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or operation, and read on the faces of the friends or in the 

 hearts of the physicians themselves the anxious but often 

 unspoken question, whether really everything possible has 

 actually been done in the case ; whether we ought not to 

 have known more of removable causes, controlled condi- 

 tions, or have explored the efficacy of the different cures ; 

 and this can only be done by the study of living tissue 

 which prejudice names vivisection. All the traditions 

 and all the arguments and all the educational tendencies 

 towards the development of sympathy for life are not on 

 the side of the petitioners, but upon our side. 



