Life, 1896-06-04 · page 9 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 457 The main illustration satirizes medical education through vivisection. It depicts a donkey loaded with medical college supplies being led into a building, with students observing. The caption "What the Daily Paper is Doing for Us" suggests newspapers were exposing cruel laboratory practices. The accompanying article titled "Science in Milwaukee" describes a visitor's discovery of dogs in a medical college basement—some slashed, bandaged, or dying from vivisection experiments. The piece criticizes this practice while sarcastically noting that medical students apparently require such animal suffering for their education. This reflects late 19th/early 20th-century debates over animal testing ethics. The satire mocks both institutional indifference to animal cruelty and newspapers' role in publicizing these practices.
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497 THE RIGHT THING. 6c Whites you leave me, dear,” she said, Hiding not her yawning, “Whisper not to me ‘good night’: Rather say : ‘good morning. “SCIENCE” IN MILWAUKEE. T® following extract from a letter to the editor of the Journal of Zoophtly, gives assurance that the benign hand of the vivisector is busy in Michigan: The sights I saw in the Milwaukee Medical College are indescribable. It would tax your patience too much to read all this matter explained explic- itly, so T will come to the point. I passed the college late one after- noon and noticed a student standing in the door with a pole in his hand to which was attached a piece of meat. 1 wondered what he was doing, and stopped and watched him. Just then an Irish setter came along and the student enticed him to take the meat. When the dog was near enough he grabbed him and took him into the college. I was anxious to find out what they would do to the dog, and the same evening I went to the college (I only live a few blocks from it), and the moaning and groaning of the dogs called my attention to the basement window. Looking in, the sight I saw I never want to see again. Eleven dogs were in there, five of which were slashed, and all alive. Some were bandaged, and two were lying there with their eyes put out; some were moaning pitifully, Lovers of dogs may disap- prove of this, but they should not forget the pleasure it gives the medical student. The vivi- sector must have his fun, and until he is squelched by law he will continue to take it. HOW SHE KNEW. LARA: Didn't he kiss you? MaupE: What, did you hear me scream? “No. I heard you utter a WHAT THE DAILY PAPER IS DOING FOR US. : ” cry of joy. comicbooks.com