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 Mt Bellevue
HOsuftal College.

He Wants to Know About the Expert
ments ON Animal Life Mt Bellevue
Hospital College.
Not content with exercising q 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-
perlments 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 lust ad-
dressed the following letter to Professor Flint Jr
OF Bellevue. Hospital College,
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR rnR PREVENTION or
CRUELTY TO ANNALS, HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AVENUE
-, CoRsnP IwEsrr;shooND STREET, August u, 1874.
srr-I take the liberty of inviting your attention to
dag Dssoera Of the sosh inst The writer speak
You would either deny or avow his sssersions il NAV
not have escaped your recollection that yenured to
prompts the present communication In that CORE.
alleged cruees Of the dissoens roon We're greatly eN
sEseraed While you ad not deny that thai branch OF
rom the charge Of psrf9rmns rinsnts dumb
to perceive that the experiments referred to by the
wer OF f esSne IN Sy
II Is manianea by the most eminent physologists Of The
inc failure since the information soaaht to be Obtained
NO bsa s nS wne The BODY With
corded blythe clock while the machinery disordered
But fur her and declare that however accurate the
bueheries Is needless, ior the reason that The
knowledge thus acquired is already exhausted
and given to the WORLD in learned treatises
rYsn2 the anatomy Of nature itself Lileess bodies
furnish al the EVIDENCE necessary. At the best there
fore reyong scenes other purpose than
element ate ndsn the enactment of brutal practi-
cal tragedy. IN moral point OF view Is IL wise Is II
spractitlonerhe that is destined some time to pene,
trate proes onay the sacred privacy OF domestic
lifethe holy instincts OF pity and compassion through
such terrible asencies' Humanity and public policy
Even though these living dissecons were productive
OF all that their advocates claim them in the Ian.
have right to Information thus acquired" The bonef
icent Creator designed that an immortal work of
His hand should be thus tortured and disHgured even in
the investigation OF His physical laws According to
my informant, numerous OF animals are al times
to be found within your operating premises in various
stages OF mu n ana torturei some are TO be
taken out:n another, its abdomen opened, and the
vessels leading TO toe liver tied in such a
BY the main channel p The agony Of this noor
creature. In particular, says the writer 'urny this
experiment which was prolonged six weeks was some.
thing excrucatins and its dsna howls were frightiuI
to hear its whole frame was racked to pieces An.
other experiment was that OF a goat with its back
opened TO thespins marrow in the attempt perform
eGecped and known to all The medical world While
reading these irghtfa atrocities perpetraed on inno
lips, Can the perpetrators of them be hunai beings
Can the brain that conceivcs them the heart that Ia.
crates and the hand that executes them belong 10
own imaget As a natural and nevitaGIe seauenec rs
these dark dceHs OF which the dcfenceess brute is the
VICTIM rulnor ascrbcs 10 the hospta In question the In.
whom accident brings within walls AZ mrrciless In
Do sS"nms I'M wnnh y frna warits that the drpan-