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stop at Lister or even with Pasteur in tracing the 

 history of its present development. It is due to the 

 workers in general biology, to whom we owe so much. 

 It is the physiologists, the bacteriologists, and the 

 pathologists who have shown us the way to attain 

 our ends in caring for our patients. How could we, 

 moreover, willingly shut our eyes to the splendid 

 vistas before us, and which have just been opened up 

 to us of late, through the exploits of some of the 

 pioneers in the biological sciences, as regards tropical 

 diseases? Schools for the study of tropical medicine 

 have just been opened in different parts of the world ; 

 their laboratories are for the purpose of studying the 

 causes and treatment of some of the most hideous 

 forms of disease that human flesh is heir to. There 

 must be allowed the most unrestricted use of all the 

 means which in the course of their investigation will 

 become necessary, and we must not shut them up nor 

 even limit them in any way. The adjective " cruel," 

 in its relation to students of biology, must receive a 

 new definition. The biologist gives pain to one animal 

 in order to inform himself how best to relieve it in 

 a thousand others. The visions of cruelty conjured 

 up from an invisible chaos by some of the anti-vivi- 

 sectionists are but fancies without any material foun- 

 dation mere auto-suggestions. 



When a biologist puts to death in the most humane 

 manner a few stray dogs or wild cats, and is animated 

 by the desire to advance and improve thereby our 

 knowledge of life and living beings for the betterment 

 of the human race, he is essentially and eminently hu- 

 mane and not cruel. 



The training which I have received in the various 

 biological laboratories has resulted in bringing me to 

 a much greater sense of realization of my duty and re- 



