New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
~ ELL at Close Range" IS the
eH title given by Miss Ellen snow
Il Il to her leaflet dealing with the
e Rockefeller Institute.

ro-k Of the Rockefeller Institute.
one would scarcely expect" SAID Dr.
w. Keen. the Philadelphia surgeon.
seaking recently to the Suffolk District
Medical Society. at Boston, such a fierce
heat from so frosty a name
DR. Keen has received degrees and titles
nom the leading universities and acade-
mics Of science of the United States. Eng
land France and Germany. Ills works
on surgery are accepted as authorities
nv the profession i'm which he has gained
such eminent distinction. lie is, therefore.
accounted to be as well. if not better,
qualified to present the advantages Of
yiyisection than any American student
Of the subject.
The Rev DR. Floyd W. Tomkins. 9res-
dent Of the American Administration
Society. was reported not long ago as
saying
In this controversy lvivisectionl there
should be no bitterness. DO not let
us attempt to browbeat or call names.
Vivisection tends to weaken char
acter Nothing which hurts the
character can lie right.
Dr.. Keen does not hesitate to accept
the text proposed by the Rev. Dr. Tom
hns. The Sunday section OF The Tribune
i enabled to present the views OF the
celebrated surgeon upon The influence
Of Anti-Viv4section on Character"
Referring to Miss Shows Hell at
Close Range" leaflet, DR.. Keen said.
NOES THIS SOUND HELLISH?
al the Rockefeller Institute, by eN-
neriments on twenty-five monkeys and one
hundred guinea pigs. most Of which am
mails recovered. has been discovered
serum that has brought the former death
,ate of cerebrospinal meningitis of 80 OF
on per cent down to 30 per cent and less
Is il because Of this benefcent work that
il IS called he'll?
AT this institute has been discoverei a
means of TRANSMISSION OF blood that has at
ready saved scores OF human lives /
this the reason for calling it hell?
AT this institute method OF cris@-
crossing arteries and veins. when almost
s,uuvs run alongside Of each other mas
been discovered by which impending gan
creme has tecn prevented. Does this make
il hell?
al this institute the cause and the cure
% infantilc paralysis are being sousn'.
a.e srcb Investigations carried on IN hei
Miss snow in tins same leaiet eN-
p.esses I'm italics her horror al the loe@ o.
n. p~ouoei,ion OF the institute TO Duiiu
> bospital where the experiments may De
continued ON human beings II may be Oh
interest 10 her ana also TO others 10 Kio"
that th.s hospital was opened IN Oc'oOe''
,91o and that the public, undeterreu os
bor horror. have throngcd to it in such
numbers that there have not been oeos
enough for the several hundreds o. ois-
appointed applicants.
An editorial in THE Journal o. Noo-
philvr records a gift to the Rockefeller IN
.,itute IAN institution in New YORK where
viyisection should be practised with the
idea OF achieving as great an advance a.
nossible in the war OF science agaihs'
human suffering" and adds. put the eil1
only famed into fury the opposition Oh 'ne
women 10 experiments on living anliha's,
no matter how great the anticipated
benefit"
could cruel passion be better ca
pressed?" asked Dr. Keen.