Dr. S. Monckton Copeman
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Now, what will impartial students of this subject say when I cite the fact that
the article on Vaccination in the last or current edition of the Britannica is
written, not by a man who is impartial and professionally disinterested in the
subject, as was Dr. Creighton, and who tried to give both sides of the subject
freely, but, on the contrary, by a man who is actually a manufacturer or
inventor of vaccine virus and has, therefore, necessarily, a professional
interest and bias to conceal the failures and dangers of vaccination as far as
he can? Surely, the editors of the Britannica made a great moral and logical mistake when they
selected any man to write so important an article on a much disputed subject in
this great book of reference who had any professional or other interest or bias
in this subject. Now, the biased and interested author of this article in the
last edition is none other than Dr. S. Monckton Copeman of London, a strong pro-vaccinist,
who claims to be the original inventor of the so-called "glycerinated virus"
now in general use for vaccination. The idea of adding glycerine to the virus
is to kill the many dangerous disease germs or infections it is known to
contain, but to preserve the germ of smallpox, or "cowpox" intact. This is, of
course, an admission that before the use of glycerinated virus vaccination was
very dangerous and likely to cause many infections in the human body, but since
the adoption of glycerinated virus—Dr. Copeman's invention—it is now claimed
that vaccination is rendered safe and harmless. This is, of course, a false
claim, as I have already shown, and will further show in a succeeding paragraph.
Now, this greatly biased and one-sided article of Dr. Copeman—the maker or
inventor of glycerinated virus—in our greatest Encyclopedia, is surely a good
illustration of my charge that the trusting public mind is constantly misled,
whether intentionally or unintentionally I know not, by some of our highest
medical authorities on the whole subject of vaccination, and particularly as to
its alleged harmlessness. Thus, when Dr. Copeman, who is regarded as one of the
leading authorities on modern vaccination, comes to consider the dangers of
vaccination, he heads his paragraph, "Alleged Injurious Effects/' thus implying
that the injuries are only "alleged" and not real, and he goes on to argue or
imply that—due to his invention—the dangers and injuries are now trifling or
negligible, but tacitly admits or implies that before his invention of
glycerinated virus the dangers were very serious, whereas, with his invention,
vaccination is now practically safe and harmless.
Now, what must we think of the truth of this claim that vaccination with
glycerinated virus is now safe and harmless, when, at the very time that its
inventor made or implied this claim in the pages of the Encyclopedia, in the year 1910 or 1911, the vital
records of his own country, in the reports of the Registrar General of England
for those two years, showed that there were eight deaths from vaccination in the
year 1910, and fourteen deaths from vaccination in 1911! And these fatal
vaccinations were, of course, all made with the glycerinated virus as,
practically, no other kind is now used! These vaccination deaths were all in
little children under five years and they exceeded the deaths from smallpox in
the same age class by fourfold in 1910 and by threefold in 1911! That is, the
deaths from vaccination under five years were eight in 1910 and fourteen in
1911; while the deaths from smallpox under five years were two in 1910 and five
in 1911! The total deaths from smallpox in all ages were nineteen in 1910 and
twenty-three in 1911. The four years preceding 1910 show even a worse record for
vaccinal mortality than the record of 1910 and 1911, so that the record of those
two years cannot be claimed as anything special or unusual. For example, the
reports of the Registrar General for 1906, 1907 and 1908 show a total of only
six deaths for these three years from smallpox in the infant ages under five
years —the ages most susceptible to smallpox—while for the same infant ages
there is a total of fifty-three deaths for the same three years from cowpox or
vaccination—nine times more infant deaths from vaccination than from smallpox!
In 1909 there is reported only one infant death from smallpox and eleven infant
deaths from vaccination!
This shocking record of vaccination deaths clearly shows that the famous
glycerinated vaccination of Dr. Copeman, which he virtually claims to be so safe
and harmless, in our greatest book of public reference, is actually from three
to ten times more fatal to children than natural smallpox, as proved by the
vital records of his own country and by the highest statistical authority in
the world! Surely, Mr. President, in such crushing counter facts as these, my
charge of a shocking deception of the public mind, either intentional or
unintentional, on the merits of vaccination by our highest medical and literary
authorities, is flatly proved.
HORRORS
OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND
ILLUSTRATED BY
CHAS. M. HIGGINS