The Detroit times., 1910-01-21
CUTS DEATH RATE
FROM MENINGITIS
Vivisection Experiments Prove That
Heart Can Be Transferred 70
Another Body.


Vivisection sOciety's charge OF "will.ul
cruelty" against the Rockefeller Ia.
situte for Medical Research, Dr.
simon FleXler yesterday made answer
With all the emphasis and den
niteness that can place ON the words.
declare that cruelty Is not practlced
at the Rockefeller institute, ana would
not be tolerated.
Il wish also 90 state with the same
emphasis that no concealment Is prde.
tlsed there. that the results of it,
work are published i'm full detail TO
ell the world, and that qualified per
sons are freely admitted to witness
the experiments.
1T 10. moreover an imposition
upon a lay public. uniformed (and
properly sol OF the methods OF the hos.
pital operating room. to parade aG
Wanton cruelty. when applied TO thc
brute creation. the very same mearJ
which are i'm daily use 90 save life and
limb In the hest hospitals OF this coun.
try and europe"
You mean human life and limb"
he was asked
"Of course. human life and limb
And on that point let me tell you
what the anti.yivisectionists do not
Consider--that experiments ON an.
mails TO cure OF relieve human ills are
Just as valuable ana are similarly used
In curing or relieving disease or pain
In animals.
For example, what diseases have
been reduced through knowledge
gained by experiments on animals
You know OF the little boy on
Washington Heights who was shot the
other day and the attempt 10 save MIN
by a TRANSMISSION OF blood from MIS-
mothers arm? d.. Carrel. OF the
Rockefeller institute. discovered five
years ago the beneficial effect of
TRANSMISSION OF blood by experiment
ing on animals. Countless successful
operations of the sort with human be.
ings have been since recorded.
Il was attacked three years ago for
rsing monkeys to study spinal menin
gifts. Today. on account OF that study.
the death rate in spinal meningitis is
only SO per cent or what II was three
years ago.
"Anti-vivisectiGnists attacked us FOR
using ANIMALS for learning about ;e-
tanus, or lockjaw Through DR. s. =.
Meters work on this line means werH
discovered whereby the terrible SUI
fering which accom- panied the disease
has been eliminated
Certain animal diseases and animal
pain have been eliminated and re-
lieved, and the United States depart.
ment OF agriculture has been enabled
Co make known preventiyes which CON
troll animal epidemics and discussed
conditions which would have been
communicated to human beings
Rabies? Through the Pasteur
treatment originated by experiments
On animals. the mortality from rabies
has declined from practically 100 per
cent to ] per cent.
Recorded achievements Of the
Rockefeller institute include demon
gtration that parts Cf animals can be
transplanted from one to another Its
bearing on medical science was that
II you had an incurable liver or kid
ney the satisfactory procedure would
he 10 get new one.
OR Carrel fopnG that what had been
regarded as impossible could be done
with the aorta--cut IL at short
distance from the heart and sew il 20
gether again"
Parts OF the Dodv are alive after
death. Even the heart. DR.. Carrel
has demonstrated. can be transplant
ed into another body, where 1t will re-
sumo its functions
DR. Flexner added: The institute
spares no expense and pains In pro
yiding for the care and comfort OF the
animals used in the experiments.
81 desire. therefore. TO deny totally
the statements OF cruelty made In the.
affldavits OF Mary l.. Kennedy. Samuel
Francis Dutton and Matthew Smith.
The character of the witnesses en-
ployed by the New York Anti-Vivisec-
ton society to make the charges OF
cruelty may be gathered from the FOL
lowing facts: The Kennedy woman,
the chief witness relied on, was en-
Moved as a scrub woman. The men,
button and Smith, the other witnesses.
were ex-employes discharged for SUI
fcient cause. 'rhe Kennedy woman
surreptitiously brought 10 the institu-
ton in bag and offered for sale Tor
30 cents a neighbor's cat.
"The true value cf this testimony
against the Rockefeller institute Is
further shown by a statement, in my
possession. made under oath by an
cmploye. TO the effect that Mrs. Ken
nedy accompanied by two other Wo-
men. visited her. endcavoring to make
her saw that she had witnesses cruel
treatment OF animals at the institute,
and offered her 800 for information"
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