Smallpox!

A 'psycho-plague' in  the making?

"We plan to move very quickly in selecting a company or companies that can produce the smallpox vaccine. We want to get to 300 million doses of vaccine, so that every American can be assured there is a dose with his or her name on it."  more    

 Hurry, while stocks last! But do we really need the smallpox vaccine? The quotations which follow will hopefully bring the necessary perspective to the current and wholly unwarranted climate of fear. Rest assured, we are not heading for a smallpox disaster.

"Both press and radio continue to preach that smallpox is a terribly infectious and deadly scourge. They never tell us that, to quote Dr Thomas Sydenham, "... provided no mischief be done either by physician or nurse, it is the most safe and slight of all diseases." - Lionel Dole

"Smallpox is considered one of the most virulent of contagious diseases, and it is generally believed that persons exposed are almost invariably attacked, unless protected by vaccination. This is one of the most stupendous exaggerations to be found in medical literature. My experience has been that very few people take it [become infected] when exposed to it."   John Tilden MD

"For years Dr. Matthew J. Rodermund, MD of Wisconsin, USA, offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove scientifically that smallpox is contagious. Nobody ever claimed the money.  Dr Charles A.A. Campbell, MD of San Antonio, USA, who was for years in charge of an isolation hospital made exhaustive experiments in order to demonstrate that smallpox is contagious, but found that this is not the case."   Keki Sidhwa ND

"So far as we are concerned in Leicester, a town containing 120,000 inhabitants, with many thousands of unvaccinated children, smallpox seems to be about the least dangerous of all diseases, and is not to be named by the side of scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diarrhoea, or even consumption. If a case of small-pox is discovered, instant isolation is adopted, and during the last five years we have hardly had five deaths. That being the state of the case, one need not wonder that the fear of the disease should disappear, or that resistance to vaccination should increase." William Tebb 1881

"Dr Rodermund, a physician in the state of Wisconscin, created a sensation by smearing his body with the exudate of smallpox sores in order to demonstrate to his medical colleagues that a healthy body could not be infected with the disease.  He was arrested and quaratined in jail, but not before he had come into contact with many people.  Not a single case of smallpox developed through this "exposure"....I have handled intimately thousands of cases of contagious diseases, and I do not remember a single instance where any of us was the least affected by such contact."  Henry Lindlahr MD  (Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics p 39)