Life — January 28, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: 7 OTHER SCOTCH WRITERS, ALL PATHETIC AND USING ONLY CLERGYMEN FOR HEROES, WHO WILL SURELY VISIT THIS COUNTRY SANDY MACGUSH. THE ARGUMENTS OF THE OTHER SIDE. AIR play isa jewel; the vivisec- tionists have some arguments on their side. A careful study of their literature shows the followin strong reasons for allowing the prac- tice to continue unchecked. First, it isa humane practice. The vivisectionists say’ so themselves, and they ought to know. To the outsider it does not at first sight seem probable that cutting ortear- ing a living animal, breaking or dis- locating its limbs, baking it in a hot oven, or tracing out the course of the most sensitive nerves, can be an enjoyable operation for the subject, but this is a mistake of the non-scientific mind. Besides, not one in ten of those who object to these things have ever witnessed an actual operation, ana how can they pre- tend to know whether a thing they have not seen is painful or not ? Vivisection is useful. Certain operations conducted by careful operators in the past led to valuable results, Therefore it is evident that it is of the highest usefulness to repeat these experiments, and any others that can be devised, yearly, before every class of every medical college in the country, If anyone fails to see the connection, it is plain that he lacks the logical training given by a course in Vivisection, Vivisection is immensely elevating and im- Proving to those who practice it. What can be better fitted to develop in a young mana true reverence, refinement and desire to re- lieve pain than hacking and torturing a bound and helpless animal? It might be bet- ter, certainly, if the subject were a human being, but to some extent this lack can be supplied when the student begins his hospi- tal practice, Vivisection is profitable—to the vivisector, MACGOWAN MACTAGGAKT. UNLESS DEATH INTERVENE: IAN MACPHERSON, JOUN MACGOFFOG. How else can he so easily make his lectures interesting and attract new students? This consideration disposes at once of the puer- ile argument that the excellent charts and models of all parts of the body now sup- plied render the actual operations un- necessary. They will show the facts, of course, but will they supply the attrac- tion ? Finally, vivisection is no affair of the public's, anyhow, and it would be well if people would stop talking of what doesn't concern them, and of what they know nothing about. The vivi- sectionists are quite capable of managing the whole affair, and when they want the help of the public they will call on them. - HY, when I was here in De- cember you had about four hundred scholars. Now, only one hundred and fifty,” said the visitor. “Yes, that was our Christmas sadly answered the Sun- day school superintendent. MACPARLAND MACFALE. THOSE WAR DRAMAS. OSS: What do youthink I would be the greatest evil of another civil war? Foss: The plays that would come after it. I* Germany, they call it Wilhelm-of-all-t REST AT LAST.