Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-04-17
THE KOREAN TORTURE AND THE
VIVISECTION REFORMERS

Rev. MIR. Wadman, seeking defense
for the Koreans who tortured a fellow.
Cuuntryman to death. might turn to
some Of the literature of the Vivisec.
ton Reform Society. which gives &C
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 moral
reform according to their ideas. Tho
vivisCCtiOn rClOrmCrs claim that tho
scientists are devoid of moral instincts
and practice their arts on the limo.
cent.
While not rCassurinE 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.
laratiOns Of the refurmcrs. The scCrc-
iary of the society has written paper
In which he quotes n story Of child.
poisoning taken from DR.. Ringers
Handbook Of Therapeutics, as follows:
I'm conjunction with MIR. Bury. I
have made some investigations con.
corning the action Of saliCinc on tina
human body. using healthy children
for our experiments. to whom we gave
doses sufficient to produce toxic Ipoi.
sonOus symptoms. We tested the Of.
iCCts OF saliCinC In three sets of cNper
imCEts, on three healthy lads. To the
,wo first, We gave large doses and pro
ducCd decided symptoms"
The account then goes on 10 tell in
detail what these children did when
"poit oncd', as the rclormcr puts It,,
but not quite to death.
Another Instance Is quoted OF "do.
libcratc child.poisoning" and taken
from n paper read by Or. Sticklcr be.
fore the New York Academy of Mcdl.
cine. A boy was first inoculatcd with
the virus Of foot and mouth disease
an ailmcnt very fatal 10 animals. The
child lived! II was then taken to tho
home of a child III of scarlet fever
and made TO lnhalc the breath of tho
patient.
As II this were not creating enough
exquisite pain. the viviscction reform.
or then tells the story of how tho sur.
Econs fthc Good Samaritan hOspital
experimental on the brain OF Mary
Rafferty,. portion follows:
The needle was now Withdrawn
from the left lobe and passed In the
samr way Into tho lbrainl substance
of the right. When the needle en-.
tered the braln.substance, she com.
planned Of acute pain in the neck. In
order to develop more decided reac.
lions, tho strength Of the current was
Increased by drawing out the wooden
cylinder one 'nCh. When cOmmuniCa-
ton was made with the needles, her
countcnancc 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
If her: tho arm presently was agltat.
ed with Clonic spasms; her eyes be.
came fixed, with pupils widely dilated:
lips were blue, and she frOthed at the
mouth: her breathing became stcrtor.
Gus; she lost consciousness, and was
viOlC ntly convulscd on the left side.
The CONFUSION lasted Ave minutes,
and was succeeded by coma. She rc.
turned To consciousness In twenty
minutes from the beginning of the At.
tack What had happened? Simply
this: the distinguished scientist had
caused In human being precisely tho
Tamr violent epllcptiform commissions
which Fritsch and HitZig and Terrier
had produced In the lower animals, and