Excerpt from Dr. C. G. G. Nittinger's Evils of Vaccination Why do even physicians resort to quack nostrums, or to such most ridiculous hallucinations as that of Hunter's inhalations of vitiated air in consumption? No science has yet been degraded by its own vaga ries so deeply as the Medical. Every science develops itself in three periods the first is that of blind faith; the second, that of smart sophistication and the third, that of sober in vestigation. The religious period of science, for instance, in regard to the treatment of small-pox in later times, was vaccination; the Sophistic period, re vaccination, scar theory, and a vaccine table system. Let us now solve the last problem; for as long as we renounce experience, which creates knowledge, we ban ish real science, (liebig, ) and favor the ascendancy of every trumpet humbug. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... which will ravage in the above-mentioned diseaseforms of the mucous membranes in the interior of the organism, till the feeding of the poison by vaccination, ordered even by laws, sanctioned by usage, and held up by the faculty, is forbidden under severe penalty. Then only will Nature be able to recover all her own; and then will the external small-pox reappear as a redeeming means for the internal destruction. Doctor.--Bring your babe now for vaccination! Mother.--How you have frightened me, I tremble all over! Doctor.--Why ? what is the matter ? Mother.--Pardon me; but I feel a perfect horror creeping over me at the mere thought on vaccination, since my poor Charles has died in consequence of it. Doctor.--0 nonsense ! Charles did not die on vaccination; do not believe such a thing. " He got dysentery while teething. Mother.--I beg you to wait another year; Tom is now very delicate indeed. Doctor.--Only the better! and I have this very moment excellent, fresh vaccine-lymph. Mother.--In God's name be it done! But, doctor, the responsibility rests on your shoulders ! r Nine days after this conversation and following vaccination, Tom was a corpse, with two vaccineblisters on each arm. 16. Fourth Scene: --The boundaries and the gates of the land are poorly guarded; the first advance of the fever-troops is inactive. Nature, impotently urging on the miserable powers of the body, struggles against the beastly pox in the spheres of the mucous membranes. There is a great deal of mucus, but not sufficient to stifle and smother the enemies. The police-force (the worms) of the intestinal canal is increased. This measure is for some time successful; but the intruding poison soon overpowers the worms also, and the skirmishing in the streets...