Pamphlets - Homoeopathic: Vaccination, compulsory medicine1907 - Homeopathy |
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Alfred Russel Wallace alleged allopathic animal anti-vaccinationist army attacked authorities bacillus bacteriologists Board of Health body British cause cent cination Cleveland Commission compulsory vaccination confluent contagion cow-pox dangerous death-rate deaths diphtheria doctors effect of vaccine eminent Empire of Japan England epidemic eruption evidence experience fact fatal fever France glycerinized homoeopathic hospital human hygiene ignorance immunity infection inoculation Iowa Italy J. W. HODGE Japan Jenner Leicester London matter medical profession medicine ment mitigation mortality NIAGARA FALLS nurses occurred official patient period physician poison population practice of vaccination preventive vaccination Prof propagating prophylactic protection proved pustules quoted re-vaccination records refused vaccination result sanitary science sanitation says scarification scientific smallpox susceptible syphilis tetanus theory thousands typhoid fever unvaccinated vaccinated persons vaccination has long vaccine lymph vaccine operation vaccine virus vaccinists Variolinum varioloid variolous Wallace Wonderful Century zymotic disease
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Page 27 - ... the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, as well as for eliminating the dangers to life and limb which now surround us.
Page 69 - Pneumonia is a self-limited disease, and runs its course uninfluenced in any way by medicine. It can neither be aborted nor cut short by any known means at our command.
Page 65 - Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities.
Page 101 - The right of personal security consists in a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation.
Page 101 - ... certain rule of living, reduced to this conclusion, that instead of the arbitrary power of a king, we must submit to the arbitrary power of a house of commons? If this be true, what benefit do we derive from the exchange ? Tyranny, my lords, is detestable in every shape ; but in none so formidable as when it is assumed and exercised by a number of tyrants.
Page 6 - ... the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison-bags of reptiles drained of their venom, and all the inconceivable abominations thus obtained thrust down the throats of human beings...
Page 27 - Taking the mortality at 17 1-2 per cent, of those attacked, and the deaths this year in the whole country at 10,000, it will follow that more than 122,000 vaccinated persons have suffered from small-pox ! This is an alarming state of things. Can we greatly wonder that the opponents of vaccination should point to such statistics as an evidence of the failure of the system? It is necessary to speak plainly on this important matter.
Page 27 - There is scarcely, I believe, so great a difference between any two distempers in the world as between the best and the worst sort of small-pox in respect to the dangers which attend them. So true is that common observation that there is one sort in which a nurse cannot kill, and another which even a physician cannot cure.
Page 65 - At a low estimate one can say that at least 150,000 persons die annually in the United States of some form of tuberculosis
Page 32 - Army and Navy, the conclusion is in every case the same: that vaccination is a gigantic delusion; that it has never saved a single life; but that it has been the cause of so much disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and altogether undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by the coming generation among the greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age, and its penal enforcement the foulest blot on the generally beneficent course of legislation during our century.