Life — October 1, 1908 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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VX) Wars 6h thot ATA My Oe 3 rae SPEAKING GENERALLY, THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, CIVILLY AND CRIMINALLY, IN TILE MATTER OF ITS PROMPT DISPATCH AND JHE CHEAPENING OF ITS USE FOR THE POOK MAN, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.—William Howard Taft Painless and Useful HAT fun these “scientists '’ do have with animals behind the locked doors of laboratories! Dr. W. Geoffrey Harvey contributed a pa- per to the Journal of Pathology and Bacteri- Clogy (April, 1908) “on the Pathological Effects of Rontgen Rays on Animal Tissues.” ‘The experimenter says (p. 550): “I cut the right cervical sympathetic nerve in two rab- bits, and exposed the animal some days after to X-rays.” A guinea-pig received a dose of the rays over the unprotected spleen (p. ). “The animal died four days (eighty hours) after, For about twelve hours before death the animal looked unwell, cringed, and its ir stood on end."—The Zoophilist, London. If the same experiment is ever to be performed on this Dr. Harvey we will pay good money for a front se: A Dark Future IRST AFRICAN LION: I have a presentiment that something is going to happen Srconp Arrican Lion: How so? “1 saw Teddy bears in my sleep last night.” M*** a profit is without honor in the stock market LOST AT SEA comicbooks.com