The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-24


Papers have been received from the
American Anti.Vivisection Society,
whose Office is at llS South Seven.
t6enth street, Philadelphia. They
contain ON important letter from Rev.
Canon Wilberiorce. who In speech at
the annual meeting OF the society
characterized vivisectors as human
devils" One of the medical irater-
nifty resented 1t as ''uncharltable, un.
Just and libellous." whereupon the
Urave and humane Wherefore. in a
powerful speech. proved the stand
point he had taken by recounting case
after case Of almost unheard OF afro
city.
They included "baHlng, freezing
burning, pouring oil ON living ami
mails. saturating them with infiamma
BILE oil and setting them on fire. starry
ing to death. skinning alive, cutting
of the breasts while giving milk
gouginP out the eyes. Harding the fee
with nails, forcing broken glass into
ears. intestlnes and muscles, making
lncisions in the skull and Twisting
about bent needle in the BRAIN" ant
all this torture without giving on,
ence.
Harvey testifes hlmslf that thu
discovery of the circulation Of tn
blood was due to anatomy and not t,
vlvisection." / will give one instanc,
to prove the dlabollcal nature OF tn,
experiments. At the late medica
Congress held In Berlin, Chicago
Professor performed tefore the as
sembled doctors some experiment.
upon dog. A French journal in de
scriblng 1t says that the Professor
reared out, hand me over that dog.
The unfortunate animal was brought
into the room carefully muZZled anC
with It's legs tied down. The PROBES
sor then proceeded to pump the pool
beast full OF sulphurretted hydrogen
gas. Now gentlemen" he shouted
"the gas will issue from his mouth IL
stream and / will set fire to 1t.
lighted match was set to the dog
mouth with no result; second, 0
third, a whole box full and nothing
came out OF 1t but burning the hair on
the dogs Jaws"
Then came the second part OF the
experiment, Now gentlemen said the
Professor you will see the effect
when the gas has been jumped into
the bowels when they have been
wounded" He then produced loaded
revolver and fired bullet ieto the
wretched animals abdomen. The dog
yelled plteously and the bleeding crea-
ture was subjected to repetition OF
the gas injection. The rest of the
story was too horrible to tell even In
the pages of an English Medical Jour
nal. "And now"said, Wilberforce do
you imagine that / should consider
myself under an obligation to apollo.
gise for stlgmatlzing such men as in
human Devils?" Lady Burdetts Coutts
wrote book especially to prove that
no advancement to medical aclenco
had ever been gained, that every ex-
pertinent tried OIL the human body
had been disastrous failure. The
papers received urge all human people
to join the Society and use every eff
fort to make the barbarous and de-
morallzing practice illegal.
II did say and emphutically reiter-
ate 1t, that persons capable Of doing
certain deeds, such for example as
leaving n dog cruciiled to the torture.
trough, kept alive by artificial iespira.
ton in agony unspeakable, through.
out the long hours OF the night and
sometimes from Saturday Until Mon
day, while they themselves retired to
the rest and comforts Of their own
homes, hoping to find their subject
alive for further experiment upon
their return to the laboratory. were
acting as inhuman devils" L. WEBB.