New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-27
TUISECTION DISCUSSED.
RECENT rTTERANcEs OF LORD LISTER AND
PROFESSOR vIRCHOw.

RECENT r-TTERANCEs OF LORD LISTER AND
PROFESSOR vIRCHOw.
Lord Lister who ranks foremost among sur
geons and medical men in Great Britain at the
present time on account Of his having orig
mated antiseptic surgery. paid his respects the
other day to the anti-vivisection cranks Bio
logical laboratories had been built at Liverpool
through the munifcence OF Mr.. Thompson
Yates and these were about TO be dedicated.
An imposing preliminary to that ceremony as
the comforting OF the degree OF Doctor OF Science
upon Lord Lister by Victoria University in Liv-
erpool Lord Kelvin Professor Nirchow and
many other distinguished men were present
In his address Lord Lister dwelt on the value
OF biological investigation He said that II an
engineer wishes TO 1T himself for the task Of
remedying whatever went wrong in his ma -
chinerv h. must see and handle the details Of
the mechanism Just SO the more familiar a
man is with the marvellousy complicated
mechanism OF the human body. the better able
he is 10 deal with It's disorders. Both the
scalpe and microscope are needed in such in
uulries Some people he remarked, might OBJ
Jet to these researches. because the latter in
volve the sacrifice Of animal life. but this is
nothing compared with what occurs in obtain
ing a supply of food FOR man
The eminent surgeon then went on to empha-
size the fact that anesthetics are 80 generally
used in this class OF work that vivisection is
almost universally painless. lie himself had
greatly surprised former Chancellor OF the
Fxchequer upon whom he had waited one of
a dcputation this subject. when he explained
that the operations for the removal Of the brain
Of a monkey which the Chancellor had imagined
10 be attended with terrible torture. had. thanks
To the ansesthetc ami 10 the antiseptic, been
probably from first To last not attended with a
tWngc Of pain.
smoke i'm the following manner on the same sub
iec,: THE same kind OF immature and ncom-
petent arguments that have been the stock i'm
trade Of the Observation-Disclosures have served the
purpose Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. | spoke very
strongly tine subject in 1881 at the opening
~ the international Medical Congress here. and
am glad 10 see that much Of the opposition 10
experimental medcin" has subsidized since and
that public opinion has ceased 10 consider it as
barharitr. People should understand that ex-
periments are made for the sake Of humanity
ana for It's good. and not FOR the purpose Of in
0icting pain on animals. There Is no doubt
that abuses have existed but you cannot con-
denim the practice because Of them.
"BcsCeS since the discovery Of bacteria the
method HIS taken fresh lease Of life. and IL is
impossible 10 test bacteria on their virulence
otherwise than with the aid of experimental
medicine. Nobody denies the number of cures
Of diphthcria due To injection Of the serum:
thar ON animals? There are no means Of cur
ing certain diseases unless tho virus is tested
on animals And the same applies to the testing
81 other injections which are kept in stock by
chemists and are manufactured and sold for
medical purposes
PROPERTIES or PRE- CiLCIUN.
From Nature"
The properties of calcium wero recently discus sod
before the Taris Academy % Science by NJ Mois.
san The melting point determined by a therrno-
couple. found TO be $50 degrees G. Thu metal
can be- cut hut 1t Is much less mallsahle than
sodium q potassium. ~ II can he broken. and
shows a crystalline fracture When totally fre,
from nrid@ us color is brilliantly white reca ing
that Of silver
The density found to he about ls5 and q is
hard enough to scratch lead. hut not calcium car
donate Neither chloride. bromine iodine
lacks calcium IN the cold although the correspond
ing halod salts formed ~ higher temper
eturca.
Calcium burns brilliantly In oxygen. the temper
AZURE resulting from the combustion being high
that part of the Quicklimc produced melted
and yolatilized. When burned IN air the calcium
combines with both constituents together. nitrde
and oxide being simultaneously formed. Al dull.
ed heat the metal also combines with carbon with
great energy. At high temperatures the reducing
power Of calcium is remarkable, oxygen being