Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04

pulled me quickly from where I had
fallen and hurried me out into the centre
of the apartment. 1t was large. win
dowless apartment, lit by some fragrant
preparation burning in skulls on lodges
about the room. The floor, walls, and
ceiling were composed of rock and clay.
In the centre of the room was a large
tub, about which were arranged brushes
Of every shape and size.
These gray headed demons stripped me
Of all my clothes, and raising me upon
their shoulders tossed me into the huge
tub 1t was half filled with a smoking
liquid Oh how hot it was In few
minutes they dragged me out, stood me
upon some feathers, and, dipping from
the tub with their huge whitewash
brushes, gave me coat after coat of the
hot fluid. Taking me between them,
they swung me in the air. l began to
dry. I felt my legs and arms straight
ening out, and getting stiff and immova
BILE; so, too, my neck and body.
I tried to speak, to cry out. It was
useless. [ only muttered something I'M
ineligible. | could not close my eyes,
and they began to pain me exceedingly.
When was perfectly dry and incapable
Of the least movement, one Of them
painted on my chest, in red, No. $685.
CTS, Sd series When this had dried they
put me in a dumb-waiter, or elevator,
Just large enough for one, and shot me
upward with such velocity that | could
hardly hold my breath. Suddenly it
stopped with a jerk that vibrated through
every part of my stiffened body. 1t was
pleasure, that pain, for it was a certain
sign of vitality. | no longer doubted
that / was alive. A door was opened and
two old men (they all looked and dressed
alike) caught me up between and carried
me into a brilliantly lighted hall. There
were rows of seats, bench above bench,
all occupied by men wearing black skull
caps. Upon the front of each was taste
fully worked in red silk the heart and its
great vessels. Upon raised seat, front
ing all these benches, (Which were ar
ranged in a semicircle) sat man of
large and commanding stature, though
old and wrinkled. He struck me as be-
ing the one who had called to my captors
frem the window. Ranged about the
room were a number of men as stiff and
immovable as myself. But they seemed
to be dead. A thrill of horror ran
through me. They stood me up against
a table in the centre of the ampitheatre,
facing the man on the raised seat
[ wondered what end there was to be
to these proceedings. All my fear
seemed to have passed away, and / was
possessed with an eager curiosity to know
who the strange men were, and why
had been brought there.
| was soon enlightened. He of the
scarlet cap addressed me-:
Your name?"
Edward Baker," aft0 short vocal
struggle.
"Your age?"
'Twenty-four."
Occupation?
"Medical student"
A chorus of groans greeted my last
reply.
"Young man." said he Of the scarlet
cap, " it is my duty and pleasure to ex-
plain to you fully who we are, and why
you have been brought here. We are
the spirits, the souls, if you chose, of
dead animals, clothed in. human flesh
Animals that have died in the cause of
science Animals that have been
cruelty drugged and butchered to throw
light upon various physiological
phenomena. We are, or rather were
dogs, cats, sheep, horses, COWS, rabbits,
frogs, toads, and fish, that have been
ruthlessly tormented and butchered by
the so-called men of science, often with
out any definite object in view; often to
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pumpkins, aspiring to the title of Doctor
in Medicine, point in physiology that
could have been equally well explained
without such sacrifice. We have been
cut, burned, subjected to violent shocks
Of electricity; starved to death, to prove
that butter and sugar will not sustain
life for a heightened period. We have
had tubes sewn into our stomachs, and
our gastric juice drained off, to give the
physiological chemist an opportunity to
analyze it. We have had our intestines
tied, and our kidneys extirpated, to
make or break the wild fancy Of an
empty theorist, and then been killed to
show the manner in which Rochelle salts
acted. We have had our nerves cut out
by the inch, to demonstrate the repro
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been broken and allowed to unite at all
sorts of angles to show the nature of bony
union, and the manner in which frac-
lures united. In fact, doctors, medical
Students and men Of science, have taken
from us the life God gave us, and, when
not doing that, have taken away the
pleasure of living, which is life itself.
1t is bad enough to hack and mutilate
the dead, fashioned in the image of their
maker, but worse, to torment and kill
poor animals that cannot help them
selves. You hurt us; did you not hear
us cry out?
Within the past year, you too, have
been our prosecutor and destroyer, and
it is given us to retaliate upon you.
upon those whom we obtain we try all
manner of physiological experiments,
being guided in our cruelty by the old
law, an eye for an eye and tooth for
a tooth The rabbit whose kidneys YOU
removed not long since, and who died in
the most intense agony, is here. He shall
name the kind Of experiment we will try