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(Medical Record.)
A very large part Of modern medi
i cal science Is. Indeed, based upon the
, knowledge gained by experiments up
| on animals, which could not have
! been gained in any other way. Diph
theria. tetanus, cerebrospinal menin
gitis, infantile paralysis, and many
other scourges oi mankind have been
or are in course of being shorn of
theic terrors as a result of animal ex
perimentation, many life-saving drugs
have been given to the world by the
same means, and the science and art
of surgery might as well -tiave been
left to the barbers had animal ex
perimentation been impossible. Mil
lions of animals, birds and fishes are
tortured and slain every year to pro
vide food, clothing and mere sport
for mankind, and the zoophilists say
nothing; but when a few hundred or
a thousand animals are sacrificed for
the sake of knowledge that will save
the lives of countl ss children and
avert destructive epidemics, a cry of |
pain goes up, and the lawmakers are
prayed to arr- st the progress of med-!
ical science. They will not do It, of
course; they cannot do it, for the
great mass of humanity is sane, but
the periodical agitation against ani
mal experimentation is none the less
distressing to the lovers of thoir kind.
