Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

thet dangerous angulation of bowel would
,,,e [ui dI Such sutured points. My expert
iiiSH'S Win dogS and rabbits disproyed the
ldea that angulation of bowel wnuId Icc,,r
provided that the work was done in a 30.
tam way. and this has allowed surgeons tn
give their patients the benefit of a nro,
Tb,' M WING ooyiates much human misery
III method mas been widely adopted
l. n method for the remoyaI - d.,
ppie ny The application of dilute mineraI
- - i.'a ptth advocated from time to time
~ ,li4ous surgeons, but, for an unknown
reason the treatment was not very srccass-
lGl by experimenting upon the c,raraaa
OF living turtle | found a cause for ira
1aliures and added a pan of procedure of
, Tiiirn surgeons have been glad to avail
themselves IN the interest of their uatients
without such animal experimentstion tba
cause or failure would probably have re-
manned undiscovered
l. After certain abdominal operatiors
surgeons have commonly applied abdominal
supporters that We're a source of much Ji.
comfort Tor their patients. BY experiment.
Ing upon rabbits / determined that such
supporters could be discarded. The fact
would nave been discovered eventually, in
our work upon patients, but my experimenf
gave an early decision in the matter and
patients VINO would have suffered disc0m-
III are now renewed. as a result of facts
Drought out by the experiments
Patients Spared Grave Danger
>. Surgeons discovered that they were
t1i14c'A ~ q pSil their WOrk the biOminal
cavity by touching part of the bowel with
salt which excited active movement of
the muscular coat of the bowel. This indi-
Gated the direction of any given loon of
bowel BY experimenting with rabbits for
'ht simple purpose of confirming the widely
pup lShed reports upon the aesirability Of
TINS step in progress. l discovered that il
was accompanied by grave danger known
as the production of intussusception Nv
FURNISHING the report upon nv discovery
surgeons were enabled to avoid subiectinp
tneir patients to the grave danger Incident
a,ts my experiment demonstrated the mech
aIitsih OF lntussusception. This had been
the subject of much discussion in the mod
icai profession. but my experiment can now
be r6ne an object lessen in tba -
e1ce of an audience.
- Surgeons are experimenting unon ma
tients 10 discover the best way for curing
tuberculosis of the peritoneum | exneri-
fnented upon rabbits and developed infor-
nation which is of much value In the un-
outstanding of the subject
These experiments above noted have
been directly of benefit in relieving human
suffering. In addition, | have performed
many other experiments that gave vaniahia
negative testimony.
To Benefit Humanity
las a lover of animals and as a per,b.-
OF humane profession 1 have taken as
much care to avoid suffering upon the mart
OF the animals as L would be expected to
take My experiments, like those of yiyt-
sectors of my acquaintance, have had for
their object the single purpose of benefit
ing humanity My own work demonstrates
only tr1ffing proportion of the advance
that Is annually made by surgeons in va
rlous parts of the world through animal
experimentation. Unfortunately the men
VINO are doing advance work in the inter-
ests of science and humanity usually have
such contempt for the methods of the unin-
formed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that they will
not even deign TO make statement Of their
side of the case. and legislative commit
tees are apt to be influenced by the emo
tional, well-meaning people who make
strenuous effort to convince committees
along the lines in which they themselves
have been msinformed- The fact that
there are physicians among the anti-yivi-
sectionists is evidence simply of the fact
that such physicians have been too much
interested in other matters to give atten-
ton to the proper requirement of knowI-
! edge upon this subject"