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Vaccination Is a Curse.

Reprint from The Anti-Vaccination News, 19

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OHN PFAENDER, child of healthy Swiss parents, born 23rd September, 1875, was healthy until vaccinated. Was a sturdy and beautiful child, as were all his four brothers and sisters; he walked at the age of nine months.

On the 16th of June, 1876, he was vaccinated by the official vaccinator. Eight days later his feet began to swell, abscesses formed, his teeth began to rot, his glands to swell. Fistulous sores appeared on his hands and feet. He could neither walk nor stand; several bones of his hands had

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when they confess in their journals that the public has almost lost confidence in drugs. Now they must bunco the legislatures in every state to pass laws to run out competitive systems and force the sick to patronize them.

The tendency to make a surgical case out of even trivial ills shows a mercenary motive (which is now being condemned by broad-minded physicians), and riding vigorously the "germ" hobby to further deceive the credulous public, shows their own weakness and is simply driving the public away from them to other systems. This only augments their desperation. The public has been educated to believe that medicine will cure any and everything, if you will only get the "right medicine," and if these doctors could deliver the goods and heal the sick, they would have all they could do, and get their own prices, and competitive systems would stand no show.

No one knows the disappointment to be found in the use of drugs as a healing agent any better than the physician, hence the need of legal protection from competitive systems. They had previously used the cry that "the courts will not convict any one any more for violating their medical law." If the "principle" involved keeps the courts from convicting evident impostors, why should those practicing systems other than medical, upon an honorable basis, in a systematic and business-like way, fear conviction for fool law manifestly unviolating a fool constitutional and gotten up expressly to establish a "trust?" While this bill was in the hands of the Governor awaiting his signature, he gave it out to the press that he questioned the constitutionality of the bill, and I immediately sat down and wrote the Governor the following letter:

"I see that you have questioned the constitutionality of the one board medical bill now awaiting your signature. Allow me to give you an illustration which occurred here in my office, which will bring out a constitutional point better than an hour's con

versation. A woman said: 'Doctor, I have been a sick woman nearly all of my life, and my husband has spent nearly $2,000 on me for operations and medicines, and I have gradually grown worse. I understand that Mrs.

had the same identical trouble and came to you, and you cured her without any operations or medicines, and I want you to take my case.' Now Governor," said I in my letter, "will you please tell me that this woman has not, not only a God-given right, but a right under the Stars and Stripes, to try some other doctor after she survived the bloody knife of the surgeons and took their divers poisons? bill that these doctors are asking you to sign, says she shall not. She must stick to the medical man or die, as you propose to run any competitive systems out of the state."

This

Did this deter the Governor any? He signed it just the same, and now he is endeavoring to cure his diseased stomach by going to a mineral resort. Why does he not try one of those "licensed" drug doctors and get them to cure him? Will any one show me a doctor in the whole State of Texas who can cure his stomach trouble with drugs?

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Spinal Irritation.

Query: Two Osteopaths examined my back some two years ago. One of them treated it with no benefit, and then he called it neurasthenia that had localized itself at that spot, but when he started to treat it he called it a separation of the fourth and fifth lumbar and an anterior curve.

Another Kirksville Osteopath calls it a separation and also a luxation of and between the fourth and fifth lumbar, and he says he can cure it, but I have been fooled so many times I don't rely on them so much any more.

Could neurasthenia stay there that long, or not? What would you do when one Osteopath called it one thing and one called it another? One Osteopath treated it eight months for the dislocation and then called it neurasthenia, and he said if I got off my feet for three months and let it rest I would be cured, but eight months' rest has not cured it, or made any change.-C. D. G., Wisconsin.

Answer: I think the doctors are correct in their diagnosis, judging that from your symptoms. Of course any one suffering from neurasthenia, his weakest point will suffer most. That may partly serve to explain the doctor's opinion that neurasthenia had settled there. But the thing you are mostly interested in is the cure. Well, now!

First, you might go right on and ignore the difficulty. Pay no attention to it-producing a change in the mental relation to it might prove to be a cure.

Second, you might use some persistent local irritation. The use of an ordinary sun glass is sometimes very successful. The sun glass should be held so as to turn the sunlight upon the point where the trouble is, slowly moving around so that it will not blister or burn in places. The treatment may be continued from one to ten minutes, according to the sensitiveness of the skin. There is no use blistering or burning it, although if a very red spot is produced with a scaling off of the skin, no harm will be done.

There are other forms of local irritation, which I will not mention now, but will if I find it necessary. Should you do this, taking no other form of treatment, and should discover that general nerve weakness is a part of your trouble, I cannot help but believe Tissue remedies will be of great assistance to you. I am sure I should be glad to help you, but you must realize, however, I am laboring under a disadvantage to attempt this by correspondence, which is at best only an imperfect way, especially in cases like yours.

Mormons and Medicine.

The Mormons as a people do not make much use of doctors or medicine. They generally believe in what is usually called "divine healing." I clip a passage from "The Elders

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The Proper Method of Injecting Diphtheria Antitoxin.-In injecting antitoxin into a child crying and resisting, one is apt to thrust the needle almost anywhere, and as quickly as possible press the piston, injecting the serum. The ordinary dose contains from one to five cubic centimeters of serum, and the sudden entrance of such an amount into the blood current is likely to have a very depressing effect on the heart. A better way is to take two or three minutes while injecting the serum, and by this means avoid emptying the entire contents of the syringe into the lumen of a vein at once, and causing collapse from the sudden entrance of a foreign substance into the blood current. A little more care exercised in administering this dangerous drug would avoid the distressing experiences sometimes occurring.-Ex.

In my opinion the best way to give injections of diphtheria antitoxin is to not give it at all or else inject it into the doctor. Then if there is any bad result the calamity will fall where it belongs.

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