Life, 1911-04-06 · page 63 of 76
Life — April 6, 1911 — page 63: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **advertisements and a reader letter**, not political cartoons requiring satire analysis. The main content is a letter to Life's editor arguing **against vivisection (animal testing)** and specifically attacking the use of antitoxin for diphtheria treatment. The author claims that despite antitoxin's discovery in 1893, diphtheria deaths in England and Wales actually *increased* by 35%, allegedly causing half a million deaths over seventeen years. He argues this proves antitoxin is ineffective and therefore animal testing to develop it cannot be justified. The advertisements include fashion ("St. Leon Designer of Gowns"), silver polish, and Kodak cameras—typical early 20th-century magazine ads. **Modern context**: This represents an anti-vaccination/anti-medicine argument, though the statistical claims appear questionable and likely reflect the writer's selective interpretation rather than scientific reality.
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sond, as ask uso! p) of Gowns for well-dressed women. Have you_a copy of her beautitu 1 Catalog of silk, voileand tub dresses? If not, :end for it today. ‘The dainty litle model pictured herewith isin fine French Voile, the new stripe effect in blue and white, black and white, tan and white, and brown and white. and is beautifully trimmed in Heavy Sutin Messaling to march the corresponding dark shade of the gown. Made from 32to 44 bust, skirt length 42 inches, with three inch basted hem. Design is most effective and be- geste Se $G.15 edly stylish, We pay Arpaia nde ype see Send Today for Beautiful Catalog MAIL ORDERS ONLY ST. LEON o"r2na'st (lincoln Trust Bldg.) Kew York Cty From Our Readers (Continued from page 706) A Fatal Cure Tne Eprtor or Lire: Dear Sin—Aside from any consid- cration of the question of cruelty, vivi- section is condemned and must cease cre long. The advocates of the practice base their claims for its continuance on the value of the serums discovered. For example, “antitoxin” for the preven- tion and cure of diphtheria. By em- When Looking at — a beautiful Piece of silverware think of ‘WRIGHT'S SILVER CREAM The most lar silver than powders use it 't hurt the silver ond can't hurt the hands. “Fias been on the market thirty-eight years. Over million women use it, Makes silverware glisten Tike new—reaches ir tiveswere’ meheee, AP est ali are, Porcelain end’enamel peur dealer, Bat tnstst ting the, whee bt anette en. fend 6 cats (10 stamps) for a large sample Jar, J.-A. WRIGHT & CO., 180 Court St., Keene, N. H. +RUM NO, 4A FOLDING KODAK WeaaTivE. Take a KODAK with you. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, logue free at the or ay mit, ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak City. ploying the serum treatment in in- numerable cases of “diphtheria” which never went through the form of materializing, they figure out a very favorable percentage death rate. But, the fact remains—and we have the sta- tistics to prove this absolutely—that there have been many more deaths from “ diphtheria” since antitoxin be- came the stock treatment. The rec- ords for England and Wales at the Registrar General’s office (England) prove, beyond question, that the mor- tality from diphtheria per million pop- ulation, year in and year out, has been fully 35 per cent. greater since the “discovery” of antitoxin in 1893 than prior thereto. Figuring the population of England and Wales at 35,000,000, this means the sacrifice of fully half a million lives during the seventeen years up till 1910 in those States alone. Hence, it is not merely a question of the vivisection of kittens, puppies and monkeys, but of the partial vi (Concluded on page 708) comicbooks.com