Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-07
A MARTYR 10 SCIENCE.
New York Physician Offers His
Body for Purpose OF Wv.
isecti0n.
will Permit All Kinds Of Experi.
ments on His Person
for Year.
He Will Take All Risk Of Death
From Experimental OPP.
erations.

the startling offer of his life to science
over his signature he invites physi-
clans and surgeons to use his body as
subject for vivisection for one years
time or until death, if he succumbs TO
the experiments before the expiration
of twelve months.
DR.. Russell, who is A years old, and
who has been practicing as a physl-
clan for twenty-five years lives at lo32
Bedford avenue. He is a graduate OF
the New York Homeopathic University.
or twelve years he has attended to the
demands of remunerative practice In
the Bedford district of Brooklyn. and he
states that his sole object in making
the unparalleled offer is to further SCI
entific knowledge. Further, he believes
that by his course he will be able to
silence what he terms "the rant of
i-vivisectionists.
1t is against the protest of his wife
that he offers his body. She pleaded
with him to change his mind, but he
had determined upon his course of ac-
ton, and assures her that he will live
up to the proposition he has made to
the world of physicians and surgeons.
Under the physicians signature the
following was published yesterday:
II hereby offer myself a subject for
vivisection in any direction or along
any lines whatsoever which may be Sc
lected 1 will myself when able and
competent assist my vivisectors by
value to them or me.
The experiments are to continue I'M
til l am too exhausted to be of further
value as subject, or until 1 succumb.
and should I survive at the end of d
year of observation and experiment,
hereby stipulate that I may elect to be
released from further service, should
SC DESIRE"
Asked for an explanation as to why
he had resolved to invite surgeons to
use his body for experiments he said:
ut is the duty of every human being
to do whatever is in his power to adj
vance such knowledge as will benefit
mankind.
!
be accepted. as l have no doubt it will
be. I am likely to lose my life said DR..
Russell. Il have come to the conclusion.
after mature thought, that 1 owe this
sacrifice to humanity.
Then, observation-disclosures continually
raise the cry that vivisection is needless
and cruel. I wish to prove to them that
I will submit to the use of the knife on
my body just as willingly as I would
WELD it myself"
DR.. Russell feels certain that men of
the medical world will be found who
will undertake to conduct the expert
nent and says his offer will remain
open for an indefinite time.
Not only do 1 intend to adhere rig
idly to the offer / make" said DR.. Rus
sell, but 1 will be surprised if others
do not follow my example. There are
world as much at heart as i and who,
l feel sure, will volunteer to submit
their bodies for vivisection."
My plan is that experiments should
be conducted in series with a definite
end in view. l would consent to a series
of operations on the stomach, then say
on the liver. the spleen. the glands of
the throat, the kidneys, the heart and
the brain.
Il will place no restrictions upon any
operation whatever. l would merely
suggest that the experiment be so ar
ranged that those organs which have
the most immediate results upon the
of life be reserved until
last. This suggestion is not actuated by
any fear of death. but rather by the de-
sire that usefulness of my body may be
prolonged and enlarged"
DR.. Russell. in his statement, called
for volunteers to follow his example.
offer was this:
Before submit myself to the eXper
iments, which fully believe will result
l must have a guarantee that
those dependent on me will be amply
provided for
For the last six years DR.. Russell has
spent much of the time he could spare
from his practice in the study of such
subjects as he wishes further investi
gated by the vivisection of his own
body. The physicians wife was at their
Bedford avenue home with their two
children. She said she had pleaded
with her husband to alter his determi-
nation, but without avail
THE idea is revolving to me, but l
have decided that / need not worry. I
feel sure no physician or surgeon will
be found to accept Mr.. Russell's offer.
1t is with this conclusion that 1 calm
myself. My husband and have talked
over the entire subject, and tho he feels
that he will have the opportunity of
himself as a subject 1 am
lust as certain that he will not"