Little Falls herald., 1900-08-31
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D By West v1ee- President Of the
s Anti -Vivisection Society.
The viVisectional experiments made
4 at Trenton, N. j., are but the bungling
! incoherencies of every novitiate In the
! physiological laborato tory. .s. s
{! There are probably no students so
arrogant as the medical They must
go over all the old stock experiments;
the old paths must be trod, the ancient
blunders recommitted by.each genera
tion of Students. EverySt Styro must pro-
duce the ''gruesome wound full Of
bloodHan mangled tissue" in order. to
feel those thrills of Joyful aexcitefne
and delight SO eloquent1y described by
! tha atSEarch-experimelte Of France, nj.
| Cyon.S a,$j$ ~ }FE::$E@5 ifG."G5:s .Iy.ry-s
il, What matter if every experiment
performed yields a contradictory result,
It, is only dogs and hospital patients.
that are being hacked to- pieces. g. w..
Prof: Slossonl, of, New York, graveix
declares that "a human life is nothss
| ing when compared to a new fact.n So.
where is the harm, even if a. bread
winner. is removed from the family SO
| long as a new fact has been discov-
| cred ?:z - @-S.- :. ~
These vivisectiOrs are not only abso-
lutely useless and misleading so far as
| medicine and surgery are concerned but
| they are q danger and a menace to the
l poor and friendless in our hospitals.
Dr. j. S. Pyle, when pleading for the
| right: to Use condemned criminals for
Vlylsection purposes, declared that
| That part of medical science which
| applies solely to the human constitu-
| ton cannot be stucied upon any other
class OF animals; therefore, yivisection-
| upon the lower animals opens a field
| OF unlimited Importance for the same
work upon the capital criminal class"
DI. Pyle has only stated the plain
| truth, and has at .:he same time fur
nished those who oppose vivisection
| With one Of their suundest and strong
| est arguments. Il
Every student of physiology and
medicine knows perfectly we'll that
! animals differ in structure, habit and
| development, and sny experiment per-
|
| may be expected 10 take place if an
animal OF the same species and similar
| temperament were placed under pre-
| ciseiy the same conditions and circu1u-
! stances. You cannot argue from one
! animal to another, much less from ami
| mai to man. Prof. Rutherford, of Ed
| inburgh, when before the Royal Conn.,
| mission which sat in England to in
| int n "a oh sr,f ~
mitted that his ''experiments upon ami
mails were no guide as to what would
take place in the human subject"
| Take those experiments which doc
tors perform upon the brains of mon
! keys. They profess to investigate the
cause and cure of brain disease in man;
they have paid man the high compli-
ment by selecting monkeys and chick
] ems as the subjects of their expert
| 1ents.~ The skulls Of these animals
have been opened and the brain in
jured in various ways, then a window
has been placed into the skull in order
that the investigator may watch the
| progress of the disease induced But
| he can only study the effects of the
| injuries which he himself has inflicted
! and they no, more resemble natural
| diseases than granite cubes resemble
| fine gold. =. e. ~ :,
Brain diseases in the ordinary way
start from the inside and are of slow
or rapid growth . and DEVELOPMENT,
whereas the Injuries produced by the
| }vfvisector are at once violent and me-
/ 'chanlcal-a breaking into from with
out. Such experiments are unscientitic
and useless. E,% IS %
T. DR., David -F'errier, who is said to be
the pioneer of modern brain surgery
Land who performed experiments upon
all kinds Of animals in order to study
| the functions Of the brain, says in the
! preface to his great work on that SUBJ
| ject,, Experiments upon animals, even
upon apes, Which were specially se-:
| lected, for their near resemblance %.
7 man IN structure habit and Develop
ment, lead to conclusions seriously at
variance with the we'll established
facts of clinical and pathological OBJ
| servation." - - ! ~
Those experiments which are per-
formed upon the stomachs of calves
are even more grotesque and useless
| The scientists" will watch through
window cut into the stomach of asliv-
| ing calf the process of5digestion under
| abnormal conditions violently produc-
ed It will not teach them why it is
that ordinary cows milk is too harsh
forSthe 5digestive organs of many ba-
bies, while puppies.and kittens can eat
and digest with ease and comfort the
| flesh, bones and even fur of rats and
mice! ..-, -..
+ This practice of vivisection has been
going on for more than 1000 years,
and to-day the best surgeons in the
world are opposed to it. They declare
that it has done@little but retard the
progress Of surgery and unfit the sur
| geon for practice.
| Mr.. Frederick Treves, who is without
doubt one of. the greatest of Surgeons
| says: Some years ago I performed
sundryz experiments upon the intes-
I tines of dogs, but such are the differ
I ences between the human and the sca- .
nine intestineE that when / came to
| operate upon man 7 found that was.
much hampered by my new experience
and that I had everything to unlearn
My experiments upon dogs had done
little but unfit me to deal with the hu-