BEWARE OF THE POLIO VACCINE--- DR. SHELTON’S HYGIENIC REVIEW —
SEPTEMBER. 1955
(1) You need not have your children inoculated with polio vaccine unless you
want this inoculation done.
Every parent is free to refuse it, and the Ministry of Health says that no child
will be inoculated without the express permission of its parents.
(2) The Salk polio vaccine which is to be used in this country does not protect
from paralytic polio. In the trial of the vaccine in America in 1954, 71 children
who had been fully inoculated with it developed paralytic polio.
(3) The vaccine may have the power to start polio. During five weeks after Salk
Vaccine was launched on the world by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
in America, and, at the time, wrongly declared to be safe, potent and efficient,
at least 112 inoculated children developed polio and two-thirds of the cases
were paralytic polio There were 6 deaths At first it was said that the children
had already got polio before they were inoculated; then it was said that the
inoculation aroused polio which was already there and caused it to develop;
and finally it was believed that in a great many cases it was live virus remaining
accidentally in the vaccine which caused the cases of polio.
(4) Vaccinated children in America are believed to have given polio to their
parents. 149 such cases have been reported with 6 deaths; the first two cases
were 18-months old babies who became ill after the inoculation and were taken
to the hospital. They recovered, and on returning home their parents developed
polio. The Denver Medical Officer of Health calls this "satellite"
polio. The Franklin Lakes Board of Education, New Jersey, asked 8 children who
were given the Salk anti-polio vaccine to stay away from school for the rest
of the term. Parents of other children were afraid they might be polio "carriers."
(Daily Telegraph, June 21st, 1955).
(5) The Salk Polio Vaccine is grown on monkey kidney tissue. It is said not
to protect for longer than five months, if it protects at all, and an eminent
physiologist was quoted by the Manchester Guardian as saying that "if it
means that a child should be reinoculated at frequent intervals with a preparation
derived from monkey kidney ‘it is terrifying in its possibilities.’
Among them is the risk of the child developing sensitivity to some of the ingredients
of the vaccine."
(6) Every inoculation has caused serious illness and not a few deaths. There
are official records of 1,700 deaths from vaccination against smallpox, and
such deaths are still being recorded every year, many of them being deaths of
babies. In recent months babies have developed encephalitis from anti-yellowfever
vaccine, as has been admitted in the Bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
There are 3 deaths on record from tuberculosis caused by B.C.G. inoculation.
Inoculation against diphtheria has activated paralytic poliomyelitis. Past history
of all the vaccines and serums justifies fear that the new vaccine will damage
health and may cause death.
(7) Two Medical Research Council doctors stated in Picture Post, May 7th, 1955
that the risk of contracting poliomyelitis is 1 in 25,000. The vast majority
of children are never in any danger of contracting this disease. To go out of
your way to give a child an inoculation that may cause illness, and even give
it the disease you wish to guard against, when the likelihood of that child
getting that disease naturally is so small as to be almost negligible is the
height of folly.
(8) To keep your child healthy carry out the rules of health. See that it has
proper food, and plenty of fresh air, that it is warmly clothed in winter, avoiding
exposure to damp and chills, and see that it gets enough sleep. Make sure that
the water supply is pure, and that the house is properly ventilated, and avoid
overcrowding.
(9) The manufacture and testing of the polio vaccine causes gross cruelty to
animals, chiefly monkeys.
Leaflet issued by The National Anti-Vaccination League, London.
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DR. SHELTON’S HYGIENIC REVIEW — AUGUST, 1955
HYGIETHICS
SALK VACCINE—MILESTONE OR MILLSTONE By Therese Gay
Just about a month ago today the American public was presented with what was
publicized as one of the great milestones of medical history, the Salk Anti-Polio
Vaccine. At the time I got out an article on the contrived look of the unprecedented
promotion of the new vaccine. Through an unfortunate set of circumstances it
never did get to San Antonio to meet the deadline.
The article was entitled "Salk Vaccine, Science or Enterprise." It
dealt more with the peculiar conditions surrounding the unveiling of this monument
of medical advance than with the vaccine itself—the soap-opera props employed
to put it over, how it was timed to fall on the anniversary of FDR’s death
in melodramatic fashion to play on the sympathy and sentiment, for whatever
it was worth to the Purse of the American people through the March of Dimes
collection campaign. I touched on various aspects of the great hoax that was
being perpetrated by the seeming collusion between profit and progress; how
NBC jumped the gun and broke the release time by an hour; how half a dozen giant
pharmaceutical houses had it ready for the market even before the fateful V
day when the great men of science, medicine and the press were invited to hear
the miracle pronouncement that polio had been conquered.
I spoke of how parents were fooled about what was shot into their children in
order to make the 1954 testing program effective; how statistics had been handled
to make a good case for the vaccine; how medical societies throughout the land
were cautioning physicians against profiteering and black-marketing; how the
research wizards had studiously avoided any approach or premise that even hinted
at causal relationships; how the 25 million said to have been spent on its research
program had been mulct from the American public through the Polio Foundation’s
collection campaigns, and how that self-same public was the last to be let in
on the secret; how the favored drug houses had invested many millions in new
equipment and materials long before the safety of the vaccine had been publicly
established, and how they were outspoken in their expectations of increasing
their investments tenfold before the year was out, with even brighter prospects
for the years to come; how politicians, preachers, physicians, professional
publicists, the press, and the rest of the army of panderers of the public good
all joined in the hosannas and hailed the new Messiah of Medicine, Jonas Salk,
M.D., as one of the great benefactors of mankind, etc., etc. And, like any self-respecting
Hygienist just must, when confronted with such a stupendous spectacle of studied
scientific stupidity, I dealt in a bit of prophecy,—yes, even at the risk
of being labeled a Hygienic crank.
The prophecy was to the effect that all that glitters is not gold; that in the
present instance there wasn’t enough known about the vaccine to warrant
or justify the universal inoculation program that was to follow the announcement,
enthusiasm to the contrary notwithstanding; that in my humble Hygienist opinion
the worst was yet to come.
WELL, the prophecy was borne out, but all too soon—and with a directness
of action, or should I say reaction, that in a couple of weeks the fait accompli
was threatened with fiasco, and the flexuous mind of the press was forced to
turn the ferris-wheel of its imagination in all directions to stave off the
stench that threatened to wreck the whole enterprise. The unexpected occurrence
of a high percentage of afflictions and several deaths threw the whole program
into a tailspin of chaos and confusion. Frankly the whole country was scared
out of its wits—and with good reason. In fact, the first good reason it
had shown. The government called off the mass inoculations. Towns, cities and
states were in a dither of indecision. The parents who early consented and whose
children had already been given their initial shots were living in a vacuum
of panic and dread anxiety. The President stepped in, Congressmen and Senators
started calling for an investigation. Salk, his colleagues and government officials
were locked in long hours of conference to get at the bottom of the bottom that
had just fallen out of their ill-founded dreams.
The press had a field day of headlines that was unprecedented even in its own
mottled career. Reevaluation became the theme of the delay. One of the vaccine
producing laboratories on the west coast was made the face-saving scapegoat.
The nobby Mrs. Hobby was run through the grinder for being asleep at the switch
and even threatened with Luce-ing her job. Errors in production, errors in government
control of testing, errors in the type of preservative employed were screeched
across the nation’s news wires. All kinds of errors were put forth except
the basic error of the vaccine itself.
The rest is all history—the kind you buy at the newsstands every day—the
kind the public has been educated to retain only until the next edition comes
out—the kind that has little effect on the public consciousness because
it isn’t allowed to set long enough to take hold.
It is now a month and millions of headlines away. At the risk of being called
a boasting "I-told-you-so" I could very well use my first article
and thus spare myself the toil of the present one. But in the light of subsequent
happenings, another attempt to expose this newest affront to human health and
the dignity of the individual is justified—so here goes—I’ll
fire away again and let the shots fall where they will.
First, let us break the word "Poliomyelitis" down. Polio is a prefix
meaning gray. Myel means the spinal cord. And, as we all know by various experiences
with it, itis mean inflammation. Put them all together and they spell "Poliomyelitis,"
an inflammation of the grey matter of the cord. Current medical belief holds
that this inflammatory condition of the spine is brought about by a group of
three viruses that are thought to invade the human body through portal openings
in the mouth and the nose, and through cuts and wounds. After they (the viruses)
gain entrance to the body they spread along the nerve fibers to different parts
of the central nervous system. Specifically, the paralyzing type of polio is
considered an acute infection of the anterior horns of the gray matter of the
spinal cord, causing such damage and destruction to the nerve cells that early
paralysis develops, the extent and character of which is determined by the particular
site of involvement and the number of cells attacked. It may affect a single
muscle, a single limb or the entire body. The viruses are supposedly spread
by contact with discharges from the nose, throat and bowels of diseased persons,
or carriers of the virus. The incubation period is said to range from 4 to 18
days. It strikes in the summer and the fall, and generally hits its peak between
August and September.
The respiratory centers are often affected as a complication of the earlier
symptoms, rendering the breathing mechanism incapable of functional movement.
This is called bulbar polio and its victims are kept alive only by the use of
the iron lung, a mechanical device that substitutes for the normal diaphragmatic
movements. The greatest incidence is amongst children, hence the name infantile
paralysis. But it also attacks adults as well. Pregnant women have a better
than average susceptibility to the disease. The symptoms that precede the onset
of paralysis are fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, fatigue, stiffness
of the neck, constipation, diarrhea and, in some cases, pain in the extremities,
(to the Hygienist, as vague an assortment of diagnostic factors as one could
ever hope to meet up with.)
The inability to move the affected parts of the body is due to the destruction
of the particular nerve cells related to the motor activity of those parts.
The virus is commonly excreted in the stools for six to eight weeks after the
disease has struck. It is said, too, that the virus may be found in the throat
for a short time at the outset of the illness.
The usual procedure followed when polio struck a community was to close down
the swimming pools and the playgrounds and, where the disease became widespread,
to close down the schools as well. Those afflicted were isolated for two to
four weeks. There was no drug or serum considered specifically effective until
the advent three years ago of gamma globulin, a human blood fraction containing
antibodies. There wasn’t much in the way of treatment until Sister Kenny
came along with her original concept of water-cure methods for the relief of
pain and specialized physiotherapy for the restoration of movement, wherever
it was deemed possible.
It is believed that there are many more cases unreported, due to mildness of
symptoms and wrong diagnoses, than there are cases reported. The disease is
relatively new to the United States though it is said to be ancient in origin.
It was not recognized here until 1894. Today it is found in all parts of the
world, and temperate climates resembling our own favor it. It is not a disease
of the impoverished nor of the well-to-do. Yet there appears to be a parallel
between the rising living standards of the nation and the ever-mounting yearly
epidemics of the crippling disease. The first epidemic took place in New York
City in 1907. The 1916, 1931, 1949 and 1952 epidemics reached the greatest proportions.
In a few short years the disease changed from one of rarity to one of epidemic
yearly recurrence and the medical mind has been in a state of desperate and
constant search for some solution in the form of an immunizing agent.
Research was the answer. But research took money, and lots of it. Destiny came
to the rescue in the unfortunate affliction of our late President, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. This circumstance touched off the organization of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the resulting annual March-of-Dimes campaigns,
which have collected 270 million dollars in the 17 years since their inception.
These monies are purportedly used equitably for alleviating the discomfort of
polio’s suffering victims and for the deemed research necessary for its
conquest.
Here indeed was big business! And, as everyone who isn’t living in a cloud
knows, big business has to produce. Research indeed was the answer. So—out
of courage and generosity, out of sympathy and sentiment, out of tender-hearted
pity for the poor suffering kiddies who annually fell victim to this modern
plague, the people (sic!) determined that polio had to be licked and that American
scientists were the ones to do it. Fancy science going chauvinistic! But scientists
are ever beset with their own unsolved problems and are ever wary of taking
on new ones. So science had to be organized. Thus the grant-in-aid was thought
up and, believe you me, big business never conceived of a better stunt to shake
some of the lead-thargy out of the pants of the lazy tinkerers that comprise
the great majority of researchers. Especially is this true when renewal time
approaches. At that time there’s an aura of OR ELSE in the air that gives
a magic spurt to scientific inquiry. Now, organization spells efficiency. So,
all the threads of the polio research fabric had to be pulled together—that
is, all the threads that fit into the color scheme, thus automatically ruling
out all undesirable hues and shades (of though:).
Well, they researched to the very beginning of polio in this country, and found
there was nothing until 1909, when Doctor Karl Landsteiner proved that polio
was caused by a virus and not by the bacteria the medical profession had long
sought in vain to find. Landsteiner discovered that this virus could grow only
in the spinal nervous tissues of monkeys or humans. (Maybe this was the answer
to Jekyll and Hyde complex instead!) ,The years that followed showed very little
in the way of successful polio research. The key to the failures of these un-productive
years turned up, it is said, when in 1949 Drs. Bodian and Howe of Baltimore
discovered there were three well-defined types of polio virus instead of the
single type heretofore thought to exist. This is about the time Dr. Salk first
enters the picture for Salk was one of the four laboratory directors, singled
out by the Polio Foundation to verify the findings of Bodian and Howe, a project
that took three years to complete.
1949 turned up another related project in the research of Dr. Enders of Harvard,
who showed that polio virus could be grown in non-nervous tissue cultures in
test tubes, thus freeing research, as it were, from total reliance on monkeys.
Up until this time the cultures in which the virus was grown were considered
unacceptable for producing a commercial vaccine for human injection. Salk then
took on from Enders’ work and found, as Enders had already, that monkey
kidneys were the most successful virus-growing tissue, at least up until that
time. All that remained was to find the best broth in which to grow the tissue
cells. Salk settled for one that was developed by Dr. Parker of Toronto. Now
all the ingredients of a successful vaccine were at hand. The problem of live
virus vaccine as against the killed virus vaccine was booted about furiously,
and to this day it still is. Salk was the first, I believe, to suggest a dead
virus vaccine as a more practical means of protection. In opposing his theory
many of his colleagues hold that a live virus with the paralyzing sting bred
out of it gives the patient a mild non-paralyzing disease that induces a lifetime
immunity. The "dead-virusers" are said to be more concerned with the
element of risk, claiming that the live virus can always turn to a paralytic
type.
Salk, of course, is a dead-to-center dead viruser. Salk’s being chosen
for this job was no matter-of-chance happening. In his medical student days
at New York University he was one of the bacteriology pupils of Dr. Thomas Francis,
Jr., head of the department. Was it fate spinning the wheel? Let’s see.
After graduation and internship at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the National
Research Counsel, on the basis of some work he had done as a student on flu
virus under Dr. Francis, awarded Salk a fellowship at the University of Michigan,
where he worked again under Dr. Francis. Together they developed the flu vaccine
now on the market. It just so happens that this very same Dr. Francis was in
charge of the evaluation of the whole polio project sponsored by the Foundation,
and it was he whose history-making report on that fateful April day stirred
the nation and the world into a frenzy and enthusiasm that exceeded anything
ever before accorded a medical discovery. The reception and reaction well befit
the dawn of a new era. To return to Salk—the Francis influence was felt
again. When the University of Pittsburgh decided to set up a virus laboratory
of its own, Salk was asked to take over. He transferred his work to Pittsburgh
where he has been ever since, and where the final stages of the vaccine research
were carried on. There may be no implications in the association of Drs. Francis
and Salk, but the sequence and turn of favorable events surely points a finger
of suspicion, especially at the big business aspect. Personally, I prefer to
think of them as a happy combination that unfortunately worked the wrong side
of the street. The respective parts each played in the huge drama must remain
conjecture, but it was Salk who came in for the big hero worship. At any rate
both helped forge another link in the chain of medical advance that is fast
reducing the human race to a state of medical mesmerism. It doesn’t take
too much imagination, with things going as they are, to calamitously view the
supposed success over the summer scourge as the beginning of our fall.
The Hygienic perspective naturally rejects the whole affair and shares none
of the enthusiasm for this newest millennium. We’ve seen far too many of
them. To our way of thinking, all the vaccines and all the antibodies they can
arouse do not answer the basic questions of where do the viruses come from;
why do they attack as they do in the good old summertime; and how do they get
into the human body? As I understand it, medicine has failed to definitely establish
a true portal of entry for the virus, and this has brought forth the further
controversy of endogeniety and exogeniety. There are many theories. Some investigators
consider the virus as an enzyme-like substance with a deranged cell proclivity.
Others see the virus as a biochemical substance that goes haywire. Others think
oh well, why go on? Your guess is a good as theirs. As far as we are concerned,
it all boils down to this: We don’t see why we should put our bodies to
the extra effort of producing antibodies, to combat dead viruses, to produce
artificial immunity to something we needn’t have had in the first place.
Frankly, it all sounds too Quixotic. Moreover, windmills are out of style. We
now have windbags and not imaginary ones either.
But to get back to Salk. Despite the unquestioned brilliance of his mind, in
our opinion he is barking up the wrong alley. The logic of that mind cannot
make up for the incorrectness of its premise. In this game of polio research
(and that’s what it has turned out to be) he intercepted the ball and carried
it across the line to a delusive touchdown. It so happens the goal posts of
victory happened to be his own,, and, well—"that, wont win any games."
In the final score, if I may continue the metaphor, I’m sure the superior
ground strategy of polio will easily overpower the aerial astigmatics of Salk
and his team. Any qualified coach or judge would advise Salk to discard his
theoretical illusions and reconstitute his attack and defense formations on
more practical considerations than the color of his opponents’ uniforms
or some similar superficies. This might explain to him the fact that polio cannot
be beaten by concentrating on its symptoms because they’re simply a camouflage
when evaluated on a prima-facie basis. The Hygienist does not accept symptoms
at their current face value. He uses them as legal tender to gain entrance to
the deeper vaults of the human body wherein the foundation stones of disease
are more easily discernible. As these stones are laid so does he deduce the
weaknesses in the human structure. In this way the active as well as the potential
factors are brought out into the clear light of scientific evaluation; etiology
and prognosis are more truly estimated; and acute and chronic disturbances are
nipped in the bud of their origin. The fact is nobody, Salk included, can follow
the phantasmagoria of symptomatology and come to a true understanding of any
disease for the simple reason that symptoms are only symptoms, not causes, Or
is that too elementary for men of Dr. Salk’s caliber?
His error is not one of logic but rather of the superficial premise upon which
he launched his whole research program. Mankind’s error exists in its being
constantly deluded by the specious type of reasoning men of medicine employ
and base their conclusions on. We forget that logic is a means to an end, that
it can serve the villain and the saint, the misguided and the well grounded,
the people and their exploiters. In this instance, the end served is surely
not ours, for had it been, Salk would have probed deeper than the symptoms of
polio to get to the underlying bottom of the problem.
He would have explored other approaches. He would have considered other premises
than the germ theory of the disease. He might have given thought to the possibility
that perhaps virology was not the only beginning to so serious a study. He might
have glanced back through history’s pages and refreshed his memory on the
course of pellagra in our south; on the scourge of scurvy; on the incredible
incidence of beriberi among the white rice eating peoples of the Orient. He
might even have seen the related significance of this latter condition to the
present problem of polio in the symptoms of its advanced stages known as polyneuritis,
in which control of the muscles of the feet, legs and arms, and in severe cases
of the trunk too, is affected. He might have learned that these too were epidemic
diseases and were endlessly ascribed to various germs, and that in the final
analysis all medical research in their behalf turned out to be meaningless medical
meandering down the insidious avenue of infection; proving that medical research,
if not a disease in itself, is surely a pathological compulsion in most cases.
In the end pellagra, scurvy and beriberi turned out to be diseases of dietary
deficiency that could be controlled by the simple process of putting back into
the nutriment of nature some of the vital elements that commerce saw profit
in removing. These and many more correlatives could he have seen had his immunological
perspective recognized the true relationship of Virology to Symptomology, as
that of tweedledee and tweedledum. Hygienists do not discredit the presence
of the three guilty viruses. We say that they are merely a symptom of polio
rather than the cause. And we openly admit our skepticism of any approach to
the problem of polio that systematically or unwittingly ignores the basic enervating
and toxemic forces that nurture the soil of its growth in the human body.
Furthermore, we look askance on any data that disregards the clues inherent
in the study of the comparative eating habits of our own rich country with its
high polio rate as against the eating habits of the poor countries of the East
with their low polio incidence. Our superiority in the matter of advanced sanitation
and hygiene apparently offers no advantages in the way of polio prevention,
or at least not where our respective diets remain the same. The one clear spot
in the statistical panorama is the difference in the overall consumption of
white sugar. Explicitly, their’s is but a fraction of ours. It may stun
you to learn that in the year 1939 the per capita consumption of white sugar
in China, where only sporadic cases of polio were seen, was 3.2 lbs., whereas
in the United States 103.2 lbs. per person were consumed. I understand from
good authority that this pattern ran true in the epidemics of 1949 and 1952,
which were the most severe in our history.
This is not a rare and isolated statistical item. The United States Army documented
well the figures of our soldiers contracting the disease in the Philippines,
in China and in Japan—with no outbreaks among the native children. The
Surgeon General’s Office has reports filed away concerning the 1945 outbreak
amongst our troops in the Philippines, when 250 were afflicted with the disease,
with 50 deaths resulting—but with no outbreaks amongst the natives. The
only plausible answer here, and one which has been reported by a few honest
investigators, exists in the fact that the American soldier was allowed to take
his eating habits along with him. He was permitted to stuff himself with ice
cream, soda pop, candies, pastries, etc. With all due respect to his great fighting
ability he was coddled into ill health by the misguided generosity of the Army
authorities, perhaps to recompense for some of the ghastly aspects of that systematic
decimation of human beings called war. In one account I read the following:
"Ice cream manufacturing equipment generally soon followed combat equipment."
In war as in peace polio seems to strike under similar conditions. The pattern
of epidemiologic statistics clearly indicate a correlation between sugar consumption
and epidemic outbreaks of polio in the various countries of the world. Our own
country is perhaps the best example of this trend of figures. Salk might have
studied the effect of white sugar on our calcium levels and learned something
of calcium waste and its effect on nerve nutrition.
I do not pretend to have made a special study of polio, to have any data or
knowledge difficult of access, or to have any special qualifications that permit
me to speak with authority. But I refuse to close my eyes to what surely appears
as worthwhile evidence just because it does not fit into the running crossword
puzzle of rigged science that right now has even its instigators and promoters
in a state of hopeless confusion.
If Salk was really the well grounded man he should have been, he would not have
followed so quickly in the footsteps of the witch hunters bent upon finding
an epidemic-borne virus for the disease. But then he might not have found it
so easy to retain the sponsorship that enabled him to carry out the project.
Researchers are well aware that funds available for research are earmarked with
if’s, and’s and but’s, and that they all spell conformity in
big fat letters. It’s got to be a virus! It’s got to be specific!
And it’s got to equate with some manufacturing scheme! "OR ELSE, Mr.
Researcher, you’re gonna have to get off of your hands and seek your own
way in the cold, cold world." It’s easy to see how seif-preservation
can gain an easy ascendancy over the nobler impulses of race preservation. Picture
an idealistic young research genius (who by some special moral stamina is reluctant
to relinquish his standards) up against the dilemma of compromise or starvation.
It isn’t long before integrity gives way to passive acceptance of the philosophy
"Well, a guy’s got to live." And the downfall of an honest soul
is well on its way.
Frankly, I don’t know that such a thing as pure research exists today except
in isolated cases and in the small remains that minds disposed to science never
lose. Yet, where in the world is true research more needed than in the biological
sciences? And where in the world is it more bungled than in our own great country
where human health has become the most profitable means of mass exploitation
yet devised, and where research has become a football in and out of science,
and where all the avenues of public health education are aimed at the enslavement
of the mass mind to the promptings of the total medical industry.
The newspapers and the airways play up with sickening sentimentality the noble
sacrifices of the dedicated doctors who daily sacrifice their own personal interests
by working in the wards, the clinics, the hospitals and the laboratories. They
feed us glowing word pictures of little children, victims of leukemia roaming
around cancer wards awaiting the noble ministrations of the doctor. They show
polio victims being given the chance to learn to walk again. . . on crutches!
They describe the various institutions and dramatically paint the altruism of
those doctors engaged in helping the youngsters rout out some of the scars that
follow in the wake of their afflictions. But do they tell you those kiddies
are there because of medicine’s failure to serve the public need? Do they
tell you that those little spastics are bearing the cross for the mistakes of
medicine? Do they tell you that those innocent little victims of polio, diabetes,
cerebral palsy, nephrosis, rheumatic heart, etc., are living symbols of the
low standard of medical practice? And as for their touching sentiments—are
they as sentimental in reporting the investigations of those able men who disagree
with current medical fancies? Not by a long way!
They either ignore or scorn those whose results contradict the efforts of medicine.
The miracle of the Salk Vaccine is not the miracle of hope we were told to accept.
It is the miracle of sensational overselling. Even the President admitted this.
To put it in the words of one of Salk’s henchmen, Dr. Robert A. Moore,
Vice Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Professions:
"Health is too important to hide under a bushel. We have something to sell,
and if we are convinced our product is good, let us use the same techniques
others use in our society to sell their products." (Emphasis mine.) This
statement speaks for itself. Does the learned Doctor not realize the potential
for harm he’s condoning? Does he not realize the callousness of his attitude?
I’m wondering what he actually means by "good." Good to sell
or good to take? AND what, does he mean by "health"? Falling for every
gimmick medicine and the drug industry parades before our eyes?
Before we can consider the new vaccine the dawn of a new era it had better dawn
on us to get rid of the old. The change we need is not merely a switch of affections
to a new vaccine (heaven knows they come too often). What we need is to get
rid of the whole nonsensical apothecary of medicine and to adopt a sane approach
that will start at the bottom of things and not somewhere in the middle of nowhere,
as Salk did.
And that approach must of necessity aim at the unity of disease—not at
one of its manifestations. Salk and all he represents in method and philosophy
see health only in terms of a suppression of symptoms. We Hygienists look upon
health as a high standard of physiological efficiency. We say this difference
is not only a matter of philosophy, but that it is a starting point that leads
on one side to an endless hunt for techniques of covering up or masking the
setbacks we bring on to ourselves by incorrect living; and on the other side
to a system of honest inquiry into the real foundations of health. We say with
Byron, "The best prophet of the future is the past." On the past record
of medicine we must reject the work of Dr. Salk and his team of co-workers.
In short, we look upon the new vaccine as a bane rather than a boon to humanity,
however slow its accumulative effects may appear in the records.
As for immunity to polio and all the other disease designations, we Hygienists
choose to keep faith with our principle of vital fitness. We consider the integrity
of our physical economy the only real safeguard against any of the incursions
of ill health, whatever the symptom complex may be. We view the phenomenon of
artificially-induced immunization as the mere prelude to a pathological change
of venue, a delaying action and therefore an obstruction of the laws of physiology.
We say you just cannot beat disease by preventing its symptoms. True prevention
must start with the elimination of cause. We contend the elimination of polio
must follow the same course lest it leave worse evils in its tracks. No, we
do not think it’s Polio’s last summer at all. As for the vaccine,
its mistakes are already apparent. Its consequences only time can evaluate.
Salk’s statement, on his day of glory, tothe effect that he would like
the prevention of mental ills to be his next target, confirms my contention
that research can become a compulsive neurosis. As a follow-up of his work we
have been threatened with vaccines for the common cold, for sneezing and, there
have been hints, even for cancer. Come to think of it, it may not be too long
before they come up with one for thinking. Maybe Salk’s work has paved
the way for it, too. We wish we could think disease could be whitewashed so
simply. We just can’t, and look the figures of our national health in the
face. Those figures belie the efficiency of the vaccines. the serums, the drugs
and all the rest of the claptrap of the medicine man.
It is regrettable that man has long confused promise with performance and hope
with illusion; that in the fatuity of his dreams the lessons of the past have
eluded him; and that despite his sad experience he continues to patiently bear
the burdens that error places in his path. In the cool sobering light of retrospect,
when the mind dwells on the ledger of man’s progress down the ages; when
the balance sheets show our losses and gains, our aims and our accomplishments,
our investments and our dividends; when we think of the state of the world and
the despair that exists everywhere, and of our descending spiral of achievement
in a moral sense: when we examine what science has brought us to. and where
it might have—it is then that the spirit saddens and man is left to face
the disquieting fact that he has never truly learned to distinguish between
the milestone and the millstone.
The above articles are quoted from Dr. Shelton Hygienic Review Box 27 San Antonio,
Texas by special permission.
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A MAN’S OPINION IS NO BETTER THAN HIS INFORMATION
1. Bechamp, (the real discoverer of bacteria) writes ‘Bacteria do not cause
disease, and that, therefore serums and vaccines can neither prevent nor cure
disease."
2. Dr. James A. Shannon of the National Institute of Health, (U.S. Government)(June
23, 1955) states: "The only wholly safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never
used."
3. The famous Doctor Harry R. Bybee says: "My honest opinion is that vaccine
is the cause of more disease and suffering than anything I could name."
4. Human Biochemistry, in discussing "PYROGENS" points out injections
of distilled water may be potentially dangerous . . . surely "monkey-juice"
isn’t fit to inject into little children.
5. Dr. T. M. Schippel of Washington, D. C., writes, "Parents—play
safe! Let other callous parents permit this poisoning of their children. Just
take your youngster off candy, soft drinks and colas and infantile paralysis
will pass your family by. Remember, polio is not ‘catching’—it
comes from the insides of ‘over-indulged’ kiddies."
6. Dr. S. A. Mills, so correctly defines polio as . . . "POLIO IS A TOXIC
WASTE PARALYSIS, TOXIC . . . because of how it affects. WASTE……because
of what it really is. PARALYSIS. . . because of what it does."
7. Prof. Yutaka Mukai (Japan), states—"Polio is not caused by the
Virus, but essentially the physical constitution. Health promoting foods can
prevent Polio completely."
8. Scientist and physician, Dr. William F. Koch, M.D., Ph.D., says, "the
injection of any serum, vaccine, or even penicillin, has shown a very marked
increase in the incidence of POLIO, AT LEAST 400%. Statistics on this are so
conclusive, no one can deny it."
9. September 20, 1953, The United Nations World Health Organization Committee
reports, "Efforts to Control Polio Complete Failure" and condemns.
any large scale intramuscular injections.
10. Dr. Charles Creighton M. D., (Encylopedia Britannica) reports: "In
England 1733 newly vaccinated infants died from syphilis."
11. Robert S. Allen. Washington correspondent, reported in the New York Post….."doctors
and others on the staff of the National Institute of Health are not inoculating
their own children with the Salk vaccine." WHY????
12. The world’s greatest brains and scientists all agree THERE IS NO SUCH
THING AS A VIRUS . . . merely a mythical word to confuse the public. Read Dr.
A. J. Shadman’s (M.D.) new book, "Who Is Your Doctor And Why."
God bless little Jackie Moore crippled by polio who would today be healthy had
not "medical phonies" concocted a fraudulent polio vaccine.
Any polio vaccine is fraudulent and dangerous. Inoculation for immunity is strictly
a vicious "myth" ... making the body "unclean" and subject
to sickness which may be polio.
Vaccinated children are far more susceptible to polio than children whose hloodstreams
are not polluted.
Robert S. Allen, Washington correspondent, reported in the New York Post "Doctors
and others on the staff of the National Institute of Health are not inoculating
their own children with the Salk vaccine." WHY??????
Scientitic American Magazine states . . . "No human virus disease has yet
been brought under control by a killed virus vaccine."
The world’s greatest brains and scientists all agree THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS A VIRUS . . . merely a mythical word to confuse the public. Read Dr. A. J.
Shadman’s (MD) new book "Who Is Your Doctor And Why".
The fact that polio vaccines are sold on the "virus" myth and since
there is no such thing. . . isn’t it common horse sense to classify this
vaccine as fraudulent?
The practice of vaccination is ENTIRELY EMPIRICAL completely devoid of scientific
certitude . . . which by-passes all glandular guards of the body making it "unclean",
dangerous and subject to sickness which may be polio. No vaccine has or can
achieve any scientific purpose.
The U.S.P.H.S. has developed into a high pressure sales organization to promote
the wishes of vaccine producers. Could it be the U.S.P.H.S. is "loaded"
with Russian doctors and could it be they don’t have American citizenship
papers??? The non-thinking American public have been viciously lied to, brainwashed
and deceived by these "rascals" who recall the old side-show puppets
dancing and singing anything the string puller desires . . . yet not a brain
in their heads.
Little Jackie Moore had his polio shot . . . now his right leg is in braces….There
are thousands of similar cases with untold numbers now sleeping in their little
white coffins all because of the most inhuman, unGodly, unchristian, money-making
racket known to mankind. As Robt. Burns said, "Man’s Inhumanity To
Man Makes Countless Thousands Mourn."
Duon H. Miller. 300 Bird Road
Coral Gables, Florida
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DUON H. MILLER
300 BIRD ROAD January 8, 1958 CORAL GABLES. FLA,
Dr. LeRoy E. Burney
U. S. Public Health Service
Washington, D. C.
AN OPEN LETTER TO DR. LEROY E. BURNEY:
When you report to the Associated Press . . . "the incidence of all types
of Polio declined 62% in 1957 as compared with 1956. and Paralytic cases declined
about 73%’ . . upon what FACTS do you base such a ridiculous statement?
If these figures are a brain child of the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, that alone will label them worthless as far as being truthful is
concerned. Knowing the inner workings of this corrupt group from their President
down to their local "hatchet-men", I trust giving out these false
percentages was not intentional on your part. Why continue taking the public
on an expedition into Alice of Wonderland?
First, their President, Basil O’Connor, KNOWS of clinics in this country
who have long successfully treated Polio, has received invitations to visit
the clinics and even when he is in their vicinity he ignores them . . . WHY???
Does he place GOLD before GOD???
Second, an M. D. lecturing for them at a public meeting admitted they had no
immediate positive diagnosis for POLIO . . . so for the past several years it
is very clear they "juggle" the figures erroneously, simply to brainwash
and lie to the public. We expect the TRUTH from public servants.
If a sick child were brought into your office, could you, any member of your
Department, or any member of the A. M. A. that you know give an immediate, correct
and positive diagnosis as to Polio. I doubt it.
You’ll recall the "puppets" in the old fashioned side-show where
they danced sang, etc., yet didn’t have a brain in their head but were
simply doing the planned wishes of the "experts" pulling the strings.
It looks like the Money-Beggars and the monkey-juice peddlers are pulling the
strings with our Health (?) officials, dancing and singing while innocent little
children die from the unnatural injection of a foreign protein into the body
in violation of every law of God and Nature.
Polio is a CONDITION . . . as is a sprained ankle. It is not a disease caused
by any mysterious live virus, as no such virus exists. Polio vaccine has NEVER
prevented, or mitigated Polio in even ONE child or adult . . . yet look at the
DEATHS on the doorsteps of vaccine.
An honest Congressional investigation would shock this nation. I suggest you
call for such an investigation immediately. Let us bring order out of chaos,
eliminate this shameful "racket", prevent further suffering, deaths
and disgrace. You may rest assured I’m eager and willing to cooperate without
any personal recompense.
Will greatly appreciate a copy of the department’s findings of fact which
you no doubt have had prepared to support the Press release referred to in the
first paragraph of my letter.
Respectfully,
Duon H. Miller
HERALD OF HEALTH AND NATUROPATH June, 1956
Dr. T. M. Schippell, N.D.
The Doctors Talk it Over
"THE SALK MONKEY KIDNEY JUICE"
"WE, NATUROPATHS, HAVE BEEN holding our breaths, worried about the revelations
that are sure to make themselves manifest as a result of this Salk vaccine craze.
And it is a "craze" — which later will be frankly dubbed ‘crazy’
by the scientists who, in the future, look back on our present way of life.
You cannot poison the human blood stream with the decaying products of a diseased
monkey’s kidney and not eventually pay the price to the Almighty.
"When human blood stream was sealed from outside contamination— that
was the silent warning Nature gave to man not to monkey with the body’s
life-line with monkey kidney juice or other foreign substance. But our hay-wire
scientists seem to believe that they know more about the functioning of the
human organs than the Creator.
"This dosing with ‘Salk slop’ is in the same category of so-called
medical research which permits a surgeon to yank the tonsils from a helpless
child or ‘scare’ an appendix operation from a grown-up. Not many years
ago the ‘big bugs’ in the medico-scientific field had the effrontery
to calmly state, in their public meetings, that the ‘appendix’ served
no useful purpose in the body and the tonsils were the remains of our ‘gills’—left
over in our bodies when man emerged from the sea as a land animal. Now, students
realize that the appendix helps to keep the cecum on the safe side by holding
the putrefactive bacteria, in that blind sewer, at a safe level and that the
tonsils play important parts in killing disease organisms that would otherwise
get into the lymphatic circulatory system.
"Yet in many quarters the yanking out of tonsils for a fee and the chopping
out of the appendix for the doctor’s wife’s fur coat continue unabated.
Gall bladder operations are still sending unfortunates to the insane asylums
as of yore and the so-called ‘fixing’ of stomach and intestinal ulcers
by ‘removing a section of the anatomy’ with a knife, is still considered
good ‘practice’. Yet even the most obstinate medical physician and
surgeon KNOWS that ulcers are caused by too strong stomach chemicals, digesting
the mucous membrane, and that the proper treatment is merely to reduce the strength
of such digestive chemicals. Small-pox vaccine—which has spread syphilis
throughout the civilized world is still ‘obligatory’ in many parts
of the universe and the Schick vaccine—that arch killer of Japanese babies
in the hands of our army ‘brass hat doctors’—is still being used
as a ‘professional fee getter’ although it still curtails the infant
population.
"Altogether , the situation seems to be getting worse—not better.
And the Salk vaccine—for all its blatant propaganda, for all its high endorsement
by the Public Health Department of our kindly government—is failing dismally
just as Duon H. Miller, of Coral Gables, Florida, predicted it would fail.
"Let us look again at this rotten laboratory concoction—this Salk
vaccine made from the diseased kidney of a tortured monkey. If you will recall,
the proponents of this polio medicine never CLAIMED that it would PREVENT POLIO.
Those gentlemen of the dollar sign merely said that it would PROBABLY prevent
the paralysis which followed or accompanied the usual polio. They KNEW that
nothing that could be ‘shot’ into the clean blood streams of the youngsters
would lower the sugar content. And manifestly it was the excessive sugar—taken
into the infant’s body in the summertime in the shape of ice cream, cola
and other soft drinks, candy and like sweets—that BROUGHT ON POLIO.
No question about that! All medical books show that polio does not exist in
those countries where the consumption of sugar—refined sugar—is less
than 90 pounds per person.
"Well, anyway, the American people were sold a ‘bill of goods’
by those stuff-shirted individuals back of this Salk concoction. And it was
the sainted ‘March of Dimes’ parasites who did that ‘selling’.
No question about it—the ‘March of Dimes’ had to come up with
some new ‘gadget’ to keep the dimes rolling in so that the motley
array of individuals on that expanded payroll might still receive their lush
salaries And the gist of the whole ‘selling campaign’ was not that
the Salk vaccine would CURE POLIO or would even PREVENT POLIO. But it was emphasized
that this Salk monkey juice WOULD PREVENT THE PARALYSIS WHICH FOLLOWED POLIO.
"That PREVENTION OF PARALYSIS was what actually ‘sold’ the American
people on this Salk concoction. Polio, without paralysis, was not feared. The
reason millions of parents were willing to ‘take a chance’ with their
children and toss them onto the table of ‘medical experimentation’—the
reason they were willing to have their offspring’s blood stream contaminated
by this Salk filth— was in the hope it MIGHT PREVENT POLIO PARALYSIS.
"As Al Smith would have said ‘Let us look at the record.’ Most
of you know that during 1955, millions upon millions of little American children
had their blood streams filled with this Salk vaccine. Some got one—some
got two and some even get three ‘shots’. So, in this year of 1956—if
this monkey juice was any good at all—the number of cases of polio should
have been almost wiped out and PARALYSIS, FOLLOWING the few cases of polio which
did SLIP THROUGH, should be practically nil.
"Right in line with the above is a report, issued in Washington, D. C.
on May 11, 1956, as appeared in the New York Times.
‘Through 1956 through last Saturday—May 4th—(four months of 1956)
there had been 1,463 polio cases, broken down into 803 paralytic, 399 non-paralytic
and 261 UNSPECIFIED. In 1955—same period (four months) there was 1,599
cases, 437 nonparalytic and 459 unspecified. PARALYTIC CASES numbered 703.’
"There you have in black and white the DEFINITE RESULTS of this Salk preventative
paralysis vaccine. Although tens of thousands of children received the Salk
trash in 1955 which should have PROTECTED THEM FROM PARALYSIS—there were
over 12 per cent MORE PARALYSIS CASES in 1956 than in 1955. Just how gullible
do the medical authorities believe the American people are? The medical men
should know that the average layman can read figures and make comparisons. So
let us not permit these medical double-talkers to blind us further. What is
the good of CUTTING DOWN THE POLIO CASES IF MORE OF THOSE WHO ARE STRICKEN BECOME
PARALYZED? And what is EVEN MORE dreadful to contemplate-is the thought of what
may be the aftermath of this placing in a child’s blood stream of this
rotten, filthy juice from the diseased kidney of a dead monkey? Vaccination
for small-pox spread syphilis throughout the world. And we, Naturopaths, are
now wondering—what will this Salk filth conjure up?"
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Health Research, Mokelumne Hill, California.
Dear Sirs:
May I congratulate you on your splendid work.
There are probably many moments of discouragement when you ask yourself, "Is
it worth it all?" It is! It is only through public enlightenment that an
end can be made to the abuses of the drug trust and the medical-bund.
Organizations such as yours are capable of slowing down the drug and vaccine
steamroller. If you were not hurting them or if they did not fear you, they
would not attempt to persecute you.
My personal knowledge of the medical bund is of an intimate nature. I hold the
B. Sc., M. A., and Ph.T. degrees from New York University. I did graduate work
on a grant from the medical-bund controlled National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis. I am a graduate of an A. M. A. approved school of Physical Therapy
and Rehabilitation. I have had clinical training in the finest hospitals in
New York, including Bellevue Hospital, St. Vincents Hospital, Hospital for Joint
Diseases, Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital, St. Giles Hospital, PostGraduate
Medical School Hospital, and several others.
I have been on the staff of the New Jersey State Department of Health, and was
in complete charge of the Monmouth County Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center. For
the past three years I have been executive director of the Homestead Rehabilitation
Institute (and still am at this writing.)
My experiences have enabled me to observe from within the workings of official
medicine. At first, I could not believe what I saw.
Were the truth concerning medical treatment and so-called prevention ever to
leak out, the stench of it would obliterate the public confidence in the medical
profession and put an end to the fantastic drug trust profits.
Good people, like you, are battering at the A. M. A. stainless-steel curtain
attempting to open a seam so that the light of day can enter the dark and secret
places where the facts are hidden.
That stainless-steel curtain is strong, but it is far from being invulnerable.
Truth is, in the long run, the hardest substance in existence—capable of
boring through any tissue of lies, no matter what its composition.
You may, if you wish, publish my letter in part or in whole — and you may
use my name. Please do not use it until after September 15, 1956. Until that
date, I shall remain economically vulnerable to medical bund attack. After that
date, I shall be a practicing member of the great and honorable Chiropractic
profession—having recently won my D.C., degree after four arduous years
of secret study.
Keep up the good work, and may the Lord bless you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Milton Fried, D. C.,
223 Prospect Ave.,
Suite A. A.
Hackensack, New Jersey
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"In the minds of the American people, partly because of the foundation’s
National Foundation FOR Infantile Paralysis) fund-raising campaigns, polio had
come to seem, a major public-health problem which, in terms of statistics, it
is not. For fifteen years Americans had been contributing to the March of Dimes,
and they wanted results. The Foundation, acting as their agent, was determined
to have vaccine available at the earliest possible.
"Park, Davis (Chemical manufacturers) had a special reason for pushing
its vaccine development program. The company had suffered a serious financial
setback. It had gambled heavily on Choromycetin, an antibiotic, only to have
the bottom drop out of the market after disturbing indications that the new
wonder drug might, under some conditions, cause fatal blood disorders. The stockholders
were asking blunt questions, and management was understandably on the lookout
for a new product sufficiently spectacular to wipe out the memory of Chloromycetin.
POLIO VACCINE SEEMED A GOOD BET, and in the early spring of 1953, after spending
a little over $1 million on research, Park, Davis believed its own experimental
vaccines were READY FOR TESTING ON CHILDREN."
SALK VACCINE: THE BUSINESS GAMBLE By Spencer Klaw, p. 125-126, Sept, 1956 issue
of FORTUNE MAGAZINE.
Is there a connection between the Salk vaccine and the transmission of monkey
encephalitis to a number of mental patients in Germany? Those who are interested
— should read page xxxi of Doctors of Infamy by Alexander Mitscherlish
(who testified at Nuremberg).
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June 28, 1955
Polio Prevention, Inc.
Coral Gables, Florida
Gentlemen:
Enclosed are the newspaper clippings of the death of my 8 year old son Charles
Bynaker. In these eight years I had a happy life until someone came up with
polio "shots" which took him away from me.
They say he had a brain abscess but I know he didn‘t, because he never
got sick until he took the shot. He took it on Thursday and came home thursday
evening, from school sick and the last words he said to me just before he died
were . . . "Mommy the old shot made me sick."
Now can you understand how I feel? If I had 10 more kids they would never take
the shots. Many people who saw him knew he was not sick until he took the shot.
As bad as I need a child, I can never have anymore of my own. If I had it to
do over again, I would never sign the paper. I am a mother whose life has just
been slapped in the face.
I know he did not have abscess of the brain. I know why they said he had. That
was because they thought I would sue someone. Well all the money in the world
won’t bring him back.
They also wanted to cut his head to pieces, but I didn‘t let them I took
him to the hospital in one piece and I meant to bring him back the same way.
I know how rotten this polio vaccine is and it is nothing but a killer. He was
paralyzed from his waist up and died like that.
I found out who put it out, but maybe they lied again. They said it was put
out by Lilly Co., but they have lied so much to me I just don’t know what
to believe anymore. They did not want to tell me who put it out or what doctor
gave the shot.
They say it was free to all children, but lets stop and look what I had to pay.
I am not a rich person and I had no insurance so it leaves me in a pretty bad
spot. Hospital bills totaling $163.75, plus burial expenses of $358.00. Now
do you see where there is anything free to it?
I hope you will send me the facts about this child killer vaccine, that’s
all it is. I know the shot killed my son. They had him in the iron lung from
Saturday night until he died Sunday evening.
I wish all mothers could read my letter so they would not have to be broken
hearted like I am now; so please feel free to publish any part of my letter.
Yours truly,
Margaret Bynaker Rt. 2, Dayton, Va.
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