Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-15
GALL|NGER REPLIES
New Hampshire Answers DR..
Keen's Open Letter on Sub
iect of Yiyisection
DEFENDS THE PROPOSED LAW
The Senator Reviews Some of the
Methods of the viviseetionists and
Declares That 1t Is Unsafe to Rea-
son From the Brain of Animal to the
Brain Of Man.

Brain Of Man.
washington, Dec. Ex-senator Gal
linger, of New Hampshire. who also
is a member of the medical profession,
gave out a lengthy letter tonight In re-
ply to the published letter of DR.. w.
w. Keen, of Philadelphia, sent him a
week ago. The senator says that In
reviewing DIR. Keen's letter he notes
four points.
/. That elf-advertisement is pro-
hibited by the ethics Of our profess
sion.
Q. That misrepresentation is forbid
den by the ethics of mankind. The
senator adds that no measure to pre-
vent vivisection or prevent any of the
operations which DR.. Keen claimed
were necessary to give him the requis-
lite knowledge in the case OF Midship-
man Aiken was ever introduced by
him in the senate.
8. That DR.. Keen's argument turns
entirely on an assumption which can
not be maintained; namely, the local
fzation of the functions in the brain of
man has been determined by expert
1nentation on animals" The senator
dwelIs at length on this point, arguing
that long history of experiments on
the brains OF annals has shown that
it is not only not safe to reason from
the brains Of animals to that of man.
but that such reasoning is not safe as
between the brain OF one animal and
that of another.
He says that such experiments up
on man as a result of reasoning from
the lower animals have been to a great
extent disastrous is certain
4. THAT you ignore, in your direct
appeal to selfishness. that altruism
which is the principle of moral pro-
gress. To practice cruelty, even in tho
hope Of helping humanity, is to hurt
it and to delay the advance of ciyiliza-
tion."
The senator calls attention to the fact
that when DR.. Keen testified before the
committee on the District of Columbia
in February, 1900. on a bill to restrain
cruel and inhuman practices:
II asked you If you thought 1t i'm
proper for congress to enact a law say
ing that dog or a horse should be put
under the influence of anaethetics be-
fore being cut to pieces or the nerves
torn from the brain, and that you
promptly replied: I think it would be
most unwise legislation In view OF
that reply, do you think that your
charge against me that am engaged
In efforts to secure inhuman and cruel
legislation should be withdrawn, and
especially so when we have undoubted
testimony to the fact that one expert
menter is In the habit of plunging
dogs for thirty seconds in boiling wa
ter that another fastens a dog to the
dissectipg table, and, discarding the
use of anaesthetfcs, stands above it
with a large empty stone bottle with
which he strikes with all his strength
q dozen violent blows on the head;
while the same experimental says that
he dislocates both the shoulders, doing
1t with difficulty. Another expert
menter claims that he has sconsecrated'
more than eighty large animals, most
ly horses and mules to the EXTREMIST
torture possible, not as he expressly
tells US, to solve any problem I'm med
scal theory, but simply to see what
degree of pain can be inflicted thru ir-
ritation Of the spinal cord. Another
still says that he has invented new
machine which he calls his 'tormentor'
and in his fiendish device, which had
first been quilted with long thin nails
animals are moved about, racked with
torment, torn and twisted, crushed and
lacerated hourly. until crucified nature
could no longer endure, and death
comes as a tardy release. That expert :
menter says: can take an ear, a paw,
or a bit of skin of the animal, and nv
turning the handle squeeze IL beneath
the teeth of the pinions: can lift the
animal by the suffering part; / can
tear 1t or crush it in all sorts Of ways
and he adds that these experiments
are repeated day after day with much
delight and extreme patience for the
space Of year,
If. sir. I'd attempt to prevent such
barbarous practices brings me under
your condemnation, am willing to
have the case submitted to the judg-
ment of the American people
Are you sure, sir, that you Saved,
the life of ATidshipman Aiken? Are not
blood clots frequently absorbed by the
processes OF nature, and is 1t not fact
that in many such experiments death
has resulted because of the operation .
Your claim that you located the blood
clot because Of experiments upon ami.
mails may or may not be true, as we
have the highest possible authority
for believing that such experiments are
often times misleading and absolutely
without value.
'On the general question of the val
tie Of vivisection. which / have never
undertaken to interfere with, when
humanely practiced, it may be well for
me to say that I am fortified in my
position by the opinions of many of the
leading scientists of the world"
Senator Gallinger says in conclud-
ing.
sRven If everything you claim in the
Aiken case is true, students should he
taught the facts that you claim have
been established, precisely as they are
taught the, theory Of the circulation of
blood and thru unnecessary torture
of dumb animals.
SUBSIDIZED ROADS PAY UP.