Life, 1914-01-15 · page 29 of 40
Life — January 15, 1914 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page presents **anti-vivisection activism** from an early 1900s Congress in Washington. The left column quotes prominent figures—including a physician to John D. Rockefeller—attacking medical experimentation on animals and poor humans. Senator Gallinger alleges hospitals inoculated pauper children with disease. Frank Stephens calls the Rockefeller Institute "a working model of hell." The satire appears **implicit**: Life publishes these sensational accusations without overt mockery, allowing readers to judge the claims' credibility. The rhetoric is heated—comparing medical research to hellish cruelty—reflecting genuine early-20th-century moral panic about unregulated human and animal experimentation. The right side features a **Sanatogen advertisement** (a patent tonic), which provides unintended irony: while activists decry unproven medical practices, the magazine simultaneously advertises dubious health products as cure-alls. This juxtaposition may constitute subtle commentary on medical hucksterism versus legitimate research concerns.
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Echoes from the Intemational Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress at Washington “Scores of dogs,” he said, “are slaughtered in laboratories of medical colleges for no other object than grand- stand exhibition, with no beneficial re- sults to medical science. To open the doors of all+vivisection laboratories is absolutely essential."—Dr. Hamilton F. Biggar, of Cleveland, personal physician to John D. Rockefeller. Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, a physician, wrote a letter, which was read to the convention, saying there was every reason to believe that in some hospitals .pauper children were “ inocu- lated with loathsome discases to see the results that will follow.” Frederick P. Bellamy, of Brooklyn, at- tacked the American Humane Association and many of the smaller humane socie- ties of the country for declining to take a stand against vivisection. He accused them of being afraid of the influence of Prominent medical men. Frank Stephens, one of the directors of the American Anti-Vivisection Society of Philadelphia, said: “The Rockefeller Institute in New York is a working model of hell. It is a good example of the appalling work of vivisection which is going on in the large institutions of this country.” Mrs. Pierre Crosby Waring, president of the Vivisection Investigation League of New York City, said: “T have heard it stated that medical men experiment only upon poor people whose lives are worth nothing. “Do not be deceived. If you give absolutely unrestricted power to vivisec- tors not one of us is safe; neither the rich nor the poor.” 28° PROFIT! ~ FOR ONE MAN U. (NW ONE DAY PLOTS Weten Petre PLAYS fou can write them. Manufacturers now, santo tem. 8 100 for | Set plot,_We teach you how to 0 write jo pre- | Vous experience necessary. Write now for free details, ISocluteD MOTION PICTURE SCHOOLA, cteD faeries ‘some ‘Cileage Why should you not be braced up F you are bound down by routine and the destroying worries and anxieties of a business or profession, you will do well to follow the example of thousands of your fellow men and women who have found mental and physical regeneration in Sanatogen. They have found Sanatogen to be, from over 18,000 physicians, who not a stimulant, but atrue recon- have noted its onde rful effects on structor of blood, tissue and nerve, the nervous and the debilitated. a creator of real and fundamental A new book by Elbert Hubbard, FREE strength. . : : 1 Shlionoyhy Compounded of purest albumen ie, tan aor beat a content and phosphorus underletters patent, Sanatogen isa natural and healthful | Sect Mer terre Sabet Ea thorough food and tonic. It does perfectly and J satelsumneo nti tat ane ta tow ‘encinn without reaction what so-called — | titi’ cponine eigerite orem andnene centers tonics do imperfectly and with dam- wroughs, the distinguished naturalist and author, aging after effects. seep wb per emt ieee! an fr vas ont at ag) ani When you take Sanatogen you |» me dninguldned postouthor, vies take what has brought new relish of | peroisel' mental tite, ant eeth tine dertved teat bene, Sige hme cereal does Thee as crcl oem life to countless men and women, ing why I was feeling more ‘St’ and then remembered that aa T'was king Sanatogen.”* what has won admiring comment Sanatogen is sold by good druggiste everywhere, in three sizes, from $1.00 THE BAUER CHEMICAL CO., 24-E Irving Place, New York Sanatogen received The Grand Prize at the International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913 It Will Be Worth Watching DISPATCH from San Francisco travels clear across the country to tell us that A the millionaires of Piedmont, “an exclusive suburban district”, are going in for codperation in order to reduce the cost of living. This is significant in more ways than one. If living has become so costly that even millionaires are feeling it, surely the rest of us can afford to throw off our reserve and haggle a bit over prices without undue loss of caste. The prevailing notion of a millionaire is a man who has been successful in keeping up prices. If the millionaires of Piedmont, or anywhere else, can succeed in keeping prices up with one hand and down with the other, they will put us in possession of an easy means of revolutionizing the world. comicbooks.com