HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY AND NAVY BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS PUBLISHED BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS BROOKLYN, N.Y. 1920 Copyright, 1920, by CHAS. M. HIGGINS _Published April, 1920_ THE DE VINNE PRESS NEW YORK DEDICATION THIS EARNEST EFFORT FOR THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF OUR BASIC AMERICAN PRINCIPLE OF “UNALIENABLE” PERSONAL RIGHTS, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL FREEDOM AND THE ABOLISHMENT OF ALL MEDICAL COMPULSION, IS DEDICATED TO OUR UNPRECEDENTED PRESIDENT, WOODROW WILSON, WHOSE NAME WILL SURELY BE PLACED IN THE HIGHEST NICHES OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AS ONE OF OUR GREATEST EXPONENTS OF IDEAL AND PRACTICAL AMERICANISM, FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY AND THE WORLD. [Illustration: PLATE 1 WISDOM AND LAW “EVERY LAW NOT BASED ON WISDOM IS A MENACE TO THE STATE”] WISDOM AND LAW “EVERY LAW NOT BASED ON WISDOM IS A MENACE TO THE STATE” From the Statue of Wisdom and Law, at entrance to Appellate Court, Twenty-fifth Street and Madison Avenue, New York City. Statue and motto by F. W. Ruckstull, Sculptor. See Frontispiece, Plate 1 A SCULPTURED REBUKE TO COMPULSORY VACCINATION Compulsory Vaccination is an instance of a law which inflicts actual disease and possible death on the human body and propagates and disseminates deadly infections widely upon animals and mankind. This is surely a glaring instance of a law which is not based on Wisdom or Sanity and is a Menace to the Health and Security of Humanity and the State. “This amazing act is the homicidal insanity of a whole profession. This is blood assassination.” Dr. James J. Garth Wilkinson, 1876. “It is unwise for the physician to force the operation upon those who are unwilling, or to give assurances of absolute harmlessness.” Dr. Osler’s “Modern Medicine,” 1913, Vol. I, page 848. “Vaccination is not always a harmless procedure; it must be looked upon as the production of an acute infectious disease.” Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, 1914. “Against the body of a healthy man Parliament has no right of assault whatever, under pretence of the public health.” Professor F. W. Newman, of Oxford. “Vaccination is a delusion, its penal enforcement a crime.” Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, in “The Wonderful Century,” 1899. PUBLIC CHALLENGE TO HEALTH DEPARTMENTS DEATHS FROM VACCINATION DENIED AND CONCEALED MORE DEATHS FROM VACCINATION THAN FROM SMALLPOX