The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21

plucked from the Quivering breast o1 a parent bird whose little ones were left to die of starvation feedi;ng upon the flesh of animals or fishes, trophies perhaps of their "sportsmanshfp" these rant and cavil at the humane studies of men who are devotfng their lives to the amelioration of suffering, who labor unremittingly that the "an- gel of the Darker Drink" may be frustrated of his purpose-that man. kind may live his allotted span.
 The very interesting Report of the before me as I write. It is an illu- minating summary of the researches of a painstaking body of investigators, examining this matter with character istic English thoroughness.
 They dispose effectually of the ob- jections of numerous anti-vivisectors, notably Miss Lind-af- -Hageby, who inhumanity and cruelty in book 5n titled The Shambles Of Science Ac- cusations which were brought by her before the Commission" The most important of them referred to the case of a marmot, described by her as fol- spinal cord of which had previously been divided by a vivfsector. His finger was bleeding a little, and he tied his Handkerchief around it, and looked a martyr. Are they not nasty animals? You'll have to be careful of them,' said another vivisector who was engaged in cutting up mice. And the nasty, unscientific animal was ac- cordingly removed to safe place."
 It appeared on investigation that no operation had ever been performed on this particular marmot, that the ap- parent paralysis of it's hind legs was merely temporary, and was due to the fact "that 1t was but beginning to wake out of it's natural Information" i, that it lived for two years after Miss saw it and that it ultimately died a natural death
 The facts about 1t were published two years before the publication of her statement. The Commissioners say gently, that the lady's assertions prehension'' on her part; and they have also come to the conclusion that other witnesses have, "either misap- prehended Or inaccurately described the facts of the experiments.
 THE REPORT OF THE ROYAL
 COMMISSION.
 And they further add
 1. We desire to state that the har- rowing descriptions and illustrations of operations inflicted on animals, which are freely circulated by post, advertisement or otherwise, are in many cases calculated to mislead the public, so far as they suggest that the animals in question were not un- der an anaesthetic. To represent that the animals subejcted to experiments are wantonly tortured, woud, in our opinion, be absolutely false"
 2 That, notwithstanding failures, valuable knowledge has been acquired in regard to physiological processes and the causation of disease, and that useful methods for the prevention, cure, and treatment of certain diseases have resulted from experimental in- vestigations upon living animals
 3. That, as far as we can judge it is highly improbable that, without experiments made on animals, man. kind would at the present time have been in possession of such knowl- edge
 A. That, insofar as disease has been successfully prevented or its mor- tality reduced, suffering has been di- unfinished in man and in lower anil mals."
 5. That there is ground for believ- ing that similar methods of investi- sation, if pursued in the future, will be attended with similar results.''