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    Vaccine and Serum Evils
    Vaccine and Serum Evils
    Vaccine and Serum Evils
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    Vaccine and Serum Evils

    By Herbert M. Shelton

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    Do people really know what they are being immunized for? Are vaccinations safe? Herbert Shelton brings to light how vaccinations and serums came about, uncovering the truth how people were enticed to believe it was for the better. Shelton brings this vast of information from many articles of The Journal of The American Medical Association, Public Health Reports and many years of testimonials and newspaper articles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStargatebook
    Release dateNov 3, 2014
    ISBN9786050331325
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      very informative and educational. Gives us a historical background on how Vaccination is from superstition and escalated into Global Mandatory Vaccination.

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    Vaccine and Serum Evils - Herbert M. Shelton

    Herbert M. Shelton

    Vaccine 

    and

    Serum Evils

    Original edition 1940

    1st Digital edition 2014

    contents

    Vacinna - Chapter I

    Serum Poisoning - Chapter II

    Commercial Medicine - Chapter III

    Vacinna

    Chapter I

    Vaccina is an acute infectious disease caused by vaccination. Vaccination is the inoculation of child or adult, well or sick, with septic matter (pus) derived from suppurating (festering) sores on the abdomen of a previously infected cow. I think this definition is incomplete in an important respect—I should have said that it is a criminal operation.

    The disease dates from about the year 1774 when an ignorant and superstitious English farmer, Benjamin Jesty, vaccinated his wife and three children with matter taken from sores on cows suffering with cow-pox, using a darning needle with which to make the incisions. Jestey believed a superstition, then prevalent among the milkmaids, that, one who had cow-pox was immune to smallpox.

    Notes of this daring experiment were made by a doctor Nash who died in 1785. At his death these notes passed into the hands of Mr. Thomas Nash who was acquainted with Edward Jenner, a notorious charlatan, who is credited with having discovered vaccination. In 1789, Jenner inoculated his eighteen month's old son with swine-pox matter. He followed this with other inoculations of other children and the filthy practice of vaccination was definitely launched.

    An English writer, Arthur Hutton, M.A., says of Jenner's training and qualifications: But his professional acquirements were but slender; his medical degree was the outcome of no examination or scientific work, but merely of a fee of fifteen guineas paid to the University of St. Andrews; while his other and more important distinction, his Fellowship in the Royal Society, was obtained by what even Dr. Norman Moore, his latest biographer and apologist, is constrained to admit was little else than a fraud.

    Thus we have a filthy practice, born out of the ignorance of superstitions of the past and fathered by an ignorant imposter and fraud, palmed off on the world today as a scientific procedure. It is really remarkable, the number of instances in the history of medicine, of practices and theories now in vogue, that owe their origin to ancient customs, traditions and superstitions.

    It is not known how remote was the belief among the cow hands and dairy maids of England in the immunizing potency of cow-pox; but it is thought to have come out of the practice of inoculation which was introduced into England from the East, by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Court, in 1717. The practice was abolished by the act of Parliament in 1840, due to its evils. In 1754 the Royal College of Physicians issued the following manifesto, which reads strangely like the statements made by physicians today about vaccination:

    The College, having been informed that false reports concerning the success of inoculation in England have been published in foreign countries, think proper to declare their sentiments in the following manner, viz.: That the arguments which at the commencement of this practice were urged against it have been refuted by experience; that it is now held by the English in greater esteem, and practiced among them more extensively than ever it was before, and that the college thinks it to be highly salutary to the human race.

    Despite this evident lie by this august body, the practice was not successful; it was not highly salutary; and experience did not refute the arguments used against it. It was a very damaging practice which caused an increase in small-pox in England and was finally abolished by law. Edward Jenner, following Benjamin Jesty, grafted the old inoculation practice onto the milk-maid's creed and vaccination (from vacca-cow) was born.

    I mentioned that the inoculation practice was introduced from the east. The date of the origin of this superstitious practice is hidden in the darkness of pre-history. Savage and the barbaric peoples, in various parts of the world, practiced inoculation. It is thought to have started in India, where so many of our superstitions originated, and spread from there to Africa and Europe.

    From time immemorial the negroes and Arabs of Nubia practiced inoculation against small-pox. The Ashantees and the Moorish and Arab tribes in Northern Africa practiced arm to arm inoculation from ancient times.

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