"Pus-Instillers"

"She was one of the most beautiful children I have ever seen. . . . Although she was but budding into young girlhood, you could visualize the sort of woman she was going to grow to be --strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president. I used to call her the wonder girl. Then came the day when they bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into that blooming, perfect body the wicked vaccine virus, poisonous pus that comes from the sore of a diseased cow. And it did its deadly work. The poison spread through her system and the roses faded from her cheeks. She became a pallid, sickly thing, grew rapidly weaker and weaker--and died. The authorities said she died of pneumonia, but I knew better. . . . And as I looked upon the shrouded waxlike figure in the little basswood box surrounded by blossoms that would have matched her budding beauty, I felt as though I was looking upon the helpless victim of a murder, and I solemnly and silently vowed to work, as long as I lived, to wipe out the criminal practice of vac-cination."

So writes Simon Louis Katzoff, M. D., Ph. D., of Bridgeport, Conn., in Bernarr Macfadden's magazine called Physical Culture. Among other alleged opponents of "pus-instillers" he cites W. E. Gladstone, Victorian Premier of England. The main arguments are: 1) It is immoral to inject poison into the human body. 2) Smallpox is a filth-disease and hygiene is the sure preventative. 3) Compulsory vaccination is tyrannical.

Publisher Macfadden states that Mr. Katzoff is a "graduate in law, pharmacy and medicine, a prominent physician, psychologist and author." But medi-cal authorities point out that Katzoff graduated from the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery and holds his licenses to practice from the eclectic boards of Georgia and Connecticut, which have been under fire in connection with recent scandals in medical licensing.

Katzoff was recently called before the special grand jury which has been investigating matters in Connecticut.