The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-11-04
uV1sECTION-
attention Called to Address OF I'm
cinnat Health Officer.

to a recent address by DR.. Lands,
health officer OF Cincinnati, before
the American Public Health assocla-
tion ON the Influence of Expert
ments on Animals ON Mortality The
doctor offers some data that must
convince our readers and imbue them
with the Importance of encouraging
their representatives in the leglsla-
>ture to resist the inane pleas OF those
who are honestly but stupidity op-
posed to vivisection, says the New
York Sun. When the Almighty
placed Adam into deep sleep, says
this doctor facetiously, and extract
led a rib, He qualified as the first and
greatest vivisectionist of all time.
Not man alone, but animals OF
great value are rescued from disease
and death by vivisection experiments.
In England s45O,0oO,000 worth of
cattle succumbed to pleuro-pneu-
monia in the first quartef of the last
century, and in our country the cat
tie industry was almost ruined. lts
prevention by experiments on living
animals resulted in an almost entire
elimination of the disease. Al
though it cost the United States ST.
500, 900, it brought about the al
most entire abolition of the disease,
certainly the possibility of fatal cpl
denies. Chambers, hog cholera, DO
vine tuberculosis have destroyed mil
lions worth of food and draught ami
mails that are now saved through an
imal experimentation.
Since these zoophils love and re-
gard more sympathetically their fa-
yorite animal than their own fellows
such, facts should convince them OF
their folly. The discovery OF anti
toxin through vivisection has COM
pletely reversed the mortality from
this dread disease. The inestimable
value of tetanus antitoxin is daily
demonstrated in the European war.
The triumphs of modern surgery
have been made possible only
through viyisection; the buried su-
gtnre cost the life of one horse, the
catgut igature cost one calf, the
electric bath cure Of lead poisoning
cost one dog. DR.. Flexner was COM
pelled to sacrifice 25 little monkeys
and 100 innocent guinea pigs to pro-
duce the serum that is robbing men
ingitis of it's terrors. How many
rats and aeas we're sacrificed in the
discovery of the cause Of bubonlc
plague we hesitate to state. The
most vile and destructive blood dis
ease is now controlled through the
SOC animal experiments of Ehrlich.
Although the antis are less inter-
ested in the expenditure of human
life and suffering, it is revelant to
mention here that three experiment.
ers found it necessary to have them
selves bitten by infected mosquitoes
to demonstrate the cause of yellow
fever. Thus did Drs. Carol, Reed
and Lazear become martyrs that their
fellows might be able to live in the
tropics and that a new South might
arise to bless thousands. What has
been the reward? One of these
benefactors of mankind, DR.. Carol,
would turn in his grave if he knew
that the meagre pension allowed his
family precludes the proper education
of his children. Here is a fruitful
field for real philanthropy. The
South would do we'll to reward the
martyr Carol posthumously.
1t is to be hoped that the convinc-
ing proof of the life-saving value OF
animal experimentation above fur
nished may sink deep into the minds
of our readers, especially those who
will next winter be besieged by ex-
cited reformers.
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