Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-17
VIVISECTION.
Scientific Cruelty Among Some Par
isian Medical Students.
Fortunes OF Dumb srutes in Perform.
ing the Shocking Experiments of
ViyIsectfon---sR OF
the Students.
[Paris Cor. Cincinnati Encnirer. !

Paris Cor. Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Inc room was long with low ceiling,
dirnly lighted, and reeking with tobacco
smoke. About a dozen students were gath
cred around heavy table in the &C n.re of the
room, and rot one of them looked up on our
entrance. All the lamps in the room were
suspended over the table. Half dozen spar
rows were chirping in a cage near the door,
and directly under them was tin box, per-
haps six feet long by two feet high with a
wire front. Two rabbits and bunch Of
Guinea pigs, huddled together SO closely as
to make counting them impossible, occupied
the box
A full grown Newfoundland dog was
chained to ring in the wall about ten feet
from the doorway, and was lying on bis side,
with his feet extended rigidly from him, in
such an unnatural position that he seemed to
be dead
''AhaF cried Georges, is he gone at i&sts'
He hurried over toward the dog, but had not
reached him by five PAGES when the animal
raised his head a few inches from the foor
held it up for a minute and then dropped it
again suddenly. The movement was just
enough to show that he was not dead. and to
attract attention to a muslin bandage which
was bound tightly about the muzzle.
THAT is to prevent his howling," Georges
explained, ''and if you viii look closely you
will see that his claws have been cut off,
so that he cannot tear the bandage with his
feet"
"Bus why shou Id he howlp'
HE IS starving to death, man. He has had
no food for two weeks, and 1 thought that at
last ne was dead when came IN moment
ago.
Several Of US want to see how starvation
affects the various organs, and as soon as he
is dead we mean to dissect him and satisfy
ourselves. Cruels Oh, yes, of course it
seems cruel to you, but wait until the night is
over before you talk about cruelty.
Most OF the experiments that we perform
here have been previously performed at the
colleges by the professors in the presence of
the classes. But q man can not satisfy him
self on all the points at one demonstration,
and SO we meet here to perform an operation
over and over again until every one Of US is
satisfied"
The table about which the students were
gathered had depression in the centre,
from which a narrow trough led downward
to bucket on the floor. A tall young man
with pair of blonde mustaches and an i'm
perial was holding a little black terrier over
the depression, while companion neatly
slit its throat lengthwise from chin to chest.
In spite Of the fact that this dogs 1nuzzle
was bound like the others it gave vent to
several inarticulate cries that made me sick.
But not student blanched. They pressed
around, while the manipulation barred the lit
tie creatures jugular vein and stretched It
out upon sheet OF snooth-edged glass He
next produced a small bottle, and with the
utmost care slowly dropped from it a liquid
upon the barred vein.
''Tha5 is a deadly poison" Georges ex-
planned. ''The experiment IS an old one de
signed to Illustrate the absorptive qualities Of
the venai walls.''
The muscles Of the terrier began to twitch
violently when the poison made its way
through the walls OF the vein into the blood,
and after a couple Of minutes his whole body
was convulsed with a spasm that made it
almost impossible to hold him in position.
The commissions continued for another min
ute, and his cries became louder and more
continuous In six minutes after we ap-
preached the table and the dog was dead.
Three of the students seized the body and
carried it away for dissection.
A bellglass, which contained rather less
than cubic foot Of air. was next pushed into
sight, showing that sparrow was imprisoned
under it. The bird hoped feebly about, and
made no demonstration when a companion
was put in to share its captivity.
'The first bird has been imprisoned under
the glass for exactly one hour" came the ex-
planation, ''and yet there is no doubt that
the bird which has just been placed with it
will be the first to succumb to the influence Of
the vitiated air, showing conclusively that one
who is gradually enured to breathing bad air
can indure it much better than one suddenly.
thrust into the foul atmosphere"
In four minutes the second bird was dead,
while the other, which had been imprisoned
sixteen times as long, was able to fly up to its
perch when it was placed in the cage with
the others
squealing guinea-pig was tortured by
the insertion of flexible needle in each of
its ears, for the purpose of destroying the ear
drums preliminary to proving that total
deafness does not follow their destruction.
Several live pigeons and rabbits were
carved for various reasons and then a
young black and white bull-pup, which had
been worrying an old shoe and chasing his
tail about the room all evening, was secured
III the trough.
An emetic was administered to him, but
before it could take effect an inciSion was
made in his abdomen and with the aid of
through the aperture. He struggled violently
and made spasmodic efforts to Yomit, but, to
the delight of the demonstration, his efforts
were in vain.
''This experiment." explained the young
man conducting it, ''has been been tried be-
fore many times; but it is so beautiful that
it will be tried many times more. 1t proves
conclusively that the ability to vomit does
not rest in the stomach, but in the muscles of
the abdomen and in the diaphragm. See."
He pressed the exposed stomach between his
hands as a child presses hollow rubber ball,
and Immediately vomiting was produced.
500 you never use ether, chloroform, or some
anesthetic before operating On your vic
tims?s asked.
"We cannot afford it Besides the pro-
fessors in the college use none"
sBahr' cried a student near Us. "Why
should we use anything Of that kinda We
do not care for any human consideration
that will stand between Us and knowledge
We must have knowledge, and the suffering
of dog or cat does not weigh with us tho
value Of one pin.n
After little scuff1ing the remaining rab-
bit was captured and brought to the operat-
ing table, where the skin was neatly cut
away from the top of his head and turned
over his eyes in the shape of two bleeding
flaps. A circular piece was then delicately
sawed out of his skull, portion of the brain