•/•///•; i:i:n cl'oss wd riii-: .\.\ ri\ n'lSh'crioMsrs -j-.':; 



///(■ siiri/iDlts inn-kiuil lii</rtlifr in llir |in\ I li;il "liilir r;i>cMiC(iin-i'il '111 ri llir llic 



lithonilitni uml llif hitsjiital. Witiild yoii \c.ir"" |;im(iiiii llic riiili|i|iiii(' S.(>iil>l. 



srriouslv advise that no such ('\|U'ri- M\ \v\r\\A ;iii<l runner student. Dr. 



mental reseanlies shouM have lieen ear- Nuiur (i. Il,i-(i'. a- director of liealth 



ried nn and that \nur hnv >li(udd -ulVer in ihe IMiili|i|>inc Uhiiid- I'm- ycaiv-, \ ac- 



the Imrrilile fate .d' inv own |M.(ir (lei- einalcd n\^-y s.ikmi.imki |ier>nn- without 



tv,-luir,i: Im>\ r Ceiil'e-- honolly. are nnt adealh and w il h what re>ull r Inand 



tliese ami other siniihir researches to lie around Manila I lie ii-iial lull ofsnudl- 



deserihed as humane? — as desirahle? pox had heen alinin •.':.. (i(i(i cases ami 



nav. as im|>erali\e y (iOOO ileath> anniiall). In the twelve 



Xav, more. '"We feel." say forty-one months after hi> \aeeinat imi eam|iai>rn 



of our medical otiieers on duty in Kranee, was linisheil there was //"/ <nir ilrnlh 



"that any one cntleavoriui: to stop tlu' from >mall|io\. 



KN'd Cro-v from assistimr in its Inunani- rrr<niilni. in 1 ss.') in Montreal, as 



tarian and humane desire to prevent dialed hy ()>ler. one rullmaii porter iii- 



Anu-rican soldiers fnun heiiiir diseased. Irodueetl >mallpo\ into a lar;:ely iiii- 



and protect iiiiT them hy sol villi: the pe- vaccinated eii\. 'I'lieie followed :>l(if 



culiar new pri>hlems of disease with deal li> and eiioi-iiions lo>se,- to the Moiit- 



which the .Vrmv is confi'onteil is in real meicliaiil >. 



ri'alitv jrivin<: aiil and eomfui-i lo the liiil why >ay more;' We all know 



eiUMuy."* But the antiviviseetionists de- that a sin,<,de case in any community 



elare that l)acterioloiry is false — that causes every intelli<:ent jx-rson to ho 



such vaccination is "lillini: tlie veins protected hy vaccination, 



with '.^^cientifie iilth' called serum or (l"s nxnt/ri'iic — Onv of the terrible 



vaccine'" I They are doinu their best to and new surs,ncal diseases developed by 



jiersunde our soldiers not to sulnnit to llii> war is called "ojas gangrene." It 



aiiv such "'vaccination" I ha- no relation to the poisonou.s gases 



Small po.r. — T\u- word vaccination introduceil hy the harliarous Germans 

 leads nie to say a word about smallpox. at Ypres. Al.oiit iwenty-five years ago 

 I confess that T was amused bv a r(>cent Trofessor W. 11. WCIch, of the Johns 

 [laiier in an antivivi.section jonrnal en- llopkin- Ilo-piial. discovered a bacte- 

 titled "Vaccination as a r^n/.NV of Small- rium which pro(liiced gas in the inter- 

 pox"! During the last year hundreds stice> bet ween and in the mn-cles. This 

 of thousands of soldiers have been vac- bacillus does not occur in Great Brit- 

 einated against smallpox. Surely there ain. T never saw a case of gas gangrene 

 >hould have been some cases of that dis- in the Civil War. and but one case since 

 gusting disease if it were caus(>d by then in civil practice. On the contrary 

 vaccination. in Belgium and France in the .soil and. 



But what are the facts? I have just lheief(,i-e. on the <lothing and on the 



received the Eeport of Surgeon General >kiii of the >oldiei> these bacilli abound. 



(Jorgas for 1017. The section on Small- i'loin wlial l'>a>lifoi'd lalls the "cesspool 



|»ox reminds one of the celebrated ihap- of the wound" the germs travel up and 



ter on "Snakes in Ireland." On p. s] down in the axis of the limb. If the gas 



on Smallpo.x in the .\rmy in the Tnited escapes from a punct\ire it will take fire 



States. 1 read "Xo ca.ses of smallpox from a match. (ia> has iiei-n observed 



oeoirred within the United States within live hour>. .\n .ntire limb may 



)u-o|)er during the year." Onp. 17."i. 1 become gangrenous within sixteen 



read "Xo cases [of .simalli»ox or vario- hours. If the whole lindi is amputated 



lnid| occurred in the islands" [among the gas may be so abundant that the 



the .\nierican troops in the Philip- limb will lloat in water! Death is not 



pines]. On p. 188. I read under Small- huig delaye(l. 



