Osteopathic Truth January 1920 Vol. 4, No. 6 Reproduced with a gift from the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA Special Projects Fund) May not be reproduced in any format without the permission of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine,SM ~atecpatbic ~rutb A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION Pledged to the TRUTH which Father Andrew saw, No favor sways US, and no fear shall awe. Volume IV JANUARY, 1920 Number 6 "We Are Opposed to Vaccination" Dr. A. T. Still VACCINE VIRUS POISONING DR. REID VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES SPREADS THROUGH LUI· VACCINATION AS PREVENT· PHATICS ATIVE OF SMALLPOX. Dr. F. P. Millard of Toronto Makes a To the Editor of the Gazette. Marvellous Discovery Dr. F. P. Millard of Toronto says Sir:-For some time the friends of the lymphatic system is the keynote, medical liberty have been looking for and thllit vaccine virus poisoning political doctors in the United States spreads through the lymphatios, caus­ to take advantage of the opportunity ing diphtheria and allied throat affec­ to work on the popular fears of the tions. people in order to promote the lucra· This is surely a strong point for tive practice of vaccination because of anti-vaccination. the smallpox now existing in Canada. Dr. Millard's lecture, which he gave Our expectations have not been in in Toronto recently, together with the vain, as Dr. Chapin, a Board of Health illustrrutions, will appear in the A. O. physician of Providence, recently A. Journal. We will reprint it for the stated in the Boston Herald and other benefit of non-members of the A. O. A. papers that unless the adult popula­ tion in New England is vaccinated, we stand in great peril of a devastating OLD AND NEW Dr. A. T. Still and Dr. F. G. Cluett smallpox epidemic, because of the ex­ discussing a sacral lesion istence of this disease in Canada. Here goes an Old Year, ready for his May, 1908 The epidemic in Canada has given dying, rise to n(' little controversy over the Fun of days of honor, full of days of subject of vaccination. Enthusiasts lying, In the "early days" of Osteopathy, for the practice as usual have been Full of truth and happiness, and mauy when there was no literature such as busy trying to force vaccination on virtues olden, we have now, every practitioner had everybody, and particularly on school Full of dross and misery, and tri­ to furnish his own. I was writing a umphs shining golden, childI·en. little pamphlet for one of the gradu­ Good night, weary Old Year, we thank In 'Toronto the medical tyrant has you most kindly. ates, who was going out to practice. met with the most strenuous opposi­ Meeting Dr. Still on the street oppo­ tion. The homeopathic profession al­ Here comes a New Year, ready for his site the school one day, I stopped him most to a man has gone on record as opposed to compulsory vaccination. living, and asked his opinion as to the use The osteopathic profession likewise Ringing brilliant promises, happy in of a certain phrase I had used. He has declared against the practice. his giving, read it over carefully and gave it his Full of joyous prospects, singing in To date not one death has been re­ approval, but suggested that I add his JOY, ported from this smallpox epidemic in the words: "and that Nature furn­ Trusting, we accept his gifts, gold and Toronto. Vaccination, however, 4as alloy, ishes within the body all the remedies several deaths to its credit. A few of Good morning, little New Year, we necessary to cure disease." Just a them have come to light, notwith­ must trust you blindly. little point, perhaps, but it shows wny standing the fact that the doctors in -LOUISA BURNS. the "old timers" had such faith in almost every case make it a point to January 1, 1920. Osteopathy. F. G. CLUETT, D. O. shield vaccination from all guilt in Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO • 86 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH death returns. I give below a brief him more susceptible to disease. This 'fAKES Ul' JI. O. H. CHALLENGE account of three typical oases: fact is very clearly demonstrated by 1. Muriel Taylor, age 6 years, 25 comparing the death rate from Influ­ Dr. JJIllarl1 'Will Post $500 to Proyc "'larchmont road, Toronto; previously enza-pneumonia in our much vaccin­ Vacciuatiou Harmful. perfect health, vaccinated Tuesday, ated and inoculated army with that of The challenge of Dr. Hastings, M. November 11; the following Sunday the non-immunized civil population. O. H., contained in his report to the complained of headache and on Tues­ The following facts are disclosed by local Board of Health, in which he day became paralyzed, and Saturday, the United States Rublic Health Serv­ defied anti-vaccinationists to present November 22, died, 11 days after vac­ ice reports. For ten weeks' from Sep­ one single instance in which a death cination. tember 20 to November 29, 1918, the has occurred or, a limb been lost 2. Beatrice Nichols, 10 years old, whole United States, with a population through vaccination, has been taken 57 Fairview avenue, Toronto; a'bout a of 110,000,000, had, according to offi­ up. Dr. F. P. Millard made this. state­ week after vaccination complained of cial estimates 350,000 deaths from in­ ment to The Telegram today: headache; two days later fell into a fluenza, or 318 deaths per 100,000. This "I hereby state that I will give $500, stupor; died Friday evening, Novem­ includes all the ailing, all the 'weak­ to be divided among the charitable in-' ber 21, without regaining conscious­ lings, all the army "rejects," and all stltutions of this city, as a call to said ness. Previous health was quite nor­ the slum population and all sOrts of challenge i~ proven. The only stipu­ mal. Doctors thought death due to treatment-fully one-third did not lation being thi·s: That a committee sleeping sickness or meningitis. have regular medical treatment. of three unprejudiced public citizens Soldiers in camps in United States 3. ' Arthur Smith, age 9, of 8 Dun­ listen to the statements of the be­ -round numbers a~ signing of armis­ vegan road, Toronto; vaccinated at the reaved p'arents, who claim to have lost tice, 1,500,000. Deaths from influenza Fairbanks school, November 7; took children, or have had children disabled for ten weeks as above, 21,994, 01' convulsions N.ovember 20, became un­ through being vaccinated, and base 1,466 deaths per 100,000. Notwithstand­ conscious and died at the Hospital for theil' decision on the statements of ing. the fact that our soldie!'s were Sick Children, November 22, 15 days these parents. picked men, men chosen because of after vaccination. "To state that theoretically no per­ their superior phys1cal qualifications. Here are three children whose lives son ever died of smallpox, but from a men who, as we are 'accustomed to were sacrificed because of medical complication of troubles following reckon ought to show the greatest ignorance, stupidity and tyranny. I , I smallpox is on a l)ar with Dr. Hast­ resistance to disease, yet the death have the facts regarding others whose ings' statement that no person has rate among them was practically three deaths unquestionably were due to the died from vaccination, but complica­ times as great as that of the civilian vaccination epidemic that has been tions arising a few days afterward, population. It should be noted also fostered by the medical profession in "There are in this city at this mo­ that the soldiers had allopathic or Toronto. ment over one hundred children an regular medical treatment, and that ''IIhen medical men manifest such adults in a critical condition: One i on top of a course of vaccination and bigotry, when they refused to give the the 21-year-old son of a medical doc inoculations a little earlier. public the real true facts in the death tor. Two physicians who have ha When we consider these figures are returns in order to bolster up and their fingers cut while vaccinatin we justified in asking what killed so promulgate the dangerous practice of have had a struggle to save thel many men in the army camps in the vaccination it throws the whole pro­ arms. One had to call in three col influenza epidemic. Are we not justi­ fession open to suspicion and distrust. leagues. fied in concluding that the vaccina­ Dishonesty of this sort is all the more "There are a number of men in thi tions, and inoculations, that were despicable because human health, life city, and one 'phoned me last nigh forced upon them had something to do and happiness are at stake. that although 'successfully vacel with lowering theh' vital resistance, People who insist in promulgatillg ated,' they had had severe cases thus making them lUore susceptible to compulsory vaccination have their smallpox in the last big epidemic the disease and its complications, and eyes closed to reason as well as in­ a few years ago. A big lumberm on this account helped to bring about Btinct. The practice of inflicting dis­ told me last week that in his lumb the high death rate among our sol- ease to avoid disease is surely con­ camp, where over, two hundred m diers? - trary to all reason. The pra'ctice of work, everyone had ,been vaccinat The lesson is obvious. Keep your contaminating the blood stream with and almost every man had smallpO blood pure, no matter whether your vaccine virus which, according to the This was in the last epidemic referr desire be to prevent disease 01' to com­ Century dictionary, is "Poison 01' to above."-The Evening Telegra bat disease.