] Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

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Something I teach in my online course in Childhood DiseasesChickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOWI 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.SheriPS This [..] means text omitted in this area.*******Pulford, A - Homeopathic Materia Medica of Graphic Drug, Pictures & Clinical CommentsVariola, 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 ManualREUEL A. BENSON, M. D. 8 West 19th St., New York. April, 1908.PrefaceThis 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 PhysicianPart 1 in 1835 and Part 2 in 1838Chicken-poxThis 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 HealthPrognosis - The disease practically always terminates favorablyTreatment - the disease is usually so ild that no treatment is necessaryOtherwise 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, & BlakeComplications - 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 rulePrevention - 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 pasthttp://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/chickenpox.htmlGREAT source - all the below with linksConsidered 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.-- 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 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. 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."-- 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."--- "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, , 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. 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, 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. " E. Cole http://sites.netscape.net/rebeccacoleusa/http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/steroid_varicella.htmlSteroid varicella citationsCurable 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."-- 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."---BLFisherChicken pox vax ineffective - but let's use it anywayWe 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 - 2006Although 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 TreatmentHealthy 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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Subject: [Minutus] Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

Something I teach in my online course in Childhood DiseasesChickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOWI 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.SheriPS This [..] means text omitted in this area.*******Pulford, A - Homeopathic Materia Medica of Graphic Drug, Pictures & Clinical CommentsVariola, 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 ManualREUEL A. BENSON, M. D. 8 West 19th St., New York. April, 1908.PrefaceThis 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 PhysicianPart 1 in 1835 and Part 2 in 1838Chicken-poxThis 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 HealthPrognosis - The disease practically always terminates favorablyTreatment - the disease is usually so ild that no treatment is necessaryOtherwise 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, & BlakeComplications - 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 rulePrevention - 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 pasthttp://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/chickenpox.htmlGREAT source - all the below with linksConsidered 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.-- 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 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. 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."-- 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."--- "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, , 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. 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, 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. " E. Cole http://sites.netscape.net/rebeccacoleusa/http://www.vaccination.org.uk/a/steroid_varicella.htmlSteroid varicella citationsCurable 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."-- 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."---BLFisherChicken pox vax ineffective - but let's use it anywayWe 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 - 2006Although 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 TreatmentHealthy 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******