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

NEW YORK, Jan, 2i-To the Ant
ylylsection society's charge OF 'willf'
cruelty" against the Rockefeller II
atItute FOR Medical Research, ID
simon Flexler Yesterday made answe
with all the emphasis and def
niteness that can place on the words
declare that cruelty is not practice
al the Rockefeller institute. and woul
not be tolerated.
II wish also 20 state with the sam
emphasis that no concealment is prac
tised there. that the results OF IL
work are published in full detail q
all the world. and that qualified per
sons are freely admitted TO witnes:
the experiments.
1T is. moreover. an imposition
upon a lay public. uniformed tand
properly sol OF the methods OF the hos
pital operating room, to parade as
wanton cruelty. when applied 10 the
brute creation, the very same means
which are In daily use 10 save life and
limb In the best hospitals OF this coun'
try and Europe
"Yon mean human life and limb
he was asked.
~Of course. human life and limb.
And on that point let me tell you
what the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. do not
ConBider-that experiments on AM.
mals to cmre or relieve human Ills are
Just as valuable and are similarly used
IN curing OF relieving disease or pain
In animals.
'sFor example. what diseases have
4 been reduced through knowledge
gained by experiments on animals2
eYou know OF the little boy or
washington Heights who was shot thu
other day and the attempt 10 save min
! by 4 TRANSMISSION OF blood from hi!
mothers arm? Dr.. Carrel. OF th'
Rockefeller institute, discovered nv
years ago the beneficial effect o
TRANSMISSION OF blood by experiment
ing on animals. Countless successful
operations OF the sort with human BE-
ings have been since recorded.
II was attacked three years ago 10
ralng monkeys 10 study spinal menir
gifts. Today. on account of that study
4 the death rate IN spinal meningitis
only 3s per cent OF what II was tire
years ago..
"AHtfpfVisectiGnists attacked us 20
using ANIMALS for learning about u
tanus 81 lockjaw. Through DR.. S. .
Metzere work on this line means wer
discovered whereby the terrible su
fering which accompanied the diseas
has been eliminated.
Certain animal diseases and anima
rain have been eliminated and n
lieved. and the United States depart
ment OF agriculture has been enable
20 make known preventives which col
troll animal epidemics and disease
conditions which would have beel
communicated to human beings.
'RRhleS1 Through the Pasteu
treatuhent. originated by experiment
On aniInais. the mortality from rahie
has declined from practically 100 pc
cent TO per cent.
Recorded achievements OF thu
Rockefeller institute include demon
xiration mat parts Of animals can ~
transpianted from one to another IN
bearing on medical science was thai
II you had an incurable liver or kid
ney the satisfactory procedure would
be to get a new one.
..Dr, Carrel found that what had been
regarded as impossible could be done
with the aorta-cut IL at a short
distance from the heart and sew IL 10
gether again"
Parts OF the Dody are alive after
death. Even the heart, DIR. Carrel
has demonstrated, can be transplant
ed into another body. where II will re-
sumo its functions.
DIR. Flexner added: The institute
spares no expense and pains in pro
vidlng for the care and comfort OF the
animals used in the experiments.
II desire. therefore, To deny totally
The statements OF cruelty made in the
nfhdavits of Mary l.. Kennedy. Samuel
Francis Dutton and Matthew Smith.
The character OF the witnesses en-
pioyed by the New York Anti-Vivisec-
ton society TO make the charges OF
cruelty may be gathered from the fol-
lowinH facts: The Kennedy woman,
the chief witness relied on, was EN-
pIuyed as a scrub woman. The men.
Duttcn and Smith, the other witnesses,
were ex-employes discharged for stf-
ncient cause. The Kennedy woman
surreptitiously brought to the instltu-
ton In bag and offered for sale for
81 cents a neighbours cat.
The true value ot 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, endeavoring to make
her say that she had witnesses cruel
treatment OF animals at the institute,
and offered her 800 for information. /"