used as the "scape goat" until the many disasters from the other
laboratories could no longer be concealed. Then instead of abandoning the whole "deadly
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mess", the Cutter laboratory was declared in good standing again and allowed to continue—
not because its vaccine was any safer, but because the vaccine from the rest of them was just
as deadly, and none of them intended to stop or lose any profits.
Any doctor, scientist or authority on the subject of vaccine knows that these substances are
"highly toxic" (poison), therefore, no vaccine can be made safe. Current magazine articles
have described in detail, the composition of the Salk vaccine so it will not be repeated here
except to say that the decomposed kidney tissues and pus from a diseased animal combined
with the two poison drugs cannot be injected into the living blood stream without harmful
effects. The records of the experiments on children show that more of the vaccinated people
died or contracted polio than did the unvaccinated. The fact that all the vaccinated people did
not die does not mean that they were not harmed. No one knows yet, what the future results
will be.
"Scientifically it cannot be disputed that every point of view the injection of virus capable of
multiplying in the body of the individual is bad. When multiplication of the virus occurs, then
there is no possibility of estimating the dose to which the patient has been subjected. Thus the
effect cannot be controlled, and in susceptible individuals this may lead to unforeseen
results."
Data from the bleedings performed five months after inoculation of Salk vaccine, indicated that
the immunity (if any) did not last long. Dr. Salk is reported to have said that "children
vaccinated last year should be given booster inoculations this year." An editorial in the Lancet
(weekly Medical Journal April 23, 1955) comments: "If it is found that, contrary to Salk’s hopes
antibody levels cannot be maintained without a succession of booster doses, then a serious
problem will arise. Will it be necessary to give injections every year; and, if so, for how long
would they be given? . . . If injections are given regularly for several years to millions of
children the risk of allergic reactions to monkey kidney tissue will become increasingly
grave." (Emphasis mine, McBean)
Dr. Ritchie Russell of the Department of Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford, said, "When
poliomyelitis is precipitated by inoculation the natural defences of the nervous system seem to
be ineffective, and nearly all such illnesses develop into a paralytic form of the disease
affecting especially the limb used for the injection." (Lancet, May 21, 1955, p. 1071)
The Manchester Guardian (April 15, 1955) stated, "One of Britain’s greatest physiologists
said to-day that if it means that a child should be re-inoculated at frequent intervals with a
preparation derived from monkey kidneys it is terrifying in its possibilities. Among them is the
risk of the child’s developing sensitivity to some of the ingredients of the vaccine." The editor of
the Lancet (June 11, 1955, p. 1207) emphasized this further when he wrote: "In addition to
the possibility of producing the very disease the vaccine is used to prevent, ‘there is a
risk, of unknown dimensions, that repeated injection of a vaccine prepared from
monkey kidney may eventually sensitize the child in some harmful way’."
In April, 1955 after the "big Salk campaign" had been launched in the United States, the
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Government and all officials and agencies concerned announced to the world that "the war
against polio was almost certainly at an end."
The other countries are a little more conservative and a little less willing to be "taken in" by the
sales propaganda of the Salk promoters. The general sentiment of our foreign neighbors was
expressed by Dr. A. M. Payne when he declared: "Poliomyelitis is not beaten. We do not know
how long the effect lasts. . . we do not know if it will be effective under other conditions than
those in which it was used; we do not know how best to use it. We do know that there are
many (unsolved) intricate problems in the manufacture of this vaccine." (Manchester Guardian,
April 14, 1955)
"LONDON, April 22, 1955 (Reuters)—The British Medical Journal today warned physicians
against over enthusiastic acceptance of the Salk anti-polio vaccine citing ‘the possibility of toxic
effects’."
On this same point the Lancet said it would be "very reluctant to see the vaccine used on a
large scale in Britain without further tests." It also warned, "the possibility of toxic effects from
repeated injections with monkey tissues must be considered."
Caution was cast to the winds in this country and our U.S. Government and medical profession
had no hesitancy in using the unproved vaccine and repeating their blundering tests on
millions of human beings even after the large number of deaths and paralysis had proved it to
be not only a failure but a dangerous killer. Most of the experiments were made on children too
small to fight back.
1.Are the men who set themselves up as authorities on polio really qualified to decide the
issues of life and death?
2. Have the self-styled medical "experts" been infallible enough in their past decisions to be
trusted with the precious lives of our children and our future generations?
3. Have the more effective drugless methods of prevention and treatment of polio been
investigated and tested?
These are some of the questions that people are asking and to which they have a right to
expect satisfactory answers.
In an article titled TRACKING THE KILLER, in LIFE magazine Dr. Salk was asked if his
monkey vaccine was safe. To this query he replied:
"There is no question of ‘how safe is it?’ It is safe, and it can’t be safer than safe’."
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Many people would seriously like to believe this statement but available scientific facts
condemn it and hold it up to ridicule.
Shortly after the Salk vaccination program was swung into action, the American Public Health
Service (June 23, 1955) Announced that there had been "168 confirmed cases of
poliomyelitis among the vaccinated, with six deaths……How many vaccinated children will
eventually be reported as developing the disease is as yet unknown . .
"The interval between inoculation and the first sign of paralysis ranged from 5 to 20
days and in a large proportion of cases it started in the limb on which the injection had
been given. Another feature of the tragedy was that the numbers developing polio were
far greater than would have been expected had no inoculations been given. In fact in the
state of Idaho, according to a statement by Dr. Carl Eklund, one of the Government’s
chief virus authorities, polio struck only vaccinated children in areas where there had
been no cases of polio since the preceding autumn; in 9 out of 10 cases the paralysis
occurred in the arms in which the vaccine had been injected." (News Chronicle, May 6,
1955)
According to the Daily Telegraph (June 18, 1955) Mr. Peterson, State Health Director of
Idaho, stopped further inoculations and stated: "We have lost confidence in the Salk
Vaccine." He also stated that he "holds the vaccine, together with the instructions for its
manufacture, directly responsible for the outbreak of polio and the deaths that had
occurred."
The serum makers were gambling for big stakes and decided that the "show must go on" in
spite of death and disaster. The condemned Cutter laboratory had over a million dollars worth
of deadly vaccine on hand and the disasters had caused its stock to drop from $15.50 to $8.75
per share, (according to Time, June 20, 1955). The other 5 laboratories with their $8,000,000
supply of "Salk liability" were involved also because deaths and disease were being reported
from their vaccines every day. Then suddenly the deaths from Salk vaccine ceased to be
reported. In a letter published in Defender Magazine, the writer stated: "I am informed by
someone who works in a newspaper office that much of the bad news concerning the results
of the Salk Program is being censored and deleted out of the news to keep people complacent
and acquiescent."
In Australia when a few children died as a result of smallpox vaccinations the government
abolished compulsory vaccination in that country and smallpox suddenly declined to the
vanishing point. Australia had only three cases of smallpox in 15 years as compared with
Japan’s record of 165,774 cases and 28,979 deaths from this cause in only 7 years (1886-
1892) under compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination.
In Austria, where Bela Schick invented the Schick test for diptheria, it killed several children
and the rulers there declared it to be too dangerous and prohibited its use in that country.
Apparently Mr. Schick was not concerned with such trivialities as death and disease; he was
out to make money. Most of the European countries didn’t trust him and rejected his poisons,
so he brought it to America where he knew the unscrupulous medical and drug trusts dominate
the healing field. Here he found a ready market. A lush harvest was promised and the
customary pressure technique was turned on and the exploitable public was again used and
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abused. So we have seen with the passing of years, that the Schick test and diphtheria anti-
toxin continue to take their toll of lives while our elected officers and public protectors (?) look
the other way.
To show how death, disease and failure of vaccination is ignored in this country, in favor of
fabulous profits for a few, let us recall one of the many disasters that bear this out:
In Dallas, Texas, 10 children died as a direct result of the "safe" diphtheria anti-toxin shots.
For every one who died, hundreds suffered from the various vaccine diseases, many of which
left permanent disabilities. This is not a special case; it is typical of all vaccinations. But most
parents do not sue and the other cases never reach public notice. But these Texas parents
were not to be "put off" by medical excuses. Numerous damage suits were brought against the
doctors and the serum manufacturer, H. K. Mulford Co. The doctors succeeded in evading
the issue by claiming that it was a bad batch of serum. (All serum is bad that doesn’t stop
them). The Mulford Co. insisted that it was not a bad batch of serum but was just the same as
all their serum and this lot (series A 377061) had been re-tested and passed satisfactorily all
the tests and requirements conforming to the laboratory of the Public Health Service at
Washington D.C.
The complaints of the parents were that "the diphtheria anti-toxin sold by the Mulford Co.,
was unfit, poisonous, dangerous and deadly." The doctors and serum company displayed
great dexterity in juggling terms, inventing excuses and denying guilt but the children were still
just as dead as a result of shots from the "whitewashed" serum as if they had been shot with
bullets, and it was irrefutably proved in court that the vaccine serum killed them. Damages
aggregating $78,000 were paid to the parents of the dead children, by the Mulford Co. The
Mulford Co. wishing to continue in the same blood poisoning business and also wishing to
dodge public disapproval, had its attorneys specify that "the judgement shall fall, not on the
Mulford Co. but on Mr. Pierce Russell, the Mulford distributor." He was, probably, the
least guilty of any of them because he could not have contaminated the sealed ampules of
vaccines. However, his employer, undoubtedly made it worth his while—financially.......to take
the blame. In this type of "white collar" murder, (the legally proved), guilty parties are not
reprimanded or even asked to cease and desist" from a continuance of the crimes.
"Mrs. Helen B. Covington, of Kensington, Pa. filed a $150,000 suit in the United States
District Court, against Wyeth Inc. Philadelphia drug manufacturer, charging that an anti-rabies
vaccine had produced paralysis" (The Truth Teller p 26, Aug 1947).
Dr William F Koch (MD, PhD) stated that "THE INJECTION OF ANY SERUM, VACCINE, OR
EVEN PENICILLIN, HAS SHOWN A VERY MARKED INCREASE IN THE INCIDENCE OF
POLIO, AT LEAST 400%. STATISTICS ON THIS ARE SO CONCLUSIVE, NO ONE CAN
DENY IT."
The United States Public Health Bureau is extremely reticent about reporting diseases
caused by vaccination but the report from 1922 to 1931 admitted that there had been 85 cases
of post-vaccinal encephalitis, which DeKruif states "is the twin of infantile paralysis."
In St. Louis (1933) after a typhoid vaccination campaign there was an outbreak of encephalitis
(a form of polio) in which over 100 died. It was reported that the disease developed about 10
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days after vaccination and in each case vaccinia was indicated in the brain upon postmortem.
In 1926 two prominent English Professors of Pathology, Doctors Turnbull and McIntosh
reported a number of cases of encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness—a form of polio)
following vaccination. This led to the appointment of two — commissions of the British Ministry
of Health, to investigate the situation. Their reports published in 1928 revealed that there had
been 231 cases and 91 deaths from this cause (post vaccinal encephalitis) in England and
Wales.
After the many months of observation of these disasters of vaccination the London County
Council finally banned the use of the combined diphtheria and whooping cough injections in
the clinics during the months when infantile paralysis was most prevalent.
Isn’t it appalling that the governments and the serum promoters see and know that vaccination
causes paralysis yet they curtail it only during the months when polio is most prevalent. They
still insist on having the revenue from the deadly practice the rest of the time regardless of the
consequences. If they would care to observe the "polio season" they would see that it is only at
the times when it is created by the doctors with their poisoned needles and the people with
their excessive eating of sugar products and other devitalizing and semi-poisoned foods.
Dr. L. C. Appel writes: "The fact that vaccination is either the (a) adding of a disease to a body
already weighted with disease, or else, (b) the giving of a disease to a perfectly healthy body,
is the medical reason why some of us (medical doctors) oppose vaccination and urge its
abolition. A perfectly healthy body is proof against natural disease; a diseased or unhealthy
body is handicapped by being given another (inoculated) disease. A diseased or unhealthy
body can never be rendered healthy by inoculation or vaccination."
"My honest opinion is that vaccination is the cause of more disease and suffering than
anything I could name."
"It is impossible to say what remote after-effects may be caused by the introduction of alien
substances into the blood stream. Many nervous and other disorders of unknown origin are too
often met with. Products which alter metabolism, change the nature of fundamental secretions,
cause profound change in the fluids of the body, allergy and anaphylaxis, are the negation of
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nature’s own methods, and must be viewed with grave misgivings and cautious
suspicion." ("The Truth About Vaccination," by Lily Loat)
Not long after these cases had been published it encouraged other doctors to bring their
findings out in the open and several other medical journals in Australia and England published
articles which reported numerous cases of paralysis following vaccination. Two investigators,
Dr. McCloskey, in Australia and Dr. Geffen in London both observed that "the point that
struck them was that the paralysis started in the limb in which the injection had been made."
(Details of these findings are reported in the Lancet (London) for April 8, 1950 and The Medical
Officer, for April 8, 1950.)
Two British statisticians were asked to investigate whether or not there appeared to have been
any "Appreciable risk of poliomyelitis following within a month of inoculation during the 1948
outbreak of polio." The investigators, Dr. A. Bradford Hill and Dr. I. Knowelden, of the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reported:
"The statistics collected in this inquiry reveal clearly an association between recent injections
and paralysis . . . We must conclude that in the 1949 epidemic of poliomyelitis in this country,
cases of paralysis were occurring which were associated with inoculation procedures carried
out within the month preceding the record date of onset of the illness . . ." (Reported in the
British Medical Journal, July 1, 1950)
Although the British government, under the pressure of Socialism has been forced to make
many concessions in favor of the common people such as abolishing compulsory vaccination,
making investigations that revealed the fallacy of many medical practices etc. Mr. Bevin,
speaking in behalf of the medical fraternity in the House of Commons on November 24, 1947
still tried to protect the medical rackets when he stated:
"As I am advised, there are no medical grounds for attributing to vaccination or diphtheria
immunization any connection with polio" (infantile paralysis).
The investigations of the Ministry of Health were not in agreement with this stand as is seen in
its statement that "in the last few years there is evidence that occasionally followed
vaccination."
A report in the Lancet (April 8, 1950) stated that Dr. McClosky of Melbourne had inquired into
340 cases of poliomyelitis which occurred in Victoria (from January to August, 1949) and found
that 31 of them had occurred in children who had received diphtheria or whooping cough
(pertussis) vaccine, or both, within three months of the onset of the disease. Of the 31 cases,
30 of them suffered severe paralysis which was most pronounced in the limb in which the
injection was given.
The Medical Officer (April 8, 1950) reported the findings of Dr. D. H. Geffen who stated that in
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the first four months of that year, in St. Pancras, London, 30 children under five developed
infantile paralysis within four weeks of being immunized against diphtheria or whooping cough
(or both) "the paralysis affecting, in particular, the limb of injection. In 7 other recently
vaccinated cases, paralysis occurred but not in the limb that had received the injection.
Dr. Arthur Gale of the Health Ministry reported (in the Daily Express for April 10, 1950) that he
had observed 65 cases mainly from the Midlands’ in which paralysis developed about two
weeks after an injection; and in 49 of these, paralysis was confined to the limb in which the
injection had been given.
The report of the Government investigation (British Medical Journal, July 1, 1950) conducted
by Dr. A Bradford Hill and 3. Knowelden revealed that there were 410 cases of infantile
paralysis among children under five years. Of these 249 had been inoculated at the same time.
Of 41 cases it was not known if they had been vaccinated or not. Of 35 cases in which
poliomyelitis developed within a month of inoculation, the limb that had received the vaccine
was paralyzed. This was usually the left arm.
The British Medical Journal (July 29, 1950) reported 112 cases of paralysis admitted to the
Park Hospital, London during 1947-1949 in which 14 were paralyzed in the limb "which had
received one or more of a course of immunizing injections within the previous two
months. The interval between the last injection and the onset of paralysis in the majority of
cases was between 9 and 14 days. The paralysis followed (A.P.T.) combined pertussis
(whooping cough) and diphtheria prophylactic in nine cases, pertussis vaccine alone in one
case, and diphtheria prophylactic alone in four cases. The paralysis, whether of arm or leg,
conformed in general to a uniform pattern. It was not associated in time or place with any
particular clinic or technique."
In all 14 cases, paralysis occurred in the injected limb; in 12 cases it was the arm and in 2
cases, the leg. This outbreak of polio followed an intensive immunization campaign during that
time (1947-1949).
The serum makers probably had a surplus of vaccine to sell, as is the case in this country
(United States) when the scare campaigns are engineered and the gullible people are
stampeded into the vaccination centers to be "shot."
In Los Angeles (1946) after the largest smallpox vaccination campaign in the history of the city,
an epidemic of polio broke out within two weeks after the "shots" and by the end of the
summer there were 26 deaths from this cause and 1,900 reported cases. The County
Epidemiologist estimated that there were —about 15 times as many unreported cases which
would bring the count up to 28,000 cases. The report for the entire United States for 1951 was
only 28,395. An average vaccination campaign nets the doctors about $2,000,000 so this one
must have been tremendous in profits. The amount of the "take" has never been revealed.
This Polio epidemic triggered off a "bigger than ever" March of Dimes campaign and the
people were ‘bled" again for money to support the medical racket that creates more disease in
order to scare the people into more donations and so the vicious circle continues.
England, Australia and United States are not the only countries that have found that
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diseases.
In The New York State Journal of Medicine, (May 15, 1926) reports were given of post-
vaccinal encephalitis in several other countries. In a brief of an article by Dr. W. F. Winkler, of
the University Clinic of Rostock, Germany it says: "Quite recently isolated cases of cerebral
symptoms, suggesting encephalitis, following vaccination have been reported from Holland,
Czechoslovakia, and Germany and from Switzerland there have been reported two cases of
serious meningitis."
The (Aug. 27, 1928) Report of the League of Nations tells of 139 cases and 41 deaths. "This
resulted in Holland stopping compulsory vaccination during 1928-1929. The total number of
vaccinations in Holland in the first half of 1928 was less than one-third of those for the first half
of 1927 and the deaths from encephalitis were reduced to less than one-third." (Vaccine and
Serum Evils— Shelton—p. 15)
Germany modified her compulsory vaccination law, as a result of the increased number of
polio cases that developed from vaccination. The International News Service, (Feb. 27, 1930)
states: "The change of attitude of some medical experts towards vaccination in favor of a less
rigid enforcement of the law has been brought about mainly through a considerable number of
post-vaccinal diseases observed in Holland and England and in sporadic cases in Germany."
Dr. Carl Leiner, of Vienna reported cases of encephalitis and meningitis developing 9 to 15
days after vaccination. He admitted "that in a generalized infection, like generalized vaccinia,
there may be intracranial complications." In autopsies, Dr. Lucksch was able to show beyond
doubt that "death had been due to encephalitis." Dr. Bastianse, of the Hague, reported 34
similar cases which occurred in Holland during 18 months (1924-25) with a death rate of 40%.
The Netherlands, France and other countries have also reported cases of this kind.
In an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association, (July 3, 1926, p. 45.) on
"NERVOUS DISTURBANCES AND SMALLPOX VACCINATION," is stated, "In regions in
which there is no organized vaccination of the population, general paralysis is rare. In patients
with general paralysis, he (Dr. Daraskwiewiez) has never seen smallpox scars, but smallpox
vaccination scars were always present." Various physicians agreed that, "It is impossible to
deny a connection between vaccination and the encephalitis which follows
it." (emphasis supplied)
In England (1923-1925) an intensive vaccination campaign was carried out which caused a
steady increase in the cases of Encephalitis-Lethargica and similar diseases until in 1924 there
were 6,296 reported cases with unestimated thousands of unreported cases. Liverpool was at
least 50% better vaccinated than the rest of England and had about 100% more encephalitis.
The physicians tried to direct blame away from vaccination by claiming that the diseases were
due to "latent infection," "inherited weakness," or "special susceptibility."
The word poliomyelitis was coined from the Greek words "polios" meaning gray, and "myelos"
meaning marrow, plus "itis" meaning inflammation. Thus the word means inflammation of the
gray matter of the spinal cord or brain or wherever gray matter is to be found. Every cell of the
body contains a small amount of gray matter but it is more concentrated in the brain and spinal
cord. Inflammation results from poisoning, irritation and obstructions that interfere with normal
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functioning. This damage, decay and disintegration of cell structure may terminate in paralysis
or death without any invasion of viruses or germs. Isolated germs have never been known to
attack and cause decay and disease of any part of the body. It is the corrosive poison products
of decay that form the body of the vaccine that does the damage and causes the disease.
Germs, bacteria and other such organisms are a part of decayed substance; they evolve from
it and are necessary ingredients in the life process of eternal change and conversion from one
form of life to a related one. Vaccine poisoning is just one of a number of causes of polio and
other diseases. The section on OTHER CAUSES OF POLIO will deal with the other main
causes. Our concern in this section is to show that viruses do not cause polio.
Since VIRUS has been medically designated as the "official" cause of polio we should first of
all agree upon some stable definition of the term. Some dictionaries define virus as a poison. If
this were the accepted definition it would be possible for us to see the connection between
virus and polio. But the physicians and serum makers prefer to imagine a virus that can fly
around in the air and attack people. Any other kind of a virus could not be made to frighten
people into making large donations and in being vaccinated in the hope of protecting against it.
Without an "air-borne" virus to play with, the whole vaccine racket would collapse. Therefore,
the people are constantly reminded that polio is "catching" and they must have anti-polio
"shots" that are intended to build up "anti-bodies" (which are also mythical suppositions).
Although the promoters of the virus theory of polio insist that viruses are living organisms that
fly around in the air and cause polio, this has never been proved. This unscientific, unsound,
and undemonstrated virus theory of causation not only has no value, but it might safely be said
that it has had the opposite effect. The rapid and ungoverned spread of polio is largely due to
the misplaced confidence in the wrong belief. The popular practice of combating a false theory,
not only leaves the disease unchecked but it directs the attention away from the real causes
and discourages true investigation.
WHAT IS A VIRUS?
The 1940 Medical Dictionary defines virus as "the specific living principle by which an
infectious disease is transmitted."
This definition is vague and meaningless because there is no such thing as a "living" principle.
According to the dictionaries, a principle is a rule, truth, law etc. and is not a living entity.
The Scientific Encyclopedia says viruses have been obtained for experimentation by means
of extremely powerful centrifuges which must be specially built. In the same article it is stated
that viruses are so small that they cannot be seen by the most powerful microscopes. Then
how do they know they produced any? - -Or is this game of hide and seek just another means
of using up the millions of dollars contributed to the March of Dimes program?
The Modern Encylopedia, (1944) says in part "A virus differs from a bacterium in that the
latter can live and reproduce itself in an artificial culture such as beef broth, whereas a virus
must live inside a living cell. It is because of the protection which the living cell affords a
virus that serums are of no value in the treatment of virus diseases."
This shows us that as far back as 1944 it was known that virus vaccines have no value in
treating disease. Yet these succeeding 10 years have seen more millions of dollars
squandered and more monkeys and other animals and people tortured and killed and more
propaganda built on the false premise that viruses cause polio, than ever before.
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Webster’s Dictionary refers to virus as a "slimy or poisonous liquid". Pus is a slimy poisonous
liquid and forms where there is inflammation and disintegration of tissue. This break-down and
disintegration of life cells is not a result of invasion of germs or viruses but is due to the
interference with the chemical balance that holds the structure in a state of normal functioning.
When poisons from such things as vaccines, drugs, narcotics, contaminated and devitalized
foods etc. cause degeneration of the cells and disease, the condition is usually labeled
according to the location of the most decay. For instance, when there is inflammation of the
kidney it is called Bright’s Disease; if it is in the joints, it is arthritis, in the stomach it is ulcers, in
the lungs, we call it tuberculosis, in the pancreas, it is diabetes and when there is inflammation
of the brain and spinal cord affecting the nerves and muscles it is called POLIO.
All cases of polio are not paralytic. Dr. Shelton discusses the subject in an article titled, DO
PHYSICIANS CAUSE INFANTILE PARALYSIS? (Hygienic Review, Dec. 1944) in which he
says: "I have never seen paralysis result in cases of poliomyelitis that had not been treated
with drugs . . . They (the physicians) kill and cripple their patients with their suppressive
measures and then blame the results on the ‘disease’ or on an unknown virus. The value of
the Kenny treatment is the negative one of being less suppressive and less destructive than
the battle-ax treatment of the medical profession. It does not cure more, it merely kills fewer."
"In 1908 Dr. Karl Landsteiner, Austrian pathologist, published his theory, still held today (by
backward medical doctors) that it is a ‘virus’ that launches epidemic polio. A ‘virus’ is defined
(by him) as a pathogenic, or disease producing microbe, the poison of a contagious disease.
Landsteiner based his theory on the fact that he had been able to induce polio in monkeys by
injecting them with nerve tissues from fatal human cases. Believing that ‘the poliomyelitis
produced in experimental animals is pseudo-poliomyelitis produced by Pseudo (false) virus’.
Dr. Scobey (in his research) reasoned that ‘the disease they produced in the monkey was an
artificial disease and not a natural illness as it occurred in man.’ After exhausting medical
literature in the form of case-histories of the subject in all lands and at all known times of its
appearance, he concluded: (1) It has never been proved that the ‘virus’ of polio can cause that
disease in human beings; (2) It has been proved that polio can be caused by cyanide
poisoning." (Prevention Magazine, June, 1950)
Cyanide is one of the deadly poisons that is permitted to be used in insecticide sprays on farm
produce. It not only poisons the food it is sprayed on but it is washed by the rains into the soil
where it kills the valuable earth worms and other soil building organisms and renders the farm
land sterile and unproductive. It also washes down into the streams and contaminates the
water supply for both man and animals.
During one of our most widespread polio epidemics (1949) ‘contraction of polio by definite
contact with other victims of the disease was not established in an elaborate study made by
the New York State Health Department. The United States Public Health Service in its studies
also found the same negative answer during succeeding outbreaks of polio. In short, they
learned that the disease was not contagious." TIME Magazine commented on this unexpected
revelation of these surveys by remarking that "when and where people catch polio remains a
mystery."
The supposition that viruses entered through the mouth and nose led the experimenters to
make exhaustive tests on both animals and human beings, mostly prisoners and orphans in
institutions. They were exposed (by close association) to polio patients and their throats and
nasal passages were frequently swabbed with matter (from the patients) that was supposed to
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contain viruses. No polio was produced in this way and about the only noticeable after effect
was that the subjects of the experiments lost their sense of taste and smell due to the
damaging effects of the poisons in the serum that was used on the swabs.
In spite of all the proof to the contrary, those who profit by the sale of vaccines are trying to
make their theory ‘stick,’ but there is dissension and clash of conflicting belief for lack of facts
to depend on
Dr Salk’s stand on his dead virus theory is reviewed in LIFE magazine in the article ‘Tracking
the Killer’ in which the writer says Dr Salk has reason to believe that his killed virus when given
m the prescribed manner—the third booster shot increases antibodies enormously—may even
improve on nature" A confused little man with a batch of putrid serum thinks he can improve on
nature
Robert Goglan (in the same article) writes: "Virus diseases, preventable by vaccination, (?)
were found to be ones in which the virus was blood-borne during some early stage of the
infection And this brings us to a basic dilemma that confronted polio researchers Nobody could
find polio viruses in the blood of the polio victims at any stage"
This is an interesting point because the blood circulates through the body every three minutes
carrying the purified arterial blood to the cells and carrying away the waste laden blood in the
veins to be purified again If viruses caused polio then there would be some indication of dead
viruses found in the venous blood and live viruses would be found both in and outside of the
body.
What started the "dead virus" tangent anyway? It was disastrous effects of the previous
vaccines that were supposed to contain live viruses that turned the people against this method
of mass murder But the one-track-minds of some of the researchers were determined to hang
on to the virus gimmick, whether alive or dead, so dead virus vaccine was invented
An account of one of the deadly polio vaccine experiments on living human beings may be
found in the Journal of the American Medical Association, (Dec. 28, 1935, Vol 105 p 2152) The
report was made by the Medical Director of the United States Public Health He says
"During the past year in the United States, several thousand individuals mostly children, have
received subcutaneous and intracutaneous injections of treated poliomyelitis virus with high
fatality" He describes 12 cases of which 6 died within 20 days of receiving the first dose of
vaccine. Of the remaining 6 hope of recovery was doubtful. This was from (supposedly) live
virus.
Here we see that the doctors were able to cause polio with serum (protein poisons) but they
were not able to cure or control it. The report continues: "It is believed that, to many
physicians, this series of cases . . . readers undesirable the further use of polio virus for
human vaccination."
The deadly effects of the "dead virus" vaccine of Dr. Salk and the equally deadly effects of the
"live virus" vaccines should close the chapter on polio vaccine but physicians "die hard" when
there are large profits in sight. So a few of these doctors are still trying to revive the virus
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corpse by other concoctions. Dr. Albert Sabin is toying with the idea of a virus just between
the dead and the live variety which according to the U.S. News and World Report (May 13,
1955) "would be tamed—weakened so it could no longer cause polio but could trigger the body
into setting up protective immunity." (This would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.)
Dr. Richie Russell favors the use of live viruses taken by mouth instead of injection. He says:
"It is certainly more effective than the Salk method, and may even involve less risk, for should
an oral (by mouth) vaccine lead unexpectedly to a febrile illness, there are still many chances
that no paralytic disease will develop . . . When, however, poliomyelitis is precipitated by an
inoculation the natural defences of the nervous system seem to be ineffective, and
nearly all such illnesses develop into a paralytic form of the disease affecting especially the
limb used for the injection." (From—"The Story of Salk Anti-Poliomyeitis Vaccine" by Dr. M.
Beddow Bayly.)
Dr. Russell admits the danger of injecting poison into the body and acknowledges the hazards
of taking the poison by mouth but suggests that it would be a little less damaging in this way.
This gives a choice of two risky, worthless methods with no proof of any benefits.
Poison always does serious damage no matter how it is taken, so why nurture the hope that
any special brand of "virus" poison vaccine can ever be expected to do any good? If the
physicians cannot comprehend this simple fact then the people will need to do their own
protecting by avoiding all vaccines and the rest of the harmful practices of modern medicine.
It gives us hope to find a few doctors here and there who seem to be getting a clearer
understanding of the situation. Among them is Dr. William J. McCormick who states:
(Archives of Pediatrics, Feb. 1950):
"The associated virus is regarded as a biochemical substance produced by the disease, which,
although capable of producing paralysis in experimental animals by catalytic chemical action in
the nervous system, is not necessarily a means of spreading of the disease under ordinary
circumstances."
Ralph R. Scobey, M.D. (Archives of Pediatrics, Sept.-Oct. 1950) tells us that "the so-called
virus of poliomyelitis is considered to be an endogenous (growing from within) substance
resulting from poisoning." He gives evidence in the article to support this claim.
J. E. R. McDonagh (The Universe Through Medicine) states that "the virus is formed within,
and does not come from without."
A UP Release, (Sept. 8, 1950) reports the views of Dr. Joseph Melnick (at the International
Conference of Biology) in these words: "He said studies have shown that the nucleus of the
cells in the spinal cord may be the place where the polio virus is manufactured when the
disease strikes."
The total lack of scientific evidence that viruses cause polio or that they can exist outside the
body and attack from there, has forced the researchers to look within the cause of disease.
When they (the whole healing profession) fully comprehend this simple fact there will no longer
be any fear of germs and there will be no vaccines, disinfectants or other harmful germicides
used. The healing field can then begin to make rapid advancement and disease can be
understood and eliminated.
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It is the blind acceptance of a false theory (of virus attack) that has promoted ~ and sustained
the terrible slaughter of thousands of monkeys to make a vaccine that can never produce
anything but disastrous results.
Even if vaccines were useful, an artificial laboratory disease induced in a healthy monkey by
methods not experienced by man is not a dependable means of judging the effectiveness of a
vaccine in a self induced cleansing disease of man.
Dr. Jean MacNamara in the Medical Journal, (Aug. 12, 1933) emphasized the danger of
applying facts determined in experimental poliomyelitis in monkeys to the natural disease in
man. He pointed out that there are "marked clinical differences between the pre-paralytic stage
of poliomyelitis in children and in monkeys."
The Lancet (Aug. 19, 1933) discusses this same point by saying: "To draw analogies between
the pathogenesis of poliomyelitis in man and the experimental disease in monkeys might lead
us far astray."
John A. Toomey, M.D. (Science, 82:200. Aug. 30, 1955) stated that "the intranasal and
intracerebral inoculation of the poliomyelitis virus in monkeys does not produce the
same disease seen in man." In an article in the Journal of Pediatrics, (19:103, 1941) Dr.
Toomey gives evidence to prove that "no animal gets the disease from another no matter how
intimately exposed." For this reason QUARANTINE FOR POLIOMYELITIS IS USELESS.
Dr. Patrick Meenan, bacteriologist at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, states (Lancet, April 18,
1953) that "most of the recent work on poliomyelitis has been done on chimpanzees, which
seem to react to infection much as man does." Of course monkeys and other animals suffer
from induced disease the same as people but this has nothing to do with the cause and cure of
disease. This realization is slowly filtering through the muddled minds of some of the doctors,
which gives us some hope. Dr. Patrick Meenan shows us that he is getting a little closer to the
correct understanding when he says: "The fundamental difficulty is to know how far
experimental findings can be applied to natural infection in man. What is the relation between
the disease in animals produced by large doses of laboratory adapted strains and that in man
produced by small doses of naturally occurring virus? Is the pathogenesis of poliomyelitis in
man the same as in the chimpanzee?"
Dr. E. R. Krumbiegel, City Health Commissioner of Milwaukee, Wisc. reported (Sentinal, May
24, 1955) that these tests on monkeys "do not rule out the possibility that small amounts of
weakened polio virus which will not infect monkey tissues, may still be able to multiply in
human tissues . . . Monkey tissues are not necessarily comparable to human tissues in this
respect. This is exemplified by the fact that the amount of inactivated virus necessary to
produce a good polio response in humans is far less than that needed in monkeys, and far less
in monkeys than in mice."
These two doctors are still floundering around in the delusion of "virus causation" but they are
discovering the fallacies and in time will probably emerge into the light. When they inject some
of the putrefied protein which they call virus vaccine, into people it takes less of it to produce
toxic poisoning and paralysis than it does in animals. This is not because man’s reaction to
germs or viruses is any different from that of animals; it is because man is already on the
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border-line of toxemia because of the incompatible foods and poisons he uses, while the
animals that live out in nature and eat unprocessed foods are strong and more resistant to
poisons.
Dr. Alfred Byrne, in a scathing criticism of the Salk vaccine, in the Spectator for July 22, 1955,
stated: "It is known that the monkey test for the virus is so crude as to constitute a source of
danger as it will not always, by any means, differentiate between the presence of no live virus
and live virus present in small amounts." He recognized the potential hazards to be so
apparent that he considered it remarkable that there were not considerably more deaths and
paralysis from the Salk vaccine. He wrote: "The deaths might have been multiplied ten or a
hundred-fold."
If the complete records were made public we would all be surprised to find that there are so
many more Salk casualties than have been reported.
The U.S. News and World Report (May 13, 1955) in an -article on "Better Polio Vaccine in
Sight" states: "The Salk vaccine, admittedly, offers only limited protection, though its developer
believes it can be improved over the 60 to 90 per cent effectiveness shown by the trials last
summer."
There is a wide margin between 60 and 90 per cent. Would any employer hire a worker who
made mistakes 40% of the time and never improved over 90%? Would anyone run his
business with such haphazard results? Yet the parents are urged to trust the lives of their
children in the hands of "Salk serum shooters" whose most optimistic promise is for only 60 to
90 per cent protection. This is no protection at all. The protection among the unvaccinated is
far higher than that. This means that out of every 100 who are vaccinated with the Salk
vaccine, 10 can be expected to get polio. For the general unvaccinated population only one
person in 4,000 (in U.S.) is likely to get polio and only one in 11,000 in England.
An article in LIFE magazine (April 25,) stated: "Although the test had beer carried out in 44
states, the most dependable results came from 11 in which 200,745 children received three
vaccine shots and 201,229 got dummy shots to serve as a yardstick for the vaccine’s
effectiveness. Ten vaccinated and 68 unvaccinated children caught laboratory confirmed
cases of polio. This indicated (to them) that the vaccine was more than 80% effective."
It is apparent that this is not in any sense a true measurement of the effective ness of the
vaccine. In the first place, if 44 states were tested why were the figures used in only 11 of
them. The statement that they were more dependable no doubt, means that they were the only
ones that were not too extremely condemnatory. If only the most favorable figures are used
in a test the estimate is not accurate. In the second place, the dummy shots of colored
water are not a fair "yardstick" because injection of anything at all even distilled water is
harmful and often fatal. What was the coloring matter that was added to the dummy shots?
Was it carbolic acid or mercurochome or was it food coloring which is a coal tar derivative and
condemned as a poison by the Food and Drug Administration?
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There was a high percentage of polio among the children vaccinated with the colored water.
Six times more polio was caused by these dummy shots than by the vaccine. This
certainly cannot be accepted by any sane person as a fair test of the effectiveness of any
vaccine. The colored water plus the Salk vaccine produced far more polio and death per
population than we have among the un-vaccinated masses. All this showed up in spite of their
own "hand picked" records in which only the favorable reports were publicized. The Francis
Report (statistics of the Salk experiment) upon which the effectiveness was based showed that
the Salk vaccine seemed to protect against the paralytic form of polio in only 30% of the
cases—on the average. According to that, 70% of those vaccinated could be subject to the
worst paralytic form of polio. On the other hand only one person in 4,571 (in U.S.) gets polio
without the vaccine.
It was never proved that the vaccine gave even the 30% protection. That was merely assumed
from the faulty experiments and the "manipulated" figures. For instance (Salk Story by Bayly
p14), "No case was considered as immunized unless it had received two shots of the vaccine.
This means that a child developing poliomyelitis after the first inoculation and before the
second one would automatically be placed in the uninoculated class," and would not be
counted as a Salk vaccine casualty even though he died of the "shot". This probably accounts
for the comparatively few deaths that were reported as a result of the experiment. This would
also invalidate all the conclusions drawn from the figures.
Dr. Salk is reported to have said that "children vaccinated last year should be given booster
inoculations this year." If the full course of shots failed last year how can they expect some
more of the same failure mechanism to do any better this year?
Although vaccination is one of the quickest and surest ways of getting polio because poisons
are injected directly into the unprotected blood stream, there are a number of other causes that
should not be overlooked. Some of the most common of these are listed below and discussed
briefly in this section:
1—Carbohydrates: Sugar products such as ice cream, soft drinks, desserts, etc. Denatured
products such as white flour, alcoholics, etc.
2—Cola beverages that contain drugs and sugar.
3—Poison sprays on foods, poison preservatives in foods, etc.
4—Operations of all kinds, especially removal of tonsils.
5—Fatigue and all other practices that deplete the vital energy.
6—Negative emotions that generate internal poisons.
7—Interference of any kind that impedes circulation or normal functioning.
FATIGUE is claimed, by the "virus fans," to lower the energy and let the viruses attack. Viruses
have nothing to do with the cause of polio but fatigue does in that it generates certain by-
products of metabolism that can result in paralysis under certain conditions.
"According to Professor A.V. Hill, an English physiologist, the direct cause of the fatigue
resulting from muscular effort is the accumulation of lactic acid, the source of which is
glycogen. The body stores up carbohydrates in the form of glycogen or liver starch, which is
used up during muscular activity. The excessive accumulation of lactic acid in the blood is the
result of an insufficient intake of oxygen by the system. If the iron and sodium contents of the
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blood are below normal, due to faulty diet, both the absorption of oxygen and the discharge of
carbonic acid are diminished, lactic acid then accumulates in the muscles; the latter
subsequently stiffen and fail to function—the sign of fatigue.
"It is therefore of great importance for athletes and for those who are subjected to muscular
strain, to maintain a high degree of alkalinity of the blood by avoiding as much as possible,
highly acid-forming foods such as meat, eggs, legumes, breads, fried foods etc., and by
consuming an adequate supply of fruits and green-leaf vegetables. When proper attention is
paid to diet, fatigue is retarded, while endurance is increased. The Japanese, Chinese and
some of the Hindu tribes living in the Himalaya mountains, who subsist on frugal diet and
hardly eat any meat, possess most remarkable physical stamina. These facts are worthy of
careful attention, not only by athletes, but by all who want to derive much benefit from their
regular exercise." (from Vital Facts About Foods" by Otto Carque p. 22.)
"In nerve fatigue, which is brought about by substitution in the nutritive fluids of poison for
oxygen, there occurs ‘a blocking of the nerve impulses from the spinal cord to the muscles.’
The immediate effect upon the muscles under fatigue is to produce slight swelling and rigidity,
morbid substances accumulate from which toxins (poisons) arise. Upon the nerve the
immediate effect is to cause the great cells which preside over those pathways of action to
swell—just as does any injured part. The danger here is, however, that if this swelling is not
promptly reduced and the accumulated fluid dispersed, death of the cell is assured. Such an
eventuality can only be followed by the slow shrinkage of the muscles served by the nerve with
their final and complete loss of power.
"It will be readily seen that in describing the process of fatigue we have also described a
condition very like infantile paralysis."
OPERATIONS, ACCIDENTS AND INJURY "cause changes in the nerve-cells supplying the
part so that they are rendered less able to resist infection" says Dr. Geffen (Medical Officer of
Health for St. Pancras, England.) He observed that persons contracting polio after
appendectomy (removal of appendix) develop paralysis of the abdominal muscles or even of
the muscles of the intestine.
Injection of diphtheria-pertussis vaccine not only localizes the paralysis of persons infected
with virus but also increases the attack-rate. There can be little doubt, therefore, that even the
vaccination of children against poliomyelitis itself may provide the very conditions which favor
an attack and so increase the incidence to the first injection . . . A child who is injected three
times is at risk three times; there is replication of exposure.
"Persons with bulbar type of polio (an especially fatal type) give a history of removal of tonsils
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and adenoids more frequently than do persons with other forms of poliomyelitis. If a person
who has had tonsillectomy develops polio the likelihood of bulbar involvement is 4 times as
great as one where the tonsils are intact." ("The Salk Story" Bayly. p. 24)
Tonsils and adenoids are part of the lymphatic glandular system of purification and when they
are removed the impurities that they normally handle are thrown back into circulation and
cause all manner of diseases. The poisoning effects of the anesthetic and the shock of the
operation also help to reduce the vitality and over tax the already poisoned body. The fact that
the tonsils are enlarged and saturated with poison does not indicate that they should be
removed; it merely indicates that the intake of poisons should be discontinued and the blood
stream cleansed by fasting and proper diet. Inflamed tonsils and practically all other abnormal
conditions heal themselves when the obstructions are removed.
SUGAR is at last being recognized as a destroyer of health rather than an article of food as
was formerly believed. Technically white sugar (C12H220 11) is classified as a drug and not as
a food. Natural sugar in fruit is in a balanced combination with other constituents that enable it
to be assimilated without damage but when it is separated into the white, crystalline carbon
substance called sugar it is converted into alcohol almost immediately after it is taken into the
body and does the same damage that alcohol does. It dehydrates the cells and leeches the
calcium from the nerves, muscles, bones, teeth and all tissues that are supplied with calcium
and other alkaline elements. A serious calcium deficiency is a forerunner of polio. This
deficiency cannot be adequately balanced by taking calcium tablets or bone meal but must
have the proper balance of other minerals and life elements necessary to enable it to
assimilate in the body. Certain green vegetables contain the calcium in proper balance. Some
of these will be listed under the topic heading WHO CAN CURE POLIO.
Dr. Benjamin P. Sandler, of North Carolina called attention to the relationship between polio
and the excessive use of sugar and refined starches such as white flour products and
processed corn meal. He compiled records showing that in the countries such as United
States, Britain, Australia, Canada and Sweden which have an extremely high per capita
consumption of sugar (around 108 pounds per person) there is also a high incidence of polio.
On the other hand, polio is practically unknown in China with its sugar consumption of only 3
pounds per person per year.
The summer months are the months of the highest sugar intake in the form of ice cream,
bottled drinks, candy, desserts etc. and it is no coincidence that it is also the time when polio is
at its height.
During one of North Carolina’s worst polio epidemics (1948) Dr. Sandler publicized a diet
program to control the disease. Polio had increased so rapidly all summer that by October
there were 2,403 cases in that state. All the usual medical methods had failed and the
hopelessness of this terrifying epidemic shocked the people into a willingness to listen to
something as unorthodox as diet to control disease. Dr. Sandier warned the people against all
sugar products such as ice cream, cola drinks, all fountain drinks, and many other popular but
harmful foods. The people were advised to eat vegetables, especially greens, ripe natural
fruits, (unsweetened) whole grains and plain, wholesome food.
The ice cream sales dropped off to such an extent that "one producer shipped one million less
gallons of ice cream during the first week following the diet story release." Within 72 hours
polio had declined considerably and the epidemic was brought under control. By the next year
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(1) "Cola is loaded with habit-forming caffeine so that once the victim gets accustomed to the
stimulant, he cannot very well get along without it." says Dr. Royal Lee, of the Lee Foundation
for Nutritional Research. "There is only one reason for putting caffeine in a soft drink—to make
it habit forming. Dr. H. W. Wiley (former director of the Food and Drug Administration) was
right when he said it was against any food law to add it to a drink." Dr. Wiley was fired when he
exposed the racketeers. Other men were hired who yielded to the pressure. In some states it is
against the law to sell a product of that kind and Wisconsin is one of them. The labeling law
requires most manufacturers to list on the label all the ingredients (especially poison drugs) but
the Cola companies get around this law and list nothing on the label. Cola is not a food but a
poison, and yet it is advertised as a drink suitable for children.
A bottle of Cola contains about as much caffeine as a strong cup of coffee. Caffeine is not only
a habit forming drug but it is destructive to the tissues of the stomach, eyes, nerves and
kidneys. In fact there is not a part of the body that is not injured by this drug. It makes the
children (and all who drink it) nervous, irritable and high strung and leads to a desire for
stronger drink later on.
(2) Cola drinks contain as much as 10% sugar which is 9 times more than the body can
metabolize.
(3) Colas contain artificial coloring and flavoring matter. These coal tar products are harmful
drugs and have no place in the diet.
(4) The most damaging ingredient in cola drinks is the PHOSPHORIC ACID. This acid is a
destroyer of the vital calcium supply in the body and even dissolves the enamel on the teeth.
Phosphoric acid is made by treating phosphate rock with sulphuric acid.
The corrosive effect of colas on the teeth was noticed more than 12 years ago and
experiments to prove this were begun during World War II at the Naval Research Institute and
later were continued at Cornell University under a grant from the Office of Naval Research.
Professor Clive McCay of Cornell made this report:
"At the Naval Research Institute we put human teeth in cola beverage and found that they
softened and started to dissolve within a short period. They be-came soft within two days.
"In the intervening years, 1943-1950, we made numerous studies of the effect of these cola
beverages upon the teeth of rats, dogs and monkeys. We have published data indicating that
the molar teeth of rats are dissolved down to the gum line if the rats are well fed but given
nothing to drink except cola beverage for a period of 6 months." (Journal of Nutrition, 1949 Vol.
39, p 313)
"McClure and Restarski report the decalcifying effects of acid soft drinks (such as cola
drinks), rendering the tooth surface more susceptible to bacterial attack. They point out that
enamel is most readily soluble in phosphoric acid (in cola drinks) exceeded only by solubility in
nitric acid. Restarski reports a popular cola drink to contain 0.055 per cent by weight
phosphoric acid and to have a pH of 2.6. This is considerably more than 100 times more acid
than will decalcify enamel under normal mouth conditions." (From an article by Dr. Allison
James, published by The Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research—No. 42)
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"Phosphoric acid will break down the body lecithin, cause brain fag, neurasthenia, nerve
breakdown, physical apathy, mental irregularities; anemia, polycythemia, acidosis, renal
(kidney) lesions, rickets, faulty calcification, a marked shift in the bone structure, unsuccessful
reproduction, tetany and prevents the normal increase in size of growing children. It will inhibit
all basic alkaline salts in their normal functions. It will attack the teeth and all bony tissue.
"Polio blood is low in calcium and invariably low in iron . . . The free phosphoric acid in Cola
could tie up iron, calcium, manganese and probably all the respiratory metals. When they can
no longer function in the action of enzymes, cells cannot generate or regenerate and this
results in decomposition of body proteins that manifests itself in POLIO. Phosphoric acid
slowly kills the life principle." (Duon Miller—Polio Prevention, Inc.)
From Polio Prevention, Inc., we get this data: "Miscarriages are 600% and premature births
400% more common among poorly fed mothers." This same nutritional deficiency also causes
suffering at childbirth, menopause, and the monthly periods. Normal, healthy women do not
suffer at these times. Under our present faulty health (?) education system the normal person
is the exception rather than the rule. In her remarkable book "TOKOLOGY" Dr. Alice B.
Stockhani describes a simple diet and health regimen that enables the mothers to have quick
and painless childbirths without drugs, hypnosis or hospitalization.
According to a survey made by the state college of Pennsylvania, MALNUTRITION HITS 999
PERSONS OUT OF 1,000. This indicates that a drastic change is needed in our health training
and national leadership.
The very foods that cause acidosis (the forerunner of polio) are served in the hospitals to the
polio patients
The following diet of devitalized, disease producing foods is typical of what I~ being served to
the patients in the medical hospitals This was actually taken
from the menu of a POLIO Ward. It is no wonder that so many die or fail to recover.
BREAKFAST:
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Canned orange juice (extract with white sugar and water added.)
Dry cereal (processed chaff with all the vital elements removed and poison preservatives
added.
White sugar and cream on cereal (sugar is a drug—slow alcohol.)
White bread and butter (Actual experiments on "death penalty" criminals showed that 30 days
on white bread and water killed more men than 30 days on water alone. In fact, none died on
water.)
Coffee served to older patients, cocoa to children. Both coffee and cocoa contain harmful
alkaloids, caffine, theobromine, tannin, theme, etc.
Coffee cake—made with white flour, white sugar, indigestible shortening, poison dough
conditioners, salt, etc.
VISITING HOURS:
Parents and friends came and brought ice cream and candy which the patients were permitted
to eat.
NOON LUNCH:
This was even worse.
Meat (fried chicken in this case. All fried foods are difficult to digest and all meats including fish
and chickens are highly acid forming.)
Gravy—greasy, pasty and acid forming.
Mashed potatoes—Peeled, boiled potatoes have lost their valuable minerals. What remains is
acid forming starch.
Beets in vinegar. Vinegar is an irritating acid, a denatured product that interferes with
digestion.
White rolls—same as white bread.
More coffee—white sugar and cream.
DINNER:
Meat—An active person can metabolize only one and a half ounces of protein a day. Inactive
patients are further poisoned by extra protein.
White rice—Polished rice is stripped of its outer coatings of mineral elements and vitamins that
help to balance the starch in the center. This processing makes the rice acid forming and
devitalizing.
ice Cream—This is one of the guilty offenders in causing polio, because of the high sugar
content and preservatives, fillers, artificial flavoring and coloring, etc.
Coffee or milk again. Patients were forced to eat when not hungry.
This diet looks like a conspiracy to keep the patients sick for the added business it brings the
doctors.
According to a survey made in 1946 regarding the percentage of polio recoveries under the
various methods of healing we have this interesting report:
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Some doctors are actually advising their pregnant patients to drink several bottles of cola each
day for nausea. Duon Miller, founder of Polio Prevention Inc. met one of these medically
misinformed women and he told her about the harmful effects of cola drinks and other such
drinks but the woman said, "You are no doubt right, but my doctor has advised me to drink it so
I’m going to follow the doctor." Cola makes "drug addicts" of its customers so she probably
couldn’t quit anyway.
She continued her poison diet and when her baby was born it was malformed without any
complete fingers or toes. The poisons in the cola had robbed it of the necessary minerals to
build a normal body. It will have to go through life as a helpless cripple, dependent on the
public as thousands of others have to do because certain physicians and manufacturers want
to make money.
"Any doctor who will suggest to a pregnant woman that she drink "cola" or suggest that a child
of any age drink "colas" should be disbarred by the Medical Association and given the rest of
his life to realize that the letters "M.D." after his name actually mean "Mentally
Deficient." (Duon Miller)
‘Doctors from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School undertook a study of the prenatal
diets of mothers who had given birth to 45 children so malformed that 90% were born dead or
died within a year after birth. The diets of these women were found to have been deficient in
practically every nutrient." (from "Lets Have Healthy Children"—Adelle Davis. p. 18-19)
Dr. Joseph C. Risser, in a broadcast on the subject of NUTRITION AND HEALTHY BONES
stated:
"Delay in development of fragmentation of bone growing centers, porous or soft bone, are
commonly seen in X-ray of recent POLIO patients. These X-ray evidences, having appeared
long before the attack of polio, strongly indicate that in the polio patient there was a pre-
existing state of malnutrition."
Ralf R. Scobey, M.D., president of the Poliomyelitis Research Institute. Inc. Syracuse, New
York (in the Archives of Pediatrics, Sept. 1950) lists 170 diseases of polio-like symptoms and
effects but with different names such as: epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis,
spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, bilious remittent
fever, ergotism, etc. There are also such common nutritional deficiency diseases as
beriberi, scurvy, Asiatic plague, pellagra, prison edema, acidosis etc. No drugs,
medicines or medical treatments have ever been able to cure any of these diseases and no
germs have been isolated as the cause. But they all respond to fasting, cleansing, proper diet
and improved circulation. The similarity of these diseases to polio is too obvious to go
unnoticed. They are, in reality, all one disease with varying stages of intensity and different
names. It is ridiculous to assume that polio is caused by a virus and the rest of them are
caused by nutritional deficiency. Dr. Scobey senses this fact when he states: "Inasmuch as
nerve cells react in much the same way to various poisons, further research will probably show
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that in these cases polio micro-organisms are not always present, but intoxication (poisoning)
may be produced through faulty metabolism or by the absorption of poisons from without."
There are literally thousands of cases in which beriberi, scurvy, polio, pellagra, etc. have
developed among arctic explorers, sailors, construction gangs, prisons and every other group
where the people try to live on an unbalanced diet of starch, protein, coffee and devitalized,
processed foods. Alfred McCann describes many of these (poison squads) in his book THE
SCIENCE OF EATING. In the case of the German crew on the "Kronprinz Willem" when the
ship’s hospital was filled with helpless sailors and more were dropping on the deck each day
the German and American doctors exhausted all their skill (such as it was) but the condition
grew steadily worse. The men had polio but all the doctors had a different name for it. They
thought the disease was contagious and the ship lay in quarantine in an American harbor.
When all the medical methods had utterly failed, Mr. McCann went aboard and gave the
captain a simple diet which was followed out and it brought about recovery of most of the
patients within 10 days. The rest of them were well in record time. Not a man was lost. On the
other hand, when the workmen on the South American railroad began collapsing with the
same deficiency disease, the doctors failed (as usual) and there was no "health" man to give
them a diet so 4,000 of them died. Viruses, germs or bacteria did not cause these epidemics.
The men were stricken with acidosis from malnutrition. They suffocated in their own internal
poisons. They had the fever, the swelling, the sore throat, the lack of coordination of muscles
and finally paralysis the same as our present polio patients.
When will our blundering physicians ever learn to profit by the experiences of the past instead
of torturing animals and experimenting on and killing people in a effort to learn something that
is already known?
In addition to the drastic vaccine poisons and the self generated poisons from wrong foods
there are a number of other poisons that are being freely used that are known to cause polio.
INSECTICIDES such as lead arsenate, hydrocyanic gas and other cyanide compounds, DDT,
parathion and other deadly poisons are a constant cause of death and disease. Dr. Abraham
Gelperin, director of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases and assistant Clinical Professor
or Public Health at Yale University, stated flatly that he believes many ills to be the result of
these poison insecticides, and that large numbers of what are believed to be polio are in reality
cases of poisoning, possibly caused by something like parathion.
Dr. J. W. Norton of the N. C. Department of Health said the "symptoms of parathion poisoning
are similar to those of polio, including headache, gastric upset, giddiness, tightness of the
chest, vomiting and sometimes diarrhea.
"One of the manufacturers of the widely used insecticide parathion describes it as ‘capable of
producing severe systemic toxic effects and death in animals and man either by oral
administration, inhalation of mists, dusts, or vapors and by absorption through the unbroken
skin." (Prevention—June, 1950. p. 12)
What are our elected officers and public protectors doing while all this wholesale poisoning is
going on? Are the over-wealthy manufacturers the only ones to be "protected" in their game of
"grab and stab"?
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Australian Medical Gazette, (Aug. 24, 1897) states that "formalin," an aqueous solution of
formaldehyde, caused paralysis in some who drank milk that contained it. Our U.S.
Government permits the dairymen to add formaldehyde to milk so that stale, inferior milk may
be sold as fresh milk. Formaldehyde is a poisonous embalming fluid that is, no doubt, one of
the causes of the epidemics of diarrhea and death among the bottle fed infants in hospitals.
The Lancet (Jan. 9, 1915) mentions an epidemic of polio that was said to have been caused by
raw milk. It has never been. proved that raw milk has ever caused polio or undulant fever or
any other disease but the added poison preservatives could cause many diseases.
Pasteurization companies capitalized on this incident to stampede some laws into operation
which would prohibit the sale of raw (unprocessed) milk. Pasteurization makes matters even
worse because the heating process melts the butterfat in the milk and this coats the calcium
globules and renders the calcium inassimilable to a large extent.
From the Journal of Biochemistry, (Vol. 75, pp. 251-62. Oct., 1927) we read: "In the Nutrition
Laboratory of the Dept. of Home Economics of the University of Chicago, in 1927,
experimentation revealed that only about 27% of the calcium in pasteurized milk and 30% of
evaporated milk was retained in the body."
Rats fed on pasteurized milk grew at only half the normal rate and developed various ailments
and died early. Calves fed on pasteurized milk died before maturity in 9 out of 10 cases.
Dr. Royal Lee of the Lee Foundation of Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, stated:
"I offer the sum of $1,000 to anyone who can offer evidence acceptable to the average jury
that pasteurization has not affected the nutritional values of milk to the extent that it is
incapable of maintaining the tooth and bone structures of the test animals."
The Salk vaccine also has formaldehyde added to the poison decomposed protein from which
the vaccine was made, which adds to its toxicity.
MERCURY, which is freely used in the practice of medicine, especially in the treatment of
venereal diseases, is reported to have caused many cases of polio. "Gonorrhea the crippler" is
an advertising "scare head" term that is used to terrorize "suspects" into the treatment offices.
The crippling is usually done by the treatment and not the disease itself. On a simple fasting
and correct diet program the disease heals the same as other conditions, when not interfered
with by suppressive medical measures.
SOLANIN, a poison that is formed in frozen potatoes was found to be the cause of an
epidemic in Ireland. The disease had polio-like reactions but was called remittent fever. Old,
sprouting potatoes and those that have been exposed to the sun in the growing period until the
skin was green were also found to -contain this toxic substance. -
UNRIPE FRUIT and ERGOT from some types of rye have caused gastrointestinal
disturbances which affected the nerves, spinal cord and brain and caused a form of polio. A
diet excessively high in grains (especially milled grains) has been followed -by deficiencies that
terminated in polio as was reported by Stockman and Johnson in the Journal of Nutrition,
(Nov., 1934).
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NEGATIVE EMOTIONS such as fear, anger, hatred, jealousy,, anxiety etc. release adrenaline
or generate other poisons that irritate the nerves or impede circulation and poison the cells just
the same as injected poisons. The- fear of polio or any other disease can help to develop it. On
the other hand a clean body and happy state of mind can help immunize against it.
In the very early days when bread was made from freshly ground whole grains it could rightly
be called the staff of life because it could sustain life. But our present day commercialized
bread is stripped of its vital life elements when the heart, the germ and the outer coatings with
all the valuable minerals are removed in the milling and processing of the flour. In addition to
this devitalizing step, four poisons are added to make a defective product salable, (1) Agene a
bleach as poisonous as Clorox or any other wash-day chlorine bleach is added to flour to
make it whiter—as if that matters. Dr. Scobey’s research department states that "It has
recently been discovered that white bread, which has been treated with the bleaching agent
nitrogen trichioride, (agene) produces in dogs epilepsy identical with the human disease . . .
The disease in dogs has been described in the past as ‘canine hysteria,’ (rabies) ‘running fits,’
or ‘fright disease’ and it was attributed by some scientists to an infectious agent, possibly a
virus. . ." The poisoning is obvious and yet they try to blame the condition onto a virus. (2)
Poison insecticides are added to keep the bugs out. The bugs are the lesser of the two evils—
they are not poison and they are large enough to be seen and can be avoided but the poison is
invisible. This poison in bread has been found to cause paralysis of the hind legs in
experimental dogs. Because whole wheat flour is more nourishing and therefore more
attractive to insects, about four times as much of -the insecticide is added to this flour. Most of
the Health Food Stores carry unprocessed flour and bread. If "safe" bread is not available
people should grind their own flour or avoid bread. (3) Alum and other harmful dough
conditioners are added to baker’s bread. (4) When the natural vitamin B is removed from the
flour and the synthetic vitamin B is added the advertiser’s claim it is "enriched" with vitamin B;
but it is actually poisoned by this coal tar product that is not a true vitamin. In Canada it is a
prison offense for a miller or a baker to add synthetic vitamin B to any product intended to be
used for food.
According to the report of the Surgeon General, "In 1945 there were 246 cases of polio with 52
deaths among American Troops in the Philippines." This is just a small representation of the
over-all picture of polio throughout our entire armed forces. They did not have any indication of
polio when they were inducted and they went to areas where there was no polio so it cannot
be blamed on contagion or viruses or any of the usual excuses. Polio is a man-made disease.
The soldiers were first poisoned with all the vaccines invented by modern medical voodooism.
Then they had free cigarettes, with their 18 poisons, pressed upon them and plenty of beer,
cola, candy, devitalized processed foods, ice cream, drugs and everything that destroys
health. An article in Prevention magazine, June, 1951 says:
"All during the war, as soon as local combat conditions permitted, ice cream, soft drinks,
candies, etc. became available to American troops. Ice cream manufacturing equipment
followed soon after combat equipment. I saw American troops consume great quantities of
candy bars when they lost their appetites for the army diet." As a result, polio, insanity and all
the diseases known to man developed among the soldiers more rapidly than among the 4Fs
who were too defective to go to war.
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Although the real cause and cure of polio is obvious, the promoters of polio find it more
profitable to "look" for a cure than to "find" it. The March of Dimes millions would cease to flow
into their pockets if they ever were to find the cure. Therefore, they keep up the pretense of
looking—but always in a direction where they are sure not to find the answer.
(1) At first they tried the polio serum and when they found it killed the people but did not stop
polio they tried something else just as far away from the solution as they could get.
(2) They sprayed towns, crops and orchards with deadly poison DDT insecticide, suggesting
that polio might be caused by flies. The chemical companies reaped the benefits but the
orchards were seriously damaged, crops were ruined and people were killed by this wild and
unwarranted experiment. An article on polio in "Your Health" magazine (1954, Fall Quarter, p.
69) comments on the fly situation by saying that in "Iceland where there are no flies . . there
have been polio epidemics. Experiments on eliminating flies by spraying whole communities
with DDT have not had any effect in combating epidemics."
The American Weekly—(1945) in an article titled, "War from the Air on Infantile Paralysis"
states that "if the city-wide experiment with polio proves that flies carry the disease . . . the city
officials are likely to agitate for . .. spraying of DDT from the air. . . This step might eliminate
flies . . . but at the same time it. would kill bees and butterflies, and many crops might fail
because of lack of pollination.. . The important thing now is to find out whether polio flies in
with the fly." But they did not bother to wait for this proof. They didn’t consult the people as to
whether they were willing to be subjected to this mass poisoning; they just moved in with their
full scale poisoning of the air, earth and vegetation.
GAMMA GLOBULIN was the next hoax to be foisted on the ever trusting public. United Press
(Sept. 20, 1953) reported: "Efforts to control polio, complete failure, according to the United
Nations WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE, which condemned mass use of
Gamma Globulin or any large scale intra-muscular injections."
Polio Prevention Inc. states: "The United States Army does not use Gamma Globulin and has
discontinued the use of blood plasma because of damage to the liver."
"Two years ago the Country was all stirred up about the possibilities of Gamma Globulin. This
Gamma Globulin was a derivative of the great stores of diseased human blood plasma which
was bursting the seams of the various blood banks.
"The doctors of the army, navy and marine corps had refused absolutely to ‘shoot’ this putrid
plasma into the bodies of wounded service men. They declared it was ‘too disease-ridden’ to
use on our heroes in uniform but such characterization of the ‘filthy stuff’ did not deter medical
men, from proclaiming it entirely suitable to go into the clean blood streams of the little
children."
The Los Angeles County Health Index (for the week ending May 23, 1953) states: (a) Evidence
indicates that gamma globulin does not prevent paralysis from occurring in all cases. (b) There
is evidence that it is of no value in the treatmónt of poliomyelitis after symptoms have been
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recognized. (c) The partial protection afforded by gamma globulin is only temporary lasting
only five to six weeks."
For a Public Health Department that is over-ridden by the medical trust, to make these
concessions indicates that the situation was much worse than that. There was no protection at
all and no benefit but it was used because it was a salable commodity.
In Key West, Florida when a few of the people learned of the plan to poison the city with this
self-condemned product they started a protest and circularized literature giving the facts about
it. But the promoters of gamma globulin induced the City Manager and the Police Dept. to
arrest anyone protesting or handing out literature unfavorable to their serum. Miami Herald,
Miami, Florida (Sept. 30, 1953) reported:
"Dr. Carl Bernet, of United States Public Health Service says: ‘Gamma Globulin is not a
cure or preventive of polio. Key West is getting the Gamma Globulin because there is an
extra supply’." Is this a land of liberty or just a page out of the Dark Ages?
CURARE, which is arrow poison used by the Indians of the Amazon is used on polio patients.
A doctor in the Los Angeles Health Department told me that this drug does not decrease the
pain of the polio patients but it makes them unable to move or scream and they experiment on
them then. Many of the patients die under the intense pain of this torture treatment.
THE PRECAUTIONS that the polio foundation give to the public have no effect at all on
controlling polio. What good does it do to warn people to (1) wash their hands, (2) stay out of
swimming pools, (3) stay away from polio patients, (4) call a doctor when symptoms appear
etc. when the disease is n~ caused by viruses but is caused by body poisoning? Why call a
doctor who admits he does not know the cause or the cure? All these misleading instructions
stand in the way of healing.
THE SALK VACCINE is just another failure mechanism because it, too, is wandering blindly in
the wrong direction and is spreading disease rather than curtailing it and is killing rather than
curing.
Many doctors, and public authorities as well as individual laymen are not only questioning the
safety of the Salk vaccine but are denouncing it. Even the Journal of the American Medical
Association in a recent (1956) "Report on Rate of Use of Poliomyelitis Vaccine" expresses
concern about the dropping off of sales of this product in the "announcement by the Public
Health Service that states are not using their vaccine supplies at the rate the serum is being
released .
Approximately 45% of the 7,000,000 cc had been used . . . Dr. Scheele asked all concerned to
use supplies as rapidly as possible . . ." He said, "This is the ideal time for vaccinations. The
safety and effectiveness of the vaccine are well established."
Imagine, a public officer making a statement like that after all the deaths caused by the blood
poisoning vaccine. By saying that "this is the ideal time for vaccinations" he probably means
that they better get their multi-billion dollar supply of vaccine sold before all the people wake
up. Most of them are still iii the hypnotic stupor of the high pressure advertising of the past year
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and a half.
"Dr. Herbert Ratner, health commissioner of suburban Oak Park and editor of the Bulletin of
the American Association of Public Health Physicians, asserted that public statements have
mostly favored the Salk program ‘to the exclusion of unfavorable items.’
"‘1—English Authorities in July, 1955, canceled the Salk vaccine programs as too
dangerous.
"‘2—All European countries, with the exception of Denmark, have discontinued their
programs. Even Denmark is reported to have found live virus in the Salk Vaccine.
"‘3—Canada decided, as of July 29, 1955, to postpone its vaccination program until the early
part of 1956, to take advantage of the expected advances in the development of safe and
effective poliomyelitis vaccine." (Since there is no such safe vaccine, what they are really
waiting for is to see what is going to happen to the millions of American children who have
been brutally sacrificed to the "money mad" vaccine experiment. None of these other countries
want to waste their children on such risky and haphazard experiments.)
"‘4—Two Nobel Prize winners, Dr. John Enders and Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, both have
publicly indicated their uncertainties about the Salk vaccine
"‘5—The Polio Advisory Committee and health officials of at least one state, Massachusetts,
have advised against public inoculations and have withheld approval of the use of the vaccine
until at least Jan. 1, 1956.
"‘6—One of the two major pharmaceutical houses connected with the production of Salk
Vaccine since the 1954 field trials has recently found it necessary to withdraw their product
from the market’."
Why pick on just one drug company; they are all guilty. In "DREW PEARSON’S MERRY-GO-
ROUND" the writer states: "Other drug companies, with the exception of Park Davis, have not
experienced so many seizures (by the Food and Drug administration, for violation of law). Park
Davis has had nine civil suits, Eli Lilly two, Pitman Moore two, Wyatt three, Sharp and
Dohme four, Cutter nine." He also tells us that "The Public Health Service which is testing
and licensing the Salk Vaccine has not had time to test it, but has accepted the written
reports of the drug companies." In a life and death matter such as this with millions of people
involved and future generations threatened by disease and impairment from vaccine
poisoning, why haven’t our paid public officials had time to test the vaccine? Can the
manufacturers who are in the business for profit be expected to tell the truth about the
product—when the truth would condemn them?
"SALK SHOTS OPEN NEW DRUG MARKET" is the front page headline in an independent
newspaper (The American Rally—April 1955) In the opening paragraphs we read:
"ANN ARBOR—With the pomp of a Presidential inauguration and the ballyhoo of a Hollywood
premiere, the big drug houses have unleashed upon the public their infamous campaign in
behalf of the Salk vaccine. Using the general anxiety concerning polio, this conspiracy now
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aims to inject this dubious serum into the bloodstream of every child in the United States.
"Thus, a new major industry has been activated. Estimated to gross over 5 billion dollars in
its first year of wholesale operation, combining the revenue of the Chemical Trust and
doctor fees and advertising, this new development will make Dr. Jonas Salk, its promoter, the
Henry Ford of the mass production needle-pushing racket.
"The American Rally warns against the mass inoculations being planned. It is felt by many
authorities that this Salk campaign is a run-away experiment in totalitarian ‘health’ (?) powers
which will bring disaster to the children involved. No objective standards were employed in
determining either the safety or the efficiency of the serum.
"The Salk experiment is based on false premises and refuses to deal with original causes of
polio. From the basis of a fictitious ‘virus’ the vaccinators are using other poisons over which
they have little control. In their mad scramble to launch a new money-making empire, it
appears they are willing to ‘guinea pig’ America to death.
"American Rally proposes an open-forum, impartial, qualified and independent authority which
can sit in judgment over such propositions. The Nation desperately requires a HALL OF
SCIENCE separate from both government and commercial monopoly, which can protect the
public interest."
This is a very good idea but I wonder how long we could keep it free from politics and the
money trusts.
Morris A. Beale, in his book of startling facts titled THE DRUG STORY tells us that "disease is
more rampant because of commercial greed. When the Rockefeller-Standard Oil crowd
muscled into the drug and pharmaceutical business in such a big way, ‘scientific medicine’ (if
there is such a thing) was turned into a racket which shortened many American lives from ten
to twenty years.
The $446,837,527 subsidy parceled out to medical colleges by the Rockefeller Foundation to
mis-educate medics into the excessive use of drugs, vaccination and immunization which are
making invalids of millions. It tells of the $10,000,000,000 traffic in death and disease. . . One
pharmaceutical house’s profit of 635 per cent on its assets in one year . . . panhandling rackets
in cancer control and allied frauds. . . appointments by Rockefeller Center of all key personnel
in Government health set-ups. . . government gangsters in the Food and Drug Administration,
Post Office, Army, Navy and Public Health Offices etc.. . . dangerous doses . . . protected
shakedown. . . and the Drug Chamber of Commerce." Truth Teller Magazine.
In spite of the medical domination that prevented the newspapers and radios from advertising
his book, its popularity spread so fast among the people who were starved for truth that within
six months six large printings had to be made and it is still a big seller among health minded
people.
When President Eisenhower took it upon himself to filch $30,000,000 from the deceived
taxpayers in order to help force more poison vaccine into the resisting children, the American
Medical Association, with its machinery geared to money making, raised its loud voice in
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opposition, because it was not getting all the fees. The Bulletin of the National Health
Federation (March, 1956) stated:
The A.M.A., however, recently attacked the public health officials as ‘violating the principles of
free enterprise in medicine.’ The House of Delegates of the A.M.A. is demanding that all free
inoculations stop and that the task be turned over to the doctors on a fee basis..
This gives us an idea of what American Free Enterprise means. It merely means that the trusts
are tree to exploit the people and if someone else wants to do the same—the fight is on.
If someone wants to stop the exploitation and warn the people, the money trusts in power
"squelch" them—if they can.
In 1946, during one of our most serious polio epidemics in Los Angeles, I wrote a book called
POLIO CONTROL in which I denounced the "virus theory" and named vaccination as one of
the causes of polio. The medico—drug trusts had their stooges working for two years trying to
get something legal on which to put the book out of circulation. I had had a lawyer go over the
manuscript before I had it printed and I had the Post Office examine the printed book to be
sure it was in order and nothing was said that was against the law. The lawyer said, "The book
is dynamite but it’s well documented and entirely within the law." When the "medical
opposition" couldn’t get anything on me lawfully they used unlawful measures and had their
stooges in the Post Office bar the book from the mails. No jury trial was permitted and no
testimony of mine was accepted. Their charge was that the "book was dangerous because it
disagreed with accepted medical belief." So the book went out of circulation, but not before
two editions had been sold to all parts of the world—mostly to drugless doctors.
The medical trust, through their hirelings in the Better Business Bureau, had not let the
newspapers sell me even one inch of advertising space for fear the people would learn the
truth. One of the large newspapers in Los Angeles said to me, "We think you have a good
book but our hands are tied; if you can get the OK of Mr. Sample of the Better Business
Bureau we can take your ad." When I talked to Mr. Sample and "downed" all his arguments
with proof of the damage done by vaccination and all the case histories of polio from
vaccination etc. he merely said, "If you’re right then a lot of other people are awfully wrong."
But he still refused to allow the papers to advertise my book.
The years went by and many doctors in various parts of the world, England, Australia, France,
United States, etc. learned that viruses did not cause polio and that the disease occurred in
patients soon after vaccination, and in the limb in which the injection had been given. Many
lives would have been saved if my book could have reached the people. But selfish medical
interests destroyed it because of information that has since then been proven to be true. It’s
hard to say what they will try to do to this book. But whatever they attempt is likely to
boomerang and explode right under their plot.
In a letter from R. N. Newcomb to LIFE magazine (Aug. 1949) the question was asked: "Did it
ever occur to you that if the real answer to polio is established it means the end for a racket
that has annually, for many years, reaped tens of millions of dollars from the public by means
of sob propaganda. It also would, in large degree, dry up the yearly freshet of hundreds of
millions paid in medical and associated fees by the families of those afflicted. If you beieve that
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the real answer to polio is honestly being sought and would be available to the world when
found, then you would also believe that General Motors would back research to make the use
of automobiles prohibited."
Since 1938 the MARCH OF DIMES has reaped over $300,000,000. What have they done with
it? Polio has not been checked; it has increased. Polio " patients in the hospitals, supposedly
using some of the March of dimes money have died in larger numbers than those who stay
home and have no special care. Those who recover in the hospital are in about the same
proportion as those who do not go to the hospitals. Who gets this public donation? The April
1952 issue of EXPOSE gives us a hint in this statement:
"The public will never know what proportion of their dollars went for fund raising and
administration. Unlike all other leading non-profit organizations, the Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis has refused to make these facts available to the public.
"It is estimated that $15,000,000 a year (a very conservative estimate) are poured down the
drain called ‘General Administration Expenses’.
"If you contributed your dimes and dollars, a large part of your contribution went to pay
somebody who sits behind a desk and gets a large salary to figure out new ways to get more
contributions from you the next time.
"Every man, woman and child in the United States is marked for a specific per capita
contribution. This is wrung from you with gimmicks ranging from March of Dimes cards to Iron
Lung collectors, metal lapel tabs, house to house, office to office, school and motion picture
collections.
"There are special tear jerking posters available to all magazines and newspapers. Also movie
shorts with a popular star making a pitiful plea for hand-outs. Radio and TV shows are
punctuated with money grabbing skits and slogans.
"Philanthropy has now become one of the 10 big industries in the U.S.
"In 1918 the National Information Bureau was established to provide information and advice
on philanthropic groups. This Bureau is a non-profit organization. It has investigated more than
4,000 national organizations during the past 33 years. The bureau has standards against
which all charities are measured. All reports are confidential.
"The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc., does not . . . It does not issue a complete
audit of income, expenditures and assets.
"In recent years, an attempt has been made to establish a system by which funds necessary to
support health services could be secured in a single joint campaign. It would save millions of
dollars that now go into the pockets of professional fund-raisers and never get near the
purpose they are contributed for. Every other major group in the United States has expressed
a willingness to join such a federated drive—with the single exception of the March of Dimes."
It seems some branches of the government were getting suspicious of the pretended search
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for a cure for polio carried on at such expense by the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, so it was suggested that the government conduct some research in this direction.
"In 1948 the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis told a Congressional Committee that ‘there is no
need for the government to conduct research at this time in polio.’
"When asked to explain this strange attitude, Foundation officials stated frankly: "When the
Government takes over an activity . . . contributions fall off……..We do not wish to take that
gamble!"
The Science News Letter tells us that "some 200 scientists are researching upon phases of
polio and 510 projects in 91 institutions have been under way in the 16 years of this great polio
campaign."
Over $300,000,000 have been spent already and $50,000,000 per year more are being
collected and spent with not one dime being used for research on fasting and proper nutrition
and the only other things that can prevent and cure polio.
After the announcement from Philadelphia (1934) that Dr. John A. Kolmer had discovered a
"protective (?) vaccine" against infantile paralysis, Dr. W. Lloyd Aycock, director of the
Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission and called "one of the most distinguished experts in
this disease", gave a statement to the press that "Nature does a better job of immunizing
against infantile paralysis than the artificial methods" which he branded as
"Hazardous."
If we remove the obstructions and supply the body with the necessary building material, nature
will heal practically any disease so long as too much of the vital organs or glands have not
already been destroyed by disease or operations.
What are the obstructions to be removed in the healing process? Obviously, drastic poisons
such as vaccine serums, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, cola drinks, etc. poison the
system immediately and set up disease states. But other blockages form slowly in the tissues
as a result of incompatible foods, wrong food combinations, and over eating. These
substances as well as the drugs, interfere with normal digestion and assimilation. The by-
products of perverted metabolism undergo a chemical change and are lodged in the tissues in
solid form. Some are in the form of sharp needle-like crystals that cause pain in arthritis; others
accumulate into hardened masses which are called gallstones. A gluey material coats the
blood vessels and slows down circulation. "Some of these blockade materials are cholesterol
(from fat), uric acid formed from excess protein (any more than two ounces per day is excess
protein), carbonic acid from sugar and starch, chlorine (from table salt), and calcium carbonate
(from milk, calcium tablets and other calcium containing substances that failed to assimilate
because of some type of interference or glandular mal-functioning." —Dr. M. O. Garten.
Most people are over loaded with these infusions of blockade materials that cannot be utilized
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by the body. When some extra strain is put upon the vital forces such as sudden change in the
weather, fatigue, fear, worry, wrong food etc., the body is unable to hold back the "bursting tide
of accumulated waste" any longer and lets go—forces it out in a cleansing program, that
usually lasts from 5 days to two weeks. Colds, eruptions, fevers, diarrhea and even paralysis
are symptoms of this cleansing effort to rid the body of waste that has not been eliminated
through the usual channels. People do not catch diseases from others who have it. All those
who are ill built their own causes and the same stresses triggered off the "cleansing act" in all
who had reached the saturation point of poisons.
When poisons flow in a free state in the body as is the case with vaccines, the internal defense
mechanism is forced to rob the tissues of calcium and other alkalizing elements to neutralize
these poisons. If the person is on the borderline of calcium deficiency then there can be no
neutralizing and collapse or paralysis is the result.
R. B. Pearson made an exhaustive study of the data and experiments that have been made
with polio vaccines and summed up his finding as follows: "Hence, I believe there was no virus
in the vaccine used. It was just a solution of the toxins and acid end-products of the
decomposed proteins used that caused all the paralysis. The acids generated by cooked meat
in Dr. Pottenger’s cats (experiment that caused polio in the cats) affected the nerves first, and
the acids formed in the decomposed proteins used in the vaccines affected the nerves first. It
is the same thing and, no so-called ‘virus’ is connected with it." (From Infantile Paralysis, by
Pearson.)
Many methods have been tried by drugless doctors in an attempt to rid the body of the
blockage materials that stood in the way of recovery. The right kind of an elimination diet has
been very beneficial, proper breathing and exercises have helped, mental and spiritual
treatments have been useful to a few but the method that has brought the best and surest
removal of poisons and recovery from disease is FASTING. Those who are experienced in
fasting therapy claim that fasting is 20 times more efficient as a healing measure than anything
else.
On a fast, no food of any kind is eaten and no juices taken. Water is permitted and that’s all.
Fasting is not starving. Starving does not begin until after 8 or 10 weeks of fasting. The fast
should be broken before that time. A long fast should be supervised by someone who is
experienced in conducting fasts. Some of the best authorities on this most valuable of healing
aids, are listed in a another chapter. A good book on fasting should be studied before
undertaking a fast at home. Short fasts of two or three days may quite safely be taken at
home. (Some of the best fasting books are sold by HEALTH RESEARCH, Mokelumne Hill,
Calif.) The experts in the field tell us that the fast should be followed by fresh fruits and juices
or fresh (not canned) vegetable juices at a separate meal. Several days of simple meals of
fruits and vegetables should be the rule before any starch or protein is eaten. Needless to say,
the old habits of wrong eating should not be continued. A good guide to follow after the fast is
Dr. Shelton’s little book, "FOOD COMBINING MADE EASY."
Hot baths have been beneficial in many cases of polio. The late Bernarr MacFadden said, "A
warm bath 98 to 99 degrees for an hour or more, two or three times daily, with drinking of
nothing but water, if adopted immediately after the onset of polio—should cleanse the system
and divert the attack." (No soap or anything else should be used in the water)
A friend of mine who was paralyzed after his shots at camp during the First World War said he
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lay helpless in the Army hospital for weeks then one night when the nurses went to a dance in
the recreation hall downstairs he dragged himself out of bed and pulled himself across the floor
by his elbows until he reached the bathroom. Then he filled the tub full of hot water and
managed to get in and stayed there quite a while. When he got out he could walk so he
dressed and went downstairs and stood in the doorway and his nurse almost fainted when she
saw him. He was sent overseas after that. When he came back he had a condition of
forgetfulness which they called "shell shock" but it was more than likely the after effects of the
vaccine poisoning.
Some doctors, in trying to build up the calcium deficiency in polio and other poisoned patients,
give them calcium tablets, bone meal, lime and other such concentrates. Some report good
results while others are harmed by it. Calcium cannot be assimilated without the proper
balance of phosphorus, iron, sodium, vitamin B, C, and D. Most of the vitamin pills on the
market are synthetic coal tar products or fish liver oil and act as irritants instead of foods.
These are not recommended NQ chemist or doctor knows the exact proportion in which these
elements should be combined, therefore it is better to get them as they grow in nature where
they are combined in perfect balance.
Some of the richest sources of calcium are: Turnip greens, mustard greens, watercress,
powdered whey, celery, turnips, spinach, cauliflower, dandelion greens, dried figs, hazelnuts,
molasses, lentils, endive, chard, escarole, milk, cheese, parsley, alfalfa tea, and others. These,
of course, must be free from insecticide spray.
Much of the spray can be removed by a 1 % solution of Hydrochloric acid. A simple way is to
pour ½ cup of the acid into a large enamel pan or crock (not metal such as tin or aluminum).
Add two gallons of water and let the fruits and vegetables remain in the solution for 3 minutes.
Then drain and rinse in clear water. The solution may be saved and used for several days. In
the meantime make demands of our public officials that poisons on foods be prohibited.
Healthy soil, free from chemical fertilizers and sprays will produce foods that are free from
disease and pests. This has been tested and proved by the so called "organic-farming"
methods with their balanced compost and powdered granite and other soil builders.
If we are to eliminate polio epidemics and free our country from all disease we must attack the
problem at its source. The foundation is in the healthy soil, then the healthy food can be raised.
With the improved food and correct health education and banishment of commercialized
foodless-foods, drugs, narcotics and other products that menace the race we can raise our low
standard of health (with 90% of our people below par) up to the level where it should be. Only
then can we expect to have unlimited health, happiness and progress.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE HYGIENIC SYSTEM, Vol. 2, 3, 6, 7 Dr. Herbert M. Shelton —P. 0. Box 1277, San Antonio, Texas.
BECHAMP OR PASTEUR? — E. Douglas Hume —
FACTS AGAINST COMPULSORY VACCINATION — H. B. Anderson, Citizens’ Medical Reference Bureau, 226
W. 47th St., New York City.
VITAL FACTS ABOUT FOODS — Otto Carque — Health Research.
THE MEDICAL VOODOO — Annie Riley Hale.
THE VACCINATION PROBLEM — Joseph P. Swan —
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ADDENDUM
We wish to thank Herbert M. Shelton, N. D., T. M. Schippell, N.D., Morris A. Bealle and Rex
Lloyd, for permission to use the following material.
The Publishers
Ever since the dawn of history man has believed and still does, in the miraculous and curative
power of poisonous agents and anything and everything which experience has amply proven
to be harmful to the wellbeing of organized, organic, living structure. Today, with our Modern
and Scientific Medicine that boasts of the advances being made in the field of preventive
medicine—having evolved a detailed science of Theoretical Immunology in which harmful
man-eating microbes, virus, etc., are credited with the power of causing disease, previously
assumed by primitive man to belong to satanic gods, evil spirits, demons and serpents,—we
are by no means in a state of better health than were the ancients.
We do not deny the existence of microbes but we do deny that there are any insidious, man-
eating, death-dealing pathogenic bacteria capable of causing pathology. Natural Hygiene—a
school of rational, wholesome and total living (which originated in the United States 125 years
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ago) declares that Toxemia is the universal basic cause of all pathology and so-called disease.
Toxemia is the accumulation of body waste and is produced by anything and everything that
enervates the body. Enervation is produced by anything that uses up excess energy, e.g.
poisons, denatured foods, lack of sleep, rest, relaxation, fresh air and sunshine, overeating,
sexual excesses, dissipations of all kinds, worry, fear, jealousy, mental self-abuse, unpleasant
human and social relations, faulty economic conditions. This checks elimination and permits
accumulation of body waste. Bacteria do not cause pathology but are rather the effects of
disease. They are, we might say, Scavengers—a necessary by-product of diseased tissues of
the impaired organism. It should be emphasized that only TRUE NATURAL IMMUNITY can be
attained through a state of INTERNAL CLEANLINESS based on legitimate nutrition and
hygienic living habits. Our orthodox medical practitioners all seek for a way to make UNCLEAN
LIVING SAFE by creating a hypothetical ARTIFICIAL IMMUNITY through immunization and
thus protect us from the natural consequences of our daily violations of the laws of life.
Numerous experiments with germs conducted in the past have conclusively proven that
bacteria does not and cannot produce disease in a healthy organism. Years ago, Dr.
Pettenkofer, professor at the University of Vienna, came to the conclusion that germs alone do
not produce pathology and for years defended his position from the lecture platform and in his
writings. On more than one occasion he and his assistants swallowed the contents of glasses
containing millions of living cholera germs. Dr. Thomas Powell of California, who is believed to
have taken more germs than any other man, challenged his medical colleagues to produce a
single disease by germ inoculation. He was inoculated with cholera germs, bubonic plague
germs and bacteria of every description and which was fed to him in every kind of food, yet
nothing happened. Read U.S. Government Bulletin "Hygienic Laboratory—Bulletin No. 123,
Feb. 1921", for further proof on contagious diseases.
Medical history credits Edward Jenner, an English pharmacist and surgeon, (1798), with the
discovery of vaccination. Inoculation, in some crude form has been practiced by savage and
primitive people from an unknown period, among which were Negroes, Arabs, Nubians,
Shillocks, Tibetans and Hindoos. All that Jenner did, was that he helped to resurrect an old
custom popular then among dairymen and milk maids and supplied it with modern theories.
THE NATURE OF VACCINES AND THE DANGERS AND SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS THAT
FOLLOW SERUMIZATION
All vaccines and serums are foreign proteins and therefore a virulent poison. If any protein
enters the body illegitimately, through any channel other than the digestive tract, it becomes a
strong poison. Proteins in themselves cannot be used by the body—they first require to be
broken up by the various processes of digestion into Amino Acids before they become useful
as a nutrient to the organism and can be taken into the blood stream to be used as building
materials. Injections of therapeutic serums in human beings and animals result in impairment
and great injury to some of the most vital organs—heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, nerves etc.
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death. Some of the symptoms following vaccination and resulting in Serum Sickness are:
Fever, Glandular Enlargment, Urticaria, Leucopenia, Leukotaxis, Sciatica, Phlebitis, Pain and
Tenderness of the Joints, Paralysis, Heart Failure, Collapse and Death.
Harold S. Diehl, M.A. M.D., Sc.D.—Textbook of Healthful Living (1945), pp. 256-57, says: "The
dangers of vaccination claimed by the anti-vaccinationists are practically all fallacious or of
such antiquity that they do not apply to modern vaccination . . . Complications of vaccination
are occasionally reported, but how frequently these occur it is difficult to know, possibly once in
a million vaccinations. There was not a single record of a serious result in the millions of
vaccinations done in the army and navy during the First World War."
The evidence and literature proving that vaccination evolves complications, pathology with
often fatal results are too numerous to mention here, but it seems Dr Diehl is deliberately
distorting facts. Let the recird speak for itself:
The report of the Surgeon General of the Army, 1919, Vol. 1, p. 38, gives the number of
Admissions to Hospitals during the year 1918 on account of vaccinia, the disease caused by
vaccination, as 10,830. Another report of the Surgeon General of the Army, 1918 gives the
number of Admissions to Hospitals during the year 1917 on account of vaccinia and typhoid
vaccination combined as 19,608.
The writer, served in the U.S. Army in World War II, and had the misfortune to partake
personally in one of the Vaccination Epidemics which occured in the summer of 1942. He was
hospitalized for two weeks during May as a result of inoculation received against Yellow Fever
in February of the same year. He was unable to take any food for one week and the symptoms
included:
Constant Vomiting, Yellow Skin, Adominal Pain, Restlessness, Drowsiness, Delirium, Elevated
Temperature, Loss of all Appetite, and a Severe Feeling of Sickness. A large percentage of the
men in his company came down with the same sickness—Yellow Jaundice—and were
hospitalized.
TIME, the Weekly News Magazine, p 57, Section on Medicine, Aug. 3, 1942, 1 brought the
Epidemic Outbreak to the attention of the public under the title "Jaundice Rampage" it reports:
"From Army Hospitals for the past three months have come rumors of a mysterious epidemic
of jaundice. (One rumor: 1500 jaundiced men in famed Walter Reed Hospital.) Last week War
Secretary Henry Stimson was ready to talk. Jaundice had attacked the armed forces. There
have been 62 deaths, 28,585 hospital cases—4,528 of them overseas. Mr. Stimson hastily
added that the disease is not contagious nor dangerous to the civil population." TIME reports
further: . . . the true story!
"In early April, soldiers began to come down with jaundice in such numbers that Army doctors
and civilian experts on the Army’s Epidemic Control Board began frantically searching the
cause. Along with yellow skin went nausea, nervousness, lack of appetite, constipation.
Sometimes a soldier would be out of kilter for six weeks. Highest-ranking sufferer: Lieut.
General Joseph Stillwell, who came down with it after his famed foot march across Burma
mountains."
"The experts finally decided that the disorder might be connected with the Army’s inoculation
against Yellow Fever."
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TIME continues with the report and voices the conclusions of the experts who suspect that the
batch of vaccine which was used must have been imperfect or contaminated by another germ.
Among the greatest crimes today is that of Vaccination By Compulsion. The forcible
introduction of pus into the body of man, woman and child, with or without his consent, is a
threat to personal liberty, is unconstitutional and a crime against humanity. These outrages are
committed daily in all parts of the world in the name of Science and Medical Progress. Medical
Practitioners, supported by their Powerful Commercial Allies have supported this insidious
practice and are responsible for introducing compulsory vaccination laws.
Supreme Court Justice Cardozo stated that: "Every human being of adult years and of sound
mind has a right to determine what shall be done to his own body; and a surgeon who
performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault for which he is liable in
damages."
‘If a person should not be willing in his case and the authorities should think otherwise, it is not
in their power to vaccinate him by force."
The verdict rendered by the prominent U.S. Supreme Court Judge and similar decisions
reached by various State and Federal Courts should be sufficient to outlaw all compulsory
medication and vaccination laws and make it a criminal offense for anyone to use force in an
attempt to do so. That so-called Preventative Medicine Does Not Prevent Disease but Inflicts
Serious Complications, Lifelong Diseases, if Not Death has been proven repeatedly, and that
Justice Is Not Rendered In All Cases and In All Courts has also been demonstrated.
Thus, the Federal Court in New York City, although it must have well realized the
unconstitutional nature of the verdict, when it convicted and sentenced to three years
imprisonment, John Collura, 19, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., for refusing to be vaccinated upon
induction into the Army at the beginning of World War II. He did not refuse military service,
mind you,—but being health-minded, did not want to endanger his health. Mr. Collura’s
defense showed during the trial that there never has been a so-called Compulsory Vaccination
Law in the United States, and that in the British Army and Navy vaccination was always
optional. (See: England abandons Compulsory Vaccination—Dr. Shelton’s Hygienic Review,
Feb. 1949)
Mr. Selig Kaplan, lawyer of New York, stated at the outbreak of the second World War that ". . .
there is nothing in the National Draft Law which requires (one) to submit to involuntary
compulsory vaccinations or inoculations of animal matter." Must we submit to a practice which
violates one of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed us in the constitution? The objector
should not feel that he is in the minority. We should recall the splendid examples set by
prominent persons of great intellectual calibre who have been staunch anti-vaccinationists and
non-conformists in regard to orthodox therapeutics. Bismarck, Salisbury, V. Zedwiz, Earl
Dysart, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Premier Asquith, Gladstone, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, John Bright,
G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Elbert Hubbart, Robert Ingersoll,
Alexander von Humbolt, Herbert Spencer, Alfred R. Wallace, W. Webb, Luther Burbank,
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford.
In recent years, top-rank British Generals who refused vaccination have come into the news.
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Statistics used by the Medical Profession prove to the uninformed public the health-promoting
qualities of serums, toxins, anti-toxins etc., that these have reduced or eliminated infectious
diseases and have conquered epidemics—smallpox, typhus, cholera etc. This is false and
misleading advertising and propaganda. These figures and statistics have been skillfully
juggled by deliberately distorting facts to frighten people into being vaccinated.
Thus, Dr. H. 5. Diehl in the aforementioned book, pp. 253-57 says: "A person living today
cannot possibly realize what smallpox meant before the days of vaccination. Smallpox was just
as inevitable then as measles is today. . . . It has been estimated that 60 million people in
Europe died of smallpox during the eighteenth century.
If the death rate of smallpox and fevers was so enormous, it was largely due to the medical
treatment of that time. A number of eruptive diseases such as measles, chicken pox, scarlet
fever etc. were regarded as smallpox before Dr. Seydenham differentiated between the
various symptom-complexes. How great the number of deaths was from scarlet fever,
measles, chicken pox etc., that were included in the smallpox epidemics will never be known.
Dr. Russell T. Trall, the eminent Natural Hygienist, considered smallpox "as essentially . . not a
dangerous disease." He cared for large numbers of patients afflicted with smallpox and never
lost a case. Under conventional medical treatment, patients were drugged heroically, bled
profusely, were smothered in blankets, wallowed in dirty linen, were allowed no water, fresh air
and stuffed with milk, brandy or wine. Antimony and Mercury were medicated in large doses.
Physicians kept their patients bundled up warm in bed, with the room heated and doors and
windows carefully closed, so that not a breath of fresh air could get in, and given freely large
doses of drugs to induce sweating (Sudorifics), plus wine and aromatized liquors. Fever
patients were put into vaporbath chambers in order to sweat the impurities out of the system.
Given no water when they cried for it and when gasping for air were carried to a dry-hot room
and after a while were returned to the steam torture. Many must have died of Heat Stroke!
How did smallpox originate? It appeared only with the collapse of the Greek and Roman
Civilization with its high standards of health. Neither Greece nor Rome suffered from smallpox
while a disease resembling it decimated populations in Africa and Asia. The sanitary and
hygienic systems of the great pagan civilizations—public baths, gymnasia, solaria, athletic
stadiums, municipal water supply, drainage, toilet facilities, well-aired, sunny, spacious and
clean living quarters, garbage disposal, simple, natural and unspoiled foods—prevented the
appearance of infectious diseases and fevers. The sanitary conditions in the towns and cities
of Europe in which smallpox raged were most frightful. According to Montgomery’s English
History, the streets of London and other cities were rarely more than twelve to fifteen feet wide
were neither paved nor lighted. Pools of stagnant water accumulated everywhere, heaps of
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garbage abounded and were only removed when it began to obstruct the traffic. There was no
sewage and dead dogs, cats, rubbish, rotten vegetable and fruit refuse, human and animal
excreta, and slops from the kitchen were all thrown into the streets. Surrounded by high walls,
cities could not expand and people were forced to live in a slum-like manner. Holes served as
windows, with little or no ventilation, whole families slept in one room often in one bed, and
hundreds of persons lived in one building crowded in from the sub-cellar to the attic. They
rarely ever washed, had no bath tubs, no underwear and wore the same clothes day and night.
They lived in utmost poverty, slaved long hours, even the children worked, drank heavily of
alcohol, ate like hogs of spoiled, unnatural food and suffered from malnutrition.
So-called infections or zymotic diseases are brought on by Toxic Poisoning (Sepsis), resulting
from protein putrefaction of animal origin. Toxins vary from slight irritants to most virulent
poisons. The most septic poisons are of flesh or animal origin and produce infectious diseases
e.g. bubonic plague, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria, etc. Toxins arising from carbohydrate
decomposition are of a much less virulent nature and result in catarrhal conditions, e.g. colds,
laryngitis, influenza etc.
Plagues and epidemics in the past were not conquered by the use of vaccines but were
cleared up through sanitary and hygienic measures-street sanitation, sewers garbage disposal,
adequate water supply, toilet facilities, better living quarters with spacious windows and
ventilation, fresh air, light, sunshine, unspoiled, natural food, refrigeration and better food
storage, public recreational facilities, parks better working conditions, social and family
relations.
There is only one TRUE PROPHYLAXIS or real (natural) immunity against disease—and that
arises from HEALTH—a state of structural and functional organic harmony. There is no wrong
way to do right and there is no SUBSTITUTE for CLEAN, LEGITIMATE, HYGIENIC living.
Nature builds immunity within, in the living organism, and does not require artificial assistance.
Instead of destructive and suppressive methods, exponents of Natural Hygiene submit that
health is maintained and restored by the internal and inherent forces of the living body
operating with those same conditions and material agencies as they are found in free nature,
and with which she has built up and maintains the whole animal world. The Eternal, God-given,
Hygienic Factor-Elements are:
food, air, water, exercise, rest, sleep, relaxation, light, sunshine, warmth, mental poise and
harmony, and freedom from enervating habits. Hygiene is not a school of healing and has no
therapeutic panaceas. It is a grand scheme of total living with an all-embracing program of life
building. It is built upon a new and revolutionary synthesis of correlated living factors that fuses
each part of life into a harmonious and intelligent whole, and presents a normal pattern of living
in terms of a valid biological standard.
In the recovery from so-called infections there is no more effective and certain way or rapid
means than through the fast. Fasting is abstinence of all food except water and is a plan of
physical, physiological, mental and sensatory rest. The recovery from diseases such as colds,
typhoid fever, typhus, influenza, yellow fever, smallpox measles, scarlet fever, mumps etc.,
which definitely originate through dietary errors and unclean living, is always hastened through
fasting, and hygienic measures which are successful when all other therapeutic means fail.
The following revealing statement was made by State Senator, John J. Haluska (Penn.)
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In ins opening remarks delivered by the Federal Court, Pittsburgh, Penn., when he
appeared pursuant to subpoena in connection with the disposition proceedings in that
court.
"There exists now, and perhaps, always will exist differences of medical opinion with respect to
the effect of drugs and therapeutic treatments. Any attempt to regulate by law in those fields
where honest differences of opinion exist between groups of qualified practitioners is contrary
to public interest.
"Such a regulation is now being attempted by the American Medical Association which for
some time has fought me and has in the past conspired to liquidate me, as was developed in
the injunction hearings carried on in Cambria County in July, 1954.
"The doctors and the AMA have not given up their fight. Organized medicine at this very
moment has succeeded in placing their personal emissaries in high places to advise and
control Oveta Culp Hobby, Head of the Health, Education and Welfare, of which the Food and
Drug Administration is an adjunct.
"Previously announced threats against foes who refuse to conform to the AMA and their
political and economic beliefs are being carried out.
"The former Washington counsel and legislative agent of the AMA, James W. Forestel, has
been placed in command of the legal department of Health Education and Welfare. Against
this prejudiced background the average citizen like myself can hardly be heard. Accordingly I
have concluded upon the advice of my able counsel, Benedict FitzGerald Jr., of Washington,
D. C., that it would be expedient for me to rely for assistance upon certain fundamental rights
accorded to me by virtue of Admiralty, Rule 30, Article L. Section 9 of the Constitution of
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States.
****
"Are the recommendations of Secretary Hobby with respect to her endorsement of vaccine of
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, and her suggestions that every child of tender age be forced to submit to an
injection of the Salk vaccine, the law of the land?"
REPORT ON SALK VACCINE—Those who hopefully believed the sales talk of Salk vaccine
vendors and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis are disillusioned and disappointed.
Far from wiping out polio, it apparently has increased it in many states and cities. Those mass
inoculations, we were led to believe, would wipe out this dreadful malady. According to serum
trust propaganda, funnelled to press and public thru the AMA, the USPHS and the NFIP, it has
only reduced it 40-50%. But the record shows exactly opposite.
An Associated Press dispatch from Boston Aug. 30 reported 2,027 cases of polio in
Massachusetts against 273 the same time last year. In Connecticut the bad news was 276-
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144, in New Hampshire 129-38, in Vermont 55-15, Rhode Island 122-22 and Maine 74-43. The
mendacious NY Times not only suppressed this news but substituted an inspired yarn
intended to mislead its readers, thus: "The Boston polio outbreak is past its peak, altho 12 new
cases were reported today."
Wash’n Star Sept. 20 said 180 cases had been reported in the nation’s capital this year to 136
last. Maryland’s Health Dept. says 189 in 1955 to only 134 same time in 1954. New York City
up to 377 from the 1954 high of 206.
Milwaukee Journal for Aug. 30 reported that the city’s public schools would remain closed
indefinitely because of the polio outbreak. Supt. of Schools Krumbiegel, in a desperate effort to
"reassure" parents, told the Journal that, while polio might be bad in Milwaukee, it was worse
elsewhere. He pointed out there was only "26 cases per 100,000 population in Milwaukee",
whereas Outgamie County’s record was 286 per 100,000, Madison city’s 90, Brown and
Winnebago counties "several times larger than Milwaukee’s.
Idaho stopped Salk inoculations completely July 1, with this blast from the State Health
Director: "I hold Salk vaccine and its manufacturers responsible for a polio outbreak that has
killed 7 Idahoans and hospitalized 79. By Sept. 14 the state had 190 cases compared with 132
for 1954. Utah stopped innoculations July 12, while Newark, N. J., took similar action in June.
Kansas City reports 1955 the lightest polio season since 1948. Should have given the weather
an assist. When the weather isn’t so hot children consume less sweets Ice cream and soda
pop (reducing profits of the- Rockefeller milk trust) and more protein foods. In Kansas City
there were 16 cases this year against 61 in 1954; South Carolina bad a better record by 210-
224; New Orleans 22-25; Chicago 235-281; New Jersey 295-298.
SALK FACTS—Polio was supposed to be wiped out in 1955. That’s what we were given to
understand last May by the U.S. Public Health Service, National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis and press agents for the serum houses. Instead-infantile paralysis increased many
fold in some states, and apparently more than doubled in the United States as a whole.
Reports of State and City health departments to USPHS, and to USPHS to press and public,
are about as reliable as Drew Pearson and old Ananias at their worst. Year-end headlines
blazoned such propaganda as "Polio Cases Cut, Down 52% Since Salk Shots Started". But
upon reading the articles you find that the wildest estimates of those responsible for Salk only
set the "cut down" at 17%.
Basil O’Connor, national chairman of NFIP, in a press release last summer said there were
"tens of thousands of polio cases" in the United States then. USPHS, in its year-end bulletin,
claims there were only 29,270 cases in the land in 1955. You can believe that if you want to—
you’ll probably only believe if you want to.
A final report from the New York City Health Dept. said "804 cases in
1954, 795 in 1955". Almost even. Yet this same NY City Health Dept. wrote us on Sept. 17 that
thru August 1954 there had been 205 cases and for the same 1955 period 377. Almost twice
as much. You have to be a nitwit to believe that, after the polio season, NY City cases jumped
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Such juggled or doctored figures are included in the USPHS reports which show one day a
17% decrease for 1955, and a week later a 25% drop. Their own press agents apparently are
at loggerheads. The Massachusetts Health Dept. lightened the load for those responsible for
Salk by giving as their final report 1,015 cases in 1954 and 3,863 in 1955. Yet on August 30,
Boston newspapers reported 2,027 cases on that date against 273 on August 30, 1954. Again
this huge discrepancy—they would have you believe three non-polio months brought 743
(three times as many) cases in the non polio months as in the bad time.
Since it is established that NY City and Massachusetts did this, it is reasonable to assume that
many others—most others—did the same. This reduced the official figures on 1955 polio
cases to a point (on paper) 17% below those of 1954. All indications are that polio, in our
"immunized" population in 1955, increased 100% to 200% over that of our 1954 population
which hadn’t been handicapped by "immunization".
The genesis of the Salk Idea is generally known to have been the fear of NFIP officials that
their touch on the public this year might not reach the $47,000,000 they hope. The serum
companies had a huge financial stake selling millions of Salk shots to the innocent public. The
Boston Herald, April 18, 1955, reporting a convention of drug manufacturers, preceded by a 4-
col head ‘Drug Companies Expecting Big Profit on Salk Vaccine,’ said:
"A spokesman for Parke-Davis, which made 50% of the Salk vaccine, said ‘Now, that it has
been declared safe we can get back the millions we invested in the development of Salk
vaccine and make a profit out of it. Our company will make over $10,000,000 on Salk vaccine
in 1955.’
"A suggestion was made that a charge of $6 for ‘complete immunization—not including the
doctor’ be made. Price to the drug houses should be $4.00 and to the physician $4.20." The
cost of a Salk shot can hardly be over 3 cents.
Rhodes and Company, Wall Street brokers specializing in drug securities, in a newsletter (tip
sheet), estimated that the gross revenue of the six houses licensed to produce and sell Salk
vaccine would be about $60,000,000 with net profits $20,000,000.
The Washington Bureau of the Detroit FREE PRESS on June 3, 1955, wired its paper: "The
government reported that all sections of the U.S. have had more polio cases since April 1 than
during the same period last year. Simultaneously, the USPHS reported that more children who
received Salk shots made by the Wyeth laboratories suffered polio than normally could be
expected—that the 240 new cases reported the week ending May 28th was the highest
number for this May week in five years.
Prof. Pierre LePine, noted French scientist of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, called the turn a
year ahead of time. The NY Times of March 30, 1950, reports him saying "No more than one
injection in 2,000 really prevents polio infection."
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That USPHS was egged on by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is beside the
point. The USPHS is charged with protecting and promoting the public health—not breaking it
down. The NFIP is merely a respectable racket seeking $47 million from the gullible public this
month.
Newspaper editors generally feel that medical "science" can be relied on. They feel that
Federal agencies like USPHS can be relied on and should be above reproach. Many people
feel their newspapers give them facts, especially when they quote official sources. The stark
facts are the USPHS and NFIP have press and public hokum by the bucketful on the Salk
matter.
To make the public think Salk vaccine was safe, as well as effective, "field" trials were held at
the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan. Unknown to the public the USPHS conducted its
own private field trials at the National Institute of Health in Washington. They assumed they
could get the "right answer" from their own employees even if Drs. Salk and Francis fell down
on them.
On June 9, 1955, Robert S Allen said in his syndicated column ‘Doctors and others on the staff
of the National Institute of Health are not inoculating their own children with Salk Vaccine."
Explanation of this has been carefully avoided up to this time, but here are the facts.
To the bewilderment of NIH’s big brass, their scientists were both capable and honest Many
have children of their own. None could be bulldozed into giving the "right answer" because that
didn’t jibe with facts After experimenting on 1,200 monkeys (which cost the taxpayers $45
apiece) these scientists reported that Salk Vaccine was worthless as a preventive and
dangerous to take.
The answers from Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor didn’t help until they were doctored up and the
"right answer" given the press associations. Both Salk and Francis gave different answers,
appeared confused Their field trials proved little else except that neither had more than a
vague idea what it was all about But the NIH brass got revenge—they fired, demoted or denied
longevity promotions to everyone who wouldn’t give them the "right answer". The NFIP press
agents gal together and —April 12 was set as SV-Day. But naturally certain press assn. writers
had the information "leaked out" to them that the report would be "100% safe and effective"
Thus a maximum sales build-up was given. The five Rockefeller-controlled laboratories, which
stood to profit $20,000,000 in 1955, had already been told the same thing—long in advance
In July 1954 the Eli Lilly Company began renovating a 5-story building in Indianapolis and was
in full production by October 1954. The Wyeth Laboratories had an even bigger stockpile of the
Salk concoction on hand when SV-Day arrived. Wyeth had started full-scale manufacture Jan
26, 1954. Ditto Parke-Davis and the two others.
Even the East Rutherford (NJ) Syringe Company had been tipped off and had thousands of
hypodermic syringes ready for the market. A spokesman for the firm was quoted in the press
as saying they ‘had the word of the NFIP that Salk Vaccine was to be pronounced safe-that the
firm wouldn’t have done it unless it was a foregone conclusion that the Francis report would be
favorable"
Then Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby, then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was brought
into the picture to hoodwink the public into thinking the stuff wasn’t as deadly as Winchell
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hinted it "might be" She allowed a press photo to be taken signing a baloney proclamation
declaring Salk Vaccine safe. She let her picture be taken with Ike and Salk, while the serum
company’s press agents did the rest.
CAPSULE NEWS wrote her Jan 4 asking if she had been allowed to see the report of the
USPHS scientists-that Salk vaccine was worthless and deadly— when she lent herself to that
propaganda which cost many child lives We told her we don’t believe she was, but up to
presstime she hadn’t answered one way or the other.
When children started dropping like flies….. when the polio rate in Massachusetts reached 10-
fold its 1954 level….. when other states reported incredible increases in infantile paralysis--the
American Medical Assn belatedly looked into the matter at its mid-June convention in Atlantic
City. But of all the press, the Milwaukee Journal was the only one to tell the bare, stark facts
without trimmings. Here is what James C Spaulding, staff writer covering the convention, said
in the Journal June 19, 1955:
‘A policy of secrecy and deception has been followed by the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis and the US Public Health Service in the polio vaccine programs. As a result the
nation’s physicians were prevented from learning vital information about the trouble in making
and testing Salk vaccine
"If this information hadn’t been hidden, mass medical opinion might have forced USPHS and
NFIP to take steps that would have prevented any of the vaccine from causing polio. The
secrecy and deception started before field trials.
"One of the things that AMA was not told was that the USPHS had an advisory group made up
almost entirely of scientists who were receiving money from the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, which body was exerting pressure to go ahead with the program even after
Salk Vaccine was found to be dangerous.
"In May some state public health officers met in Atlanta, expecting to be told what had gone
wrong with the vaccine program. Instead the USPHS scientist said he was not permitted to
disclose what had happened because it would jeopardize the investment of the pharmaceutical
firms in the vaccine program"
Reporter Spaulding continued: "The Infantile Paralysis Foundation kept secret fact that live
virus was detected in four of six supposedly finished and safe lots of vaccine. Three drug
houses, making it for trials, each made two or more lots in which live virus was found. The
USPHS laboratories, and the University of Pittsburgh (Salk) got widely varying results.
"The only hint doctors received came when Walter Winchell, tipped off by a scientist, said ‘Salk
vaccine may be a killer’. The field tests all indicated that Salk’s method of killing live virus had
not worked, and showed that safety tests themselves were not effective"
No wonder Dr. Salk said on Oct. 11, 1 954—as reported from Pittsburgh by Saul Pett,
Associated Press writer—"When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine you don’t sleep
well for two or three weeks"
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Yet in spite of the lethal qualities shown by these tests Dr. Hart Van Riper, NFIP’s paid medical
director, said "this demonstrates the validity of the tests and the safety they assure the public."
At the AMA convention, a number of public health doctors said they never would have started
Salk shots in their states "if they had known."
When the first deaths were reported, Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, head of USPHS (who never
practiced medicine as doctors know it a day in his life) said:
"It seems likely, though not immediately provable, that those deaths were significantly
associated with this (Salk) vaccination." And, and but— Knowing this, Dr. Scheele went on the
radio that evening to deliberately
and falsely tell his radio audience "I have complete confidence in Salk vaccine.
I urge doctors to continue inoculations." In the lynching country, better men than
Dr. Scheele have been summarily dealt with for far less than that.
On the night of Jan. 30 thousands of well intentioned women, who don’t even know NFIP won’t
open its books to public inspection, will go out pulling doorbells and begging cash for—they
know not what. Their operation will be dubbed by NFIP press agents "The Mothers’ March on
Polio." In Brooklyn, where anything can happen and often does, church bells will toll "to alert
the people." You can bet your boots there’ll be no Paul Revere riding in Massachusetts. They
know up there what NFIP’s Salk vaccine did in stimulating the undertaker business in 1955.
Less than a year ago the NFIP bigwigs and gravy grabbers were crying in their cups. They
thought their racket was about over until someone thought of the gimmick of "inventing a
vaccine that would prevent polio." One of their feature writers told a polio crusader in Coral
Gables, Fla., that the NFIP heads had told him if the vaccine wasn’t a success the NFIP would
just have to fold up.
NFIP press agents picked for them a young Hungarian doctor at the Univ. of Pittsburgh named
Jonas Salk—a catchy name. Jonas was provided with laboratory facilities and told to go to it—
but to come up with something that could be sold to the public as a preventive for polio. They
would see that what-
would be declared both safe and efficient. Jonas was selected his name would fit well into
crowded newspaper headlines and besides it was catchy. More catchy than, say, Smith
Vaccine or Jones Vaccine.
Brother Salk went to work with a will along the usual lines—looking for the non-existent polio
bug. In fact it’s doubtful if he even looked for the bug, but merely started seeing which ones
died first, if at all. Scientists with much more knowledge, experience and savvy than Jonas, but
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who still believe in the bug theory of disease, said the Salk "tests" were worthless because
monkey kidney tissue and human tissue are different things and react differently to
inoculations. We won’t go into the nauseating details of the "field trials" and their failure (from
NFIP and USPHS standpoint). These were well covered in last weeks CAPSULE NEWS.
The NFIP had hooked the US Public Health Service into being a party to their crime against
American childhood. USPHS was used as the official agency to spew forth the propaganda
wanted by NFIP. Mrs. Oveta C. Hobby, then Secretary of Health was hooked into signing a
baloney "proclamation" for press photographers. This "proclamation", so the cutlines said,
guaranteed Salk vaccine to be safe. Then the gold rush was on—on for the serum companies
and NFIP.
CAPSULE NEWS wrote Mrs. Hobby asking if she knew her own scientists of the National
Institute of Health had reported the Salk stuff dangerous and useless. We offered to print her
side of the story. Obviously she is ashamed of her part in it for she had an underling write a
double-talking non-committal letter which said absolutely nothing.
So, when NFIP found its carefully planned house of cards ($47 million in cash) falling apart it
went ahead with the program anyway. Getting confusing results from the Universities of
Michigan and Pittsburgh, where public "field trials" were held, the NFIP press agents put
together a story that indicated Salk Vaccine was not only Safe but 100% effective—long before
it had ever been tried on the little human guinea pigs who were to be its victims.
The worst polio epidemic in history occurred in Massachusetts after 130,000 children were
inoculated with this Salk concoction. Infantile paralysis increased tenfold over the 1954 figures
until the Bay State authorities banned its use in their borders. Yet the racketeers who are
begging for NFIP cash in Florida have come up with the false statement that the reason for
Massachusetts’ polio rate is that "no children were inoculated there."
The Massachusetts Health Dept. promptly branded this as a lie. Not only that but they have
banned the use of the Salk concoction in their state until it becomes safer and shows some
sign of being a preventive. The State of Idaho did this last July and in England they barred it
before it ever started. The British place more value on a human life—much more—than they
do in the US.
Last July Dr. Graham W. Wilson, director of Britain’s Public Health Laboratory service, who
knew about the field trials at the National Institute of Health near Washington said:
"I do not see how any vaccine prepared by Salk’s method can be guaranteed safe."
Down in North Carolina in 1948 a courageous and intelligent medical doctor, Benj. P. Sandler
by name, on duty as a nutrition expert at the Oteen Veterans’ Hospital, broke thru the barriers
of medical smugness and scientific hogwash to give to the world the cause and prevention of
polio in such a way that no one with an ounce of brains could dispute it.
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Dr. Sandier had long realized that polio strikes with its greatest intensity in hot weather. In hot
weather there is a huge increase of the use of ice cream, soda pop and artificially sweetened
products, especially among children. It is also a fact that people generally cut down on their
protein diet in hot weather on the theory that you should eat "lightly" in the summertime.
Dr. Sandier’s research showed specifically that sugars and starches lower the normal level of
blood sugar in the human body, producing a condition known as hypoglycemia. Also that the
phosphoric acid in soda pop has a tendency to absorb the phosphorous and sulphate in the
food before the natural process of metabolism can get it to the nerves which these substances
feed and nourish.
When the blood sugar becomes deficient, and the nerves are deprived of phosphorous and
sulphate, certain nerve trunks fail to function properly and the victim loses the use of one or
more limbs. Serum, usually pus from diseased animals, only aggravates this condition by
increasing the toxin load for nature to throw off.
So he told the world thru his hometown newspaper at Asheville. All North Carolina got it; when
the 1949 polio season approached those Tarheels cut down on this physiologic contraband
90%. It was therefore no concidence that polio decreased in that state in 1949, 90%. We have
the N. C. State Health Department’s figures. They say there were 2,498 cases of polio in 1948
and 229 in 1949. Need anything more be said?
But there was a hitch. The Rockefeller milk trust sells frozen products and pasteurized milk all
over North Carolina. The Coca Cola Company is closely allied with the far flung Rockefeller
Empire. So the News Trust and Thought Trust were brought into play and in 1950 inspired
publicity stories told the gullible North Carolinians that Sandler’s findings were all a myth. The
result was that the Milk Trust and Coca Cola company went back on its 1948 sales level and—
Polio went back to "normal" in North Carolina in 1950.
For little children who suffer from this Milk Trust greed, the chiropractic profession and medical
doctors like Koch have come up with relief. At the Mills Clinic in Burlington, Kansas, they cure
polio in seven days by removing the outrages upon nature which have caused the disease.
The same type cures are being made at the Dunn Clinic in Oklahoma City, the Spears Hospital
in Denver and elsewhere. Dr. Koch’s method cures polio the same way it cures cancer, by
oxydizing out of the blood stream the accumulated toxins which are the cause of nerve
misfunctioning.
Dr. Mills has discovered that the cause generally is faulty nutrition, just as Dr. Sandler did. He
also adds as contributing causes fatigue, falls, tonsil surgery and DDT sprays. Tonsillectomies
are unnecessary and would never be committed if the medical profession knew the reason for
tonsils and that melba toast or other coarse food will scrape off the tonsils the toxins which
cause the inflammation.
When the Dunn Clinic gets a patient it first goes to the root of all trouble— the spine, the tree of
life. Adjustments are made to relieve nerve pressure which is preventing the eliminative organs
from functioning 100%. The bowels are
cleaned out by enemas. Few cases of polio have been known where the bowels were not
impacted with decaying faeces.
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Acute cases of long standing are difficult to cure. Where early diagnosis is had frequently
adjustments, water and juice diet, cleansing of the colon and rest are given at these clinics.
Nature is thus allowed to adjust itself and the patient is cured just as soon as the toxins which
cause the malady have been eliminated.
February 4, 1956—
THE ROMANCE OF FLUORIDES (No. 1)—Salk Vaccine and Sodium Fluoride have one thing
in common. The Salk concoction kills and cripples children quickly. Sodium fluoride in
municipal water systems slowly poisons everyone who drinks the water. In a 6-month
investigation, which took us across the continent and back and included interviews with both
proponents and opponents, these salient standout facts were uncovered:
This wouldn’t be important if the Portland "news"-paper was the only one which used this
hogwash. Many mediums all over the country betrayed their reading public by using it also .
There is only one word that describes it—an outright barefaced lie. The facts were available
had the Portland rag wanted to use them. Fortunately for our readers, we also have before us
the official report of the NY State Education Dept., signed by John A. Forst, MD, chief of the
schools’ bureau of health service.
It says that in Kinston (the city that had pure water the last 10 years) 5,308 pupils were
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inspected and 2,209 found with tooth defects. It says that in Newburgh (where the town’s water
contains sodium fluoride) 4,969 pupils were inspected and 3,139 found with tooth defects.
Kinston, the city with pure water, had 339 more pupils inspected but found 930 less with bad
teeth, or 41%. Newburgh, the city with fluoride in its water, had 63% of its pupils with bad
teeth. NEED ANYTHING MORE BE SAID?
No—but we’ll say it anyhow. Newburghers say there is an alarming increase of heart and
kidney disorders in their city. The Newburgh Health Dept. reports 40 cases of infectious
hepatitis in 1954, whereas there hadn’t been any of that trouble in the previous 10 years. We
wonder why?
After Dr. Forst made the "mistake" of being so forthright and honest he was raked over the
coals by his superiors. He and the school director of dental health were forced to sign a letter
to the New York TIMES "explaining" this faux pas. The explanation is so silly as to be almost
unbelievable. Briefly, the alibi was that different people made the examination of the children in
the different cities—therefore "the examination means nothing". Yet— No attempt was made to
explain why, in a city (Newburgh) where everyone was told that fluorided water would wipe out
tooth cavities, two-thirds of the children still had dental defects after a four year "experiment".
If honest figures were obtainable from Evanston (Ill.) and Grand Rapids (Mich.)—the other two
cities designated by the USPHS aluminum trust propagandists as "test cities"—they probably
would show the same results. However, such figures aren’t available, but the figures for an
alarming increase of other diseases, which fluorides can cause, are.
"A check of vital statistics of Grand Rapids, shows that the death rate from heart
disease in 1944 numbered 585. Four years later, after fluoridation had started, there
were 1,059 deaths. There was an increase of 50% in the death rate from nephritis. There
was an increase of 50%, over this 4-year period in deaths from intracranial lesions.
These are official figures contained in the vital statistics of the United States published
annually by the US Public Health Service."
The Grand Rapids health officer tried to "neutralize" Dr. Miller’s disclosures by a letter quoting
a false figure (25%) which he said was the population increase of Grand Rapids in that 4-year
period. Dr. Miller came right back with the US Census figures showing that Grand Rapids has
only increased 7.8% in the period the fluoride propagandists said it had jumped ahead by one-
fourth.
It is also significant that this same health officer has announced the launching of a program to
train 20 members of his staff in mental health problems. It looks like he thinks fluorides are
causing insanity, as well as heart and kidney troubles, hepatitis, nephritis and cranial lesions.
The city fathers of over 900 American cities have been bamboozled, hornswoggled, fooled,
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pressured and (in some cases) bribed into mass poisoning of their citizenry by the dumping of
rat poison known as Sodium Fluoride into their city water plants. The theory (or superstition) is
that it will prevent tooth, decay in children.
Even if it did, that would be no justification for poisoning entire populations. It would be
sufficient to paint the teeth of the children to be immunized from toothache. Last week’s
CAPSULE NEWS showed beyond any doubt that fluoride in water increases, rather than
decreases, tooth troubles. This week we are going to prove, by competent medical and mental
authorities, that the toxic chemical known as sodium fluoride is a slow acting but positive
cumulative degenerating poison, destroying the cells of the heart, kidneys, liver, and other soft-
tissue organs.
Dr. Frederick B. Exner, M.D., of Seattle, Washington is recognized the world over as one of the
leading authorities on fluoridation. He has been called as an expert witness before committees
of Congress and various state legislatures. He says: ‘Fluoride has no known action on the
unerupted (not-yet-grown) tooth…….
Fluoride, even in minute doses, accumulates in the body. After sufficient time, it causes
cumulative poisoning. Fluoride is excreted largely thru the kidneys. Consequently, earlier and
more severe damage occurs in people with impaired kidney functions. It is also more severe in
diabetics and others who drink unusual amounts of water . . . Even if fluorides were safe to
use, even if the promised benefits could be expected (which they can’t) fluoride still should not
be put in the water supply. Aside from practical and moral objections, IT IS MEDICAL
INSANITY."
Dr. Charles T. Betts is a leading dentist in Toledo, Ohio. For many years he has made a study
of the effect of using aluminum kitchen utensils in cancer incidence. Since artificial fluorides
are mainly made from aluminum filing tailings—an unsalable poisonous byproduct of aluminum
manufacture—Dr. Betts is in an excellent position to testify to the effects of fluoride poisoning.
He says:
"Fluorides are a poison which is cumulative in the body similiar to radium. No antidote is
known. It is a waste gas or by-product in the manufacture of metallic aluminum cooking
utensils. There is no provision in any city charter that gives officials the right to commit the
criminal act of poisoning its citizens due to ignorance of basic law. . . In Akron, Ohio, I spoke to
their city council— showed them what they would be doing if they attempted to kill their women
and children with these fluorides. In went the fluorides anyway . . . In two months thousands
were covered with leprosy sores. Now $18,000 worth of fluorides are for sale, also the
machinery . . . In this mass medication program all water boards so committing it are guilty of
practicing medicine, dentistry and pharmacy without a license."
George L. Waldbott, M.D., Detroit physician who has made an extensive study of the effect of
fluorides on the human body, says:
‘All reports of fluoride poisoning emphasize the great variety of symptoms, the insidious onset,
the slow course of the disease, the fact that death is caused by a general wasting away and
not by the involvement of only one organ. Symptoms show that fluorides interfere with the
normal utilization of calcium and phosphorous in the body. It prevents depositing of bone
substances in joints and ligaments especially in the lower spine and causes temporary
hardening of the bones, teeth, nails and hair, followed by softening of bones and nails. . .
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Experiments have been made in the towns of Cameron and Bartlett (Texas) where there is a
high incidence of fluorine in the water. It was found that 10.1 out of every 100 inhabitants had
eye cataracts, 13.8 arthritis, 10.1 bone changes, 19.4 bearing defects, brittle nails and severely
mottled teeth. . . The incidence of these defects over the entire nation is far lower than this—
being only I in 100 for cataracts.
Canton Brehmer, DDS, writing in the Journal of the American Dental Assn., says that his city of
Sheboygan has had fluoridated water for seven years…….that lately mottled enamel has
begun to show up. . . it is not pretty . . . it is a serious disfigurement to those who are interested
in their looks . . . what it does to them further inside I do not like to think of."
The Newburg (NY) NEWS, the town which is being used as a guinea pig for the aluminum
trust’s fluoride salesmen, said on Jan. 27, 1954: Heart deaths in Newburg this year totaled
283, or 882 per 100,000 population. The rate for the nation as a whole was only 507 per
100,000.
Mrs. Madeline E. Healy, director of a Boston laboratory for blood allergen diagnostic testing,
said sodium fluoride is an efficient rat exterminator, a protoplasmic poison because (in all
instances of use) it causes slow or rapid destruction of cells and since 1855 pharmacologists
have been aware that it serves no useful purpose to man.
The Bulletin of the Hudson County (N. J.) Dental Society for Dec. 1955 pointed out that a
Federal court in Oregon awarded $38,290 damages from the Reynolds Metals Company (large
aluminum producers) to an Oregon family named Martin. The Martins suffered serious injury to
livers, kidneys and digestive functions from eating vegetables and other farm products
contaminated by fumes from the nearby plant. Witnesses testified that they had contracted the
disease known as fluorosis.
Dr. George W. Heard, retired dentist of Hereford (Deaf Smith County, Texas) whose words
were twisted and misrepresented by COLLIERS MAGAZINE in an article called "The Town
Without a Toothache", says "I believe that fluorine does, in a mild way, retard caries, but I also
believe that the damage it does is far greater than any good it may appear to accomplish. It
makes teeth so brittle and crumbly they can be treated only with difficulty, if at all."
Dr. William P. Martzowska (Mich.) dentist, says ‘sodium fluoride steals calcium from the body.
In naturally fluoridated water—water conditioned by nature for 1,000 years_—fluorine occurs in
the form of calcium fluoride, in an organic combination. This calcium (natural) fluoride does not
steal the calcium from the body since it brings its own calcium with it.’
Benjamin C. Nesin, director of NY City’s utility laboratories says: ‘Never in the history of water
supply has a substance so toxic in nature, with such a high degree of physiological potency,
and associated with so much adverse evidence affecting public health, been considered for
introduction into public water supplies.
Gordon Leitch, MD, Portland (Oregon) pointed out that fluoridation endorsement by the
American Dental Ass’n is utterly meaningless for the same reason that clergymen are
expected to be against sin.
The Rev. Lyle F. Sheen of Geneseo, Illinois, after an investigation of the effect and non-effect
of fluorides, has offered $1,000 reward to anyone who can prove (1) That sodium fluoride will
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prevent tooth decay, (2) That SF is not poisonous even in small amounts, (3) That the moon is
made of green cheese.
We could take up a whole library shelf in quoting these opinions and findings of scientists on
the payroll of the aluminum trust or of its stooge, the US Public Health Service. But We’ll be
content with quotations from expert testimony before the Delaney sub committee of the House
of Representatives in Washington, on the Wier bill to stop fluoridation nationally.
‘There is a great difference between the effects of natural (calcium) fluoride waters and
artificial sodium (or silico sodium) fluorides.. . statistics about reduction in tooth decay are dug
up in deepest secrecy by an empire building Federal agency using falsifications and deceits . .
. fluoride is deadly, toxic, cumulative, extremely corrosive poison used commercially to kill rats
and etch glass fluoride attacks and destroys body calcium so necessary to human life . . . it
causes blisters and cracks in the mouth, attacks the ulnar nerve just as lead attacks the radial
nerve, damages thyroid and kidneys, causes severe rash, itch and stiff joints.
HOW THE BIG LIE WORKS---- Adolph-the-Worst used to say that if you tell the people a big
enough lie, often enough and vigorously enough, they will believe it. That’s what the
newspapers are doing about Salk Vaccine which has been thoroughly discredited by facts
printed in Capsule News. Take Miami, Fla., for instance, where the cash receipts from the
March of Dimes racket was lagging behind.
The HERALD there printed a falsehood—in both an editorial and a local column. It said the
reason polio increased tenfold in Massachusetts in 1955 was that "no child there had been
given Salk vaccine." Mrs. Alice Wellesley of Coral Gables immediately challenged this
falsehood. She sent to the HERALD a letter from the Massachusetts State Health Dept. stating
that 130,000 children in that state were inoculated before authorities got wise to themselves
and checked the disaster by banning all further Salk inoculations.
A copy of Capsule News giving the real figures and facts in the case was sent along with it.
The editor of the HERALD was asked to give equal space and prominence to truth that it had
given to the Big Lie. No soap. As we go to press these communications had apparently been
thrown in the HERALD’S big waste basket, kept for just such purposes.
The New England Journal of Medicine has just given a graphic illustration of how the Infantile
Paralysis Foundation procures "official" figures alleged to prove that Salk Vaccine reduced
polio this summer instead of doubling it—as it actually did.
Yet its accompanying graph showed that the epidemic didn’t start until July 15th and didn’t
reach its peak until August 19th. Everyone knows that Salk Vaccine was released April 12th
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with a great ballyhoo campaign, and all five of the Rockefeller laboratories already with huge
stockpiles of the deadly concoction on hand.
Its "proof’ that Salk Vaccine cut down polio cases presumably was in this paragraph ‘The rate
of cases per 100,000 among the unvaccinated was 157 and among the vaccinated 63.’
However, it made the mistake of giving on another page, the number of kids vaccinated and
unvaccinated, 160,565 and 268,532 respectively.
That would have made it, IF TRUE, 145 cases among the vaccinated and 553 among the
unvaccinated, total 698, children 14 and under. On another page it gives the total cases
reported (3,819) of which 2,573 were of the 14-and-under age bracket. Quite a difference
between 2,573 and 698.
On such "figuring" as this, the NFIP gleefully reports that Salk Vaccine, the medium by which it
hopes to extract $47 million from the public this year in contributions, cut polio 60%.
November 1, 1955
THE $ SIGN BEHIND SALK VACCINE—The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is
asking the charitable public for $47 million this winter. It has taken in $249 million since a
group of racketeers surrounding FDR in 1934 conceived the idea of using his birthday as a
get-rich-quick springboard. Twelve years and a quarter billion dollars have failed to produce
even hope of a polio preventive. Hart Van Riper, medical director for NFIP, pessimistically said
last winter ‘if Salk Vaccine isn’t successful the Foundation will have to go out of business.’
Now, $47 million is a whale of an incentive to stay in business . . . the expenditure of even one
million brings a lot of power, lots of power. That is why Salk shots were adjudged "safe" many
months before this deadly concoction was even tested . . . and why the tests were ignored and
production continued. That is why the six laboratories licensed to manufacture this concoction
had their shelves so well stocked when "the word" was flashed out of Washington. Even the
stupidest medical politician realized there might be a serious kickback. And there was. So, in
licensing five laboratories owned or controlled in whole or in part by the Drug Trust (the
Rockefeller interests) they added a sixth owned entirely by the Cutter family. This was to be
the goat—and it was.
Sharp & Dohme, a subsidiary of Merck whose directorate is loaded with Rockefeller Boys, is a
good example. The last report in Poor’s Manual of Industrials shows Merck’s operating income
$22,895,454, real assets (property) $61,583,858—a 36% earning on actual investment. This
tremendous profit is reflected in the stock market, where Merck’s 16-2/3c par value common
stock sold at from $17 to $23 in 1954. Their 1955 profit sheet should be a humdinger. You can
go down the line of the others—Parke-Davis, Eli Lilly, PitmanMoore and Wyeth—and get the
same picture. Even the independent Cutters didn’t do so badly with an 18% earning on its
assets of $3,809,531.
In the Oct. 1 issue we showed that, contrary to official reports funneled to press and public thru
USPHS and NFIP, Salk vaccine hadn’t cut polio in half at all. We gave detailed figures in many
states showing that, in spite of the mild summer, polio had increased in these places from two
to tenfold. And Salk shots
were the only things these poor kids had that they didn’t nave in the past.
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Figures printed by us Oct. 15th showed that polio had increased from 100% to 500% in many
states and 1,000% in Massachusetts. Actually no polio vaccine can be effective as a
preventive because vaccine is based on the wrong principle. Polio bugs or viruses or bacteria
are not the cause of polio—but the result. Its cause and prevention were clearly and irrefutably
demonstrated in 1949 by Ben Sandier, MD, a nutritionist at the US Veterans Hospital in Oteen,
N. C.
The third was continued. In Dallas the Texas Medical Board went ‘all the way’. They ‘convicted’
seven doctors of the same charge—curing cancer without the approval of the financial
interests involved. Dr. Hoxsey is appealing to the circuit court, will be heard Nov. 15. In the
meantime he announced that his doctors will be curing cancer for the next 20 years and the
Texas Medical Board be damned. Next issue will show what Canada’s medical board did to a
registered nurse for talking to a woman about an egg.
(1) It made a goat of the Cutter Laboratories, only one of the six licensed to make this
concoction that isn’t a part of the Rockefeller Empire.
(2) Scuttlebutt in Washington reports the coming scuttling of Dr. Leonard Scheele, who never
practiced medicine a day in his life, as head of the US Public Health Service. This is to be the
alibi for deaths from the Salk concoction.
(3) The coining of a number of sensational phrases by serum trust public relations experts to
take the public mind off the Salk vaccine deaths. Many newspapers have dutifully used them
as headlines, qualifying for an increase in their quota of national advertising. Such as:
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And such a pontifical pronunciamento as "Vaccine provides substantial protection against one
of the nine viruses in the APC group (adenoidal, pharyngeal and conjunctival) a new family of
respiratory viruses discovered several years ago." The question naturally arises—"Where was
this family of respiratory viruses before they were discovered?"
They are getting wise to the Salk vaccine concoction in the Far West, Idaho, Oregon and
California having given evidence they are seeing thru the commercial propaganda that has
been making serum companies and undertakers rich by selling millions of shots.
The people of Oregon were chastised in the newspapers last week by the press and USPH for
not using 49,000 cubic centimeters of the state’s "quota" of 79,744 cc. The state health officer
"threatened" to withdraw these 49,000 cc and not let the people have it if they didn’t use it at
once.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports—’The demand for Salk Vaccine has dropped off to
almost zero in San Francisco, and apparently in the rest of the West.’
They had a meeting of 80 Idaho doctors, nurses, public health officials and laboratory
technicians. State officials have declared an ‘indefinite postponement’ of any more mass shots
of its school children.
Following Dr. J. E. Wyatt’s frank statement that Salk Vaccine has given polio to more people in
the nation than it has protected from the disease, the boys’ typewriters and mimeographs have
been working overtime to discredit this intrepid physician.
The AMA has been quoted as saying ‘there ain’t no Dr. Wyatt’. The USPHS says there is no
doctor working for USPHS by that name. This latter statement is believable, since it was a
foregone conclusion that any USPHS doctor or employee spilling such a truth as that would be
summarily separated from the service.
The serum publicists know their business. The job now is to take the public mind off the failure
to wipe out polio this summer with Salk vaccine. Spectacular yarns that make good bedtime
reading are the order of the day. Such as "a machine that spins blood plasma and polio
vaccine into a film thin enough that virus and bacteria may be killed by ultraviolet light." This
seems to cancel out the many official statements that Salk vaccine had been made "safe" after
the many unnecessary polio deaths.
Our stomach is strong. We did not regurgitate. The prevaricator (professional) who thought up
that yarn completely forgot that Salk’s deadly and worthless concoction wasn’t unveiled until
April 12, 1955. Yet he blandly says that Denmark started to stockpile it in 1954. CAPSULE
NEWS readers already know how effective it is—in piling up business for the undertakers and
hospitals.
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These pages on the Salk Vaccine used by special permission of Morris A. Bealle, Editor
American CAPSULE NEWS, 1400 M Street, Northwest, Washing.’ ton, D. C.
A great deal has been written about infantile paralysis—commonly called polio. Yet, when all
this mass of material is analyzed, you discover that practically nothing whatsoever is known
about this crippling disease. The hundreds of millions of dollars that have been tossed by the
public, during the past 15 years, into the maw of the March of Dimes have accomplished little
or nothing. All of this straining on the part of the National infantile paralysis organization,
instead of erecting mountains of protection against polio, has not resulted in even a modest
molehill.
Of course, nobody but the "insiders" have any knowledge as to how many millions of these
charity dollars have been cruelly wasted. Nobody but the ‘insiders" can even guess the
fortunes of dimes spent in extravagant plans which came to naught. Nobody but the "insiders"
can even approximate the plush salaries paid to useless desk parasites—mountebanks who
found "good pickings" along the trail of this childhood scourge.
Before the advent of the March of Dimes, polio was unpredictable and uncheckable. With the
lapse of some 15 years and the expenditure, on haywire polio preventatives, of the wealth of a
Solomon, polio is still unpredictable and uncheckable. Medical experts are actually as much in
the dark today—despite their ‘past flamboyant promises and hollow declarations-as they were
before generous and gullible Americans threw this unlimited golden harvest to every crack-
brained laboratory in this country.
Nutritionists believe—and rightly so—that, since all polio cases invariably show a lack of blood
calcium—and since the eating of large amounts of refined sugar admittedly lowers the calcium
in the blood—there must be some close connection between the spread of polio and the large
amounts of sweets the modern youngster consumes. Soft drinks have been singled out
particularly by Naturopaths as the likely culprits for this blood calcium deficiency—which brings
on these polio epidemics during the warm months-but candy and other forms of refined sugar,
in all probability, will eventually have to share some of the blame. Pregnant mothers, noted for
their lack of blood calcium because of the calciumstealing by the unborn child, are victims of
polio 400% more often than other women.
Two years ago, the country was all stirred up about the polio prevention possibilities of gamma
globulin. This gamma globulin was a derivative of rotten, human blood. It was made from the
great store of "unkilled" diseased plasma— the amounts of which were bursting the seams of
the various blood banks. The doctors of the army, navy and marine corps had refused
absolutely to "shoot" this putrid plasma into the bodies of wounded service men. They declared
it was "too disease-ridden" to use on our heroes in uniform but such characterization of the
filthy stuff did not deter the medical men, on the payroll of the March of Dimes, from
proclaiming it entirely suitable to go into the clean blood streams of helpless little American
children.
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Commonsense was thrown overboard and the protests of the few thinking medical men were
disregarded. And as we predicted, this highly-touted panacea turned out to be a sham—a
despicable hoax—and a breeder of disease. Fortunately, gamma globulin is now secretly
abandoned as worthless by the March of Dimes although no public announcement of that fact
has ever been made. Yes, gamma globulin "hopes" have gone down the drain, the March of
Dimes remembers the incident merely as a worthless remedy that turned out to be a good
money-getter. A different situation entirely is found when a survey is made of the children who
were so cruelly subjected to these ghastly inoculations. From all reports many of them are
even now suffering from the effects of this poisoning and no hope is held out that matters will
get better as the years advance.
We all know that the vaccinating of the children of Japan against small-pox— a disgraceful
mass medication spree engineered by our conquering army’s medical doctors—resulted in
putting eye-glasses on fully 50% of the race that Admiral Perry—back in 1870—reported to
have the "finest eyesight of any nation in the world." What terrors this gamma globulin filth will
yet bring forth in the bodies of those it contaminated is anybody’s guess.
And what of this Salk vaccine? Only time will show how greatly it damages and cripples. Just
remember, no vaccine ever prevented any disease. Sanitation and hygiene, together, have
beaten small-pox and malaria. More persons die of small-pox today in countries having
compulsory vaccination against small-pox than pass out from that disease in places where no
law compels a population to so poison its blood streams.
Is a vaccine needed to kill the virus of polio? Frankly, there is no virus which CAUSES polio
normally. Any more than there is virus that NORMALLY passes small-pox from one person to
another. All such viruses—germs if you prefer the term—are the RESULT of such diseases
already growing in a weakened body.
Of course, a moronic doctor can CAUSE almost any ailment in a normal person by filling the
blood stream of the victim so FULL OF VIRUS that this poison overbalances normal
resistance. But that happens ONLY when a needle-pusher BY-PASSES the natural filters
which the Almighty has created for the protection of the blood. In use, the Salk vaccine
introduces into the child only a small amount of these viruses. Of course, they will NOT
PREVENT polio and only the Almighty knows the extent of the damage such foreign
substances will do to that child in the future.
Can the Salk vaccine prevent polio? It cannot! Small-pox vaccine never stopped the spread of
small-pox and malaria vaccine never stopped the spread of malaria! If a child, vaccinated with
the Salk filth continues to take great quantities of refined sugar into its small body, much of the
blood calcium will be destroyed and —Salk vaccine or not—that child will probably come down
with polio easier than a youngster whose blood stream has not been so weakened.
But while we are on the subject of the Salk vaccine, let us look at another angle. It should
prove interesting to any parents who foolishly pushed their children into the clutches of the
experimenters during that outrageous orgy of last summer when approximately 2 million
children were made "human guinea-pigs". It is reported that fully one-quarter of them had that
filthy Salk concoction "pushed" into their clean young blood streams. Actually nobody but a few
"insiders" of the March of Dimes know which children had their blood so poisoned and which of
them received only colored water. These same ‘insiders" now can arrange the names of those
children in any fashion they wish and thus show any result of this "mass medication" they
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In January of this year, a certain Dr. Robert F. Korns released to the press a statement from
his workshop in the University of Michigan where he supposedly was engaged in examining
samples of blood taken from the "unknown" little children who had been "Salk vaccine
poisoned" during that orgy of last year. The good doctor admitted to newspaper men—at the
EXACT time the March of Dimes was conducting a nation-wide "scooping up" of every
available coin— that "no one in this country knows whether the Salk vaccine is any good or
not."
This was his complete summary of that great "Salk experiment". But interesting as his
observation is, it shades into nothingness when compared with another item which slipped
from his lips during the same interview. Dr. Korns admitted— according to these newspaper
accounts, that "NONE OF HIS FIVE SMALL CHILDREN WAS INOCULATED WITH THE
SALK VACCINE".
He gave, as his weak excuse for this oversight, the fact that
"THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH HIS FAMILY HAPPENED TO LIVE DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN
THE SALK VACCINE TEST."
As I said in the beginning—a great deal has been written about polio but the real searing
stories of what actually happened "behind the scenes" during the 15 year unfoldment of this
flamboyant farce of the March of Dimes is probably known only to the Man Upstairs Who will
have much to say on the subject whet these same March of Dimes practitioners try to storm
the Pearly Gates.
In my last article, I made the flat statement that, it was my opinion, this country had gone
"vaccine crazy". And nationwide developments, since that was written, only varifies my month
old sordid conclusion. The sound common sense which has characterized American thought
for centuries, seems to have utterly evaporated as the entire population struggled to fling its
children upon the altar of bungling medical experimentation. And we, in the natural healing
field, realise that coming disasters have, as usual, cast their long sinister shadows before.
No vaccine was ever a success. First, because vaccines are the product C abject animal
misery—brought into being through tortures of dumb animals in the stately laboratories of drug
kingdom. Tens of thousands of helpless creatures must each die a thousand horrible deaths
before a single vaccine emerges to poison the blood stream of human beings. You can paste
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this statement in your hat as absolute: As long as the holy Bible states "as ye do unto the least
of them, ye do unto me", the Almighty will not crown with success this crucifying diabolicalness
of moronic investigators. Second, our Creator, when He fashioned the human body, closed the
blood stream from outside contamination. All objects entering the circulation must pass
through intricate, but efficient, natural filters which bar out impurities. Yet man, with his
hypodermic gadget, circumvents these filters, regardless of the Almighty’s forethought. If the
Creator had believed that those filters were not important, a valve leading into the blood
circulation would have been provided with the same ease with which He has fashioned a
human pump for the blood that will outwear, outbeat and outlast anything that man ever has, or
ever will, conceive. Third, a nutritional unbalance cannot be corrected by cow-pus or monkey-
juice. All ailments result from such unbalance. No vaccine can supply what is missing or
absorb poisons that cause the damage. That is why the Salk vaccine will fail—and fail utterly
as every other vaccine has failed.
Let us look at the Salk concoction, which admittedly is made from the diseased dead entrails of
paralyzed monkeys. Last Summer, some 440,000 children of a group of 1,500,000 had their
clean blood streams contaminated by this monkey-juice which had not even been laboratory
tested—let alone clinically tried out. Frankly, those vaccinations of last Summer did not
constitute a real test. It was a complete hoax. One child in four received the Salk concoction—
the others, colored water. The names of all youngsters-those poisoned and those who got only
water—were kept secret from everybody by a select group of hirelings inside the March of
Dimes. So it was easy to "shuffle the cards" anytime during the so-called "six months trial
period" when scientists supposedly were checking the test tubes. If any child—who had
received the Salk monkey-juice— died, it was easy to slip that child’s card into the cards of
those youngsters who had received "only colored water" and to claim the victim was a "poor
unfortunate" who had not been vaccinated at all! If such a "set-up" is a sample of American
medical fair play—it is time the laymen made some changes in the rules.
This year the Salk vaccine was approved with all the Hollywood "first night" trimmings. Special
platforms were erected at the cooperating university, the red carpet was spread for two
hundred selected guests and then the dumb-founding news was sent out over loud speakers
that at long last, after careful checking, the Salk monkey-juice was finally "approved". Yet
before the echoes of the shouts of delight from those 200 assembled guests had died away,
the great laboratories were shipping millions of "shots" of this monkey-juice which had been
manufactured months and months before.
Just how gullible does Modern Medicine take the Americans to be? How raw a deal will those
self-appointed "Guardians of the Public Health" spring upon their unsuspecting patients? This
time, even the man on the street can see that his sainted family physician has taken the whole
blighted country for a buggy-ride. Yet what the man on the street does not see is the mark this
vaccination orgy will leave on generations yet unborn.
Thousands of vaccines have been brought forward and not one of them ever accomplished
what was hoped for it. No need to go into the whole bevy of these rotten, disgusting, filth
concoctions—-let us briefly inspect the authentic history of the most common of all vaccines—
the putrid cow-pus that is supposed to prevent small-pox.
Edward Jenner, who died in 1823, invented this anti-small-pox vaccine. But up to the time of
his death he was not certain whether the pus from a diseased cow or the grease from the
hocks of a diseased horse was the better preventative for small-pox. He admitted, just before
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Rumor has it that the vaccine, which is today mixed with the human blood, is the offspring of
the original sick Jenner cow. But whether it is or not is immaterial. Let us see what a frank,
honest medical man learned of small-pox vaccination. His name Charles Creighton, M A, M D,
of England. This licensed medical man was instructed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica to look
into the subject of small-pox vaccination and to write objectively about it as the facts
warranted.
Dr. Creighton delved into the work and for several years checked through the records in all
civilized countries. His written report was eventually printed in the Ninth Edition of that
publication. But his findings about small-pox vaccination contributed to his finis. The medical
heavens fell upon him. As a medical expert he was "through". And in the Tenth, and all
subsequent editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica his account is missing.
The good doctor must have realized the gravity of what he was doing. Perhaps he sensed that
this effort to tell the truth about the small-pox vaccine folly would be his lorelei into medical
oblivion. Because he begins as follows:
"It is right to say that the views expressed in the present article diverge in many points from the
opinions generally received among medical men and must be regarded not as an exposition of
established and undisputed doctrines but as the outcome of an independent and laborious
research."
The account covers several pages of small type. It shows that this investigator went from
horizon to horizon for his data—all of which was damaging r to the continuance of small-pox
vaccination. Not one thing was unearthed that was favorable to rotten cow-pus or the grease
from the hocks of diseased horses, either as a preventative or as a cure of small-pox.
As an example, Dr. Creighton shows that compulsory vaccination became a law in England in
1854. Infant deaths, from small-pox, rose from 380 in 1853 to 591 in 1854. The records of the
Eastern Metropolitan Hospital (Homerton, England) tell a complete story: from its opening early
in 1871 to the end of 1878— about eight years—of the 6,533 persons received as small-pox
patients, 4,283 of them bore vaccination marks, 793 admitted they had also been vaccinated
but bore no marks while only 1,477 of the 6,533 HAD NOT BEEN VACCINATED. Also, in
Bavaria, in the year 1871—of the 30,742 small-pox cases reported, 29,429 had been
vaccinated. Is there any wonder that England repealed its compulsory vaccination law? In
addition, Dr. Creighton’s figures indicate that in practically every small-pox epidemic since the
invention of the small-pox vaccine in 1799—a full one hundred and fifty-six years—the start
was always with vaccinated victims.
It is also interesting to note that despite widespread vaccination against small-pox, the death
rate from that disease, proportioned to the population, is the same today—about 18%—as in
the days when there was no vaccination whatsoever.
But merely that a vaccine fails is NOT THE WHOLE STORY. No, there is another feature that
has not been properly put before the lay populations of the world. Medical men have never
admitted openly that vaccination to prevent mall-pox may cause aftermath’s in the shape of
scrofula, tubercle, whooping-cough and diarrhea—but they DO ADMIT that such poisoning of
the blood stream may REDISPOSE a child to these diseases—in other words, weaken such
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child’s resistance and make such child an easy victim for any and all of these ailments.
But here is the real menace of vaccines: Dr. Creighton found that in 1884, more than 1,733 of
the vaccinated infants DIED OF SYPHILIS! With this syphilis as a definite follower of many
vaccinations for small-pox—which no medical man will deny—we wonder what horrible
revelations may be in store for the parents who permitted the blood streams of their youngsters
to be contaminated by this untested Salk monkey-entrails filth.
The parents of any child who comes down with Polio, after such monkey juice inoculation,
should seek redress from the local doctor, who administered this rotten concoction, and not
overlook the laboratories which manufactured it.
When the epidemic of polio hit New England in late July and August of is year, the befuddled
public did not realize that the medical men—the self-appointed "Guardians of the Public
Health"—never even mentioned the rushing of Salk vaccine to the striken area. Instead, the
physicians blandly declared that the epidemic was not an epidemic and that the many cases of
polio, which were popping up everywhere, were JUST NORMAL. Yet some communities
reported—despite all efforts to hush hush the news—that the incidence of polio for 1955
outstripped the preceding year’s total many times over. One community, last year, had 17
cases while this year the total had leaped to 115—another city had only 5 cases in 1954, but
this year found them with 69 cases on their hands. Massachusetts alone, there were 94 cases
in 1954—and over 1,500 in 1955. And so the figures went climbing—and the public was fed
the same old don’t worry, this is not an epidemic" advice day after day as the medical men
sought their best to placate the alarmed parents. And while these "Guardians of the Public
Health" told the Bostonians that this polio outbreak was not "dangerous"—from the other side
of their mouths came the warning to visitors not bring their children into eastern Massachusetts
until the "situation clarified itself."
This monstrous double-talk was repeated over and over again and the figures of the polio
victims in New England mounted to more than 2,000. Yet, through all, there was no mention
that a special session of the legislature should be called and money made available to have
the Salk vaccine rushed in by airmail. The only reference made to the Salk vaccine was an
official "face-saving" statement that, in spite of those unfortunate children who had been
stricken with polio during this present unfortunate situation, only 19 children—out of the
thousands of youngsters who had received inoculations of the Salk monkey-entrails juice—
had come down with the disease. And the gullible public—not having time to go into the
figures—uttered thankful prayers of deliverance. Especially was this true with those parents
who had so ruthlessly permitted their youngsters to be experimented upon with this dead
monkey vaccine. This reassuring message, by inference, was intended to show that the Salk
concoction, in this crisis, had come through with flying colors. Yes, the misleading information,
given so glibly by the medical authorities, was intended to imply that the Salk vaccine—
administered in New England last year and this Spring—was doing a magnificent job.
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Is there any wonder that we natural healing doctors are aghast at these untruthful reports
which emanate from that select citadel of medical might? Had John Q. Public delved into those
figures he would have found, doubtless much to his consternation, that once more he had
been taken for a "medical joy ride into Never Never Land." Instead of those sparse 19 polio
cases among the Salk inoculated children being a tremendously wee percentage of the great
number of children who had been given this Salk monkey-juice, those 19 cases bore exactly
the same relationship—constituted the VERY SAME PERCENTAGE— as the cases of
unvaccinated victims of polio bore to the vastly larger number of children who had not been
Salk vaccinated. In other words-just as many children, proportionately, who had been
vaccinated with the Salk monkey-juice, came down with polio as did the children who were not
carrying Salk’s famous vaccine in their veins. It was all a horrible hoax!
Now, to say that the doctors in charge of that New England polio situation did not know this, is
to stretch credulity a little too far. To say that the doctor, on the radio, who praised the lack of
polio victims among those who had been so ruthlessly given this Salk concoction, was not
familiar with the statistics, is a little more than those outside the medical profession can
stomach.
But the main lesson taught by this polio epidemic in New England is the fact that medical
doctors everywhere are now realizing that this is another day— that the glamor of the Salk
discovery is wearing off—and that vaccines are vaccines (always dangerous) and need
especial care in handling. Yes, the medical men as a whole are now unwilling to back this Salk
laboratory mess until the facts about it are known and are PROVEN BEYOND A SHADOW OF
A DOUBT. They are unwilling to take the chance of being COMPLETELY WRONG in this
vaccine matter. They do not forget that several of their more courageous fellows were not
afraid to stand up and defy the dictates of the medical hierarchy when they told the world that,
in their opinion, the Salk vaccine was manifestly UNSAFE. Now the doctors who formerly
applauded Salk—are standing silent on the sidelines waiting, waiting, waiting.
What the next move of the "hypodermic boys"—in the realm of the Salk empire—will be, is
anybody’s guess. That they will not abandon this El Dorado of skin puncturing is a foregone
conclusion. But it will be interesting to watch what their new steps will be. You may be sure
that they will want a part of the millions of dollars voted by Congress for this monkey juice.
They will not willingly abandon the fortunes this blood contamination of youngsters will bring to
them.
Nobody will be able to stay this holocaust because the public has been so propagandized—
covering the infallibility of medical prowess-that the average M.D., in public esteem, is now
placed somewhere between the saints and the Almighty. When such a condition exists in the
world—the finding of plausible and acceptable excuses for the failures of the Salk concoction
rests with the mere matter of proper selection of words that have public appeal. When the
United States Government votes millions of dollars for free Salk vaccine inoculations-and the
medical men see their incomes mounting during 1956 by thousands upon thousands of dollars
through this "skin punching technique"—what happens to the helpless little children involved
means very little to the dollar-grabbers.
I take no pleasure in bringing this sort or truth to the American people. I would much rather
forget that such things could happen. But I am dedicated to the service of humanity and as
long as I have life, I shall say what is closest to my heart.
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Now, do not get the impression that I believe all medical doctors are mercenary. Nothing could
be further from the truth. I know that the vast majority of medical men are honest, trustworthy
and reliable. These men give their best efforts to mankind and while I do not agree with many
of their methods and healing ideas, I honor them for the sincere efforts they are always
making. Again, the average medical man is a creature of organizations that are ruthless to any
practitioner who seems to have "stepped out of line". These corporate bodies have the power
to deprive a medical man of his license, without giving him a day in court. They can throw him
out of any or all hospitals supported by the taxpayers of this great country. They can break him
completely by ruining his practice. All medical men understand vividly the shadow under which
they work. They know what they can safely do and what they cannot do. And that is why it is
the exceptional practitioner who dares stand up in public and disapprove of any action that has
already received the commendation of the medical elect—as has the Salk vaccine. All honor to
those doctors who were not afraid to express their doubts as to the safety of this monkey-juice
concoction. That sainted "remedy" will, in all probability, leave its mark upon many generations
yet unborn in the same manner a small-pox vaccination leaves its lurid trail of syphilis.
It is unfortunate that the medical profession in this country are not as free-spoken as are the
members of the medical fraternity in Great Britain. Over there, the Salk vaccine received the
same Hollywood send-off accorded it in this country. Yet the British doctors were not
stampeded by the wealth of the March of Dimes or the cajolery of their high-up brothers in
medicine. Those who realized the dangers involved with an untested, unknown, unreliable
laboratory make-shift, were quick to gain an audience and there was no country-wide
vaccination orgy that the United States was forced to endure. British doctors make sure they
know where they are headed before they plunge into a series of experiments—because the
Salk vaccine inoculations are all experiments.
Since American doctors have annexed the title of "Guardians of the Public Health", they should
actually "lean over backward" in their desire to see that "their wards" received the best that can
be given them in the way of medical treatments. Making the lay population into human guinea-
pigs for rash experimentation will have its repercussions in a manner the orthodox doctor will
not enjoy. And those repercussions will come swiftly because the American public can be
fooled only just so long.
What New England needed, in its polio outbreak, was the addition, from Great Britain, of a few
of the level headed practitioners. Those doctors would have told the unvarnished truth and
would have ended the confusing double-talk on polio conditions that kept pouring out of high
medical circles.
It has long been known that inoculations of all kinds frequently cause nervous diseases
including paralysis. Smallpox vaccination often results in paralysis of one side of the body.
That it also causes encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) is now well established. All
vaccines and serums tend to produce nervous diseases. Several disasters following
inoculations in France and Italy have been reported in which one feature of the victim’s illness
was paralysis. When, in 1947 the question was brought up before the British Ministry of Health
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as to what extent the vaccinations and inoculations that were going on in England were
responsible for poliomyelitis, the Ministry remained silent over the possibility. By 1950,
however, it attitude had changed and Mr. Bevan agreed to consider that the matter be
investigated.
In April of that year The Lancet (London medical journal) and The Medical Officer published
papers revealing that infantile paralysis had followed inoculations with diphtheria toxoid,
whooping cough vaccine and the combined diphtheria vaccine and whooping cough vaccine.
These papers revealed that there was a definite connection between the inoculation and the
paralysis that occurred within a month of the inoculation.
The Lancet paper was published by an Australian physician, a Dr. McCloskey, who is said to
be a poliomyelitis expert. He reported from Melbourne that a complaint by the parents of
children who developed "paralytic poliomyelitis" soon after a "prophylactic inoculation" had led
the Health Department of the state of Victoria to investigate the "immunization" history of 375
cases of poliomyelitis reported during the epidemic between Jan. 8, and Aug. 30, 1949. Dr.
McCloskey says that out of 340 cases investigated, 31 had received "prophylactic" injections of
one kind or another within three months of development of the paralysis and that the paralysis
occurred in the limb which had been inoculated. McCloskey discovered twenty-three similar
cases occurring from 3 to 12 months after inoculation and 121 cases occurring more than a
year after inoculation.
The article in The Medical Officer (April 8) was by Dennis H. Geffen, M.D., D.P.M., Medical
Officer of the London Borough of St. Pancras. It was a paper he had read at a meeting of
London Medical Officers of health the previous October on "The Incidence of Paralysis
Occurring in London Children Within Four Weeks After Inoculation." In this paper, Dr. Geffen
showed that these cases had been occurring for some time. He mentioned a Dr. Martin who
had been collecting cases "over a period of years," and a Dr. Gale who had found cases as far
back as 1942. Geffen, himself, had started his inquiries because there had been reported to
him in September 1949 two cases of poliomyelitis in children who had been inoculated within
the proceeding two or three weeks. He found that out of 182 cases of poliomyelitis in London
under five years of age since the beginning of 1949, 32 had developed the disease within four
weeks of receiving the injection, the paralysis developing in the particular limb of injection. In
21 of these a combined vaccine had been used, in 8 a diphtheria toxoid, and in I case,
whooping cough vaccine alone. Geffen excluded from his list all cases of polio that had
developed more than four weeks after inoculation and all cases where the paralysis occurred
in the limb into which no injection had been made.
Chapman Pincher, writing of these findings in the Daily Express, April 10, says: "Realizing the
danger of their findings in the Government diphtheria immunization campaign, the doctors
withheld publication until some cases could be followed up over many months." The matter
finally received a full airing in the British public press. At first, the Ministry of Hell(th) played
down the whole affair and insisted that the risk of inoculation was "unappreciable." Finally,
however, the Ministry of Hell(th) sent a circular to medical officers in June, after the results of a
statistical investigation, suggested by Sir William Janieson had been carried out and the
findings learned. The investigation had been carried out by Prof. A. Bradford Hill and Dr.
Knowelden. These men reported in the British Medical Journal (July 1, 1950) that in the 1949
epidemic of poliomyelitis in England and Wales "cases of paralysis were occurring which were
associated with inoculation procedures carried out within the month preceding the recorded
date of onset of the illness."
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At first the British authorities were inclined to believe that all the danger resided in the use of
the mixed vaccines, but when it was shown statistically that there is as much danger
associated with the diphtheria toxoid alone or the whooping cough vaccine alone as with the
two combined, they were forced to abandon this position. Sir John Charles, Chief Medical
Officer, sent out an official letter warning medical officers of the possible danger and admitting
that the paralysis referred to had been associated with diphtheria toxoid alone. The Medical
Officers were told to use their own judgement as to suspending inoculation programmes in the
event of an unusual number of cases of infantile paralysis in their area. The Department of Hell
(th) of Scotland sent out a similar circular. The medical officers of Birmingham, Glasgow and a
number of other British towns suspended inoculation for several months from July.
These findings indicate that inoculations given at the periphery of a nerve may result in severe
and lasting damage at the center. The tendency of the investigators is to think of the chief
danger as coming within the first four weeks after inoculation, although there is no reason
given for thinking that full recovery of the nerve centre always occurs within this period. Indeed,
no proof is offered to show that complete recovery ever occurs. The Australian physician,
McCloskey, reported cases occurring more than a year after inoculation. What is to prevent an
inoculation given in the fall of this year being instrumental in producing paralysis in a child at
the end of the summer of next year? (I would suggest a study of these cases in the light of
Speransky’s findings.)
One physician showed that these post-inoculation cases of poliomyelitis have been developing
from the very beginning of the inoculation programs. Such cases will be difficult to investigate
statistically after the lapse of so much time, but if the inoculations are definitely associated with
the occurrence of many cases of polio today, there is every reason to think that they have
been so associated from the start of the inoculation practice. It seems to me that the more that
is learned about the evils of inoculations, the more evil inoculations are shown to be. To merely
suspend an inoculation campaign for a season and then resume the evil is hardly a remedy for
the many evils that flow from inoculations.
The British Ministry of Hell(th) did not want to believe that their precious inoculations were in
any way responsible for paralysis, because, as they said to the press: "it would be a tragedy if
people stopped having their children immunized against diphtheria." If they were a real Ministry
of Health, instead of the farce that they are, they would know that there are helpful ways of
assuring the health of children, that there is no such thing as immunity, and that harming the
organisms of children is not the way to prevent disease in them.
As an aftermath of these observations this year the Health Department in New York City
suspended inoculating (they called It "immunizing") infants and children against diphtheria and
whooping cough at its 76 child-health stations from June 15, to Oct. 1, which it calls the "polio
season." The Department, which expressed its intention of requesting private physicians to
follow its example, made known its action to New York City’s five county medical societies.
The news account, as published in the New York Times, June 12, 1951, says: "The step was
taken on the basis of a preliminary report on a research study started here last March, when
findings published in medical journals by English and Australian scientists came to the
attention of health authorities in this country.
"The foreign studies, which now appear to be substantiated by the health department survey,
indicated that of children who contracted paralytic polio a considerable proportion had been
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immunized within the previous month with diphtheria toxoid, whooping cough vaccine, and that
the site of the paralysis was more apt to be in the limb injected."
The contentions of Hygienists, made many times during the past twenty years, that vaccines
and serums are among the chief causes of poliomyelitis, is thus verified, but the "scientists" (by
which is simply meant, medical men who give the serums and vaccines) do not admit this to be
the fact. They say instead, as quoted in the Times article, "It must be made clear that we know
immunization is not the cause or even a cause of poliomyelitis. Investigators, among whom
were specialists of the Department of Health, have found indications that during the polio
season persons who have become ill with polio and who have been recently immunized
against diphtheria or whooping cough may develop paralysis in the injected limb." These are
the words of John F. Mahoney, M.D. Commissioner of Hell(th), New York City.
Mahoney says that the Hell(th) Department was simply adopting the same procedure in regard
to "immunization" that it has followed for a number of years in regard to tonsillectomies. He
said: "For a number of years it has been it has been known that while the removal of tonsils
and adenoids does not cause poliomyelitis, children who have their adenoids or tonsils
removed or have other mouth operations during the polio season are more apt to develop a
severe form of poliomyelitis than children on whom such operations have not been performed.
"Therefore, the Department of Health and the medical profession generally advises against
such operations during the months when polio is most prevalent.
We are doing the same thing in regard to immunization for exactly the same reasons: since
investigation has shown a probable relationship between immunization during the polio season
and the localization of the paralysis, we are postponing immunization until the danger is over."
The Times article adds that it had learned that the American Public Health Association’s Ad
Hoc Committee on the Relationship of the Incidence of Poliomyelitis and Recent Immunization
is in agreement with the action of the Hell(th) Department. The Committees report, which was
to have been published the following week in The American Journal of Public Health, says that
although further studies are imperative, "the data so far available would suggest that, in the
face of an abnormal prevalence of poliomyelitis in a given locality, antigen inoculations may
well be postponed until after the subsidence of the abnormal prevalence."
The Report also says that "recent published and unpublished data strongly suggests that an
individual who develops poliomyelitis within a month after receipt of an injection of antigen, or
possibly of some other material, shows an increased frequency of paralysis in the extremity
into which the injection has been given. There are also suggestions that among the reported
cases of polio are cases which would not have been clinically diagnosed as polio at all if their
(recent) inoculation had not brought them into the paralytic group."
On the following day, June 13, the State Department of Hell(th) of New York, issued a
statement to the press in which it said that this proneness to development of paralysis follows
all injections of diphtheria toxoid and anti-whooping cough vaccine. This means that all
injections of any substance whatsoever, are harmful and, if they are not the direct cause of the
disease that follows, as Mahoney insists, they are determining and complicating factors that
must be reckoned with in any study of the cause of these diseases.
It has always been the assumption of the medical profession that they could inject their so-
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called "immunizing" substances into the bodies of old and young, that this would produce
"immunity" and that there the matter would end. It is now quite obvious, even to the members
of the medical profession, that there the matter does not end. Eighty or more years ago,
Herbert Spencer, writing of vaccination, showed that "there the matter does not end," when
people are vaccinated against smallpox. It was shown years ago, a fact recorded by no less a
medical authority than Sir William Osler, that serum injections damage the germ plasm, the
results showing up in the second and third generations.
It does not really matter whether the vaccines and serums are the cause of poliomyelitis, or
merely complicating factors, the damage is there, and it is folly to think that the body can be
rendered more resistant to any so-called disease by seriously impairing it. It should be noted
that the actual pathological development that results in paralysis is in the brain and spinal cord,
not in the limb. The destruction of the nerve center is the reason for the paralysis. Inoculating a
child in the arm and rendering the nerve center more likely to be destroyed means that the
damage is done far removed from the point of injection. As there is no means of controlling this
distant damage, nor of localizing it, they have no means of knowing what other serious
developments follow in the wake of their ill-advised pollution of the human blood stream.
By omitting the inoculations during the summer months, when polio is most prevalent (it has
been reported in the arctic regions and cases in this country have been reported in Winter),
may have the effect of reducing the number of cases of polio and it may reduce the amount of
paralysis, but to resume the inoculations in the Fall and continue them through the Winter and
Spring, may simply render other "diseases," such as pneumonia, "influenza" measles,
whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc., much worse and build serious complications in
these diseases. How can they confine the evil effects of these injections of various kinds to
poliomyelitis?
It will be noted that the Report of the "American Public Health Association’s" committee states
that published and unpublished data so far collected indicate that many cases that are
reported as polio would not have been so reported if prior inoculation had not resulted in the
development of paralysis in these cases. This is to say, had these children not been inoculated
a short time prior to becoming ill, they would not have become paralyzed. Have we not
declared for many years that the medical profession is composed of past masters of the art of
producing pathology? If part of the paralysis seen in these cases is admittedly due to treatment
given prior to the development of disease, how much of the rest of it is due to treatment given
during the course of the illness? Are medical treatments responsible for the paralysis? I would
answer this question in the affirmative and challenge the profession to produce cases of
paralysis that have developed under non-medical care.
When wholesale deaths follow an orgy of inoculations, it is customary to blame the deaths on
faulty serum. As an example of this, there were the large number of deaths reported in Japan
in December, 1949 following inoculation with diphtheria anti-toxin On Dec 30, the press
reported 64 deaths and 900 ill from the inoculations The inoculations were halted, while the
serum was being investigated. I do not know how many more of the 900 who were ill also died,
nor how many of them were left with serious after effects. The press did not find this matter to
be "news."
But all deaths from inoculations and all serious disease resulting from these inoculations are
not due to "faulty serums." On the contrary, in every orgy of inoculations, as in the army, many
serious troubles arise and deaths are often reported. In these instances, "faulty serum" is not
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blamed—only when several deaths and much serious sickness follow do they find the serum to
be "faulty." But all inoculations give rise to troubles ranging all the way from slight, transient
trouble to instantaneous death from anaphylaxis. In many instances, serious organic
impairment has resulted that has been permanent.
Despite all of this injury and danger, parents might be justified in taking a chance with the
health and life of their children, did the inoculations. actually prevent the diseases against
which they are directed. But there is not a shred of unequivocal evidence that any vaccine or
serum ever prevents any disease. There is no justification for parents subjecting their childen
to the risks inherent in inoculations and vaccinations and there is certainly no justification for
resort to compulsion in the use of these vaccines and serums. Compulsory inoculation and
vaccination is a form of tyranny that sooner or later, mankind must destroy.
The scene was a room in Houston, Texas. It was a temporary "clinic" set up for the purpose of
experimenting on a great mass of hapless and helpless children. It was but one of eight such
"clinics" that had been set up in the city. The room was filled with children and their frightened
parents, who had "voluntarily" brought their children for the experiment. The children ranged
from toddlers barely past their first birthday to six-year-olds, who brought their "comic" books
or listened as their parents told them "children’s stories." In the room where the children were
being tortured by needles being pushed into them and through which a serum was inoculated
into them, there were cries of pain and fear. Parents of the frightened children attempted to still
their fears and stop their cries with "soothing words."
What was it all about? Why were the children being thus tormented? What were they afraid of?
Why were they having needles stuck into them? The answer is, they were being used as
guinea pigs in a mass experiment conducted by a gang of voodoo priests whom the
newspapers referred to as "scientists." Headed by William D. Hammon, a professor of
something or other in the University of Pennsylvania, the voodoo practitioners were inoculating
the children with a blood fraction which they call gamma globulin and which, they said,
contains "disease-fighting anti-bodies." This was being done, not to prevent poliomyelitis, for
they acknowledge that the serum will not prevent polio, but in the hope that those children who
developed polio subsequent to inoculation, would not become paralyzed. Hammon "stressed
the fact that gamma globulin cannot prevent polio," but that he believes, from tests made on
monkeys, (I assume that he means the monkeys of the lower order, not the ones that were
inoculating the children) it can prevent paralysis.
Thirty-five thousand children were to be used in the test. Half of them were being inoculated
with the "gamma globulin," the other half were being inoculated with an "ineffective substance"
that resembled gamma globulin. This, said Hammon, is the only way to test the theory that
paralysis can be prevented by the blood fraction. A previous test, using 5,768 children of
Provo, Utah, made last year, was not on a big enough scale to be "conclusive." A bigger test
was needed, and Houston was chosen as the laboratory in which to use the human guinea
pigs.
Last year we had a physician here in Texas to inoculate a lot of children with anti-rabies serum
on the absurd theory that it would prevent polio. Last year, also, the gamma globulin was
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tested on a large number of children in a midWestern state. Now comes the news from
Sacramento, Calif., dated July 24, 1952 that fifty children in the Sonoma State Home
(presumably orphans who have nobody to protect them from the state and the medical
gangsters) are being fed a "special kind of chocolate milk containing a virus which "scientists"
hope will prevent polio. Frank Tallman, state mental hygiene (?) director, said in a report to
Governor Warren (a man who dared to aspire to the presidency) that the milk diet is the key
part of an experiment aimed at finding means of preventing polio.
The rascals who are conducting this experiment selected "100 children who were found to
have no naturally built immunity to polio." Why do newspapers continue to dignify men of this
stripe with the title "scientists"? Why do they not rather expose the scoundrels for what they
are—reckless experimenters who toy with human life as though it were the life of a guinea pig?
These are the mass experiments that are being carried out or that have been carried out
during the past two years on children in this country that have made the headlines. There is no
way to tell how many other such experiments are going on or have been carried out that have
been and are being kept secret. The children of America are being freely used as guinea pigs
and the parents of America seem to be indifferent to the whole matter. What has become of
the sense of responsibility that parents are supposed to feel towards their children? Where is
the love that parents are traditionally supposed to have for their children? Is it true that modern
American parents would sacrifice their children to a modern Moloch as did the parents of
ancient Carthage; or that they would throw their babies in the path of the Juggernaught as did
the parents of India? Let no one deny that they will do this, for do we not see them sacrificing
their children to the superstitions and hallucinations of medical idiots?
Why was Houston chosen for this mass experiment? It was stated that Houston was picked
because of the high rate of polio there, but this may not be the whole truth. It may be that the
high rate of polio in Houston was due to the fact that the city had been chosen for the test.
Before parents can be induced to submit their children to the dangers of inoculation in this
manner, and especially before they can be induced to permit their children to be used for
purely experimental purposes, they must first be frightened out of their wits. There is nothing
like an epidemic to frighten ignorant people. It is not probable that more than one third of the
cases diagnosed as polio in Houston were polio. But this fact is not known to the parents of
that city. Parents are as easily frightened by false diagnoses as by correct ones The epidemic
at Houston may have been staged because Houston had been secretly picked as the place for
the test.
The manner in which Houston parents crowded into the inoculation centers with their children
and the readiness with which they submitted their children to the experiment indicates, not
alone the abject ignorance of parents, but also the fear that was in them, as the physicians and
board of health of that city had built up a synthetic epidemic for that very purpose.
The plan of the experimenters was to inoculate 35,000 children—half of them with gamma
globulin, which it was hoped would prevent paralysis; the other half with gelatin, which they
referred to as an "ineffective substitute." The children who were to get the "ineffective
substitute" were to be "controls." But many frightened parents in Houston refused to wait and
see if the experiment was a success. They refuse to take a chance on not getting the gamma
globulin for their children. They took their children to private physicians and paid to have them
inoculated. Oh, yes, the serum was available and for sale and so were physicians (most
physicians, in fact) who will administer it for a fee, even though it is not yet known to have any
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value. The manufacturers and the physicians are in a hurry to reap their profits, for they know
that at the conclusion of the test, they may not be able to sell it even to the most frightened
individual.
According to a July 27 report from Houston, but 33,000 children were used in the test. This
means that so many of the frightened parents went to private physicians and had their children
inoculated with gamma globulin, rather than risk having them get the "ineffective substance,"
that the experimenters did not get the expected 35,000 children out to the experimental
centers. The frightened parents, thinking, in their ignorance, that the serum would prevent the
disease, or at least prevent paralysis, and knowing that if they took their children to the
experimental clinics they stood but a fifty-fifty chance of getting gamma globulin, paid for the
inoculations and thus made certain that their children did not receive a shot of gelatin. Thus the
expected 35,000 guinea pigs did not materialize.
Not all of the parents of Houston were as "scientifically" minded as Robert N. Smaistria, of that
city, who said: "I’m willing to do anything to help prevent paralysis—in my children and in all
children." Actually, he was a very frightened man, who did not know whether his child received
the supposed protective serum, or the "ineffective" substitute—the "harmless gelatin." It is
never harmless to inject any foreign substance into the blood stream, and gelatin, a foreign
protein, is certainly not harmless, but the use of the phrase "harmless gelatin" in with the
gamma globulin, carries the implication that gamma globulin i less. In the same way, the
statement that half of the children used as guinea pigs would receive the serum and the other
half would receive a substance implied that the serum is effective. Indeed, the effectiveness is
taken for granted, even before it is tested.
By June 30 thousands of parents in Houston were demanding the serum for their children, but
the experimenters could give them no guarantee that their children would receive the serum
and not the gelatin, so the parents went to their
family physicians, who, always willing to oblige, for a fee, gave them the shots. They reaped a
financial harvest while the publicity was flooding the papers, even though they were well aware
that there is not a shred of evidence to lead to the belief that the G.G. serum will prevent polio.
Hammond complained that the inoculating of children by private physicians was reducing the
number of children available for "field study." But parents were taking no "chances." If they
took their children to the Hammond clinics, they ran a fifty-fifty chance of getting the "ineffective
substance," and they wanted their children to get the "protective" gamma globulin. Hammond
was interested in a "controlled experiment," parents were interested in saving their children
from the jaws of the dreaded monster, polio. There is also the possibility that parents whose
children were taken to the clinic, fearing that their little guinea pigs got the gelatin instead of
the globulin, might take them to physicians and have them given the "real medicine," in which
case they would have no value to the "field study." Therefore, parents who submitted their
children to the experiment were urged not to go to physicians and have them given gamma
globulin. The experimenters said in effect to them: "We believe that the gamma globulin will
prevent the paralysis of polio and we know that the gelatin will not, but we want you to take a
chance with your child. Don’t give him gamma globulin; be content with the gelatin. Don’t spoil
our test for the sake of your child."
On hand at the opening of the ten days’ orgy of inoculating was another voodoo priest, the
Rev. Thomas Summers, rector of the St. John the Divine Episcopal Church and president of
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the Houston Council of Churches, who "expressed the hope of each of the silent, tense
parents" when he said: "We pray, oh God, that the scourge of polio may be removed." That
should have settled it! When two of the three modern branches of shamanism combine to
make war upon the demon of polio, this demon should seek the tall timber.
I would call the attention of those of my readers who may have been so misled in the past as
to contribute to the "March of Dimes" fund that, this orgy of human vivisection was financed by
a grant of $500,000 supplied by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. From financing
experiments on rats and monkeys, this Foundation has turned to financing experiments on
children. At least they have to pay for the rats and monkeys, whereas, they can frighten
parents -into contributing their children without cost.
Blood donors will be happy to learn that their donations are being used for many worthy
purposes. Hammond stated that the gamma globulin used in the polio experiment is the same
as that used in measles and that it is obtained from blood collected by the American Red
Cross from donors all over the country. Thus Clara Barton’s organization (one she repented
ever having formed) is revealed as being in all ways a stooge of organized voodooism. It
serves its adopted master well, the very thing that caused Clara Barton to express the wish
that she had never founded the organization. For Clara Barton was a Hygienist.
The gamma globulin is referred to by Hammond and the newspapers as "medicine," that is, a
"healing agent." Not only it is being used as a "prophylactic agent" (a preventive), and this
would not be a "healing agent," but there is absolutely no evidence so far that it has either
preventive or healing powers. Indeed, there is no such thing as a healing agent. Drugs,
serums, vaccines, heal nothing. Medical men are not healers, hence they are wrongly branded
when they are called medical men. There are no medicines and the practice of "medicine" is
not the practice of a "healing art." They have surrounded themselves and then practices with a
terminology that is utterly false.
On July 27 it was stated in a news report from Houston that some of the children used in the
test had already developed polio, but it was not known whether these children had received
gamma globulin or the "ineffective gelatin." To make the test more sensational the man from
the Pittsburgh University who directed the test in Houston sent all records to New York City
and had them locked in a safe where they will remain until January 1953. So, it will not be
known until these records are examined some time in 1953, how many of each group of
children developed polio. "The results of the test won’t be known for months, probably early in
1953," so "a team of experts (ex-spurts) will remain here (in Houston) through the polio season
into the fall to check on children inoculated."
If it is decided to make the serum "effective" this can be done by diagnosis and statistics. All
that will be needed will be to diagnose as something else large numbers of cases that are now
diagnosed as polio. In those children receiving the "non-effective" substance the same cases
may still be diagnosed polio. This is the way in which smallpox vaccination is upheld. If the
patient has been vaccinated it is chickenpox, if he has not been vaccinated it is smallpox.
Or, it is always possible, to assume, as in the case of smallpox vaccination, where polio does
follow the inoculation, that the inoculation was not "successful." It can also be claimed, as
indeed, it is already hinted, that if the new serum does not prevent polio it at least makes the
disease lighter. The same claim is made for smallpox vaccine, it lessens the severity of the
"attack."
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It will also be possible, as in the case of typhoid and "paratyphoid," to discover that there are
two or more polio viruses and that the serum protects from only one of these. Indeed, the
medical classifiers have already determined that there are "three types of polio."
How long will the alleged "immunity" last? Will the children have to be inoculated each summer
or twice a year? How often will they have to be given "booster shots?" One physician says the
"shots" must be repeated every four to six weeks.
Which children among those that are inoculated with the serum would have had polio if they
had not been inoculated? What effect will the injection of the "non-effective" substance have in
producing polio in the children that receive it? Statistics based on such uncertainties must be
equally as uncertain.
A tragic situation grew out of all the publicity the gamma globulin experiment in Houston
received. The ignorant and frightened public began to demand the inoculation of their children
with the serum without waiting to see how the Houston experiment came out. Here in the city
of San Antonio, nearly two hundred miles from the scene of the Houston crime, the physicians
were deluged with demands for the gamma globulin. Although many of them were honest
enough to warn parents that it was but "a shot in the dark," and that they were "buying a pig in
a poke," the frightened parents demanded the inoculation for their children anyway. Told that
there is not, as yet, any proof that the gamma globulin will prevent polio, they insisted on
having it for their children.
One pediatrician who was getting an average of ten calls a day for the inoculation said that,
parents "seem to think it would ease their conscience should their children get polio. They can
at least say they have done what they could." The abject ignorance that this statement reflects
is not altogether the fault of the parents. These parents have trusted their medical advisers and
have been mis-educated by them. The fact is that, several local physicians were giving their
own children gamma globulin with the same idea in mind. They are as ignorant as lay parents.
One pediatrician recommended "shots" only for those children who were "exposed" to polio. If
the ignoramus ever stops long enough to ask the simple question: How was the first case of
polio "exposed" to polio, he’ll grab his hollow needle and start inoculating every child in sight.
One physician who estimated that he was inoculating six children daily, asked: "When mothers
come in and ask for it for their children, what else can we do but give it to them?" Behold the
degradation of "medical science!" It is reduced to the base position of a mere panderer to the
ignorant wishes of the frightened layman. The physician is no longer the trusted and expert
adviser of the people— he merely keeps a supply of convalescent juice on hand and sells it to
whomsoever comes to buy, just as the dry goods salesman sells any kind of cloth his
customers want. The mother prescribes, the physician merely carries out her orders.
What can they do? They have frightened the wits out of the people and they have paraded
their serum in the public press in the most dramatic manner for days and weeks. They created
the demand and then, with an air of hurt innocence, they ask: "What can we do when the
people ask for it?" I could tell the damned rascals what they could do, but I have no idea that
there is enough honesty and self respect left in the profession to cause them to do it. This thing
is greatly increasing their incomes and they are not going to quit it.
It is significant that the drug stores were well supplied with sufficient gamma globulin to meet
the demand. Small vials containing two cc of the serum retailed at $6.75 a vial and the sales
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were described as "heavy." The manufacturers and sellers of the voodoo concoction were
ready and willing to cash in on the publicity before the ultimate failure of the experiment
becomes known. Every physician in the country is well aware that the gamma globulin will not
prevent polio. But they justify their pumping of this soup into the bodies of children on the
grounds, to quote the words of one San Antonio pediatrician, that "We don’t want to support
any useless means and we don’t want to overlook the possibilities of its success."
The gamma globulin is not only expensive, but it is given according to the weight of the child.
One pediatrician explained that the "cost for a child who weighed 100 pounds would almost be
prohibitive and the shot would have to be renewed in three or four weeks." Even before the
results of the experiment are known, these men already know how often they must renew the
"immunization." What a lucrative source of income! Give every child expensive shots of
gamma globulin every three or four weeks throughout the summer months, nation wide, and
the physicians can forget about the remainder of their practices. Who would want to fritter
away his time looking after typhoid cases or operating for appendicitis or bothering about oil
wells, when fifty to a hundred children a day come to the office to get gamma globulin shots?
Fear was expressed that the gamma globulin supply might too soon be exhausted but the
manufacturing drug houses and the local wholesale distributing firms, knowing what the
publicity would do for business, had provided against this contingency in advance. They had a
plentiful supply on hand in San Antonio. On July 4, a spokesman for the wholesale drug firms
of San Antonio stated to the press that these firms had plenty in stock. The demand for it had
increased four to five times since the outbreak of the Houston crime, but there was no
shortage. Such is the foresight of good business men.
(1) You need not have your children inoculated with polio vaccine unless you want this
inoculation done.
Every parent is free to refuse it, and the Ministry of Health says that no child will be inoculated
without the express permission of its parents.
(2) The Salk polio vaccine which is to be used in this country does not protect from paralytic
polio. In the trial of the vaccine in America in 1954, 71 children who had been fully inoculated
with it developed paralytic polio.
(3) The vaccine may have the power to start polio. During five weeks after Salk Vaccine was
launched on the world by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in America, and, at the
time, wrongly declared to be safe, potent and efficient, at least 112 inoculated children
developed polio and two-thirds of the cases were paralytic polio There were 6 deaths At first it
was said that the children had already got polio before they were inoculated; then it was said
that the inoculation aroused polio which was already there and caused it to develop; and finally
it was believed that in a great many cases it was live virus remaining accidentally in the
vaccine which caused the cases of polio.
(4) Vaccinated children in America are believed to have given polio to their parents. 149 such
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cases have been reported with 6 deaths; the first two cases were 18-months old babies who
became ill after the inoculation and were taken to the hospital. They recovered, and on
returning home their parents developed polio. The Denver Medical Officer of Health calls this
"satellite" polio. The Franklin Lakes Board of Education, New Jersey, asked 8 children who
were given the Salk anti-polio vaccine to stay away from school for the rest of the term.
Parents of other children were afraid they might be polio "carriers." (Daily Telegraph, June
21st, 1955).
(5) The Salk Polio Vaccine is grown on monkey kidney tissue. It is said not to protect for longer
than five months, if it protects at all, and an eminent physiologist was quoted by the
Manchester Guardian as saying that "if it means that a child should be reinoculated at frequent
intervals with a preparation derived from monkey kidney ‘it is terrifying in its possibilities.’
Among them is the risk of the child developing sensitivity to some of the ingredients of the
vaccine."
(6) Every inoculation has caused serious illness and not a few deaths. There are official
records of 1,700 deaths from vaccination against smallpox, and such deaths are still being
recorded every year, many of them being deaths of babies. In recent months babies have
developed encephalitis from anti-yellowfever vaccine, as has been admitted in the Bulletin of
the Ministry of Health.
There are 3 deaths on record from tuberculosis caused by B.C.G. inoculation. Inoculation
against diphtheria has activated paralytic poliomyelitis. Past history of all the vaccines and
serums justifies fear that the new vaccine will damage health and may cause death.
(7) Two Medical Research Council doctors stated in Picture Post, May 7th, 1955 that the risk
of contracting poliomyelitis is 1 in 25,000. The vast majority of children are never in any danger
of contracting this disease. To go out of your way to give a child an inoculation that may cause
illness, and even give it the disease you wish to guard against, when the likelihood of that child
getting that disease naturally is so small as to be almost negligible is the height of folly.
(8) To keep your child healthy carry out the rules of health. See that it has proper food, and
plenty of fresh air, that it is warmly clothed in winter, avoiding exposure to damp and chills, and
see that it gets enough sleep. Make sure that the water supply is pure, and that the house is
properly ventilated, and avoid overcrowding.
(9) The manufacture and testing of the polio vaccine causes gross cruelty to animals, chiefly
monkeys.
HYGIETHICS
Just about a month ago today the American public was presented with what was publicized as
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one of the great milestones of medical history, the Salk Anti-Polio Vaccine. At the time I got out
an article on the contrived look of the unprecedented promotion of the new vaccine. Through
an unfortunate set of circumstances it never did get to San Antonio to meet the deadline.
The article was entitled "Salk Vaccine, Science or Enterprise." It dealt more with the peculiar
conditions surrounding the unveiling of this monument of medical advance than with the
vaccine itself—the soap-opera props employed to put it over, how it was timed to fall on the
anniversary of FDR’s death in melodramatic fashion to play on the sympathy and sentiment,
for whatever it was worth to the Purse of the American people through the March of Dimes
collection campaign. I touched on various aspects of the great hoax that was being perpetrated
by the seeming collusion between profit and progress; how NBC jumped the gun and broke the
release time by an hour; how half a dozen giant pharmaceutical houses had it ready for the
market even before the fateful V day when the great men of science, medicine and the press
were invited to hear the miracle pronouncement that polio had been conquered.
I spoke of how parents were fooled about what was shot into their children in order to make the
1954 testing program effective; how statistics had been handled to make a good case for the
vaccine; how medical societies throughout the land were cautioning physicians against
profiteering and black-marketing; how the research wizards had studiously avoided any
approach or premise that even hinted at causal relationships; how the 25 million said to have
been spent on its research program had been mulct from the American public through the
Polio Foundation’s collection campaigns, and how that self-same public was the last to be let
in on the secret; how the favored drug houses had invested many millions in new equipment
and materials long before the safety of the vaccine had been publicly established, and how
they were outspoken in their expectations of increasing their investments tenfold before the
year was out, with even brighter prospects for the years to come; how politicians, preachers,
physicians, professional publicists, the press, and the rest of the army of panderers of the
public good all joined in the hosannas and hailed the new Messiah of Medicine, Jonas Salk,
M.D., as one of the great benefactors of mankind, etc., etc. And, like any self-respecting
Hygienist just must, when confronted with such a stupendous spectacle of studied scientific
stupidity, I dealt in a bit of prophecy,—yes, even at the risk of being labeled a Hygienic crank.
The prophecy was to the effect that all that glitters is not gold; that in the present instance
there wasn’t enough known about the vaccine to warrant or justify the universal inoculation
program that was to follow the announcement, enthusiasm to the contrary notwithstanding;
that in my humble Hygienist opinion the worst was yet to come.
WELL, the prophecy was borne out, but all too soon—and with a directness of action, or
should I say reaction, that in a couple of weeks the fait accompli was threatened with fiasco,
and the flexuous mind of the press was forced to turn the ferris-wheel of its imagination in all
directions to stave off the stench that threatened to wreck the whole enterprise. The
unexpected occurrence of a high percentage of afflictions and several deaths threw the whole
program into a tailspin of chaos and confusion. Frankly the whole country was scared out of its
wits—and with good reason. In fact, the first good reason it had shown. The government called
off the mass inoculations. Towns, cities and states were in a dither of indecision. The parents
who early consented and whose children had already been given their initial shots were living
in a vacuum of panic and dread anxiety. The President stepped in, Congressmen and
Senators started calling for an investigation. Salk, his colleagues and government officials
were locked in long hours of conference to get at the bottom of the bottom that had just fallen
out of their ill-founded dreams.
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The press had a field day of headlines that was unprecedented even in its own mottled career.
Reevaluation became the theme of the delay. One of the vaccine producing laboratories on the
west coast was made the face-saving scapegoat. The nobby Mrs. Hobby was run through the
grinder for being asleep at the switch and even threatened with Luce-ing her job. Errors in
production, errors in government control of testing, errors in the type of preservative employed
were screeched across the nation’s news wires. All kinds of errors were put forth except the
basic error of the vaccine itself.
The rest is all history—the kind you buy at the newsstands every day—the kind the public has
been educated to retain only until the next edition comes out—the kind that has little effect on
the public consciousness because it isn’t allowed to set long enough to take hold.
It is now a month and millions of headlines away. At the risk of being called a boasting "I-told-
you-so" I could very well use my first article and thus spare myself the toil of the present one.
But in the light of subsequent happenings, another attempt to expose this newest affront to
human health and the dignity of the individual is justified—so here goes—I’ll fire away again
and let the shots fall where they will.
First, let us break the word "Poliomyelitis" down. Polio is a prefix meaning gray. Myel means
the spinal cord. And, as we all know by various experiences with it, itis mean inflammation. Put
them all together and they spell "Poliomyelitis," an inflammation of the grey matter of the cord.
Current medical belief holds that this inflammatory condition of the spine is brought about by a
group of three viruses that are thought to invade the human body through portal openings in
the mouth and the nose, and through cuts and wounds. After they (the viruses) gain entrance
to the body they spread along the nerve fibers to different parts of the central nervous system.
Specifically, the paralyzing type of polio is considered an acute infection of the anterior horns
of the gray matter of the spinal cord, causing such damage and destruction to the nerve cells
that early paralysis develops, the extent and character of which is determined by the particular
site of involvement and the number of cells attacked. It may affect a single muscle, a single
limb or the entire body. The viruses are supposedly spread by contact with discharges from the
nose, throat and bowels of diseased persons, or carriers of the virus. The incubation period is
said to range from 4 to 18 days. It strikes in the summer and the fall, and generally hits its peak
between August and September.
The respiratory centers are often affected as a complication of the earlier symptoms, rendering
the breathing mechanism incapable of functional movement. This is called bulbar polio and its
victims are kept alive only by the use of the iron lung, a mechanical device that substitutes for
the normal diaphragmatic movements. The greatest incidence is amongst children, hence the
name infantile paralysis. But it also attacks adults as well. Pregnant women have a better than
average susceptibility to the disease. The symptoms that precede the onset of paralysis are
fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, fatigue, stiffness of the neck, constipation, diarrhea
and, in some cases, pain in the extremities, (to the Hygienist, as vague an assortment of
diagnostic factors as one could ever hope to meet up with.)
The inability to move the affected parts of the body is due to the destruction of the particular
nerve cells related to the motor activity of those parts. The virus is commonly excreted in the
stools for six to eight weeks after the disease has struck. It is said, too, that the virus may be
found in the throat for a short time at the outset of the illness.
The usual procedure followed when polio struck a community was to close down the swimming
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pools and the playgrounds and, where the disease became widespread, to close down the
schools as well. Those afflicted were isolated for two to four weeks. There was no drug or
serum considered specifically effective until the advent three years ago of gamma globulin, a
human blood fraction containing antibodies. There wasn’t much in the way of treatment until
Sister Kenny came along with her original concept of water-cure methods for the relief of pain
and specialized physiotherapy for the restoration of movement, wherever it was deemed
possible.
It is believed that there are many more cases unreported, due to mildness of symptoms and
wrong diagnoses, than there are cases reported. The disease is relatively new to the United
States though it is said to be ancient in origin. It was not recognized here until 1894. Today it is
found in all parts of the world, and temperate climates resembling our own favor it. It is not a
disease of the impoverished nor of the well-to-do. Yet there appears to be a parallel between
the rising living standards of the nation and the ever-mounting yearly epidemics of the crippling
disease. The first epidemic took place in New York City in 1907. The 1916, 1931, 1949 and
1952 epidemics reached the greatest proportions. In a few short years the disease changed
from one of rarity to one of epidemic yearly recurrence and the medical mind has been in a
state of desperate and constant search for some solution in the form of an immunizing agent.
Research was the answer. But research took money, and lots of it. Destiny came to the rescue
in the unfortunate affliction of our late President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This circumstance
touched off the organization of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the resulting
annual March-of-Dimes campaigns, which have collected 270 million dollars in the 17 years
since their inception. These monies are purportedly used equitably for alleviating the
discomfort of polio’s suffering victims and for the deemed research necessary for its conquest.
Here indeed was big business! And, as everyone who isn’t living in a cloud knows, big
business has to produce. Research indeed was the answer. So—out of courage and
generosity, out of sympathy and sentiment, out of tender-hearted pity for the poor suffering
kiddies who annually fell victim to this modern plague, the people (sic!) determined that polio
had to be licked and that American scientists were the ones to do it. Fancy science going
chauvinistic! But scientists are ever beset with their own unsolved problems and are ever wary
of taking on new ones. So science had to be organized. Thus the grant-in-aid was thought up
and, believe you me, big business never conceived of a better stunt to shake some of the lead-
thargy out of the pants of the lazy tinkerers that comprise the great majority of researchers.
Especially is this true when renewal time approaches. At that time there’s an aura of OR ELSE
in the air that gives a magic spurt to scientific inquiry. Now, organization spells efficiency. So,
all the threads of the polio research fabric had to be pulled together—that is, all the threads
that fit into the color scheme, thus automatically ruling out all undesirable hues and shades (of
though:).
Well, they researched to the very beginning of polio in this country, and found there was
nothing until 1909, when Doctor Karl Landsteiner proved that polio was caused by a virus and
not by the bacteria the medical profession had long sought in vain to find. Landsteiner
discovered that this virus could grow only in the spinal nervous tissues of monkeys or humans.
(Maybe this was the answer to Jekyll and Hyde complex instead!) ,The years that followed
showed very little in the way of successful polio research. The key to the failures of these un-
productive years turned up, it is said, when in 1949 Drs. Bodian and Howe of Baltimore
discovered there were three well-defined types of polio virus instead of the single type
heretofore thought to exist. This is about the time Dr. Salk first enters the picture for Salk was
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one of the four laboratory directors, singled out by the Polio Foundation to verify the findings of
Bodian and Howe, a project that took three years to complete.
1949 turned up another related project in the research of Dr. Enders of Harvard, who showed
that polio virus could be grown in non-nervous tissue cultures in test tubes, thus freeing
research, as it were, from total reliance on monkeys. Up until this time the cultures in which the
virus was grown were considered unacceptable for producing a commercial vaccine for human
injection. Salk then took on from Enders’ work and found, as Enders had already, that monkey
kidneys were the most successful virus-growing tissue, at least up until that time. All that
remained was to find the best broth in which to grow the tissue cells. Salk settled for one that
was developed by Dr. Parker of Toronto. Now all the ingredients of a successful vaccine were
at hand. The problem of live virus vaccine as against the killed virus vaccine was booted about
furiously, and to this day it still is. Salk was the first, I believe, to suggest a dead virus vaccine
as a more practical means of protection. In opposing his theory many of his colleagues hold
that a live virus with the paralyzing sting bred out of it gives the patient a mild non-paralyzing
disease that induces a lifetime immunity. The "dead-virusers" are said to be more concerned
with the element of risk, claiming that the live virus can always turn to a paralytic type.
Salk, of course, is a dead-to-center dead viruser. Salk’s being chosen for this job was no
matter-of-chance happening. In his medical student days at New York University he was one
of the bacteriology pupils of Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., head of the department. Was it fate
spinning the wheel? Let’s see. After graduation and internship at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New
York, the National Research Counsel, on the basis of some work he had done as a student on
flu virus under Dr. Francis, awarded Salk a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he
worked again under Dr. Francis. Together they developed the flu vaccine now on the market. It
just so happens that this very same Dr. Francis was in charge of the evaluation of the whole
polio project sponsored by the Foundation, and it was he whose history-making report on that
fateful April day stirred the nation and the world into a frenzy and enthusiasm that exceeded
anything ever before accorded a medical discovery. The reception and reaction well befit the
dawn of a new era. To return to Salk—the Francis influence was felt again. When the
University of Pittsburgh decided to set up a virus laboratory of its own, Salk was asked to take
over. He transferred his work to Pittsburgh where he has been ever since, and where the final
stages of the vaccine research were carried on. There may be no implications in the
association of Drs. Francis and Salk, but the sequence and turn of favorable events surely
points a finger of suspicion, especially at the big business aspect. Personally, I prefer to think
of them as a happy combination that unfortunately worked the wrong side of the street. The
respective parts each played in the huge drama must remain conjecture, but it was Salk who
came in for the big hero worship. At any rate both helped forge another link in the chain of
medical advance that is fast reducing the human race to a state of medical mesmerism. It
doesn’t take too much imagination, with things going as they are, to calamitously view the
supposed success over the summer scourge as the beginning of our fall.
The Hygienic perspective naturally rejects the whole affair and shares none of the enthusiasm
for this newest millennium. We’ve seen far too many of them. To our way of thinking, all the
vaccines and all the antibodies they can arouse do not answer the basic questions of where do
the viruses come from; why do they attack as they do in the good old summertime; and how do
they get into the human body? As I understand it, medicine has failed to definitely establish a
true portal of entry for the virus, and this has brought forth the further controversy of
endogeniety and exogeniety. There are many theories. Some investigators consider the virus
as an enzyme-like substance with a deranged cell proclivity. Others see the virus as a
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biochemical substance that goes haywire. Others think oh well, why go on? Your guess is a
good as theirs. As far as we are concerned, it all boils down to this: We don’t see why we
should put our bodies to the extra effort of producing antibodies, to combat dead viruses, to
produce artificial immunity to something we needn’t have had in the first place. Frankly, it all
sounds too Quixotic. Moreover, windmills are out of style. We now have windbags and not
imaginary ones either.
But to get back to Salk. Despite the unquestioned brilliance of his mind, in our opinion he is
barking up the wrong alley. The logic of that mind cannot make up for the incorrectness of its
premise. In this game of polio research (and that’s what it has turned out to be) he intercepted
the ball and carried it across the line to a delusive touchdown. It so happens the goal posts of
victory happened to be his own,, and, well—"that, wont win any games." In the final score, if I
may continue the metaphor, I’m sure the superior ground strategy of polio will easily overpower
the aerial astigmatics of Salk and his team. Any qualified coach or judge would advise Salk to
discard his theoretical illusions and reconstitute his attack and defense formations on more
practical considerations than the color of his opponents’ uniforms or some similar superficies.
This might explain to him the fact that polio cannot be beaten by concentrating on its
symptoms because they’re simply a camouflage when evaluated on a prima-facie basis. The
Hygienist does not accept symptoms at their current face value. He uses them as legal tender
to gain entrance to the deeper vaults of the human body wherein the foundation stones of
disease are more easily discernible. As these stones are laid so does he deduce the
weaknesses in the human structure. In this way the active as well as the potential factors are
brought out into the clear light of scientific evaluation; etiology and prognosis are more truly
estimated; and acute and chronic disturbances are nipped in the bud of their origin. The fact is
nobody, Salk included, can follow the phantasmagoria of symptomatology and come to a true
understanding of any disease for the simple reason that symptoms are only symptoms, not
causes, Or is that too elementary for men of Dr. Salk’s caliber?
His error is not one of logic but rather of the superficial premise upon which he launched his
whole research program. Mankind’s error exists in its being constantly deluded by the specious
type of reasoning men of medicine employ and base their conclusions on. We forget that logic
is a means to an end, that it can serve the villain and the saint, the misguided and the well
grounded, the people and their exploiters. In this instance, the end served is surely not ours,
for had it been, Salk would have probed deeper than the symptoms of polio to get to the
underlying bottom of the problem.
He would have explored other approaches. He would have considered other premises than the
germ theory of the disease. He might have given thought to the possibility that perhaps
virology was not the only beginning to so serious a study. He might have glanced back through
history’s pages and refreshed his memory on the course of pellagra in our south; on the
scourge of scurvy; on the incredible incidence of beriberi among the white rice eating peoples
of the Orient. He might even have seen the related significance of this latter condition to the
present problem of polio in the symptoms of its advanced stages known as polyneuritis, in
which control of the muscles of the feet, legs and arms, and in severe cases of the trunk too, is
affected. He might have learned that these too were epidemic diseases and were endlessly
ascribed to various germs, and that in the final analysis all medical research in their behalf
turned out to be meaningless medical meandering down the insidious avenue of infection;
proving that medical research, if not a disease in itself, is surely a pathological compulsion in
most cases.
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In the end pellagra, scurvy and beriberi turned out to be diseases of dietary deficiency that
could be controlled by the simple process of putting back into the nutriment of nature some of
the vital elements that commerce saw profit in removing. These and many more correlatives
could he have seen had his immunological perspective recognized the true relationship of
Virology to Symptomology, as that of tweedledee and tweedledum. Hygienists do not discredit
the presence of the three guilty viruses. We say that they are merely a symptom of polio rather
than the cause. And we openly admit our skepticism of any approach to the problem of polio
that systematically or unwittingly ignores the basic enervating and toxemic forces that nurture
the soil of its growth in the human body.
Furthermore, we look askance on any data that disregards the clues inherent in the study of
the comparative eating habits of our own rich country with its high polio rate as against the
eating habits of the poor countries of the East with their low polio incidence. Our superiority in
the matter of advanced sanitation and hygiene apparently offers no advantages in the way of
polio prevention, or at least not where our respective diets remain the same. The one clear
spot in the statistical panorama is the difference in the overall consumption of white sugar.
Explicitly, their’s is but a fraction of ours. It may stun you to learn that in the year 1939 the per
capita consumption of white sugar in China, where only sporadic cases of polio were seen,
was 3.2 lbs., whereas in the United States 103.2 lbs. per person were consumed. I understand
from good authority that this pattern ran true in the epidemics of 1949 and 1952, which were
the most severe in our history.
This is not a rare and isolated statistical item. The United States Army documented well the
figures of our soldiers contracting the disease in the Philippines, in China and in Japan—with
no outbreaks among the native children. The Surgeon General’s Office has reports filed away
concerning the 1945 outbreak amongst our troops in the Philippines, when 250 were afflicted
with the disease, with 50 deaths resulting—but with no outbreaks amongst the natives. The
only plausible answer here, and one which has been reported by a few honest investigators,
exists in the fact that the American soldier was allowed to take his eating habits along with him.
He was permitted to stuff himself with ice cream, soda pop, candies, pastries, etc. With all due
respect to his great fighting ability he was coddled into ill health by the misguided generosity of
the Army authorities, perhaps to recompense for some of the ghastly aspects of that
systematic decimation of human beings called war. In one account I read the following: "Ice
cream manufacturing equipment generally soon followed combat equipment."
In war as in peace polio seems to strike under similar conditions. The pattern of epidemiologic
statistics clearly indicate a correlation between sugar consumption and epidemic outbreaks of
polio in the various countries of the world. Our own country is perhaps the best example of this
trend of figures. Salk might have studied the effect of white sugar on our calcium levels and
learned something of calcium waste and its effect on nerve nutrition.
I do not pretend to have made a special study of polio, to have any data or knowledge difficult
of access, or to have any special qualifications that permit me to speak with authority. But I
refuse to close my eyes to what surely appears as worthwhile evidence just because it does
not fit into the running crossword puzzle of rigged science that right now has even its
instigators and promoters in a state of hopeless confusion.
If Salk was really the well grounded man he should have been, he would not have followed so
quickly in the footsteps of the witch hunters bent upon finding an epidemic-borne virus for the
disease. But then he might not have found it so easy to retain the sponsorship that enabled
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him to carry out the project. Researchers are well aware that funds available for research are
earmarked with if’s, and’s and but’s, and that they all spell conformity in big fat letters. It’s got
to be a virus! It’s got to be specific! And it’s got to equate with some manufacturing scheme!
"OR ELSE, Mr. Researcher, you’re gonna have to get off of your hands and seek your own
way in the cold, cold world." It’s easy to see how seif-preservation can gain an easy
ascendancy over the nobler impulses of race preservation. Picture an idealistic young research
genius (who by some special moral stamina is reluctant to relinquish his standards) up against
the dilemma of compromise or starvation. It isn’t long before integrity gives way to passive
acceptance of the philosophy "Well, a guy’s got to live." And the downfall of an honest soul is
well on its way.
Frankly, I don’t know that such a thing as pure research exists today except in isolated cases
and in the small remains that minds disposed to science never lose. Yet, where in the world is
true research more needed than in the biological sciences? And where in the world is it more
bungled than in our own great country where human health has become the most profitable
means of mass exploitation yet devised, and where research has become a football in and out
of science, and where all the avenues of public health education are aimed at the enslavement
of the mass mind to the promptings of the total medical industry.
The newspapers and the airways play up with sickening sentimentality the noble sacrifices of
the dedicated doctors who daily sacrifice their own personal interests by working in the wards,
the clinics, the hospitals and the laboratories. They feed us glowing word pictures of little
children, victims of leukemia roaming around cancer wards awaiting the noble ministrations of
the doctor. They show polio victims being given the chance to learn to walk again. . . on
crutches! They describe the various institutions and dramatically paint the altruism of those
doctors engaged in helping the youngsters rout out some of the scars that follow in the wake of
their afflictions. But do they tell you those kiddies are there because of medicine’s failure to
serve the public need? Do they tell you that those little spastics are bearing the cross for the
mistakes of medicine? Do they tell you that those innocent little victims of polio, diabetes,
cerebral palsy, nephrosis, rheumatic heart, etc., are living symbols of the low standard of
medical practice? And as for their touching sentiments—are they as sentimental in reporting
the investigations of those able men who disagree with current medical fancies? Not by a long
way!
They either ignore or scorn those whose results contradict the efforts of medicine. The miracle
of the Salk Vaccine is not the miracle of hope we were told to accept. It is the miracle of
sensational overselling. Even the President admitted this. To put it in the words of one of
Salk’s henchmen, Dr. Robert A. Moore, Vice Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh Schools
of the Health Professions: "Health is too important to hide under a bushel. We have something
to sell, and if we are convinced our product is good, let us use the same techniques others use
in our society to sell their products." (Emphasis mine.) This statement speaks for itself. Does
the learned Doctor not realize the potential for harm he’s condoning? Does he not realize the
callousness of his attitude? I’m wondering what he actually means by "good." Good to sell or
good to take? AND what, does he mean by "health"? Falling for every gimmick medicine and
the drug industry parades before our eyes?
Before we can consider the new vaccine the dawn of a new era it had better dawn on us to get
rid of the old. The change we need is not merely a switch of affections to a new vaccine
(heaven knows they come too often). What we need is to get rid of the whole nonsensical
apothecary of medicine and to adopt a sane approach that will start at the bottom of things and
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And that approach must of necessity aim at the unity of disease—not at one of its
manifestations. Salk and all he represents in method and philosophy see health only in terms
of a suppression of symptoms. We Hygienists look upon health as a high standard of
physiological efficiency. We say this difference is not only a matter of philosophy, but that it is a
starting point that leads on one side to an endless hunt for techniques of covering up or
masking the setbacks we bring on to ourselves by incorrect living; and on the other side to a
system of honest inquiry into the real foundations of health. We say with Byron, "The best
prophet of the future is the past." On the past record of medicine we must reject the work of Dr.
Salk and his team of co-workers. In short, we look upon the new vaccine as a bane rather than
a boon to humanity, however slow its accumulative effects may appear in the records.
As for immunity to polio and all the other disease designations, we Hygienists choose to keep
faith with our principle of vital fitness. We consider the integrity of our physical economy the
only real safeguard against any of the incursions of ill health, whatever the symptom complex
may be. We view the phenomenon of artificially-induced immunization as the mere prelude to
a pathological change of venue, a delaying action and therefore an obstruction of the laws of
physiology.
We say you just cannot beat disease by preventing its symptoms. True prevention must start
with the elimination of cause. We contend the elimination of polio must follow the same course
lest it leave worse evils in its tracks. No, we do not think it’s Polio’s last summer at all. As for
the vaccine, its mistakes are already apparent. Its consequences only time can evaluate.
Salk’s statement, on his day of glory, to the effect that he would like the prevention of mental
ills to be his next target, confirms my contention that research can become a compulsive
neurosis. As a follow-up of his work we have been threatened with vaccines for the common
cold, for sneezing and, there have been hints, even for cancer. Come to think of it, it may not
be too long before they come up with one for thinking. Maybe Salk’s work has paved the way
for it, too. We wish we could think disease could be whitewashed so simply. We just can’t, and
look the figures of our national health in the face. Those figures belie the efficiency of the
vaccines. the serums, the drugs and all the rest of the claptrap of the medicine man.
It is regrettable that man has long confused promise with performance and hope with illusion;
that in the fatuity of his dreams the lessons of the past have eluded him; and that despite his
sad experience he continues to patiently bear the burdens that error places in his path. In the
cool sobering light of retrospect, when the mind dwells on the ledger of man’s progress down
the ages; when the balance sheets show our losses and gains, our aims and our
accomplishments, our investments and our dividends; when we think of the state of the world
and the despair that exists everywhere, and of our descending spiral of achievement in a moral
sense: when we examine what science has brought us to. and where it might have—it is then
that the spirit saddens and man is left to face the disquieting fact that he has never truly
learned to distinguish between the milestone and the millstone.
The above articles are quoted from Dr. Shelton Hygienic Review Box 27 San Antonio, Texas
by special permission.
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1. Bechamp, (the real discoverer of bacteria) writes ‘Bacteria do not cause disease, and that,
therefore serums and vaccines can neither prevent nor cure disease."
2. Dr. James A. Shannon of the National Institute of Health, (U.S. Government)(June 23, 1955)
states: "The only wholly safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used."
3. The famous Doctor Harry R. Bybee says: "My honest opinion is that vaccine is the cause of
more disease and suffering than anything I could name."
4. Human Biochemistry, in discussing "PYROGENS" points out injections of distilled water may
be potentially dangerous . . . surely "monkey-juice" isn’t fit to inject into little children.
5. Dr. T. M. Schippel of Washington, D. C., writes, "Parents—play safe! Let other callous
parents permit this poisoning of their children. Just take your youngster off candy, soft drinks
and colas and infantile paralysis will pass your family by. Remember, polio is not ‘catching’—it
comes from the insides of ‘over-indulged’ kiddies."
6. Dr. S. A. Mills, so correctly defines polio as . . . "POLIO IS A TOXIC WASTE PARALYSIS,
TOXIC . . . because of how it affects. WASTE……because of what it really is. PARALYSIS. . .
because of what it does."
7. Prof. Yutaka Mukai (Japan), states—"Polio is not caused by the Virus, but essentially the
physical constitution. Health promoting foods can prevent Polio completely."
8. Scientist and physician, Dr. William F. Koch, M.D., Ph.D., says, "the injection of any serum,
vaccine, or even penicillin, has shown a very marked increase in the incidence of POLIO, AT
LEAST 400%. Statistics on this are so conclusive, no one can deny it."
9. September 20, 1953, The United Nations World Health Organization Committee reports,
"Efforts to Control Polio Complete Failure" and condemns. any large scale intramuscular
injections.
10. Dr. Charles Creighton M. D., (Encylopedia Britannica) reports: "In England 1733 newly
vaccinated infants died from syphilis."
11. Robert S. Allen. Washington correspondent, reported in the New York Post….."doctors and
others on the staff of the National Institute of Health are not inoculating their own children with
the Salk vaccine." WHY????
12. The world’s greatest brains and scientists all agree THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A
VIRUS . . . merely a mythical word to confuse the public. Read Dr. A. J. Shadman’s (M.D.) new
book, "Who Is Your Doctor And Why."
God bless little Jackie Moore crippled by polio who would today be healthy had not "medical
phonies" concocted a fraudulent polio vaccine.
Any polio vaccine is fraudulent and dangerous. Inoculation for immunity is strictly a vicious
"myth" ... making the body "unclean" and subject to sickness which may be polio.
Vaccinated children are far more susceptible to polio than children whose hloodstreams are
not polluted.
Robert S. Allen, Washington correspondent, reported in the New York Post "Doctors and
others on the staff of the National Institute of Health are not inoculating their own children with
the Salk vaccine." WHY??????
Scientitic American Magazine states . . . "No human virus disease has yet been brought under
control by a killed virus vaccine."
The world’s greatest brains and scientists all agree THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A
VIRUS . . . merely a mythical word to confuse the public. Read Dr. A. J. Shadman’s (MD) new
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The fact that polio vaccines are sold on the "virus" myth and since there is no such thing. . .
isn’t it common horse sense to classify this vaccine as fraudulent?
The U.S.P.H.S. has developed into a high pressure sales organization to promote the wishes
of vaccine producers. Could it be the U.S.P.H.S. is "loaded" with Russian doctors and could it
be they don’t have American citizenship papers??? The non-thinking American public have
been viciously lied to, brainwashed and deceived by these "rascals" who recall the old side-
show puppets dancing and singing anything the string puller desires . . . yet not a brain in their
heads.
Little Jackie Moore had his polio shot . . . now his right leg is in braces….There are thousands
of similar cases with untold numbers now sleeping in their little white coffins all because of the
most inhuman, unGodly, unchristian, money-making racket known to mankind. As Robt. Burns
said, "Man’s Inhumanity To Man Makes Countless Thousands Mourn."
DUON H. MILLER
300 BIRD ROAD January 8, 1958 CORAL GABLES. FLA,
When you report to the Associated Press . . . "the incidence of all types of Polio declined 62%
in 1957 as compared with 1956. and Paralytic cases declined about 73%’ . . upon what
FACTS do you base such a ridiculous statement?
If these figures are a brain child of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, that alone
will label them worthless as far as being truthful is concerned. Knowing the inner workings of
this corrupt group from their President down to their local "hatchet-men", I trust giving out
these false percentages was not intentional on your part. Why continue taking the public on an
expedition into Alice of Wonderland?
First, their President, Basil O’Connor, KNOWS of clinics in this country who have long
successfully treated Polio, has received invitations to visit the clinics and even when he is in
their vicinity he ignores them . . . WHY??? Does he place GOLD before GOD???
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Second, an M. D. lecturing for them at a public meeting admitted they had no immediate
positive diagnosis for POLIO . . . so for the past several years it is very clear they "juggle" the
figures erroneously, simply to brainwash and lie to the public. We expect the TRUTH from
public servants.
If a sick child were brought into your office, could you, any member of your Department, or any
member of the A. M. A. that you know give an immediate, correct and positive diagnosis as to
Polio. I doubt it.
You’ll recall the "puppets" in the old fashioned side-show where they danced sang, etc., yet
didn’t have a brain in their head but were simply doing the planned wishes of the "experts"
pulling the strings. It looks like the Money-Beggars and the monkey-juice peddlers are pulling
the strings with our Health (?) officials, dancing and singing while innocent little children die
from the unnatural injection of a foreign protein into the body in violation of every law of God
and Nature.
An honest Congressional investigation would shock this nation. I suggest you call for such an
investigation immediately. Let us bring order out of chaos, eliminate this shameful "racket",
prevent further suffering, deaths and disgrace. You may rest assured I’m eager and willing to
cooperate without any personal recompense.
Will greatly appreciate a copy of the department’s findings of fact which you no doubt have had
prepared to support the Press release referred to in the first paragraph of my letter.
Respectfully,
Duon H. Miller
Rabies was an old superstition — a relic of the times when devils ran to and fro between
animal and man carrying disease.
Pasteur, who had previously had a hemorrhage of the brain, changed this old superstition into
a money-making disease.
Rabies is now a pet child of the Vivisection Trust which works internationally.
If vivisection has proven anything it has proven the impossibility of man contracting any real
disease from a dog.
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How long will filthy lucre keep the facts from the fooled public?
In early times, as recorded in articles available in old libraries, the kiss of a king would cure
rabies. It was later discovered that a piece of the king’s garment would be as efficacious.
Still later the "mad stone" when applied over the area of the bite would "draw out the
madness". Later some of the "hair of the dog that bit you" could either be chewed and
swallowed or bound on the wound.
A still later discovery was that which employed an extract of "wild cockroach".
In 1806 a Mr. Kraus was awarded $1000, by the then rulers of New York temtory for his
scientific discovery which had kept rabies out of New York for Over twenty years. His formula
is a matter of record and consisted of the ground-up jaw bone of an ass or dog, a piece of
colt’s tongue and the green rust off a penny of George the First reign.
This latter seems to have kept rabies out of the limelight until the time of Pasteur. Medicine has
heard much of the startling cure of Joseph Meister by Pasteur. Little mention is made of the
fact that three relatives of the Meister boy were bitten by the same dog and without benefit of
the Pasteur treatment recovered completely.
Dr. H. Bastian, a contemporary, took sharp issue with Pasteur’s scientific ideas and
conclusions. Another contemporary of Pasteur, Dr. Antoine Bechamp, took violent exceptions
to Pasteur’s reports on rabies and, incidentally, it was Dr. Bechamp who claimed to have
previously discovered the cause of the silkworm disease. He also (Bechamp) was the man
who made the discoveries on fermentation. The records of the French Academy of Science
substantiate Bechamp’s claims.
Dr. W. R. Hadwen of England was also in controversy with Pasteur. Dr. William A. Bruette,
former assistant chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington, was also a
contemporary of Pasteur and gave many proofs of Pasteur’s incorrect findings. Dr. Bruette has
proved, as a matter of fact, that rabies vaccine is not only a fraud, but harmful. He scores the
use of rabies vaccine and states that "inoculation spreads disease." He goes as far as to call
the sale of rabies vaccine an out and out racket.
Dr. Matthew Woods, another contemporary of Pasteur, then a leading member of the
Philadelphia Medical. Society, wrote much on the subject of rabies. He stated, "at the
Philadelphia dog pound, where on an average more than 6,000 vagrant dogs are taken
annually, and where the catchers and keepers are frequently bitten while handling them, not
one case of hydrophobia has occurred during it’s entire history of twenty-five years, in which
time 150,000 dogs have been handled."
"The records of the London Hospital, a few years ago, showed 2,668 persons bitten by angry
dogs. None of them developed hydrophobia."
St. George’s Hospital, London, records 4,000 patients bitten by dogs supposed to have been
mad. No case of hydrophobia.
"In the record of all the diseases which have occurred at the Pennsylvania Hospital in one
hundred and forty years, only two cases which were supposed to be hydrophobia have
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occurred. One of these, however, the only one submitted to bacteriological test, did not confirm
the diagnosis, ‘hydrophobia’ and the local health authorities refused to register the death as
due to rabies."
Dr. Charles W. Dulles, lecturer on the History of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
who was appointed by the Medical Societies of the state to investigate rabies stated that he is
"inclined to the view that there is no such specific malady" because after sixteen years of
investigation he had "failed to find a single case on record that can be conclusively proved to
have resulted from the bite of a dog or any other cause." The report and Dr. Woods’ letter were
endorsed by Dr. Theophilus Parvin of Jefferson Medical College and President of the National
Academy of Medicine; Dr. Thomas G. Morten, Coroners Physician; Dr. Charles K. Mills of the
University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Thomas I. Mays of the Polyclinic Hospital.
Dr. Woods recently wrote a discourse of mimetic diseases, in which he discussed rabies. His
evidence supports the view that so-called human rabies is the result of a disordered
imagination (fear). In animals, so-called rabies is fundamentally due to maltreatment or
malnutrition or both.
Dr. Wilcox of New York investigated a "rabies scare" because of eleven alleged deaths from
rabid dog bites. Upon complete investigation, it was found that not one of these deaths was
due to rabies. With the publication of his report to the city council, the "rabies scare" ended
forthwith.
Dr. Elmer Lee ended another rabies scare on Staten Island. On autopsy the rabid dog was
found to have died of thread worms and not rabies. The worms were lodged in the heart of the
animal.
Dr. Stillman, in 1922 voiced the opinion that rabies was "pure humbug" and that in over forty
years as a practicing physician with a very busy practice and wide travels throughout Europe,
he stated that he had "never seen a case of hydrophobia or rabies."
In a letter answering a request for information, Dr. Stillman stated: "Several years ago there
was considerable excitement occasioned by the declaration of a rabies quarantine by the state
department of agriculture in Albany, N. Y. It lasted two years. Many dogs were killed. Their
heads were sent on for official examination at Cornell College Veterinary department. Many
were pronounced rabid, but the test was dependent upon the presence of certain Negri bodies
in the animal’s brain."
"I was told by a pupil of Pasteur in France that these Negri bodies were sometimes present
when there was no suspicion whatever of rabies. We sent the head of a harmless little dog
without any disease symptoms whatever to Cornell and it was promptly pronounced rabid.
Finally I went to the department of Agriculture, which had charge, and insisted that our society
would hold all dogs declared rabid and we would see if any cases of rabies would develop. Not
one case of rabies appeared and we have never had any since. When the animals were held
simply to show whether they had rabies, none of them died and the entire scare subsided after
two years of fanatical unrest and excitement which ought to have developed lyssophobia, or
imaginary hydrophobia."
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Dr. J. W. Hodge reported that of 56,000 stray dogs and cats collected in one year, not one
case of rabies was found. He further states that there is no rabies in England nor is the
Pasteur treatment permitted to be used. Dr. Hodge has in his possession the names and
addresses of more than 2500 persons reported as having died of "hydrophobia" shortly after
having received the Pasteur preventive treatment. This would seem to prove that the cure is
more deadly than the disease when one considers that nearly 300 of these "victims" of the
Pasteur treatment had no recollection of ever having been bitten by a dog. Dr. Hedge
predicted that "future generations will look upon the present day delusion about hydrophobia
and the Pasteur treatment with feelings akin to those which we experience when reading the
history of witchcraft delusion."
Dr. Dulles, previously referred to, has said, "I might cite my own experience in the treatment of
persons bitten by dogs supposed to be mad, which has furnished not a single case of the
developed disease in thirty years. And I have probably seen more cases of so-called
hydrophobia than any other medical man." Dr.Dulles was lecturer on the History of Medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania, Consulting Surgeon to Rush Hospital and Manager of
University Hospital.
Dr. William Brady, nation-wide columnist, has stated that, "The Pasteur treatment for rabies is
a blind treatment and no one knows whether Pasteur treatment confers any protection against
rabies. I’d never willingly receive Pasteur treatment or give it to any one under any conceivable
circumstances, because I fear the material so injected has a disastrous effect in some
instances. It is not always successful and, occasionally, paralysis follows its use." It Is Dr.
Brady’s opinion that rabies "does not occur in man."
"We, of the medical profession, have witnessed many errors perpetrated by good-intentioned,
but misguided individuals and methods. The digitalis standardization by the dog’s heart, it will
be recalled, resulted in a 300 per cent variance from standard."
In a hook entitled, "Bechamp or Pasteur," by E. D. Hume, there may be found much proof
pertinent to our discussion. A notable failure of the Pasteur treatment was that of a young
postman, named Pierre Roscol, who, with another man, was attacked by a dog supposed to be
mad, but was not bitten, for the dog’s teeth did not penetrate his clothing; but his companion
received severe bites. The latter refused to go to the Pasteur Institute and remained in perfect
health; but the unfortunate Roscal was forced by the postal authorities to undergo the
treatment, beginning March 9th. On the following April 12th severe symptoms set in with pain
at the point of inoculation, not at the place of the bite, for he had never been bitten. On April
14th he died of paralytic "hydrophobia" the new disease brought into the world by Pasteur.
Another incident extracted from the same book shows the power of suggestion or fear in the
causation of so-called rabies. It is hard to credit, but the case is recorded as follows.
"Two young Frenchmen were bitten by the same dog at Havre. One died from the effects
within a month, but, before this, his friend had sailed for America, where he lived for fifteen
years in ignorance of the end of his former companion. Returning to France, he heard of the
tragedy and, actually himself, developed symptoms, and within three weeks was dead of
"hydrophobia."
Another interesting recorded case is that of a lady, who returning from bathing, stated that she
had been bitten by a dog. "The anxious parents rushed her for Pasteur treatments, she
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became violently ill, death followed. On the way home from the funeral the girl companions
who were bathing with her told the parents of the dead girl that she was not bitten by a dog but
by her young man friend."
There are over 3.000 deaths on record in reports from the Pasteur Institute, of persons bitten
by dogs. All died after treatments. On the other hand, the record of the London Hospital, a few
years ago, showed 2,668 persons bitten by angry dogs: not one of them developed
hydrophobia and not one had been treated by the Pasteur method.
"Who was this man Pasteur? What did he actually discover? The answer to the first is that he
was a chemist of sorts. The second question can be answered only with the reminder that he
separated L & D tartic acids. That is absolutely all he did. The rest of his work—yea——even
the silkworm disease and bacterial work was plagiarized from that, not too well-known and
much neglected professor of Montpellier, Antoine Bechamp. Professor Bechamp’s writings,
when properly studied, will be found to have afforded the solution to many of the problems
which had puzzled biologists, physiologists, pathologists and philosophers for many years." —
flume.
Speaking of Professor Bechamp’s works, Dr. Leverson of England says, "I also found in those
truths absolute proof of the absurdity of the germ theory of disease; and, by the study of the
writings of Pasteur, to which Bechamp’s works unavoidably led me, I found full proof that the
great god of the (supposedly) men of science of the latter half of the last century and of many
of the present, was in fact, the most astonishing of plagiarists and distorter of other men’s
discoveries; chiefly those of Professor Antoine Bechamp, and of his collaborators and pupils;
and that this plagiarist was the most monumental charlatan, whose existence is disclosed to
us, in the entire recorded history of medicine."
"You have already surmised who was this plagiarist and charlatan. It was Louis Pasteur, to
whose memory France has erected statues all over the land and endowed the Pasteur
Institute."
Since this record is not an enviable one, let us view rabies from the standpoint of the known
facts. We have seen that normal dogs are also classified as rabid by the so-called
microscation of these so-called Negri bodies. We have also seen that the identification of these
so-called Negri bodies is dependent upon the individual observer. Seldom do observers agree.
Experts at the Pasteur Institute admit that Negri bodies are not a specific indication of rabies.
They also record many deaths by treatment with the Pasteur system.
On the other hand, reported untoward effects in nontreated patients (very few cases are
reported it will be noticed) can be explained on the basis of fear or susceptibility to slight
injuries. For example, Dr. W. W. Duke of Kansas City, among others, on writing on allergy,
cites cases of violent convulsions and deaths following slight injuries in individuals seemingly
in perfect mental and physical condition.
These violent deaths are reported as resulting from scratches, tooth extraction, hypodermic
injections, extremes of heat or cold, shock due to various causes, love affairs, etc. The allergy
experts often lay stress on the relative importance of former illness which may have
undermined the health of the patient. Such varied causes would indicate "fear" plays a
profound role in the sequelae observed.
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Dr. Buisson of France had been badly bitten by a dog and was given up to die of hydrophobia.
He recited that his fear was, of course, intense as was his suffering. He decided to try to
relieve his sufferings by a warm bath. After soaking for one and a quarter hours, his
convulsions disappeared and he became well. He cured all other cases which came to him in a
similar way. The Buisson baths were employed with great success in France in rabies cases.
In Germany, cases of dog bites are sensibly treated by applying suction to the wound or
squeezing it to induce and low free bleeding. They leave the clotted and dried blood on the
wound without further treatment and they never have further trouble.
In my experience, nothing stronger than mild soap and water should be used on such wounds.
I feel that cauterization is too shocking to the tissues.
Is rabies then a disease? Have we isolated a virus or germ? Is the Pasteur-treatment specific?
Is rabies, in short, fact or fancy? I believe it is fancy, for I have handled so-called rabid animals
and humans without benefit of Pasteur treatment and in no case has there been a death or any
other symptoms of rabies. I submit that rabies is non-existent and that the Pasteur treatment
for rabies is worse than the disease, if it were a disease, which it is not.
P. S. I have examined and witnessed the repeated examinations of every part of the brains of
the so-called rabid dogs. The mouse and rabbit tests have proved ridiculous ever since the
time of Pasteur.
MILLICENT MORDEN
Physician & Surgeon
72 Norman Ave.
Brooklyn 22, NY
"WE, NATUROPATHS, HAVE BEEN holding our breaths, worried about the revelations that
are sure to make themselves manifest as a result of this Salk vaccine craze. And it is a "craze"
— which later will be frankly dubbed ‘crazy’ by the scientists who, in the future, look back on
our present way of life. You cannot poison the human blood stream with the decaying products
of a diseased monkey’s kidney and not eventually pay the price to the Almighty.
"When human blood stream was sealed from outside contamination— that was the silent
warning Nature gave to man not to monkey with the body’s life-line with monkey kidney juice or
other foreign substance. But our hay-wire scientists seem to believe that they know more
about the functioning of the human organs than the Creator.
"This dosing with ‘Salk slop’ is in the same category of so-called medical research which
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permits a surgeon to yank the tonsils from a helpless child or ‘scare’ an appendix operation
from a grown-up. Not many years ago the ‘big bugs’ in the medico-scientific field had the
effrontery to calmly state, in their public meetings, that the ‘appendix’ served no useful purpose
in the body and the tonsils were the remains of our ‘gills’—left over in our bodies when man
emerged from the sea as a land animal. Now, students realize that the appendix helps to keep
the cecum on the safe side by holding the putrefactive bacteria, in that blind sewer, at a safe
level and that the tonsils play important parts in killing disease organisms that would otherwise
get into the lymphatic circulatory system.
"Yet in many quarters the yanking out of tonsils for a fee and the chopping out of the appendix
for the doctor’s wife’s fur coat continue unabated. Gall bladder operations are still sending
unfortunates to the insane asylums as of yore and the so-called ‘fixing’ of stomach and
intestinal ulcers by ‘removing a section of the anatomy’ with a knife, is still considered good
‘practice’. Yet even the most obstinate medical physician and surgeon KNOWS that ulcers are
caused by too strong stomach chemicals, digesting the mucous membrane, and that the
proper treatment is merely to reduce the strength of such digestive chemicals. Small-pox
vaccine—which has spread syphilis throughout the civilized world is still ‘obligatory’ in many
parts of the universe and the Schick vaccine—that arch killer of Japanese babies in the hands
of our army ‘brass hat doctors’—is still being used as a ‘professional fee getter’ although it still
curtails the infant population.
"Altogether , the situation seems to be getting worse—not better. And the Salk vaccine—for all
its blatant propaganda, for all its high endorsement by the Public Health Department of our
kindly government—is failing dismally just as Duon H. Miller, of Coral Gables, Florida,
predicted it would fail.
"Let us look again at this rotten laboratory concoction—this Salk vaccine made from the
diseased kidney of a tortured monkey. If you will recall, the proponents of this polio medicine
never CLAIMED that it would PREVENT POLIO. Those gentlemen of the dollar sign merely
said that it would PROBABLY prevent the paralysis which followed or accompanied the usual
polio. They KNEW that nothing that could be ‘shot’ into the clean blood streams of the
youngsters would lower the sugar content. And manifestly it was the excessive sugar—taken
into the infant’s body in the summertime in the shape of ice cream, cola and other soft drinks,
candy and like sweets—that BROUGHT ON POLIO.
No question about that! All medical books show that polio does not exist in those countries
where the consumption of sugar—refined sugar—is less than 90 pounds per person.
"Well, anyway, the American people were sold a ‘bill of goods’ by those stuff-shirted individuals
back of this Salk concoction. And it was the sainted ‘March of Dimes’ parasites who did that
‘selling’. No question about it—the ‘March of Dimes’ had to come up with some new ‘gadget’ to
keep the dimes rolling in so that the motley array of individuals on that expanded payroll might
still receive their lush salaries And the gist of the whole ‘selling campaign’ was not that the Salk
vaccine would CURE POLIO or would even PREVENT POLIO. But it was emphasized that this
Salk monkey juice WOULD PREVENT THE PARALYSIS WHICH FOLLOWED POLIO.
"That PREVENTION OF PARALYSIS was what actually ‘sold’ the American people on this
Salk concoction. Polio, without paralysis, was not feared. The reason millions of parents were
willing to ‘take a chance’ with their children and toss them onto the table of ‘medical
experimentation’—the reason they were willing to have their offspring’s blood stream
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contaminated by this Salk filth— was in the hope it MIGHT PREVENT POLIO PARALYSIS.
"As Al Smith would have said ‘Let us look at the record.’ Most of you know that during 1955,
millions upon millions of little American children had their blood streams filled with this Salk
vaccine. Some got one—some got two and some even get three ‘shots’. So, in this year of
1956—if this monkey juice was any good at all—the number of cases of polio should have
been almost wiped out and PARALYSIS, FOLLOWING the few cases of polio which did SLIP
THROUGH, should be practically nil.
"Right in line with the above is a report, issued in Washington, D. C. on May 11, 1956, as
appeared in the New York Times.
‘Through 1956 through last Saturday—May 4th—(four months of 1956) there had been 1,463
polio cases, broken down into 803 paralytic, 399 non-paralytic and 261 UNSPECIFIED. In
1955—same period (four months) there was 1,599 cases, 437 nonparalytic and 459
unspecified. PARALYTIC CASES numbered 703.’
"There you have in black and white the DEFINITE RESULTS of this Salk preventative
paralysis vaccine. Although tens of thousands of children received the Salk trash in 1955
which should have PROTECTED THEM FROM PARALYSIS—there were over 12 per cent
MORE PARALYSIS CASES in 1956 than in 1955. Just how gullible do the medical authorities
believe the American people are? The medical men should know that the average layman can
read figures and make comparisons. So let us not permit these medical double-talkers to blind
us further. What is the good of CUTTING DOWN THE POLIO CASES IF MORE OF THOSE
WHO ARE STRICKEN BECOME PARALYZED? And what is EVEN MORE dreadful to
contemplate-is the thought of what may be the aftermath of this placing in a child’s blood
stream of this rotten, filthy juice from the diseased kidney of a dead monkey? Vaccination for
small-pox spread syphilis throughout the world. And we, Naturopaths, are now wondering—
what will this Salk filth conjure up?"
Dear Sirs:
There are probably many moments of discouragement when you ask yourself, "Is it worth it
all?" It is! It is only through public enlightenment that an end can be made to the abuses of the
drug trust and the medical-bund.
Organizations such as yours are capable of slowing down the drug and vaccine steamroller. If
you were not hurting them or if they did not fear you, they would not attempt to persecute you.
My personal knowledge of the medical bund is of an intimate nature. I hold the B. Sc., M. A.,
and Ph.T. degrees from New York University. I did graduate work on a grant from the medical-
bund controlled National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. I am a graduate of an A. M. A.
approved school of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. I have had clinical training in the
finest hospitals in New York, including Bellevue Hospital, St. Vincents Hospital, Hospital for
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Joint Diseases, Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital, St. Giles Hospital, PostGraduate
Medical School Hospital, and several others.
I have been on the staff of the New Jersey State Department of Health, and was in complete
charge of the Monmouth County Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center. For the past three years I
have been executive director of the Homestead Rehabilitation Institute (and still am at this
writing.)
My experiences have enabled me to observe from within the workings of official medicine. At
first, I could not believe what I saw.
Were the truth concerning medical treatment and so-called prevention ever to leak out, the
stench of it would obliterate the public confidence in the medical profession and put an end to
the fantastic drug trust profits.
Good people, like you, are battering at the A. M. A. stainless-steel curtain attempting to open a
seam so that the light of day can enter the dark and secret places where the facts are hidden.
That stainless-steel curtain is strong, but it is far from being invulnerable. Truth is, in the long
run, the hardest substance in existence—capable of boring through any tissue of lies, no
matter what its composition.
You may, if you wish, publish my letter in part or in whole — and you may use my name.
Please do not use it until after September 15, 1956. Until that date, I shall remain economically
vulnerable to medical bund attack. After that date, I shall be a practicing member of the great
and honorable Chiropractic profession—having recently won my D.C., degree after four
arduous years of secret study.
Keep up the good work, and may the Lord bless you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Milton Fried, D. C.,
223 Prospect Ave.,
Suite A. A.
Hackensack, New Jersey
"In the minds of the American people, partly because of the foundation’s National Foundation
FOR Infantile Paralysis) fund-raising campaigns, polio had come to seem, a major public-
health problem which, in terms of statistics, it is not. For fifteen years Americans had been
contributing to the March of Dimes, and they wanted results. The Foundation, acting as their
agent, was determined to have vaccine available at the earliest possible.
"Park, Davis (Chemical manufacturers) had a special reason for pushing its vaccine
development program. The company had suffered a serious financial setback. It had gambled
heavily on Choromycetin, an antibiotic, only to have the bottom drop out of the market after
disturbing indications that the new wonder drug might, under some conditions, cause fatal
blood disorders. The stockholders were asking blunt questions, and management was
understandably on the lookout for a new product sufficiently spectacular to wipe out the
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memory of Chloromycetin. POLIO VACCINE SEEMED A GOOD BET, and in the early spring
of 1953, after spending a little over $1 million on research, Park, Davis believed its own
experimental vaccines were READY FOR TESTING ON CHILDREN."
SALK VACCINE: THE BUSINESS GAMBLE By Spencer Klaw, p. 125-126, Sept, 1956 issue of
FORTUNE MAGAZINE.
Is there a connection between the Salk vaccine and the transmission of monkey encephalitis to
a number of mental patients in Germany? Those who are interested — should read page xxxi
of Doctors of Infamy by Alexander Mitscherlish (who testified at Nuremberg).
Gentlemen:
Enclosed are the newspaper clippings of the death of my 8 year old son Charles Bynaker. In
these eight years I had a happy life until someone came up with polio "shots" which took him
away from me.
They say he had a brain abscess but I know he didn‘t, because he never got sick until he took
the shot. He took it on Thursday and came home thursday evening, from school sick and the
last words he said to me just before he died were . . . "Mommy the old shot made me sick."
Now can you understand how I feel? If I had 10 more kids they would never take the shots.
Many people who saw him knew he was not sick until he took the shot.
As bad as I need a child, I can never have anymore of my own. If I had it to do over again, I
would never sign the paper. I am a mother whose life has just been slapped in the face.
I know he did not have abscess of the brain. I know why they said he had. That was because
they thought I would sue someone. Well all the money in the world won’t bring him back.
They also wanted to cut his head to pieces, but I didn‘t let them I took him to the hospital in
one piece and I meant to bring him back the same way.
I know how rotten this polio vaccine is and it is nothing but a killer. He was paralyzed from his
waist up and died like that.
I found out who put it out, but maybe they lied again. They said it was put out by Lilly Co., but
they have lied so much to me I just don’t know what to believe anymore. They did not want to
tell me who put it out or what doctor gave the shot.
They say it was free to all children, but lets stop and look what I had to pay. I am not a rich
person and I had no insurance so it leaves me in a pretty bad spot. Hospital bills totaling
$163.75, plus burial expenses of $358.00. Now do you see where there is anything free to it?
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I hope you will send me the facts about this child killer vaccine, that’s all it is. I know the shot
killed my son. They had him in the iron lung from Saturday night until he died Sunday evening.
I wish all mothers could read my letter so they would not have to be broken hearted like I am
now; so please feel free to publish any part of my letter.
Yours truly,
Editor’s Note: The Banner has carried reports of official actions in connection with the
refusal of Ben Gamble, Edenwold Road, to allow his children to be inoculated with Salk
vaccine. He has asked this newspaper for the privilege of stating his side of the case.
His statement follows:
For the benefit of an uninformed public I would like to make my position, in refusing to have my
children inoculated with the Salk vaccine, better understood.
I am not a belligerent person, neither am I a conformist. I try to obey the laws of the land,
except where I think they infringe my individual rights.
My Bible teaches me that the Creator sealed our blood stream for specific reasons and with a
lot more brains than the human race has today and that he did not intend it to be polluted with
so-called serum.
Good health, in my book, can be defined in two simple words—assimilation and elimination.
We are the product of what we eat. I live in the country, grow my own vegetables on
organically fertilized soil and we have one cow from which we obtain pure milk. I have read
where the U. S. is the most unhealthy nation in the world and the rejections made by the
Armed Services seem to confirm this fact.
Doctoring has become one of the most profitable professions, simply because people have
been brain-washed by clever advertising to think that most of the foods we buy in the stores is
good for us, when in fact the reverse is quite true. Our soil is being ruined by chemicals and
the foods we get in the store are all doctored with some form of additives to prolong shelf life.
I wish you could read the stacks of mail I am receiving from people in all walks of life who
praise me for the stand I have taken against compulsory inoculation.
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I think the following quotes from an article which appeared in the Tri-State Medical Journal,
February, 1959, by Fred B. Klenner, M.D., should be of interest:
"In 1955 we were told by the National Foundation, the United States Public Health Service and
‘lesser’ Public Health Departments, Medical Societies through their political officers and
appointees that ONE injection of the currently used polio vaccine would give prolonged,
possibly life-time protection. In 1956 we were told, after those receiving the initial shot
developed polio, that a ‘booster’ or second shot was necessary to raise the protective antibody
level to a height whereby 90 per cent protection against paralytic infection would be assured.
In 1957 we were told, after those receiving the second injection also developed polio, that a
third ‘shot’ was imperative to effect absolute protection. For some this was their fourth and
even fifth boosters. Now in 1958 we are told that a fourth shot is "Expedient."
Dr. Joseph L. Melnick, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine had this to say: "We are not
happy at the prospect of inoculating children year in and year out with the Salk vaccine, for it
contains monkey kidney protein which might (like the horse serum in Tetanus Antitoxin)
produce allergic states if inoculated repeatedly over the years." All must remember that the
present polio vaccine contains, besides monkey protein, horse serum, formaldehyde,
streptomycin and penicillin as well as indicator dye and preservatives, some of which, are also
allergens. Feinberg reported the possibility of primary sensitization to penicillin in very low
concentrations and stated, "The amount of penicillin in polio vaccine is small, but judging by its
activity as determined by us in tests of passively sensitized skin, it is sufficient to produce
reactions in highly sensitive patients." Zimmerman reported on six cases of penicillin reactions
to polio vaccine which were controlled with penicillinase. All physicians know that once an
allergen is given to any individual the next dose, or the next might produce an allergic
reaction—and such reaction could be fatal.
The PHS states that it is doing everything possible to encourage production of more potent
vaccine, which is an admission that vaccine to-date has been weak and worthless. It means
that millions have received ‘Ostrich’ shots believing themselves protected.
Dr. Henry W. Kumm, head of the National Foundation’s division of virology and epidemiology
recently made the statement that the Salk vaccine for polio may soon be replaced by a pill. He
stressed that "it (polio) isn’t nearly as finished as some people think. The number of cases in
1958 was larger than 1942 when we had no Salk vaccine." Dr. Kumm admitted that a live virus
vaccine should be more efficient and should cost less. Dr. John J. Hanlon, director of public
health services, city of Philadelphia, Pa., stated recently that "it is becoming clear that we must
switch over to live-virus vaccine as soon as the scientists prove that it is completely safe and
effective, and it looks as though this will happen in the near future."
Too long, now, has the medical profession only served as a medium in expressing the views of
others. Politics and politicians have no place in medicine.
Misleading and seemingly deliberate false publication of figures and comments on the merit of
the so-called Salk vaccine must forever be regretted. In North Carolina the Public Health
Service was claiming advantage for the vaccine two years before such injections were
inaugurated. The magic number of 90 per cent effectiveness for the assumed killed virus
vaccine against paralytic polio has never been substantiated.
Polio is a complex infection. There is a definite reason which will explain why a person comes
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down with non-paralytic or paralytic disease or no disease at all. It is only natural for those
interested in a specific program to think that their views alone prevail. Just why does a person,
vaccinated triply or 16 times or not at all come down with paralysis. Who can at this moment
say what the factors are that give protection to one group and not to another; paralytic disease
on one side of a street and not on the other. The fact that the total number of paralytic cases
increased in 1958 even though 52,000,000 had been triply vaccinated is important and
significant. Paralytic disease in 1958 was up 43 per cent over 1957 in spite of the fact that
approximately 25,000,000 more persons had received the injections.
There is an old saying "It isn’t the things we don’t know that bothers us —but the things which
we know and which are not true."
I think J. H. Tilden, M.D., puts it about right, when he said—"It is exceedingly difficult to secure
an honest hearing for any criticism of authority.
Established beliefs are well nigh invulnerable because they are accorded infallibility by the
masses who are educated to believe that they will be damned for thinking, and because of this,
few will tolerate opposition of any nature to anything they have been educated to believe.
People who have their thinking done for them are always intolerant."
It is a truism that we are living in a time the like of which has never been seen before. We are
front and center in a battle for men’s minds. Now as never before it is vital that we have the
truth, and yet there is an active conspiracy not just to conceal the truth but even so change the
facts. The communications media are concentrated in the hands of a few men who are thereby
enabled to manipulate the emotions of the American public at will.
In our present day world of new political techniques and mass publicity leverages, the
unknowing are at the mercy of the knowing as never before, and it is not at all impossible that
a clique wholly alien in aims to the interests of the nation could gain the symbols and controls
of power, masquerading as the "government" of the nation while, in reality, exploiting it as a
colony for their own private aims.
This raises the question as to how far a man of integrity may be morally and patriotically bound
to pursue a course he knows to be injurious to his well being.
If you saw the Sister Kenny picture on TV June 8th you’ll understand what I mean. Orthodox
medicine has all but destroyed competitive methods of healing such as homeopaths,
osteopaths, chiropractor and naturopaths. However, in spite of this people are getting relief
from such methods. People should have the right to select the Doctor he thinks can serve him
best. It’s not the people who are wrong—it’s the system.
Well, it took the best legal talent the state could muster, at taxpayers’ expense, to defend their
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position while I, as a taxpayer, must pay my attorney to protect my children from having their
blood polluted with this monkey juice which they say has been 80% effective in preventing
polio.
On the face of it, you know that’s not true and the records show we have more polio this year
than last.
I may be a "craggy" faced person as stated in June 28th issue of the Sunday Tennessean and
I may even be one of the thousands of crackpots which Dr. Lentz mentioned in previous
articles. However, I am a law-abiding citizen in what we all hope is free America and under the
Bill of Rights of our Constitution I hope I still have this right to protect my children from having
their blood contaminated with the organs from some poor unfortunate animal whose death and
suffering must be heard by my God who promises to punish all who disobey his laws.
My case is attracting world-wide attention. I have received letters and a great many statistics
from several foreign countries where the Salk and other poisonous serums have been
outlawed.
Maybe a poor country man like me can’t expect to get his side of this dirty situation presented
under the Iron Curtain laws which are worse than those of Hitler or Russia which are being
used to drug and brainwash us into submission.
I may even have to go to jail because my rights as a free man have been taken over by a more
powerful money grabbing group who have the means to crucify me on the cross of freedom.
People will hesitate to come here when they learn what their children must submit to before
they can go to school here in Davidson County. I have received letters from all over this
country praising my position in this matter and I wish to quote the following from a letter which I
recently received from the health officer from one of the largest cities in this country:
"I am happy to see you challenge the constitutionality of the Salk Vaccine law in Tennessee. It
seems to me that your basic defense should be along the following lines:
Public Health authority re communicable disease control is based on the right of people to be
protected against an individual who has a communicable disease, and who is therefore a
threat to them. Thus we have the authority to quarantine certain diseases e.g. tuberculosis or
to require immunizations which are capable of preventing the spread of a disease if the person
in question is to associate publicly with others e.g. smallpox and diphtheria immunizations. In
the latter cases the immunizing agent not only prevents deleterious effects of the disease but
more pertinently prevents the person from being infected with the disease which in turn makes
him incapable of becoming a spreader of the disease. It is by preventing the infection that the
deleterious effects of the disease is prevented. From a public health point of view, then, when
we require quarantine or immunization it is primarily to protect the public at large from the
individual and only secondarily to protect the individual. This we can contrast to a non-
communicable disease program where our primary interest is to protect the individual e.g. we
may advise yearly chest x-rays for the detection of lung cancer or periodic vaginal exams and
testing for women to detect early cervical cancer. But our authority does not permit us to make
this mandatory because of the non-communicability of the disease. It is for this reason that our
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most important work in health education is accomplished by education and not by regulation.
Most states in the United States e.g. Illinois, also feel that even in the case of communicable
disease control through immunization it is preferred that in a democracy this be accomplished
by education rather than by law. (I can make available a quotation to this effect from the
standard text on public health administration).
Now the Salk vaccine is a very peculiar immunizing agent. The Salk vaccine is only alleged to
protect the individual from the paralytic effects of a polio infection in a given individual by
blocking the virus in its passage from the alimentary tract to the nervous system through the
circulating blood. The evidence is extensive at present (and I can give you the literature on
this) that the Salk vaccine does not prevent the alimentary infection with the polio virus so that
the child or adult vaccinated with the Salk vaccine still remains a threat to others by virtue of
the continuing discharge of polio virus from his throat and from the intestinal tract even though
he is alleged to be protected from the paralytic effects of the infection by stopping the spread
from the intestinal tract to the central nervous system through the blood stream.
The Salk vaccine, then, is uniquely different from smallpox, and diphtheria immunizations
because it does not prevent the spread of the infection and therefore it does not prevent the
public from the polio infection but it only protects the given individual vaccinated (if it works)
from the paralytic effect of the disease.
To require obligatory vaccination for the sake of the individual is radically different from
requiring vaccination for the sake of the public or for the common good. It infringes on a basic
right of an individual to freely accept or reject something that is being done to his body. This
principle is quite obvious in surgery. A patent has a right to refuse what may even turn out to
be a lifesaving measure. At any rate no patient is operated upon unless he voluntarily gives
written permission. The same applies to medication. No person can be forced to take
medication except under the special circumstances of being a threat to others. But even in the
quarantine law for tuberculosis, where a patient refuses to undergo treatment which would
make him non-communicable he still retains the right (intrinsic) to remain quarantined rather
than accept treatment.
This I believe then should be your primary defense: the right of an individual to refuse a
vaccination when the effect of the vaccine at best can only protect him and contributes no
protection to the public at large. Smallpox and diphtheria do both: they protect the disease
from spreading, and protect the individual from getting the infection and thereby the disease.
The Salk vaccine does not effect the spread of the disease it only and allegedly protects the
individual inoculated from the paralytic effects of the infection.
Your defense, however, should not stop here — for the following reasons:
1. Most experts will agree that enough time hasn’t passed as yet to really know whether the
vaccine is effective. At present, our evidence is mostly circumstantially or statistically contrived.
2. The manufacturing process of the vaccine has not as yet been standardized.
a. Potency cannot be guaranteed, and much of the vaccine on the market since regulations
were introduced trying to make the vaccine safe (May 1955 and Nov. 1955) have no potency
or antigenetic capacity at all. (See Time Jan. 19, 1959). Medicine: Much of the material used in
about 200,000 U. S. inoculations has been no good. As a result, an all-out effort to improve the
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commercially produced vaccine is now being made. Until this succeeds, individuals who have
already had three injections should get a fourth.)
b. Safety cannot be guaranteed. Naturally the vaccine is safer to the degree that it has no virus
(i.e. antigen or potency). However, the manufacturing process does not insure safety of the
vaccine. Safety can only be determined by:
1. Safety tests after the manufacture of the vaccine. But the safety tests aren’t foolproof.
The Salk vaccine is the only approved drug on the market which the USPHS constantly
surveys in order to make sure that it is safe. If it were intrinsically safe there would be no need
for this.
3. Finally part of the defense can well center around the fact that vested interests (drug
houses, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) and overcommitted parties (USPHS,
American Medical Association, mass communicators,) and for the most part, only those items
which are favorable, get to the laity or the physicians. That which is unfavorable is repressed
or screened out.
For instance, the vaccine failed in the Hawaiian epidemic of 1958. But the USPHS stopped
reporting on this in their confidential reports when this was becoming evident. There is much
testimony to this effect.
In this connection, two recent items will interest you: a. A four-line item in the Chicago Daily
News, Tues., May 5, 1959 London (UPL): "Dr. Jonas Salk Tuesday defended his polio vaccine
against attack by the World Health Organization." b. Chicago Daily News 5.28.59, Duluth,
Minn. (UPI) "One of the developers of a new oral polio vaccine said Wednesday the recent use
of Salk vaccine in Israel had ‘little if any effect.’ Dr. Herald R. Cox of Lederle Laboratories,
which seeks to market the new vaccine, suggested the ineffectiveness of Salk inoculations
during a round table discussion at the Minnesota State Medical Association convention. Cox
said a confidential report on a polio epidemic showed 90% of children under 6 years old in
Israel were given Salk shots. But the outbreak became an epidemic, he said. It is evident that
the vaccine failed," Cox said.
The Israel epidemic occurred in 1958 prior to September. I have seen no reference to this
epidemic in this country. There was an item on it in the Lancet (a British medical journal) in the
Oct. 11, 1958 issue on page 766. This was a summary report on the Fifth European
Symposium on Poliomyelitis held in Madrid on Sept. 3 8-300. Two reports are of interest:
1. "Dr. Payne reported that Israel had an epidemic of several hundred cases in 1958, affecting
equally those unvaccinated and those vaccinated with Salk’s vaccine and technique. Three
doses, but certainly not two doses, "perhaps" had a slightly beneficial effect."
2. Commercial vaccines were indifferent; and we wanted them three times, and in some
instances six times more potent than they were, especially as regards Typell."
Aristotle suggests in his treatise on Politics that the electorate, like the medically educated
layman, the "user", so to speak, may "turn" out to be a better "judge" than the experts, the
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statesmen and the political scientist on the one hand, and the practicing physician and the
medical scientist on the other.
Two months ago at a polio meeting in N. Y., I found out that, in Israel 70% of the vaccine used
to immunize the children under 6 was Lilly vaccine. In this country Lilly sells the most and has
the worst, but they seem to have some kind of a tie-up with Salk, Basil O’Connor and the
USPHS.
I am running out of time. Under separate cover I will send you all my published writings on the
vaccine. Everything I have written in the past still holds. I am sorry that my work load has not
permitted me to write more. But when I can get my hands on a $5,000 grant to facilitate
matters I intend to do a book. I have managed to keep up on everything that has been going
on.
If you need more help from me let me know. This Friday I leave for the meetings of the
American Medical Association in Atlantic City and will be there for most of the week. Over the
weekend I expect to visit family in N. Y. and will be back to my desk by June 17th. I will do
what I can for you, circumstances permitting. To repeat, however, my work load gets heavy
and pressing and I can’t always answer immediately. If it is urgent, however, I will manage to.
I do think, however, that the North Carolina and Tennessee law is both unconstitutional and
unwise, and I do believe by demonstrating this in the court you will contribute a great service to
science."
It was the obvious intent of the 1909 Private Act to compel immunization "shots" against
communicable or contagious diseases. It has never been proven that polio is contagious. To
be consistent Dr. Lentz should restrict the intermingling or association between the Davidson
County residents and those from other areas. It might be interesting to know what the
incidence of polio is in adjoining counties where shots are not compulsory and where a far less
percentage in the 40 and under group who have availed themselves of this so-called
protection.
Why is it that polio is on the increase in spite of the increased number taking the Salk shots.
Why is it if Salk shots are 80% effective that there are repeated warnings and scare headlines
suggesting the possibility of a polio epidemic.
I am very grateful to the Nashville Banner for the space they have given me to present my
position in this important matter which really effects every family in our state and I am sorry to
say that our other newspaper has not seen fit to give me the same privilege, however, at my
trial I shall have witnesses from various parts of the country who have offered their services to
testify in my defense and if the people can get the true facts, I’m sure that during this trial, a
great many important facts shall be brought out and I am sure when it’s all over, justice will be
done.
Ben Gamble
Edenwold Road
Madison, Tenn.
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"I believe, after a careful study, that the policies of the American Cancer Society are open to
question.
"The American Cancer Society was organized in 1913 by a group of public-spirited physicians
and laymen. In 1937 the Society launched its first annual drive to obtain funds from the public.
It was an honest endeavor, and the activities of the Society during this period can be
commended.
"In 1945 the Society was reorganized. A group of influential businessmen joined the Board of
Directors, and a program of research was added to complement education and service to the
cancer patient.
The new Board of Directors introduced two features into the activities of the Society: get more
money from the public and have an exclusively layman’s society distribute funds for research.
"First, let us consider who were the ‘influential businessmen’ who, in 1945, joined the Board of
Directors. Among the directors ‘elected’ to the new Board of the American Cancer Society
were: Mr. Elmer H. Bobst (of William H. Warner Co.) who became Chairman of the Board, and
Mr. James S. Adams (of Lazard Freres etc. Co., New York) who became the Treasurer.
"During the following ten years the team Adams and Bobst has influenced decisively the fate of
cancer research in America. During this time, Bobst acted as the owner of the various Warner-
enterprises (mostly dealing in pharmaceuticals) and Adams acted as the banker of the Warner-
enterprises. (Warner-enterprises have recently been taken over by Lazard Freres etc. Co.)
"There is a record of Bobst’s activities prior to his election as the Chairman of the American
Cancer Society. In the book of Mr. Wendel Berge, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S.:
‘Cartels, Challenge to a Free World’ (Public Affairs Press, Washington, D. C.) Elmer H. Bobst
is mentioned among those who were prosecuted by the Dept. of Justice for violation of the
anti-trust laws.
"On December 17, 1941, Bobst was found guilty by the Court, and fined $6,000.
"The violations of the law of which Bobst was found guilty, included ‘the hostility of cartel
members toward a new product which endangers their control of the market. . . In the field of
synthetic hormones the cartel control has been such as to be detrimental to our national
interest’ (p. 81).
"Among the methods used by the cartels Mr. Berge quotes: ‘It has attempted to suppress the
publication of scientific research data which were at variance with its monopoly interest. (p.
84). Research in U. S. has been seriously affected by restrictions imposed by foreign cartel
members’. (p. 58).
"Methods to increase money collected from the public met with success. In 1938 the drive
brought in $133,487; in 1950 this rose to $13,916, 396 and in 1955 to $24,427,102.
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"When a cancer drive for contributions is put on, a scare and accomplishment campaign in the
public press is put into effect. Scare slogans are used such as, ‘One in six will die of cancer,’
‘Seven Danger Signals,’ ‘Woman has to learn to examine her breasts at regular monthly
intervals,’ ‘Rapid progress is being made,’ ‘Startling discovery,’ ‘Knocking a hole in the tumor,’
‘Crash attack on cancer.’ The scare publicity whips the public to a state of mass hysteria.
"In reality, about one in 500 dies each year of cancer and there have been no significant
advances made by the organization-controlled researchers of any importance.
"Concerning the distribution of the money to the right, scientists, wasting it on sterile projects,
or its use for corruption, the public has no chance to advise or to decide.
"The monopolizing of cancer research started immediately after the new Board was elected to
the American Cancer Society. In time, it was perfected. The public accepted the new idea, not
realizing that research money in the hands of laymen acting without real control, would easily
be used by unscrupulous people to corrupt science.
"In 1947 a new institution called ‘The Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research’
was created. The Fund was successful. As of July 1954, $7,689,218 has been collected from
the public.
"The main promoter of this Fund was the former radio-commentator Walter Winchell. Winchell
was on radio time paid for by Warner Co. The funds of Damon Runyon Memorial were and are
administered by the American Cancer Society. Large funds were also obtained from the U. S.
Atomic Commission.
"There was an intertwining of institutions such as the Jane Coffin Childs fund, the Babe Ruth
Foundation and others. Through this coordination the American Cancer Society was in
complete control of public money spent for cancer research.
"Close relationship was created between the Society and the National Cancer Institute of the
U. S. Public Health Service to which the Congress every year votes many millions of dollars for
cancer research.
"Dr. John R. Heller, Director of the Institute, became a member of the Board of the American
Cancer Society, and James S. Adams of the American Cancer Society became a member of
the National Advisory Council of the Institute.
"It was now possible to monopolize this money for projects agreeable to the combine, and to
deny it to outsiders.
"In spite of the financial domination of Adams-Bobst, who had every year about $50,000,000 to
distribute, there are independent scientists who did not cooperate. A way was devised to
annihilate them. The Society announced a new service, described by them as follows: This
service assumes a "watch-dog’ responsibility concerning unscrupulous attempts to exploit the
universal suffering of cancer in appeals for funds or in respect to ‘cures’ and unproved
methods of treatment.
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"It is surprising that these activities of the American Cancer Society, which are detrimental to
the public health, are tolerated and even often supported by the American Medical Association.
In late years, this Association has changed basically.
"While before, the Association acted as the promoter of public health and clinical medicine,
now it behaves like a union of medical practitioners which exclusively promotes the welfare of
its members without regard for the public interest. The Journal of the AMA, which is regarded
as the mouthpiece of medical progress, publishes many articles in support of the American
Cancer Society without careful investigation of their correctness.
"The American Cancer Society spends $1,500,000 in advertising. It is obvious that such a sum
must bring results, publicity wise. On the other hand, anything critical of the Society is not
accepted for publication. Money talks.
"The American Cancer Society is conscious of the danger of losing public support as it
becomes clear that nothing of value is developed. Therefore, every year before the drive for
money begins, the Society inspires reports of "tremendous" achievements in the press.
Statistics are quoted showing cancer cures increasing.
"As a recent example, we quote the information wired on March 20, 1956. to newspapers: ‘Dr.
Leonard A. Scheele, the Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, stated the rate of
cure in cancer cases increased in the past ten years from 15% to more than 50%. These
figures are unsupported. Statistics of the last ten years would indicate this claim to be absurd.
"After Scheele lost his position of Surgeon General, he became the President of Warner-
Lambert Pharmaceutical Company, a corporation controlled by AdamsBobst.
"No action by the government was taken on the situation. Could the fact that Bobst was
important in the Republican Party where he kept the purse as its Treasurer have had any
influence? Bobst also made contacts with important people in the Democratic party.
"As a consequence, the problem of cancer is at an impasse, and one of the main stumbling
blocks of progress appears to be the activities of the American Cancer Society and its
affiliates.
"Cancer research requires money. The expense for chemicals, experimental animals, and for
salaries of indispensable assistants and technicians, amounts to considerable sums which only
rarely can be afforded by the research-conduction scientist. The independent researcher must
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have public support. Many prominent people, being convinced that they help fight cancer, have
made sacrifices in time, work and money to assist the American Cancer Society.
"Funds collected by these charity appeals, go for research and development to their friends.
When a new, important development is announced, the drug monopoly, can, in this way,
receive the benefit of the public money in the form of profits received from the products of their
manufacture sold to the public.
"I believe in capitalism and democracy. I believe in the profit motive. I am bitterly opposed to
Communism. I am also bitterly opposed, and always have been to monopoly. If a medical
conspiracy exists, it would be particularly damnable as it would involve the matter of life and
death." — Copyrighted article by David M. Kasson, taken from Issue #65, April, 1957 of
The bidependent, ($3.00 yearly), 225 Lafayette St., New York 12, New York.
Reprinted by Special Permission of Lyle Stuart, Editor of the former, The Independent — now
known as Expose.
Dear Sir:
Articles in the local papers relative to the polio inoculation program in Tennessee, have been
very disturbing to me.
After years of being president, following my founding of Polio Prevention, Inc., and knowing the
TRUTH about polio, this whole thing upsets me. I am sending you a book which you may keep,
titled "The Poisoned Needle".
Dr A J Shadman, medical doctor, and perhaps the greatest, published the fact that there is no
such thing as a "virus". Dr. Shadman documents this in his new book "Who Is Your Doctor And
Why?"
I published over five million pieces of literature, not one word of which has ever been refuted or
disproven.
When the truth is known, the people in Tennessee will be shocked beyond description to think
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that humans could stoop as low as they have in connection with this polio vaccine which has
crippled and killed untold numbers of innocent children as well as adults.
I pray to our Creator that the sealed blood streams of the children of Tennessee will not be
violated through fraud.
Respectfully yours,
Duon H. Miller
A State Penitentiary guard, whose eight-year-old son died of polio Saturday today vowed his
daughter, seven months, would "never" be administered Salk anti-polio vaccine.
"I firmly believe those shots put the polio germ in my boy," said Davic Edwards, whose son,
Billy Gene, had been vaccinated with a series of three Sail shots.
"I should have stuck to my feelings and never allowed him, or my other children, to be
vaccinated," Edwards added tearfully.
His son, who would have been a third grader at Lipscomb School this September, died at
General Hospital.
The boy was rushed there Friday after he began vomiting. His temperature also had soared,
but he was released after treatment.
"Early Saturday morning he couldn’t even stand up," said Edwards. "We rushed him back to
the hospital . . . he died several hours later."
The cause of death — paralytic bulbar polio — was determined after an autopsy. Result of the
autopsy was revealed Wednesday, but Edwards said he has not received official word from the
hospital.
"All I know is what I read in the paper ... that my boy died of polio. The doctor said I’d be the
first to know after the autopsy, but he hasn’t called me yet," Edwards said.
Prior to death. Edwards said his son was apparently in a coma, had difficulty breathing and
couldn’t talk.
"I’ve always been opposed to those shots," Edwards said. "My wife has, too. She never was
for them. I didn’t want them to give the shots to my children, but my wife said she was told that
if they were to go to school they’d have to have them, so I gave in.
"I guess I felt if I didn’t let the children take the shots and then one of them came down with
polio . . . well, you know what people would say."
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Edwards said he would not allow one of his daughters, Wanda Sue, seven months, to be given
the Salk vaccine. He said his other six children, ranging in age from six to 14, all have been
given three shots each. He said he would not allow them to be administered the fourth shot.
Dr. John J. Lentz, city-county health director, said he would not attempt to have the children
given the fourth shot.
"We recommend the fourth shot, but that’s all," Dr. Lentz said.
Because Wanda Sue is not of school age, Dr. Lentz said there would be no attempt to
administer the vaccine to her.
The death of Billy Gene was the third attributed to polio in Tennessee this year. said Dr. C. B.
Tucker, in charge of the disease division of the State Health Department. Dr. Tucker added
that Billy was the only one of the three that had been given the shots. One of the deaths was in
January in Knoxville and the other was a Nashville Negro who died last month.
Six cases of polio have been reported in the state during 1959, Dr. Tucker added. All had at
least one or more Salk shots.
Edwards, who resides with his wife and children at 178 Wharf Ave., had been a penitentiary
guard for two years. His son was buried in Woodbury Sunday
afternoon.
Next month Ben Gamble, a Nashville Electric Service laborer, is to stand trial in Criminal Court
on a charge of refusing to allow two of his school-age children to be vaccinated against polio.
A special venire will be called to select the jury to try Gamble before Judge Homer Weimar.
The jurist recently declared constitutional a little-known state law which requires children to be
inoculated against various diseases.
Gamble of Edenwold has said he feels the anti-polio shots are "really more harmful than
good."
"When a boy reaches 16 nowadays, his blood is half full of medicine," Gamble has
commented.
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"It may interest our readers, who are, no doubt, all interested in the vaccination question, to
learn that Miss Lily Loat, for many years secretary of the National Anti-Vaccination League of
Great Britain, has been touring the states and has been giving lectures in various parts of the
country. From the address given by Miss Loat before the English Annual Session of the
American Medical Liberty League we quote the following as reported through that astute and
courageous paper, The Truth Teller, of Battle Creek, Michigan:
Our own fight against vaccination has been a long and arduous battle. While individuals and
small groups were fighting for freedom in this matter as far back as the time of the passing of
the compulsory vaccination act of 1853. the definitely organized struggle started with the
passing of the harsh vaccination act of 1867, which aimed at compelling every parent of a child
to have that child vaccinated within three months of birth. Those who refused could be ordered
by the magistrates over and over again until the child attained the age of fourteen to have it
vaccinated and could be fined for each refusal to comply with such magistrates’ orders. This
law was passed on the assurance of the leaders of the medical profession that vaccination
was perfectly safe and a certain protection against smallpox. Although the sanitary condition of
England had improved very considerably since the disastrous smallpox epidemic of 1838 (and
in this connection for some idea of London in the seventeenth and earliest part of the
eighteenth century 1 would refer you to Mrs. Dorothy George’s book, "London Life in the
Eighteenth Century").
Although there was certainly a gradual improvement, things were still bad. and between 1853
and 1867 there were three fairly severe smallpox epidemics. The supporters of vaccination
played on the fears of the legislators of that day and secured the vaccination act of 1867
without much trouble. But in doing so they lit a fire of resistance that has never been quenched
amongst men and women of the Anglo-Saxon race. That fight for freedom from medical
tyranny in this particular matter has been waged in England for nearly sixty years and it is
going on still.
For many years it was confined mainly to the poorer classes. Only a very few men of intellect
and distinction championed our cause. It was natural that most of the disasters due to
vaccination should fall on the poorer classes and that those classes should publish them while
the upper and middle classes would be more likely to keep such things to themselves. But by
degrees what might be called the artisan class, the smaller shopkeepers and the lower middle
classes became the backbone of the movement. They paid large sums in fines, they had their
goods seized and sold when they could not or would not pay fines. Those who had no goods
or would not let them be seized went to prison, some were ruined, and some emigrated to
avoid ruin. There are men living in America today whose parents left England on account of
the harsh vaccination acts. The public saw honorable, upright men appearing again and again
before the magistrates and many began to ask what it could mean when such men were willing
to go to such lengths to save their children from the operation. Inquiry was usually followed by
conversion to our side and the side of resistance went higher and higher. Defense funds were
formed all over the country to assist resisters either to pay the fines inflicted on them or to keep
the wives and families when the men went to jail. In more than one case a widow went to
prison for carrying out her husband’s injunction never to have the children vaccinated.
Elections for boards of guardians — the public authority that had the administration of the
vaccination law in its charge — were fought on the vaccination question, and by the year 1898
at least one-fifth of the 600 or more boards in England were pledged not to enforce the law.
Four very important things happened between the passing of the vaccination act of 1867 and
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the passing of the act of 1898, which contained the first conscience clause.
The first was the smallpox epidemic of 1870-72, which carried off 44,000 persons in England
and Wales and proved to hundreds of thousands of people that vaccination is not a protection
against smallpox, for that epidemic occurred when 97½ per cent of the people over two and
under fifty had either had smallpox or been vaccinated, as was stated by Sir John Simon, chief
medical officer to the Privy Council, in his evidence before the select committee which in 1871
inquired into the vaccination act of 1867.
The second very important event was the passing of the great public health act of 1875. The
sanitarians had been preaching for years that unless the laws of health were observed no
country could be free from any form of zymotic disease, while the vaccinators said, in effect,
that you could be as filthy as you liked, only be vaccinated and you would be saved from
smallpox. The epidemic of 1870-72 showed that the sanitarians were right and this great act
which governs practically all sanitary observances in England today was passed by Parliment
some two years after the close of the epidemic.
The third great event was the conversion of two men high up in the medical profession to our
side, namely, Dr. Charles Creighton and Professor Edgar M. Crookshank. There had been
many other registered doctors who had fought vaccination in England, right from the time
Jenner introduced his discovery, but they were not of the standing of these men and they did
not write such comprehensive, logical, dispassionate and scientific books as these two men
did.
Dr. Creighton was asked about the year 1884 to write the article on vaccination for the ninth
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He agreed to do so, but instead of contenting himself
with the usual stock statements he went right back to Jenner’s own writings and to
contemporary documents. He searched the
pro- and anti-vaccination literature of many countries and came to the conclusion that
vaccination is a "grotesque superstition." He wrote to the editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica
and said: "If you want an apologetic article, I am not the man to write it." The editor promised to
publish whatever he wrote and so in the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia the article on
vaccination is an anti-vaccination article. About the same time Creightonwrote a little book
called "Cowpox and Vaccinal Syphilis" and a year or so later a larger book called "Jenner and
Vaccination."
In 1887 Dr. Edgar M. Crookshank, who at that time was professor of pathology and
bacteriology at King’s College, was asked by the government to investigate an outbreak of
cowpox in Wiltshire. Sir James Paget drew his attention to Creighton’s work, evidently hoping
that Crookshank would refute it, but the results of his laborious investigations are contained in
two large volumes entitled "The History and Pathology of Vaccination", in which he says that
the credit given to vaccination belongs to sanitation and isolation and that nothing would more
redound to the credit of the medical profession than to give up their faith in vaccination.
Although written some forty years ago, these books have never been answered.
The fourth great event in this period was the appointment of a royal commission to inquire into
certain aspects of the vaccination question. This commission was appointed in 1889 and sat
for seven years. It issued six reports and reported finally in 1896.
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When they were appointed nearly all the commissioners were strongly in favor of vaccination
and although most of them never surrendered their faith in the operation, after hearing
evidence from the anti-vaccinists, they unanimously agreed that at least repeated prosecutions
for the same child ought to be stopped. Two of them issued a minority or dissent report, which
is, in effect, an anti-vaccination document. Even the majority commissioners went so far as to
admit that vaccination was not a permanent protection against smallpox and that it had done
injury — injury that was not inconsiderable in gross amount. They suggested that in the case of
genuine objectors the compulsory law should be relaxed, but this was in the hope of stopping
the agitation against vaccination rather than from any kindly feeling for the objectors.
The result of the commissioners’ report was the vaccination act of 1898. In its first form this did
not contain a conscience clause, but it did contain a clause forbidding repeated penalties for
the same offense. An election at the town of Reading, fought on the vaccination question,
induced the government to insert a conscience clause into its vaccination act. This was against
the wishes of a large number of its own supporters, but although they lost the election, they
carried out their promise and passed the bill with the conscience clause included.
This conscience clause, which the anti-vaccinists had opposed, knowing that its passage into
law would greatly delay the repeal of the compulsory clauses of the vaccination acts, was a
very poor affair. Bench after bench of magistrates refused to grant exemption, no matter how
strong the applicant’s reasons might be. Men went to court as many as seven times and then
failed to get exemption and were subsequently prosecuted for not having their children
vaccinated.
The league agitated and agitated until the act of 1907 was passed by the Liberal government
which came into office after the election of 1906, during
which the anti-vaccinists had worked strenuously and had got pledges to vote for the repeal of
compulsion from over 300 of those returned to Parliament.
That act under which an objector had to make a statutory declaration of his objection to
vaccination before the baby is four months old, has resulted in the exemption of nearly five
million children in England and Wales under sixteen years of age. These are mainly the
children of the middle and working classes, as we call them, but we have support in the higher
ranks of society. The duchess of Hamilton’s seven children are all exempted and two of them
have King George and Queen Mary as sponsors. Lady Maud Warrender, who also moves in
royal circles, paid a fine sooner than have her son vaccinated. Lady Isabel Margesson, sister
of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, is a member of the league.
Among scientists our most notable supporters were Alfred Russel Wallace and Herbert
Spencer.
We have fifteen or sixteen registered medical men as vice-presidents of our league and there
are some thirty others who more or less sympathize with our work. That the number is not
more is easily understood. Medical students in England do not study the vaccination question.
It is taken for granted at all the medical schools and no student dare question what he is
taught. He has to cram a vast amount of book knowledge into his brain and he has neither the
time nor the inclination to study any subject not needed for his examinations. When he
qualifies he goes into general practice or becomes a specialist, but as the majority of the
vaccinations in England are done by the 4,000 public vaccinators, most of the doctors see very
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little of the operation. They do not realize the harm done by it and their minds have been
closed up when they were students.
Important developments are in sight in England. Early this year the government appointed a
committee of inquiry into vaccine lymph. It is certain that the present glycerinated calf lymph
has caused deaths from "sleepy-sickness" in England, two London professors having brought
to the notice of the government seven of such cases at the end of the year 1922. At the Paris
Academy of Medicine in July, 1925, doctors discussed deaths from this disease which had
occurred shortly after vaccination in Holland and other European countries. At the beginning of
this year there was a conference at The Hague under the auspices of the health committee of
the League of Nations, which discussed many matters in connection with smallpox, vaccine
lymph, etc., and finally decided to ask each country represented there to appoint a committee
to investigate these matters.
Smallpox in England has declined almost to the vanishing point and the recognized dangers of
vaccination will probably induce the government to drop compulsory infant vaccination
altogether and substitute for it the compulsory vaccination of all persons who have been in
contact with smallpox. This, of course, we shall resist with all our might so far as our friends
will allow.
In answer to an article headed "Vaccination Wins Again" in the Detroit Saturday Night Press,
Miss Loat asks:
(1) That the disease which is being diagnosed as smallpox in unvaccinated persons in England
is hardly distinguishable from chickenpox, the absence or presence of vaccination marks being
the fact that definitely decides the diagnosis.
This has been admitted by English medical officers of health and the Ministry of Health has
twice stated in answer to questions in Parliament that vaccination is one factor in the diagnosis
of these cases.
(2) That as in those districts where this very mild disease is running the vast majority of the
children are unvaccinated, it would be difficult for the disease to find a child who had been
vaccinated in infancy to attack.
(3) That those cases which, though vaccinated immediately after being in contact with this
alleged smallpox, subsequently contract it, are all classified as unvaccinated.
(4) That in spite of these official attempts to make out a case for vaccination, the fatality rate of
the unvaccinated cases in England is less than half of the vaccinated cases.
(5) That the English Ministry of Health omits to state that in 1872, when 85 per cent of the
infants born were vaccinated, there were 19,000 deaths from smallpox in England and Wales,
while in 1925, when less than half the children born were vaccinated, there were only 6 deaths
from that disease.
The history of vaccination and smallpox in England can be summed up in these words, the
truth of which is apparent to any unbiased student of our national statistics: "Much vaccination,
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little sanitation, much smallpox; little vaccination, improved sanitation, little smallpox."
The children of England, five million of whom are unvaccinated, were never healthier than they
are today. The people have shown their detestation of vaccination and neither persuasion nor
force will induce them to submit to what the famous Dr. Charles Creighton called "a grotesque
superstition."
According to reports in the papers you are asking for $3,000,000 of public funds to furnish Salk
vaccine to California adults under 40 years of age as well as to the children.
As a taxpayer and a spokesman for a large group of thinking people, I feel justified in asking
why you are wasting this large sum of our tax money to promote a scheme that has not proved
to be either safe or beneficial in the light of true investigation. We know this vaccine has killed
many people and caused paralysis in many more who would, undoubtedly, have been well
today without the shots of Salk toxoid.
In spite of all the high pressure sales talk and advertising technique, plus the false reports and
garbled statistics designed to sell the people and their leaders this dangerous vaccine, enough
of the truth has leaked out so that 17 states have already rejected their supplies of Salk
vaccine. Why should our great state be the slowest to wake up to this monstrous fraud?
According to an AP report (Dec. 13) "Only 4 states have used up their grants from the
$53,600,000 federal appropriation to aid states in providing free vaccine to people under 20
years of age." It is evident that the people do not
want this deadly vaccine and have not been induced to use it up. It is bad enough to have
President Eisenhower rob us for this large sum, but why should you rob us again for the
same thing?
Health Director Peterson of Idaho didn’t mince words when he stated, to the press, that polio
struck only vaccinated children in areas where there had been no cases of polio since
the preceding autumn. "In 9 out of 10 cases the paralysis occurred in the arms in which the
vaccine had been Injected."
After the American Public Health Service announced that there had been "168 confirmed
cases of poliomyelitis among the vaccinated with 6 deaths . . .‘ the Salk promoters clamped
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down a rigid censorship on the reporting of Salk casualties and the people were told that there
were none and that the vaccine was safe and successful.
Even Surgeon General Scheele admitted (to the closed session of the convention of the AMA)
that "Salk vaccine is hard to make and no batch can be proved safe before it is given to
children." Yet, the public was immediately told that the vaccine was SAFE. They also
announced that it was the intention to vaccinate 57,000,000 people before Aug. 1955 (before
the propagandized people had a chance to learn of its dangers.) One paper reported that the
promoters expected a five billion dollar profit from the vaccine. (See page 29 of HIDDEN
DANGERS IN POLIO VACCINE, enclosed.)
We elected you because we had confidence in your integrity and ability. If you have been
deceived by these ruthless promoters of a multi-million dollar racket, it is time to turn the tables
and open an honest investigation. On the other hand if you are associated with them and
knowingly fostering a program that is doing damage to the people under your leadership you
will, sooner or later, have to face charges that will not be altogether pleasing.
Dear Friend:
From an answer I received from Governor Knight, it seems he is determine to use this
$3,000,000 he has already taken from the taxpayers, and he suggest raising still more, to
vaccinate the whole population under forty. This obvious would be very dangerous to those
infected with this poison. The drive will be sometime this month. We had better make our
voices heard and write o protests to him immediately.
Friends and well wishers of Duon H. Miller, the Florida cosmetic manufacturer who spent many
thousands of dollars of his own money to warn the American public against the lethal effects of
Salk vaccine, its worthlessness as a preventive, the false propaganda of the serum trust and
the doctored "statistics" of the US Public Health Service, will be glad to know that he is now off
the hook.
Upon demand of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, whose racket he was seriously
interfering with, he was railroaded by a Federal Court in Florida after the Post Office Dept. was
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importuned to go far afield and split hairs to convict him of sending out "derogatory statements"
about the Salk racketeers on a postal card.
There actually is a P0 regulation which says that such statements are all right in sealed mail,
but "unmailable" on postal cards. The usual procedure is for postal inspectors to notify the
"culprit" and have him sign a stipulation not to do it again. We know this from personal
experience. In the Miller case this was not done, because of pressure from NFIP and those
who own the serum trust—the House of Rockefeller.
Miller was given a 2-year prison sentence and placed on probation for two years in July of
1955. It was admitted by the "prosecution" that its main object was to stop him from telling the
truth about Salk vaccine. So, terms of the probation were that he was not to send anything thru
the mails having the slightest reference to vaccine or medicine of any sort.
This (illegally) revoked his rights to freedom of speech and press granted him by the First
Amendt to the Constitution. This was so raw that the judge has been prevailed upon to declare
the Constitution again in effect. His probation thereupon was "lifted" January 28 instead of
causing it to run its full course to July 1957. This also lets the judge off the hook because
Congress could have filed impeachment charges against him for violation of his oath in
abrogating the Constitution.
The serum trust is getting desperate. They saw in the Miller "prosecution" a warning to all who
dared to tell the truth about their deadly racket, so they "went to town" in making it. It now
develops they have a "stockpile" for 25,000,000 of these deadly "shots" which they can’t
dispose of, even with the fake statistics put out by the US Public Health Service and reprinted
widely by the medical and general press.
To dispose of it, they are now resorting to circus methods. They prevailed on a church in
Cleveland to help them interfere with God’s work by advertising "coffee, cookies and Salk
shots." In Michigan their lobbyists had a bill introduced in the legislature to force the inoculation
of all school children. They told the legislature "$2,000,000 worth of Salk shots" is spoiling. In
New Jersey they have a similar bill.
They even prevailed on Mr. Eisenhower to use the high office of the Presidency as a huckster
stand. By words put in his mouth by serum trust press agents, Ike urged everybody—adults
and children—to have three polio shots "while supplies are now plentiful." The royal medics in
London hooked Good Queen Bess into having her two children’s health interfered with by polio
shots— amid a fanfare of press and radio hokum.
While they were selling these deadly shots like hotcakes, the serum trust was
announcing (thru their stooges in the USPHS) that Salk vaccine "has polio under control."
They now say "polio is far from conquered." They have 25,000,000 shots for sale, with a profit
of more than $5 a "shot" involved.
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THE LATEST foray of The Food and Drug Administration into illegal activities is the libel it is
committing on Harry N. Hoxsey (Cancer Cure Fame). They have sent flaring notices to 56,000
post offices with instructions to have them posted on lobby bulletin boards. Every postmaster
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who puts one of these up is subject to a libel suit, along with the head Food & Drug banditti.
DEFENDER MAGAZINE, Wichita, Kansas is now sending out printed petitions for you to sign
and mail to your representatives in Washington, D. C. This calls for a Congressional
Investigation on The Food & Drug Administration. Their economic well-being depends on
people being sick and they have the law on their side. YOU can limit their powers only through
your representatives in Washington by acting NOW!
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KNIGHT SIGNS BILL FOR POLIO VACCINE—Sacramento, Feb. 6 (AP)—Gov. Knight, saying
he hopes to end for always the threat of a major polio outbreak in California, has signed a bill
for vaccinating everyone under 40.
The money will go for the purchases of vaccine and the administration of mass inoculations for
about 2 million persons.
"For the first time," the governor said yesterday as he signed the bill, "the opportunity is at
hand to conquer a major disease in the State of California— crippling polio."
He noted there are 4 million other Californians under 40 and said: "It is hoped the vaccination
campaign which soon will get under way will serve as an incentive to the citizens of California
to seek vaccinations against crippling polio through their private physcans."
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VACCINE ECONOMICS—A 2-year prediction in CAPSULE NEWS came true last week when
a verdict for $147,000 was rendered against the Cutter Laboratories of California for the
crippling of two children with Salk vaccine.
At the time (in 1956) the US Public Health Service and the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis put on their drive to sell Salk vaccine, to the glory and profit of the Drug Trust, CN
said the Cutter Laboratory had been taken into the fold of the six licenses to be the goat "in
case something happened."
All of the other five licensees were members of what is known as the Rockefeller Drug Trust,
because the House of Rockefeller is heavily interested financially. The jury said the Cutter
people were not negligent "either directly or by inference."
This was correct but the jury should have bawled out the real culprits.
Since they hadn’t been indicted they couldn’t have found them guilty, but the jury could have
placed the blame where it belonged.
Officials of the USPHS and NFIP are the guilty ones. They had guilty knowledge that this Salk
concoction was worthless and was a killer. "Tests" of it were made at the Universities of
Michigan and Pittsburgh and the only thing they showed was that the testers were either
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There was no confusion at the National Institute of Health. One of their scientists, who couldn’t
stomach the crippling and killing of innocent children for profit, told CN at the time—the same
thing he and his associates told their superiors that Salk vaccine was a crippler and a killer,
and of no value as a preventive of polio.
Walter Winchell went on the air a few days later and said Salk vaccine would prove to be "a
killer." Officials of the NIH refused to let their children be vaccinated with it. CN also exposed
the fact that the idea of Salk vaccine was dreamed up by the NFIP to bolster the sagging
receipts of its annual March-of-Dimes racket.
Just as CN predicted, the Cutter Laboratories were selected to be the goat. A significant
feature is that nearly all of the business was directed to the five Rockefeller companies—just
enough to Cutter to enable Drug Trust press agents to divert attention from the other five
killers.
Pitman-Moore is one of three subsidiaries of Allied Laboratories. So great was the profit from
Salk vaccine that Allied’s 1955 profit ($1,292,136) was upped to $2,598,060 in 1956. An
increase of profit (not just sales) of around 100% for the parent company.
Eli Lilly made a profit after taxes of $16,328,081 in 1955. With the Salk vaccine sales in 1956
this profit was upped to $30,052,815; an increase of 90%.
Sharp & Dohme is one of 25 subsidiaries of Merck & Company. Salk vaccine sales so boosted
Merck’s business in 1956 that its net profit, after the tax bite, was $20,224,427 compared with
$15,714,342 in 1955.
Wyeth is one of 41 subsidiaries of American Home Products. Salk vaccine sales boosted
AHP’s profits from $20,536,619 (1955) to $31,250,355 in 1956. A 50% profit increase for the
parent.
Parke-Davis’ management must have been below that of the others for this dealer in death
only increased its 1956 profits from $14,322,015 (in 1955) to $17,645,728.
All of these figures are taken from Moody’s Manual of Industrials, the investors’ bible. All are
"after taxes" profits.
The poor Cutter people, goats in the legal action, actually saw their profits drop from $584,219
in 1955 to $188,241 in 1956.
Lloyd’s of London (who will bet on anything) seem to be the big goat, for these six companies
have been insured against this kind of thing up to $5,000,000 per company. A trillion dollars
couldn’t pay for the cripplings and murders which happened before the companies stopped the
slaughter by putting red water in their ampules, instead of the pus of diseased monkey
kidneys.
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Duon Miller of Florida, the blood chemist who probably is our best posted individual on
poliomyelitis, has challenged the sales pitch put out by the USPHS which claims Salk vaccine
has made polio decline 62% and paralytic cases 73%.
Even the fake statistics of USPHS can’t make polio victims in the District of Columbia believe
this. The Health Dept. records here show nine times as many cases in 1957 as in 1956—this
in spite of serum trust claims that Salk vaccine has "wiped out polio."
In a scorching letter to the swivel chair doctor who heads up the USPHS, Mr. Miller pointed
out:
"If these figures are the brain-child of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that alone
labels them worthless.
"Its President (Basil O’Connor) knows of clinics in this country that has long successfully
treated polio. He has received invitations to visit these clinics; even when he is in their vicinity
he ignores them.
"An MD, lecturing for NFIP, admitted they had no immediate positive diagnosis for polio. So, it
is very clear that NFIP juggle its figures to brainwash the public.
"If a sick child were brought into your office could you, any member of your bureau, or any
member of the American Medical Assn., give an immediate, correct and positive diagnosis as
to polio? I doubt it.
"Polio is a condition. It is not a dis-ease caused by any mysterious live virus, as no such virus
exists. Polio vaccine has never prevented, nor mitigated polio in even one child or adult.. . yet
look at the deaths from vaccine.
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DUON H. MILLER
I have just read an article in Drug Trade News which states the Public Health Service is to
work hard on "selling" Salk shots. For quite some time it has appeared that the U. S. Public
Health Service seems to be a "sales promotion organization" for the Vaccine Trust, working at
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Enclosed you will find a copy of my letter to Dr. Burney written January 8th, delivered to him
through our Senator George Smathers, and followed up by a request from Senator Smathers
for a reply, but as yet this letter still has not been replied to . . . unquestionably because Dr.
Burney could not answer it honestly.
I see in the article I am just reading that the Public Health Service spent about $40,000 on its
previous drive and expects to spend that much more money on the new campaign.
Also, he states the fact that no cases of polio can be traced to any lot of vaccine since May of
1955. Let me enclose a couple of clippings here which are typical of happenings all over this
country where people have had the three shots and die. If that happened in your family, how
would you like it?
Dr. Burney is paid by the taxpayers in this country and if he is so involved he cannot answer a
letter honestly, I think he should be removed from office.
It has just been documented in the book "Who Is Your Doctor And Why?’ by Dr. Shadman, M.
D. of Boston, that germs do not cause disease nor does virus because there is no such thing.
Now let me quote a paragraph from a Washington newspaper taken from an article I recently
wrote:
"The national polio program has been truly disgraceful, ungodly and inhuman. Polio is a
condition, not a disease. Since there is no such thing as a virus, polio isn’t caused by a virus . .
. Therefore, any polio vaccine is fraudulent, and is rapidly proving itself just that in spite of
faked figures and statistics."
We have doctors who are successfully treating polio in this country, and I say it is a crime
against God and humanity that U.S.P.H.S. does not bring this information to the public, rather
than devote all their time as a "sales agency" for vaccines.
The Asian Flu Vaccine, in my opinion, was a hoax and the old idea of vaccination against small
pox has been a hoax for some time and there has been practically no small pox in this country,
according to the official figures which I read a couple weeks ago, since it is caused ONLY by
the poisonous bite of the bed bug. Why propagate this vaccine, which is of no value, like all the
other vaccines?
I think our U.S.P.H.S. should be FOR THE PEOPLE and not for the Vaccine Trust.
I would appreciate a reply to this letter and also to the questions I wrote to Dr. Burney on
January 8th. I have been in blood chemistry a good many years and I think I know what I am
talking about concerning polio and what a vicious, disgraceful racket it has been, and still is.
I was in hopes that when you took over we would get some common sense in our U.S.P.H.S.
and have it run as it should be run for the benefit of the public.
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Duon H. Miller
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Natural Health Guardian, 319 Huntington Ave., Boston 15, Mass., July, 1959
Here is something to paste in your hat—statistics show there was more paralysis polio last
year—yes, 1958—than any preceding year. And that happened in spite of the highly
advertised fact that, during those 12 months of 1958, tens of thousands of units of blood-
corrupting polio vaccine were forced into the veins of deluded Americans.
What does this strange anomaly mean? Why, it simply means that, as usual, John Q. Public
was taken for a "buggy-ride" by the medical powers-that-be and was hoodwinked into paying
good money for a useless blood-poisoner that in actual practice (giving the lie to the rigged
medical "results") does not prevent polio, does not treat polio and does not cure polio.
But while we are on the subject, just realize that nobody, not even the most
astute medical doctor, knows what this decaying matter—from a dead monkeys disintegrating
kidney—will eventually do to the human body in which blood it is forced. No, the possible dire
consequences cannot be foretold by any panel of medical experts with 79 crystal balls and 150
ouija boards. Why? Because they cannot project themselves into the future—they cannot
foretell what this poisonous matter—floating in the blood—will eventually develop into. Of
course, they all HOPE TO HEAVEN that nothing sinister will happen but they know what DID
HAPPEN in a somewhat similar situation when the supposedly HARMLESS pus, taken from
the diseased udder of a cow, used in Great Britain supposedly to prevent "small pox", killed—
in one year—by syphilis, more than 1,500 infants and gave tens of thousands of other
innocents incurable skin diseases that sent many to premature graves.
But you will say, in spite of the rise in paralysis polio, there was NO EPIDEMIC of polio in
1958. True again—and let us find the reason there was no epidemic. An epidemic, of any
medical ailment, is always MAN MADE. It never JUST HAPPENS.
Remember back, when we all were threatened with an Asiatic Flu invasion a couple of years
ago — a "dreamed up" invasion which never arrived? Why, Asiatic flu is common every year in
the Far East where sanitation and hygene are practically unknown. But just how the
soothsaying medical "wise-acres" happened to "know" that this year, Asiatic flu would attempt
to cross the oceans nobody ever seemed inclined to analyze. Anyway, the "remedy" for that
"threatened disaster" was prepared months and months in advance by the sainted Drug Trust
and parceled out to the accommodating medical fraternity.
These "guardians of the public health" contaminated the blood of every American who had the
price and still possessed illusions about the infallibility of Modern Medicine. Oh, there was a
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real clean-up of cash through this dirtying of human blood with a concoction from decaying
hen’s eggs. We all had friends who suffered nausea and God-knows-what else while the
laboratories and medical men were fattening both their pocketbooks and the mortality tables.
But listen—before the date set for the embarkation from the distant shores of this "Asiatic flu
invasion," a collection of medical men in California.—disgusted with the bare-faced effrontery
of those pushing this prearranged "remedy"
—came out flatfooted and condemned it as dangerous to life and prophesied it would "kill more
than it would save."
That ended the "Asiatic flu scare." The laboratories and their compatriots tucked their tails
between their legs—the signal was given to "forget the flu invasion"—the great reception
committee of needle-pushers was dispersed and the Asiatic flu scare vanished into thin air. But
the results are still to be found in the country’s cemeteries.
And remember the Massachusetts polio epidemic of a few years back? The local authorities
wanted to close the schools because six or seven cases appeared each day. But those
"cases" were never close together—in a geographical way — and those "terrible germs" could
not be put on the same family tree. So the schools remained open.
What actually happened was that not one doctor in 50 can diagnose a case of incipient polio
so every strain, every wrench, every bit of indigestion was instantly diagnosed as "polio" and
so reported to the authorities. Conclusion? That horrible imaginary epidemic found the victims
recovering miraculously from
their sprains, wrenches and bellyaches — the excited doctors got paid "polio treatment prices"
and the paralysis polio, in Massachusetts that year, was just at its regular normal rate.
Published Bi-monthly
Editorial
"And they all with one consent began to make excuses." That’s what the polio vaccine muddle
begins to look like. We have tried to follow the polio vaccine matter for the past three years by
reading the daily papers, the national magazines and both federal and state health department
reports. To say the least, we are in a state of confusion. In this issue we shall bring you items
from the papers, national magazines and governmental reports, so that you will be as
confused as we are.
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Our reason for featuring the polio matter in this issue is, several states are trying to enact
compulsory polio vaccination laws and two have already done so. While Tennessee does not
have a compulsory law, its public health director has taken the matter into his own hands and
has ruled that it is illegal for anyone to send a child to school unless he has been immunized
against polio. If you don’t send the child to school you will be arrested, so who makes the law
in America? We wonder how any lawmaker can ever think of voting for legislation of this nature
when no one knows yet whether the polio vaccine is good or bad. Certainly we know the
proponents are in disagreement. Salk blames the makers of the vaccine and the makers say
the formula is not right. When the vaccine was first given very bad results followed. Cutter
Laboratories got the blame. Then people who were vaccinated still got polio. The departments
of health and the manufacturers then said the vaccine was only effective against the type
which causes paralysis. Next, when those vaccinated still got the type which caused paralysis
we were told you must have two shots. Still those vaccinated came down with the paralytic
type and we were told we must have three shots — that would do the trick. Still today we have
those with three shots contracting the paralytic type of polio and we are told we should have
four shots, and probably the job will have to be done over every eighteen months, or less. We
ask, where do we go from here?
As you peruse the pages of this Bulletin you will find news items and reports which would lead
anyone, who will think the problem through, to conclude that in proportion to the percentage of
the population vaccinated, the same percentage of those vaccinated have polio of the paralytic
type as those who have not been vaccinated. This regardless of whether one, two or three
shots had been had.
To be fair, we must state that since the inauguration of the Salk polio shots the governmental
agencies in order to make a good showing, adopted a policy of listing as polio victims only
those who were proved so by laboratory tests. Before the inauguration of this policy anyone
with the right symptoms was listed as a polio victim. This new procedure reduced the total
number of folks recorded
paralytic polio because the overall total of all cases was reduced. This does not, however,
affect the fact that practically the same percentage of vaccinated have paralytic polio as the
unvaccinated.
To make the matter more confusing, about the time the United States Departments of Public
Health became the salesman for the makers of Salk vaccine, certain scientists in America
were developing a live polio remedy which was proving very effective. It could be taken by
mouth, one or two doses gave 100 per cent immunity. It was cheap. It would not require the
services of a doctor nor would it require a million hypodermics, nor could it be controlled by the
six big drug houses, etc. On other pages you will find more about this vaccine. The question is,
why was not the United States Health Department interested in this development? Why did the
Department rush the Salk vaccine into use before it was ready?
Is there an unholy alliance between our United States Department of Public Health and the
large drug houses? Can the public trust the Department to do that which is best for the
people? It would seem the time has come for a congressional investigation of this matter. This
is a very serious matter. The public is entitled to know the truth. Such an investigation can be
had if the public will demand it. The pens or pencils of one million folks will accomplish it if
those pens and pencils are used to write to the legislators at Washington.
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THIS ONE THING WE ARE NOT CONFUSED ABOUT: "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST
ORGANIZE AND FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES". The National Health Federation has been
brought into being for such a purpose. Its Washington Office is on the job. For the first time in
history the American people have a voice in Washington. We must support it and keep it
strong. Urge your friends to join.
Increase in Paralytic Polio Cases — Public Health Service reports that from January to August,
1957, out of a total of 3,212 polio cases there were 1,055 paralytics, or 33.5 of the total.
From January 1st to August 1958 there was a total of 1,638 cases of polio, with 801 of them
paralytic, or 49% of the total.
The following reports cover the period from August, 1958, to April, 1959. These items are
taken from day-today newspaper reports. June 19, 1958—The wave of polio among military-
connected families continues with the ‘report of two more cases in Tripler Army Hospital. This
brings a total for this year to 21. Victims are William M. Thomas, Jr., four-year old. He had one
polio shot in May and is suffering from paralysis of both legs. The other victim, Dennis W.
Prescott, two-year old. He had his first Salk shot May 15th and is suffering from paralysis in
both arms, left shoulder and back.
September 5, 1958—The Territory’s 56th case of polio, a one-year-old army dependent, has
paralysis in both arms and legs. The infant had two Salk shots, the last one March 3rd.
Two more army dependents, one of whom had a complete series of three Salk Vaccine shots,
have been hospitalized with polio. Dr. James Enright with the Territorial Board of Health said
one of these had received three vaccine shots, the last one on April 16th. His case is the 8th
this year in which the victim
Had all vaccine shots. The patient is suffering paralysis on the right side of his face. The
second patient is suffering a paralysis of both her arms and legs. Her condition is serious. The
patient had received two vaccine shots, the on March 3rd.
August 12, 1958 — The condition of Air Force Sgt. Patterson, who is suffering from Bulbar
Polio, was described as "grave" this morning. The sergeant, his wife and two children, one and
three years old, received their first polio shots on June 9th.
July 18, 1958 — the newest civilian case is a part Hawaiian three-year-old girl. She has
paralysis of the right leg. She has had no Salk vaccine. The second case reported today is
suffering from paralysis of the right shoulder. This patient had had two Salk shots, the last July
2nd.
September 13, 1958 — Five more polio cases were reported in Honolulu today. The five cases
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included a three-year-old girl who had received all three Salk vaccine shots. She is the 9th fully
vaccinated Islander to come down with polio.
Two of the others reported today had received two shots. One is suffering with paralysis of the
neck muscles and the other has paralytic symptoms in her left foot. The two other victims
reported both with mild forms of paralysis had not received Salk shots.
September 18, 1958 — The Territory of Hawaii’s 62nd polio victim of this year is a two-year-old
Marine dependent who had received all three Salk vaccine shots. The victim is suffering from
paralysis of the left leg. The boy received his third shot two weeks ago and is the 10th Island
resident inoculated with three Salk shots to come down with paralytic polio.
October 1, 1958 — Two more polio cases were reported today bringing this year’s total to 65.
One victim, a twenty-year-old woman, suffering with weakness of her left leg, had received no
polio shots. The other victim, a nine-months-old boy suffers from a paralysis of his left leg. The
boy received two Salk vaccine shots, the last one in April.
October 16, 1958 — Hawaii’s 68th polio victim of the year was reported today. The patient has
no paralysis and had had two Salk shots.
September 24, 1958 — Honolulu health officials cannot understand why their vaccination
program is bogging down. They say 15% less people are getting their third shots than was the
case in 1957. From the foregoing record as published in the newspaper it is not hard for a
layman to understand why the public shies away from the Salk vaccine.
The Honolulu Advertiser on July 15, 1958, carried a statement by Doctor Enright of the
Territorial Department of Health as follows: "Of the 32 discovered paralytic polio cases so far
this year, six had had three Salk shots; six had had two shots; four had one shot, the rest,
none." This makes 16 of the 32 who had been vaccinated. Percentage-wise, it is 50%.
In an article published in the same newspaper April 22, 1959, Doctor Enright is again quoted:
"Of Hawaii’s polio victims last year 16 had received three Salk shots. No one who received the
recommended four shots was stricken," Doctor Enright continues. "About 60% of the Island’s
population has had polio shots."
Checking the newspaper items we find that of 65 who had suffered from polio during 1958, 32
had paralytic polio for which the Salk vaccine was specifically developed to prevent. Of these
cases 16 had received three, two, and one shots. This is 49 8/l0ths per cent of the total of 65
cases who suffered from paralytic polio. According to Doctor Enright’s figures, as taken from
the article of April 22nd, 60% of the Island’s population has had polio shots. This means that a
greater percentage of those inoculated against polio came down with the disease than those
who received no inoculation. If these news reports are true, it must follow that the polio
vaccination program actually increases the incidence of polio and does not protect against the
paralytic type of polio.
That the Honolulu polio situation regarding paralytic cases is typical all over the nation during
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this same period is borne out by a press dispatch quoting the United States Public Health
Service. The date of the dispatch is August 22, 1958: It says: "Out of 233 polio cases reported
by the states, 114 were paralytic," or 49 9/10th per cent paralytic. The dispatch continues that
during the year 1957 the figures for the comparable week were 314 cases of which 81 cases
were paralytic, or 25 8/10ths per cent paralytic. We vaccinate against paralytic polio and each
year the per cent of that type increases.
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, in an analysis of the preparation and administration of poliomyelitis vaccine,
has described a "temporary situation that will require the exercise of judgment by practicing
physicians and health officers, and understanding by the public as well."
"That the use of vaccines of less than optimal potency may well be the principal reason for the
occurrence of paralytic polio in persons who have had three doses of vaccine."
"That the attainment of potency levels of an order of magnitude sufficient to induce the desired
effects after one or two doses in practicably feasible."
Who Is Right?
National Institute of Health — Trouble’s brewing between Dr. Jonas Salk and pharmaceutical
houses making the polio vaccine bearing his name. Dr. Salk blames "weakness" of the
manufactured product for cases of paralytic polio in persons having had the recommended
three shots of vaccine. Throwing the ball right back, the pharmaceutical people say they are
following Dr. Salk’s formula— in other words, if the vaccine is weak, it’s his fault, not theirs.
MOSCOW, June 17 — The Communist party organ Izvestia said today nearly 2 million
Russian children have been given spoonful of Soviet-produced live polio vaccine and not a
single case of polio developed.
The questions were deeply challenging and vitally important Is a live-virus polio vaccine safe
and effective?
Should such a vaccine be used generally us place of the "killed" developed by Dr Jonas Salk?
The whole problem of poliomyelitis, and how to eliminate it once and for all, was being
threshed out this week at a World Health Organization conference in Washington, D. C., where
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some 50 international scientists met to check results of the first experimental tests with three
new live-virus serums.
All developed in this country, the three are: (1) The widely publicized vaccine of Dr. Albert
Sabin of the University of Cincinnati, which has been tried out experimentally on 3.8 million
Russians, 143,000 Czechoslovakians, 200,000 people in Singapore, and 2.5 million Mexicans;
(2) a strain made by Dr. Hilary Koprowski of the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, already used in
a mass inoculation program of 320,000 in the Belgian Congo, with a new testing program
ready to start among Polish children, and (3) the carefully screened and tested live vaccine of
Dr. Herald Cox of the Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, N. Y., with which selected groups of
Minneapolis, Minn., school children have been inoculated.
Many Advantages?
Up to now, none of the three strains has been tried on a mass scale in the U. S. because a
large percentage of the population already has been vaccinated with the Salk "killed" product.
Nevertheless, Drs. Sabin, Cox, and Koprowski believe that the live polio vaccine is the final
answer to polio. If successful, the advantages are many: Live vaccine costs less; it is easy to
administer in syrup, spray, or pill form; it provides longer immunity; it not only protects against
paralyzing polio, as the Salk shots do, but also against all polio infections.
Another appraisal of live-virus vaccine will be made on July 7 in New York when the National
Foundation, which has supported Dr. Albert Sabin’s research with grants amounting to $1.5
million, will hold a conference to determine its value. The evaluation group, headed by Dr.
Thomas B. Turner of Johns Hopkins University, will include the original committee that
recommended the first Salk-vaccine trials. "Reports from the Sabin live-virus-vaccine trials
appear encouraging," said Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation. "But before
the new vaccine is made generally available, it must be licensed by the National Institute of
Health in Washington. We cannot be sure if and when a live vaccine will be so licensed. In the
meantime, there is only one sensible thing to douse the Salk killed-virus vaccine to the fullest
extent." — Newsweek, June 29, 1959.
Are you confused? We are! We would like to know the truth and we feel that only an impartial
congressional investigation of this entire matter can ferret out the facts.
Editor’s Note: It will be interesting to see when the U. S. Department of Public Health okays a
live Polio Vaccine if at all.
1. Will they wait until the six big drug houses get rid of their immense stock of Salk.
2. Will they O.K. it at all unless the manufacture of it is in the hands of these drug companies.
3. Will they refuse to okay the others and give the go-ahead to the Doctor Cox vaccine,
because it is owned by Lederle Drugs, one of the big six.
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