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Who
is an Autopathist?
ANYONE
who knows just what to do in sick- ness and does it of his own
accord is an Autopathist, be he physician or patient. Sick- ness
has no terrors for autopathists. If they were to get sick they
know they could soon get well, for THEY KNOW HOW.
I
coined the word, Autopathy, from the Greek "Autos,"
meaning SELF, and "Pathos," mean- ing DISEASE or
TREATMENT. Autopathy is, therefore, the scientific, or
commonsense, treat- ment of one's self. This knowledge is easily
and quickly acquired by anyone who is willing to de- vote a
little study to Autology and Autopathy and to this volume.
E.
R. MORAS, M. D. November, 1918
Copyright,
1918, by E. R. Moras, M. D. Revised, reprinted
and
recopyrighted, June, 1919. Copyright, 1919
by
E. R. Moras, M. D.
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THE
PRACTICE OF AUTOPATHY
THE
LAW OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
Volunteer-Letter
to President Wilson During
the
World War and the Epidemic of
"Spanish
Influenza," 1918
—Vaccinopathy—
E.
R. MORAS, M. D.
HIGHLAND
PARK, ILLINOIS
Graduate of Harvard
University Medical School '88; of College of Physicians and
Surgeons (Chicago) '89; Formerly House Physician and Surgeon in
Cook County Hospital (Chicago), Professor of Obstetrics College of
Physicians and Surgeons (Chicago). Author of Autology.
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VOLUNTEER
LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON
AUTOLOGIC
IMMUNITY TO DISEASE
Foreword:
You will agree that had I not volunteered my services to the
Govern- ment in the World War and during the dev- astating
epidemic of influenza and pneu- monia I would have been unmindful
of my duty. I appeal to you as a patriotic citizen to assert
your rights with your Congress- men, Senators and Boards of Health
and Education looking to the accomplishment of the object
proposed in the address to President Wilson.
By
perceiving the truths of Autology you acquire the right to be
classed with the progressive thinking Americans.
I
wish also to thank the thousands of Autologists who have so
earnestly upheld me in spreading the Truth; and I may say they
include the foremost men and women in all the professions and
vocations.
Certain
doctors have tried to boycott me for carrying direct to the people
the mes- sage of Autologic Prevention and Cure of Disease after
it had been peremptorily de- clined by the Chicago Medical
Society, of which I was a member in good standing. Since then
the fundamental truths of Autol-
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ogy
have been successfully demonstrated by over a million of
progressive, thinking men and women in all the professions;
also, hundreds of doctors, including allopaths, homeopaths,
osteopaths, etc., have written me that Autology has been their
inspira- tion and guide in their practice for the past decade
and a half. Owing to these facts I have long felt that perhaps the
American Medical Association might now accord me a professional
hearing with a fair measure of recognition for such truths as
Autology has admittedly forced upon medical thought and
science.
Therefore,
when patriotism called and the demand for volunteer physicians
issued from Washington I immediately applied for enlistment in
the "Volunteer Medical Serv- ice Corps of the United States."
My first application was sent to Washington the middle of
August, 1918, and a second one September 2. On the application
blank filed before even a rumor of the "Spanish Influenza"
was bruited, the question, "For what service do you
volunteer?" I an- swered, "Acute Diseases;" and the
question, "Where is your first choice?" I answered, "At
Fort Sheridan, or the Great Lakes Training Station, or Chicago;"
and under "Remarks," I added these words: "I
want to give all there is in me to our Govern- ment." In
these answers as well as in con- versation I intimated the
probability of an
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epidemic
because I felt that the soldiers' rations and the "Food
Conservation Rules" were not autologic and would develop
dis- ease in the soldiers and people.
Lest
you should think that I was pre- sumptuous in my volunteer-address
to the President, I must say that I had been re- peatedly urged
to request the Government for a demonstration of the Autologic
Pre- vention and Cure of Disease among soldiers and civilians,
thousands of whom had boys in the service.
The
thousands of Autologists who un- derstand the situation realize
how painfully acute this handcuffed inactivity was to me in the
influenza crisis that demoralized the army and country, defying
all the means and wits of the medical and health authori- ties.
If there be soul in the motto, "There is no death, They all
survive," I still feel that the collective soul of our heroes
felled by influenza and pneumonia will unite with the souls of
MOTHERS, wives and sweet- hearts to secure me a just hearing in
the service of the country.
If
"credentials" are needed those re- ceived from Harvard
and Chicago can be weighed in with thousands of personal
com- mendations and grateful letters from doc- tors, lawyers,
judges, dentists, clergymen, merchants, capitalists and MOTHERS
as well as with the scientific recognition of Autology by the
Lexicographers of Har-
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vard,
Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Penn- sylvania and other
Universities. (See, The New Universities Dictionary, 1915.)
It
was therefore duty's justifiable right that prompted me to write
direct to Presi- dent Wilson, as follows:
THE
THUG OF WAR
An
army decimated by disease lends more com- fort to the enemy than
one decimated in battle. Man power will win the war. Health
suscitates man power. Epidemics destroy man power. Epidemics are
the thugs of war.
It
is a well-established fact that the surest and safest defenses of
the body against germs and diseases are normal blood and digestive
juices and that a diminution in this bactericidal power means
a 'run-down' condition of the person. It is an equally well
established fact that the only sure and lasting defenses of the
body against a run-down condition are good nutrition, hygiene,
work and personal habits. A healthy body is self-immune.
Devoting some study to the analysis and understanding of the
body's means at self-immunization is fruitful of rewards. Much is
known in the literature on this subject but little has been made
practical. Physiolo- gists know that normal blood and digestive
juices possess chemical substances that are inimical to the life
of our bacterial foes. If we can analyze the chemical changes in
the blood and tissues which cause a person to get 'run down' and
put him at the mercy of his bacterial foes, we surely can work out
a normal beneficent method of increasing the blood's store of
normal bactericidal substances.
In
living we produce body-acids and by eating we supply food-alkali.
We are built up by foods that are made up of acid-forming and
base-forming elements, and our metabolism is such that our blood
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is,
so to speak, always on the verge of turning acid. We are saved
from that evil by the alkali in the blood and tissues which, of
course, derive them from our foods. The body is a factory in
which occurs an incessant mating and unmating of acid and
alkaline substances. It is capable of health and survival only to
the extent of understanding and heeding the mating and unmating of
acid-forming and base-forming substances of the blood with
the acid-forming and base-forming substances of foods. Normal
alkalinity of the blood and tissues must be maintained through the
foods, or disease appears. If the body is lacking in alkali it
necessarily with- holds from neutralization and elimination a
certain amount of poisonous organic and mineral acids.
We
breathe air into the lungs to rob it of oxy- gen which is taken up
by the arterial blood and car- ried to the tissues where the
carbon is burned or oxidized. This burning of carbon yields
carbonic acid, which then is returned by the venous blood to the
lungs to be breathed out. The balance of the carbonic acid yielded
by tissue-oxidation is neutral- ized in the tissues and eliminated
mostly through the kidneys. The inevitable result of a retention
of carbonic acid and its compounds beyond the normal quotient
in the blood and tissues brings on that 'run down' which invites
and underlies bacterial and other diseases. Carbonic acid and its
compounds deplete the blood and tissues of their supply of alkali,
and thus produce the abnormal changes which develop disease. This
alkali-depleting activity is characteristic of all organic and
mineral acids pro- duced in the body.
The
blood and tissues are supplied through the foods with 'free' and
'fixed' bases or alkali. Dur- ing the formative stage of any
disease the first alkali to go are the free, and the last to go
are the fixed, All tissues or organs do not yield their fixed
alkali with the same ease.
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The
digestive cells, or the liver cells, or the brain cells may be the
first to answer the blood's call for more alkali in some cases,
whereas in others the kidneys or the lungs will be the first to
give up their reserve of fixed alkali in order to control or
check the disease. So there are really no fundamental
dif- ferences between diseases. The difference is merely in the
particular functional importance of the special organ or tissue
subjected by the blood to the greatest drain of alkali. During the
prodromal stage, say of pneumonia, there occurs an
impoverish- ment of the patient's blood in alkali; then follows an
impoverishment of the tissue-alkali more or less generally, but
localizing itself more specifically in the lungs. This
dilucidation of the etiology and modus operandi of diseases is
accurate. It has the support of science and gives a well-defined
signifi- cance to the cause and course of specific diseases. This
interpretation also suggests the normal means for conferring
immunity as well as for aborting and curing diseases through the
alkali-bearing foods.
The
underlying cause of infectious diseases is, therefore, an
alkali-depleted diet, and the underlying cause for failure to
abort and cure infectious diseases in an alkali-depleted dietetic
treatment. The evi- dence that this is correct is overwhelming. It
has long been known that protein bases are essential components
of the activated defense-yielding sub- stances of foods, called
vitamines. Foods are said to be 'nutritious' and 'non-nutritious,'
according as they yield much or little nitrogenous, carbohy- drate
and fat substances. In keeping with this con- ception, foods were
long ago divided into (1) Pro- teins, (2) Carbohydrates, (3) Fats.
Fruits and green vegetables are not classified. The
wonderful vitalizing acids and salts they yield are relegated
to the "ash" column. Nevertheless, fruits and
green vegetables yield to the blood more activating acids
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and
bases than all nutritious foods together, and, moreover, yield
them with little or no demand on digestion, absorption and
assimilation. These par- ticular acids and bases readily travel to
the blood and are quickly utilized to build up and repair
tis- sues, to promote immunity to and recovery from diseases.
All
treatments must prove unsatisfactory or failures if (1) the
oxygen-intake and (2) the alkali- yield are deficient.
(1)
The oxygen-intake. The chief source of this is the air.
It is not the only source, however. The body's protein and
carbohydrate and fat tissues contain considerable oxygen,
but not enough to oxidize their own carbon and furnish the
supply needed for repair. Fortunately, nature offers us
a prolific source of oxygen in the acids of fruits and the
oxides of green vegetables. This seems to have been overlooked
in Curative Dietetics. Apart from their invaluable and
indispensable property of form- ing bases in the blood the acids
and alkali of fruits and green vegetables are generous
oxygen-yielders.
(2)
The alkali-yield. The alkali-yield of a
pro- tein-carbohydrate-fat diet is always deficient, and
its deficiency is always increased by the usual ways of cooking
and 'serving' foods. Most all typical foods show a relative
predominance af acid-forming over base-forming elements.
Eliminating
sundry items that do not invalidate the arrangement, the quantity
of the elements sup- plied by the customary three meals a day are
fairly represented in beef, eggs, bread, potatoes, prunes and
beans. Beef, eggs and bread yield a predomi- nance of acid-forming
elements; and potatoes, prunes and beans yield a predominance of
base-forming elements. The question then arises: Are the
first three acid-forming foods balanced by the second three
base-forming foods? If they are, all right.
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If
they are not, all wrong. If we adopt 100 as the acid-forming
coefficient of beef, we learn that eggs contribute 90 and bread
27—a total of 217 for the acid-forming foods. Computing
likewise the base- forming foods we give potatoes 100, prunes 79
and beans 30—a total of 209 for the base-forming foods. That
seems good—but, weight for weight exclusive of the water
content of the two groups, most people eat much more of the first
than of the second group. Moreover, as shown by Locke and others,
'when meats are boiled 20 to 67 per cent of the salts were found
in the broth . . .' and 'when roasted 2.5 to 57.2 per cent of the
mineral matter were found in the drippings of the meat.' Then, on
the other hand, 'when potatoes were peeled and then soaked in
cold water before boiling 38 per cent of the min- eral matter was
lost.' It is quite proper, therefore, to reduce the base-forming
coefficient to about one- third of the acid-forming,—particularly
so if we take stock of the acid-forming fats, oils, lard, sweets
and pastry usually consumed. Consequently, the body has to
contend with and solve the following sort of health-disease
equation:
Base-forming
: acid-forming :: 69 : 217,—a sad plight when one realizes
that health has only a per- centage of 69 to oppose disease's 217.
How does the individual survive? By increasing his output
of ammonia which causes debility and puts him at the mercy of
infectious, contagious and other diseases.
In
these days of bacterial inoculations the idea of normal
immunization sounds like an outlandish paradox. But the gruesome
debacle created by influ- enza makes this commitment imperative.
Millions of Americans are passing into Camps as sound of body to
be then made unsound, at least for a time, by the belief that
bacterial vaccination protects them against disease, typhoid fever
and pneumonia in particular. Regular Medicine has argued that so
long as there is
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a
chance of men contracting typhoid fever they should be put through
a preparatory course of typhoid-toxin infection. This practise is
pregnant with unspeakable harm. There is a reason why bacterin
inoculation seemingly protects the victim against typhoid for
a certain length of time, but the alleged protection is
a detriment instead of a boon. Bacterin-immunization is always
detrimental, as the coming evidence proves.
At
the age of eight the writer was taught to smoke a puff or two, not
enough to sicken him. One day he got hold of a pipe and took a
good smoke and was made deathly sick. But he was at it again in
a few days, and, oh joy, he had become immune to nicotinitis.
Although that 'initial treatment' of to- bacco-immunization was
not an unadulterated bless- ing, the fact remains that he had been
made 'immune' to the vomiting of nicotinitis. Like millions of
others he had accomplished the remarkable feat of making his
blood and flesh fool-proof, literally, to the bene- ficent
warnings of nicotin. But in no sense had genuine immunity to the
poisonous action of nicotin accrued to him. Nicotin had purely
adulterated the chemical constitution of nerve and brain cells,
and thus put a stop to their annoying him with their normal
emetic function. His blood and tissues had acquired a genuine
nicotin-taint. They became nicb- tinized, but not immune. In this
sense only are per- sons made immune by any kind of inoculations
or poisons. As smoking, even only a few times, confers on one
the inability to react visibly or subjectively to larger doses of
nicotin infection so the bacterin tox- ins confer on one the
inability to react visibly or sub- jectively to larger doses of
typhoid or pneumonia in- fections. In other words, the soldier who
is 'pro- tected' is merely in shape to inhost and hatch
larger doses of germs and infection without immediately feeling
or showing the beneficent warnings of disease- He can 'catch'
typhoid, or pneumonia, or influenza
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all
right but stands little chance of feeling or showing their
prodromal signs or symptoms. His true resist- ing and recuperating
powers are blunted and incapable of immediately reacting as
formally and as nature intended for his self-preservation. His
body is robbed of its most essential faculty.
Bacterin-immunization 'toughens' the genuine sensibilities of the
individual for anticipated germ-invasion only in the sense
that whiskey or 'dope' toughens the genuine sensibilities of
the thug for the anticipated burglary.
The
first dose of morphine sickens, but the drug addict soon becomes
immune and almost lives on it. He is not immune, however, to the
devitalizing effects of the drug. So it is with bacterin
immunization. The individual adulterates his body, and, in
return, the body fools the individual. His blood and body can
no more register normally. The 'course' of im- munization given
our army and navy men deprives them of the normal faculty of
reacting to average doses of infection or germs, a faculty
retained by the non-immunized. Just the same, the average doses
of germs or of infection to which the immun- ized are likely to be
exposed will insidiously work for his undoing some time later.
It
is well-known that a non-immunized person subjected to mild or
moderate amounts of typhoid germs or poison does not necessarily
develop typhoid fever, but he feels and shows malaise, anorexia,
head- ache, coated tongue, slight fever in the evening, etc., from
which he can soon recover. But the immunized is fool-proofed to
these normal beneficent warning symptoms of oncoming typhoid
without being in any sense protected against the action of the
germs or poison in other directions.
Few
would claim that no real damage is done when a youth intoxicates
himself to make his body immune to alcohol. The same logic
forcibly insists that real damage must likewise ensue when men
are typhoided to make them immune to typhoid germs.
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Ordinary
good sense tells us that immunizing with alcohol does not increase
true resistance to whiskey but that it actually destroys that
power—else the in- itial dosing would not make one sick. The
same ordi- nary good sense must convince us that
inoculating poisonous bacterins does not truly increase men's
re- sistance to germ-diseases,—else the immunizing
treat- ment would not sicken them. Called by its right name the
treatment given our men is morbific con- tamination. The
touchstone of medical immunization is, therefore, a genuine
contamination supposed to save the individual for a while from a
fictitious contamination. Creating genuine evil that
fictitious good may result is not in nature's laboratories.
The
medical significance of immunity is given by Halliburton in these
words:
'Normal
blood possesses not only phagocytes, which eat up bacteria, but
also a certain amount of chemical substances which are inimical to
the life of our bacterial foes. But suppose a person gets
"run down"; everyone knows he is then more liable
to "catch anything." This coincides with a diminution in
the bactericidal power of his blood. But even a perfectly healthy
person has not an unlimited supply of bacteriolysins, and if the
bacteria are sufficiently numerous he will fall a victim to the
disease they pro- duce. Here, however, comes in the remarkable
part of the defense. In the struggle he will produce more and
more bacterio-lysin, and if he gets well it means that the
bacteria are finally vanquished, and his blood remains rich in the
particular bacteriolysin he has pro- duced, and so will render him
immune to further at- tacks from that particular species of
bacterium. Every bacterium seems to cause the development of a
spe- cific anti-substance.'
After
emphasizing the words "seems to cause * the question may be
asked: Is the alleged specific anti-substance which the
bacterium seems to cause the development of a good or a bad
substance in the
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blood?
The a priori answer is that it is a bad sub- stance, because
genuine poison cannot produce gen- uine good. But even if logic be
disregarded, analogy assures us that the development of a specific
anti-sub- stance caused by injecting some germ-poison must prove
deleterious to blood and flesh as is shown by the specific
anti-substances developed by nicotin, alco- hol, morphine,
cocaine, etc. These chemical organic poisons are fundamentally
like bacterium poisons. We are, therefore, privileged to
paraphrase the medi- cal interpretation of immunity in these
words: Even a perfectly healthy person has not an unlimited
sup- ply of morphinlysins, and if the morphine is suffi- ciently
abundant he will fall a victim to the disease it produces. Here,
however, comes the remarkable part of the defense. In the struggle
he will produce more and more morphine-lysin, and if he gets well
it means that the morphine is finally vanquished, and his
blood remains rich in the particular morphine-lysin he
has produced, and so will render him immune to further attacks
from that particular species of poison.
In
the struggle of morbific immunization the blood may generate a
specific anti-substance, but it surely loses its specific normal
constitution, the one owned by most of our 'recruits' until they
are deprived of it by the immunizing treatment. The only true
version of the 'increased power of resist- ance' seemingly
conferred by alcoholizing or mor- phinizing is that the
'treatment' actually disorganizes the normal constitution of
protoplasm by causing it to acquire the specific alcohol or
morphine organi- zation, or taint. Likewise, the only rational
version of the 'immunity' seemingly conferred by bacterin- izing
or anti-toxinizing is that the treatment actually disorganizes the
normal constitution of protoplasm by causing it to acquire part of
the specific toxic organization, or taint, of the bacteria or
toxins. The 'specific anti-substance' is not a new entity; it
is purely a degraded sort of blood, lymph and proto-
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plasm,
exactly as with the immune to alcohol, mor- phine, cocaine, etc.
If
we are to accept as genuinely desirable the specific
anti-substances developed by bacterin-inocu- lations for typhoid,
etc., then we must accept as gen- uinely desirable epidemics of
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and influenza, as well as
"epidemics" of alcohol, morphine, nicotine, cocaine,
etc. That shocks sanity. The utmost we could concede if we had
to would be to look upon bacterin-immunization as the lesser of
two evils, a sort of necessary evil. It so hap- pens that nature
has not put such a dilemma up to us, for after giving us normal
immunity to average doses of germs she gave us the wherewith to
increase that power quite efficaciously and with no discomfort
nor risk of any kind.
It
is recognized by all military experts that the only genuine and
lasting defenses of the body are proper foods, hygiene, work and
personal habits. The average 'accepted' man is in pretty good
shape when he reaches camp, but if he were not do the
practition- ers of morbific immunization claim that
bacterin-im- munization would benefit or cure his 'run
down' troubles? They do not claim that morbific immuni- zation
compensates the blood for lack of health, or of proper rations, or
of scrupulous hygiene, or of good personal habits, etc. Therefore,
morbific immuniza- tion is nothing else than a pernicious practice
to attain some spurious benefit or delusive result.
A
healthy body is self-immunizing as all admit, but civilized
livingness is generally one sick-spell after another. Every
sick-spell is a drain on the alkali of the blood causing
analkalinity. The body has not unlimited power of recuperation,
but it has been abundantly demonstrated that it has almost
unlim- ited power of resisting analkalinity; for it will
die before turning acid. Therein lies the secret of the body's
normal power of immunity to bacteria, and
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therein
lies the secret of increasing that normal power in order to cope
against the invasion of "sufficiently numerous bacteria"
to produce disease; or, given the disease, to quickly destroy the
bacteria, neutralize and eliminate their poisons. This remarkable,
though quite natural, result is achievable by simply increas- ing
the blood-alkalinity yield of the food supply. The word
'alkalinity' itself is distinctly suggestive of the specific
origin of the chemical substances with which the body compounds
its so-called bacterio-lysins. All will confess that people need
more anti-lysins to off- set their health-impairing habits and
dietetic sins than they need to conquer their bacterial foes. If
under such average conditions the body can produce out of a
69:217 base-acid coefficient enough bacterio-lysins to make the
person's blood normally immune to ordi- nary invasions of
bacteria, it may readily be conceived that the body will produce a
virtually unlimited sup- ply of bacterio-lysins if that base-acid
coefficient be reversed to 217:69—for the activated
blood-lysins are base-proteins. For twenty years the writer
has accumulated clinical evidence to more than convince him and
thousands of 'patients' of the correctness of the foregoing ideas
and data.
Endeavors
to enrich the blood of fever or infect- ed patients with
base-forming or vitamine elements through the time-honored
protein-carbohydrate-fat groups of foods always fail lamentably.
The same is true of drugs and bacterial vaccines. The saddest kind
of evidence is now surging at the naval and army camps. Science
and duty call for an end to this and future catastrophes. Medical
'ethics' must not lend comfort to our bacterial nor german foes.
Aside from the bacterin contaminations, the regulation
medical diet for the well and for the sick is irrational, for
it serves to clutter up the alimentary tract with a decom- posing
food-mass which yields some nutrition, but also a rank supply of
infecting or microbe-kulturing compounds.
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Fruits
and green vegetables are not "luxuries" nor 'roughage'
in the dietary of civilized people. Chemical electricity shows
that the acid and mineral elements in tissue-cells generate and
feed vital and nutritional electricity to the body. These
'nutritive' electro-genetic acids and minerals all come from
the elements in food. Our knowledge as to the source and course
of the power for offense and defense generated mechanically by
electricity is significant as to the source and course of the
body's physiological power of offense and defense against its
every foe. From all of the above considerations it appears
evi- dent that man-power in health is at least as much dependent
on fruits and green vegetables as on pro- tein, carbohydrate and
fat foods; and it appears evident also that man-power in or
against germs and disease is more dependent on and is more
developed by the acids and bases of fruits and green
vegetables than on or by bacterial vaccines, drugs and
'nour- ishing' foods. Given their former bill-of-fare at home
and now the military bill-of-fare, our 'boys' are kept pretty well
saturated with the acid-formed products and by-products of the
protein-carbohy- drate-fat diet. The present epidemic of
influenza and pneumonia is purely an explosion of those fever- ish
'nutritive' products. There is no danger of the men not getting
enough 'solid food' to eat, but what their blood and tissues need
most from the time they join to the time of going over the top
is to store up a large reserve of the alkali and base- forming
elements of fruits and green vegetables. There is no intention
here of depleting the men's menu of the usual articles of food,
but the fact that these ordinary articles of diet are positively
deficient in blood-invigorating and bacterio-lysin bases must be
emphasized loudly. No matter how accurately the caloric value or
equivalent of a protein-carbohy- drate-diet be adapted to the
work-a-day require- ments of tissues, that diet cannot promote
vigor-
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ous
health nor offensive strength against bacterial invasion if the
base-acid coefficient is not largely in favor of the base side of
metabolism. Such an essential military accomplishment cannot be
secured except through fresh fruits and green vegetables.
It
must be granted that genuine and positive immunity to germs and
diseases issue from the prac- tical application of the foregoing
correlative data. This is no theoretical assumption. This
base-vs-acid and base-vs-germ treatment has been tested in
hun- dreds of cases of a majority of contagious and infec- tious
fevers. It works marvelously well. When the writer witnessed these
results in his first experiments, which happened to be typhoid
cases, he forthwith discarded drugs and antitoxins and began to
look exclusively to fruits and green vegetables for cur- ative,
preventative and immunizing agents. The clinical results kept
adding even to his already exuberant enthusiasm. Only one serious
difficulty arose. The 'pulps' of fruits proved
particularly objectionable in treating acute fevers, because
in order to administer to the patient in one hour or in a day
the required dosage a prohibitive amount of the pulpy juices would
have to be swallowed. This difficulty became heart-breaking in
young children and in delirious and comatose patients. But
after some years of investigating and experimenting he hit upon
a normal adjunct which solved the prob-, lem. This adjunct is
rigidly ethical. That adjunct has been a bete-noire to medical
'ethics' but a god- send to untold thousands and would be a boon
to the army, navy and country in this war and epi- demic. If
the Council of National Defense deems fit to command him he shall
further elucidate his contentions, reveal the nature of the
'adjunct' and demonstrate results anywhere, paying his
own expenses and, if desired, pay for the first $1,000.00 worth
of the fruits and green vegetables and adjunct required, and he
will further agree not to partici-
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pate
directly nor indirectly in the sale or profits of said adjunct.
Respectfully
submitted to His Excellency, the President of the United States,
by an humble citizen.
(Signed)
EDMOND R. MORAS. Highland Park, Illinois, Sept. 27, 1918.
I
received a reply, dated October 9, 1918, signed "D. C.
Howard, Colonel, Med- ical Corps," saying that my letter to
the President had been referred to the "Office of The
Surgeon General, War Department, Washington," and that "It
is suggested that you submit your proposition to the Council of
Pharmacy and Chemistry of the Ameri- can Medical Association,
Chicago, Ill., for consideration.''
I
carried out the suggestion duly and fully. But, as was to be
expected, the re- ply from the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry
of the American Medical Asso- ciation showed that my proposition
did not come within the scope of the workings of that body.
I
then addressed the following letter to Dr. D. C. Howard:
"October
22, 1918. Dear Doctor: In accord- ance with your suggestion I
submitted the proposi- tion to the Council on Pharmacy and
Chemistry of the American Medical Association for
consideration. Herewith is enclosed copy of the Council's
reply. May I remark that your kind letter of the 9th led me to
think that my proposition, as referred to your Office by the
President, had been misunderstood; and now I am quite sure that it
was. The 'adjunct'
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in
question is rigidly ethical, official, and the neces- sity of
proposing it for inclusion in new and non- official remedies is
precluded. Dear Doctor Howard, may I burden you with a few
remarks. My sin- cerity in this matter is unimpeachable. About
the middle of August I filled out and mailed an applica- tion
for enlistment in the Volunteer Medical Service Corps. A second
blank came from Washington, September 2; was filled out and mailed
back the same day. Not hearing from it, I addressed a
volun- teer-letter to the President, and same was referred to
your office as you kindly wrote me. I have been for years carrying
on my professional business by advertising Autology and selling my
'proprietary remedies,' but this has and had nothing to do with my
proposition nor with the 'adjunct.' When I wrote to the President
I was willing to give up my whole business and practice, present
and future, with never a thought of reaping a cent directly nor
indi- rectly had my petition and proffer been accepted."
I
received a camouflaged answer from the "Acting Surgeon
General."
In
the meantime many good autologists were addressing letters to the
President and to the Council of National Defense at Washington.
I will quote a few.
This
is from J. S. Decker, M.D., Ripley, Tennessee, and is addressed
to the Honor- able Members of the Council of National
Defense,
Washington:
"Gentlemen:—As
a physician, citizen and humanitarian, I earnestly petition your
Honorable Council to weigh carefully and conscientiously
the application for enlistment in the Volunteer Medical Service
Corps of the United States submitted by Dr. Edmond R. Moras,
Highland Park, Illinois,
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author
of Autology and its practice; a man of pre- eminent ability, a
thinker and scientist in the realm of medicine, as is well
recognized and testified to by thousands of persons in every walk
of life, profes- sional and lay, who have been restored to health
and are able to maintain health by living autologically. Scores
of physicians throughout this broad land are exclusively
autologists in their practice. In the pres- ent epidemic I have
not lost a single case of the many I have treated, and all have
been treated autologically. I have not administered anything
but the Moras 'adjunct.'
"The wonderful
disease preventive value of Autology has been thoroughly and
broadly demon- strated, and the marvelous curativeness of
the adjunct, especially in acute diseases, can be testified to
by hundreds of physicians and their patients who are living
examples of its merit.
"To-day, when this
epidemic is sweeping the land and devouring its people, especially
the men in the camps, where they are dying like flies, and
all medical authorities are at a loss to cope with it, not only
in a curative sense but preventively, the one man in the whole
realm of medicine thoroughly cap- able of handling the situation,
retard its progress and save the lives of thousands, not only in
an imme- diate sense, but future as well, as the result of
the knowledge acquired of health and disease, its pre- ventive
and curative knowledge, lies inactive, nation-
ally, not of his own
volition, but because he has not been called to the service for
which he has patriotic- ally volunteered, as a humanitarian, one
who would be like a ministering angel to the suffering boys in the
camps and their anxious loved ones at home.
"Gentlemen: In
view of Dr. Moras' application which has been filed, it must be
evident to you that he is not actuated by any base or ulterior
motive. He has not only offered his services, but his wealth, all
that is best within him, to the service of his
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country
and its people. How can such a man be ignored in such a crisis as
we are undergoing? By what process of reasoning can any
broad-minded man or body of men, thinking men, deny to the country
and its people in such dire need the unselfish devotion of such a
man?
"May
your Honorable body, in the performance of your patriotic duty,
which is essentially the wel- fare of the country and its people,
recognize the vital necessity of immediately calling into
service Dr. Edmond R. Moras."
This is
from Mr. Nat. Brown, Treasurer and
Manager, Brown Bros. & Co., Elk- horn, Wisconsin:
"Honorable
Gentlemen:—The writer's attention has been called to a
letter dated September 27, 1918, addressed to His Excellency, the
President of the United States, by Dr. Edmond R. Moras, of
High- land Park, Illinois, in which he unselfishly offers his vast
knowledge, experience and personal services to the Government for
the purpose of combating the horrible epidemic of Influenza now
ravaging our country and destroying the flower of our manhood, an
evil far worse than all of the Kaiser's armies and submarines.
"The
writer, his family, his friends and many of his acquaintances have
been living Autology for years as preached and practiced by Dr.
Moras. We all know his teachings to be practically
infallible because right among ourselves we have seen and have
been parties to diseases and epidemics of the most precarious
kind, many of which were pro- nounced hopeless by eminent
physicians, and all of which were swiftly and surely overcome
through Dr. Moras' commonsense, natural treatment.
His "fresh-fruit-green-vegetable and adjunct"
contention is unquestionably the only permanent remedy and
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his
generous offer a Godsend to our stricken masses.
"To
disregard Dr. Moras' warnings and services would be a national
calamity and the guilt would fall on the shoulders of those who
are dumb to his pleadings.
"The
writer urgently requests in the name of Humanity that Dr. Moras be
given an immediate hearing before your Honorable Council so that
he can elucidate his contention and have it put into practice
without any delay.
"Gentlemen:
Remember that every day, every hour of procrastination means
hundreds of lives need- lessly sacrificed, perhaps the lives of
your own boys and those of our boys, several of whom are now
in service.
"Gentlemen,
this is an appeal to your Honor, Patriotism and Duty from an
American citizen."
This
one is from a New Yorker, Head- quarters, etc., but it would not
help the cause and it would harm him to publish his name:
"Dear
Doctor:—Please do not think that I have not done anything in
regards to your volunteer let- ter to the President. The truth is
I have been busy in carrying an appeal to someone right here
who, had he just mentioned the fact to the Council of National
Defense it would have meant as much as a command to do it and it
would have been done by this time—but it is pitiful to say
that someone at Washington is very much averse to it for rea- sons
which I cannot give you by letter. It is pitiful indeed something
cannot be done for humanity, and
all
for the sake of a lot of ------ fools, pardon the
expression
won't you, but one must give vent to their feelings. . .
."
The
following letter is from Allan D. Millard, C.E., Beardstown,
Illinois:
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"October
13, 1918. "Council of National Defense, "Washington,
D. C.
"Gentlemen:—In
order to show my reasons for commending Dr. Moras to your
thoughtful consider- ations at this time, I will state as briefly
as I can my experience with him. After the spending of two
years in the Yazoo (Mississippi) Delta on rail- road construction,
I returned north in 1902. From 1902 till 1910, I was repeatedly
stricken by severe chills and fever. In the summer of 1910, after
long treatment by the best physicians of Springfield, Illi- nois,
for malaria, I was advised to take a course of mud baths at
Mudlavia, Indiana. This I did, return- ing home in a very weakened
condition. I then took a long course of Osteopathic treatment,
which, outside of badly irritating my spine, led to no
results. This was followed by a very expensive course of physical
culture exercises, which got me nowhere. In the meantime my
eyesight had failed amazingly and from my waking until retiring
each day, I was sorely troubled by neuritis from left eye,
down through my left arm, to the tips of my fingers. To relieve
this condition, I recall that I spent $85.00 the last year I wore
glasses, with no results at all. Altogether I wore glasses for
nearly fifteen years. The last specialist examining my eyes, told
me my trouble was from 'hereditary taint,' whatever that is.
Considering the fact that my family is one of the oldest and most
straight-laced in New England, I felt that piece of information
was not worth the $25.00 I paid for it. As I had a large family
to support and my means were about gone from inabil- ity to
work steadily, together with the extraordinary cost of doctoring,
I had about concluded to consign myself to a state of invalidism
for the rest of my days and let it go at that. In the fall of
1912, after one of my periodic outbreaks of malaria, I ran
across a magazine ad of "Autology," written
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by
Dr. Moras. I wrote for descriptive literature and, some time
later, paid him $5.00 for his book and $2.00 for two boxes of a
preparation he makes, called 'Detoxyl,' to expel toxic poison.
After read- ing the book and following his instructions as to diet
therein contained, together with the use of fruit juices and so
on, I began to be what I was before I went to Mississippi.
Thinking that if I had a personal diagnosis and so on from him, I
might get well faster, I wrote him and asked his terms, which were
rather less than those of other well-known specialists I had
previously consulted. He stated, however, that he did not want my
money, but that I should keep hard at my then course of right
liv- ing and result would follow more rapidly as I grew better.
This I found to be true, as well as the rather novel experience of
having a doctor turn down a $50.00 fee. As I got better, my
eyesight got all right and I quit glasses. At the same time, my
wife who had worn glasses for a number of years, by right
living abolished hers too. My work consists largely of drafting,
which means exacting the utmost from eyes. I have no trouble
with them at all.
"Now
as to Doctor Moras' ability with acute diseases. In the spring of
1915, my three children were accidentally exposed to measles. As
soon as we found it out, we immediately put them on a light diet
and had them drink a great deal of lemon and orange juice. When,
one by one they came down with it, none of them had a temperature
of over 100 degrees and we did not have the doctor to any of them.
They were all well within a week. The same thing was done later,
here in Beardstown, when our little baby was unintentionally
exposed to measles. She recovered quickly without
doctor's assistance and with no come-backs. Our three youngest
children, the youngest of the three being six and one-half years
old, have never had a doctor to them since the day they were born
and they are
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all
well, except when we depart from Dr. Moras' regime by letting them
visit relatives, and live the way they ought not to.
"In
closing, will state that I have no quarrel with doctors; as a
profession, I have no doubt that they are like the rest of us
humans, good, bad and indif- ferent. I do believe, however, that
Dr. Moras, who has had unusual advantages in the way of
educa- tion and experience (which can be easily demon- strated
if the matter is investigated), is the most competent physician I
have ever known. He teaches right living; and you know that is
rather after the fashion of Ben Franklin's proverb, which
runs: 'Nature cures, but the doctor collects the fee.' Other
doctors have been down on Doctor Moras, because he advertises his
book, Autology; we engi- neers occasionally write books covering
some branch of our profession. We advertise them and if the layman
wants to bay a copy, he's welcome. Speak- ing personally, I was
never able to see what there is that is unethical about that.
Engineering is applied common sense; the same thing ought to
be applied to doctoring; there is no particular mystery about
it that I can see."
Thereupon
came a letter from Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman General Medi- cal
Board, Council of National Defense, Washington, acknowledging
receipt of my "article in connection with Autologic
Pre- vention of Disease," and saying, "we will be
glad to look the matter over and recom- mend it wherever
feasible."
It
is well to invite attention to the fact that Dr. Howard's reply
from the Surgeon General's Office ignores the subject of my letter
to President Wilson; whereas Dr,
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Martin's
reply specifically recognizes the subject of my letter to the
President as "Autologic Prevention of Disease."
I
then wrote a letter to Dr. Martin, in which I say:
"In
view of the letters which your office has received I feel that you
truly believe that the follow- ing remarks are in no way boastful
nor unjustified. What I have done for many years for thousands
of persons and patients can be done for the army, navy and
country in this influenza and pneumonia crisis. The people can be
taught how to abort the epidemic all over the United States within
a few days, and every case saved in a few hours; the
complication, pneumonia, positively prevented and every
case aborted within 24 hours. Practically every life in all our
camps could have been and can be saved. Should you feel disposed
to accord me a hearing and grant me the opportunity to demonstrate
in camp what has long been a demonstrated fact in my
professional work, I will be pleased to person- ally go into
dietetic and therapeutic details regard- ing the specific use of
certain fruits and green vege- tables and, likewise, regarding the
ethical adjunct."
In
the face of this, Dr. (Colonel) Franklin Martin's answer this time
ignores absolutely the subject at hand and reverts only to my
application for membership in the Volunteer Medical Service Corps,
stat- ing that "insofar as this office is concerned your
name will be sent with the others to the committee in the State of
Illinois. Three favorable votes out of the committee are
required to elect a doctor to mem- bership."
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Needless
to say that the "Executive Committee in the State of
Illinois" is the American Medical Association.
It
would seem that the doctors at Wash- ington and Illinois were in
red-hot haste to make one another Colonel and Major,
but snail-like in their desire to prevent disease and save the
lives of thousands of soldiers and people!
To
the thinking people, the way my proposition to the President has
been handled at Washington is direfully menac- ing. The
American Medical Association is rankly partisan and sectarian, as
all people know; but it evidently has gained absolute,
autocratic control of the mightiest vital function or power of our
government. The American Medical Association having achieved
more political power than the people has pawned off on the
government its morbific-inoculating delusion. This is remindful
of by-gone days when the enforcement of horrible beliefs and
prac- tices was delegated to the perpetrators of Inquisitions
and Witchcraft.
THE
INFLUENZA COMMISSIONS Before me is a letter, dated
"Chicago, October 23, 1918," addressed to the Medi- cal
Profession from the Illinois Influenza Commission, consisting of
sixteen doctors and not a single layman. It reads:
"In
order that everything possible may be done to limit the spread of
influenza and to prevent dan-
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gerous
complicating infections, arrangements have been made for the
preparation on a large scale of vaccine for preventive purposes. .
. . At pres- ent two vaccines are being used for the prevention of
influenza. In the east, a vaccine made from the influenza
baccillus only is used quite generally. It is as yet too early to
form any conclusion as to the value of this vaccine. In Minnesota,
a mixed vac- cine composed of the most important bacteria of
the throat and lungs in influenza and its complications (influenza
baccilli, streptococci, pneumococci and staphylococci) is in use,
and apparently favorable results are reported. This is the vaccine
prepared by Dr. E. C. Rosenow of the Mayo Foundation. The
vaccine which is now available for general use has been prepared
according to this method. The initial dose is .5 c.c, and contains
approxi- mately two and one-half billions bacteria. This
is followed in one week by 1 c.c. The third dose is to be given
14 days after the first dose, and is to consist of 1-1/2 c.c.
In most instances there is a moderate local reaction.
Constitutional symptoms are usually mild, or absent. It is
believed that some immunity is developed soon after the
first injection. . . . It is felt that if the vaccine is used
according to the directions on each vial, no harm can result."
Altogether
the well victim is going to have shot into his blood
15,000,000,000 dead bacilli, and "it is felt that no harm
can result." If that is true, why not shoot the whole dose
of fifteen billions at once instead of over a period of two weeks?
If
now we turn the pages of history a few centuries back, we find in
Macaulay's Eng., ch. 4, p. 402 and p. 410, the follow- ing
account of the "commingling-death"
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of
Charles II. "All the medical men of note in London were
summoned. So high did political animosities run, that the
pres- ence of some Whig physicians was regarded as an
extraordinary circumstance. Several of the prescriptions have been
preserved. One of them is signed by fourteen doctors. A
loathsome volatile salt, extracted from human skulls, was forced
into the patient's mouth. The fourteen doctors contradicted each
other and themselves. The majority tortured him during some hours
like an Indian at a stake. One physician, however, protested
and assured the queen that his brethren would kill the king among
them." And they did.
Charles
the Second's Royal Medical Commission forced a loathsome
extract from human skulls into his stomach, and the Illinois
Medical Influenza Commission is forcing a putrid extract of
suppurative bacilli and cocci from human throats and lungs into
people's blood. As Elbert Hub- bard would say, pinch yourself, for
the Medical Profession calls itself progres- sive (!).
Fifteen
billions bacilli-carcasses for the phagocytes of one person's
blood to devour in two weeks—that's some ration! What
a
struggle! And what for? To make him supposedly immune to a disease
he hasn't got and is not likely to get any more than he was
before getting the three "shots" of
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fifteen
billion carcasses. As well dump fifteen billions dead rats into
the streets of Chicago for its citizens to devour and make them
immune to the rat plague. Can a sane mind see the difference? The
simile is exact.
The
same letter from the "Illinois In- fluenza Commission"
says:
"Both
local and general reaction are decidedly less than those following
typhoid vaccines."
Little
wonder, then, that thousands upon thou- sands of our sturdy men in
military camps have suc- cumbed and died like flies from influenza
and pneumonia. After each one's blood had devoured the virulent
carcasses of billions of typhoid bacilli, how could it devour an
ordinary accidental dose of influenza bacilli, pneumococci, etc.,
without being worsted in the struggle?
If
thinking men like Luther Burbank are "wholly satisfied"
that my conclusions and analysis of facts on the subject of
mor- bid vaccines are correct, as elucidated in my
volunteer-letter to President Wilson, surely the American people
as a whole are likewise susceptible to being wholly satis- fied
if those facts on the subject are brought to their attention.
There are over a million autologists dispersed over the
country. Each autologist can if he wants to earnestly
convert
one or more non - autological friend. Not patriotism alone calls,
but humanity itself, and your sons and daugh- ters, too. The
loathsome vaccine fetish must be downed.
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Citizenship
in this country is funda- mentally based on the principle that
any one citizen is the equal of any other in civic rights. The
doctors' duty is trans- lated as loyalty to the American
Medical Association. Your duty, as you know it, is translated
as loyalty to the American People. Their inoculation theory is
as medieval and barbaric as was the practice of the fourteen
doctors who forced a loath- some putrid extract from human skulls
into King Charles of England, centuries ago. Whereas your
autological knowledge and practice are admittedly scientific and
in accord with sound sense.
As
Ed Howe says:
"Our
American doctors are a wonderful lot, until there is
serious sickness."
First
of all when soldiers and people are dying by the thousands, they
create a morbid panic by blaring out all over the newspapers
this warning: "People help yourselves the best you can; we
can't do a thing; the epidemic will get worse and then run its
course." People then proceed to close the schools, churches,
theatres, etc., and thus aggravate the fact that the des- perate
situation has become a hopeless calamity. But as the agonizing
predica- ment is intensified so is the doctors' adver- tising
of the "coming curative vaccines." They organize
"Influenza Commissions" and "the undertaking is
financed by gener-
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ous
public spirited citizens,"—and tens of thousands of
people are given the "shots." Meantime, a different sort
of pantomime is being rehearsed behind the scenes. Note the
dates of the two letters of the "Illinois Influenza
Commission" and of the two numbers of "The Journal of
the American Medical Association" from which I will now
quote. The sixteen doctors of the Commission in a letter addressed
"To the Medical Profession," dated Chicago, Oct. 23,
1918, say: "In the East, a vaccine made from the influenza
bacillus only is used quite generally. It is as yet too early to
form any conclusion as to the value of this vaccine. . . In
Minnesota, a mixed vaccine prepared by Dr. E. C. Rosenow is
in use, and apparently favorable results are re- ported."
Then in a letter dated only one day later, Oct. 24, the same
Commission writes: "After having an inquiry made in Boston
and Washington and after an all-day interview with Dr. E. C.
Rosenow, it was decided to produce and distribute
influenza- pneumonia vaccine made after the Rosenow method. At
the time of Dr. Rosenow's visit 20,000 persons had been
vaccinated with results that seemed to the Commission to
warrant pushing the method. . . The vaccine is furnished free, but
private phy- sicians are entitled to make a proper charge for
administration of the vaccine."
Then,
so as to have a leg on both sides
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of
the fence, the letter concludes thusly: "If the history of
1889-93 and that of the epidemic in the East are criteria, this
epi- demic will require at least a month to sub- side,
influenza will be somewhat prevalent all winter and the death rate
from pneu- monia will not become normal for several months."
There you are! When the months have passed on, our wonderful
doc- tors will all join in the chorus: "Come, folks, help
us tap one another on the back for our foresight and efficiency."
But what will the tens of thousands dead and mourners think?
The
next number of The Journal of the American Medical Association
appeared October 26. It is proper to assume that, as the
members of the Illinois Influenza Commission are in very close
touch with the editorship of The Journal, the Commis- sion knew
perfectly well what I am about to quote when they mailed out to
the Med- ical Profession their two letters of October 23 and
24. Nevertheless, here is what ap- peared editorially in the
October 26 num- ber:
"With
respect to serums and vaccines in influenza, there are simple
facts and considerations that physi- cians will do well to keep in
mind at this time. The main point to keep always in sight is that
unfor- tunately we as yet have no specific serum or other specific
means for the cure of influenza, and no specific vaccines for its
prevention. Such is the fact, all claims and propagandist
statements in the
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newspapers
and elsewhere to the contrary not- withstanding.
"At
least two kinds of vaccines are in use in the hope that they may
have preventive effects. One consists of killed influenza bacilli,
and it is being extensively used in the east. We have as yet no
decisive figures as to its effects, but there is an impression
that it may have some value. The other vaccine is a mixed vaccine
of the more important bacteria in the respiratory tract in
influ- enza, principally pneumococci, streptococci and influ- enza
bacilli. It appears that vaccines of this nature are in extensive
use, but we have no evidence that any benefit will be derived from
them. How slender the basis for this anti-influenzal vaccination
when it is considered that the real nature of influenza is
still unknown!"
Can
you beat that? And those were the sentiments of the members of the
Illi- nois Influenza Commission when they worked up a committee
of public spirited citizens to finance the anti-influenzal
vac- cination undertaking.
It
is appropriate to repeat that editori- ally the American Medical
Association, speaking ex cathedra, uttered its dictum that "the
main point to keep always in sight is that unfortunately we as yet
have no specific serum or other specific means for the cure of
influenza and no specific vaccine or vaccines for its
prevention." That of course is true, but not alone
re- garding influenza, for they have no specific vaccine or
vaccines for the cure or preven- tion of anything else.
However, it is not
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true
that there is no other known specific means for the cure and
prevention of influ- enza, etc. For I hold the evidence that
a copy of my letter to the President was in their hands October
15, and in that letter I show conclusively that my
base-vs-acid and base-vs-germ treatment is scientifically and
specifically correct and has been over- whelmingly proven
effective in my practice as well as in thousands of others', and
in which I further propose that I am prepared to demonstrate
results in camps or publicly, paying all expenses, supplying
everything needed and money besides.
It
will bear repeating that the two let- ters from which I have just
quoted are dated "Chicago, October 23 and 24, 1918." And
it is well to remark that the sixteen members of the Illinois
Influenza Commis- sion are for the most part, if not all,
mem- bers of the Chicago Medical Society and of the American
Medical Association. Therefore, they receive and read, even
as- suming that some of them do not act as assistant editors,
the Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Association which is
published in Chicago. Now, on or before October 19, the October
19 number of the said Journal had already been distributed to
its subscribers and had been read by at least the most
influential of the Illinois Influenza Commissioners. Nevertheless,
in the face of what I am about to quote, these same
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men
obtained money from "a group of gen- erous citizens" and
pawned off on the pub- lic the Rosenow vaccine, etc. On page 1317,
of the Journal of the American Med- ical Association, dated
October 19, 1918, we read : "In Massachusetts,
Commissioner E. R. Kelly appointed two committees to investigate
the value of influenza vaccines as a preventive agent and as a
treatment of the disease. The first committee, a spe- cial
board for scientific investigation, con- sisting of Dr. M. J.
Rosenau, chairman, and Frederick P. Gay and George W. McCoy, was
appointed to consider the evidence available on the prophylactic
and thera- peutic use of vaccines against influenza. This
committee presented the following conclusions:
"1.
The evidence at hand offers no trustworthy basis for regarding
vaccination against influenza as of value in preventing the spread
of the disease, or of reducing its severity.
"2.
The evidence at hand convinces the board that the vaccines we have
considered have no spe- cific value in the treatment of influenza.
"The
second committee, known as the Special Board of Statistical
Investigation, consisted of Dr. George C. Whipple, Chairman,
William H. Davis and F. C. Crum. This committee reported:
"The
weight of such statistical evidence as we have been able to
accumulate indicates that the use of influenza vaccine which we
have investigated is without therapeutic benefit. Exceptional
cases where apparent benefit has resulted from the use of the
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vaccine
can be matched by other cases where similar recoveries have been
made without vaccination."
And,
absurdity of absurdities, then conies this joker:
"As
a result, the following recommendations were made:
"That
the state encourage the distribution of influenza vaccine intended
for prophylactic use, but in such manner as will secure scientific
evidence of the possible value of the agent. The use of
such vaccine is to be regarded as experimental.
"That
the state shall neither furnish nor endorse any vaccine at present
in use for the treatment of influenza."
O-ho!
The vaccine is worthless, but go to it doctors on your own hook
and con- taminate the people's blood with your germ carcasses
to your hearts' content, but re- member that like Pilate we wash
our hands of the results of your experiments! Hor- rors !
A
further concession or admission is made by the editor of The
Journal of the American Medical Association which
adds corroborative evidence of the correctness of the autologic
principles of the cause of disease, influenza included. I quote
the following from the November 9 number of The Journal, by the
editor:
"We
do not understand the true nature of the condition now being
called epidemic influenza; there is not sufficient evidence to
regard any one of the different forms of bacteria found in the
respiratory tract in the cases of the disease as the primary
cause, but that all the bacteria, the influenza bacillus, as well
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as
the so-called diplostreptococci and others, may be secondary
invaders, transmissible from person to per- son with almost the
same ease as the supposed, but unknown, primary cause!"
But
the medically "supposed, but un- known, primary cause,"
is not autologic- ally supposed nor unknown. It is known and
stated in Autology and in this book under "dioxidosis."
The fundamental pri- mary cause of influenza, as well as of
other epidemic diseases, is a dioxidosis condition of the
blood. Given that primary cause, bacilli, bacteria, cocci may
operate as a sec- ondary cause, but even then these agents are
less often secondary invaders through transmissibility from person
to person than they are secondary products of normal "chemical
spores" or benign body-bacteria evolving into virulent
bacilli and cocci as the result of dioxidosis of the blood or
of the secretions. Volatile breath-excretions, no matter how
transmissible from person to person, will not act as primary nor
even sec- ondary causes of disease in the absence of dioxidosis.
And when a person is in a fit condition to become "culture
soil" for any "epidemic germ," it is not necessary
to sup- pose that infection takes place through the air from
person to person; for the person's own blood and secretions are
themselves evolving more epidemic bacilli, etc., than he can
possibly acquire from outside.
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VACCINOPATHY.
What
is vaccinopathy? Vaccinopathy is a malediction of morbidity
against hu- manity, beginning with a baptism of cow- pox and
continuing with the infliction of bacterial diseases by
vaccinating the well and the sick. It is the prevailing creed
and practice of a sect of doctors who call them- selves
"regulars" but are commonly known as "allopaths."
But, as they have repudi- ated their regular drug-treatments and
allo- pathic creed and have adopted vaccines as their
prevent-alls and cure-alls the only relevant, befitting title for
them is vaccino- paths. Their 'science' of
disease-prevention amounts to this: We insure you
against small-pox, typhoid fever, influenza, etc., by inoculating
you with those diseases on the installment plan. How would it work
if the Insurance Fraternity would institute the practice of
insuring property against fire by setting fire to buildings on the
install- ment plan?
Vaccinopathy
is a medical delusion more direful to humanity than were
the religious and political delusions of centuries gone by.
Mothers!
What profiteth your babies to live if their Godmade blood is
period- ically and perpetually tainted with pus- vaccines? The
doctors' immunity-by-vac- cines is as destructive of health as the
im-
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munity-by-fire
would be destructive of property.
Who
is your physician? Does he wor- ship at the medical shrine of
vaccinopathy? Is his creed or method of preventing and curing
diseases the infliction of vaccinosis? Is your doctor a
vaccinopath? Do you be- lieve in vaccinopathy?
Definitions.
Vaccinopathy is a medical method of treating health and disease
by inducing vaccinosis. A vaccinopath is a doctor who practices
and believes in vaccin- opathy; one who seeks to prevent and
cure diseases by inoculating the healthy and the sick with
bacterial poisons called vaccines. Vaccinosis is a blood-poisoning
intended to develop in the healthy a modified form of any
contagious or infectious disease; it is a bacterial or pus disease
empirically 'given' the well as a preventive and the sick as a
curative treatment. To vaccinose is to introduce a blood-infection
where none exists lest one might develop or be 'caught' or
'carried'; or, to cause a blood-infection where one already exists
in the hope that the inoculated poison, virus, vaccine or morbific
bacteria may antagonize the body- poisons or conquer the live
germs.
Health
is more priceless even than free- dom. There is no despot like
sickness. You may make this world "safe for democracy," but
this world will not be safe to live in as long as from the cradle
to the grave people
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are
made victims of the prevailing loath- some inoculations with
vaccines and bac- teria. This is the most vitally
important subject before the American people to-day, barring
not even world peace.
The
layman has a better intuitive grasp of truth than the
professional. The "learned" have acquired erudition, but
have lost intuition. The sense of the Common People is the
keystone of Philosophy, the first premise of "First
Principles" and of all correct conclusions. When the
"laity," speaking collectively, voice an opinion
their judgment is always right. Witness: The three Headlights
of Civilization, Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George, attending to
the Commonpeoples' Business Overthere.
The
common people are always right when they voice an opinion. For
genera- tions they have endured the vaccinating atrocity in
comparative silence, helpless to help themselves against the
governmentally enforced will of the medical profession. But
they are on the eve of voicing their opinion, for the doctors are
giving them nightmares with their Bacteria-or-Siberia for you
and your children.
Mother-intuition
is unerring. One must be a mother to understand her
agonizing anguish at the prospect of having to infect her
child's blood with the putrid stuff vac- vines are made of!
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Vaccinopathy
is the last of a trio of world fanaticisms that have created
all hells on earth. Humanity has endured the oft-recurring
atrocities of religious and po- litical fanaticisms. Every land is
soaked to bedrock with the blood of millions upon millions of
their victims. And all cemeteries are pretty well glutted with the
victims of discarded medical delusions, but this gener- ation
is face to face with a medical fanati- cism that in destructive
power will out- match the religious and political. The "objective"
of vaccinopaths is sufficiently apparent to the student of
eugenics to force upon him the conviction that if allowed
full sway vaccinopathy will retard and defeat evolution of
mankind. There can be no survival of the fittest when the fittest
are perpetually made unfit through vaccinosis.
This
government is democratic in re- ligious and political *
matters, but it is medico-autocratic in health matters.
Re- ligious fanatics have had their innings, and the world
peace conference bids fair to keep political fanatics under
government control. Thus endeth the two world fanaticisms
that have devastated the earth and slaughtered peoples. But in
the turmoil a third world fanaticism has acquired ravaging
powers. The United States government does not merely sanction
vaccinopathy but it allows doctors to enforce it by military and
civic edict. If this generation fails in its duty to
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crush
disease-breeding vaccinopathy then let the coming generation
prepare for a worse catadlysm of disease frightfulness than
humanity has ever experienced. For it's plain to be seen that the
drift of the vaccinopaths is to cow-pox and bacterialize humanity
annually, semi-annually and monthly.
I
have the highest personal regards for my good friend, Dr. W. A.
Evans, who writes up "How To Keep Well" for the Chicago
Tribune. Were Dr. Evans not wedded to his medical idols his
eminence and attainments would make of him an ardent
Autologist. Back of Dr. Evans' re- nown is the responsibility,
authority and wide circulation of the Tribune. How many will
heed Dr. Evans' tip is hard to say, but the intent is there just
the same that all his readers, as well as others, ought to
fol- low his lead. An "ought to", with the medical
profession, pretty soon becomes tantamount to you must.
In
a reply to "J. M. C." (Chicago Trib- une, Friday, Jan.
17, 1919) Dr. Evans says: "I intend to be vaccinated with
Rosenow (vaccine) about every two months this winter." The
force of this subtle argu- ment and example in favor of
vaccination and self-vaccinosis is incalculable and will
inoculate the minds of tens of thou- sands with the superstitious
belief that be- ing vaccinated with "Rosenow" every two
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months
is a pretty sure preventive of in- fluenza and pneumonia. And yet,
Dr. Evans knows, as a leading Fellow and Propagandist of the
American Medical Association and Member of the "Illinois
In- fluenza Commission" that the following ap- peared
editorially in the Oct. 26 (1918) number of the Journal of the
American Medical Association:
"Unfortunately
we as yet have no specific vac- cines for its prevention
(influenza). Such is the fact, all claims and propagandist
statements in the newspapers and elsewhere to the contrary
notwith- standing. ... It appears that vaccines of this nature
(Rosenow) are in extensive use, but we have no evidence that any
benefit will be derived from them. How slender the basis for this
anti-influenzal vaccination when it is considered that the real
nature of influenza is still unknown!"
This
is quite as denunciatory of Dr. Evans' prescription of the Rosenow
"patent vaccine" as are Dr. Evans' remarks about "patent
medicine."
One
might well ask, Is it more ethical for Dr. Evans to advertise a
patent vaccine than to advertise a patent medicine?
Truth
alone is ethical—and shall make you free, was said by the
most ethical Leader of mankind.
Dr.
Evans' intended prescription is meant to promote the deadliest,
most in- famous kind of vaccine fetishism—on the altar of
which medicine has immolated more victims than the Turks have
Armen-
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ians.
Dr. Evans is a member of the "Illinois Influenza
Commission,"—a Rosenow propa- gandist organization.
Ca.
louche —as our boys learned to say in France.
Am
I impugning Dr. Evans' motives? Oh, no; he is sincere; that's the
trouble! For, a sincere medical delusion is an obses- sion
curable only by a St. Patrick! So, if the people don't smother
medicine's latest brat, vaccinopathy, let them prepare
for compulsory periodical and perpetual blood- infection with
scores of disgusting pus and bacterial cultures, as well as
smallpox vac- cine.
Perhaps
the reading of my letter to President Wilson made some active
im- pression on Dr. Franklin Martin, for, in the November
(1918) number of the Red Cross Magazine, Dr. Martin tells us that
"the healthy soldier is given, first of all, a balanced
ration, moderate in meat or eggs or cheese, and generous in
vege- tables, milk, greens and fruits." But, it so happens
that in the February 15, 1919, number of the Journal of the
American Medical Association one reads the following official
statements by Dr. C. F. Brown, Major, Dr. F. W. Balfrey, Major,
and Dr. Leonard Hart, Captain, Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C.
"Few green vegetables were used in camp; as the histories
will show, most of the men did not have fresh
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vegetables."
This refers to an epidemic of typhoid fever at Camp Greene. It is
a direct contradiction of Dr. Martin's claim, and it is
official. Here is another from Camp Wads worth: "A great many
times meals are served consisting of nothing but beans, bread,
potatoes and coffee. Maybe once a week or ten days, stewed
tomatoes would be served at the noon or evening meal."
Aside
from refuting Dr. Martin's state- ment that the soldiers were
given "a bal- anced ration, generous in vegetables,
greens and fruits", the facts go to show the cor- rectness
of my contention that the actual cause of and blame for the
horrible havoc played by the Flu was the 'dioxidosis' diet dished
out to the soldiers and adopted by the American people, as well as
the world at large, during the war. But I want to use the facts
brought out by the Medical Offi- cers, at Camp Greene, also as
evidence that even the much vaunted typhoid-vaccine- immunity
is a baneful delusion, and that typhoid fever will appear and
reappear no matter how often the soldier or person is vaccinated
if the diet is acid-forming. The three medical officers, whose
names appear above, in their report of the occurrence of an
epidemic of typhoid at Camp Greene, say: "It was found, as
shown by the his- tories, that all had had the regular
prophy- lactic injections within a year at proper in- tervals,
as attested both by the soldiers'
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statements
and by their service records. The fact that these soldiers had
received their preventive inoculations at different times and
at different camps, together with the known care with which the
Army vac- cine is prepared, renders it unlikely that the failure
of immunity was due to failure to receive the standard vaccine in
standard doses." But, Dr. Evans comes to the vac- cinopaths'
rescue by telling his readers that "the explanation given was
that the infec- tion, instead of being of the mild type
prev- alent in this country for twenty years, was severe and
the dose of poison received by the sick was massive." There
you are, the 'immunized' men contracted typhoid — therefore
the type of infection must have been more severe than in twenty
years and the dose of the poison must have been mas- sive.
Where is the proof? The only proof is the usual slam of
vaccinopaths worded as follows by Dr. Evans (Tribune, March 4,
1919): "The man who still opposes it (vaccination) is either
crazy, a fool or a
knave.....
The results of an experiment
involving
20,000,000 men and lasting four years cannot be set aside because
of the howl of some sect who make their living out of human
ills." But, now, really, who are the "some sect who make
their living out of human ills" if not the vaccinopaths
who make their living by making well people ill and sick people
iller with cow-pox and vac- cines?
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"THE
PENNSYLVANIA STATE VACCINATION COMMISSION
Authorized
by Joint Resolution of the General Assembly, of June 14, 1911,
Pamphlet Laws, 940."
When
it seemed likely that my vol- unteer letter to President Wilson
would fail in its immediate mission, I mailed a copy to two
hundred of my friends, requesting their help and influence, among
others to Mr. Henry C. Lippincott of Philadelphia, who,
thereupon, was good enough to mail me a pamphlet entitled "The
Pennsylvania State Vaccination Commission," he being one
of the Dissenting Commissioners. Had I been fortunate enough to
see a copy of this report, I would have incorporated its findings
in my letter to President Wilson.
Of
the seven Members of this Commis- sion, three dissented from the
favorable recommendations of the other four.
The
following lines are taken from the "Dissenting Report of
Henry C. Lippincott, Commissioner":
"Physicians
continually assert that they alone are competent to judge of
methods of treatment of disease, and that laymen should accept and
be bound by the evidence furnished by medical experts and the
opinions which they deduce therefrom. If this claim were admitted
to be true, the ordinary layman would still be confronted with the
problem of de-
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termining
who of the physicians are experts, since it often has been found,
and especially so in the course of the vaccination inquiry, that
alleged experts are arrayed on both sides of the proposition,
each class apparently of equal experience, attainment
and professional standing. It is known, however, that old
methods give way to new, and that upon the authority of physicians
themselves, the practice of medicine has been almost wholly
revolutionized within the last twenty-five years, and that the
pro- fession as a whole sanctions its present methods and acclaims
them as nearly perfect, with the same as- sertive confidence which
prevailed respecting the now discarded practices of former days.
Under these circumstances the writer may be pardoned for
sug- gesting that the problems associated with smallpox and
other diseases have been approached from the wrong angle. Smallpox
is derivatively a filth disease and the prevention of it would
seem to be obviously associated with the removal of its causes. In
the opinion of the writer smallpox cannot be eliminated by the
introduction of a virus derived or taken from the suppurating
sores or vesicles of calves into which the virus of smallpox has
been previously introduced. The open road which leads to
prevention appears to a layman to be the creation of those
conditions which will not engender and encourage the
disease itself. February 3, 1913."
The
following excerpts are from the "Dissenting Report of John
Pitcairn, Com- missioner." (It is appalling to human
in- telligence that Mr. Pitcairn's report failed to turn the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against vaccination.)
"We
find in the following Final Report of the British Royal Commission
the following admissions: 'It is not open to doubt that there have
been cases
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in
which injury and death have resulted from vac- cination.'
"That
the risks of vaccination have not dimin- ished since the Royal
Commission made its Report in 1896, is evident from the Reports of
the Registrar General for the years 1900 to 1910 inclusive,
show- ing that the death rate of vaccination was actually greater
than the death rate from smallpox.
"We
find that in England and Wales from 1881 to 1907 inclusive, the
Registrar reported 1,108 deaths from vaccination. We wish to
emphasize the fact that these 1,108 deaths were all admitted
by vaccinists themselves to have been due to vaccina- tion, and
that the reports took no account of that greater number of deaths
from vaccination which officially were ascribed to other causes.
In regard to this, Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, after the most
careful investigation, declared that in England and Wales alone
vaccination was the probable cause of 10,000 deaths every
year—deaths by five diseases of the most terrible and
disgusting character, induced by the vaccine virus."
(Let
me remark that vaccinopaths have a stock-in-trade retort for this
which acts as a befuddling argument to some minds. It is this
rejoiner: Is humanity going to give up electricity and aviating
because acci- dents happen? This sort of vicious argu- ment
"takes" on some people as does small- pox virus. But
where is the similitude be- tween electricity or aviating and
cowpox?)
"But,
it may be asked, If all this is true, why does vaccination
continue? The answer is that it continues because it is enforced
by law. Take away legal compulsion, and vaccination would not
long survive. In all modern history no other medical
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operation
has ever been legally enforced. But vac- cination needed
enforcement. Without compulsion it could never have survived, for
from the very day of its introduction it has been strenuously
opposed both by laymen and by members of the medical pro- fession.
Eminent physicians, it is true, have supported it; but other
eminent physicians and also renowned bacteriologists and
statisticians have condemned it as productive of the gravest
injuries.
"What
Is Vaccination? Put the question to a number of physicians, and
observe the conflicting replies. Not all would agree with
Webster's defini- tion that it is inoculation with cowpox, for
the modern American school of vaccinators now holds that it is
inoculation with smallpox modified by the cow! Vaccination today
is not what it was yesterday, and still less what it was in
Jenner's day. Indeed, one of the most conspicuous features of the
practice has been its constant shiftiness."
(Then,
Mr. Pitcairn's Report shows that the doctors' "Immunity
Theory is a Pure Hypothesis", and it exposes their habit
of "Juggling with Statistics".)
"The
blood is the life-giving stream on which all the fortunes of the
body depend. Maintain its purity and the body will be in health.
Defile it and the body will be diseased. This proposition is
axi- omatic and needs no demonstration. Yet vaccination involves
a denial of it. The vaccinator would im- prove on the blood formed
in the laboratory of Na- ture. He would perfect it by admixture
with diseased pus! For the support of a position so contrary
to the instincts of reason a large burden of positive proof is
imperative. And what proof has been given? Constant shifting of
theory and practice; broken down claims of immunity; discredited
statistics, and a virus the mystery of which is equalled only by
its danger. While the enlightened nations of Europe are
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turning
against vaccination, Dr. Welch (William M.) and his associates are
endeavoring to fasten it for- ever upon the children of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
"The
statistical data laid before the Commis- sion and found in the
accepted and official history of the subject prove conclusively
that while small- pox declined with the abandonment of smallpox
in- oculation, the disease afterwards steadily increased in all
civilized countries where vaccination was sys- tematically
practiced and enforced; and that after seventy years of
vaccination there came the great, world-wide smallpox epidemic of
1872, the worst epidemic ever recorded in history, causing a
vast destruction of human beings all over the world,
not- withstanding the long-continued prevalence of the practice
of vaccination.
"That
the vaccine virus now used is the actual implantation of human
smallpox itself into the popu- lation is conclusively shown by the
testimony of nearly all the pro-vaccination witnesses that
appeared before the Commission. [In answer to a direct ques- tion,
Dr. Welch answered: "I think vaccinia is true variola"
(smallpox.)]
"Dr.
Samuel G. Dixon, Health Commissioner of Pennsylvania, in an
address before a Commission of the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania, on March 5, 1907, said 'Japan, the most progressive
country on the face of the globe today, has a most
stringent, compulsory vaccination law, which calls for the
per- formance of vaccination, first, within the first ten months
of life; secondly, at the sixth year; and thirdly, at the tenth
year'. Dr. Dixon, in the same address, held forth this stringent
vaccination and revaccination law of Japan as indicating the
plain path of duty that should be followed by the Legis- lature
of Pennsylvania, confident that such a stringent compulsory
vaccination law would protect
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a
nation or community from smallpox epidemics. And yet, in less than
one year after Dr. Dixon had used Japan as such an effective
argument to show how an empire could be saved from smallpox by
a compulsory vaccination law, Japan had a most
severe
epidemic.......Thus we find that Japan is
the
most thoroughly vaccinated country on earth, and yet we find her
afflicted with epidemic after epidemic from 1886 to 1908. During
the period of 1886-1908, there occurred in Japan, as officially
re- ported, 288,799 cases of smallpox, with 77,415 deaths, a
death rate of over 26 per cent., which rate is far in excess of
the death rate for the insanitary and unvaccinated England of over
a hundred years ago.
"These
official statistics show that smallpox epidemics progressively
increased in Japan as the compulsory vaccination law was more
and more
enforced.......If
it were possible for vaccination,
under
the most modern methods, by its enforcement to protect any nation
from smallpox, it should have been Japan, especially as the
vaccinations were en- forced with thorough-going government
insistence; and yet, as the vaccinations and revaccinations
went on, the epidemics increased in frequency and viru- lency."
(Mr.
Pitcairn, then, gives the official figures and dates to show that
"not only did vaccination fail to prevent the disease, but
probably actually intensi- fied it"; and, also draws
attention to the "coincidental increase in Japan of other
diseases, as vaccination was enforced", specifically
mentioning diphtheria, scarlet fever and tuberculosis.)
"There
is absolutely no explanation possible for the disastrous results
of smallpox in Japan ex- cept the plain and obvious one that
vaccination does not protect from smallpox, even when
administered under the most improved scientific regulations.
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"It
is shown from the experience of England, India, Germany, and other
countries, that vaccina- tion has not been efficacious in the
prevention of smallpox; that where smallpox has decreased it
has been due to improved sanitation; and that, in Eng- land, as
a consequence of the Report made by a British Royal Commission
sitting for seven years, compulsory vaccination has been
practically aban- doned.
"The
dangers, injuries and deaths following and caused by vaccination
that have hitherto been spoken of in this Report, are only those
officially reported or proven, but the countless numbers of
persons who are diseased by vaccination, whose cases do not get
into official reports, are still more impressive. The infliction
of such known and positive diseases as vaccine virus has been
shown to produce, together with the unknown dangers admittedly
connected with vaccination, take away every justification for any
compulsory law for forcing it upon anyone, under any
circumstances. Instead of compulsion for its enforcement, the
conditions suggest its positive prohibition by the Legislature."
But,
medical fanaticism won and the doctors go merrily on enforcing
smallpox vaccination, in Pennsylvania as elsewhere in this
enlightened country!
What
are the mothers' feelings about vaccination? The untrammeled
opinion and intuitive feelings of mothers are tersely expressed
in a letter which I have just re- ceived:
"Copy
of your 'Volunteer-Letter to President Wilson' has been received.
I hope you will succeed in getting your wholesome ideas
substituted for the vile methods now in operation. I hate
vaccination and bacteria inoculations. The oldest two of our
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three
children are in school having entered upon certificates of
"evidence of vaccination". It was use- less to protest
here, for the Medical Authorities are absolute, so I followed the
suggestion of our good
Dr.
—------. (I wonder whether you knew him. He
was
a friend and admirer of your friend, Elbert Hub- bard.)
Dr.---------was an ardent anti-vaccinist, and
confirmed
my innate hatred of the vile practice by scientific proof. If once
I get the third child into school without an open rupture I shall
not care. Too many have tried to oppose the existing condi- tion
and failed. I vowed (quietly) I'd rather see my children dead than
have them vaccinated."
Vaccinopaths
would call this mother a criminal woman because she has the
innate horror of all mothers of having the God- given, pure
blood of her children denied with the loathsome pus of smallpox
and other bacterial pus-cultures! Fie on vaccin- opaths! Shame
on us who cringe and hesi- tate to call a halt!
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Eyecream and Detoxyl, $7.00; or with only one box of either
Eyecream
or Detoxyl.......................................... 6.50
Autology
and Autopathy with one box each of Detoxyl and Eyecream, $6.00; or
with only one
box
of either......................................................
5.50
The
Practice of Autopathy with one box each of
Detoxyl
and Eyecream........................................ 4.00
Six
boxes Detoxyl...................................................
5.00
Three
boxes Eyecream.............................................. 5.00
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Six
boxes Eyecream..................................................
$9.00
500
Detoxyls (equal to five $1.00 boxes) in one
large
box ..........................................................
4.00
1,000
Detoxyls (equal to ten $1.00 boxes) in two
boxes
of 500 each............................................ 7.00
1,500
Detoxyls (equal to fifteen $1.00 boxes) in
three
boxes of 500 each...................................... 10.00
Four
boxes Detoxyl and one box Eyecream, or two
boxes
of each, or box of 500 Detoxyl and one
box
Eyecream .................................................... 5.00
Two
boxes of 500 Detoxyl (1,000 Detoxyl) and
one
box Eyecream.............................................. 8.00
Every
order amounting to no less than $4.00 entitles you to buy Autology
and Autopathy for $3.00, or The Practice of Autopathy for $1.00,
or both for $4.00—but, in either case, the whole amount must
come in the same letter.
Every
order for no less than $10.00 entitles you to buy Autology and
Autopathy for $2.00 additional, or both books for $3.00
additional, if the whole amount conies in same letter; or to one
box of Eyecream free.
Every
order for no less than $15.00 is entitled to Autology and
Autopathy FREE and to The Practice of Autopathy for 50c extra.
With a $20.00 order both books are free. Detoxyl and Eyecream
keep good indefinitely.
Address:
E. R. Moras, M. D., Highland Park, Illinois.
Doctor
Moras has written a Cornmonsense book on Autology, and by so
doing, placed the Standard of the Creed of Health further to the
front than any other man who has lived for a thousand
years.—ELBERT HUBBARD.
Dr.
Moras has written a book that every man, woman and child owes it
to his intelligence to read and study. It is called "Autology
and Autopathy," which, being liberally translated, may be
construed, "He That Knows Himself May Cure Himself."
While it is a "medical" book in the common acceptance
of the term, there isn't a word about medicines in the entire
work. But there is more hard common sense, more information
concerning the care of the body in health and disease, more advice
about diet for brain, nerve and body-building than in the entire
libraries of the world besides. Ethically and professionally,
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the
author of this really remarkable book stands high, but the
contents of the book are such as to place him high above his
fellows, and it will stand as a monu- ment to him after his
professional record is forgotten. The book is worth $500.00 to any
man who cares for his own physical welfare or the health of wife
and babies.—The Dental Summary, Vol. 31, No. 5, May, 1911.
AUTOLOGY
has been given scientific recognition by the Lexicographers of
Har- vard, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Penn- sylvania and
other Universities. (See the new Universities Dictionary.)
During
the last fifteen years Mrs. Moras and I have created through
Autology a world-wide spirit which must now be forced to ripen
into action by the aid of the peo- ple themselves against
governmental sanc- tion of the use and administration by
physi- cians and others of poisonous drugs in dis- ease, as
well as in health, and against govern- mental enforcement and
sanction of vaccina- tion in any of its forms. Tell your
legislators and special commissioners on school and health
boards to get busy; for the autologic Spirit of the People is
moving them onward, and no political nor medical power can
im- pede their progress.
To
meet the demand for a wide distribution of these wholesome ideas,
advanced and affirmed in my booklet, "Volunteer-Letter to
President Wilson and Vaccinopathy," copies will be sent at
much less than printers' cost: One copy, 3c; twelve, 25c;
fifty, $1.00. Stamps accepted. Address, E. R. Moras, M. D.,
Highland Park, Illinois.
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