A -- LETTER TO THE EDITOR i / Anti-Compulsion Still Kingston, Dec. 8~(To the Editor): Allow me to say, in reply to Dr, W. T. Connell, in your issue of the 4th inst. that "Anti-Compulsion" did not threaten the physicians with the terrors of a section of the vaccination act. I simply gave the doctor's statemént at the city council, and quoted secy, 18 of the act, Putting the two together the only inter) pretation to give is that which 1 stated, that vaccinating to give smallpox is il- legal. pli was at the city coungil and heard the doctor state, that in vaccina- tion yoy give the disease, smallpox, but not in 'the contagious form; he further said, that by so doing "you are protected from the smallpox to the same extent as you would be by a previous attack of smallpox and no more." 1 can prove, 'by at least some of the members of the city council, that he made these state- ments. I would like to ask what a "medical mind," or any other mind, with an .ounce of gray matter, could understand by such statements? 1 re- peat if by vaccination you give smallpox, the material youauise must be "variolous." He said nothing at the city council about cowpox being a form of smallpox, and the idea did not seem to be in his mind at the time, for some one asked him if he did not know that it was illegal to give smallpox? and he answered "yes," but that "the disease is not given in the contagious form." 1 wish to remind the doctor that the act does nofsay it must be contagious, but simply N\smallpox." I have read vaccination literafre pretty extensively, and I have never\seen the disease produced by vaccinatihg with "cowpox virus" called smallpox; disease is called "vaccinia. He now says, "vaccine that is used for vaccination purposes is lymph se- cured from calves inoculated with cow- pox and is not variolous material." How does he know this? There are dozens of brands of vaccine virus on the market to-day, Does Dr. Connell know the "seed virus" of all the calf lymphs? If not, he cannot tell whether they are "variolous" or not. The lymph for vac- cination purposes.ysed here is obtained from manwfacturers\n the States. Some | of the vendors there do not. conceal the fact that their vaccine is variolous. (That is, the strain of vaccine is started by inoculating calves with smallpox mat- ter taken from smallpox Others will not divulge the secret of the origin of their vaccine, I have in my possession copies of several letters obtained from vaccine firms across the line. Here is one, in answer to Dr. Z. Y. Miller, Pittsburg, Pa, (who wanted to know the. character and original sources of vaccine virus), "Dear Sir,-- Replying to your favor of the 25th, desire to say that in our opinion all hovanized calf lymph is from an original variolous infection, and that there is no -such thing as Kink-pog aide' trom such re. youlrs truly, National the higher prtiens) ATherdgvas some Talks About Nlegal Vaccine. \ Vakcine Establishment, - Washinton, D.C." Ii the statements of the N. V. in its letter to 'Dr. Miller are based on facts, it is obvious that the people who are inoculated with National "vaccine" are not vaccinated, but are variolated Again, Alexander & Co., Marietta, Pa, in a letter to Dr. Hodge, Niagara Fills, admits that the seed-virus used by them is variolous saying the cow from which they started their lymph was "evidently inoculated from a tramp having small- pox." These are the manufacturer's own words. I am not responsible for them. Alexander's tramp lymph has been used in Kingston. Park, Davies & Co.,, say: "Our seed-vaccine was ob- tained from spontaneous cases of cow- pox in Germany and Switzerland." This is the only legal kind of vaccine, and strange to say, Park, Davies & Co's vaccine was turned down in Kingston, because, I suppose, Jentter said that "spontaneous cow-pox" was among! the spurious varieties of the disease. He said the only vaccine virus that was effective against smallpox is the variety deriged from "horse-grease." The cow- pos/ to which he ascribed mysterious anti-variolous virtues was a filth-disease communicated to the teats and udder of the cow by dirty stablemen whose hands' were soiled with the matter" from the "greasy heels" of ill-kept Horses. Dr. Connell says, "the matter of the principles underlying vaccination are entirely scientific." Can he tell by an- alysis or by any Pasteriological test, known to science, whether a given sam- ple of vaccine is variolous or not? If he can there are $5000 waiting for him. There is no known means of definitely testing the composition of any of the various strains of "vaccine lymphs," now in and it is idle to talk / about science and technique in connection' with the question, Dr, Hadwen, of England, says: "Vaccination is the- most gigantic piece of quackery ever exploitec among a civilized people." Dr. Connell says, "that the reason cow- pox vaccine protected against the small- pox was that the cowpox virus had been proven to be a modified form of small- pox." To the "non-medical mind" the doctor has made this question as clear as mud by his illustration of "man and apes'® I always thought "monkeying" about this question of vaccination, now I see there use, 18. smallpox are related is disputed by Dr. Charles Creighton, of Cambridge, Eng., author of "Natural History of Cow- pox," "Jenner and Vaccination," "A History of Epidemics in Great Britain," &c. As good an authority as Dr, Connell, of Queen's College, Kingston, Ont, Dr, Creighton says, in his work: "Cowpox and vaccinal syphilis," page 155-6, "The real affinity of cowpox 1s not to" the smallpox, but to the great pox. The vaccinal roseala i§ not only But the statement that cowpox and | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, very like the syphilitic roseala, but it means the same sort of thing. The vac- { cinal ulser of every day practice is to all | intents and purposes a chancre." Pro- fessor Edgar M. Crookshank, author of the "History and Pathology of Vacein- ation," probably the greatest authority in the world on the subject, expresses the belief that "so-called spontaneous cowpox 'is a modified form of syphilis." Until Professor Connell refutes these men by equally able and 'independent work, they will stand as the authorities. Here we have the testimony of the highest authorities who have produced tne clearest evidence in support of their belief that sb-called "cowpox virus" which has been used in vaccinating mil- lions of healthy children, is "modified syphilis," and not "modified smallpox, as claimed by Dr. Connell. In the face of such evidence is it "sufficient to know that recent successful vaccination pro- tects against smallpox?" If we must have some disease let us have smallpox before that produced by. vaccination: and so say many Kingstonians to-day who declare they "never will be vacein- ated again. "You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time" . That is a pretty theory. of Dr. Con- nell's -about cowpox and smallpox hav- ing a common ancestor, but it is not borne out by the authorities, I have quoted, who have made a life study of the subject." Cowpox and smallpox are in no way related, therefore they never could have had a common ancestor. "Cowpox 'is not "variolae vaccinae," as claimed 'by Jenner, who by a master stroke of boldness and cunning placed the Latin name on the title page of his book ; and although the want of likeness, still more in circumstances than in form, betwen the pustules of smallpox {and even the modified form of inoculated cowpox vesicle, has been pointed out in elaborate detail by several writers, and ought, indeed, to be obvious to any- one as not to need pointing out at all, yet the Jennerial fable of variolae vac- cine continues to be the creed of the medical profession."-- (Creighton). Dr. Connell says that sec. 18 of the act, quoted by "Anti-Compulsion," only means "infectious material taken from the pocks of smallpox patients," The section needs only to be read carefully to see that it means more than that for it distinctly says, "or by any matter, article or thing impregnatsd with vari- olous matter." Note the ®ord, "impreg- nated." That word is not there by ac- cident but for a purpose, as the history of the vaccination laws clearly shows. Inoculation with smallpox matter was practiced in England from 1722, when it was introduced from Turkey by Lady Montague, until 1840, when it was put down by law. In those days, of course, as everybody knows it was from arm to arm inoculation. That was not tak- ing the "material from the pocks of a smallpox patient," but it was variolous lymph. It was something "impreg- nated" with variolous matter, and for using it a penalty of one month in gaol was imposed. It was found that the in- oculation with smallpox matter spread the disease, smallpox, and the whole merit of Jenner was that he had found a better kind of matter than the old smallpox matter, namely cowpox matter. i re -- t The two things in the law of England at the present day, and in our law, are not only separate but the "ane is pro- hited and the Sther enforced. he point'1%; if the calf lymph in use now for vaccination purposes had as its origin, no Mager. how remote, human smallpox thed it is variolous and illegal. Dr. Connell says that "it is practically impossible to inoculate cattle with smali- pox matter." dt is admitted that it is difficult, but it has been done hundreds of times, and stocks of génuine variolous vaccine lymph" obtained, and when the stocks run out new strains are started again, Dr. Creighton says, "there is no question whatéver that there is a hankering after thé old smallpox matter, and stocks of lymph are established with matter drawn from smallpox in the teeth of the Taw which puts: it down.' 1 have reason to" believe that smallpox matter is widely « distributed at the present time, one proof of it is got by observing wi happens upon the arm. The marks produced are not the proper cow-pox sear, The kind of marks or no marks produced now are proofs of smallpox." Further 'he says, "we know that smallpox lymph is used without any disguise in Germany, Switzerland, India and America. 'There is not much concealment of the fact that their stocks are sometimes though not invariably produced from smallpéx matter." Dr. J. W. Hodge, Niagara Falls, N.Y., says, "most of the vaccine wjrus in cut~ rent use in this country .is undoubtedly derived mainly from humdin smallpox." The vaccine used in Kingston comes from Dr. Hodge's country, and judging from results produced it is-the kind in current hibiting variolous vaccine. Think of the injustice of enforcing a medical nostrum upon the 'people with- out guaranteeing what that nostrum is, or what its effects will be . The Board of Health: that enforces vaceinationt should be required to prove that the vaccine used is legal vaccine, since the THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1908. ae use there, where they have no law pro- | law distinetly says it shall not be vari- olous (and there-are, good reasons for believing that it is, as 1 have shown), the burden of proof lies with those who enjoin, and not with those who object. should be clearly proven. The proof must be Historical mn conn with. every sample of vacciie 10 be used. Such proof cannot be furnished in connection virus used here, -1 with the impor! 1 venture to affirm. That being the case, its penal ent 1s a crime, Yours enforeém truly--ANTI-COMPULSION. Don't Be Bald. : to prevent baldness is to . If your hair lacks or is falling out s with Dr. Dawson's Hair Restorer. Re- stores gray hair to its natural color. In bottles 50c., at Wade's store, Mr. McDougall To Retire. 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