CHARLES S. MINNICK, son of S. V. Minnick, Carthage, N. Y.
Age 6.
Vaccinated Oct. 6.
Commenced to complain Oct. 16,--10 days from vaccination.
Recovered.
Diagnosis, “Vaccination.”
The first unfavorable symptom was kidney trouble. He was
_unconscious and helpless for two weeks_. Breathing labored.
Is recovering slightly crippled. This also seems to be a
transparent case of infantile paralysis. These three cases in
the same house, with identical symptoms, following vaccination
in exactly the same period of time, furnish the most damaging
evidence against vaccine that has been brought to light in the
present investigation.
MR. LOYSTER’S ARGUMENT AND PROOF THAT INFANTILE PARALYSIS IS CAUSED BY
VACCINATION
The theory of the possibility of conveying infantile paralysis through
vaccine abrasions as well as the probability of the vaccine having
contained the germs receives startling confirmation in three cases in
the home of S. V. Minnick of Carthage, reported under numbers 27, 28,
and 29. Ruth, 10½, and Hobart, 13, were vaccinated the same day _from
the same tube of virus_. Both became very sick in just ten days from
vaccination. The boy, being older, recovered, after a severe illness,
with symptoms much like the girl. Ruth died after a plain case of
infantile paralysis, which was so reported by her attending physician.
Four days before the little girl’s death, in compliance with the
demand of the school authorities, the little brother, Charles, age 6,
was vaccinated. In precisely 10 days he, also, became very sick, with
symptoms practically identical with the other two children. He was
_unconscious and helpless_ for two weeks, but recovered with a slight
residual paralysis. He was attended by another physician and the only
diagnosis reported is “vaccination.”
Simultaneous cases of infantile paralysis in the same family have
hitherto been so rare as to excite comment. Many physicians with large
practice have never had an instance in their entire practice. Here are
_three_ in one house.
The theory of “subsequent infection” needs extensive “bracing” in this
instance; and then there is Case 19 with onset in 12 days; Case 24,
onset in 11 days; Case 25, onset in 11 days; unquestionably paralysis
cases, with practically identical incubation periods, all contributing
evidence of a common and simultaneous infection. What other possible
common origin except the vaccine virus is it possible to place under
suspicion? It is unthinkable that these children, widely scattered
in different portions of the State, with no history of near-by
paralysis cases, could have each accidentally acquired the germ in the
vaccination wound exactly ten or eleven days from vaccination. Such a
theory presupposes a universal distribution of the poliomyelitis germ
entirely at variance with observation and experience.
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_Note._ Vaccination is acknowledged to be one of the causes
of Infantile Paralysis by a recent medical authority on this
subject, Dr. Oskar Vulpius, in a book published by Wm. Wood &
Company of New York, 1912.--C. M. H.