Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-05-18
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. APP
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.
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 a few
individuals. This opposition some
times wilfully denies the value Of ami.
NAL experimentation In scientific ad.
vances; II sometimes assumes the ex-
IRENE and officially indefensible atti-
tude of denying the right Of a 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 low intellectual and ethical
level and exhibits in an elemental SIM
plicity the qualities and power Of emo
ton. Its abnormal sympathy for ami.
mails blinds its possessor to q normal |
sympathy for human beings. It as
sumes the present existence Of cruelty |
in laboratories. AS an evidence Of
such cruelty Il either recites for the |
thOusandth time one Of a half-dozen
classic instances Of experimental pro-
cedures that date from an early Pc
Rod, before the use Of anaesthetics be-
came general, or It misInterprets In
stances Of modern procedure. Many
antiViVisectionists are frequently sim
cere. and undoubtedly undergo great
mental anguish over the supposed un-
warranted suRerings Of animals. But
they are fighting q monster that does
not exist"
The speaker said that one Of the
main causes Of dlstrust Of medicine
and doctors, which, he said, had exist
ed since ancient days and was still in
force, was "the appalling ignorance
which people possess Of their own
bodies and bodily processes.
-The ordinary man feels certain
symptoms" said the lecturer, hut he
does not understand their real SIG
nlacancs. He knows not whether they
Re Important OF unimportant, Or (
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