"It is generally recognised that there is no satisfactory cholera vaccine. The product available up to the present has been largely a public relations gambit. So distrusted is the current vaccine that the medical authorities didn’t bother to rush the drug to Peru during the outbreak there in 1991."---WDDTY
"When the (1813 typhus) epidemic came through Leipzig as the army pulled back from the east, Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was able to treat 180 cases of Typhus-- losing but two. This, at a time when the conventional treatments were having a mortality rate of over 30%....When Cholera finally struck Europe in 1831 the mortality rate (under conventional treatment) was between 40% (Imperial Council of Russia)to 80% (Osler's Practice of Medicine). Out of five people who contracted Cholera, two to four of them died under regular treatment. Dr. Quin, in London, reported the mortality in the ten homeopathic hospitals in 1831-32 as 9%.... In 1854 a Cholera Epidemic struck London. This was a historically important epidemic in that it was the first time the medical community was able to trace the outbreak to a source (a public water pump), and when the pump was closed, the epidemic soon ceased. The House of Commons asked for a report about the various methods of treating the epidemic. When the report was issued, the homeopathic figures were not included. The House of Lords asked for an explanation, and it was admitted that if the homeopathic figures were to be included in the report, it would "skew the results." The suppressed report revealed that under allopathic care the mortality was 59.2% while under homeopathic care the mortality was only 9%."--Julian Winston
"Within my long lifetime, its ruthless enforcement
throughout Europe ended in two of the worst epidemics of smallpox in record, our former
more dreaded typhus and cholera epidemics having meanwhile been ended by sanitation. After
that failure, the credit of vaccination was saved for a while by the introduction of
isolation, which at once produced improved figures. At present, intelligent people do not
have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as
the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the
contrary more people are now killed by. vaccination than by smallpox.
Yet the British Government, against the law, has just made vaccination
compulsory in the Army by explicitly refusing to discipline an officer who has had an
objector forcibly vaccinated; and the House of Commons received the news with cheers. Why
does this exploded superstition persist? Simply because our education is not
controversial, which means that as it is a hundred years out of date on all open
questions, reforms have to come from the uneducated who suffer from the facts and know
nothing of the books. .
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know
what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties
whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths."---George Bernard Shaw
(August 9, 1944, the Irish Times)