Life — March 23, 1893 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- “a MORE FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS. Ir I ONLY HAD ME HANDS ON THE MON THAT'S HOLDIN’ THAT pure.” LITTLE GOOD OUT OF EVIL. UR earnest and esteemed contemporary, the Journal of Zoophily, prints a paper recently read in England by F.S. Arnold, M.B., B.Ch. (Oxon.), M.R.C.S., from which we give an extract. Mr. Arnold gives several important illustrations of the evils for which vivisection is responsible. We quote from one of them : “The great Koch fiasco affords another very instructive instance of the ignis fatuus character of experiments on animals. Koch sacrificed so many guinea-pigs in his experiments that a crematorium had to be built for the destruction of their bodies. His experiments led him to the conclusion that he had discovered a cure for tuberculosis. We know now that this conclusion was entirely fallacious and un- true, but its fallacy and untruth were finally demonstrated on the human subject. experiment was tried out, and tried out on a far larger scale even than Koch's vivisections, The trial resulted in the branding of the nostrum as not only inefficacious but dangerous. In some cases the injections caused death within a few hours, from what was known as the reactionary fever; in others they undoubtedly produced an exacerbation of the existing disease, and materially accelerated the fatal issue. Cases of lupus, a localized tuberculosis of the skin, which disfigures but is not dangerous to life, were converted into cases of acute general tuberculosis. Tuberculin is now an utterly discredited and almost forgotten nostrum ; but the thought of the human suffering and disappointed hope, involved ia the transition from the wild enthu- siasm of 1890 to the cold neglect of 1892, must be surely a very terrible ‘one to its “discoverer.” We see, then, that Koch’s experiments on guinea-pigs, notwithstanding the vast scale on which they were carried out, led him to absolutely erroneous conclusions, We see, also, that those experiments not only afforded no protection, but were a source of danger to human beings.” . Concerning another triumphant result of vivisection, Mr. Arnold says : “*In all, close on 240 persons have died of hydrophobia after under- Man furnished the corpus vile on which the crucial | going Pasteurian inoculation. Failure to prevent the development of hydrophobia is, unfortunately, not the gravest charge that can be brought against M. Pasteur’s treatment. It has beyond all doubt caused the death of several patients, Professor Peter was the first to call attention to the death of several of Pasteur's patients from a form of hydrophobia hitherto unknown in human beings, but closely resem- bling that which M. Pasteur produces in his laboratory rabbits. Pro- fessor Peter's terrible indictnent, ‘Mf. Pasteur ne guerit pas la rage, it Ja donne,’ has never been met, and the responsibility of those who, after failing to bring about the establishment of a Pasteur Institute in this country, are doing their best to inflict one on India, is a very grave one. One of the most striking cases of death from paralytic rabies after Pasteurian inoculation is that of a French rural postman, named Rascol, who was bitten on the 28th of February, 188, at the same time as another man, by a dog suspected of being mad. As Rascol wore two pairs of trousers, the bite did not penetrate hisclothes. The other man, was, however, badly bitten. Neither of the men wished to be sent to the Pasteur Institute, but Rascol was compelled by his superiors to go. From thegth to the 14th of March he was submitted to the inoculations. On the 26th he returned to his employment, On the 12th of April he developed grave symptoms—paralysis, painsat the points of inoculation, and not at the place of the bite, for, as a matter of fact, he had not been bitten, and on the 14th he succumbed to the pafalytic rabies with which M. Pasteur had inoculated him, The other man who was severely bitten at the same time as Rascol, flatly refused to undergo the Pasteurian treatment, and is still alive and well.” A BETTER REASON. H OBBS: Do you believe Gallup burned his home to get the insurance money ? Dosss: No; I visited him at the jail, and he confessed to me that he did it to get rid of the box of cigars his wife bought him for his birthday. ~~ i THE PATHETIC SIDE. Father of Phenomenon: (T'S ALL VERY WELL, THIS SOCIETY 1S WHAT LOOKS AFTER CHILDREN FOR THE PERVENTION O° CRU- ELTY; BUT WOT'S A PARENT TO DO WOT'S GOT A KID WOT KIN EARN A 'SPECTABLE LIVIN’? LOOK AT ME, FUR EGGSAMPLE; IF THEY TAKES MY CHILD OFF ER THE STAGE, WOT'LL BECOME 0° ME? Why, I'LL HAVE TO work! comicbooks.com