IN order that there shall be no misunderstanding about the serious charge which I bring against vaccination, as being now actually more dangerous to public health and human life than natural smallpox, and the equally serious charge which I make against vaccinating doctors--who now control our Departments of Health and Vital Statistics--of denying and concealing these facts from the people, I now issue this special challenge to the Departments of Health of the City and State of New York, which cover a population of eleven millions, and with whose records I am more familiar, that I will undertake to prove from their death certificates and vital records, now concealed and withheld from the public, that there have been more deaths from vaccination than from smallpox _in every year_ for the past fifteen years in the City and State of New York. If they deny the truth of these charges I further solemnly challenge them to open their now concealed records to public examination and I will prove the truth of my charges from these records. Will they now dare to deny these charges or will they dare to refuse to open their heretofore hermetically concealed records to give the full medical and statistical truth to the people on these most important points? CHAS. M. HIGGINS. Brooklyn, New York, September 17, 1919. FOREWORDS FOR MEDICAL FREEDOM AND KEYNOTES OF AMERICAN RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES IN MEDICAL MATTERS KEYNOTE NO. 1: INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. _Declaration of Independence, 1776, more properly called Declaration of Rights._ KEYNOTE NO. 2: RESERVED RIGHTS AND POWERS RETAINED AND POSSESSED BY THE PEOPLE. “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.” _U. S. Constitution, Articles IX and X, 1789._ KEYNOTE NO. 3: SOVEREIGN RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.