The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-20
A Terrible, Because Truthful. In
d.ctment.
OFFICE OF PHILIP G. PEABODY,
AttOrneu and Counsellor nk- LINN

OFFICE OF PHILIP q. PEABODY,
Attorney aud CounselLor-at- Lao,
BosToN, MASS, Dec. /. 1892.
Mr.. j. WINFIELD ScoTr Boston, Mass.
DEAR SIR:-I have read with much
interest your arraignment of the doctors
In The Drug Delusion," but you have
omitted the greatest maintainable indict-
ment against them. 1t is none the less
q reproach that all do not actually COM
nit the crime, for they aid and encour-
age It,, and 1t Is only possible because Of
their defence of 1t.
i refer to one of the most cowardly
and hypocrtical crimes Of the present
age, and delusion as well as q crime
the practice of vivisection. Vivisection
Is lhe cutting UP, burning and miscel-
laneOus tOrturing Of live animals. We
are told by some doctors that this terri.
BILE practice has been the means OF dis
covering various important facts, and
that without it we should now be ignor-
ant vi many things that are Of great
value to the healing art. Unfortunately
for the doctors, there are many Of us who
know something about vivkection, and
we know that the claims so frequently
set forth in behalf Of vivisection are alb
solutely and unqualifedly false.
Most persons who know a little OF 1t
land only few know even little) think
that 1t is a very uncommon thing, con-
cned in practice TO few leading men OF
science; but in fact, animals. Of high
order that have been and are being yiyi-
sected are numbered by millions. To IL
lustrate: Inside of ten years Schih, a
noted man I'm this kind of business, viyi-
sected fourteen thousand O4,000) dogs.
1t is estimated that he vivlsected inside
of this same brief time seventy thousand
G1,000) animals Of various kinds; and
since then he wasvegrlarly torturing ten
dogs each week. To prove one thing,
ever nine thousand C9000) dogs wero vivi-
sected, and the result was then in doubt.
A well-kn0wl veterinary surgeon
named Murdock, in work published by
him, gives an account OF visit TO
laboratory In France, as follows:
"Herc lay six or seven living horses, fixed
by every mechanical device by the head and
feet to pillars, while the students were engaged
In performing different operations. The sight
was truly horriblel The operations had begun
early in the forenoon, IL now being three
o'clock. The poor wre;ches had
ccased being able 10 make any violent struggles,
but the deep hravlng of the painting chest, and
the horrid look of the eyes, when such were yet
left In the head. the head itself being lashed TO
apillar, was narrowing beyond cnduranco.i
The students had begun their days work
in the least Vital parts of tile animals. The
trunks were there, but they had lost their tails,
hoots, ears, etc; and the operators were now
engaged la the more important operations,
such as tying the arteries, trepanning the
craiIium, cutting down upon The sensitive parts
-as we are informed, on expressing our hor-
Tor - that they might see the retracton OF the
muscles by pinching and irritating the various
nerves.
"one animal had side Of the head includ.
Ing the eye and ear, completely dissccted, and
other students were laying open and cauteriz-
Ing the hook OF the same ANIMAL"
Mr.. Rogers adds to this:
"The number Of horses operated upon Ia six,
twice week; sixty.iour operations are per-
formed on each horse, md four or five generally
die before hat the operations are completed; /;
and, ns 10 takes two days To 20 through tie list,
the remaining one or two poor animals nre left
nllyc, halfmnngled, until the next morning,
only 10 be subjected TO additional tortures.
"Among the operations which / remember,
were firing in every part where IL could or
could not be required, operations for removing
the lateral cariilagrs, which involves tearing
operation tor stone, In which stone IL put into
the bladder and afterwards removed, opera
uoas for hernia, nicking, removal OF the ears,
eyes, etc.
"The effect Of all this on the minds Of tho
students may be inferred from the sang ft'oid
ola student Who was firing n horses nose, as
he said for pasiime.
man, one Of eight, on certain operation day,
having unfortunately retained life throughout
the nendish ordeal, and looking like nothing
ripped open, skin torn aud ploughcd by red.hot
irons, riddled by sctons, tendOns severed, hoof-
lcss, sghtless, md defencelcss, was exultingly
reared Baron Won Weber says, 'amid laugh.
ter , ON her bleeding feet just when gasping
for breath and dying, 20 show what derferky
had done In completing It's work before death
took place."
Is Tt surprising that the late Henry
Bcrgh considered that this untitled "the
physician for the intimate and tender re-
lations Of friend and adviser" and made
him "Eencc moro 10 be dreaded than
disease itself?"
Annsthetics are practically never used (;
many animals, other than man, cannot
be anesthetizcd: dogs, especially, will
usually die of the an1stheiic. Many
yiylsecti0ns are performed solely for tho
sake o. causing pain: many last for
weeks, some for six or seven months; OF
course augSthctics are never used In any
VI thcse. a great English physician
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