t-'&Jt
J-?.?I ?; • .-■
m
w&


???£* i:""'t


i!-r 
___________•  .  3____________

 Surgeon General's Office
J;   awnisi
     tjec/eon,........................................
&>
QfQ"l C OCT 25' IIGX.jG'G-QGOOO'
 
 
I 
DR. C. G. G. NITTINGER'S
EVILS  OF  VACCINATION,
C. C.  SCHIEFERDECKER, M. D.
I. Corinthians, iii. <

& O; nt
> jJIJRAUy. ?

  6'//n^tonr
PHILADELPHIA
TO BE HAD OF THE EDITOR, OR AXY RESPECTABLE
     BOOKSELLER IN THE UXITED STATES.

             1856. 
  V/citt
533 Sd
  1856
      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by


              C. C. ScniEFEKDECKEK, M. D.,


In the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
PRINTED BY HENRY B. ASHMEAD,


 OE0R01E STREET ABOVE ELLVENTH. 
DEDICATION  TO THE PUBLIC.
  In presenting and recommending the contents of this little
volume to the friendly consideration of the public in general,
and  physicians in  particular, I  am  perfectly aware of the
terrible outcry that will be raised against  it and me; I also
acknowledge the truth that nobody stands there  in his time,
so perfipct and independent, that he would not  err and sin
with  that time.  I therefore hope I  will be forgiven when  I
am wrong—may he do better who finds fault with the follow-
ing.  It  concerns and aims at the benefit of mankind, and has
thus great claim on the consideration of the people.  It is  a
battle against the faith of more  than half a century, taught
by physicians, upheld by the clergy, and  blindly believed in
by the people. The odds are fearful; yet truth is mighty.
I  only ask for fair play.  Let the struggle be an open and
honest one, not carried on in the sick-chamber of the deceived
people, or with assassin weapons that shun daylight and the
front of  the opponent.
   I have^ibstained from the publication of statistical tubles,
sustaining the contents of this  book, and already prepared,
but will mention their result.
   The increase of the population of the  United States of
America is immense, but it is certainly not owing to causes
that would prove  a  pre-eminently increased healthy state of
the people, because such increase of population depends on— 
IV                    DEDICATION.                       ]

  1, A  healthy power of generation.  2, A strong desire for
generation:  and  3,- Social furtherance of'feneration.
  When we here cannot complain of a  want in these  latter
two requirements, the absence of the first acts very injuriousby,
for notwithstanding the large number of  births, the existence
of a healthy generative power is contradicted:—
  1. On the part of the male: (a) by the greater mortality of
the sex, (1 :  29,) (b) by the inability of men to bear the fatigues
of a campaign, (Mexico,) and (c) by the weakness and liability
to disease of men in general.
  2. On the part of the female:  (a) by the greater mortality
of the sex, (1 : 41,) (6) by the increased sufferings during preg-
nancy, (c) by the frequent premature births, (d) by the mor^
frequently required obstetrical operations,  and (e) by the un-
happy experience that the child-bed becomes generally a "sick-
bed, andoftefi a death-bed;  (formerly  the eighty-first died,
now the twenty-third.)
  3. On the part of the  child: (a) by the fact that the fruit
from such  diseased seed and soil comes  diseased into the
world, (b) that generally one-half of the deaths are those of
infants,  and (c) by the  daily increasing number of still-born
children.
                            C. C. SCHIEFERDECKER, M. D.
Philadelphia, January, 1856.
• 
A WORD  TO  PIIYSICIAXS.
  Vaccination- belongs not to the  " science,"  it is neither a
"remedium," nor even a "remedium  anceps."  It rests  "a
priori"  upon  ignorance;  should  everything  that happens
afterwards in the world, in and on man, belong to Medicine ?
My scientific conscience is not so wide.  What nobody  un-
derstands, is for  nobody  a science.   Vaccination is mere
'• usus."  What nobody knows, so much knows every body; in
vaccination there are neither wise-men nor lay-men, but only
vaccine practitioners and vaccine carriers ; every body who has
five senses, and perceives the  consequences of vaccination, or
feels them even on himself, has a perfect right  to judge of it.
It belongs therefore, more  perhaps, than any other object, on
the broadest basis of publicity, before  that public which offers
its skin for it, and lays at stake its welfare and  life.  While
Medicine slept, vaccination has crept illegally into it; it  has
borrowed the mask of science, aud is neither founded  in  rea-
son, for  poison poisons the healthy, and kills the sickly ;  nor
in nature, for  the instinct abhors it; nor in  physiology, fife
then  the whole doctrine of resorption and eadcrmaty would
be false, it would be (punctum saliens!) the victorious autonomy
of the life-power in the exportation through the skin, an un-
truth; nor in the chemistry, for even a tyro would not pretend
to neutralize acid by acid, alkali by alkali, as the physician,
pox by pox; nor ift the dignity of man, for who  will throw
poison about  him, against the possibly destructive effect of
which he has no antidote ready ?  A young  country-girl  told
the young student, Jenner, who  in  playing with her felt her
blisters, she would never get  the small-pox,  because she  had
 the cow-pox.  More  than  this tradition has  neither the pom-
pous university science, nor anybody  else learned of vaccina-
 tion ;  and our most eminent physicians and surgeons believe,
 but do not-know more than what that  girl  has  chatted with
 the  student in  the  cow-stable.   The  constancy in this faith
 has lasted now some fifty years, and robbed the life's autonomy
 of its crown, and reason of its right.
   Every destructive  poison  can  destroy every organ:  the
 stomach and intestines of one, the urinary organs of another,
 the chest of a third, the senses and joints of a fourth: we see
 this  in  the syphilis, gout, rheumatism, the  vegetable  and
 mineral  poisons.  WhcFc the small-pox poison  settles itself,
 there it produces  its  disease-forms, different according to the
 different bodies and  times.  Is it not much more the duty ot 
VI
A WORD TO  PHYSICIANS.
the medical  world to study the pox-matter, and to explain
by it the singular conditions  of the disease of our  times,
than merely  to  laud its assumed benefits, and  malignantly
scorn at every doubter ?  Without an accurate knowledge  of
the organico-chemical powers, we are never able to penetrate
into the laws of the life-power.
  The question: whether small-pox and cow-pox are identical,
is  sufficiently answered in the  affirmative by a number  of
eminent  physicians, among which  Dr.  Ceely of Ailesbury,
distinguishes himself; but I add here a letter which speaks
unmistakably for itself.

                                 Pruz, Tyrol, October 16,1850.
 ----------------" The identity of the vaccina and variola is beyond any
doubt established by the fact, that in the year of 1846, every one of the child-
ren whom the surgeon F. ... in the valley of Poznau vaccinated, was attacked
by the real small-pox, which infected then the grown-up people. P. . . . was
much troubled by this unexpected circumstance. Among the people rhegrdfctest
indignation was  roused against vaccination, which has spread all over Tyrol.
I, as Imperial Supervising Physician, was often compelled by my official posi-
tion, to inspect this artificial epidemic.
                  Hochexberger, Imperial Supervising Physician."

  Enormous  is the ignorance of the vaccinator, and reaches
the gigantic  height where shame begins;  he can break, but
nbt mend the pot.  Mightily shines the light of the culture  of
natural history^  first,  Astronomy and Physic skinned them-
selves,  then  Mineralogy and Chemistry, then  Botany got
a firm  natural  basis, and finally Zoology.  .New forms  of
thought produced their natural systems ; the searching power
of the human mind solved first the distant questions,  des-
cended from the sun of Copernicus down tfirough the steps of
nature,  and remained standing finally still before, I say before
its own shrine:  humanity.  Man dislikes  nothing more than
self-contemplation.  Instead of emulating, and not remaining
behind  the tfister  sciences,  Medicine built thoughtlessly a
" pons  asinorum," with  vaccine poison, octroyized for the
human  family diseases, and existed, arrogantly simpering  to
this  hour,  without system.   Quackery  has lifted its  head,
builds palaces, and the thermometer and barometer of nations
sinks bodily and mentally.  Man is not such an unconditional
poison-plant, as  names  of diseases the polylogic medical code
enumerates.  How many poison-springs could he then carry
in himself?
  More earnest than ever now, when, in consequence of vacci-
nation, the Oriental free pox-poison, the  cholera, is permitted
to slay " ad libitum," rises the medical sphynx, and asks the
old questions—
  " What is the nature of the  small-pox poison ?"
  How many poisons may the human body produce ?   Which 
A WORD TO PHYSICIANS.
vii
are the interior enemies of human life, the germs of suffering
and death of the human family here on earth ?  And in whal
connection arc they with the element from which we live ?
for whatever contains the laws of joy and life, must also con-
tain those of our pains and death.
n!Lik?ihe wingS of a Sloomy night-butterfly,  a rich colored
thread draws through the labyrinth of the graves of our an-
cestors.  The  symptoms are  only the colors, but the nature,
the seed of the diseases, is winged death, as  he appears in the
principal  results of rational research, and  of  dissections of
different times and  epidemics; as he shows himself to be ani-
mal poison,  viz., small-pox poison, by chemical analysis to our
eyes,  and proves himself as such in the practice.  Look up
from  the death-history of humanity and see into the blue arch
of heaven!  There also, every thing was  to go according to
the almanac, as before according to the  code of disease with-
out sense and plan ?   No!  " Tempora  mutantur,  et 7ios et
animalia  ct plantce et omnis creaiura in illis."  To find out
these mutations, to  observe and  remote the  animal poison, is
the reform-problem.
   The vaccination  cataract will  then be removed from our
eyes,  and the gloomy truth overwhelm us, that there is nothing
more dangerous for -the welfare of men, than a medical opti-
mismus ;  that our bodily sufferings have increased in number
and power, that we  have by vaccination merely spoiled the
form  of disease, and made worse the disease itself.
   I hope for moral and technical support in this war against
the Vaccine Medusa, but fear  I  will now  be traduced and
scandalized as  before, whenever I have spoken honestly my
conviction.
   I wish I had, as Pericles of old, the thunder on my tongue,
and the lightning in my pen, to  rouse the people and science
from  their lethargic sleep.
   Every physician and all  the  people  are  very careful with
the smaller poisons, of which the lowest are—
   1.  The mineral  poisons: arsenic, antimony, copper, subli-
mat,  vitriol, bismuth, concentrated acids, &c.
   2.  The vegetable poisons, particularly the narcotic, prussic
acid,  opium,  hyoscyamus, belladonna, stramonium, hemlock,
toad-stool, &c.
   By the inoculation of these poisons a la vaccine, in the legs
of dogs, cats, of a lamb, in the wings of a pigeon, we are unable
to make them seriously ill.   I offer my own arm for such ex-
periments, if  desired, but I will tight with sword and powder
against the inoculation:
  °3.  Of poisons of living animals, more yet, of their corpses, 
Vlll            A  WORD TO PHYSICIANS.
 (animal poison,) f. i., the glanders of horses, the murrain, the
 saliva of mad  dogs, the fresh pox of cows and  sheep,  the
 cadaverous pox of the vaccination lancet, &c.   These poisons,
 particularly of animals who suckle their young, are absorbed
 by the human fluids and textures with wonderful rapidity, and
 connected  with them  most tenaciously like  rust  and irpn.
 The effect is (a) a primary, stormy, and fatal  one, or (6) a
 secondary, lasting, diseasing one.  The bite of a mad dog,
 often hardly perceptible, produces rabies either at once, and
 is generally fatal; or after two, seven, eleven,  fifteen, twenty-
 one years; syphilis will mix, if not entirely eradicated itself,
 in every  act and disease of after-life.
   4.  Of human jwisons.  We  avoid every one justly, who has
 the itch,  small-pox, lues, nervous  fever, cancer, all contagious
 diseases  in general.  We are afraid  of the smallest wound in
 the skin under such circumstances, and know perfectly well
 the terrible and fatal effects of such impurities, particularly of
 cadavers.
   Consider  then the most  unfortunate  position of a tender
 infant, that cannot struggle and resist.   It is poisoned without
 regard to the above mentioned  circumstances ;  without regard
 to season and  climate; without regard to the condition  of its
 parents; without regard to  poverty and domestic relations ;
 without  regard to good or bad care ; without regard to teeth-
 ing ; without regard  to the  processes of growth and develop-
 ment of  its organs and  systems, which are connected with
 so many irritations in blood and nerves ;  without regard to
 the tendency of the infantile body to receive not only readily,
 external  influences of  every kind, but also to oppose  them
 violently; without mercy, because the vaccinator understands
 of what  he does, not more than the vaccinated infant;  with-
 out knowledge of his vaccine matter, for the vaccinator takes
 what he  has, and gets—
   a. Fresh vaccine lymph,
   b. Cadaverous vaccine lymph,
   c. Pure humanized lymph,
   d. Cadaverous humanized lymph,
   e. Impure, depraved,  humanized lymph;  viz., such which is
 taken from children who are diseased from birth ;
  /. Cadaverous, humanized, depraved lymph, which is pre*
 served in the vaccine bottle.
   Without an idea whether the lymph contains strong or weak
poison, delves the vaccinator the' lymph he has, into the open
 wound of the infantile  arms.
   Pause, O physician!  reflect before  you destroy I   Your
 responsibility is terrible.   The human body is the temple of
 God, you are its earthly guardian. 
INTRODUCTORY.
  P. Mabillon tells us, that he who made a valuable
present to a cloister, got a box on the ear as a receipt.
The  greater the value of such a present, the harder
was the box.   The church gave, therefore, every one
who  presented a new truth, standing  as a  spiritual
good far  above the material, for a receipt, cuffs and
boxes,  which not unfrequently resulted in death.  In
the same manner, she acknowledged the lighting of
far better lights than her  common wax candles, with
kindling  funeral  piles.   Every one who  tells a new
truth,  may, therefore, very naturally  expect  to be
treated with boxes and cuffs;  He, the  only one who
never  said anything  but the  most sublime truths,
received  in Jerusalem blows and death.
   It is  an ominous fact, that the Medical  Science
was  always either entirely arrogated  by the priest-
hood,  or, when  given into the hands  of a  distinct
class,  its followers would find  it their interest to
league with the priesthood.  This will easily explain
Avhy the  Medical guild, imitating their older and
more experienced confederates, would  also  seek to
hide themselves  behind a veil  of sanctimonious mys-
tery, and pay  every one who dared to touch this veil
by truth, with the same coin the church did.   '• The
       1 
2                 INTRODUCTORY.
Science," par excellence, remained jesuitically con-
tent, in regard to the people, with the literal expla-
nation of the word,  know thyself,  without being
willing to teach this  knowledge ; and even now every
public lecturer or writer on matters pertaining to our
bodily welfare, is abused and persecuted.   This has
been  my fate ever since I left the old trodden path
of scientific mummery, and tried to teach the people
simple and  wholesome truth by word  and deed;  it
will be my fate doubly now, when  I  in these pages,
expose the criminal guilt  of the faculty, in not only
not opposing the introduction of vaccination, but in
executing it themselves on the  innocent offspring of
their time.  The  physicians  cannot now plead igno-
rance of  its  ruinous effects, for daily observation
shows them  to the most painful  extent.  They can-
not excuse themselves with its legality; for in Spain,
the inquisition; in France, the torture; in Germany,
the cutting off of  hands, and tearing out of  tongues;
and here  in  America, the  burning of witches,—was
also  lawful!  and yet, they all  have fallen into the
dismal abyss of execration in their flight before en-
lightened  reason!
  The non-use of reason in the  Medical  Science, is
the cause  of its want  in positive progress.   The pre-
sent  sheet-anchors   of  the practice—venesection,
leeches, vomitives,  purgatives, iodine,  quicksilver—
do they satisfy real science ? or are they able to ex-
orcise death ?  Why, then,  the continued fruitless
hunting for  new and absurd remedies, even of the
most disgusting character, viz. liver oil, guano, urea? 
INTRODUCTORY.                 3
Why do  even physicians  resort to quack  nostrums,
or to such  most ridiculous hallucinations  as that of
Hunter's inhalations of vitiated air in consumption ?
No science has yet been degraded  by its own  vaga-
ries so deeply as the Medical.
   Every science  develops  itself  in  three periods:
the first  is that of blind faith ;  the  second, that of
smart sophistication; and the third, that of sober in-
vestigation.   The  religious  period  of  science, for
instance, in regard to  the treatment  of  small-pox in
later times, was vaccination ; the sophistic  period, re-
vaccination, scar theory, and a vaccine table system.
Let us now solve the last problem; for as  long as we
renounce experience, which creates knowledge, we ban-
ish real science, (Liebig,) and favor the ascendancy of
every trumpet humbug.
   The object of this pamphlet, is to prove vaccination
to be nonsense before reason—a miserable illusion, in
a scientific point of view, and, in regard  to history,
the greatest  crime that  has  been  committed in this
last century.  The truth of these positions I have
asserted these last fifteen years, and wherever I could,
I have saved infants from this  cruel poisoning;  but I
felt myself so alone already,  on account of my  cura-
tive views, that I would not write on  the subject, be-
cause  I  could hardly expect  that any good  would
come  from my single-handed protest.   But  what
I have felt,  and  what  I have preached  for years,
now shakes with thunder-sounds  the  proud walls of
senseless self-sufficiency  and lethargic  routine.  In
the heart of Europe, a great and good man, Dr. Nit- 
4
INTRODUCTORY.
tinger, regardless of abuse and  malice, has told in
mighty words the truth :
  "By vaccination, humanity has progressively lost:
(a,) in number, (b,) in quality and life-duration,—the
diseases have gained in  number, power and (c,) tena-
city ;" and while  in  humble gratitude I pray to the
Almighty to speed his  work, I  have translated, ex-
tracted and adapted his book for publication in this
country.   May the faculties of this country, like those
of France  and Germany, as well as all the  laymen,
ponder well over  its hints;  and'may the  work thus
begun in this country, be continued and finished by
abler hands than  mine.
  Meanwhile,  I beg every  parent who  is requested
by a physician to have his child  vaccinated, to put to
him the following questions :
  1. Do you know the nature of the small-pox  poi-
son ?   (No!)
  2. Do you know the nature of the vaccine poison ?
(No!)
  3. Do you  know how, in  vaccination, both work
upon and against each other ?  (No !)
  4.  Can you deny that vaccinating is poisoning ? and
excuse it because destruction does not always follow
a senseless method ?
  5.  Have you got sure remedies against the small-
pox ?—and  if you have poisoned my child—against
the vaccine-poison ?—or, will you satisfy me with the
consolation, that kind  Nature  will  often bear  and
conquer the most terrible consequences of the most
senseless treatment ? 
INTRODUCTORY.                5
  G. Every tradesman  knows  his tools, materials
and rules,—have you a criterion for vaccination ?
  7. And what nobody knows,  you call  method ?—
science?—or  even archivic physiology?
  8. Can you deny, that not every agent produces in
every man the same effect ?
  0. Can you  tell  me, why whole countries have,
without vaccination, remained free from small-pox-
epidemics ?
  10. Can you deny that, since 1846, the small-pox-
cpidemic progresses  incessantly ?  Has vaccination
held back the small-pox even a hair's breadth ?  Have
you any  other remedy to  oppose  that scourge with,
but the deceptive one now in use ?  or do you believe,
that on the Bank of Disease and  Death, a paper— .
the receipt for a vaccination-fee—will be received for
full payment ?
  11. Is, in the history of mankind, vaccination the
only and isolated  case, that a whole century or  a
nation has believed,  judged and undertaken  things,
which we do not believe, judge  quite differently and
never undertake ?
  12. Can you deny that absurdity reigns without
logic ?  and that many a victim has appeared before
 tod's throne  without his time having run out ?

                  C. C. Sciiieferdecker, M. D.
1* 
 
THE
EVILS  OF VACCINATION.
  § 1.  The  flourishing condition  of a  country  de-
pends principally on the  number  and well-being of
its  inhabitants.  Whatever decreases these, is  an
enemy.   The  greatest mischief has been  done  by
sanguinary wars and epidemic diseases;  to  take pre-
cautionary measures against  these hostile interfer-
ences in the  happy progress of nations, is the duty of
governments and individuals, and requires prudence,
power and courage.
  In our exciting times, when the  peace-tired people
call everywhere for warlike preparations, the medical
staff should also arouse themselves from their lethar-
gy  for  a struggle  with  the sneakingly  spreading
enemy of the internal and external small-pox, which,
as I intend to show below, is the source of most of our
misfortunes. The bloody wars, the most fatal epidemics,
have never caused such dreadful devastations among
nations, as the small-pox, when we consider that  for-
merly, this  disease slaughtered in Europe,  yearly,
near half a  million of victims.  Is it to be wondered 
8           the evils of vaccination.
 at, then, when  the  layman,, who  only with difficulty
 conquers his instinctive aversion against vaccination,
 looks anxiously at the effects around him, where •mall-
 pox-cases are daily increasing; when he begins to
 distrust the preventive, which has deceived him once,
 and deceives him again in the re-vaccination; more
 yet, when under the eyes of the observing physician,
 the poison in its first stages, in its germ,  growth and
 bloom,  diseases whole families, and now every where
 clearly approaches the time of harvest ?
   Not  the  small-pox, appearing  in proper  form on
 the surface, is now to be feared; but the matter, that
 disturbs, paralyzes and destroys the inner and higher
 organs, which, without developing its power outward-
 ly, remains in our interior  shut up, is the most dan-
 gerous enemy.   A man looks well, and is apparently
 healthy, but the poison has penetrated his vitals,  and
 insidiously undermined the supports and organs of
 life,  till  its fruits are ripe, and death  reaps the har-
 vest.   Should not,  under  such  circumstances,  the
 physician be startled up from his easy couch of inher-
 ited  faith on the preventive power  of vaccination ?
 Should  he  not, free from authorities and  oracles,
 scrutinize more  thoroughly the history of Medicine,
 and dive deeper into Nature and  her work, in order
 to gain, in  the  extraordinary presence, that know-
 ledge and direction,  for which he can answer in the
future before science and  those who honor him with
 the most sacred  trust ?   Faith is not Science.
   § 2.  I know I have to  travel  a  hard road!   It
 leads me among the Pietists and Fanatics of Medi- 
TnE evils of vaccination.           9
cine;  and the clamor against him who condemns the
sacred institute of Vaccination, will be like the roar-
ing of those who defend the faith  on other mystical
fallacies.  I feel, like Sarcone, that I am a  physician
and a man.   The difficulties of art, and the limits of
the human  mind, circumscribe  me.  But, whatever
may be the consequence, I shall be happy, if I have
marked the first lines for the work of medical libera-
tion, which others may and will finish.  Every hint
at a new truth in the healing art, is a benefit for the
human family !
   To  proscribe and  to prevent Vaccination,  is the
object of these pages.  For this object, I propose to
prove, in the shortest possible  manner, the truth of
the following three conclusions :      •
   I.  Vaccination appears before the tribunal of Rea-
son as Nonsense !
   II. Vaccination shoivs itself in the light of Science,
as a miserable Illusion !
   III. Vaccination proves itself, in the history of hu-
manity, to be the greatest crime  committed in this
 last century!
                 FIRST THESIS.

  vaccination before the tribunal of reason.

  § 3.  To restore order and equilibrium, power was
always counterpoised by power, courage by courage,
prudence by prudence; overweight by counterweight, 
10
the evils of vaccination.
and everybody understood, why one poison should be
annihilated by  a counter-poison—an  antidote.   In
our century a new idea, entirely unique, sprang up.
Nobody knew an antidote against the small-pox ; but
the poisoned lancet was thrown into the scale of life,
sunken  with small-pox-poison,  and vanity triumph-
antly glorified the act.  Pox-poison must drive out
pox-poison; Satan must drive out Satan !
   The pure human being, free from diseased matter,
the innocent  infant, is poisoned and consoled with
the Mephistophelic  declaration: "Now,  it will cer-
tainly not get the  small-pox!"  The  unfortunate
being, who has already the  poison in his  body,  re-
ceives more of the  same poison,  and is taught the
arithmetic of«witches, and told that "twice one  is
none," and that the poison of the body is somehow
or other swallowed and "digested" (Dr. Heime) by
the poison of the lancet.   This  miraculous  thing,
which does not  make unclean the clean, nor cleanses
the unclean; which is a poison, and yet protects both
from  its own  effect;—this miraculous  thing, which
acts ail-mightily in every period of evolution and in-
volution, in the infant  as in the adult, in the woman
as in the man, in the weak, scrofulous constitution,
as in  the iron one, and in every part of the world;—
this  miraculous thing  is a "protective poison," like
Moloch,  a God in  whose arai£ the  infant  suffers,
sickens  and dies.
   Of this universal  healing wonder of mankind,  we
do not yet know any but injurious  and fatal effects !
Its most celebrated friends could not help but to  ac- 
the evils of vaccination.
11
knowledge this; and we bless yet a poison as a reme-
dial  agent which  we  sow in joyful faith, to weep
rationally  over the damage  done  by it.  We  flee
before syphilis and avoid the  itch;  and yet their
contagious principe in  its innermost nature, is a near
kin  to the  small-pox,  with the only difference, that
the last is far more destructive than the former.  If
the strongest poison—that of the small-pox—protects
from small-pox, then, without appearing paradoxical,
syphilis  must protect  from syphilis, itch from itch,
plague from plague;  and its  inoculation should be
insisted upon in all well-regulated communities.  Pid-
gcons, inoculated  on the breast, get the most beauti-
ful vaccine-pustules, syphilitic and itch-ulcers.  Why
should we, then, be so one-sided and partial with the
vaccine ?
   § 1.  Like  the  odor of musk,  and  the  color of
cochineal, the  small-pox-poison divides itself won-
derfully ;  penetrates  everywhere; clings  to  every-
thing—to clothes,  furniture,  beds, walls, domestic
animals, to everything on which the exhalation  can
fasten itself;  neither  air nor time destroys it.  This
poison, then,  whose atomically smallest quantity, for
which even a  Homoeopathist  could  not find a number,
which the governments try to keep off by police-mea-
sures of the strictest character, must, according to law,
be incorporated in the delicate inner economy of the
human body, even of the tender infant; and this, not
 Ilomceopathctically, but  the  full  fresh matter, the
 more the better  for  the well-being of the  human
 family !   A merely cursory look  into history, shows 
12
the evils of vaccination.
us that Leprosy came  to  an  end; afterwards, the
Plague also; Syphilis lost its epidemic character, &c.
Have human  exertions done this ? or does, in the
nature of these evils, also lie the foundation and dura-
tion of their existence? and has everything its time ?
  How shall I comprehend that, like those contagious
diseases, the small-pox will  also dissolve  itself and
disappear, if the poison is kept in the body artificially,
as a standing article, by continued  inoculation.
  Let us suppose that the cow-pox-lymph be, what it
is certainly not, a perfectly harmless matter, for the
reception of which we in fun reach out our arms: who
can give us security, that in vaccination and re-vacci-
nation,  no  other  diseased matters  are  introduced
into our bodies ?  But  as  the vaccine-poison is, was,
and will remain, from  its first origin, nothing else
but a poison  of a  narcotic  character, which,  in  its
divisibility, exceeds  even  prussic acid, must we then
not ask, Avhether  we,  under  all circumstances,  can
bring it into our body with impunity ?
   In  regard to the smaller poisons: itch,  syphilis,
nervous fever, cancer, the  public and physicians are
very careful with a  little cut, the  least scratch, the
bite of  a leech,  a plaster, and particularly with the
lancet for venesection, because everybody  knows the
terrible consequences from any such neglect; expe-
rience teaches,  " that, if a  lancet, besmeared with
matter fresh out of  a small-pox pustule, is immersed
into  a vein, the  same effect is produced, as when  the
small-pox poison is brought into inner organs."
   The  symptoms  of vaccination are those of intoxa- 
the evils of vaccination.          13
tion,  often  similar  to  those of poisoned  wounds:
fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, swelling  of glands, vehe-
ment local  inflammation,  &c.;  nature  clearly  ex-
presses  her  indignation against the unnatural intru-
sion.  In the face of such experience, and against
the conclusions of my  own  reason, I am  asked to
have faith, ami to be content, in the simplicity of my
heart, with this paradox:
   " Small poisons, brought in the least  scratch, are
injurious ; they poison, and must be carefully avoided;
but  the  greatest  of  our  poisons, brought  into  the
body by 6,  8, 12, 18 lancet-cuts, are not  only not
injurious, but they cannot do any harm,  they never
have done,  and they never will do harm; this faith
is the faith  of the country, and must not be attacked
by the conclusions of miserable reason.   To call the
excitement  of the body, after vaccination, a violent
indignation  of nature, is wicked: it  is the incompre-
hensible act of transubstantiation, in which the bodily
poison is swallowed and  digested by the lancet-poi-
son, and man  rises out  of such digestion purified
from the small-pox-poison."
   This  is one of  those  theories, of which Goethe
says  that they are grey,  and Hamlet that  they are
not true.  If I would  assume that a rational  being
or  government intended  to  poison  first  everybody,
in order to cure them afterwards, all the world would
call me mad; and yet governments order every year
thousands of people to bo  poisoned  by small-pox-
poisons,  and are in ecstasies about the progress  and
blessings of art.   Nobody calls this madness ! 
14          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
                 SECOND THESIS.

   VACCINATION  BEFORE TnE TRIBUNAL OF TRUTH.

   § 5. Have we gained or lost by vaccination ? Should
 we continue to vaccinate and be vaccinated ?
   In the large cities of the United States of America,
 and all over the old settled parts of this country, a
 not-vaccinated person is  of seldom  occurrence;  but
 we find a great many who have been two, three, four
 and  five  times  vaccinated.  Should  we  then  not
 rightly expect that  this country, before  all others,
 should distinguish itself by the remarkable  healthi-
 ness  of its  younger generation,  and that it should
 shine a beacon-light for  those  millions who cither
 vaccinate not at all, or at least very carelessly ?  How
 ashamed those stupid barbarians must be ! how beau-
 tiful in growth and face the wise American,—and how
 misformed,  pock-marked,  wasted, sickly the Greek,
 the Oriental, the Mexican, and all barbarians must be,
 who do not immolate themselves and  their children to
vaccination ?  The fatigues of a campaign, the expo-
sure  to deprivation  in  the wilderness,  and in  the
common life-scramble of social relations, should  not
leave  an impression on such youthful heroes of art,
while  those, who laugh at vaccination, are so able  to
bear already so much !
  But is this so ?  The unfortunate remaining few of
 the soldiers that went to Mexico, tell a terrible  tale
 of the contrary ! While the vaccinated English and
 French in the Crimea, are decimated by the smallest 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          15

exposure, the  not-vaccinated Turks and Russians
bear up under the same  circumstances  with  great
elastic tenacity!  While in Africa, the source of the
small-pox, some die of it, we are thinned by the ter-
rible consequences of vaccination:  small-pox,  itch,
typhus, and every kind of pustule-diseases, many of
which^were  entirely unknown, before  vaccination
came in use.
   There is  a happy configuration and  management
of the soil here ; the population is not densely packed
as in  other  countries; we  do  not  live  under  the
pressure of poverty,  of famine, or  other  particular
calamities: there was no war in our midst, and the
Mexican campaign was not  an  exhausting one; we
enjoy liberty;  marriages do not find obstacles:  thus,
every favorable  element  concurs for a  prosperous
physical progress;  and yet  we have not  gained in
a  healthy development of the  body, but we  have
clearly lost.  Every new generation hastens forwards
to bodily destruction, as  if a worm was secretly
gnawing at  the root of  life.  This worm is  the
small-pox poison: the genuine as well as  the inocu-
lated vaccine.   Its  existence, without external pus-
tule, is proved by chemistry;  and its removal out of
the reach of the human organization, not its increase,
is  asked from true science.   Art should remove it by
scientific care ;  Nature ejects it by pustular and  other
eruptions.  It  is truly a pity,  that at present few
only bring their poison to the surface, and thus have
a short struggle, which is remunerated  by durable
health  afterwards.   The  life-process  of  the "fluids 
16          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
and of the nervous system, is so much interfered with
and weakened by the steady working  of the poisoning
method of vaccination,  that  a great  many of the
people have become  too miserably feeble to drive the
tough small-pox-poison out of the system.  The poi-
son continues to be produced in the hearth of diges-
tion ;  uninterrupted by scientific interference, it  re-
mains  in  the interior  organs,  paralyzes  and under-
mines  the whole  machinery of the human organism,
appears to the superficial observer, in various forms
of diseases of the sensibility, as well as of the irrita-
bility, re-production, secretion, and propulsion.  The
same  poison produces in different  organs and sys-
tems, in different bodies, families, nations, and zones,
different effects, but gives always the  diseases, par-
ticularly  those of children,  a malignant character.
This is the  absolutely sole  and satanic protection,
vaccination ever offers.
   § 6.   "But,"  says Professor Dr. von Rapp,  "you
charge  vaccination  with  various  injurious  effects,
which  cannot properly be imputed  to  it.  The dis-
eases which you attribute to vaccination, have  already
existed long before; or,  if they are only now more
accurately distinguished, they ought not to be derived
from vaccination!"
   I assert, and am ready to prove, that the small-
pox-poison and the vaccine-poison are identical.   As
long as this  fact  is  not  clearly .refuted,  and as long
as it is not proved that  both of these poisons are of
an essentially different nature, so  that the  one can
serve'as the  antidote of the other, so long is it indif 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.         17
ferent hoiu much of injury in a disease is to be attri-
buted to one  or the  other.  They both together do
injury, only  that, in the one  case, the  injury is a
natural struggle for health, while in the other, of vac-
cination, the  injury is a culpable act  of  man.  The
variety of injury is far greater and more extensive
than above mentioned, for it is infinite, incalculable.
There is not one medicinal poison that has only one
effect, and the vaccine-poison  would  alone be  an
exception!
  If we, for instance, look at the multifarious effects
of tartar emetic in  different doses:  pustules, other
eruptions,  nausea,  sickness, pain  in  the  stomach,
vomiting, diarrhoea, cholera,  perforation  of the sto-
mach and intestines, colic,  inflammations and  pa-
ralysis, gangrene, affections  of the nerves, muscular
weakness, suffering in the breast  and head,  disturb-
ances of the senses  and  mind, palpitation,  asthma,
congestions, hemorrhage, fever, &c, &c.; if we con-
sider  the legion of symptoms produced by a narcotic,
should we then believe that  the  most  subtile poison
which exists under the sun, the most powerful poison
that tyrannizes the  whole earth, would  not possess
the greatest power and multiplicity of  effect ?
  " Very well, but all those diseases you  impute to
vaccination, have existed before," &c.
  The forms,  I will grant,  have existed; the con-
struction of the human organism does not change;
the nature of  diseases remains always the same, and
the necessary  crises  follow  always  the  same laws.
Every difference we see,  consists only  in  the  dif-
                        2* 
18          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
ferent  reflexes.   There  were,  and  will always  be,
different  kinds of vomiting,  without tartar  emetic.
Unfortunately, there  are many pathologists  who
will  treat diseases according to their symptoms, as
Linne* the plants, after their filaments. In the attempt
at the removal of human miseries, it is most impor-
tant to look for their seed,  their origin.  He  who
says: fire is fire, lies under a mistake! for wood,—oil,—
pitch,—alcohol fire, each of them requires a different
means  for extinction, yet fire existed always,  but  not
the  knowledge of  its nature,  its seed  and origin.
He  who pours water  on burning  oil, commits  no
greater wrong than the physician who treats diseases
by system  only, their  foundation may be the small-
pox-poison  or not.   The  most  simple  disturbance
of the  stomach, produced by  this poison, can thus be
driven into the most violent nervous fever, in  con-
sumption.   Can we then  console ourselves with  the
reflection, that nervous fevers and consumptions have
existed before? The  forms  have existed, and  will
remain the same, but  the causes change, and deter-
mine the  weal and  the wo of the  end, and  the
manner of the active interference of the physician.
Where the  effects of tartar emetic are visible, there
we have a  tartar emetic disease before us, be it in-
flammation, spasms, cholera,  or  pustules: should we
here, although these disease-forms have existed before,
and although  these  forms  have  been  successfully
treated with tartar emetic and  ipecac,  again  pre-
scribe  tartar  emetic?—Most assuredly not!—And
precisely so it  is with the smallpox!  Wherever in 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
19
a  disease-form  the  small-pox-poison  is  active  and
visible,  or only discernible by the symptoms, there
we have a small-pox-disease before us, be it pustules,
gastro-malaria, croup, whooping-cough, cholera, spinal
affection, consumption, &c, &c.  As little as we would
cure vomiting, as above said, with tartar emetic, we
would pretend to cure small-pox with small-pox, or
with things that have affinities with  the  small-pox,
viz.: whey, milk, beer, bad potatoes, and such things.
Every  contagious  disease  must  continue  to exist,
although  time  may change its form even,  till the
remedy is found for its destruction:  its momentary
disappearance is not  more than an  optical delusion
of the  mind.   I therefore  must  certainly acknow-
ledge, that sufferings  arising from small-pox-poison
have always existed, but that is the very reason why
we ought to be constantly on the  look-out for it.
   Since the more general introduction of vaccination
 among  the people, diseases have slowly increased;
 for we  find on the Elysian fields of Pathology, besides
 the old and current diseases, a  crop of other diseases
 springing up, partly  entirely new, partly the usual
 ones with malignant character and unusual tenacity,—
 all of  which  have  clearly  their  foundation in the
 small-pox-poison, and require quite a different cure-
 method.
   The  following is a rapid glance at the pitiable ac-
 quisition of our century, which may produce at least
 one good effect: " that it will lead to reform in Medi-
 cine, and call the attention  of observers and thinkers 
20          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
to an examination of the immense  area, the small-
pox-poison now occupies:

           1. Diseases  of the Sensibility.
   The English, who have  brought  vaccination into
existence, have felt their blunder first in its progres-
sive destruction; they always precede us warningly
with the punishment of terrible scourges, like angina,
croup, typhus, softening of the stomach, putrid fever,
cholera,  and  of other internal small-pox forms.  And
we ?—of course—wTe follow !
   About  fifty  years after the  first vaccination  in
England, Dr. Home complains :
   " That the formerly  more frequent inflammatory
diseases have decreased, but that the number of those
of an  opposite character  have immensely increased.
The first, of which Sydenham speaks so much, do not
at all exist in London  any more; and  in  Edinburg
there is hardly  seen a right  strong inflammatory
fever.   The  lingering putrid, or nervous fever, [ty-
phus nervosus,) is most  common;  and what is parti-
cularly remarkable, this  slow fever attacks principally
persons of an age which is  generally most  prone  to
strong inflammatory diseases, viz., the years from 18
to 30.   This  increase of such debility-fevers is clearly
the consequence of the fact, that  the people are get-
ting every day less vigorous and weaker  in  general,
&c."
   Everywhere, where vaccination was introduced, tho
same unhappy state of the human organism became
visible ; and the longer and the more extensively peo- 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          21
pic indulged in this luxury, the clearer began physi-
cians to write on typhus, which follows  vaccination
like its  shadow, from place to place, from station to
station.  A general  weakness  of the muscles  and
nerves is thrown  over all the people that  worship the
Moloch of vaccination.   The slightest affection, if not
very tenderly touched,  takes  soon a nervous  turn,
gets gangrenous, and  laughs the physician in  the
face.  It  is  most painful to observe the continued
increase of spinal irritations, curvatures of the spine,
palsies, chronic  nervous sufferings,  insanity, melan-
choly, suicide,  mental  debility and softening of the
brain,  apoplexy, hypochondry,  hystery,  dizziness,
cramps, neuralgias,  ischias,  tic,  nervous headache,
disturbances of the  senses, amaurose, hard  hearing,
general weakness, want of reaction  in diseases,  loss
of sleep, &c.

           2. Diseases of the Irritability.
   Sensibility and Irritability are  fellows!  There-
fore, weakness of muscles, particularly of the  invol-
untary, which stand  near the inner life;—trembling,
rheumatic, gouty, stiff, contracted,  useless members,
pains  in  hip  and   back,  swellings  of  the  bones,
caries,  kc.

          3. Diseases of the Reproduction.
   The  stomach !  the stomach! and always the stom-
ach ! yet once more!  the stomach plays the part of
the hero  in this present drama.  The  digestion is
miserable, I would rather call it hysterical.  Phlegm, 
22          TEE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

acidity,  bitterness,  heart-burn,  flatulence, worms,
carrion-stools,  bad urine,  constipation,  diarrhoea,
pressure, cramp, vomiting, softening of the stomach,
dysentery, typhus  (small-pox  of  the  intestines) cho-
lera, a  pitiable condition of  the sexual  organs  in
males  and females, queer  appetite  and  sleep—'all
these exist  and alternate with each other in Babylo-
nian mixture.

           4.  Diseases of the Secretion*
  The spleen suffers preeminenily, and reminds us of
the diseased condition of the milt in domestic animals}
next, the liver and other glands, particularly the mu-
cous-preparing glands of the inner coating, in conse
quence of which, whooping-cough, croup, hectic con-
sumption, influenza, scrofula,  dropsy, chlorosis and
scorbut, are so frequent.   The itch has emancipated
itself from the "scientific itch-mite;" syphilis seems
to assume again the exanthematic character.   Both
show an immense number of infected victims; both
like  the company of the small-pox-poison; and all
three give away to the same remedies.   The skin, in
fortunate cases, breaks out in  many sharp eruptions,
viz., pustules, papulae, tetter,  exanthems, furuncles;
the miserable urinary organs  help themselves some-
times by urinous,  the  intestines by hsemorrhordal
discharges, of a certain degree of heat and acridity.

            5. Diseases of Propulsion.
  The human heart shows itself here  most clearly as
the  organ  of  feelings.   Happiness,  joy,  pleasure, 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          23
emotion, affection, passion, inclination, longing, have
lost their poetical rose-color; a more dark, melancho-
lic tendency has  entered the chambers of life.  In
the same manner, as the stomach does its unpleasant
soccage-service, does the heart its duty of driving on
the blood-circulation, with reluctance and difficulty.
The blood has become blue-black, weak and thin ; the
serum greenish;  bleedings are frequent; there is an
inclination to mortification, passive  congestions, pal-
pitations, piles;  all fevers and momentary symptoms
change  quickly, and the  corpses turn soon blue and
putrid.
   § 8.  All these disturbances in the happy, healthy,
lively interchanges between the organs of man, have
existed  and will exist.  But  as  the bite of a good or
bad dog, is to  be judged, not according to external
aspect,  but according to the tooth that did bite: we
must also in diseases of our times recognize the mask
of a poison, which spreads desolation, sickliness, mis-
ery, pains, tears, and often  premature death among
the  people.   The  fresh and blooming grave of the
virgin,  the noble courage and strength of the young
man, withej* away under  its  secret influence.   Often
do we see a young corpse, but not the fatal weapon!
Call it  the genuine, or the vaccine-poison—enough!
it is in  various ways the fox-poison.   Such misery is
prevented, when Nature or Art succeed in throwing
the poison from the interior  to the surface ;*  and this

  * As most signally in the case of Mrs. J. L----y here in Phila-
delphia, by the breaking out of a most violent attack of small-pox,
and in very many other cases I had here in my hands.—Dr. S. 
24
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
most radically, in its true original form as small-pox,
or in bastard-form of  any other  matter-expulsion.
The strength of the body used  up in the sirocco of
fever, is seldom able to  drive the matter out by urine,
sweat or in hemorrhoidal crises.  Nature generally
and tyrannically calls for pus.   Nature  is in small-
pox fully satisfied with suppuration, and blooms after-
wards only the more beautifully.  The bastard-forms:
pustules, itchy and tettery eruption, boils, furuncles,
gum-boils, suppurated, glands, sore fingers  and feet,
appear often  as after-crises, the favorable  influence
of which, for health, ought to be higher valued than
it is.  Nature does not higgle with herself; she pun-
ishes, when  it is done with the  above-mentioned ills,
for .the natural law revenges itself by natural punish-
ment.
  Well  then!  will we  rouse Nature further yet to
rebellion, by vaccination ?   Will we further defy her
clearly-announced law ?   Let it be granted for a mo-
ment that we could do it, while we really cannot do
it: would we then  be irresolute in the choice between
a mark in the face, and a deep drought of the suffer-
ings  of life ?  A  silly girl might, perhaps, fear the
small evil, because she sees it, and choose  for it thou-
sand times greater ones, which she sees not and knows
not.   But should the  physician immolate  at the altar
of cosmetics, the  happiness of life and families ?
The present  mode of treatment, and the  progress of
medicine in  this  respect, lessens the fear of disfigu-
ration very much ; the method of shutting the  patient
up in hot beds and rooms with his disease-exhalations 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          25
—of letting  his dry lips languish for water, and his
burning, parched skin bake in fever, is forgotten, and
has made  room  for a  more rational, cooling treat-
ment, by means of which an intelligent physician can
prevent almost, if not quite  entirely, the disfiguring
effect of the disease.   But so long as the Chinese write
with their present signs, so long is their progress im-
possible ; and therefore, give  the physician a different
education.   Be not mystified yourself by illegible
signs and unintelligible sounds.
  § 9. Our present population give us the best oppor-
tunity for drawing comparisons in  regard to the  influ-
ence of Vaccination.  We can divide our fellow-beings
into three classes:
  1. In those  of from 1 to 25 years of age; nearly
all vaccinated,  and many re-vaccinated.
  2. In those of from 25  to 50  years of age;  born
here,  and  mostly vaccinated,  and some   re-vacci-
nated ; and
  3. In those of from  50 to 80 years of age, not at
all vaccinated in  childhood.
  Let us now compare the  last  class with the first
and  second.   Justice  is the basis of society.   The
people of this  third class  can and shall sift the pre-
sent and the past, solve doubts,  clear  up  darkness,
and honor  truth, whether  their children and grand-
children have gained or lost on strength, fullness and
well-being  of life, by Vaccination.  And  truly, our
seniors, who  have lived and acted so infinitely  more
than we,—who have seen and fought  the  battles of
freedom, and  cultivated  the  wilderness,  while we
       8 
26          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
 always enjoyed the blessings of peace  and plenty,—
 our seniors, I say, stand  like strong oaks before us;
 they hardly know anything about nerves, spine, stom-
 ach, nothing of mucous diseases, nor of interior ulcer-
 ations.  The grandfather sighs with feelings  of pity
 and contempt:  " What miserable fellows our descend-
 ants are;  each  of them requires more of medical
 attendance in one year, than I had in my whole life!"
 He  digests  yet with ease; is  not oppressed by his
 meals; his ideas are clear  and flowing;  he is in the
 full  enjoyment  of his  well-preserved  body for  all
 functions, and  his  head performs  readily its duties;
 he has not squandered his money for medical quack-
 ery, and enjoys contentedly the means which  his
 exertions and fortune have  accumulated around him.
 The matron who has for twenty years or more fulfilled
 domestic duties, and who  has borne, probably, many
 a severe trial,—look at her, tow well preserved she
 is; how actively, cheerfully and healthily she moves
 about,—she is perplexed at things she cannot under-
 stand.  She  must buy  for  one daughter false hair;
 for another she has to cook  something particular, her
 stomach being so very delicate;  her grand-daughter
 she has to take to the country, on account  of weak-
 ness  and a troublesome cough; another grand-child
 she has to give cod-liver-oil for glandular difficulties;
 a third  has a swollen goitre-neck; and a fourth has
to be brought to the dentist; and—let us sing a loud
hosannah for the vaccine-lancet!—the fifth must be
 sent  to an Orthopaedic  Institute.   The poor old lady
is puzzled about this new name; she cannot pronounce 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          27
it!   What a perverted world!  The old are strong,
the young Aveak :  the old nurse the young !  All you
aged  people attest,  whether  the  scale  of  domestic
happiness has  sunk or risen, since Vaccination has
become general.   Speak  you, aged  pastors of the
land,  whether joy or premature suffering has grown
in your folds ?—say whether you  hear yet in your
temples the same clear sound of voices you heard for-
merly !—whether you see yet the healthy, ruddy faces,
you admired in your youth, around you!  You older
teachers of schools bear  witness whether  there are
more docile and healthy children, or more pale, weak,
scrofulous,  tettery, itchy, coughing ones now, than
thirty or forty years ago !   Tell me,  0 physiologist,
wherefrom comes the  smaller  stature of the people ?
—the less marked formation of muscle and develop-
ment ?—the miserable  condition of  the mouth ?—the
languid expression of the physiognomy ?—tht green,
yellowish hue  of  the  face?—the  lower degree  of
warmth of the body ?   And, finally, let us call on the
servants to  tcstifj#of the  horrible excretions of the
body—0f the disgusting sweats in bed—of the loath-
some condition of the body-linen—of the stench of
chamber-vessels—of the decided carrion-smell of the
clothes often in the cleanest and best families.
   Speak, then, parents, priests, teachers,  physiolo-
gists, servants!  Your observations and conclusions
will undoubtedly coincide  in  one  point: that  there
must  be at the foundation of this internal and exter-
nal corruption of the people,' a common cause, a cause
of destructive effect.   Let us consider our  fair land 
28          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

a garden, and its inhabitants  the  plants of this gar-
den : Is all in  this garden in order, perfection  and
splendor ?—If this is not the case,—has, perhaps, the
gardener a wrong method, or the root of the plants the
worm ?   Or do, perhaps, both  causes exist ?  It  is
the unnaturally inoculated, and the natural  small-
pox!   Let  the moralist think of this.  Let the heart-
broken mother answer thus the  bitter sighs  and the
humble questions  she sends with tearful  eye up  to
heaven: why her darling thrives not ? why it  suffers
so much ? and  why it is taken from her ?  Do not
consult in this great question, of the weal and  woe  of
our blessed land, the dim lights of University-liliputs,
the jargon  of arrogance, the self-complacency  of sci-
entific stupidities.  A few instances do not prove a
generality, and blasphemy cannot hold it up !  The
free eye looks its age into the eye, and judges the
whole ffom above!
   § 10.  Shall  we have, then, the  fearful small-pox
again ?  Shall we, perhaps, venerate  it as a benefit ?
By no means !   But before I quajjfy my answer, tell
me,  my friend,  " Where has   the small-pox been
these last  fifty years ?  that is,  the small-pox  you
fear so much; we will call it the historical  small-
pox?"—"The malignant small-pox of the 16th, 17th
and 18th century, which made  its appearance in  so
murderous  a manner, often even with all the terrors
of the  bubo-plague,  and against  which medication
did nothing, — where was it in  this  half  of  our
century?"   Has it,  perchance, been  kept and pre-
served among those who were not  vaccinated; per- 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
29
haps, where the seed and root of the small-pox grew?
No !   Nowhere on the whole earth !  Let us examine
the principal years of terror of  the last three centu-
ries.   They are:
   I.  For the whole earth:  1586.  1723.
   2.  For America:
       Mexico; llispaniola.  1518.
       South America.  1728.  1750.
       North America.  1717.  1738.
       Hudson Bay.  1781.
   3.  For Africa:   Cap.  1755.
   4.  For Europe:
     A., North—
       Russia.   1580.  1605.
       Faroe Islands.   1651.          •
       Iceland.  1707.
       England.  1660-1092.   1729-1740.  1752.
         1705.
       Holland.  1562-1503.   1636.   1666.
     B., South—
       France.  1541.  1568.   1577.  1666.  1693.
         1741.-1745.
       Italy. 1551. 1567.  1717-1725.  1753-1755.
       Switzerland. 1626. 1686. 1697. 1735. 1746.
       Spain.  1517.  1529.   1564.  1648-1651.
      C, Middle—
       Germany and Hungary. 1519. .1530. 1542.
         1552.   1624-1629.   1633.  1657.  1666.
         1678-1679.  1089.   1696-1697.   1700-
          1706.   1711-1714.   1715-1717.  1758.
          1778.   1798.  1801.  1805.
                        3* 
30
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
  At the beginning of  the  nineteenth century, the
historical small-pox leaves  us suddenly.   The earth,
vaccinated or not vaccinated, did not yet see in these
last fifty years a time like the above-mentioned.
  Did the murderer of millions run before a woman—
Lady Montague—who, in 1722, came from the  land
of the former paradise  bringing a modern Eva, in
stockings—Inoculation—for an Adam's apple along
to England ?  Or did the  scourge fly before the vac-
cinating lancet of the German Plett, 1790, or of the
more scribbling Jenner, to whom a milking country-
wench offered the apple of temptation ?   Prove to me
the existence of the historical small-pox at this time ;
and  I will not yet  believe in vaccination, but I will
not  scold apd condemn it.   But, surely, small-pox
was  gone !—did not  exist any  more !—long before
vaccination  was  introduced!  For, although  on the
28th of May, 1799, the first child got vaccinated in
Germany, the system was not  generally introduced
before 1820; and long before this  year the historical
small-pox had disappeared!   Without  waiting for
medical experiments and government ordinances, the
disease  changed its  terrible character into a better
one, and showed itself only sporadically.
   Dr. Elsasser reports, that  from 1808 to 1810, only
a few cases of small-pox had been observed, and that
in the kingdom of Wurtemberg,  during those terrible
years of war  and famine, from 1813 to 1817,  only
2385 cases made  their appearance, of which not one
was  malignant.
   Schnurrer says, in 1816: "This year's small-pox 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          31

is  more identical with the regular old disease, than
that of  the  two  preceding years;  there  was  the
specific smell wanting, and the third stage, where ihe
eruption  loses the  red  circle, and stands like wax-
drops  on the skin; the contents run out, or were
resorbed, and did not form the usual scab."
   The same eminent physician remarks, in his Chro-
nicle of Ep'demics, (II.  p. 290 :)  " The view that the
small-pox,  without vaccination,  would have become
by-and-by  milder,  and  finally  disappeared,  gains
strength  by the  observations made  in  the  years
1816,  1817."
   The central vaccine-physician, Dr. Seeger, of Stutt-
gart, writes,  " that Wurtemberg remained from 1818
to 1824 entirely exempt from small-pox, and that from
1825 to 1830 there were so  few  cases, and these so
light, that  it was hardly worth Avhile to speak  of  it."
He cites then Vezin, who says,  " that the  frequent
cases   of varioles and varioloids  are not  the conse-
quence of the  temporary protection of vaccination,
but that sm^ll-pox-epidemies appear only in  certain
longer intervals;  and that in the first thirty years of
this century, the  small-pox would not have epidemi-
cally broken out without vaccination."
   Let  us farther hear the classical authors on small-
pox, the learned Lentin, and the penetrating  Sar-
rone .•  " Much foundation as the opinion  of those
may have, who beliere, to be able to mitigate,  to
improve,  and, as  it were, to dilute the ^malignity of
the naUfcral small-pox, by repeated vaccinations, the
observation will always stare in their face, that when 
 32          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
   •
 one who is vaccinated, is exposed to natural infection,
 the disease will always appear in its true form, and
 mostly with a malignant character."*
   Although  we have  had, in later years, in spite of
 the general  introduction of vaccination, a great deal
 of small-pox among us, the' real old historical  small-
 pox  did not appear.  Where  then is  this Medusa ?
 She is not here!—has she perhaps hidden herself in
 your interior ?—She is not among about 250 millions
 thoroughly civilized  men !—perchance  you find her
 among your  600 millions other fellow-inhabitants of
 this  earth, who know nothing of a Lady Montague
 and  her inoculation-epistles, nothing  of Jenner  and
 his  country-wench, nothing  at all of vaccination!
 No! she is not there either ! and, more wonderful yet,
 think only!  these  not-vaccinated barbarians  have
 and  have had no small-pox; they  live and exist hap-
 pier than you, who  suffer from  an   avalanche of
 internal miseries:  you who are a weakling,  notwith-
 standing you are vaccinated "secundum artem !"
  Not even the Indians of Quito have ^he small-pox
 any  longer,  (for   Humboldt would certainly  have
 mentioned the fact,) although Hoffman  tells  us that
 they suffered formerly from the most malignant kind.
 Now, think yourself a collection of faces  and bodies
 of all  countries  and nations,  accurately  painted,

  * The truth of this assertion is proved by daily experiance.  I
myself have bien, in my younger years, repeatedly vaccinated;
and as soon as I with my elastic constitution was expos|fl to infec-
tion, I got a very severe attack of confluent malignant small-pox,
which infected again my whole vaccinated  household.—Dr. ,S. 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          33
regarding color, features and formation: what a field
for reflection  and  investigation on vaccination and
not-vaccination!   The  result  of  such meditations
gives us  the  true wisdom about  vaccination.  The
whole vaccinatory witchcraft is as great and infamous
a  lie as the infallibility of the Pope, in which like-
wise millions have faith ; they die for their lie, while
we vaccine-worshippers perish on ours!
   Vaccination has not  protected us;  it could not do
it, because the small-pox had already  left us and  the
not-vaccinated world, before its introduction, or, as
T  will presently show,  had taken another turn; it
will not  protect us, but rather lead  us deeper and
more steadily in their arms.  The great Sarrone says:
"  We  have observed, after many  a vaccination, that
the infection spreads by  this very means, when we
expected it the least!"
   To what Fernelius says already, in the sixteenth
century : " It is true, Ave  are many years, in succes-
sion, free from the inroads of small-pox, but Ave often
have  found  ourselves   unexpectedly  attacked,  and
nearly destroyed!"  we have to subscribe, this very
day, our bloody signature, while we  must recognize
the apparent modification of the  external form, for
a  miserable illusion, Avhen Ave find  this vaunted modi-
fication  existing  in  a  transfer of the disease  from
the exterior to the interior life-organs. 
34          the evil! of vaccination.
                 THIRD THESIS.

             VACCINATION IS  A CRIMR.

   § 11.  Our actions are generally based upon  three
motives:
   1.  Upon faith (blind belief;)
   2.  Upon habit (false experience ;)
   3.  Upon knoivledge (true experience.)
   Every  other  motiA'e, as passion, &c, vitt exclude
here  at once.  We  must acknoAvledge,  that  we are
wanting the preceding necessary insight into the
effects and consequences of vaccination,  and that wre
therefore  cannot give a  rational  account of it, and
continue its application, as a mere senseless habit, as
long as Ave cannot refute  the truth of the following
positions :
   1.  The  cause  and the nature  of  the  small-pox-
poison and of the small-pox is not known.
   Vaccination is the apocalypsis of medicine.  Clai-
reau  says:  " LaAvs  are, in the widest signification,
the necessary  conditions  and  relations  of  things,
which flow  from their  very nature, and in this  all
existence  has its own  laws:  God and the material
world oi bodies—the spiritual and animal creation—
all have their  laAvs!"  Vaccination is not founded
upon  any law of nature;  it is truly an outlaAv !
   2. It is the same with the vaccine or cow-pox !  We
knoAV  of it not more than  Avhat that country-girl told
the youthful sttldent Jenner.  Jenner believed it in 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
35
the true English fashion ; he told it farther; and phy-
sicians, laymen, kings  and nations,  plunged wildly
and blindly in the same faith, which soon became so
authoritative  and unconditional, that every doubter
Avas treated Avith contempt and excommunication, and
persecution.   The  faithfully-believing  people  soon
mixed the thing Avith  the^person, and accorded to
physicians the ability of moving the powers  of nature
after their own pleasure, and created  thus a larger
and farther  pmdlege  for the medical  profession.
The excessive veneration  for this institute, was richly
nourished by  the timid thought on the terrible small-
pox, which Avas  looked upon as  the most horrible
scourge  the human family had been  subjected  to.
Impudence and self-complacency  copulated Avith it a
thought of divine origin  and  unaAroidable  necessity.
NotAvithstanding all this, Ave physicians do, in reality,
knoAV nothing more about the coAV-pox, than what the
tempting country-Eva has told her admiring Jenner.
Ea judex, est  ante ministerium mortis.
   3. Of the effect  of the cow-pox, or vaccination, we
only know, that man and cow get sick and suffer from
it.   It produces clearly  all the symptoms  of a most
thorough poisoning.  Astrology is the  moral disease
and Aveakness of the  Orient; the  vaccination-faith
that of the Occident.   There  are in  the Occident, as
Avell as in the Orient, blind gropers,  who act without
knoAvledge of cause and effect.
   4. How the cow-pox-poison should  insure man, zve
cannot even  dream, far  less physiologically think.
When the believers of Metempsychosis, the Tartars, 
36          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
 swallow pills  made of the excrements of their high-
 priests,—as Forster and Hastings testify,—the filthy
 usage rests upon a deep thought, upon an idea;—but
 the vaccination ?
   5.  The medical science has no power over the small-
pox-poison; it is  confined to the defence!   If we had
 a clear  insight into the effect of the lancet, and Avould
 remain  silent  about its destructiA-eness, we Avould de-
 serve the execration of the world!   But vaccination
 is the child of faith, a kind of talismanery, supported
 by fear  and cherished  by laziness.   Habit,  science
 and laAv, have declared :
   1.  That  vaccination has  not the  least injurious
 influence upon the  life  and  health of those who are
 Araccinated.
   2.  That vaccination offers  the  best possible secu-
rity for  the extermination  of a tendency of being
infected by  small-pox.
   3.  That A'accination  is  the only means by which
small-pox and its destruction can be finally banished.
   These three articles of social faith have played the
greatest mischief with presumed wisdom of legislative
powers, and have fooled the millions • for a  really
wise man only acts thus, Avhen he knows fully what
he is about.   Faith is not knoioledge.
  A  state-faith is  not exactly a crime   for itself;
but it is  an evil, and a very great one, when the laws
which are based upon  and deduced from it, and which
shall tend to  happify society, lead to  the very oppo-
site result.  Let us then examine these three articles
of faith  more minutely. 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          37
             FIRST ARTICLE  OF FAITH.
  § 12. The sun-ray warms ; the moonlight charms ;
the Avater  moistens;  and poison poisons.  All this'is
nothing neAV;  and government knoAvs  it too, Avhen it
speaks so  SAAreetly to  the nation: "Not  the least harm
comes from  vaccination!"   Every  medical report,
every look into the  lists of  death and their causes,
prove* it; and yet Hie government says gladly, " 0!
not the least  harm  has been done by vaccination!"
The first  is a senseless lie ;  the second a conscious
one—a Persian lie !  But the Shah lies,  and, there-
fore, all Persians lie !   Thus the government-officers
and the Faculty  lie, and  the uncounted masses  of
fools  merrily follow  suit!  Et nemo  injecit in eum
manum.  Marc. i. 31.
   " Come in, madam ! be not afraid !   Does this lit-
tle one belong to you ?  So,  so !  What a lovely
babe ! truly, a young hero ! a perfect ideal  of health!"
exclaims the vaccine-physician to the  trembling mo-
ther,  Avho is full of doubts and misgivings.   " Here !
read  yourself;  read the neAV law,  provided by the
Avise legislators  of modern  Athens.  It says: Vacci-
nation does not  do the least harm!"  ThisovcrpoAvers
the last gleam of  God-given instinct in the doubting
mother-soul;  the snow-white, pure little arms  are
bared and offered, and the poison 6—12—18—24
times incised ;  for it is of acknoAvledged importance^
"that the vaccine-poison should be forced into the un-
willing body  in  sufficient quantity!  the more the
BETTER ! !"
   Philanthropist,  let us pray in the words of the
        4 
38          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
 holy Crucified:  " Father!  forgive  them,  for  they
 knoAV not Avhat they do !" and they honestly acknow-
 ledge the fact.
   General  measures  avc  base upon  general  laws!
 The laAY of Nature  is,  that she rewards us with  plea-
 surable sensations, as often  as Ave have satisfied one
 of  her  calls.   Is,  therefore, vaccination a natural
 necessity ?   Would the child, then, feel so miserably,
 and be sick after it?   Instead of this, the sovereign
 nature of the child declares a reA-olutionary Avar, as
 soon as it is  poisoned with  the vaccine-lymph.  The
 powers of self-protecting nature and of the unnatural
 invasion, are drawn up  like  tA\o hostile armies, in
 full battle array.  The invading  poison attacks  ; the
 combatants get heated;  the struggle  becomes vehe-
 ment ;  the child is  dismayed; the  fever  rages; the
 skin burns ; the pulse runs high and quick ; it storms.
   " For God's sake, doctor!" exclaims the  mother,
 ringing her hands, " my child! my darling child!
 vaccination has hurt it!"
   " Calm yourself,  good woman,  this is nothing but
 the vaccine-fever—the extinguishing fever !"
   Mother.—The ex—tin—guishing fever ?
   Doctor.—Yes  ! the same.
   Mother.—What  is there to be  extinguished ?   My
. child was perfectly healthy; it  was never  yet the
 least unwell.   As little as I and my husband----
   Doctor.—(Sheltered behind his medical and mysti-
 cal  prerogative) You do not understand that; you bet-
 ter  quiet yourself.   Read here the laAvs  an enlight-
• ened legislature  has made and provided ! 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.         39

  And the  disconsolate  mother is silent! and  the
doctor is silent too !
  The storm rages on.  The suffering child screams;
throws itself about;  cannot find rest.   The mother
prays, and peace ensues.   Nature  has  conquered !—
Victory ! victory !   The child is quiet and exhausted.
The mother smiles through her  tears.  Victory !   Tri-
umph !   The hostile, poisonous intruder, is repulsed
to the spot where he first invaded.   There he is!
Shut  up, fettered,  captiA-e lies the  wild destroyers  in
their  holes ; but fiery red and SAVollen for anger, looks
victorious Nature out of the inflamed arm.
   Mother.—0! God be  thanked!  the eruption  is
here; what  anxiety I have had!
   Doctor.—You  see,  madame,  such  things  you  do
not understand : as I have told  you before.
   Mother.—O yes!  I was wrong,  and beg your par-
don a thousand times.
   The sacred order  of Nature  is  saved, the anarchi-
 cal  invasion  of  the  poisoned lancet subdued, and
 martial laAV proclaimed.   The law of Nature is:  ejec-
 tion by suppuration !  The pox  suppurates, falls off in
 ugly scabs.  But  the general Avelfare of Nature has
 suffered by the frivolous Avar.
   Mother.—My little one looks yet very pale; one
 can see Iioav exhausted it is.
   Dorter.—Thank God, madame! the re-active  fever
 was  splendid; and  noAV you can  be assured, that it
 will never get the small-pox.
   jr0ther.—0 ! how shall I express my gratitude to
 you! 
40          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
  Let  us noAv look deeper into this hocus-pocus of
A-accination.   The  infantile organism  is the  purest
expression of natural perfectibility.  " To interrupt it,
is a great crime ; but to interrupt it senselessly, is a
monstrous crime.   Let us be grateful to God,  Avho
directs the evil to turn to good.   Let us revere the
guardian angels who Avatch unceasingly over our cra-
dles.   Let us admire all-poAverful Nature, Avhich is not
so easily brought into this serious and lasting disorder
by our perverse intrusions; for otherwise, there Avould
hardly have remained a human being alive.  But let
us not praise vaccination, even if a great many  chil-
dren get alive through it.  Nature  is great!  A most
astonishing proof of this give :
   (a) Those children, particularly boys, Avhose strong
health will not accept any poison  at all, Avho do not
form those vaccine-blisters, but avIio, as it Avere, reject
indignantly the intrusion,  and throAV out the  poison
again by  different kinds of eruption  and ulcerations.
   (6) Such who have carried out of the violent strug-
gle of the natural small-pox, the reward of perfectly
pure bodily health; and
   (c) Such to Avhom a kind of family immunity might
be ascribed ;  that is, a mixture of fluids, the  chemical
A'itality of Avhich Avould rather permit a hundred other
disease-forms, than the small-pox, (and vice  versa.)
          Cazal vaccinated a boy in vain ;
          The second time—in vain !
          The third time—in vain !
          The fourth time—in vain !
He  then made  him take a  quantity of pulverized 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          41

kine-pox-scabs in a soup.   On the  fourth  day,  the
poor boy begun to vomit violently, and to suffer from
nervous  symptoms.   This condition lasted  for  six
days, and  finally  there  appeared on his body  one
hundred and eighty kine-pox-pustules.  Whether the
stomach of this victim of one-sided  scientific perver-
sity,  threw its  grateful  acknowledgment  for such
favors right  into the face of the experimentalizing
Doctor, is not mentioned.
   § 13.  The tender  age of infancy is very suscep-
tible  for external influences;  why not also for  any
kind  of poison?  And  it would have  to  succumb
often to the change in temperature, to carelessness
and  perversity  in  education,  and  many other  un-
toward circumstances arising  from false views  and
inherited prejudices, if our kind Creator had  not
provided safeguards for all emergencies.  This guard
forms the  tendency  of  the child to oppose every
intrusion and attack, by a Avonderful re-action.   We
have seen  such a spectacle in  the preceding pages!
Would to God that the struggle be always so fortu-
nate ; I Avould be silent, and  suppress  my indigna-
tion !  But it is  not always so !   The susceptibility,
as Avell as the re-active poAver,  and therefore also the
result of the physical struggle are so different,  and
varying in manner and  strength, as the millions of
floAvers of a meadoAV, cut down by a hail-storm. Many
a book might be written on this subject alone, but I
have neither time nor space, nor inclination for such
a task.
   Second  Scene : — The  hostile  invasion  of  the
                        4* 
42           TEE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

beastly pox is also totally repulsed by the poAvers of
nature, {exercitus vitoe;)  but  the  marauders  are  not
only caught  by the arm, and  driven out of the land,
but  all the  boundaries  are infested, molested, and
exhausted by these.
  Besides, and after  the vaccine-eruptions,  various
skin-affections make their appearance in children: a,
papula; b, exanthemata;  c,  pustules; d, furuncles,
which  trouble the little ones  more  or  less, or Avhich
they secretly breed for years.  " The  child will  not
thrive; there is  always something  the matter Avith
it!"
  Mother A.—My child has got an eruption  all over
the body, like heat-blisters; it has scarcely any rest
for  itching;  on its cheeks and lips there  are  poison-
blisters, and it is sore  here  and there.
  Mother B. — My  good for-nothing nurse left  the
other  day the door open ;  my three children have
taken seA'cre colds.  I have sent  her off.  My poor
Molly  has got noAV erysipelas, Lizzie something like
nettle-rash,  and  Tom  even the measles.  They* are
all  very unwell, indeed; but the worst is  that  we
apprehend Avith the babe—the scarlet feA-er!
  Mother 0. — I am afraid that my children have
handled  the  mangy cat of our  neighbors;  I never
Avill be again the neighbor of  a baker.  It is unbear-
able— all my children have  the tetter:  Charles on
the  head  (flavus;) John in the face (impetigo lar-
valis,)  and Bob on his thighs (impet. sparsa.)  It is
a very disagreeable sight, and  smells so badly.  The
worst of all  is — and I am fully satisfied of it—the 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
43
Doctor  has made  a mistake, and  not thoroughly
extinguished the small-pox-poison, for my boy James
has got, besides  the vaccine-pustules, the real small-
pox, (variola, varioloids, varicellas.)  Yet I must say
that the boy  has had the  extinguishing-fever very
severely:  at least the Doctor said so.
  Afother D.—All  my happiness is gone;  I was tco
happy!   Since my unfortunate boy has been vacci-
nated, he  has been a perfect Lazarus.  Every part
of his body breaks out in most painful  boils and
abscesses  in the arm-pits,  on the neck and body in
general; his arms and feet appear to be full of mat-
ter ; the poison comes  even out  at the ends of his
little fingers  (panaritia.)   My  only consolation  is,
"that the pale poor little thing can eat Avell.
   As the  unprofessional father doubted formerly,  so
is now  the physician  startled:  " Mea culpa ! mea
maxima culpa!"  The distress of the miserable pa-
rents drives the blush of embarrassment in his face.
"Hem! Hem!  but no!"  he deafens himself; "no,
the vaccination  cannot be the only cause of all this
pitiful Avoe ; all the Avorld vaccinates, and laAV-makers,
even in the most progressiAre and enlightened com-
munities,  order  it! I  then Avill vaccinate as  long
as government and the people desire it."  The son of
Heaven, in China, orders the Mandarin to be Avhipped,
who again has the people Avhipped : "Lege legis Doc-
tor legem  servabo semis, nee non physicus longus!
Nbnne boves Deo curse surtt.?
   § 14. Third  Scene.—The ground is less guarded;
the lancet-army penetrates deeper into the land, into 
44          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
the  intestines  of  the  country.   They  find  them
wonderfully fortified.  Everywhere electric batteries,
(plexus), like small  fortresses, with star-like  ramifi-
cations,  surround the  grey-reddish  nervous knots,
(ganglia), the arterial streams; the principal fortifi-
cation protects the  stomach,  (ganglion, solare,) and
twenty-four to twenty-five such detached forts on each
side of the spinal column defend the spinal marrow.
The rapport Avith the head, with the members of  the
whole body is secured.   Thus prepared and armed,
nature awaits  the  attack of the  kine-pox.   They
approach;  nature defends herself by violent fever,
the child burns, calls for water, moans  pitifully, lets
head and limbs hang loosely;  the heat increases,  the
nerves of the spinal marrow hasten to  succor,  by
cramps and convulsions : John ojies the second day;—
the tendons jump, the cerebrum participates, sopor,
contortions ensue :  Charles dies on  the fourth, sixth,
tenth day ;—the struggle gets finally weaker, is con-
tinued yet for some weeks:  David  dies  of hectic
fever!
  Mother.—0 God ! my child! 0 doctor ! my poor
child, it is dead!   I ought not to have  had it vacci-
nated !
  Doctor.—Here  the teething is the cause, madame,
a vehement fever, an inflammatory fever, was compli-
cated with the teething.
  Mother.—Yes,  yes ! and this fever Avas—Avhat you
call—the extinguishing fever I  0  God ! my child !
  Doctor.—(Sighs and  sneaks away  with deep and
very painful emotions.) 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          45

  It is a beautiful, a very wise law, this vaccination
laAV!  The brute-pox has  gained some advantage,
and reaches now the mucous membranes.  It is princi-
pally the nerve-fortress of the stomach, which resists
vigorously; the storm  rages  in  the  arteries, (abdo-
minal pulsation;) the mucous  preparing glands (mu-
ciparse  glandulse) envelope the  enemy with tough
phlegm; he  is subdued.  Nature conquers and  tri-
umphs here by diarrhoea : Tom cuts himself through;
Bob succumbs in the flight; there, by vomiting, George
gets through, but is severely  wounded;  Harry falls.
The discarded enemy runs now wildly up and down;
James saves  himself; Wash dies of choleratic symp-
toms ; the fortresses (ganglia) inflame and discharge
Avhatevcr they can (cholera.)   The main body of the
partially-subdued  enemy takes yefuge  in the blind-
gut ; establishes itself there :—Ike is saved with great
difficulty by art; Charles's  stomach gets perforated;
he dies of softening of the stomach.—Fire ! fire ! the
 enemy's fire-torch blazes in the intestines !  Sam can
 hardly be snatched out of the  flames; Ned dies  of
 enteritis.  The poison-pox takes the burning place !
 True, faithful Nature,  succumbs not  yet; she strug-
 gles for life  and death, and she succeeds to take hold
 of the leaders of the invading rebels, and shuts them
 up in the exanthem of the coating of the intestines.
 Again she proclaims "and  executes martial law: she
 ejects pus.   But here  on the inner coating of man
 the execution is far more difficult than on the exter-
 nal surface.   A sensible physician helps Fred through
 in the process  of ejection (typhus,  ner\-ous mucous 
46
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
fever);  the ulcers  in  the intestines suppurate and
heal; but  with Anna they  heal   not,—she  dies!
Help!  help! the child suffocates;  the brute-poison
moves  from the  stomach  into the  breast.   What a
terrible catarrh!   Lizzie  sinks  under her  choking
cough,  and Emma, with  asthmatic Avant of breath,
under convulsions.  Dost thou hear the distressing
call of  Nature, the whooping-cough: this  horrible,
pitiable Avoe of a child ?   Dost thou see the colossal
mass of phlegm by* Avhich Nature tries to defend her-
self, as  long as  she does  not  feel her fever-strength
equal in a  match Avith  the poison-poAver ?
   How rapidly does the scourge progress !   The ter-
ribly  ominous  commotion begins already the  first,
fourth,  seventh, and ninth day after the vaccination;
many,  many  children fall its victims; and again,
others are  more fortunate; but mostly some misery
remains.  The mucous membranes, particularly those
of the organs of the senses and generation, (in adults,)
attest  the  sufferings and  dangers originating in the
inoculated  kine-pox-poison.   Ophthalmia,  otorrhce,
fluor albus, prurigo, &c, &c.
   § 15. What a sea  of tears,  what  an unbounded
field of misery lies behind us !  Let us add to this the
dead, the invalids, the infirm, that come forth out  of
these struggles !   The field on which the battle was
so  fiercely fought, is  before us, disordered, ruined,
weakened,  devastated;  it is the  extensive field  of
digestion and  breathing, the  basis, the  root of  life.
Not enough that these  terrible traces are re-produced
year after  year, but the poisoning goes on again and 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.      •    47

again, and poison is heaped into the already poisoned
bodies.   And this is the reason Avhy the affections of
the mucous  membranes, which Avere  formerly only
one-half of all diseases, have  now increased to five-
sixths of  their number.   Thou miserable abdomen!
thou miserable  chest!   Is  Pandora's box  not yet
empty ('-''
   Gone is all faith in the doctrine  of  "not the least
injury."  Nothing has  gained  but  the  history  of
errors  and fallacies ;  its  pages  shoAV innumerable neAV
experiments.  The people have acquired by this vac-
cination:
   1. A glorious degree  of sickly sensitiveness of the
stomach  and intestinal  canal, accompanied by open
and hidden disturbances in the Avhole digestive appa-
ratus,  viz., diarrhoea, dyspepsia, phthisis dyspeptica,
liver and spleen suffering, never knoAvn before.
   2.  An entirely new disease  (since 1806) which do-
mesticates itself every year more  firmly, the typhus,
 Avhich  is a  mucous  fever with ulcerations and pox-
 eruptions in the abdominal A'iscera. .
   3. The daily more frequent appearance of a neAV
 children-disease, Avhich  Millar observed and present-
 ed (1755) as  the first  fruit of inoculation in Eng-
 land : the asthma Millari.
   4. The poor  children haA'e gained,  or rather  re-
 gained, in  immensely more malignant  form,  (since
 1806,) the long before forgotten inflammation of the
 wind-pipe—croup.   As formerly, in England, Nature
   * Answer: Not as long as the box  of Pandora is the vaccinating
 case of instruments! 
48   •      THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

revolted (1738) against the inoculation of the human
small-pox-matter, and  tried  valiantly to remove the
poison by means of catarrhal  gangrenous  angina in
the throat; as children for nearly forty years suffered
the tortures of horrible strangulation-difficulties, and
many thousands  of them wretchedly  perished;  so
appears noAV here and*everyAvhere, where vaccination
is  introduced, the croup, somewhat milder, because
the  kine-pox  is  someAvhat  milder, and  tortures,
frightens, sickens  and  kills  (already some  forty
years) the innocent A'ictims.
   5.  The Avhooping-cough has gained in strength and
extent immensely.
   6.  The human family in general, has acquired a
monstrous increase in  consumptive and hectic dis-
eases, which mostly originate  in the digestive  appa-
ratus (phthisis dyspeptica.)
   7.  An entirely new  disease, softening of the stom-i
ach, (v. Jaeger and Camerer,) has been added since
1811—1813,  to  our  already  immensely large  cata-
logue of destructive diseases.
   8.  Our young women have gained,  since 1822, a
generality of  chlorosis and  fluor albus, of Avhich  Ave
did not dream before.
   9.  The Avhole human family have been enriched  by
the acquisition of the Bengalian poison-snake—hydro-
phis; the tropical wild pox-poison, the cholera;  which
now has established itself among us thoroughly and
habitually.
   10.  Our generation has,  besides all this, gained a
far greater  susceptibility for the  small-pox-poison, 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          49
which Avill ravage in  the  above-mentioned disease-
forms of the mucous membranes in the interior of the
organism, till the feeding of the  poison by vaccina-
tion, ordered even by laAVs, sanctioned by usage, and
held up by the  faculty, is forbidden under  severe
penalty.  Then only will Nature be  able to recover
all her own; and then will the external small-pox re-
appear  as a  redeeming means for  the internal des-
truction.
  Doctor.—Bring your babe now for vaccination !
  Mother.—How you have frightened me, I tremble
all  over!
  Doctor.—Why ? what is the matter ?
  Mother.—Pardon  me ; but I feel a perfect horror
creeping over me at  the mere thought on vaccination,
since my poor Charles has died in consequence of  it.
  Doctor.—0 nonsense !  Charles did not die on vac-
cination ; do not believe such a thing.   He got dys-
entery  Avhile teething.
  Mother.—I  beg you to wait another year; Tom
is noAV  very delicate  indeed.
  Doctor.—Only the better!  and  I  have this very
moment excellent, fresh vaccine-lymph.
  Mother.—In God's name be it  done!   But, doctor,
the responsibility rests on your shoulders !
r Nine days  after  this conversation and following
\-accination,  Tom was a corpse, Avith two vaccine-
blisters on each arm.
  § 16. Fourth Scene:—The  boundaries and  the
gates of the land are poorly guarded; the first advance
of the fever-troops is inactiA'e.   Nature, impotently
        5 
50          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
urging on the miserable powers of the body, struggles
against the beastly pox in the spheres  of the mucous
membranes.   There  is a great  deal  of mucus, but
not sufficient to stifle and smother the enemies.  The
police-force (the worms) of the intestinal canal is in-
creased.  This measure is for some time successful;
but the intruding poison soon overpowers the worms
also, and the skirmishing in the streets makes the
assistance and interference of a physician  necessary
(anthelmintica.)  Even noAV  the  quiet is  of short
duration!
   The poisoning eruptions sneer at the catarrh; they
move into the throat, drying, burning and exhaust-
ing ; the thirst is enormous ; the irritation of the eyes
and  the nose,  and the sneezing, torturing.   They
laugh at Nature and Art; for they delight to play in
the most various catarrhal forms :—not in storm and
rain,—no! in the most beautiful,  Avarm, dry weather,
in the full bloom of the fields.   They play for months
and years, up and doAvn like ebb and flood.  Nothing
Avill  draAV  the  enemy out of his positions.   "It is
almost to despair," exclaims  the  physician, "that is
no cataarh!   I  was  deceived!   What a  suspicious
smell!  it is clearly infectious !  It must be a poison;
it  consumes  the child's color, flesh,  roundness and
nervous energy.   You see how it shrinks, as if fright-
ened !—how irritable, pale, tiny and miserable it is !
I must  assist poor Nature !"   And observe how Na-
ture gratefully and readily gathers hej strength, and
calls on the  serous  texture for assistance.   The
struggle is sloAvly renewed; the poison storms on the 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          51
one  side  from the mucous membranes  against  the
serosa, and attacks on the other side the  serous inner
coating of the vessels.  The heat and excitement is
here, and is there, and  soon burns the head, (Arach-
noidea;) soon burn the joints, (synovial membranes,
bursa' mucosa*;)—the fever rages—the life struggles all
over in the blood-A'essels, nerves, fibres, &c.; the dia-
phragm catches fire !   The  rebels cut and thrust here
and  there through the head, chest, stomach, spleen
and liver; no member  of the body will  act.  Every
function is at a stand-still.  The prime of the poison
falls finally also into the centre ; the inner  coating of
the  pericardium  inflames.   Hoav then the  heart
storms  in anxiety and despair! Iioav the  pulsation
runs Avild ! the stinking breath indicates a retreat of
the enemy,  (contagium;)  the room  is  pestilential.
Open the  Avindows ! air !  Hoav the nerves  tremble !
what  a tumult and uproar ! (eoctio febris ;) the tongue
is in  a tremor.   Water ! water!  Heroically coura-
geous, observes  the  physician, he quiets and cools;
and orders the route !   0 heavens! Sam sinks in the
storm !   Jim makes a last effort.  The skin steams !
—pestilential smell!—the  enemy flees; Auctory !  the
crisis has  arrived !  Out of  all openings flies the pest
—Others are fighting yet.   If Ave had only nerves and
vessels, complains the serous party !—Take courage,
exclaims Nature ; the Avatelvword is:  Life  or death!
You   are  completely shut-up  sacs;  exhale, by all
means, instead of your usual'vapor, Avater; drown the
incendiaries.   And see, the disease is extinguished
in the watery effusion : (hydrocephalus acutus, hydro- 
52          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
thorax, hydrops pericardii, Anasarca, hydrops tuni-
ece  amnios, hydrocele, hydrarthus,  &c,  &c.)   The
formation of furuncles and abscesses fail not to make
their appearance in the later time of reconvalcscence;
the laAV, ejection by pus, must be fulfilled.
  § 17. Let us examine, for  once, the viscera of an
animal that has been butchered; the glassy shining
exterior, /. i. of  the  intestines, of  a  bladder,  &c,
shows  the  serous  texture  Avhich the Avisdom of  the
Creator has much condensed, and left Avithout blood
and nerves. In such textures are sac-like enclosed all
those viscera,  that are most necessary for life, viz.:
the brain, the  organs of sight and hearing, the lungs,
the  heart,   the  liver,  the  spleen,  the  stomach and
intestines,  the kidneys and bladder, the joints, &c.
The inflammation of these sacs is Arery painful, vio-
lent,  and  rather  difficult  to  manage,  because it  is
generally combined  with erysipelas;  it  affects  often
most seriously the organs themselves, Avhich the sacs
are to  protect, and thus even life itself.   The medical
guild throw in this  sanctum the poison fire-brand;
they carry  the terrible furies of death, suffering, and
sickness into  the very life-springs,  and exclaim:
" There is not the least injury done !"
  First Mother. What a most awful affliction!  Think,
my neighbor's lovely boy has died this moment!
  Second Mother.  Is  it possible ?   That fine, hand-
some boy,  who began  already to walk, and laughed
so sprightly, is dead ?
  First Mother. The same ! his poor  father is nearly
crazed; it was his favorite. 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
53
  Second Mother.  But I have  seen the child only
the other day, as Avell as ever!
   First Motlter.  Last week he was vaccinated; he
then began to sicken, got  inflammation of the brain,
and died.
  Second Mother. A good many children die, now-a-
days, under similar circumstances.
  First Mother. The father accuses loudly the physi-
cian,  as the cause of the death.
   Second Mother.  Our houses of refuge  arc  now
changed into hospitals by the introduction of vaccina-
tion.
   First Mother.  Another neighbor's three daughters
have  been  re-vaccinated lately ;  one of them has now
hip-disease; another is as ugly, yellow*,  and lean as
one  can be;  and the third, a  truly excellent girl,
coughs  all night, and is  very weak.  We  hear her
screams  in our house; she has such terrible pains
and stitches in her breast and left side.
   Second Mother.  A friend  of mine became bed-
ridden,  for a  long  time, after re-vaccination.  Sud-
denly she got most awful ear-ache ; three physicians
were  called in.  But all their endeavors to help were
in vain.  Finally, a tumor formed in the ear.  The
physicians took it first for a polypus; it showed itself
to be afterwards an  abscess,  which discharged  a
great deal of yellow water ; and now she hears with
that ear not  a sound; you would hardly  know the
poor woman.
  First Mother.  The  same thing  happened to  a
friend of my  husband's;  but, in  his case,  the diffi-
                        5* 
54
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
culty settled in the eyes.   On one eye lie is entirely
blind now; the other is so weak, that he cannot bear
any light.
  Second Mother.  Our Doctor has vaccinated him-
self  four  times.   The last time, two months ago, he
got very  sick.   As soon  as he  had recovered,  and
began to make visits, he got the real small-pox, and
suffers now dreadfully, he has lost all his hair.
  § 18. The Fibrine exists in our chyme, and in great
quantity in  our blood, and  forms the principal sub-
stance of our flesh.   Muscle and tendon differ from
each other, like the external and internal skin  of the
lins;  they are therefore one and the same substance;
and  it makes no difference that  the flesh is red, and
the  tendon  silvery.  This  beautiful silvery-shining
texture is the fibrous texture, which gives  the body
its elasticity.  It surrounds all our bones, surrounds
our whole brain, as well  as its single divisions, our
spinal marrow, all  our nerves, our eye, our  heart,
all our bloodvessels: forms firm capsules round our
joints, sheaths ligaments divisions  for  the  mechan-
ism of our life.   It is, therefore, besides the  bones,
the  firmest  protection for all  our organs.   This
very firmness is their own defence:  Avhile the  serosa
are  protected by their vapor and Avater, the mucous
membrane by mucus, the external  skin by the fat.
This is the reason why the Creator gave to the fibrous
texture so little conductibility, particularly of poison.
   But even this bulwark is reached by the vaccine-
poison !   Do you not see and feel  the  track of this
beast: the  dreary  vestiges through the regions of
your nature, till  it  arrived there ? 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
55
  Look at the immense  number of rickety children,
increasing, year after year,  at  the most rapid rate
ever since, and Avherever other nations have imitated
the vaccination of the English !  As horrible as now,
our forefathers  did  not  see  this disease!   Crooked,
blind, lame, hunch-backed, full  of suppurating boils,
cramp, Avith dead-pale, distorted pain-features, moves
this Avorld of poorest children before our eyes.  What
is man ?  you sigh !—but ask—rather exasperated :
 What  did man do ? and  he  a  physician, too ? a
government ?   With  tears of gratitude buries even a
doating  mother such a  miserable  being,  whose life
Avould  have been a torture to itself.   " Not the least
injury !"  for the child rises an angel  to heaven !
   Here the thought dies!  the pen is  silent! the fifth
scene is too tragic !   A feeling of sorroAvful indigna-
tion alone speaks yet.  Let others then talk.
   When  Abraham,  at  the  command of  God,  Avas
preparing to sacrifice his son Isaac, God sent a  ram
near him, in his  stead.   Christ says:  Nobody will
give his son a stone, Avhen he asks bread.  What does
the  public do,  Avhen the physician poisons his  OAvn
child ?  Let us hear what Jleim says: (Pockenseuchen,
S. 533.)
   " Dr. B.,  in  S.,  vaccinated his  own,  perfectly
healthy child, about  one year old.  The suppuration-
fever was so  strong, and the pustules  flourished so
finely, as Dr. B. had seldom seen it.  But,  ever since
that, the  child began to  be sickly, had nearly ahvays
some diarrhoea, increased  thirst,  some cough—one
furuncle after another made its appearance—the last 
56
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
 a very large one, besides some other smaller ones, on
 the seat of the  child,  broke  eight days before its
 death.  Yet the child tried anxiously to save his foot
 from  every  touch, while it did use it, and Avhile it
 was yet happy and frolicsome, as much as  its many
 troubles permitted it.   The  foot retained,  for  some
 days yet, its natural color  and form, and the father
 could therefore ascribe the inflammatory  excitement,
 which expressed itself in loss of appetite, thirst, and
 nightly orgasms, only to teeth-development, (ah!) or
 to the swollen inquinal  glands, (ah! ah!) or an irri-
 tation (what kind ?) of the  ischiadic or of the crural
 nerAre.  The continually increasing heat (Avhat heat ?)
 made the  father think of an inflammation  of the
 fibrous muscle-sheathing of the foot;  the clearly-ex-
 pressed desolation, the Avant  of appetite,  the often-
 repeated attacks  of involuntary nausea, indicated to
 him bilious complications.   The  foot began, finally,
 after a few days, to get very hot, and to SAvell  con-
 siderably, while the color of the  skin remained yet
 the same;  and now there could be no doubt of an
 inflammation of the periosteum. A AromitiATe removed,
 nearly  indigested,  everything the child  had taken
 the last feAv days.  In the  folloAving night,  the  heat
 increased more and more.    Three  leeches, and  the
rubbmg-in  of mercurial  ointment, produced first so
much alleviation,  that the  poor child, Avho  had  not
slept for twenty-four hours,  fell asleep, and slept five
hours in succession.   But,  the next morning, it was
clearly visible that the child's  strength Avas rapidly
sinking; it  ground  its  teeth,  and  rolled the eyes 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          57
while dozing.  When  awake, it  had full  conscious-
ness, and begged, Avith  fondling caresses, (its father!
its physician !! its poisoner!!! its murderer !!!!) for
help.  The forenoon, it was very restless.  In the after-
noon, there Avas  some  quiet; and now  appeared in
the middle of the  shin-bone, a bluish-red  spot,  and
on this  some nut-colored pustules, filled Avith matter ;
although the little sufferer sometimes started up,  as if
frightened; he remained pretty quiet till two o'clock,
Avhen he began to show difficulties in breathing.  Ap
empty choking got soon combined Avith this changing
hard breathing, which  returned  more and  more fre-
quently, and lasted longer  and longer, and  finally
ceased  in the forenoon, about ten o'clock ;  the breath-
ing got now more difficult yet, so that no respiration
was had,  without exertion and  groaning; the inno-
cent victim retained all this time, consciousness, and
 and prayed  for relief (to whom ?)  A tepid bath sub-
 dued once more the attacks for half an hour, but  after
 that* the child sank very rapidly, and death relieved
 the sufferer about tAvo o'clock, four Aveeks after the
 vaccination."—" The  dissection convinced even the
 wretched father of the fact, that the sole cause of
 the disease and death  of  his own child was his own
 act, and nothing but the vaccination!"
   This heinous crime, this history of cruelties,  is
 narrated  by a father, by a  physician, by so eminent
 a man as Dr. Ileim, in his  official reports; and yet
 physicians dare to assert, and governments dare to
 contend: "  Vaccination  docs  not  do  the least in-
 jury!"   I could  cite here, from  the same pages, 
58          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
more atrocious details of kachexy and paedarthrocace,
of which  Dr. Seyfcr,  in  Heilbrom, gives the  sad
details.  Every honorable and discriminating physi-
cian could  add  to  his catalogue of  horrors,  the
knowledge of which would  make our hair  stand  up.
But  enough !  Be silent reflection !
  § 19. Sixth Scene. — The  rebels triumph !  the
beastly hordes of the vaccine-poison conquer the land,
settle doAvn, and establish themselves in it. The throne
of monarchical nature, the brain, is vehemently shaken,
or even softened; the mountain-passes  and their
springs, the marrow and its nerves, are blockaded,
teased, or also  softened;  the  fortifications  of  the
body (the  ganglia,)  and the  magazines of industry
and economy (the glandular system and the  mucous
membranes,) are in their power.   The fever-troops of
the nerves and of the blood lie beaten and prostrated.
The  guard  alone, the 'anima vitce,  stand yet  firmly,
and  is  not conquered.
  She alone continues the  struggle,  in  periodical
attacks and skirmishes.   These attacks  proceed from
the heights  of the spinal column, invading soon  the
dominion of respiration, soon that of digestion, soon
that of generation, soon that of the mechanism of
the body,  (intermittent fever.)  Nature rallies  also
once a year,  generally for a pitched  battle, (some
more violent  and decisive  feArcr  or inflammation.)
But  she is. unable  to gain,  unassisted, a complete
victory, cramped  as  she generally is by drug-inter-
ference, and if  a sensible physician does not help
her in  her efforts. 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          59

  The processes of development play in the child
the principal role; therefore the vaccine-poison-rebels
mix themselves most readily in the organs,, particu-
larly active in these processes, and thus  the ruin of
the organism is secured for life.
  We  see  here, in  this picture,  Iioav human life is
embittered and spoiled—a life that  is never healthy,
and seldom really sick—the comfort of the drug-
shop.  Since  the creation  of human  beings, there
never  Avas such  a variegated, topsy-turvy chaos  of
sufferings  of  the  spinal column, as at the  present
time:  no Avondcr that physicians and patients feel as
if  they  should despond!   There  remains only  one
gain  for us —rejoice,  and  erect triumphal  arches
from the  birth-place  of the AYench, Avho instructed
Jenner  in the vaccine-mysteries,  to the  hall Avhere
the Massachusetts  legislature lately  hatched their
vaccinc-laAV, besides other  similar progressive legisla-
tive measures,  that astound  the civilized  Avorld —
rejoice of the grand acquisitions made  by vaccina-
tion:  the  miraculous orthopedic institutes  and
the wonderful tendon-cut! — rejoice,  Madame, of
the discovery of thy hidden steel-supporters;  thou
hast  not  a small-pox  mark in  thy  yellowish-pale
face !
    Heim says farther:  " The scrofulous diathesis ap-
pears with others  at  once, in the eyes and enlarged
glands.   That  vaccination increases  scrofulous  ten-
dencies, and  develops its  visible products,  is a  fact
that cannot be denied."
    Rejoice, then, of thy feeble, brick-red, or  blearing 
60          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
eyes, which look like AvindoAv-glasses  in Avinter time !
—rejoice of thy glandulous, knotty, enlarged, matter-
discharging neck! — rejoice  of thy stunted, crooked
growth, of thy Roman-X-figure;—thou hast not one
small-pox-mark on  the surface of thy body.   Drink
cod-liver-oil, be moxa-ed, cut, stuck  and burnt, run
through all the healing institutions, science  and hum-
bug  may have established: if thou believest that to
be better than  to have possibly a light mark in the
face, over which thou mightst jest and rail, and with
which thou couldst  dance, sing and enjoy life.
  § 20. If all this come already to pass on the green
wood, yet the ideal of health, what shall become of
the dry, that is, of  the children produced by such a
miserable  generation as ours is at present ?  Vacci-
nation treats them all alike;  all are A'accinated: the
child of the drunkard,  of the famishing, of the syphi-
litic, of the cancerous, of the gouty, of the old man,
of the voluptuous mother, of the consumptive, of the
dropsical,  of the leprous, of  the fool, &c, &c.   Hor-
ribile dictu!
  Seventh Scene :—The  physician  stands  deeply
moved before the lifeless body of  his vaccinated vic-
tim ; the wailing of the stricken .family cuts his  heart,
and  causes him the  most painful feelings.  He  Avould
like  to justify himself,  and cannot find anywhere an
outlet.  He hunts in the wide empire of possibilities
in vain  for a  name—in  vain  even for a  pretence.
He struggles with himself; he must  acknowledge it
to himself, he  must confess  before the whole Avorld,
that  the child has died on the reaction of vaccination. 
THK evil's of vaccination.          61
It is  so perfectly clear a case, that all  talking and
mincin<r is in vain.   Wherever tables  of vaccination
are regularly and  carefully  kept,  the  unavoidable
truth  stares in the eyes of every reader, that vacci-
nation  itself alone kills a large number of children,
Avhile it gives to every other disease a malignant cha-
racter !   When  a  criminal  is  executed,  the Avhole
country is aroused; but  nobody says anything about
the thousands slain by the act of vaccination !  The
earth covers them  quietly.   It  is said,  the dead  are
dumb and do not speak.   It is false;  they do speak,
and accuse science, government, and  the people, all
concerned.   Whoever supports and praises  a false
method, upholds it  as a true  one, must some  time or
other suffer for all the victims slain by it.  Does  the
axe of the executioner compare Avith a false medical me-
thod ?   Has a  Herod,  a Pharaoh given  the royal
decree : " Vaccination does not do the least harm?" or
a legislature of an  enlightened State of  our Union in
the 19th century ?  Would a merciful community of
Christians condemn  all their children  to death and
misery  ? or is such a state of affairs the Avork of  Sa-
tan ?    With painful care deliberates a jury about  the
A'erdict over life  and death  of a  criminal  outcast,
Avhose  existence  is a  curse  to  the community; and
another jury, composing parents, brothers and sisters,
decide Avithout hesitation over the fate of their inno-
cent relation, avIio  is never even heard  in the case.
0 Lord, deliver us from evil!
   Through a lady, (Montague,)—through Jenner's
country-girl,—through woman, then, again,  this  sin
        6 
62          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
has come into the world, and death by this sin.   The
female sex, and principally the young mother, has
most  to  suffer from  it.   That js Goethe's curse of
Nature !  Miserable expiation !  The conscience of the
father and of the physician revolts against the abo-
mination.  Will the  public and the government re-
main  quiet ?
   Already in the  year 1801, two years  after Dr.
Ballhorn, in Hanover, (in May, 1799,) had vaccinated
the first  child in  Germany, Dr. Sybel wrote: "It
cannot be denied, that, (with all respect due to vac-
cination, be it said,) not every one who is vaccinated,
is saved, and that a great many examples bring before
our eyes the most deplorable cases, where, by means
of this celebrated discoArery, father and mother have
been  carried away from their children, and that Avhole
families have become victims of death.   Cases, where
the most unfortunate  consequences  remained behind,
have  brought upon  this neAV method the most violent
execrations."   Such Avas the dirge  of the physicians
on the continent of Europe, soon after the introduc-
tion of Araccination. What will the tune be  now, after
it has decimated and destroyed the  human family ?

            SECOND ARTICLE  OF  FAITH.
   § 22.  "The vaccine-pox  offer the  best possible secu-
rity for the extinction of  the  tendency to be infected
by the real small-pox;" exclaims with satisfaction, the
easy, thoughtless Avanderer  on the  beaten track, and
science shakes grimly the mane.
   Diseases are the  effects of diseasing  causes;  each 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          63

disease has, like the plant, its seed, its OAvn kind, its
nature,  its  course, its fruit  and its  end.   He who.
does not knoAV all these things, can  neither protect
from  its poison, nor  extirpate it.  As long  as the
physicians must acknoAvledge that they do not under-
stand cither the cause, or the nature of the small-pox,
as avcII as of the kinc-pox,—that the manner in which*
the vaccHe  acts,  is to them a terra incognita, and
that they do not knoAV how to attack the small-pox-
poison,—so long remains Araccination a medical fool-
cry ;  on account of its consequences,  a crime against
humanity; and, Avherever the laAvs require it, a legal
atrocity.   An immense amount of learning  and in-
vestigation has already been applied, for the purpose
of ascertaining the place  of the  origin and nativity
of the small-pox—Avhether  it  comes  from Arabia,
from the Red Sea and Egypt, or from Ethiopia, or
the interior of Africa—of which, although so near to
civilization,  we  really  knoAV nothing.   They were
sought  for in the works of Herodot; in the first chap-
ter of the Exodus of Moses.   Some  thought to find
them with  Pharaoh and Job, in  Syric Orfa, on the
wood-confines of the cold zone, and where the pepper
grows.
   Commerce,  travelers,  soldiers, beggars, have been
accused of having brought the disease, and  yet.the
poison is a product of your  OAvn body;  and because
youAvill  not believe it, Nature throws if unceremo-
niously into your face.  Seek, then, here for it! here
you will find it!  What devours, is  not a spirit—a
breath !  Can you not  touch the pustules and boils 
64          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

with your OAvn hands ?   And yet you opine it to be a
spirit, Avhom you think to be able to exorcise with the
vaccination-spell!   The pus is the dress of the poi-
son ; Avhy do you not undress it ?  You must see the
poison naked, and then you will recognize it  as the
creeping hydra  of your life,  of Avhich you  have to
take care; you will then see that  it is the mother of
many large and small children, to  whom nWography
gives many different names.  The  large children are
the  epidemics of pest, small-pox, cholera,  yellow-
fever, grippe, of many pituitous and nervous fevers,
of the pus-forms of genus Homo; the  smaller ones
have been already mentioned above.  As a metal ap-
pears before your  eye in various colors and forms of
crystallization, soon mixed, soon pure, soon worked: so
shows the human poison itself soon more hidden ; soon
free in the softening of the stomach, dysentery, cho-
lera ; soon stamped in typhus ulcerosus, and in the
suppurated precipitates on the surface of your body.
And when it has gained the day, as at present, prin-
cipally  by vaccination, every disease  dresses itself
after its fashion.   The poison is  more  honest than
you are active.   Yrou persecute the Avolf, the  bear,
and innocent dog, (whom your heartless children have
teased to madness;) you pay premiums for their ex-
termination : but you let the poison murder myriads;
and yet you can touch it with your hands ; it appears
quite materially in  and on you.
  § 23.  History proves clearly and indisputably the
destructive effects of this poison;  and yet every one
runs as if mad, into the arms of  Jenner's country- 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          65

girl!   We may indulgingly excuse such insane things'
in an impulsive, passionate, young and inexperienced
fclloAv, but the deliberate wisdom of grave age, ought
to guard  against  such juvenile  ebullitions.   Take
your Thucydides, upon Avhom you prided yourself so
much, Avhen yet a  boy, read how beautifully he  de-
scribes the  disease of Rome, Avhich spread over  the
world;—hoAV there was  (431 B. C.)  not a youth to
be found fit  to be a soldier; read  his Athenian pest,
and  the  battle of  Potidaea;—hear Avhat St. Cyprian
says about the epidemy of the Occident, (250 B. C.,)
Avhich lasted  fifteen years,  Avhencc avc retain yet,
"black,"  for  the  Christian  mourning color;—hear
the complaints of the angel-pure Aetius, (557 B. C.,)
abflut the bubo-pest, Avhich shoAved a particular predi-
lection for children.  At Mahommcd's birth-day (572)
throws Nature small-pox  in your face.  She Avished
to be long before understood;  but you were a lazy fool,
and  remain  it truly to this day.  She  took you 589-
594, by the nose Avith sneezing, yaAvning and death;
you  died  and exclaimed, God help!  "Noav," says
Nature, "I  "will then let  influenza knock every cen-
tury at the  door of the human family."   In  rami
The  crusades  came, the body  folloAved the spiritual
impulse; and even  the  cliildish organism  Avas (1211)
carried away  by this blind power;  50,000 children
pilgrimized !  In vain !   " Go, then," exclaims Na-
ture, in despair, "go, useless black lead-colored  an-
thrax, fire-red  Antonius—fire;  thou  Jordan-itch
leprosy;   thou episcopal-violet  carbuncle;  and thou
Mongolian plica, (12S6;) perverse men ask for black
                        6* 
66          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
and white, I must then send them a number of barren
years of famine, folloAved  by death !"   There came
(1348) the black death  over all nations; it rolled in
blood and  nerve-matter.    Humanity saAV now, cer-
tainly, black and white, but did  not comprehend the
friendly intention of Nature, Avho showed them here
more clearly yet, than  in Athens, that the poison is
not a spirit, but a visible and tangible matter, Avhich
likes to dress itself in pus ; and that suppurating car-
buncles  and bubons  save  life,  as,  noAV-a-days,  the
small-pox.   Pest and small-pox reign then supreme-
ly ! and both have gnaAved the human family to pieces
in a terrible  manner, and  'nothing was  done but to
count the vestiges  and the corpses that were slain
during three centuries.   Chemistry did  not seek for
the killing tooth; and Medicine did for that very rea-
son not blunt its sharp  edge.—Finally, there appears
a  lively  fellow—the  English student Jenner.—"A
student of medicine !" exclaims Nature,  like a  happy
bride, " he must, of course, understand me, and espe-
cially the exploring art—chemistry!"—But Jenner
was quite TOO natural;  he did not stick  to the udder
of the cow, but  ran after  a country-wench.   Aliena
ubera suxit.  Deceived Nature conjured up in her fury
entirely neAV diseases in the present century.  Not-
withstanding that, the other diseases also do no longer
correspond with the condition of the weather  or ali-
ments, but as a curse  of  Nature destroy our intes-
tines; the people shout in blindness: "Victory! tri-
umph ! no more small-pox !  Hurrah for Jenner  and
his girl!"  But that destructive poison, AYhich is no 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
67
spirit, but visible, tangible, smellable, tasteable, and
eArcn audible, that tooth of our age gnaws on and on,
and  Avill yet many years make  its sharpness  felt.
That poison, generally called small-pox-poison, goes,
and Avill go unrestrainedly its historical  and charac-
teristic  course,  till it is totally eradicated.   It  boasts
impudently, that it will ahvays again proceed where-
from it proceeded first.   There  is the origin  of the
small-pox.—Ileim says:  "Thus the truth of a spon-
taneous idiopathic development of  small-pox-matter,
out of conditions and circumstances entirely unknown
to us, without the influence of  infection, is beyond all
doubt established."
   The people stuck faithfully to all that was ordered
for them ; but Avhat does science and government do ?
The people arc  certainly deceived  in their expecta-
tions ; they suffered immensely from A'accination;  they
bore Avillingly  strict quarantine measures; and yet
they had and have small-pox, varioloids, &c.;—if we
v\ ill  even overlook the  general bodily injury inflicted
by flll  these preA'entive means, which  so frequently
end  in  death.   Ileim, the penetrating thinker and
physician adds with deep foresight:
   " The disease must  consist in a change of the che-
mico-electrical  process of the neiwous system, which
is proved by the affections from Avhich single parts  of
the spinal system suffer, by the constant pains in cer-
tain regions of the body, particularly of the neck and
back ;—by the seizure of the great connecting nerves
under multifarious crampy, dyspeptic, nauseous symp- 
68          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
toms, more yet by the  undenied influence on hiema-
tose."
  Eichhorn confirms'Heim's views, by saying :
  "It is  certain, that the small-pox-mattcr forms
itself in the blood and lymph-system ; it is, as it were,
hatched in the lymphatic gknds, and  communicated
from the  centres of this  system to  the  blood  and
nerves."
  Nature speaks out of infants without falsehood and
deception.  The infant is personified truth; it shows
in the lap of the  mother,  at  the entrance  into the
world, in  the  SAvaddling-clothes, the presence of the
small-pox, no matter  whether the  mother  has  had
them or not.  Poetic superstition insists  with tena-
city in older children,  often on external infection.
   §  24.  The younger an individual is, the more fre-
quently, but also the purer,  is  the  poison formed.
Why don't you seek it in its  cradle here ?  Are you
afraid of Fred. Hoffmann and his friends :  Boyle, Sy-
denham, Schulze and Cullen, Avhose mechanico-dyna-
mic  rosary has been prayed for, for a  century, by«the
medical profession,—without  being heard by Baal ?
Why will you not, like Autenrieth,  at least  moment-
arily, free yourself fr.om the old system, in order to
try once the views of the  humoral pathologists, if it
were even Sylvius, who considered  the body to be a
chemical  laboratory, and  life a chemical  process ?
Try it; tear yourself  loose from nosological distinc-
tions, from  local phenomena.  A decided disease  of
the fluids needs  the eye and the light of  chemistry! 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          69
She  is  the  sword of the present time, that cuts to
pieces the vaccination as vain foolery.  As certain as
the Atlantic Ocean cannot be SAvallowed and digested
by the river Delaware, as certain can the small-pox-
poison not be swallowed and digested by the kinc-pox-
poison.   But you can  find their filthy excrements.
Discriminate!   As  little as the ocean cares for the
DelaAvare, as little does the small-pox care for vaccina-
tion.   Does not our time, with its immense number
of cases of itch and syphilis, of external and internal
pox, whose hero  is the cholera, prove the whole doc-
trine of vaccination to be a falsehood,  and the  law
ordering it, a crime?  Does it  not  show its  entire
usclessness as a protection-manoeuvre ?
   Hoav the science par excellence wails !  Dr. Elsasser
already complains some thirty  years ago:
   " The kine-pox have, in the  whole, disappointed us
in our expectation of their protective value.  Vacci-
nation has not been able to  remove the tendency to
be infected by  small-pox.  The vaccine is generally
overcome and alienated by the real small-pox."
   The principal vaccination physician of the kingdom
of "Wurtemberg, Dr. Sceger, says naively :
   "We have indeed, NO criterion  to  decide, when
and in Avhat  degree the  protecting poAver  of good
vaccine is decreased or extinct in an individual.  We
have NO criterion for the degree of the susceptibi-
lity for small-pox of a person.  We have  NO  crite-
rion to determine the  period  of the duration  of the
protection.  Individuals Avho have been formerly vac- 
70          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
cinated, are, before all others, liable to be attacked
by small-pox; (of course, dignus est operarius mercede
sua!)"  Elsasser says:
  " In the course of a general epidemy, a great many
of the not-vaccinated-children  get the  lightest kind
of small-pox.   In  Baden, where the  laAV  requires
general vaccination, was the last  small-pox-epidemy
at least as destructive as formerly.  Kine-pox and
small-pox are  often found combined, each taking its
own course, and both  interfering Avith each other."
And Heim adds:
  " The regular small-pox, care not the least for the
best flourishing vaccine."
  Once more !  The disease is yet as malicious as it
was at the time  of  the Arabs, who gave the first de-
scription of it, (Rhazes,) and cares not a farthing for
vaccination !  Besides, the vaccine-pustule  and vac-
cine-mark may stand  every  kind and variation of
small-pox, and other similar matter-expulsion possible,
at a time  when there exists a small-pox epidemy.
  It is certainly a very convenient faith,  a  sweet-
sounding   syren-song,  a very nice  practice, that
leaves the mind  perfectly at ease to think and assume
that the vaccination hocus-pocus  bestows  Achillean
inviolability ; and that the medical holy water purifies
perfectly; and  that  we, therefore,  may  carelessly
violate the temple of Hyg'iea, the temple of iEsculape,
and that we may continue to gluttonize, to carouse,
to dissipate Avithout punishment.  Dominus vobiscum !
Deus se irrideri non patitur. 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          71
            THIRD ARTICLE  OF FAITH.
  § 25.  " Vaccination is  the  only  reliable  means
to  banish the  small-pox with  its destructive conse-
quences."  We  will not even  think of its  banish-
ment at all, "ne desinas in pisecm;" it should rather
be called their firm settlement in the country, because
everybody will, with the great Sarcone, who (1753 to
1755, and 1760 to  1768) saAV in Naples the most ma-
lignant and fatal epidemics, " easily comprehend, that
a body encumbered Avith the  small-pox-poison, can
only then gain  health, Avhen the small-pox come  to
the surface, or Avhen the impurity, that travels about
in the  blood and fluids of the body,- is  ejected through
the usual channels."
   But if a man has  no poison in himself, and it is
forced  into him  by vaccination and re-vaccination,
the disposition to it must finally show itself.   Green
A\-ood  gets dry, and burns!   In the  first case, man
gets careless  against  his enemy; in the other, he is
thrown treacherously in his arms;  and science rests
quietly  and  self-complacently on the easy couch of
routine,  instead of searching  for further and more
rational  means, because Pythia has  clairvoyized of
the  "only" remedy:—"the gold of Ophir."
   I have already mentioned above, that the infection
spreads  after  many vaccinations, through this very
matter,  Avhen it is the least  thought  of.   The small-
pox-disease could,  therefore, neA'er leave us, eAren if
its time  had run out.  The people hold it closely and
firmly in their  arms.   The  plague Avhich devastated
(in the 17th century)  Europe so frequently, seemed, 
72          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
according to Schnurrer's ingenious view, (Chron. of
Epid.,  II.  203,) in 1666, to dissolve itself for West-
ern Europe, into other milder diseases, f. i. dysentery,
purples,  scarlet fever, inflammations of the throat,
&c.  Henssler shows the symptoms of the later syph-
ilis in the symptoms of leprosy; and even.this Venus
had lost, for  some time, the Avings of  catarrh  and
exanthem, (Avhich she at  present seems to re-assume.)
In a great many other contagious and fatal diseases let
us recognize the same process of dissolution  in their
history of pathological development.  Hoav shall  and
can the  same take place Avith  the small-pox, if Ave
assiduously and continually prevent it with all might ?
   Throw away reason and history !  Be it so !—The
last few years ought to open our eyes mightily; and,
where  this is  not the case, there can't exist eyes at
all! With a false passport, under different well-knoAvn
family-names  of diseases, mostly in the  stolen dress
of catarrh, sneaks  the small-pox-poison  through the
civilized, vaccinated world;  it torments  the  stomach
and its  fellows; irritates,  lames,  and  softens  our
nerve-marrow; throAvs  the  whole economy  of  our
body into misery; veils the soul, and troubles us yet
in  our dreams.  "What is  the  matter?"  exclaims
Druggy, "the diseases will not heal properly." "And
I," sighs Lilliput, "am quite out of all  precedence;
I cure, and nobody gets well!  My prescription will
not  answer the object."  The old-woman-practice is
at its Avit's-end !—Have then the stormy times turned
the  medical science also upside doAvn ? — The physi-
cians vaccinate furiously on and on; and  see,  the 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          73
false and  treacherous vaccine goes laughingly to bed
with the small-pox-poison, and feeds and caresses it!
Medicine  stands  confused before the people!  The
promised  banishment does not really exist;  on the
contrary,  the  people  complain louder, — for like
marauders moves  the  poison, destroying, laming  in
their  interior about, for months and years.   High
and Ioav  immolate,  in despair,  to  superstition,  to
sympathy,  to  Spiritualism,  in  vain! — You, then,
benign  Nature!  help  us; I throw myself on  your
breast! — And see ! she sends her fever-troops, and
throAvs  the  enemy,  in small skirmishes, or  in one
pitched battle, partly  out  of  the openings  of the
body, partly out in blisters and boils.  Liberty!  real,
sound liberty, of life and happiness, is iioav  felt  by
the grateful sufferer, but the drug-guild and popular
infatuation exclaims against it—and vaccinates again
and again, instead of forbidding it at once.
   The  Small-pox-poison exists !   It  shows  itself
far more frequently on the internal mucous mem-
brane of the throat, nose, eyes, tongue and  mouth,
in the intestines, &c,  than on  the  external surface.
If  it does not make  its appearance,  \yo  can with
mathematical certainty calculate, that it will break
out in  a  wilder form,  as decomposing, putrid, conta-
gious disorder and cholera.   The government ought,
therefore, rather  to offer  prices for the wholesome
discovery of means, by Avhich the poison could again
be  brought from  the interior of the human body to
its  surface.   But, instead of urging science to learn
to  act  specifically against the  poison itself—instead
        7       • 
 74          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

 of forming medical battle-lines  against the enemy—
 the old beaten track is followed on and on, a  sys-
 tematic  prescription is' written, and the people  are
 vaccinated for their own destruction !
   Deus sit testis inter me and inter te !  Quid vidisti
 hypocrita?  Scientiam profanasti! terram tuam per-
 didisti! populum tuum occidisti.
   § 26. "According to your lamentations, there ought
 to  be an uncommonly large number  of patients  and
 deaths!" Certainly! and I will even acknowledge
 that  there  are  seasons sometimes  remarkably  free
 from fatal diseases.  But, Ave  must discern betAveen
 disease-condition, and the breaking out of diseases.
   Sickly is the by far greatest number  of the people,
 carrying, as they do, in themselves, the latent poison;
 but,  while some are  perfectly  conscious  of  their
 miserable  condition, there are many others too care-
 less of their own self to perceive it.
   "Ihave always had an excellent stomach and per-
fect digestion: now I have to be extremely careful—a
 little  too much, or not enough, upsets me;  the smallest
fault in my diet presses and puffs one up, and punishes
 me with excruciating sufferings!"  The  digestion  is
 changeable, slow, difficult and  painful; the  appetite
 small, and  asks  for piquant and cool  things, viz.:
 ham,  salt-fish, salad, fruit, acids.  Breakfast is the
worst  meal,  and a  sensation  of faintness  compels
them  to  eat something: for otherwise  the condition
of the body, without food,  would be unbearable.   If
this weakness is helped by eating, another unplea-
santness  appears: fullness, distension of the stomach, 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          75
indolence, and drowsiness.   The sufferer feels in an
uncomfortable manner, which  is often painful in the
pit of the  stomach, AA'here and how the stomach  is
situated, and that the digestion is not readily, but
lazily, imperfectly, and unvvillingly performed.
   "My stomach is a  perfect vinegar-factory, or pro-
duces nothing but phlegm: I spit up nothing but salt
masses."  Sometimes, there appears some nausea,  or
some slight vomiting;  and a slight diarrhoea relieves
much. Things arc wrong in the abdomen : it rumbles,
pinches and savcIIs ; stitches are often felt in the left
side; the abdomen hangs down like a drummed and
inactive sac; the back complains, knees and feet feel
tired ; there is less urine  than  usual; but, what there
is, is bad, and somewhat acrid; wind and stool smell
carrion-like.   The latter contains  much slime, and
often  Avorms.  The  emptiness and fullness  of the
stomach reflect upon the  head ; the former, as head-
ache, dizziness.   "Ifeel," says  my neighbor, "as if
I had the  very  mischief in my  stomach"—another
complains: " / have a sensation as  if my victuals were
in my head;"—the latter, as  merely thick, stupid
feeling:  the  emptiness, at night,  as sleepiness, ter-
rible dreams, &c.; the fullness, as sorrowful, heavy
sleep.   The hair of the head decays.   The condition
of  the head indicates clearly the condition of the
stomach.  This emptiness and fullness of the stomach,
is Avith others reflected in the respiratory sphere.
The interior of the throat of some  swells up  with
cherry-red color,  and grey-Avhitc  pustules appear;
the voice suffers.   There is generally something the 
76
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
matter in the throat and back.  With others, again,
we find a snuffling, catarrhal irritation  of the  nose,
throat,  Avindpipe,  chest,  Avhen a dry,  hot,  sirocco-
breath is exhaled up from the  throat.  He longs in-
stinctively for Avater,  swallows  greedily quite unusual
quantities, and yet excretes comparatively very little
by  SAveat and urine, as if fire  Avas scorching  his
interior.  He now perceives that  there is much heat
in his  body, particularly  as  he finds that his  excre-
ments are also very hot; and yet he feels, on  the
other  side,  how  little  animal  heat  his  body  really
possesses, how sensiti\Te his  external surface is, par-
ticularly his spinal column.  He does not avoid  the
bufning rays of the sun; he stands  before a red-hot
stove, and presents his back to the heat, and expresses
his grateful feelings, by  exclamations of "Oh! ah!
0 how lovely !" and other expressions of comfortable-
ness.  He then takes,  with  the greatest exertion, a
AATalk—and sighs,  with a quid  of  tobacco or a  segar
in his mouth: "I certainly shall one  of these days
die from below upwards!" till  finally a cup of strong
hot  coffee,  or  a  glass  of hot  punch, restores  some
kind of an equilibrium.  At   another  time is  the
exterior condition of  the temperature quite the  oppo-
site.   An unpleasant, dry, burning heat, lames and
destroys the  strength; he  hastens  to take a  bath.
He feels best in the open air.   As soon as  the first
digestive  labors are over, he enjoys again some com-
fort, and feels able to exert himself somewhat; he is
content, till the  debility returns  from the stomach.
Connected with these  symptoms is  a  tired, melan- 
            THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.          77

cholic, or an  excitable, nervous  manner about him,
Avhich  emaciates one, while another fattens, sponge-
like,—a third yawns eternally, and sighs Avithout an
apparent cause,—a fourth, the most fortunate  of all,
has on his body ahvays something to scratch, or to
plaster.
   The fire of the eye, the color, the fullness and the
expression of the face expires slowly with the decrease
of the elasticity of  the muscles  and mental activity.
Every other weak  part of our body  begins now to
make itself felt.  The plethora complains of debility,
blood-congestion; the blood-vessels enlarge; the menses
become too  copious;  the parturition difficult.  Old
colds,  sore throats, Avorms wake up; rheumatic pains
move about like marauders;  the piles  give unusual
trouble; the  gout  is more irritable and painful; the
eruptions and salt rheums get livelier; scrofula ap-
pears in all shades as la maladie du jour in the fore-
ground ; the  tuberculous  sufferer  coughs early and
late in crampy attacks ; the consumptive goes out like
a light, or SAvells up ;  dropsy returns ; jaundice con-
ceals  itself  behind a  green,  yelloAvish, clay-color;
hystcry is playing much mischief; syphilis  and  itch
will not heal radically;  and a kind of  intermittent
feArer appears readily after a meal.
   Thus—Avith these changes in  the digestion, in the
feelings of  Aveakncss in the muscles,  nen-es, senses,
soul and heart; in the decrease of even  body-temper-
ature ; of  sleep, and his usual  imbecilities—lives
the poor already infected sufferer, Avithout consulting
a physician, generally folloAving  his inherited super-
                        7* 
78
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
 stition, and his perArerse instinct, in an unsatisfactory
 condition about himself, Avhethcr he be avcII or sick ;
 he  e\Ten considers  it hardly worth  AYhile to  molest
 a  physician  with  his  complaints,  or to  limit  his
 labor.  Although many a  father might  perceive (if
 he  would only take the trouble to  look) that some:
 thing is wrong about the health of  his family;  that
 there passes  not a day Avithout complaint;  that his
 wife fades unusually early away;  and that his chil-
 dren remain green, and will not bloom; that they
 very often get  fever attacks, and Avaste away, or eject
 matter by suppuration from their bodies;—although
 he  could see, that  everywhere  in other  families the
 same sad  condition exists: he really sees  nothing,
 thinks nothing, and does nothing.   Time of nullity !
  Vive le zero!
   This imperfect description of a state, where people
 do not yet consider thei^selves sick, indicates the gene-
 ral health-condition fo our population, undermined as
 it is by the small-pox and vaccine-poison. ' The people
 are, in reality, far more diseased than  they think
 themselves.   It indicates the dark  cloud that hangs
 over our life-horizon, the seed-field of  the world-con-
 tagiflm, and confirms the old, but highly important
• position: that in no disease  the  sympathy with heart,
 brain and external skin, is so great, as in affections
 of the mucous  membranes; and that they  are the
 deeper and the more tenacious, the less or the more
 remote from them the pain is.   The legitimate, most
 radical, and, therefore,  most fortunate excretion of
 this poisonous  matter, is,  according to  experience, 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.         79
mediated by the breaking out of the small-pox ;  a fact
that, in later times, has happily often occurred in the
most satisfactory manner.   Yet people lament about'
it;  and miserable, injurious vaccination is  continu-
ously sent in the field against it.  What will our ex-
perience be, when man himself complains, and the
centrifugal power of  Nature forms  diseases out of
those yet quietly resting disease-matters; and what
is Avorse yet, when, by-and-by, the centripetal power
of  the  poison  perA'ades all  the various interior pro-
vinces of our organization ?  Then only, when misery
and wretchedness grim us with our vaccination-marks
scoffingly in the face,—then only will we hasten to
fill the  lamp of salvation with the oil of true science.
The small-pox-matter  creeps at present through the
inside of the people  only, as  it Avere, in  great  and
dark  passages.  Woe to him who feeds this snake by
vaccine!
   § 28. The small-pox-matter  is a poison produced
in our own body, in our stomach, as soon as our vita-
tality,  be it in consequence of the condition of our
life, or of the years in which Ave have lived, sinks be-
Ioav the normal standard,  and passes over from the
vital-chemical more into the chemico-vital.  In the
perfect man who is healthily nourished, like a strong
tree,  all chemistry falls too  short; but not  in the
opposite case.   Here  is the sickening small-pox-mat-
ter easily demonstrable.   That this matter cannot be
Evaccinated out of the  body, but only impeded by a
radical change in the  order of life, and removed by a
sensible interference of a natural cure-method in its 
80          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
effect and continuous development, is beyond contra-
diction clear.   Our life and medical treatment must
be changed : these are the only real protective means
against the malicious  and destructive  enemy of  the
Avelfare anS. increase  of the human family.   Let us
then  submit!—Vaccine  has changed  the  civilized
Avorld into a deceptive pool of evils,  the  names of
Avhich blind yet the people ; it has in reality produced
no  other benefit, if benefit it be, but a numerically
immense  increase of  physicians.  Him, ivho  is ripe
for the small-pox, will and can save nothing but the
ejection of the matter.   To vaccinate him who has got
no small-pox-matter in him,  or ivho is not yet prepar-
ed for their ejection,  and then  congratulate him as
being safe from  the disease, is a pernicious  simpli-
sity, but not a sancta simplicitas;  it is sublimely
ridiculous.   Whoever is unable or unAvilling to free
himself at once and entirely from this SAveet Baal's
fajth, may have the pleasure to  look at  the children
Avhom my inteiwening protest has already saved from
vaccination.   The difference betAveen Araccinated and
not-vaccinated children  is  striking, and so palpable,
that Avords are unnecessary.  In families, those that
are vaccinated, always give me the most trouble.  If
you wish  to be better satisfied yet, raise beside a vac-
cinated child, an  unA'accinated  one !   Cease to play
frivolously Avith the life-happiness of your child !  Let
us by all means  restore  the beneficial -love-relation
with good old  mother Nature, by the Avell-regulatcd
use of her natural gifts, and by the purer application
of her pure remedies; and let us drive the poisoning 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.         81
imp, the good-for-nothing vaccine, out of the country.
Let  us.accuse  none!   Government  and physicians
have acted in good  faith.   Although Ave must stand
confused and overwhelmed  in painful ■ silence before
the past follies, let us  learn from it for the future !
Pudore victi in nos ipsos desccndamus, resipiseamus.
Horn inis err are, insipientis vero in errore perseverare !
   We  decidedly require this :
   1. That every regulation imposing Araccination, be
at once abolished.
   2. That every physician and government warn the
people against ATaccination.
   3. That every physician who ventures to vaccinate,
be made responsible for the injury done by his act.
   4. That 'the  legislative  bodies  will enact laws for
the prohibition of vaccination, for  the reason that the
operator  exposes himself  to the danger of injuring,
or even killing an innocent human being.
   5. That the goArernment make  it  an object of par-
ticular care, to try to  retrieA'e  the  immense  injury
done already by A'accination, by establishing bathing
establishments, cv.e.
   § 29.  Hoav much more prosperous would this  so
eminently blessed country be,  if  vaccination  had
never  been introduced, or  Avould have been forbidden
as a sanitary measure ! and how much happier would
the people be in soul and  body, and general Avelfare,
had they never been vaccinated!
   The latter question  has, as far as the body is con-
cerned, been already answered; the former is a mat-
ter for the consideration  of the  government.   The 
82          TnE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
continued encroachment  of  poison  in the physical
state-body, is clcasly an important external event—
an historical "fait accompli," the cause of Avhich can
change  in the  same  manner as it has shown itself
injurious in the single organism, the metamorphosis
of the organization of the state, and, if persisted in,
may impede and destroy society in  its free develop-
ment and progress.   The political life of a nation is
mostly the  expression  of their  physical  condition.
Not the spirit nourishes  the  body, as Virgil says, but
the body the spirit.
   When organizations that are not  poisoned,  but
harmoniously conditioned, live  socially together,  Ave
can comprehend  how  easily  a unite-tie  of order,
morality, and welfare may  embrace them.   Let us
further examine, with Foster, their connection Avith
regard to the sound stomach. The quality, quantity,
the combination of food have the greatest influence,
not  alone on the  momentary impressions  which our
soul receives, but  also  on its  social  disposition or
humor.   A man is, no matter  how sober he may be
before a meal,  not Avhat he  is after it.   A  glass of
liquor, a cup  of  coffee, give  different  degrees of
vivacity, of activity,  of  irritability,  despondency, or
hilarity.  One  kind  of food, because  it lies  heavily
in the stomach, makes  us morose  and fretful; an-
other, because  it  is  easily digested, disposes us to
amiability  and  kindness.   The use  of  vegetables
alone makes, because they are not nutritious enough,
the body Aveak, and predisposes us to quiet, laziness,
and mildness ; the use of nutritious  meats  and fluids, 
THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.
83
which  stimulate  the nerves,  produces  restlessness,
excitement, and courage.  In these habits of nutri-
tion, originate  habits in the bodily constitution and
organs, out of which the various temperaments form
themselves.  Long experiences had  taught the an-
cients, that the knowledge of Dietetics form an impor-
tant part of moral philosophy.  The ancient Persians
and Greeks acted in the areopagus upon important
matters only before meals.  Those people, who in the
heat of meals,  or under the vapor  of digestion, con-
sult about .important affairs, show,  in  their a ^m-
blagcs, violence  and stormy  excitement; and their
resolutions are often unreasonable and rebellious.  If
this is the  case Avith the healthy stomach, Avhat shall
we expect of one that  is poisoned ?
   Many a disorder and row would  not take place,
if the  small-pox-poison  did  not irritate, torture, and
often paralyze  the digestive apparatus;  and  it would
not be difficult to derive many a disorderly tumult of
our eminent men, and  their unbecoming violence in
the  legislative chambers of our governments, from
that same  source.  More  yet!   The   vaccine and
small-pox-poison penetrates into  the very  mass  of
fluids of the people; the whole life-disposition, there-
fore, that  is, the Avhole revelation of their mind and
heart,  gets disturbed;  their intelligence, their con-
viction, their principles, their religion, th,eir ideas of
freedom, right and duty, their character and fate,
become injuriously affected and changed.  The dis-
harmony of the organs must necessarily drag the
mind into  the bodily  quarrel, and  the intellectual 
84          THE EVILS OF VACCINATION.

and  physical  development of the  individual  cross
each other most  disturbingly.   The body  and the
soul of man  can never be thought  as  separated  in
this  life.   Such serious physical changes, as a  many
years'  continued poisoning, must of necessity have
the most decisive influence upon the  political horizon
of the country.   A. von Humboldt says:
   " The  influence is eternal,  which  the  physical
nature exercises over the moral disposition of man;"
   And Schnurrer adds :
   " Physical events  have really, in eveisy period  of
history, if not incited, at  least laid hold of  the fates
and epochs of the human family." 
*
              CONCLUSION.

                THE FALL OF MAN.

  Now the country-wench Avas more subtle, than all
persons else, and  she said unto  Science:  "Should
God have said,  ye  shall not eat of every thing of the
COAV?"
  And  Science said  unto the wench:  "We may eat
of the cow Avhatevcr is Avholesome—the flesh and the
milk.  But we  must  not eat  the  flesh of a diseased
coav, or drink the milk of a sick udder;  least of all
must avc take into  ourselves the diseased eruption  of
the  kine-pox.  Most painfully do I recall the years
of murrain, Avhen God said : ' Ye shall not eat of the
coav, nor shall ye even touch it, lest ye die!' '
  And the wench said unto Science : l' Ye shall sure-
ly not die; for  God knoAveth that, in the day ye vac-
cinate Avith the kine-pox,—ye need not SAvalloAv it,—
vc Avill Avrest yourself from  fate  and  necessity, into
freedom,  be exempt from  small-pox,  handsomer,
stronger and more spiritual than  ever!"
  And when Science saAv  that  such easy work was
more pleasant than racking the brain, she summoned
her man, the physician, to visit the coav in the stable;
and  he, too, comprehended that  this practice would
       8 
86                CONCLUSION.
be more comfortable.  And the eyes of both "Avere
opened," and they kneAV that  the Lord had dissolved
the murrain and  the  small-pox, though Jenner bfcd
not, and covered their nakedness Avith vaccine-reports
and optimist reasonings.
  And they heard again, in our day, the voice of the
Lord walking in the garden of the peoples, Avith influ-
enza, small-pox, typhus,  cholera,  yelloA\--fever; with
many other malignant and  putrid  evils.   And the
physician "hid himself" behind  the medical college
and government from this clear truth.
  And the  Lord called from among  the complaining
peoples, saying:  "Physician, where art thou?"
  And  the physician answered: "I heard  the wail
of the peoples, and I Avas afraid; for I know not how
to heal the  Avounds I have inflicted, and therefore  I
hid myself."
  And the  Lord  said: "Who told thee  that  thou
hadst acted Avithout sense and reason ?  Hast  thou
not—in mockery  of all sound sense, and merely fol-
lowing the  tattle of a country-wench—thoroughly
poisoned my peoples ?"
  And the  physician  replied:  " The college Avhere I
studied, and  all my medical brethren advised me to
vaccinate, and so  I vaccinated !"
  And the  Lord said unto  Science:  "What is this
that thou hast done ?"
  And Science ansAvered: "A country-wench assert-
ed, that she would not get the small-pox, because she
had had the kine-pox."
  And the Lord said unto the girl: "Because thou 
CONCLUSION.                 87
hast done this, thou  shalt suffer most from vaccina-
tion ; thy youth shall not bloom as the flower of the
field ; thy spine shall curve under the inner poison ;
thy sick  body shall hinder thy development, and thou
shalt eat steel and earth.   There shall be enmity be-
tAveen thee and medicine. 9 If thou seckest help from
the cow, milk and Avhey shall harm  thee;  and there
shall be little joy for thee in the drug-shop, or on the
orthopaedic  bed, or  in  the tendon-cut, piercing thy
heel.  And Avhen  thou bccomest  a  wife, thou shalt
look  greenish-yellow, and  have many soitoavs, whep
thou art blessed; thou  shalt  bring forth thy children
in pain and anguish, with  the  help  of a physician;
and the  poison shall be divided betAveen thee and thy
child."
   And unto the man the  Lord said: "Because thou
hast  hearkened to  the prattling voice of a foolish
country-girl, and permitted thy house to be filled with
poisonous matter, which divine Nature found to  be
unfit even -for a beast,  and therefore  ejected it, thy
wife and thy children, instead of being the happiness
of thy existence, shall cause  thee much trouble, and
anxiety  and expense ; thy marriage shall bring forth
for thee thorns and  thistles, instead of joy and bless-
edness."
   But the Lord drove the physician out of Paradise,
and placed  before the garden of families and people,
the flaming cherub: "of a severe Law, Avhich is the
result of rational research,  and which will lead hu-
manity to a more prosperous  future by a return to
Nature." 
88 •               CONCLUSION.
  The judgment of the Ncav Testament is :
  "If  any man shall defile the  temple of God, him
shall God destroy; for the  temple of God is holy,
which temple ye are."—1 Cor. iii. 17.
THE END. 
 





^w*				fW|	f 3
					«*. w
. ,' ■ J	Ml		•:■■■* !i		t" $|
					ml
	:'<i			jsRtlj; ''"jjjWfjifl:	;-::«
. i.'i			raj	^:>B§»i