New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-22
vIvISECTION: reform IT ALTOGETHER. -
so SAYS THE SECRETARY or THE AMERICAN
ANrIvIvIsECTIoN SOCIETY.

ANTIVIVISECTION SOCIETY.
Totho Editor The Tribune.
Sir want 10 toll you how highly eratlfcd | was
o., s.,iuu your editorial in The Tribune ot July en-
titled Brutal Scientific SPORT" and how much /
thank you for writing IL. What you complain OF ~
that article viz the performance Of cruel experiments
upon animals. which can result In no good Whatever
IN mankind is an inscpdrable accompaniment, be
yo to tho practice Of vlvsection. 1t is 50 demoraH-
ing % inGlct these fortunes upon helpless animdN
that In IN, majority 81 cases It blHnS the SenShiI'c'
halcns the heart. and at tho same time ensehdcr' a
morbid curiosity and AN m-atinblc desire to ma ont
something that has not before been Discovered no
matter whether IL can be- claimed TO result in any
benefit to tho human race or not Hence 1t II thar
the annals of the vVlscctors abound IN instances Ok
Tho most hrartlc,s harbarity.
When >lm'r NantcS,1za pracu,cd HIS experiments
In measuring pain a few year, ago. he did not, a' /
understand. make oven claim that thoy wrr' IN any
way for the good Of mankind. Yet anything m"''
atrocious than they were can scarcely be HHNl"c"'
lie invented an instrument which he thought "'"'N
nnict the most exquisite pain II was ia MS power u
bcstow by crushing p,rts Of the body preNl"uNN u,
namcd 10 the greatest pitch by piercing with mans.
lie took number Of rabbits aid guinea pigs am
keeping them entirely without food, subjected ueh
for certain number Of hoars each day To TINS te'"o
torture To see how long they could h'c uhu'' "'
combined influence of intense suffering ana SaN'""'
These experiments lie performed for whole year. wv"
I'm his book dc>c r,bng them he says "th'S' NY ~
pcrmcnts were carried ON for year Win mh'" ="
tiAnce and great love icon motto amOlc e wOua pa
tIcnla could mention similar atrOcue, on iv P ~
~ other Vlvscct0rs. but this Is enough 10 Prov ~"
necessity OF the stand society take~' ttt we '"o.
trust 10 such men the power - micuh- pluu w." .
animals and a. IL is entirely impossible to devise any
ADEQUATE restrictive law there remains only the oV''
abolition Of painful vivi'cct"n. ~ .,,. ,,r,
There il another reason Tor our taking thlN t
which IS. that Il Is que lion whether wynn GOOD
~ iVe nt anil
and whether IL would not be boon Ia the human ',
ns well As 10 the lower orders of creation, 10 nav
# discontinued We know that majority OF tlc il.u
icnl prof .ion approve OF II strongly, ana ueIcNc %
~ Iva. beru productive Of great benefit but that i
hcc1rsn they have not invcS gated the subject lPa
rcad nothing on our side general tllhe' anu u.
the exceptional cases where they do reaI tIeN az
invlrahly com" over 10 our way 81 uilhhuI, ~ ~.
urnrsed me greatly o. lind how Ignorant nearly III
nhy scinns are on this subject. aud how uMhs lucy
prr tn acauaint thcm.clvce with what might cghlcn
fhcm n is either an un"iUWgncSs OF an I""''''V"''
that seems to almost criminal . ..,,,,,.
'''"' ''''' CAROLINE EARLE INVITE.
Corresponding secretuy American ,AntlNNisec
society.
Nontncket, Mass. July l.. 1890