Writings regarding vaccination published in early editions of Adventist publications.
Printed under the section "News and Notes" — Vaccination is now compulsory in Cuba. Link to Publication https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19010709-V78-28.pdf
Printed under the section "News and Notes" - The system of vaccination is so perfect in the German army that smallpox has been reduced to six or seven cases annually. All recruits are re-vaccinated, and there must be at least ten punctures in each arm. Link to Publication https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH18990627-V76-26.pdf
Personal testimony printed under heading HEALED BY PRAYER. BY ALICE M. AVERY-HARPER. (Laingsbuy, Mich,) BELIEVING it to be a duty I owe to God, and for the encouragement of those who know me, I cannot refrain longer from praising my gracious God through the pages of our dear REVIEW. For some ten years in the past I had been afflicted with erysipelas and eczema in my face. For thirty years it had troubled my hands and arms. It was caused by my having been vaccinated from impure matter. I suffered most excruciating agony ; it cannot be described. I [...]
Extract from THE DOCTOR AND HIS PATIENTS, FROM SANITARIUM PARLOR TALKS BY J. H KELLOGG, M. D. (Reported bp David Paulson, MD) Q.—Is vaccination a good or bad practise ? Please explain. A.— Vaccination with pure bovine virus is a good practise. Vaccination with human blood not a good practise, because it is not so pure as bovine blood. We have more faith in calves' food than in human blood. Calves or cows ave purer blood than human beings, because they have a purer diet. Link to Publication https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH18960407-V73-14.pdf
Extract from section titled "The Home/Sources of Danger of Contracting Diseases" Small-pox. Small-pox is a contagious disease ; it spreads by means of particles given off from the surfaces of the body. By vaccination and revaccination, small-pox may be and should be, almost wholly prevented. One vaccination or once having small-pox, does not protect for life. Revaccination should be had once in about five years, also whenever small-pox is prevalent, and certainly immediately after one has been exposed to the disease. Link to Publication https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH18950806-V72-32.pdf
— The prevalence of small-pox in Chicago, and its presence in three places in Michigan, has caused the board of health of this State to advise all the local health boards to recommend general vaccination and re-vaccination of all persons not successfully vaccinated within five years Link to Publication https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH18940529-V71-22.pdf
Selection from an article titled "Electricity As a Factor In Happiness" ...And these things gained, what will be the addition to human happiness? It is always necessary to ask that question; for, as a rule, the grand prizes of human intelligence, the additions to human knowledge of which we are so proud, have added little to the happiness, of the millions who, and not the few rich, constitute man. It would be difficult, indeed, to prove that any great scientific discovery, except the lucifer-match, which made light and heat, as it were, portable, chloroform, which extinguished some forms of [...]
—Riots have been of almost daily occurrence the week in Montreal, some of which have assumed a very formidable character. Monday night a furious mob attacked several public buildings, including the central police station, East End branch of the health office, and the County House, smashing windows and causing general destruction. The military was ordered out, and after a hard fight police succeeded in restoring quiet. The chief cause ls Canadian aversion to compulsory vaccination, which is being enforced by the Board of Health. Link to Publication https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH18811220-V58-25.pdf
" Rev. M. Cohen Stuart of Rotterdam spoke for Holland, and said: — "Nearly four-tenths, it is true, of the population belong to the Roman Catholic church, and nowhere, perhaps, has the pope more pious devotees and zealous adherents. Neology, unbelief, and religious indifference, have sadly served the cause of the Roman, See, its church daily increasing, if not in relative numbers, at least in power, boldness, and influence." This is not a very flattering view for a Protestant to contemplate. After three hundred years' contention with the Romanists, the Catholics are now rapidly gaining on the Protestants. The [...]
