Lesson 11, Part 7 - Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:10 pm
Something I teach in my online course in Childhood Diseases
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
PS This [..] means text omitted in this area.
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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.
************
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.
********
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.
*********
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.
******
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.
********
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
*****
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
******
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
PS This [..] means text omitted in this area.
*******
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.
************
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.
********
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.
*********
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.
******
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.
********
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
*****
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
******