Animal experimentation : a series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science / [introd. signed: Harold C. Ernst].

  • Ernst, Harold C. (Harold Clarence), 1856-1922.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Animal experimentation : a series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science / [introd. signed: Harold C. Ernst]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ACTING PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE (at the time the hearings were held in 1901). Cambridge, March 23, 1901. DEAR DOCTOR, — I am afraid that I cannot recall any- thing of the talk I gave the other day, for I was entirely upset by an accident to one of my eyes, which put me in much pain, —and this has not yet left me. What I meant to say was on these lines: The University has entire confidence in those of its teachers who have occasion to use vivisection. It therefore protests against any unnecessary interference with the freedom of teaching. Interference is not necessary, because the Corporation and Board of Overseers have a numerically small repre- sentation of medical men. Out of thirty-seven members, five only are physicians; the rest are lawyers, judges, philanthropists, clergymen, and business men. No question has ever been raised in these bodies, to my knowledge, upon the subject of vivisection. The limitation of vivisection to medical men would have shut out Pasteur, a chemist, — the great benefactor of his generation. Some of the best work of the State Board of Health is founded on the practice, and has been fostered by ap- propriations of money from the legislature year after year; no objection has ever been made to this work, which in- cludes the production of antitoxin, through men employed by the State and paid by the State.