A Midwestern Doctor
Aug 01, 2025

Reviewing the critical but largely forgotten lessons from the early pioneers of natural medicine

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Medicine has its fair share of erroneous beliefs (which frequently have little to no evidence supporting them). Sadly, my profession has held tightly onto them for centuries regardless of the problems those beliefs create and I believe the vaccination meme is one of the most harmful ones.

As all of this began with the smallpox vaccines which “ended” the scourge of smallpox, I believe it’s critical to review exactly what actually happened as:

•The mythology of the smallpox vaccines has served as the justification for all the other vaccination atrocities which followed.

•Many issues emerged during that campaign (resulting in immense public backlash) which are almost identical to what we’ve seen again and again since then (including throughout COVID-19). As such, to break this dysfunctional cycle which has consumed our culture, it is critical to understand what’s actually happened.

•I believe the smallpox vaccines served as an inflection point in humanity’s health, as after them, an era of chronic illness (particularly autoimmune and neurologic ones) began which has continued to increase ever since. In fact, many of the unusual complications of the COVID-19 vaccines are very similar to what was observed from the smallpox vaccine over a century ago.

The Vaccine Positive Feedback Cycle

Edward Jenner is credited with having the insight milk maids exposed to cowpox never caught smallpox, and hence that smallpox could be prevented with a survivable cowpox infection. In truth, this was a longstanding folk belief the medical community had rejected (as cowpox often failed to prevent smallpox), and over the years, many came forward attesting that Jenner was a charlatan who continually changed his positions to protect his grift (detailed here).

As such, when the smallpox vaccine created in 1796, it was met with widespread skepticism by the medical profession initially because it had almost no supporting data and because it simply didn’t work. Nonetheless, governments around the world rapidly adopted it because it provided a simple top-down solution (something government always prefers) for smallpox and the medical profession gradually got behind it because of both the political power and money they received from the vaccinations.

Many doctors still spoke out against the vaccine, with many providing robust data to support their objections (e.g., large cohorts showed the vaccine did not prevent smallpox and erysipelas, an agonizing and sometimes fatal skin infection, was commonly observed in vaccinated individuals). Sadly, these dissident doctors became a smaller and smaller minority and reports exist from the time of doctors in the early hospitals falsifying medical records in order to conceal the vaccine’s dangers and its ineffectiveness in preventing smallpox (something which has since happened with many other vaccines for the sake of “public health”).

However, the largest problems with the smallpox vaccine was that vaccination tended to increase rather than decrease the occurrence of smallpox.

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When this happened, governments tended to respond to that emergency by viewing it as a result of not enough people being vaccinated and doing what they could to increase vaccination rates. Since the working class was well aware of both the dangers of the smallpox vaccine and its ineffectiveness, harsher and harsher mandates needed to be implemented to continue meeting the vaccination quotas.

As things continued to escalate, assaults on officers enforcing vaccination occurred, and riots periodically broke out.

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At the same time increasingly draconian mandates were being enacted, many early activists argued that smallpox and many other infectious diseases were primarily due to the common people living in absolute squalor.

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After decades of work, activists were able to improve the basic living conditions of the working class (e.g., through public sanitation so people no longer slept next to infectious microbes) and a massive benefit was seen in the reduction of deaths from all infectious diseases.

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The medical profession however coopted the activist’s work and claimed the reduction in deaths was due to the introduction of vaccination, something not at all supported by the data (e.g., scarlet fever, the biggest killer of the era but now an almost entirely forgotten condition never had a vaccination developed for it). Since this time, the belief that medicine rescued us from the dark ages of infectious illness and that all infections can be prevented with a vaccination has become one of the central mythologies the practice modern medicine is founded upon.

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In response to the increasingly draconian vaccination mandates, a massive protest (attended by citizens across Europe) broke out in Leicester (England) in 1885 which resulted in Leicester’s mandatory vaccination laws being repealed and replaced with measures to both improve public sanitation and quarantine both individuals with smallpox (along with their sick contacts). When this approach was proposed by Leicester, the medical profession attacked the citizens of Leicester, loudly proclaimed their policy would result in mass deaths and stated Leicester would serve as a lesson to the world to never to abandon vaccination. The opposite instead happen, Leicester conquered smallpox, and their methods (often done it tandem with vaccination) were then copied, allowing us to at last eliminate smallpox.

As you might have noticed, there are many, many parallels between those events from over a century ago and what we all witnessed over the last few years.

Early Schools of American Medicine

In the early 1900s, there were four main schools of medicine in the United States—Allopathy (conventional medicine), Homeopathy, Naturopathy (call the eclectic school at the time) and Osteopathy. Allopathy was losing favor because its treatments often didn’t work and were highly toxic.

At the same time, two of the richest individuals in history (Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller) realized they would need to diversify beyond their respective industries (steel and oil) after Theodore Roosevelt decided to break up their monopolies. Allopathic medicine was identified as a promising way to make a lot of money and a variety of investments were made to cause Allopathy to go from falling out of favor to it becoming the leading form of medicine within the United States (e.g., the Flexner report, published in 1910 was used to close most of America’s competing non-allopathic medical schools). Because of this, Allopathic medicine became “medicine” and the term “Allopathy” became extinct. In turn, while Allopathic medicine has greatly improved from that time, it still retains many of the same foundation issues Allopathy had, and hence routinely injures patients or fails to cure their illnesses.

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Homeopathy:

Within Homeopathy, an idea exists known as Hering’s Law of Cure.  It posits that diseases enter the body superficially, and then can either be expelled at the surface (e.g., through the skin), or travel deep into the body.  When the disease stays at the surface, acute reactions such as skin eruptions and fevers occur, while when allowed to instead travel into the patient, a variety of chronic debilitating diseases are likely to occur. Likewise, the mind and spirit are considered “deeper” than emotions, so in many cases, suppressing an emotional issue can create a permanent physical one.

Note: Many opponents of the smallpox vaccines believed it was not a good idea to introduce the vaccine directly into the bloodstream since that allowed the cowpox virus to establish itself deep within the body.

Hering’s Law hence argues that the goal of treatment should be to facilitate the outward expulsion of disease, which contrasts to the (now) prevailing school of Allopathic thought which strives to suppress those symptomatic expulsions.

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Conversely, he found that almost all cases of severe chronic illness following vaccination (termed vaccinosis) occurred in individuals who had had a smallpox vaccine that did not take, and instead moved deeper into the body creating chronic pathology.  One of his strongest arguments for this was his observation that homeopathic Thuja preparations would frequently treat the conditions that he temporally correlated with vaccination.

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Burnet cited a case of 10 week old baby who had been healthy, and then suddenly became at risk of dying with the cause of the baby’s illness being impossible for anyone to identify.  After investigating further, he discovered the wet-nurse (surrogate breast milk supplier) for the infant (who was in good health) had received a smallpox booster the day before the infant became ill and she reported the site was “a little painful.”  Burnett also cited another case of a breast-feeding child becoming ill from the smallpox vaccine and another developing eczema and a chronic rash.

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Naturopathy:

Benedict Lust, a degree holder in each of the medical systems of the time, is considered by many to be a founder of Naturopathic Medicine.  He served as the editor from the Universal Naturopathic Encylopedia Directory and Buyer’s Guide Yearbook of Drugless Therapy for 1918-1919.  In this book, numerous references can be found to the harm of vaccinations and their weakening of human vitality.

Osteopathy:

AT Still saw the profound shortcomings of Allopathy and developed Osteopathy to take its place. For this article, I decided to review his final text, Research and Practice and I suspect more was written on the subject in his other writings.

First Still’s preamble makes it very clear how he felt about vaccination.

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…“Third: We are opposed to vaccinations.”…

 

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Still also observed a wide range of chronic illness resulting from immunization:

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Chiropractic

D.D. Palmer, the founder of Chiropractic medicine also referred to vaccines as poisons and a common source of disease. Likewise, many early chiropractors were outspoken opponents of vaccination (e.g., in Lust’s book, chiropractors F.W. Collins and E.W. Ferguson D.C., detailed medical perspectives strongly opposed to vaccination).

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Chinese Medicine

A medical condition exists in Chinese Medicine known as blood stasis. Blood stasis creates a variety of circulatory conditions as the heart cannot effectively pump more viscous blood and the more viscous blood occurring in blood stasis is unable to pass through the smaller blood vessels. This leads to tissue atrophy, strokes or microstrokes, pain at the site of obstruction and a variety of autoimmune conditions (which I believe is due to congestion also occurring concurrently within the lymphatic circulation).

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The earliest reference I could find of the cowpox vaccination entering China stated:

Vaccination was first introduced into Canton and Macao [provinces in China] in 1805 by the famous Balmis Salvany Expedition organized by King Carlos IV of Spain.  However, the practice was not readily adopted and only spread at all widely in China during the latter half of the 19th century. Indeed, vaccination in China was totally inadequate until the campaign mounted in 1950.

This in my eyes argues that a temporal correlation exists between the adoption of smallpox vaccinations and the influx of blood stasis within the Chinese population.
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I will now share some pertinent observations from Gunter R. Neeb’s Blood Stasis: China’s classical concept in modern medicine.  Each of the following passages were sourced Wang Qingren’s observations 192 years ago written within the Yi Lin Gai Cuo.

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Modern Research on Blood Stasis:

The standard medical diagnosis most related to blood stasis is hypercoagulability and the concept of “microclotting” (which has existed since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout).  There are a few agents I have come across which frequently cause significant blood stasis and hypercoagulability, such as malaria, aluminum, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and cancers.  As a result, many shared disease processes can occur between these agents (each of which often creates significant health issues for patients), and as stated above, I often find my patients require treatment of their blood stasis (through restoring the zeta potential of the body—something each of these agents accomplishes).

Viral Infections (e.g., from a smallpox vaccine), like the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in turn are recognized by the scientific community to create a hypercoagulable state by damaging the endothelium.

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After 9/11, the military conducted a smallpox vaccination campaign which was linked to numerous cases of myocarditis and sometimes fatal heart attacks. Mainstream news sources at the time stated the inflammation produced by the vaccination made the link between the vaccination and heart disease “biologically plausible,” many television news reports were aired about the dangers of the vaccine program.

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