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Show Surgeon Sores Into Heads of Lunatics b u ' Michigan Professor rtemovea Part of Patients Brnlns During Vivisection An Arbor, Mich., May 10. It aa not long ago that Dr. V. J. Wilo, professor of Dermatology in tho University Uni-versity of Michigan Journeyed to tho Pnntlac Stato Hospital, bored holes Into tho brains of six living pcopln with an ordinary dental drill. cx tractcd from each holo n quantity of lllng brain substance with which ho inoculated n rabbit. When tho rab-bit rab-bit becamo Infected, Dr. Wilo said that the presence of tho splrochactn pelllda In tho brains of lunatics bad been established, nnd tho cause of paresis determined . Laymen were less impressed by this' discovery than that vivisection bad been practiced on human beings, in n stato hospital, probnbly without their knowledge Tho result Is thnt Dr. Wilo Is being be-ing nttacked In a broadcast distribution distribu-tion of circulars, and his colleagues nro raiding to his support. Vivisection In Asylums Tho question whether or not human hu-man vivisection shall bo permitted, especially In asylums and hospitals whero tho vlshes of tho patient aro not consulted, has been brought compelllngly Into public attention. Sovcrnl Interesting facts havo been brought to light by acknowledgements acknowledge-ments of Dr. Wilo nnd his nssoci-iitcs. nssoci-iitcs. They showed that physicians consider tho act of entering n hospital hospit-al for treatment Implies assent to nny experiments to which tho surgeon sur-geon may consider necessary. If you go to tho hospital thoy may perform an experiment on you, and no further permission will bo nsked according to ono of tho most prom! nent men on tho faculty. They might even drill a holo in jour head in tho Interest of your case, and Bdenco generally. For, this physician said, this Is not considered con-sidered n dangsrouB experiment. |