Life — June 18, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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A Professional Opinion THE EDITOR OF LIFE: Sir: In the columns of Lire for May o there appeared a caomunication from a physician, which, if I remember aright, sSrmed with somewhat of emphasis that vaccination was a procedure entirely without injurious effects. Certain statistics d morality contained in the last report of the Rexistrar-General England and Wales would hardly seem to sustain the cheerful agtimism of your correspondent, and may be worth the consider tion of your readers: 1, During certain years, in England and Waks, more deaths have ben due to “cow-pox and other effects of vaccination” than 'b smollpox—the disease it was intended to prevent. Thus Daring 1889, smallpox claimed 23; vaccination, s8 1890, * 7 16; - a“ + fon * + os: 2 x6 + 1906, + ea; > 20 It true these were exceptional years, and that the mortality from \accination was very small in comparison with the total number vaccinated; it is also true that the mortality (rom the || pore serious disease was considerably less than from the method taken to prevent it 2. Of the seventeen years hetween 1889 and 1906, there were ight sears wherein the deaths of unvaccinated persons from smallyox amounted to 67. During these same years, the deaths infants from cow-pox and other effects of raccination numbered 204. In 1906, for instance, although 29 deaths were charged to vaccination, there was but one death from smallpox ainong the who were unvaccinated in England and Wales, (See 6oth Report, Registrar-General, pp. 36 and 280.) Cow-pox, the disease produced by vaccination, is probaly smallyox modified by transmission through an animal. There is ttle doubt but that its occurrence tends to prevent the more serious ailment; but is not without serious consequences in oc axonal instances. Among dwellers in the slums of great cities vaccination undoubtedly tends to prevent the spread of small pox; among dwellers in the country where a case of smallpox is rot heard of once in a dozen years, the wise man wil! keep the of his children as pure as possible, Any one int ject should read the article oa “Vaccination” in the ia Britannica, ninth edition Puysictax 1908. ‘What Vaccination Does UST to keep the ball moving we give the following from a pamphlet just received : Vaccination, among other evil results, directly causes a great number of diseases. It also increases the malignity of diseases, develops Latent diseases and produces conditions which indi rectly lead to disease. ‘The diseases caused by vaccination in dd Leprosy, cancer, consumption, smallpox, diphtheria, lock jaw, blood poisoning. One witness, Mr, William Tebb, has given evidence before the Iiritish Royal Commission on Vaccination of 6,233 cases of serious injury and 842 deaths due to vaccination, with chapter and verse. (See Third Report, Minutes of Evidence.) Vivisection and the Experimenter TT: THE EDITOR OF Lt Une has but to look over the files of the Journal w Experi menial Zoology to perceive the possbilitics of torturing animals to no sensible purpose Here the eye of the insipid duodecpidos has been separated from it to see whether the eye would regenerate itself! There the Lady of the unprotected shipordorius has licen covered with digcrent colored paints in order to test its color perception: riwise the limbs of the rapiditus are amputated to find out wherher it will discover for itself some other method of locomo- tion, and altogether such silly and painful and purposeless ex- periments are made as would shame the humanity of a thought- less schoolboy Such research work—if it can be so dignined—brings the reteatcher no nearer the real problem of life, but rather alien- ates him from those spiritual influences which touch closer the heart of truth Watrex Soxwenrec, Fast Aurora, N.Y. “TM AFRAID I’m catching cold,” said Kloseman, trying to get some medical advice free. “Every once in awhile I feel an itching in my nose and then I sneeze. What would you do in a case like that, doctor?” “Well,”” replied Dr. Sharpe, “I guess I’d sneeze, too."—Philadel phia Press. "THROUGH experiment and experience — to Goodrich Tires: that is the tire history of thousands of automobilists— but it need not be your history. You can eliminate the experiments and the expense by examining the Goodrich record of service; by learning the road results of the Goodrich “tough tread” and Goodrich “integral construction” on every street and highway in America. Start with a Goodrich equipment and you will finish with it. We shall be glad to explain Goodrich construction and furnish evidence of Goodrich superiority on request. The B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio SHICA > > a ni AS 8 TTL YORK and Bl BOSTON. DENVER Ss 1 F. GOODRICH ¢ DETROIT NCIS 8 of New York. Our Goodrich Solid Rubber Tire GIBRALTAR URANCE The Prudential comicbooks.com