Show TO 0 MAKE CRIMINALS OF USE suggestion not likely to be adopted but ut really seems to be worth consideration that condemned murderers should have the opportunity of submitting themselves to vivisection and thus secure a chance to work out their salvation instead of 0 being hanged was the startling suggestion made by the mayor of bath england dr preston king at a meeting of the local antl anti vivisectionists he suggested that while the nation kept capital punishment in its code of laws and thought it right for or society at large that a criminal who had committed murder should be hanged they should give the condemned man the option of subjecting himself to some simple kind not the grosser kind of vivisection such for instance as feeding on tuberculosis milk m ilk or injection of germs of various kinds hinds such as those of sleeping sickness diseases like sleeping Ble sickness could be studied better in the human being than in the animal those were the things he would subject the condemned criminal to it he be were ware willing to be so subjected his life being already forfeited to the state tor for the crime he had done by so doing a man who had taken one human life might have a chance of saying saving many lives and of thus working out his bis own salvation in this thia world |