Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated

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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... MR. LOYSTER'S PAMPHLET "VACCINATION RESULTS IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1914" SH [...]
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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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... MR. LOYSTER'S PAMPHLET "VACCINATION RESULTS IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1914" SHOWING PHOTOS AND PARTIC- ULARS OF MANY CHILDREN KILLED BY VACCINATION IN 1914 By JAMES A. LOYSTER CAZENOVIA, N. Y. Jin S emon> of J?te >on letote fvtthotn Hotter who Died September 21, 1914 as a sequence of Vaccination Note. Mr. Loyster's full pamphlet contains forty pages showing fiftyone cases of vaccinal disasters, thirty of which were fatal. Only about a third of these fatal cases have been selected for illustration here.--C. M. H. INTRODUCTION THE object of this pamphlet is to publish the result of a painstaking inquiry into the effects of vaccination in the State of New York in 1914. My immediate personal interest in the subject is due to the death of my only son as a result of vaccination. I have been a believer in and advocate of vaccination. I was myself vaccinated in childhood by the arm-to-arm method without ill effects. It was in accordance with this belief and in an honest effort to comply with the law that I had my son vaccinated. Even his death did not entirely shake my faith in the practice, but it led me to make an investigation of the results of vaccination in New York State in 1914. Owing to the difficulty of making a canvass in the great cities, no effort was made to collect statistics in New York and Buffalo, and but little in Rochester, Syracuse or Albany. My investigations were, therefore, practically confined to the rural or semi-rural portions of the State. The result has been the gathering of such an appalling story of death and illness as to completely shatter my belief in the wisdom of enforced vaccination. It should be understood that I am not a physician. This leaves me free to write with greater frankness in certain...