Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-09
PLEA FOR THE DUMB ANIMALS
SWEDISH WoMAN's ARGUMENT
AGAINST VIVISECTION.
Denounced in Address by Miss Lind
af-Hageby as Cruel and Scien-
tifcally Useless.

Declaring that vivisection is not only
morally unjustiiable, but also sclentlllc
aIlv useless, Miss Lind-af-HagepH VI
Sweden presented arguments BEFORE the
Society for the Humane Regulation VI
Vivisection in the red parloT OF the Ne"
Willard Hotel last evening - SHOW 'ha'
not only does the practice m1llc' rear
fui cruelty on dumb animals and de-
grade viyisectors, but also the anti-VlVl-
section movement does not oppose greater
advances in the healing art
She is opposed to vivisecton, she saio'
first because it is inseparabie from Inc
srossest cruelty. to animals: secondly, De
cause il degrades and brutaliZes those
who practice it, and is a stat nupon the
N eGical profession, and thlrdiS, necauSe
it retards the progress OF medicine ny
spreading false theories or the cause u
disease ard the healing art. ana pS ui
verting attention from sound metiious VI
studying and combating human olSeaSe
Size contended that the greatest tinhh
ing men of history have opposed Fivlsec-
ton. that vivisection has resulted III tiie
suggestion of .'Such crude and cannlpai-
istic remedies as to indicate return 10
medieval times and that even Its by-proo-
ucts-citnE the PaSteur treatment W
tetanus-have increased rather tnan ue-
crea seq deaths as the result of their use
society under the auspices of which she
spoke. presided.
This society aims at the humane reg1-
lation OF experimentation on i've am,
mails" he said in beginning. Inc hedlcai
fraternity thinks we are endeaVorihs ~
get a law prohibiting everything IN lne
line of experimentation on I'VE aniilidis
It's object is to call attention TO the Sau
want of knowledge of what is gong OF
under the guise of experimentation. II
is NOT scientific investigation. but pseudo
scientific Investigations which the society
opposes. ~ ,,o,
Miss Lind af -Hageby, in beginning her
address. explained that she had become
interested in anti-viVisection by visits 10
the Pasteur Institute in Paris. There, sne
said she was struck with the fearfui
suffering and prolonged agony OF du1hD
animals left conscious by the VlVlSectors.
"In general discussion OF TINS suoJec'
ne are brought to the ethical question
How far have we the moral right 10 Tor
trre dumb animals for the sake OF our
SelveS?' she continued. IN hShl-nS
yivisection we have to fight systematic
cruelty which is in opposition to the eth
fcal r,siti0n Of tie world, in opposition
to the sympathy toward animals upon
which the civilization of the nineteenth
century is built.
She pointed out some OF the crueltles
which were inflicted centuries ago on
members of the human family. In the
name of religion. art and science; Al,
that, she declared. has now passed, ana
the world acknowledges the duty OF hu-
man brotherhood. of humane treatment
of their fellow beings, no matter In what
condition they are found. But when
that idea is extended to animals, she oe-
clared people are not sure that ANIMALS
should be as well treated.
Public opinion has been SO aroused IN
England recently, she said, that roy al
commission was appointed and the reveal
tons of the vivisectors themselves before
that commission will probably result IN
the passage of very stringent anu-NNl-
se-tion law by the British parliament.
The yivisectors, she said. form only
small part of the medical profession.
There is at present an international med
icaI anti vivisection association, to which
many physicians belong and many eA.
yivisectors are now found i'll the front
ranks of the anti vivisectionists.