The Washington herald., 1922-03-17
Cites Vivisectional Horrors.
To the Editor, The washington Herald:

To the Editor, Inc WaShington Herald:
The editorial concerning vivisec-
ton in The Herald of February Is
has just reached me, Nand l beg the
privilege OF replying.
Vivisection is a vast and compli-
Gated subject, and but few people
will take the time and trouble to
familiarize themselves with 1t. es-
pecially with the opposition: they
make up their minds about ii from
a few chance sentences CLEANED
here and there.
Those who really know antivivi-
section literature know that il pub
fishes many instances of expert
mentation involving frightful and
long cruelty. and which
has not the most remote bearing on
human therapy, such as cutting one
kidney out of a dog and grating 1t
into the neck.
II the kidney seems to be grow
ing and functioning, the other kid
ney is extirpated, to see If the ami
NAL will live with the kidney in the
neck alone.
This has been done by many ex-
perimenters on many series of dogs:
and IL one or two ouS of a set used
at one time lives a short time. it is
considered a great triumph of ex-
Fermentation.
1t is research" of such nature
that the ants wish to stop. and the
dog is most often the victim of sim
liar perverted surgical efforts,
hence the present widespread move
to exempt the dog from research
work. leaving all other animals for
laboratory purposes.
Statements of actual experiments
are taken from accounts in medi-
cal journals by the men who have
themselves made them: testimony
out of their own mouths.
The ants are accused of basinG
their campaign on sentimentality
alone: the pros base theirs on SEN
timentality plus fear; they indus
triously cultivate fear of disease
and death in the minds of the pub
lie, then appeal to sentimentality by
claiming to be saving hundreds and
hundreds Of lives through vivisec-
tional processes: the statistics
which they offer to prove this have
been made up by those who are
dedicated to vivisectional medicine.
hence the testimony is most highly
prejudiced and self-interested.
Anyone who will look back
twenty-five or fifty years, will see
that medical science" changes
completely and often: the "infalli-
BILE" remedies of a few decades ago
being the laughing stock of the
present: and each mode of treat
ment. while IL was the fashion. was
bodily proclaimed final and absolute
Serums and vaccines are having
their day now. most of them mac 2
by cruel processes through animal
bodies: they will unfortunately have
a longer day than many other fads
because of the millions OF money
invested in the factories and the
huge profts from their manufsc-
ture.
The exigencies of space prevent
giving many examples of serums.
loudly Wanted at first. but proving
useless after fair trial.
AS an example of fruitless re.
search. one institution alone in this
country, devoted to cancer, reports
using in round numbers 5000 ami
mails annually. This has been go
ing on for years, and is repeated
in scores of other establishments.
As everyone knows. cancer Is in
creasing at an alarming rate
sorry showing for animal research.
The antis are convinced that vivi-
sectional medicine is not nearly SO
necessary to the human family as
the pros claim II is; they have
nothing to gain or lose in the mat
ter; they work simply because they
think they are doing right.
The pros are'exceedingiy anxious
to convince the aforesaid human
family that its very existence is
threatened, unless it buys the prod
ucts they have to sell.