Life — June 4, 1908 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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The instruments of death are deliberately being parchased, placed on sale, advertised in alluring ‘ines, and on July Fourth the massacre will be at its maximur Last year there were reported, in the large cities alone, over three hundred deaths from lockjaw, fol- owing injury to hands; four hundred and forty per- and over a hundred children were ly a village can be found in America where not armless or sightless beings who are liv- ing out lingering deaths, victims of this violent way cfexpressing “ patriotism.”—The Fra. Missouri: Wit NUMBER of Representatives were facetiously discussing the resources of the State of Missouri one afternoon, when McCall, of Massachusetts, ob- served to Mr. Lloyd, of the first-named State: “Lloyd, Lam told that Missouri stands at the head raising mules.’” “It seems to me,” retorted Lloyd, “that is the enly safe place to stand in the circumstances.” — Lippi ‘of the mutilated animal; the el What Happened to a Dog Vivisectioa in Paria Reprinted from the Echo AS I go out of the courtyasd at the other angle to which I had entered, I heard the sound of a howling dog coming from a room over whose door I read, “ Directeur des Travaux de Physiologie.” I enter, but my admission is challenged by two professors and two assistants; my card is again pre- sented, and I am allowed to remain. The dog, a large Newfoundland, is already bound securely to the table by strong cords to each of its legs; he struggles violently, and shakes and rocks the heavy table, but to no purpose. He cannot escape. At his side one of the professors is injecting chloral, which is no true anesthetic. Presently a knife is taken, the skin of the animal is cut between the ears, the flesh is cut carefully open down to the skull; but what is that curious instru- ment in the assistant’s hand? He heats it at a gas jet, and a current is set in motion that produces a red heat at the top, and with this rs the flesh cautery thus prevents the poor lacerated creature from mercifully bleeding to death, T had never expected to smell the burning flesh of a living animal, and it came to me that day with a terribly new experience. A brass plate was screwed upon the skull of the animal and a hole was made through to the brain with a circular saw, and into this hole was poured an electric current from a battery on the other table; look to it, or the dog, a very powerful one, will es- cape, all bleeding and torn as. he is. With the plunging of the animal, the whole ar- rangement of screws, etc., has become unfastened ; two men hold him and they fit the plate again and turn more currents of electricity into that brain. Will he never die? I think to myself, and my im- pulse is to end its misery with my pocket knife; but no, that will not do, and so I watch for more than two hours these infamies perpetrated in the name of Science. I never could have believed, had I not heard, that it was possible for any animal to express human anguish as that one did through that time of torture. The dog groaned as I should have groaned; the thing is simply indescribable. I wish those groans could be heard for five minutes by every English man and woman; if so, vivisection would be pro- hibited by the consensus of our common humanity. Sick and horrified I left the place, the victim still in the hands of his merciless torturers. (Signed) T. A. Witttams. Bristol, England. “]F EXPERIMENTS on animals were entirely prohibited, then medical and surgical science would advance muck more certainly and rapidly, through the increased attention which would be bestowed on clinical and pathological study. instead of the mind being led astray by the latest alleged triumph of Vivi section." —Dr. Wall, L.R.C.P., MRCS. In the Law Court EST urged that no man should be convicted on circumstantial evidence alone. “Why,” he said, “when I was a boy I knew an- other lad who, ‘while his parents were absent, went into the pantry and nearly devoured a custard pie. Then, fearing the consequences, he looked about for means of hiding the traces of his guilt. “He seized the cat, smeared her face anid paws with the custard, and then took the innocent criminal into the back yard and shot her. As he did so, the boy observed to me: gocs one more victim of circumstantial Vest won the case.—Philadelphia Ledger. 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