Chickenpox Cases from 1838 to NOW

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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, & 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.-- 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.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. " -- 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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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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