Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-05-25
SHOW BLOOD GERMS.
Flashed on Screen to Illustrate
Popular Lecture.
Pictures Taken at Pasteur .Instltute
and Brought to This Country to
illustrate Doctor Lees Ad.
dress on Medicine.

American Museum of Natural History
q 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 a rabbits heart Is studied. and
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 leader in con-
fut1ng the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. made
tempered remarks concerning them.
In 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 ami
NAL experimentation in scientific ad.
vances; it sometimes assumes the ex-
IRENE and officially indefensible atti.
tude OF denying the right of man to
use animals at all as experimental OBJ.
Jects, and 1t has as its practical aim
the establishment of legal restrictions
against the practice. These vary in
degree from slight limitations to total
prohibition.
The antivivisectionist view Is
psychologically of great interest. It
rests on a low intellectual and ethical
level and exhibits in an elemental sim.
pl1c1ty the qualities and power of emo
ton. Its abnormal sympathy for ami
mails blinds it's possessor to a 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-dozn
classic instances of experimental pr,-
cedures that date from an early ps-
ROD, before the use of anaesthetics b.
came general, or it misinterprets H.
stances OF modern procedure. Mary
ant1vlvisectionists are frequently sil-
cere, and undoubtedly undergo great
mental anguish over the supposed n.
warranted sufferings of animals. Hut
they are fighting a monster that DIES
not exist
The speaker said that one of he
main causes of distrust of medicine
and doctors, which, he said, had exist.
ed since ancient days and was stilJin
force, was the appalling ignoralce
which people possess of their nn
bodies and bodily processes.
''The ordinary man feels certin
symptoms said the lecturer, .buthe
does not understand their real IL.
nificance. He knows not whether tley
are Important or unimportant, or
whether or not they demand a &c.
tors knowledge. He trusts blindlyto
the hope that if he neglects them tey
will pass away. If they persist. he
diagnoses his own case and attenpts
to treat it. If, at last, he is for ed
to appeal to the doctor, he learns tat
of the real significance Of his disese
he knows nothing, except what he
doctor may tell him"
After the lecture, 1t being the On.
Guiding one of series, there wasan
impromptu reception to Doctor he.
Doctors and medical students, as pll
as lay members who were in the adj.
ence, greeted him. One woman lid
the doctor she was seventy-four ydrs
old, but, In spite Of that, had lot
missed one of his lectures.