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"1. You can have diphtheria after you have given a negative Schick test." (Proving the test to be unreliable).
"2. You may not be particularly susceptible even if you give a positive Schick test." (Proving the test to be utterly worthless).
"3. You can have the disease even if you have been immunized." (Proving that the immunization process does not immunize.)
Dr. Joe, of Edinburgh, states that he personally knew of
33 children who had diphtheria after they had been immunized--Immunized! Hundreds
of such examples have been reported.
Compare this with the fact that the cities of Lasalle, Peru
and Oglesby, Ill., were reported, in The Illinois Medical Journal, Nov. 1929,
P. 337, by Arlington Ailes, M. D., Health Director or these three cities, aggregating
30,000 people, not to have had a case of diphtheria in two and one-half years and
not a death from this disease in three and one-half years, with the use of toxin-antitoxin
"practically nil." Their neighboring city, Chicago, where toxin-antitoxin
has been lavishly used showed a rise in both the case rate and the death rate. "In
1920 it (diphtheria in Chicago) again increased over 60 per cent and nearly 100 per
cent in mortality." Let them find and alibi for these facts if they can. But
you save your children from the dangers of all serums and vaccines.
CHAPTER XXIX
COMMERCIAL MEDICINE
I am an incurable idealist and a chronic optimist, but I
am not able to shut my eyes to what I see going on around me I don't believe in looking
always on the "bright side" of things and refusing to examine the darker
side. In the human garden there flourish some mighty foul weeds, most of them cunningly
disguised, that need to be looked at and destroyed
Ours is a system of pig-ethics. I do not mean by this merely
our love of wallowing, but include also our selfishness, our game of grab and stab.
Modern business of all kinds is just such a game, cleverly disguised, though it often
is, under a pretense of philanthropy, service and idealism. At the root of business,
and supplying its motive power, is a sordid commercialism that does not hesitate
to trample the most sacred things of life, even life, itself, in the mud and mire
to attain its selfish ends. Idealism can make little or no headway in our world until
these pig-ethics are destroyed. For our pig-ethics employs idealism, not as a working
principle, nor yet as a way of life, but as a cloak to mask the ulterior motives
of the fraud and the cheat.
Some years ago a large drugless sanitarium, located in Battle
Creek, offered stock for sale. The heads let it be known that they expected to pay
dividends amounting to returns of twenty per cent. upon the investment. Think of
this! A professedly humanitarian institution run on the same basis as a steel mill,
or a public utilities corporation! Besides providing a fat living for the actual
workers in the institution, they could pay large dividends to absentee owners. Does
it not look as if the sick with one foot in the grave, were going to keep the healthy
on easy street.
This shameless exploitation of the sick and dying is carried
on by every so-called school of healing on earth. Then, when a patient dies, the
undertaker comes, with the same commercial motives, the same pig-ethics, and while
the grief-stricken wife or husband, mother or son feels that there is nothing that
he or she would not do for the beloved deceased, takes a mean advantage of this emotional
states and holds them up on a fashionable burial.
In more recent years the shameless exploiters of human life
and health, not content with the profits they were deriving from their abuses of
the actually sick, have found ways and means to exploit the non-sick as well. As
of old, this new from of exploitation hides behind a smoke-screen of altruism, the
exploiters are doing it all for the good of humanity, for the public health, for
the protection of our children, etc.
Few of us ever stop to consider the power of slogans in their
effect upon, the mob mind. "To Hell with Autocracy," "Down with the
Kaiser," "Berlin or Bust," "Make the World safe for Democracy,"
"Work or fight," "Bonds or Bums," or "Bonds or Bread Lines,"
"Republicans and Prosperity," "Democrats and Disaster," "Save
the Children," "Buy a Tag," "There's a reason," "A
Baby in every bottle,' etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam, are only a few of the
soul stirring slogans that have helped to make this republic what it now is.
We are misled by these cheap slogans and have come to "think"
in slogans and act in slogans. The man or woman who has a sincere and intense feeling
towards humanity, a feeling that constitutes a religion in itself, and which is too
broad and deep to exist in the narrow confines of any creed and too strong to be
devoured by the greeds of the time, must look on this spectacle with hatred and disgust.
Huge sums of money are collected to feed and clothe and care
for the suffering and needy in foreign lands. What for?
So that big business can sell its goods to these needy ones.
It is a game of you pay for my goods and I'll ship them to the hungry in China. Organized
charity is a cold, soulless business; a system of exploitation as much as any of
our departments of big business.
Religion, whether called by one name or another, whether
labeled theism or atheism, is profitably exploited by those who want
to keep their hands soft and white. The exploiters in all fields prattle their idiotic
platitudes about brotherhood and service, while going through the mechanical motions
of their pet religion (?), where they curiously find sanction for it all, while shutting
their eyes and ears to the solemn truth that they have humanity nailed to the cross.
I am not as much interested in the adults on this cross as
I am the children. If the adult population of this world allow themselves to be bullied
and beaten, deceived and cheated, maimed and killed by the exploiters, they have
no one to blame but themselves. They have but to rise in their collective might and
these exploiters will desert their positions like rats leaving a sinking ship.
Neither are the exploiters as much interested in the adult;
except as the one who pays the bills, as they are in the children. We have just about
turned our children over to them, body, mind and soul.
The doctors are moving heaven and earth to increase their
incomes. They insist that, as a group they are not earning adequate incomes, and
that there is a steady falling off in patronage due to the fact that the public,
in ever increasing numbers, is turning to the other and newer schools. Costs of living
are mounting, it costs more time and money to aquire a medical education and competition
from without their ranks has made them desperate. They have tried, by every foul
means--persecution, prosecution, slander, misrepresentation, lies--to destroy competition,
but its growth has been steady despite this effort.
The profession is honeycombed with graft and corruption and
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of commercialism. Commercial surgery, compulsory
medicine, lying propaganda, fear and every foul means of drumming up trade are employed
to increase their incomes.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Nov.
4, 1922, prints an address by Dr. W. S. Rankin, Sec. of the North Carolina State
Board of Health in which he says:
"Last year we inoculated 70,000 persons against typhiod fever and 1,000 children between six and twelve years of age against diphtheria. The county Commissioner paid the local practitioner 25 cents for each complete inoculation, and that was $20,000 which went to the profession last year which otherwise would not have been received. The work of the medical profession with the State Board of Health does not stop when the 520,000. is paid. It goes on. In the dispensaries which were conducted in Union County, North Carolina, with 35,000 people, the physicians vaccinated 10,000 people in a campaign of five weeks. That was $2,500 paid to twenty physicians--only $125 each, but think of the effect on the business of the profession in keeping up that work. It goes on."
Does the last statement refer to the business the physician
will receive from those who are made sick by vaccination? At least, he emphasizes
the doctor's business and the increased income to him through state medicine.
In a paper entitled Medical Practice and Public Health, read
before King's County (N. Y.) Medical Society, March, 16, 1926 the Hon. Louis I. Harris
Dr. P. H., M. D., Commissioner of Health of the City of New York, said: "In
school work we have felt rather self-satisfied and smug. During the last eighteen
years, the health department has conducted the examination of children, generally
without any competition from or by the medical profession. This indicates a lack
of understanding by family physicians of the glorious opportunity for service which
they are missing. It is no new thing that I mention. YOU HAVE HEARD IT TIME AND AGAIN.
When we, in the health department send home a physical examination blank, a very
simple and rudimentary one at that, and ask the parent to take the child to a physician
to be examined, then, assuming that the parent follows our instructions, the physician
fails to CAPITALIZE the opportunity." (caps. mine. )
The reader will readily see that the Board of Health is here
trying to build business for the doctors, and Dr. Harris tells these physicians that
what he is saying to them has been told to them time and again. But they don't seem
to be so enthusiastic about it. Evidently not all physicians are as unscrupulous
as the political doctors in the Boards of Health.
Mather Pfeiffenberger, M. D., President of the Illinois State
Medical Society, in a speech before the annual Conference Illinois Health Officers,
Springfield, III., Dec. 3-4, 1926, said: "Prevention practiced to the uttermost
will create more work for the physician and not diminish it, for the full time health
officer will be educating his community constantly. There will be more vaccination,
more immunizing, more consulting and use of the physician. His services will be increased
many fold.
"I am informed that epidemic and endemic infections cause only 12 per cent of all deaths and that this percentage is declining very rapidly. Only 15 per cent of all children would ever get diphtheria, even under epidemic conditions, while 100 per cent are prospects for toxin-antitoxin. The percentage who would ever get smallpox, under present time conditions, is even less; but 100 per cent are prospects for vaccination. Scarlet fever will soon come in for its 100 per cent also, as it may for measles, judging from the reports on that disease. Typhoid fever is disappearing, due to sanitation, but vaccination should be used when the individual travels into unknown territory and countries,"
Thus another medical leader tells doctors how to increase
their incomes by exploiting the children and non-sick adults.
Guy L. Kiefer, M. D., Commissioner of Health of Michigan,
says in the Journal the Michigan State Medical Society, Aug. 1920:
"In this state there are 100,000 people born annually. They are practically all susceptible to diphtheria from the moment they are born. They are highly susceptible from the age of six months until they are immunized. If these infants were all immunized, and for this service the physicians receive from $5.00 to $10.00 per case, the net income would be from $500,000-$1,000,000 Michigan has 5,000 cases of diphtheria annually. If the physicians received for their services, exclusive of all other costs, an average of $50.00 per case the income from this source would be $250,000. The increase in physicians income from diphtheria would be from one-quarter to three-quarters of of a million dollars, if we would immunize all children against this disease soon after they are six months of age, instead of waiting until they are stricken with the disease and then treating them.
"Some maternity hospitals are vaccinating with vaccine virus all babies born in their institutions. Babies under ten days old very seldom have any general reaction and the immunity usually lasts for the whole life-time of the individual. It is estimated that one-third of all the births in this state occur in hospitals. If all hospitals were to establish this rule as part of their regular procedure, it would mean an addition of 30,000 immunized people in the state each year and an additional income of at least 560,000 to the physicians or hospitals.
"When the 100,000 people born every year in Michigan are vaccinated against smallpox at birth, the income to the physician would approximate $200,000. The 500 cases of smallpox that occur every year, treated at an average of $50.00 per case, brings physicians $25,000. Thus the physicians, by adopting the practice of vaccination at birth, would increase their income by nearly $200,000.
"We have taken diphtheria and smallpox as examples of the economic advantage of immunization, but the same conditions apply to other diseases and to other public health measures.
"With persistent educational work by the physicians and the Michigan Depertment of Health, these immunization programs will succeed in reducing the number of these preventable diseases and increasing the earning of the physicians who actively sponsor this modern type of practice." (Italics mine.)
In the Brooklyn Times, March 21, 1929, Health Commissioner
Wynne, New York City, is reported to have said in an address to the Optometrical
Club: "Here is the answer (to the doctor's economic problem). Let them take
in 20 children an hour, one hour a day, 3 days a week at a charge of $5. for each
anti diphtheria inoculation. That will bring a revenue worth while to the doctor."
Mr. Osborne, Health Officer of East Orange, N. J., in an
address reported in the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, September,
1929, points out that the physician would receive several times more by inoculating
children than by treating cases of the disease.
In an Editorial, Jan. 1930, the American Journal of Public
Health, points out in dollars and cents how much money physicians would receive from
inoculating babies and adds: "There are of course four times as many preschool
children as babies, and ten times as many school children. The opportunity for increasing
practice by carrying on immunization among the preschool and school populations in
the physician's clientele offers an almost unlimited field."
Dr. Vander Veer says, in a discussion reported in the Journal
of the Medical Society of New Jersey, February, 1930: "Dr. Wynne, Health
Officer of New York City, gave me a clue to the subject of economics in which he
said that we doctors had been going along the same old lines and had not created
any new business, so I finally evolved this as a slogan in New York State: We cannot
get away from the lay organizations, therefore we will lie down with them and ask
them to provide means for carrying on the health programs and we are going to benefit
ultimately from the periodic health examinations by an increased income. As a concrete
example, take a town of 3,000, if only 200 come to us for examination at $3.00 each
that would be $600 that would accrue to be divided among the doctors; if 100 came
for examination at $25.00 each there would be $2,500 to be divided."
Dr. Vander Veer gives more statistics about the fees they
would receive and then says: "That is the thing that strikes home to our doctors
in New York State."
Thus the reader will see that I am right in saying that the
doctors are using the various lay organizations, Parent-Teacher Associations, etc.,
to build business for them. The Red Cross has long been a tool of these men.
In the early part of 1930 one of my readers sent me a news
clipping from the Cincinnati Times Star, headed Health Work Aids Doctors.
It said "thousands are sent to physicians as result." The whole article
is as follows:
"Are 'socialized' health agencies preventative and curative, bringing lean times and reducing the number of physicians and other private health workers?
"Do public clinics, public hospitals and public health departments affect the income of physicians, surgeons and dentists.
"These questions, presented Saturday to Health Director William H. Peters, brought the declaration that in his judgment the only effect was that practitioners had to modify their activities.
"Dr. Peters pointed out that when Cincinnati purified its water there was an almost entire elimination of thousands of cases of typhoid fever and other water-carried diseases, treatment of which gave an immense revenue to physicians, nurses and others.
"On the other hand Dr. Peters said the medical inspection of schools by publicly employed district physicians aided private practice. Thus the inspectors discover defects in children, which are reported to parents and thousands then take their children to the family physician or a specialist.
"The public drives for the immunization of children against diphtheria brought a great revenue to private practitioners. There were about 35,000 children treated and of this number about fifty-four per cent by private practitioners, or about 19,000. At $5. a treatment the revenue would be $95,000. Annually there are about 7,500 children to be so treated. This work gives a revenue far in excess of what the treatment of the disease yielded, Dr. Peters.
"So he said, the agitation for annual general physical examinations in his opinion, has resulted in thousands of persons resorting to their physicians, surgeons and dentists to be examined.
"Dr. Peters said it was requisite for physicians and other health practitioners to 'reconcilie themselves to the age.' He said more should go in for preventative medicine and all should recognize how public health activity stimulated persons to mind their physical and mental condition and thus helped the private practitioner.
"Dr. Peters said it was true there were some physicians in this community who complained of the 'inroads' that 'socialized' medicine was making on their incomes and that there were perhaps some who actually were affected. He declared that there were compensations that in the mass more than canceled such instances."
This accounts for the growing interest on the part of doctors
and health boards and serum and vaccine makers and dentists, in so-called health
education. They are bent on increasing the business of the doctors and dentists
and in the sale of more vaccines and serums.
Inspecting the school children increases the work of doctors.
It is clone the country over. Not merely the school child, but the pre-school child
now comes in for this form of exploitation. Here in San Antonio, for instance, The
Parent-Teacher Association sponsors medical examinations of the pre-school child.
Tonsil operations, and other operations, eye-glasses, serums and vaccines and other
forms of vandalism and poisoning follow these examinations and the doctors of the
city are enriched in purse.
Medical Inspection of school children is a means of boosting
business for the doctors. The inspected children are brow-beaten, abused, bullied
and "ragged" to have their tonsils removed, toxin-anti-toxin inoculated
into them, by the incompetents who are placed on the school board. These doctors
do nothing useful but do much to injure the physical and mental health of children,
besides greatly annoying parents and teachers. But the practice will not end until
parents kill it.
In the first half of this year, the Bronx County Medical
Society, through one of its Bulletins, expressed its resentment against the extent
to which the toxin- antitoxin campaign had been pushed in New York City. Health Commissioner
Wynne. in the Weekly Bulletin of New York City Department of Health, of July
19, replied that "The plan followed by the Dept. of Health should evoke nothing
but commendation. It provides a simple, inexpensive, effective and entirely ethical
method whereby the general practitioner can secure additional practice." Such
is the altruism of these great public spirited doctors on the Boards of Health.
Wm. A. Rohlf, M. D., President-elect of the Iowa State Medical
Society, said in his official address at a recent meeting of that body:
"Allow me to quote from a letter received from Dr. Steel-smith: 'For the five year period preceding the State Department's Education toward diphtheria immunization, namely, the five years preceding 1923, there occurred in Iowa more than three thousand cases of diphtheria each year. Many of these cases were not seen by any medical practitioner, but the average revenue as computed by statisticians signifies that the, physicians of the state of Iowa received in cash approximately 520 per case for the treatment and cure of diphtheria for each of the five years preceding that state-wide anti-diphtheria program. This would result in physicians of the state receiving approximately $60,000 for such work each year incidental to diphtheria.
" 'Now in comparison to that, allow me to suggest that there are approximately 44,000 children born each year in Iowa. For the sake of figures, we will say that the average price for immunization would be $3 per child. If the physicians would interest themselves in preventative medicine and see to it that every child is treated before he is a year of age they would see dearly that from such practice the physicians of the state of Iowa would receive $132,000 a year, or twice as much as you and I received years ago for treatment of cases.'"
"There is still much to do in the way of bringing about ideal conditions through vaccination and immunization. The role of local infection has opened up other avenues for our activities. We should be personally interested, and, as physicians, ASSIST IN THE EXAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN."
These men plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to
the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare
of our children and that they put over their income increasing programs for the health
of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded
as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of
criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.
It is asserted that there are 1,454 formally organized state
and local tuberculosis associations in the United States. The organizations affiliated
width the National Tuberculosis Association spent in 1928 at least $6,196,376.98,
the major portion of which was secured through the sale of Christmas seals.
All of this begging by Tuberculosis Associations is to create
jobs for doctors. Their work is admitted to have no influence on tuberculosis.
A Red Cross officer said to the victims of the Missisippi
Flood, as reported in the Savannah (Ga.) News, June, 14, 1927: "From
now on your meal tickets are canceled until you can show your vaccination scar."
A similar order was given by this same disreputable organization in a later flood
in New England.
People give freely of their money and goods to help the victims
of calamities, and the medically controlled Red Cross uses that money to buy serums
and vaccines, and pay incompetent doctors and uses the plight of the victims as a
club, to make them submit to medication they do not need and do not want. The Red
Cross can never have a penny of the author's money and I shall use all of my influence
to prevent others from donating to its system of graft.
The so-called "mental Hygiene" movement, which
seeks to become a regular part of our public schools, is a commercial move, composed
of the usual surgical and serum methods. The movement has among its heads several
men who have been convicted of crimes in their care of the insane and men who are
notorious for their extreme cruelties to animals in vivisection work. This is an
extremely dangerous move and should not be permitted to touch the children of this
country, who are surely: suffering enough, at the hands of the medical moloch.