Show COCAINE the new anesthetic has greatly relieved Gen Grants sufferings and as it may be used to produce local insensibility without affecting the general gen-eral consciousness its value promises toe to-e exceedingly great The fact that it has been used in Gen Grants case has given it especial prominence in recent discussions and in his address before the Womens Medical College of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia Dr Keen the distinguished professor of surgery urged that its discovery ought to silence the objections to vivisection for without experiments on animals its value would still remain unknown It will not silence Henry Bergh of course but the great majority of people will not condemn vivisection if only it is practised as humanely as possible and never unnecessarily un-necessarily |