The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-02
ANT|TOx|NS SHAMS
DR.. SNOW DECLARES
Administrations sserts
These Supposed Rene
dies Nearly Useless.

New York, March DIR. Herbert
Snow, leading spirit OF the British an
ti.viviscctionists. In an address before
the New York Administration socic-
~. contended that Pasteur was not "A
great doctor. but rather clever chem
list: that the diphtheria anti.toxin was
"a failure; that Pasteurs treatment for
rabies Ii but bubble: that the anti.
plague serum has prolonged that
scourgc In India for years. and that vi
visection is foul blot on civilization
DR.. Snow spoke in the Berkeley Ly.
ccum before an audience that throng-
cd the theater. and 80 enthusiast site
did the anti.vivisectionistsp present be-
come that one young woman called
out:
The more ! see OF men. the more
] love my dog"
Her declaration followed a question
asked by DIR. +. II. Sturgis. the lone
vivi-sectionist present, who. disputing
some of the things that Dr. Snow had
said. remarked that he could not
bring himself to believe that the lives
OF dozen kittens or IA few dogs were
worth that OF "A human being.
DR.. Snow described himself as an
old-fashioned doctor. still retaining his
faith In the efficiency Of the old rem.
nj hA
n surgeon In the Cancer hospital Of
London. and was It's senior surgeon
when he retired I'm 1905. lie was In.
troduced by Mrs. Diana Belais. presi.
dent OF the society. one OF the great.
est Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The speaker began by saying that
no realized that his subject was an I'm.
popular one In this country. but added
that all that was necessary for II to
become popular was for reasonable
and Intelligent persons to study the
anti-vivisection side Of the question.
Referring TO his long service in the
fight against cancer. he said that tho
public knows by the name OF cancer
research" IL utter moonshine."
II was among those" he said. TASK.
ed to give evidence on the futility Of
that cancer research before our World
Commission on Vivisection. That led
me TO study the question from top to
bottom. and ! was speedily forced to
conclude that the whole system OF ex.
Fermentation upon the lower animals
ID wholly unscientific. Is grossly mis-.
leading to medical practice, has never
conferred any useful knowledge upon
the human raet. and has led to mex.
pressible harm In numerous direc-
tons.
Useless Experiments. He Says.
why is experiment upon the sub.
human animals unscientific md flu
tile? Because no inference can be
drawn directly from any phenomena
In the sub-human animal to mankind
The fundamental differences OF struc-
turc I'm every direction are enormous
That no direct inference liz ever pos
Die liz not merely the assertion of
the an.i.vivisectionis II has been
admitted over and over again by
prominent yivisectors before our
World Commission and stands i'm the
fact.
For example OF this. will point
tn the totally different effects OF Ger
tain poisons and even simple foods
upon men and the lower animals.
Take lemonade. which we 80 enjoy in
the summer: it's basic constituent. cit
rio acid, In u powerful poison 10 cats
and rabbits. They promptly die in
commissions when Il Is administered to
them.
Our common salt is wholesome and
indeed, u common necessity OF life to
us and most animals are fond of IL.
You know how the buffaloes used to
travel hundreds of miles TO the salt
lakes. Well. IL you give salt to chick.
ems. II kills them. Prussic acid
promptly kills men and elephants, but
horses and hyenas take II with i'm.
pnity. Rabbits cat belledonna. our
deadly night shade: goats are fond OF
tho tobacco plant and also of conium.
hcmlock-thc hemiock OF Socrates.
licnbans Ia u harmless medicine for
men but Its name tells you what its ct.
fects on hens Is. And soon with hun.
dreda OF others,
In particular. morphia stands sin.
gularly prominent. A grain OF NOR
phia will kill man. pigeon will
TAX, twelve grains without apparent
effect. You can Judge for yourselves
what would be the result of a vivi-
section experiment there. A man ex.
periments with morphia. and he finds
pigeon or pheasant will talks as
much M twelve grains without harm.
80 he thinks he will try just n mod.
crate dose on man. He gives him
srain and the man promptly dies.
That NJ once shows you the mische.
vios character Of drug experiments on
tho lower animals.
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