Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-04-18
THE KOREAN TORTURE AID THE
VIVISECTION REFORMERS

Rev. Mr. Wadman, seeking a defense
for the Koreans who tortured fellow
courtryman to death. might turn to
some Of the literature of the Viviscc.
ton Reform Society, which gives ac
counts of deeds done by scientists In
their experiments. The Koreans ap.
pear to have done their torturing on
an Crring son to bring about a moral
reform according to their ideas. The
viviscCtion reiormers claim that the
scientists are devoid of moral instincts
and practice their arts on the limo.
cent.
While not rcassuring Mr.. Wadmau
that this line OF pleading will be effect.
i've In this day and generation, Il Ia
nevertheless instructive to note what
the scientists do, according to the dec
laratlons Of the reformcrs. The scCre-
tary of the society has written a paper
In which he quotes story of child
poisoning taken from DR.. Ringers
Handbook OF Therapeutics. as follows:
In conjunction with Mr.. Bury. 7
have made some investigations con.
corning the action Of saliCine on the
human body, using healthy children
for our experiments, to whom we gave
doses sufficient TO produce toxic tpoi.
sonousl symptoms. We tested the Of.
iCCts OF saliCinC In three sets of oxper
imcEts, on three healthy lads. To the
Two first, We gave large doses and pro
duccd decided symptoms"
The account then goes on to tell In
Iatnn ttyhng tha0, uhttIra,, a
"pois onCd". as the rcformCr puts IL,
but not quito to death.
Another instance Is quoted OF de.
libCratc chlld.poisoning" and taken
from n paper read by DR.. Sticklor be.
fore the New York Academy of Mcdi.
cine. A boy was first inoculatcd with
the virus of foot and mouth disease
an ailmcnt very fatal to animals. The
child lived! II was then taken to the
home Of a child III of scarlet fever
and made TO inhalc the breath of the
patient.
AS " this were not creating enough
exquisite pain, the Nviscction reform.
or then tells the story Of how the sur.
gcons fthc Good Samaritan hospital
experimental on the brain OF Mary
N'h'i's' IbillbH lDllbWSs
The needle was now Withdrawn
from the left lobe and passed In the
samc way into tho Ibrainl substance
of tho right. when the needle en-.
tered the braln.substancc, she com.
planned of acute pain In the neck. In
order to develop more decided reac.
tons, the strength of the current was
Increased by drawing out the wooden
cylinder one 'nch. When communica-
ton was made with the needles. her
countcnanco exhibited great distress.
and she began to cry. Very soon the
left hand was extended as II in the act
of taking hold of some object In front
III her: the arm presently was agitat.
cd with clonic spasms; her eyes be.
came fixed, with pupils widely dilatcd;
lips were blue, and she frOthed AT the
mouth; her breathing became stcrtor.
Gus; she lost consciousness. and was
violently conyulscd on the left side.
Tho cOnvulslon lasted five minutes,
and was succeeded by coma. She re.
turned TO consciousness In twenty
minutes from the beginning of the al.
tack What had happened? Simply
this: the distinguished scientist had
caused In human being precisely tho
same violent epIleptlform commissions
which Fritsch and Hitzig and Terrier
had produced In the lower animals, and