The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-12
Flashed on. Screen to Illustrate
Popular Lecture.
Pictures Taken at Pasteur Institute
and Brought to This Country to
illustrate Doctor Lees Ad.
dress on Medicine.

New York.-Weird objects wriggled
over the moving picture screen at the
American Museum of Natural History
a few nights ago, when DR.. Frederic
s. Lee, professor Of physiology in Co.
lumbia, showed his audiences how the
germs Of the sleeping sickness thrive
amid the blood corpuscles. He also
had pictures showing how the move:
ment of rabbits heart is studied. and
a series illustrating how scientists in
oculated monkeys with fever germs in
order to study the disease, a very sim
liar process to the one which resulted
In the recent discovery of meningitis
serum, he said. The last picture
showed the simians restored to health
and mischief. The pictures were TAX
en- at the Pasteur Institute and
brought to this country to illustrate
Doctor Lees address. which was the
last Of the Jesup lectures on scientific
features of modern medicine, under
the auspices of Columbia university.
Pictures Of the germs working
among the blood corpuscles, and, ap.
parently, feeding on them, were re-
ceived with establishment by the audi
ence.
In speaking of his animal pictures,
Doctor. Lee, who is a leader in con-
futing the antivivisectionists, made
tempered remarks concerning them.
I'm view Of the great extension of
the commendable humane movement
OF the past half century," said he, 1T
is, perhaps, not surprising that opposi-
ton to the use of animals for scientific
purposes is holly maintained by few
individuals. This opposition some
times wilfully denies the value of anil
NAL experimentation in scientific ad.
vances; it sometimes assumes the ex-
IRENE and ethically indefensible atti-
tude of denying the right of man to
use animals at all as experimental OBJ
jects, and it has as it's practical aim
the establishment of legal restrictions
against the practice. These vary In
degree from slight limitations to total
prohibition.
The administrations view is
psychologically of great interest. It
rests on q low intellectual and ethical
level and exhibits in an elemental sim
plicity the qualities and power of emo.
ton. It's abnormal sympathy for AMI
mails blinds its possessor to normal
sympathy for human beings. It as.
sumes the present existence of cruelty
in laboratories. AS an evidence Of
SUCH cruelty It either recites for the
thousandth time one OF half-dozen
classic instances Of experimental pro
cedures that date from an early Pc
rfod, before the use Of anaesthetics be.
came general. or 1t misinterprets In
stances Of modern procedure. Many
antiyivise ctionists are frequently sin.
cere. and undoubtedly undergo great
mental anguish over the supposed un-
warranted sufterings Of animals. But
they are fighting 9 monster that does
not exist. a 5s
The speaker said that one Of the
main causes Of distrust Of medicine
and. octors, which. he said, had exist
"a Ginee ascent days and was still III
fofce. was t'the appalling ignorance
Which people, possess ot their own
bodiss md bodily processes.
oealnagy man feels certain
symptoms, I, aid tho lsctursr. s'but LIZ
dos MT nnd srstand their real sig-s
nincaAes ID knoV n not vhsthsr they
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