Life, 1895-08-22 · page 12 of 16
Life — August 22, 1895 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Political Content Analysis **"A Little Fowl Heir"** (top left): A satirical cartoon about inheritance, showing a rooster standing proudly over a smaller bird near a barrel—likely mocking the pretensions of aristocratic succession or the idea that lineage guarantees worth. **"Hot and Heavy"** (center): Two figures discuss visiting horses. One uses elaborate, pretentious language ("nauseatingly deleterious odors") to express a simple objection to stable smells—satire on affected, overcomplicated speech and social affectation. **"No Hope for the Dog"** (main article): A serious critique of animal vivisection in medical experiments. The author Philip J. Peabody argues that scientists falsely claim to use anesthetics in animal testing, when they actually don't—the piece accuses the medical establishment of cruelty disguised as science. The closing line ("the public who are anasthetized, not the animals") suggests society is being deceived about animal suffering in laboratories.
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A LITTLE FOWL HEIR. A RETROSPECT. OW many times, dear heart, have we Together roamed beside the sea When life was young and skies were blue, And all the world was fair and new, And it was rapture just to be ! And we have traced o'er dale and lea The paths that led to Arcady, And lingered there the long hours through, How many times ! And though our ways, by ** fate’s decree,” Since then have severed been and free, [still have kept your memory true, ‘Through all these changing years, while you, Ah, sad coquette, have thought of me— How many times ? C. Thomas Duvall. ACTS are almost as stubborn as some people. “HOT AND HEAVY.” The Little One: Let's GO PLAY IN THE STABLE WITH THE NICE OLD HORSES, The Other: 1 CONFESS I WAS ONCE NOT AVERSE TO THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE BEASTS YOU ADORE, BUT FROM A HYGIENIC POINT OF VIEW I THINK THE STABLE ODORS NAUSEATINGLY DELETERIOUS. NO HOPE FOR THE DOG, HYSICIANS are rather fond of telling the public that in experiments on living animals pain is reduced to a minimum by the use of anzsthetics. Occasionally a being turns up who accepts this statement, but we think he is rare, Mr. Philip J. Peabody, in the columns of the Boston Transcript, some days ago gave a few interesting facts on this subject : I have never yet, in all my experience, seen any anzsthetic in, or about, in use in, any laboratory, with one exception. I have a personal acquaintance with many vivisectors, including a number of the best-known ones in this country and Europe, and have hundreds of times conversed with them. No vivisector has ever claimed or pretended to use any anzsthetic, in conversation with me; they have always freely admitted that they never used them, whenever the subject came up. In the one exception noted, a dog which was about two hours undergoing a very agonizing experiment on the bladder, had tracheotomy performed, solely to stop his howls, as I saw and was also informed. After this a small rubber vessel was at times balanced some distance away from his nose, and for a few times only, and for a few seconds at a time only, it seemed slightly to relieve his agony. The use of this chloroform told me more eloquently than vol- umes would have done how utterly false was the pretence that animals are saved from suffering by anaxsthetics, This dog was breathing through the hole cut in his neck as muchas his nose. As a famous English doctor said—it is the public who are anasthetized, not the animals. The doctors must have their fun, but it is a grewsome sport, and the appetite seems to grow with what it feeds on. People with kinder feelings, however, are offended by the brazen insolence that perpetrates these disgusting brutalities in the name of science. —— These “interesting experiments" bear the same relation to science as do the tortures of the In- quisition to the ten commandments. Re mit A SHELL RACE. i