The Germ Paradigm Trap

Germs.

They are the singular cause of all infectious diseases.

It’s a basic understanding we all have. It’s an indisputable fact. It’s something that can’t be questioned. It’s woven into our collective human consciousness.

Most people believe that once upon a time, way back in history, various germs caused many deadly diseases. Then very brilliant scientists invented medications and vaccines, and now thanks to them, we don’t have to worry about these nasty sicknesses. That’s what I believed at one time, and several doctors and nurses I know thought that was true as well.

Well, that was until they went and looked at the historical and scientific information.

So, what caused the decline in deaths from diseases such as measles and whooping cough? So what really happened?

General

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Measles

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Clive E. West, PhD, “Vitamin A and Measles,” Nutrition Reviews, vol. 58, no. 2, February 2000, p. S46.
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British Medical Journal, February 7, 1959, pp. 380-381.
Fred R. Klenner, MD, “The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic,” Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1953.

The Infectious Disease Vanishing Act

René Dubos (1901–1982), Mirage of Health, 1959
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Dr. Louis Dublin, “Better Economic Conditions Felt in Fewer Deaths,” Berkley Daily Gazette, December 27, 1935.
2 Inches Taller . . . 15 Pounds Heavier,” Life, June 2, 1941, p. 71

What About Smallpox?

The Value of Vaccination: A Non-partisan Review of Its History and Results, George William Winterburn, PhD, MD, 1886
“Observations by Mr. Fosbroke,” The Lancet, vol. II, 1829, pp. 583–584.
Dr. Fiard, “Experiments upon the Communication and Origin of Vaccine Virus,” London Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 4, 1834, p. 796.
Frederick F. Cartwright, Disease and History, Rupert-Hart-Davis, London, 1972, p. 127.
M. Beddow Bayly, MRCS, LRCP, “Inoculation Dangers to Travelers,” speech at the Caxton Hall Westminster, October 2, 1952. Published by the London and Provincial Anti-Vivisection Society.
Charles Creighton, Jenner and Vaccination, 1889, pp. 95–96.
“Vaccination by Act of Parliament,” Westminster Review, vol. 131, 1889, p. 101.
Observations on Prevailing Diseases,” The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review, vol. VIII, July–December 1817, p. 95.
Thomas Brown, Surgeon Musselburgh, “On the Present State of Vaccination,” The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 15, 1819, p. 67.
William Cobbett, Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, London, 1829, pp. 224–225.
The Value of Vaccination: A Non-partisan Review of Its History and Results, George William Winterburn, PhD, MD, 1886, p. 51.
“Small-Pox and Revaccination,” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. CIV, no. 6, February 10, 1881, p. 137.
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Thomas Neville Bonner, Medicine in Chicago 1850–1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City, American History Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 1957, p. 182.
G. W. Harman, MD, “A Physician’s Argument Against the Efficacy of Virus Inoculation,” Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine and Surgery, vol. 28, no. 1, 1900, p. 84.
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Stuart M. F. Fraser, “Leicester and Smallpox: The Leicester Method,” Medical History, 1980, vol. 24, p. 330.
J. W. Hodge, MD, “How Small-Pox Was Banished from Leicester,” Twentieth Century Magazine, vol. III, no. 16, January 1911, p. 340.
C. Killick Millard, MD, DSc, “The End of Compulsory Vaccination,” British Medical Journal, December 18, 1948, p. 1074.
Charles V. Chapin, “Variation in Type of Infectious Disease as Shown by the History of Smallpox in the United States,” The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 13, no. 2, September 1913, p. 173.
“Smallpox in the United States: Its decline and geographic distribution,” Public Health Reports, December 13, 1940, vol. 55, no. 50, pp. 2303-2312.
Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, vol. 66, 1946, p. 176.

The Germ Paradigm Trap

Charles Cyril Okell, “From a Bacteriological Back-Number,” The Lancet, January 1, 1938, pp. 48–49.