Show AS frS TO VIVISECTION Somebody has haB started another argument argument argument ment on the merit and demerit of vivi vivisection vivisection section tha th value or lack Jack of oC value ft of the practice to humankind There Theres is little profit in an extreme position on either side of at the question That ex cx experiments experiments made upon animals have been of ot immense value to the human race is not to be seriously denied To such experiments we owe one the discovery of the diphtheria antitoxin that has robbed a 8 scourge of childhood of most of its terror To them we also owe the discovery of vaccination as a pre preventive preventive preventive of oC smallpox This is not vivisection in the literal sense however Through actual vivi vivisection vivisection vivisection section many anatomical secrets have hav been disclosed to the world of oC medicine and an surgery Generally speaking it itma may ma be said that those who condemn the practice offhand do so without great knowledge of their subject It is un undeniably undeniably deniably true that vivisection has been carried to extremes Animals have hay been cruelly tortured under the guise ulse of ot scientific research For example there Is no profit to hu humanity humanity manity in the discovery by a New York doctor that he could bind two animals together after the fashion of the Siam Slam Siamese see ese twins twine To kill animals by inches either with Ith the knife or with drugs is not helpful either to the investigator or orto dr r to tt the public Under proper restrictions restrictions however vivisection is not the horrible thing many people believe it to be beThe beThe The lower loer animals animal were given ghen to man manfor manfor for far his reasonable use We would not advise e the wholesale practice of vivi vivisection section for the satisfaction of mere curiosity We do contend that it has been of benefit Men of science frequently sacrifice their lives in the conduct of their Investigations The world admires and applauds them for fora a time and then forgets them It would be infinitely better to sacrifice all the guinea pigs Illes and mice and rabbits on onearth onearth onearth earth than to sacrifice one man of learning one man who is needed in the world |