NEW B- The Case Against Universal Varicella Vaccination.

Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

I am going to quote from a variety of sources from 1838 to 1986 to show
you what is said about chickenpox so you can compare and see the
differences. Now they have made chickenpox a 'killer'. Did it look
like a killer in the articles before the vaccine was out? You tell me.
Sheri

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Pulford, A - Homeopathic Materia Medica of Graphic Drug, Pictures &
Clinical Comments
Variola, measles and chickenpox are NOT diseases, but merely system
"cleansers."
(Strict homoeopathic treatment has enabled the compilor of the
appended remedies to pass through all the epidemics of Scarlet Fever,
measles, and chickenpox, without the loss of a case of either, and
confirms the belief that no acute case of any kind should die. Study
the following remedies and comments closely.

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1908 Benson, A.R. Homeopathic Nursery Manual
REUEL A. BENSON, M. D. 8 West 19th St., New York. April, 1908.

Preface
This book was originally written for the use of my own patients and
nurses, among whom I have found a constant demand for such information
as the book contains. It has been largely the outgrowth of lectures
delivered in the Flower Hospital Training School for Nurses.

An effort has been made to write clearly and concisely, and to avoid
the common error of giving too much technical information. This is
especially true of the section on care during illness, as it is my
belief that a human life is too valuable to be trusted in any but
skilled hands. The therapeutic treatment is, therefore, purposely very
meagre.

The book is intended for the use of homoeopathic physicians and
homoeopathic families and all those who believe with me that a child
who has been properly fed and reared under the homoeopathic regime, is
physically better equipped for life than any other.

Chicken-pox (varicella)
Chicken-pox is a mild infectious disease, beginning with a slight rise
in temperature (99° - 100°), loss of appetite, and general languor.
The eruption appears first on the back and consists of small red
spots. These spots may be widely separated. There may be only four or
five on the whole back. Small water blisters soon form on the top of
these red spots and in a day or two these blisters become black and dry
up. These spots are found on other parts of the body, but generally
they are widely scattered.
The disease runs its course in three days to a week, and generally the
child is not ill enough to remain in bed.
Chicken-pox has no serious complications or after effects; very severe
cases may resemble small-pox somewhat, but such cases are rare.
Nursing : The child should be kept quiet and fed on a light diet.
Great care should be taken to prevent rubbing or scratching of the
eruption. The skin may be kept well covered with vaseline, and where
there are large spots, they may be protected with a bandage.
Aconite may be given, a teaspoonful every hour in the early stages of
the disease, but no other medication is necessary unless special
symptoms arise for it.


1838 Hering, Constantine (father of American Homeopathy)
http://www.homeoinfo.com/02_history/people/hering.php (about Hering)

Homeopathic Domestic Physician
Part 1 in 1835 and Part 2 in 1838

Chicken-pox
This disease is similar to, though bearing no relationship with,
small-pox. The eruption is preceded for a day by a mild degree of
fever. Sometimes however, the fever is very great. The eruption
appears, but within a few hours develops into vesicles or blisters. The
general mildness of the attack, the rapid development of the eruption,
the short course of the disease, and the appearance of the vesicles,
which do not possess the circle of inflammation about them as in
small-pox, and which do not become depressed in the centre, and
finally, which leave no scabs unless they have been scratched open,
distinguish this disease from small-pox.
It generally passes off without requiring any medical assistance;
when, however, there is a considerable degree of fever, Aconitum may be
given; when there is much headache or congestion to the head,
Belladonna. If the eruption is considerable, Antimonium tart., or
Mercurius may be beneficial.

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1907 Century Book of Health

Prognosis - The disease practically always terminates favorably
Treatment - the disease is usually so ild that no treatment is
necessary

Otherwise nothing is said about complications.

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1942 "International Modern Home Physician"
In an medical book I have - "International Modern Home Physician" from
1942, there is no panic given about chickenpox

"This is a mild disease; there are no complications except in the very
rarest cases, when inflammation of the kidneys or broncho-pneumonia may
occur.

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1954 "Essentials of Pediatrics" - Jeans, Wright & Blake

Complications - Complications are infrequent. Scratched or traumatized
lesions offer a protal of entry for pyogenic bacteria, with resultant
local suppuration and sometimes the development of erysipelas.
...............sometimes causes encephalitis, but complete recovery is
the rule

Prevention - When chickenpox occurs among children in their own homes,
preventive measures other than isolation are not carried out because of
the mildness of constitutional symptoms and the rarity of
complications.
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Other sources in the past
http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/chickenpox.html
GREAT source - all the below with links
Considered non-fatal in 1894
"Dr. Ogle, the chief in the Registrar-General's Department, told the
Royal Commission as a witness before it, that he had never known
chicken-pox kill a child in his life."--Dr Hadwen (1896)

"Varicella always runs a favourable course. It has no
sequelae.....PROGNOSIS.-This is always favourable." --Dictionary of
Medicine (1894)

As a rule, it is a very insignificant disease. By that I mean that it
is not of sufficient importance to worry about.--John Tilden MD
(1851-1940)


Smallpox deaths hidden under chickepox to make vaccination look better
"In the thirty years ending in 1934, 3,112 people are stated to have
died of "chicken-pox," and only 579 of smallpox in England and Wales.
Yet all the authorities are agreed that chicken-pox is a nonfatal
disease"-M. Beddow Bayly, Case Against Vaccination, London, June
1936, p. 5.

"Dangers" hyped after vaccine introduction:
1953 "MILD--Mumps, Chickenpox and rubella...are mild. In other words
there's not much point in trying to avoid them. They don't do much to
young children and they do build up their general immunity and
resistance."--T Anderson MD, British Medical Journal booklet (c 1953)

"According to the survey, among parents of unvaccinated children, 48%
were not likely to vaccinate their children because they don't believe
that chickenpox is a serious disease. Many parents were not aware that
chickenpox can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis, skin infections,
scarring or death."--Merck (Vaccine seller)

In 1995, chickenpox suddenly became a major health problem. Six
children were reported to have died from chickenpox; frequent and
repeated TV coverage lasted for weeks without anyone mentioning that
two of the six children had leukemia and the others were on
cortico-steroids. HYPING VACCINES: AN INVESTIGATION By Dr. F. Edward
Yazbak

"In 1997, 3 deaths reported by two states did not occur from chicken
pox, but rather from the unnecessary drugs they used to treat
it."--Gary Krasner

"Diseases such as chickenpox or measles can be very serious or even
fatal in both children and adults who take this drug
(Deltason/Orasone--generic name Prednison, a steroid)."--PDR

"A recent American study showed that 6% of admissions for the
complications of varicella were musculoskeletal disorders ranging from
necrotising fasciitis to toxic-shock syndrome requiring multiple
amputations. Complications were not related to severity of chickenpox.
Since the routine mantra from medical people to parents is
'paracetamol for fevers' despite medical literature clearly
demonstrating that such advice is highly dangerous; since the majority
or parents follow such advice unquestioningly; and since necrotising
fasciitis has primarily been associated with people who regularly pop
paracetamol and other anti-inflammatory drugs, it is hardly
surprising."---Hilary Butler


"Father dies after catching chickenpox from his sons....the inquest
heard he was susceptible to the illness after being put on a high dose
of steroids to treat kidney problems."--(Daily Express Sept 9, 2000)

"On June 30, 1988, my oldest child, Christopher, died of chickenpox. He
was normally a healthy child with very mild asthma. He'd never been on
corticosteroids, and had never been hospitalized. On June 16th 1988, he
suffered his first severe asthma attack and was hospitalized for four
days. Christopher was put on commonly used asthma medications including
corticosteroids. Exactly one week following the asthma attack he broke
out with chickenpox. Unfortunately, the corticosteroids lowered his
body's response, (immune system) and he could not fight the chickenpox
virus. It destroyed every organ in his body, and on June 30, 1988,
Christopher died at the age of 12. The vaccine wasn't licensed then,
but it is now. I worked for years to see warnings added to
corticosteroid labels, and the vaccine (Varivax) licensed. " Rebecca E.
Cole http://sites.netscape.net/rebeccacoleusa/


http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/steroid_varicella.html
Steroid varicella citations

Curable with Vitamin C through Nutritional medicine:
"Chickenpox gave equally good response (to Vitamin C therapy), ...
vesicles were crusted after the first 24 hours, and the patient well in
three to four days."--Dr Klenner
http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/

Deaths mostly in adults, yet vaccine is to be given to children:
"The proponents of mandated chickenpox vaccination of children
pronounce that over 100 die of chickenpox each year. They do not
emphasize, however, that it is adults who are at higher risk and that
they will not be required to be vaccinated! The numbers above show
that in 1997 (the last year available) no children died from chickenpox
in New York."--Gary Null

"Among certified deaths from chickenpox adults accounted for 48% in
1967-77 (88 deaths in 11 years), 64% in 1978-85 (120 deaths in eight
years), and 81% in 1986-97 (269 deaths in 12 years)."--Norman Noah,
professor of public health.


Vaccine for profit not health of children
"It was predictable when the live chicken pox vaccine was licensed in
1995 that one dose would not give lifelong protection in the same way
that recovery from chicken pox disease gives lifelong immunity. The
developers of the live chicken pox vaccine, including Anne Gershon,
knew this. It is common knowledge that vaccines only stimulate
temporary, partial immunity and the historical experience with live
measles vaccine is a perfect example. By trading lifelong immunity for
temporary, vaccine-induced immunity, populations become vaccine
dependent. Chicken pox is a relatively benign disease for 99.9 percent
of healthy children but it is much more serious in teenagers and
adults. Mandating the use of chicken pox vaccine and removing the
ability for children to get permanent immunity to chicken pox, puts
them at risk as adults. The winners in this public health strategy are
the pharmaceutical companies producing vaccines requiring purchase of
multiple doses. The losers are the people, who are first put at risk as
children for vaccine adverse events and then again put at risk as
adults for a disease that the vaccine fails to protect against long
term."---BLFisher


Chicken pox vax ineffective - but let's use it anyway
We must admire the tenacity and great marketing skills of the
pharmaceutical companies. They have learned the lessons of true
perseverance! If you find out that your vaccine doesn't work, say it
works well, but just for not as long. That way, you open up the
lucrative market for boosters. Better yet, if you find out that the
vaccine is causing the disease its meant to prevent and/or that people
who are vaccinated are still getting sick with this disease, call it
'breakthrough' not vaccine failure (after all, isn't a breakthrough a
really good thing?) and talk about how much milder the disease is than
it would have been had the people not been vaccinated and you have
turned a failure into a success. We can learn a lot from these geniuses
of marketing and double-speak.--Meryl Dorey


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Online, today - 2006
Although most people with chickenpox simply have sores on the skin and
in the mouth, the virus sometimes infects the lungs, brain, heart, or
joints. Such serious infections are more common in newborns, adults,
and people with an impaired immune system.

Lung infection occurs in about 1 out of 400 people, especially
adolescents and adults, resulting in cough and difficulty breathing.
Brain infection (encephalitis) is less common and produces unsteadiness
in walking, headache, dizziness, confusion, and seizures. Heart
infection sometimes causes a heart murmur. Joint inflammation produces
joint pain.

Reye's syndrome, a rare but very severe complication that occurs almost
only in those younger than 18, may begin 3 to 8 days after the rash
begins.

Prognosis and Treatment

Healthy children nearly always recover from chickenpox without
problems; only about 2 of 100,000 children die. However, even this low
rate means that before routine immunization, 100 children died annually
in the United States because of complications of chickenpox. The
infection is more severe in adults, of whom about 30 of 100,000 die.
Chickenpox is fatal in up to 15% of people with an impaired immune
system.
Last reviewed/revised February 1, 2003

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