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REPLY TO VlVBECTIONISI
SENATOR GALLINGER GETS
AFTER DIR. KEEN.

Four Points Noted in Latter's Letter C m
Midshipman Atken's Case-The First
~ That Self Advertisement is Pro-
hiblted by the Ethics of the Mtdical
Profession-An Assumption Which
Cannot be Maintained Cases of Ter-
ribie Cruelty TO Animals cited.
Washington, Dec. Ex-senator J. H.
Gallinger of New Hampshire, who also
is a member of the medical profession,
tonight gave out the following letter
in reply to the published letter of DR..
w. w. Keen of Philadelphia, sent him
a week ago:
United States Senate, Washington,
Dec 13, 1902.
Dear Sir:
Reviewing your letter of December
5th, 1902, which you gave to the press
of the United States, respecting your
success in the case of Midshipman
Aiken, note four points:
First, that self advertisement is pro-
hbited by the ethics of our profession.
Second, that misrepresentation is for
hidden by the ethics of mankind. No
measure that would prohibit vivisec-
tion, or prevent any of the experiments
which you claim were necessary to give
you the requisite knowledge in the
| Aiken case, has ever been introduced
! by me in the Senate; nor has any such
| legislation been recommended by me to
the Senate. Your statement that I
! have been engaged in efforts to secure
"inhumane and cruel legislation" Is
without the slightest warrant in fact.
1 have been engaged in efforts to Sc
cure humane legislation that would
prevent cruelty. The bills which I
have favored would, if enacted, only
regulate vivisection in the District of
Columbia, so as to prevent admitted
cruelty, and should have the support of
every humane person.
Third, that your argument turns en-
tirely on an assumption which cannot
be maintained, namely, that the locali-
cation of the functions in the brain of
mentation on animals. The brains of
animals differ from the brain of man
and also differ from one another, sc
that stimulation of a certain part OF
the brain will produce a certain effect
in one animal and another effect in an
other animal. The long history of ex-
pertinent on the brains of animals has
shown that it is not only not safe tc
reason from the brains of animals tc
that of man, but that such reasoning
is not safe between the brain of one
animal and that of another. 1t has
been so in general with animal expert
mentation. When such experiment hat
established a fact with regard to any
species of animal the next thing was
NOW, let us see'' if it is the same IL
man. The experimenters therefore
saw" by experiment in some form up
on man, and sometimes the result wa
similar and sometimes not. That suci
experiments upon man, as results
reasoning from the lower animals hav
been to a great extent disastrous, i
certain for it is the testimony of grea
surgeons and psychologists. The onl,
experiment upon man, l mean, in gen
eral operations upon human being
with the explanation that they woul
have the same result as they had ha
with animals.
Fourth, that you ignore in your di
rect appeal to selfshness that altruisr
which is the principle of moral prog
ress. To practice cruelty, even in tn
hope of helping humanity, is to hurt
and to delay the advance of civiliza
. t!on.
Recurring to the suggestion alread
; made that 1 have never introduced In
to the Senate, or advocated any bi
that would prohibit vivisection, be
; to say that the purpose has been
|, regulate the practice, thereby removin
, from it the "inhumane," and "cruel
4 features which have shocked the mora
, sense of our people. You will doubt
; less recall the fact that when you CAV
testimony before the committee of tn
District of Columbia on the 21st da
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