Show vivisection NO AID english surgeon calls cancer experiments ants absurd dr twenty five years head of london hospital striving to have laws passed prohibiting hi biting practice philadelphia cancer as found in human brings beings has no analogy to the supposed cancer declared to have auve been found in mice according to dr herbert snow a noted english wr surn geon the experiments of alv elsec ts along this line lie ho believes are therefore futile and absurd dr snow for 29 years head of the caecer cancer hospital in london Is nn all ardent alati lind and Is in fit tills this country for the purpose e of striving to have laws passed forbidding experiments on oil living animals lie ho la is the guest of mrs caroline earle white president of the antl anti ety ty of 0 philadelphia lie he will appear before the committees of the legislatures of this state and now new york which have in charge bills prohibiting experimentation on oil living animals 1 I do not base my opposition to vivisection 1 wholly or ol even largely on oil the ground that it Is inhuman and barbar ous said dr snow it seems to me that on oil the much broader common sense ground of futility and absolute ate uselessness it is s most open to condemnation throughout the years of its existence as a practice not 0 one lie thing of value has binai addeso medical or surgical science it Is quite true that some rather er startling and even revolutionary things have been asserted but these assertions ire are merely subterfuges the advocates of vivisection know that they must advance something as an excuse for their practices and they throw dust in the eyes of the people and too fool them by insisting al ways that they are on the t e eve of great discoveries 1 I am not blinded by adherence to one side of the question only as are practically all the adherents of the practice I 1 formerly was a believer in and practitioner of vivisection I 1 conducted researches in that way but after years of experimentation I 1 was forced to the conclusion that however valuable such research might be in other depari departments ments of medicine it i was absolutely valueless so flir far as can cancer was concerned never tire of bf asserting that the immortal Harvey made his bis discovery of the circulation by living animal experiment harvey himself ascribes it to careful observation among the living and the dead second ol 01 d he does not appear to have discovered it at all the question was in the air many persons persona were working in the same direction tho the italians claim the honor tor for first microscopically showed a osculation in the web of a frogs toot foot about eight bight years after harveys harveyr death third no modern physiologist would dream of demonstrating demon stratin the circulation cu by a vivisection ex experiment erl ment there are almost insuperable ties in the way and the discovery could not well have been made by this method od the late royal commission has elicited from strongly pro vivisection witnesses the he worthlessness of cal antl anti of tho the plague era of the tetanus and dysentery antitoxins which were so vaunted in the medical press that even doctors were disposed to accept them as valid remedies cancer research which now causes the great majority of inoculation experiments in england has not yet published one single novel fact so far as they know to us all the laws of nature are characterized by extreme simplicity and all the utterances of true science are clear con else clae intelligible until medicine discards the al chemists jargon of vivisection research cultivates prec precision of thought and accuracy of language learns to simplify and elucidate instead of contuse confuse and obscure it can make no progress but must inevitably retrograde |