History of the Smallpox Vaccine

An interesting story of how vaccines came to be, written by Magda Aguila.

A brief history of the smallpox epidemics, vaccine response and other alternatives. The use of a specific disease material for the prevention of disease has a very long history. The ancient Chinese used a preparation of dried small pox scabs that were preserved for one year and then administered as a snuff for the prevention of small pox. For the prevention of rabies Hippocrates stated, "There is under the tongue of the rabid dog a slime formed by its saliva, which taken in drink, guards against rabies". He wrote this over two thousand years before Hering made the nosode Lyssin (Hydrophobinum) from the saliva of a mad dog.

The English doctor, Edward Jenner, founded the modern tradition of vaccination. In 1796 Edward Jenner took cowpox-infected matter from the hand of Sarah Nemes and inoculated a boy named James Phipps. After this inoculation Jenner waited 48 days and then injected the boy with smallpox to see if the boy would develop the disease. When the boy did not become sick with small pox, Jenner then began to inoculate others with cowpox. The term vaccine is derived on the Latin word vacca, the cow, in reference to Jenner's original work. James Phipps, Jenner's first experimental patient, was re-vaccinated 20 times. He became weak and died of tuberculosis at the age of 20 years. THIS WAS HARDLY A LONG LIFE FREE FROM DISEASE!

Samuel Hahnemann was supportive of Jenner's vaccine and considered it to be one example of how the doctrine of similars prevents disease. His generation witnessed several destructive epidemics of small pox and he felt the vaccine contributed to the decline of the disease in Europe.

It seems to have been Boenninghausen (one of Hahnemann's closes disciples and one of our most valuable Homeopaths) who first realized that Jenner's vaccinations were dangerous to the vital force and could cause serious long term chronic diseases. The Baron felt that taking a vaccine was trading off today's health for the chance you might get sick tomorrow so he did not approve of such a method. Boenninghausen found that Thuja was very useful in the treatment of smallpox because during an epidemic everyone he treated lived. He also found that the characteristic pox scars of the disease were prevented in his cases. This led Boenninghausen to say:

"Whether the same results may be obtained in every epidemic of small-pox must be found out by later experience. If this should be the case, vaccine matter, which in careless hands is so dangerous, and which has doubtlessly caused an enormous infection with the scrofula-poison, might find a most valuable substitute." (Lesser Writings, Boenninghausen, Concerning the Curative Effects of Thuja in Small-pox, Lesser Writings, page 4)

Boenninghausen felt that the universal vaccination was the chief cause for the disquieting spreading of a new epidemic of scrofulous diseases. This vaccine scrofula was a manifestation of the sequels that the cowpox virus produced in the constitution of those that were inoculated. Boenninghausen felt the vaccine was a poison that produced psoric-like phenomena. J. Compton Burnett was the first to coin the term, vaccinosis. In his writings he spoke of it as a subdivision of sycosis. In actuality vaccinosis is neither psora nor sycosis, yet it can be similar to both. Vaccinosis is an iatrogenic disease caused by an inoculation or immunization.

Vaccinosis is a man-made fifth miasm that has a separate classification. Most of the old homoeopathic literature deals exclusively with the small pox vaccine, whereas today's homoeopaths must deal with multiple vaccinations of completely different natures. The seven most common immunizations are polio, diphtheria, tetanus (usually in DPT), measles, rubella, mumps and pertussis. They have also started to give hepatitis B vaccine to newborn babies in the hospital in the first 24 hours! Hepatitis B is contracted by intravenous drug injection and sexual intercourse. Have you seen any newborn babies shooting drugs and having sex? Such a thing is ridiculous! They are doing this premature inoculation as a technique to enforce universal vaccination. This is not healthy for the new born infant and it violates the most basic of HUMAN RIGHTS!!!

Here are some historical statistics about the so called "success" of vaccines!

England introduced a compulsory small pox vaccination law in 1853 and soon many European countries followed suit. When Jenner began his vaccinations there were only a few hundred cases of smallpox IN ALL OF ENGLAND. After 17 years of compulsory vaccination the 1870-1871 epidemic killed 23,000 people! In Germany around 124,000 people died. Most of them had been vaccinated. The Australian government terminated the compulsory inoculations after two children died from the inoculations yet smallpox virtually disappeared as only three cases were observed in 15 years.

Old hospital records from the periods of the epidemics show that 90% of smallpox deaths occurred in those who were vaccinated against the disease. One medical officer wrote that the deaths due to vaccination far outnumbered those who died from smallpox. By 1880 the argument between the pro-vaccination and the anti-vaccination groups was raging throughout Europe and America. The medical establishment reacted by changing the diagnosis of the post vaccination smallpox to pustular eczema and other convenient scapegoats.

The immune system of human beings was unfamiliar with the cowpox virus so that when it was introduced directly into the body many people died from the cowpox. Improvements in the areas of nutrition, public sanitation, and general hygiene caused the incidents of cholera, plague, dysentery, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough to fall naturally. Those who favor vaccination try to claim the immunizations are solely responsible to the decline. In general, in the early years of vaccination small-pox increased. The statistics for smallpox deaths in England only began to decline when the general public started to refuse inoculations because they had seen them cause too much suffering.

Homoeopaths noticed that Thuja prevents the eruption that appears in course of the smallpox vaccine. This led to the use of Thuja as a homoeoprophylaxis for smallpox as well as the treatment for the side effects of the vaccination. It was only logical for the homoeopaths to start to use Thuja against the smallpox and the side effects of the vaccination with cowpox. Although Thuja was originally used for the side effects of smallpox vaccinations, it has been used by some homoeopaths as a routine remedy after other immunizations. Surprisingly, this has proved successful in quite a few cases. Nevertheless, the modern homoeopath faces a much more complicated situation than any one remedy can overcome.

As the knowledge of nosodes increased they began to be use as preventatives. They noted that homoeopathic prophylaxis was extremely successful during the smallpox EPIDEMICS and did not produce the side effects associated with vaccines. Allen wrote:

"As a preventive of, or protection against small-pox, Variolinum 200th is far superior to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from sequelae, especially septic and tubercular infection. The efficacy of the potency is stumbling block to materialists. But it is more difficult to comprehend than the infectious nature of variola, measles and pertussis? Those who have not used it, like those who have not experimentally tested the laws of similars, are not competent witnesses. Put it to the test and publish the failure to the world." Allen''s Key Notes, H. C. Allen, Variolinum, page 300.

Over the years the near eradication of smallpox has been considered a medical triumph and it is often offered as an example of the great benefit of compulsory universal vaccination. Multiple inoculations for smallpox were very commonly used to insure "protection" from the disease. In 1980 a study showed that children who were re-vaccinated for smallpox showed signs of mutagenic chromosomal aberration in their white blood cells. These can cause immunodeficiency, which makes the constitution more susceptible to other infections.

The most recent smallpox campaigns were carried out in central Africa, Brazil and northern Japan, the same areas where the AIDS epidemic broke out. As this information became statistically undeniable, Dr. Gallo, co-discoverer of the HIV virus stated, "The use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV". Do live vaccines have the ability to cause dormant viruses to become virulent? Do they make a person more susceptible to new more dangerous infections? If this is the opinion of a world authority then why are the medical authorities continuing to use them? Is it possible that Gallo is covering up for the prospect that HIV was contaminating the smallpox vaccine in the first place? Evidence shows that the answers to all three of these questions are increasingly in the affirmative.

Magda Aguila