The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-05
BERGH ON SCIENCE.
He Wants to Know About the Expert
ments on Animal Life at Bellevue
Hospital College.

He Wants to Know About the Expert
ments on Animal Life ut Bellevue
Hospital College.
Not content with exercising general SUPER
vision over dog fights, pigeon shooting, horse
beating and cruelty in the slaughter houses Mr..
Bergh, the body, heart and brains Of the Society
Tor the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals. is now
extending his criticisms to the mode In which ex-
periments are made by the scientists into The
economies OF animal life and the functions and
action OF the various organs with their relation to
health and disease. In this view he has just ad.
dressed the following letter to Professor Flint, Jr
OF Bellevue. Hospital College,
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TIKI PREVENTION or
oHufs re ATyx fognru
srrI take the liberty of inviting your attention to
dcg Desosa Of the Soh inst The writer speak
ii You would either deny ayow his asse lions il may
address you years age ON the SUBJECT wSeS 70
prompts the present communication In that GORE.
alleged cruee; Of the dissecng room We're greatly exc
pyo UNDER your rectcn WAS not 1 e S
iron the Shafge OF ssperimsnts dumb
to perceive that the experiments referred TO by the
at hs az ysr
II Is maintained by the most eminent Psychologists OF the
thc failure the information sought be obtained
ing in agony hsn the eorrest hour Of the day can be re-
blythe clock while the Is
But so her and declare that however accurate The
butcherics Is needless, tor the reason thai the
knowledge thus acquired is already exhausted
aud ysbly demonstrated by mechanical preparations,
riYan2 the anatomy Of nature itself Lieess bodies
nrn. al the evidence necessary. AT the best theTe-
fore these revolving scenes no other purpose than
procure tor the young student the denora1na ex.
element atte ndsnt the of brutal practi.
cal rsgeay. IN moral point OF view Is IL wise Is il
that Is destined time to pene-
irate proes onay the sacred privacy OF Domestic
such terrible agencies. humanity and public policy re-
spond, MOI
Even though these living dissectons were productive
OF all that their advocates claim Tor them in tho Ian.
guage OF learned writer on this Subject ',narkinn
have right to information thus acquired" The bonef
icen Creator never designed that immortal work Of
the investigate OF His physical laws Accordn, 10
nv informant, numerous OF animals are al times
TO be found within your operating premises in various
with The Uranium removed and the brain
taken OUT another, its abdomen opened, and the
vessels leading TO toe liver tied in such
BY the main channel p The agony Of this Door
creature. in PARTICULAR says the writer, during this
thing excrucating aud its dismal bowls were trighui
hear As its whole frame was rscked TO pieces An.
other experiment was that of goat with its back
opened to thespinsl marrow in the attempt TO perform
aendish operation which forty wears before had been
enected aud known to all The MEDICAL world While
reading these irghtn atrocities perpetrated on nno
lips Can the perpetrators of them he human bcingss
Can the BRAIN that conceives them the heart chat ts.
crates and The hand that executes them belong to
own magef As u natural and nevitaiie sequence to
these dark dccfs of which the dcienceir,s brute is the
victim rumor sserbes to the hospital in question the
whom accident brings within its walls as merciless In
Dc ss"nms srA' wnnh frna warits that the drpan-