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

  • Goodridge, A. R.
Date:
1907
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    way fitted me to cope better with disease.’ ” “ The writer of the following letter is one of Boston’s leading physicians, a graduate from Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. It re- fers to his experience abroad. ‘ When I was engaged in studying medi- cine in Paris, it was the custom of a distin- guished physiologist to illustrate his lectures by operations upon dogs. Some of these dis- sections were not very painful; but others were attended with excruciating, long-con- tinued agony; and when the piteous cries of these poor brutes would interrupt his re- marks, with a look of suppressed indignation he would artistically slit their windpipes and thus prevent their howling. Curiosity prompted me to inquire of the janitor whether, after this period of torment these creatures were mercifully put out of misery, and I ascertained that such animals as did not succumb to the immediate effects of their mutilations were consigned to the cellar to be kept, unattended and unfed, until wanted