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gion " (" Final Report," p. 90, par. 342). And again: 

 " The fact that revaccination of adults appears to place 

 them in so favorable a condition as compared with the 

 unvaccinated," etc. (" Final Keport/' p. 98, par. 375). 

 "What can be said of such statements as these, but simply 

 that they are wholly untrue? And the fact that the 

 majority of the Commissioners did not know this, be- 

 cause they never compared the different groups of facts 

 in their own Reports which prove them to be untrue, 

 demonstrates at once their complete incapacity to con- 

 duct such an inquiry and the utter worthlessness of their 

 " Final Report." 



This is a matter upon which it is necessary to speak 

 plainly. For refusing to allow their children's health, 

 or even their lives, to be endangered by tho inoculation 

 into their system of disease-produced matter, miscalled 

 " lymph," 1 hundreds and probably thousands of Eng- 

 lish parents have been fined or imprisoned and treated 

 as criminals; while certainly thousands of infants have 

 been officially done to death, and other thousands in- 

 jured for life. And all these horrors on account of what 

 Dr. Creighton has well termed a " grotesque supersti- 

 tion," which has never had a rational foundation either 

 of physiological doctrine or of carefully tested observa- 

 tions, and is now found to be disproved by a century's 

 dearly bought experience. This disgrace of our much- 

 vaunted scientific age has been throughout supported by 

 concealment of facts telling against it, by misrepresenta- 



1 ' ' Lymph, a colorless nutritive fluid in animal bodies " (' ' Chambers' 

 Dictionary"). How misleading to apply this term to a product of 

 disease, used to produce another disease, and now admitted to be 

 capable of transmitting some of the most Iwrrible diseases which 

 afflict mankind syphilis and leprosy! 



