The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-12
n,prcroas mrnr 10 DISCUSS.
proposed Anti-Vivisection Iegl-is''o" J"
,h. District Of Columbia.

nh, directors OF the New England
administration Society met. IN summer
s.seion. Thursday. July 9th. and for the
first time since the late spring al tne.r
i,,.,or hoadquartcrs. l14a fremont slI'''.
H., eteence of President Philip fea-
t,dv who is travelling abroad LOT ms
h.,ifh WAS noted with regret. III Ills
absence the chair was taken 10y lhe ~
President. Dr. Elliott Preston VINO "'
rected attention 90 the Significant TACT ',''.
!, ,,tdespread and general alarm preFaled
among the opponents lesl~clAlly lno9' '-
the medical professiOm, or the DIN
Gently introduced in Congress Dy senator
Gallincer. - New Hampshire TO 90 """'
Win the unnecessary and cruel yiyisection
of animals. %
Dr Preston said that the opponents OF
,ho hiu were evidently aware that enor-
mon. damage 20 their cause had 'een cone
bv the extensive ventilation in the press
nj the true horrors ~ vivisection. Never
before had so many persons OF eminence
and brains supported a bill brought oeiolc
Congress. as i'm this present instance Il
yr4s annarent that the only reason that
,ivisection had been SO generally permit
ted was because the public knew next 10
nothin- concerning rs true nature anu
enormous extent. The public had lost
an faith i'm the reliability of NiNlSectoIs
statements. Or. IA. l.. 3oWditch mad
duplicatcd the statement OF ID nro'H'i
Harvard professor w. Townsend foiteD.
i'm the Boston Transcript "Maniiesio OF
July g. 1879 that he knew nothing WHAT
ever of painful yiyisecti0n ever neins done
there whereas frightfully painful expert
ments. Of his own. on cats. were recorded
i'm the printed reports of the Harvard COL
lolye laboratory over nine hundred cats
Were yivisccted there. i'm all- Even Nltl-
sectiOnlsts themselves admit that thls
present bill is but the precursor OF SINH
lar vigorous attempts 10 secure humane
LEGISLATION througout the United states.
The thanks of the directors were ten
dered the editors Of the New York Sun
day World" Life etc. who are per
forming highly valued service for Anti.
Niysection.
Attention was also called 10 the fact
that President Peabody had published re-
Gently. IN the Boston Globe. a challenge 10
DR.. " L. BOwditch 10 prove his claims
for viyisection. made before the 'Massa-
chusetts Medical Society but no response
had been received thereto-which was eN-
actly what was expected. and the chal-
lenpe Is likely 10 remain permanently un-
accepted. for the best Of all possible rea-
sons
The dire significance Of the more or less
open demand by vivsectors. the world
over. for living human subjects 10 super
sede the wretched animals which now Ian
guissh IN their hideous torture-iroughs,
was discussed. Following hard upon the
heels Of the early instances OF that same
demand comes the startling but strictly
scientific CD evolution Of the viyisector
and vivisectionst doctor into a wholly
unique type-that OF the medical muir
dsrcr." For the vast majority ~ such
bloody Sayings. vivisection Is doubtless
responsible as a close examination OF all
the facts viii prove-from Jack the Rip
per" (known TO be a Psychologist or med
zeal man. down 10 Holmes, the multi
murderer and arch monster Of this cen
tury who compared the agonlzed look Of
pitcous appeal in the eye Of his little son,
while he was. In cold blood. numbering
him. TO that I'm the eyes of a rabbit quiy-
ering under the vivisectors remorseless
knife.