version of energy to carnal
channels.

ERNEST STARR.

A DOCTOR'S REASONS FOR OPPOSING VACCINATION.

In opposing vaccination I am aware that it is a thankless task to
brave the abuse and antagonism which everyone who attempts to move
forward in the work of medical progress is sure to encounter.

In order that I may not be regarded as prejudiced against the dogma of
vaccination, I will preface my remarks with the confession that I was
at one time myself a confiding dupe of the "tradition of the
dairymaids." While attending medical college I was told that
inoculation with cow pox virus was a certain preventive of small-pox,
and like most other medical students I accepted with childlike faith
and credulity the dictum of my teachers as so much infallible wisdom.
After an experience derived from treating a number of cases of
post-vaccinal small-pox in patients who gave evidence of having been
recently and successfully vaccinated, I awoke to a realisation of the
unpleasant fact that "protective vaccination" was not all that was
claimed for it. I thereupon began a study of the vaccination problem
in all its bearings. After several years of reading, observation and
experience I became fully convinced that "successful" vaccination not
only fails to protect its subjects from small-pox, but that, in
reality, it renders them more susceptible to this disease by impairing
their health and vitality, and by diminishing their power of
resistance.

Personally, I have known of recently vaccinated patients dying from
small-pox while having the plainest foveated vaccine marks upon their
bodies, and I have seen other individuals who had never submitted to
vaccine inoculation have variola in its mildest and most benign type.

In view of such experience I refused to ignore the evidence of my own
senses, and determined to follow the dictates of reason instead of the
dogmas of faith, and have, consequently, for the past fifteen years
refused to pollute the blood of a single person with vaccine virus.

I oppose vaccination because I believe that health is always
preferable to disease. The principle and practice of vaccination
involves the introduction of the contagion of disease at least twice,
and, according to numerous authorities, many times, into the human
organism. The disease conveyed by vaccination causes an undeniable
impairment of health and vitality, it being a distinctly vaccine
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