What is vivisection? / by A.R. Goodridge.

  • Goodridge, A. R.
Date:
1907
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    experiments in 1888 being 1,069,—and in the year 1901 they were 11,645,—experimenters, as we see, having increased within the twenty years mentioned from 23 to 224, and experi- ments having increased during the past thir- teen years from about 1,000 to over 11,000. The Restrictive Act took effect in the year 1876.” Lawson Tait describes vivisection as “ crude in conception, unscientific in its na- ture, and incapable of being sustained by any accurate or beneficent results applicable to man.” And has also said: “ I feel con- fident that before long the alterations of opin- ion which I have had to confess in my own case will spread among the members of my profession. ’ ’ Similar in substance are the words of Dr. Geo. Wilson, LL.D., when he said, in his ad- dress before the British Medical Association: “After all these long years of flickering hope, I am prepared to contend that the indiscrimi- nate maiming and slaughter of animal life, with which these bacteriological methods of research and experimentation have been in-