New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-05
THE or, TELTY OF VIVISECTTOy.
LETTER FROM nKYEn BERGH-AN EARNEST PRO-
TEST AGAINsr LIVING DissECTIoNs.

LETTER FROM uENr> BERGH-AN EARNEST PRO
TEST AGAINST LIVING DrssECTIoYs.
In letter to Dr. Austin flint. jr., the physi-
oiost Henry Bergh. President of NE Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty TO Animals, refers lo report that
Dr. Fhnt has q large number Of animals KEEP at his
rooms In Bellevue Hospital for the purpose Of vvsecion
Mr. Bergh claims that vivisecon is not only cruelty
but asserts that 1t Is scientific failure. Among other
things he says:
IL maintained by the most eminent PHI sologiss Of
, wVs tnat vlvisecton Is not only cruelty but
scientnc failure since the information sought to be
npg 10 agony than the correct hour OF tie day be
recoraed by the clock while its machinery Is dsOrdered
the results may repetition these depOrable
oucheres needless for the that the
illus acquired Is already exhausted and gwen to the
world IN numerous learned reatses, and vsiby demon
SUI aea Dy mechanical preparations. rivang the anat-
vy vi nature ITSELF Lifeess bodies furnish all the evt-
uece necessary At the BEST therefore, these revolving
scees serve no other purpose than TO procure for the
ON the enactment Of brutal, practical tragedy In
moral point OF view is 1t WISE Is II safe, to thus extn
tae Is destined at some time TO penetrate professionally
me most sacred privacy OF domestic fe-the holy In
Even though these living dissections productive
guage OF learned writer on this subject, mankind
nave no right TO Information thus acquired" The
oensncent creator never designed that an immortal
work OF His band should be thus tortured and dis
figured even In the investigation OF His physical laws.
According 10 my informant numerous races OF animals
are at times 10 be found within your operating prem
lses, III various stages Of mutilation ana torture
some are to be with the Uranium removed
ana the brain taken OUT" another, Its abdO-
men opened, and the vessels leading 10 the
liver tied In such to allow nothing TO enter
or escape Oy the main CHANNEL" The agony OF this
poor creature particular" the writer, during
this experiment, which prolonged six weeks was
something excruciating, and its dismal bowls were
frlghtful TO hear, It's whole frame was raeked TO
pieces" Another experiment was that OF goat with
lis back open to the spinal marrow. In the attempt 70
perform hendlsh operation which 40 years before had
been effected and known TO all the medical
world While reading these frlghtf1l atrocities, per-
petrated on innocent, unoendng animals, the inquiry
springs so the lips the perpetrators OF them De hu
man bengsi Can che brain that c0nceIves them. the
heart tha olerate, and the hand that executes them
belong TO the being who. II said made IN Gods
own maget As natural and inevitable sequence 20
these dark deeds which the defenseess brute is the
VICTIM ruor ascrtbcs TO the hospital IN question the
niicton or erueltes the unfortunate human beings
whom accident brings within It's walls merciess In
the extreme and which, IL true merits that tue denu-
citation Of Dante should be inscribed over its terrible
pOrials.