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Show Vaccination. Herbert Spencer is always looked upon as an excellent authority on all subjects. Had his last work, "Facts and Comments," appeared in print a few years earlier he would serve as a supremo judge to settle the vexed question ques-tion of vaccination, in which all Salt Lake took a deep interest. He tells of a conversation with a distinguished friend and learned biologist, who used these words: "When once you Interfere Inter-fere with the order of nature, there is no knowing where the results will lead." . -. Commenting on these words, Mr. Rnpnrpp save in 'hie last u-nrk "It is clear that far more were killed by these qtber.' diseases than were saved from- smallpox." Then- he concludes that if vaccination vaccina-tion should produce the desired results, it will inevitably lead to a change in the components of the body which renders ren-ders it less able to resist other ailments. ail-ments. His ardent admirers among the medical " faculty i. will not be pleased with his deductions. They may call him, an old 'fossil, but he shows by statistics that vaccinated infants are more prone to other diseases than children chil-dren who are not vaccinated. Appealing Appeal-ing to facts, his position is impregnable. |