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Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav

Gandhian Scholar

Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India

Contact No. – 09415777229, 094055338

E-mail- dr.yogendragandhi@gmail.com;dr.yadav.yogendra@gandhifoundation.net

 

 

TREATMENT OF SMALLPOX

 

 

Friends have pressed me to publish the modes of the treatment of smallpox patients. The Udyoga Mandir has not escaped the infection. There have been in all seven cases in the Mandir. One has proved fatal. It is possible to say that that case was not treated like the rest. It was an early case, and I feel guilty of having shown want of firmness. Contrary to my conviction, the girl remained without hydropathical treatment and was permitted even to take solid food. The treatment adopted in the cases that have recovered or that I hope will recover was:

l. Complete rest;

2. Free ventilation;

3. Light received through a red medium;

4. No solid food, and milk diluted with equal quantity of water when there was no fever; otherwise orange juice or dried grapes juice;

5 Occasional opening medicine and regular enema;

6. Wet sheet pack. Rolling the patient in a sheet wrung out of cold water and put between blankets till perspiration.

During the 1915 epidemic I had two very serious cases of confluent smallpox. I knew nothing then of red light treatment. In the 1916 cases the boys were given a bath daily with hot water in which neem leaves were boiled. This was regarded by me somewhat a substitute for Condy’s fluid. After convalescence the boys were stronger than before. The treatment given in a book called Why Vaccinate by Harold W. Whist on, price 6d Published in Macclesfield by Clayey, Brown and Clayey is copied below. The book can be also had from the National Anti-Vaccination League, 50 Parliament Street, London, S.W. I have no doubt that more people die of fright than of disease itself. I notice this fright even in my children who, poor things, have been taught from childhood to dread the disease. There is no reason whatsoever that smallpox is any more fatal than many other diseases. Smallpox yields to nature’s treatment just as well as any other illness. It is nature’s way of purging the body of latent poison. In order to drive away the fright and to prevent simple people from rushing to the vaccination depot, I give the most salient passages from the book to show how unnecessary, even dangerous and filthy the practice of vaccination is. This is how a medical man describes the process of preparing lymph: The following emphatic testimony against vaccination of Dr. Walter R. Hadwen will be read with interest. There is ample other medical evidence against vaccination collected in the booklet.

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