The Metropolitan hospitals and vivisection : a guide for the charitable in the disposition of their gifts and bequests / The National Anti-Vivisection Society.

  • National Anti-Vivisection Society (Great Britain)
Date:
1902
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Credit: The Metropolitan hospitals and vivisection : a guide for the charitable in the disposition of their gifts and bequests / The National Anti-Vivisection Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “It would seem, therefore, that these venerable and sacred institutions, founded by pious men of old for the relief of the sick and suffering, sustained for generations by the gifts of the good, consecrated in the imagination of mankind to deeds of mercy, and dedicated to the glory of God through the perpetual service of His poor, are passing into the hands of those who do not scruple to pervert their resources from B the succour of the afflicted to the support of the laboratories and schools wherein unoffending dumb creatures are ruth- lessly tortured in the pursuit of a malignant and heartless science. “ Surely the time has come for the charitable to inform the managers of our hospitals that they give their alms that the sick may be tended, and not that animals may be tortured; and to protest against the diversion of their contributions from the wards of the hospitals to the class- rooms of the schools.” [Extract from an article by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge, which appeared in the Contemporary Review, March, 1900.]