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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE




         Bethesda, Maryland 
 
 
       A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF

  EIGHT   YEARS'  SUFFERING

                   CAUSED

         BY  VACCINATION.

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Copy of a Letter to the  Governor of the State of
             Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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TO HIS  EXCELLENCY BENJAMIN F.  BUTLER.
  SIR,—Twenty thousand  dollars could  not compensate
B. F. Weston for the sufferings he has already endured
through Vaccination.

  The undersigned, citizens  of this State, respectfully pray
that an injunction on the law of Compulsory Vaccination
be granted, or that the Statutes relating thereto be repealed. 
                         [2]
B. F. Weston,  the son of young and healthy parents, Was
vaccinated  in  four places on his left arm when nine weeks
old.  The operation  was reported " successful," and as the
Doctor found  the  child perfectly healthy,  he  filled thirty
quills  with virus, and took one scab from the arm.   Spells
of slight pain  followed,  and in time  the vaccine sores
healed.   Until three  years of age nothing serious appeared,
but from  January 1876  until  the present date,  August
1883, no pen can describe his sufferings.

   In  January,  1876,   his  vaccinated  arm  became  red,
swollen, hard,  and very painful.   His doctor could afford
no relief.  The swelling extended to the throat,  the left and
right cheeks, and the right foot.   He could lie only on his
back,   and  so  intense was  the pain  that  he   became
unconscious ;  his death  being daily expected by the doctor.
This torture continued for three months.  The left arm was
then lanced and discharged a pint of pus.   The swelling in
the foot  burst shortly after,  but  he was unable to  wear  a
shoe from  January  till  August, and  has  ever since been
compelled to wear  a larger one  on the affected foot.  An
open running sore  has  existed in the arm from the time it
was lanced, from  which, at intervals, fragments  of bone
have continued  to escape, the last and ninth  piece having
come away on July 20th of this year.
   Blessed with  a  good constitution  and  receiving every
care from  kind parents,  with  medical attention,  change 
                         [3]
of air, &c, the little  fellow rallied  and went to school at
six years of age, able only  to  attend  a small part  of the
time owing to frequent and severe pains in the bones  lasting
for weeks at a time, his bones feeling as if they were on fire ;
sometimes the pains would  attack the bowels, right arm, or
thigh.   About  two years ago  dropsy set  in but by the
continual use of herbal remedies he has greatly improved.
  He  is now at the  age when Compulsory  Re-vaccination
is demanded.   Must it be done ?
  Oh !  Governor Butler, be a Solomon for us, in your own
State, order  that the   child   be  divided  and  grant an
injunction on this inhuman law.
   Compulsory  Vaccination has forced upon women and
mothers compulsory  investigation.
   If the terrible experience of Benjamin Franklin Weston
1  annot make it manifest what  Vaccination really is,  we call
upon God  to give us  more ghastly evidence.  It is  women
who are to blame for not resorting to sanitation.
   Wash and be clean, and resist the  forcing of living  or
 dead corruption into the blood of children. 
                       U]
  We the undersigned parents and grandparents, do depos
that  every  word  of the above  is true,  yet  the  menta
sufferings we have all endured can never be told.

{Signed,)
        HOMER   BARTLETT   WESTON,   Fathe
        SARAH  JANE HOLMES WESTON, Mothe,
        HIRAM   HOLMES,  Grandfather.
        JANE  HOLMES,  Grandmother.



( Witness,)
  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN  WESTON,
          Boston, Mass. U.S.A.

  Sept. 1883. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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