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THEODORE HOUGH 



ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS 

 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



(Present at the hearings and ready to speak.) 



IT is characteristic of the methods of anti -vivisection agi- 

 tation that experiments upon animals are constantly spoken 

 of as painful and cruel. The impression is thus produced 

 upon those unfamiliar with the facts of the case that the 

 painless experiments are few in number, and that experi- 

 mentation upon animals, as a general thing, involves a large 

 amount of suffering. I went to the hearings to give my 

 own experience in the matter as a contribution to the facts 

 of the case. 



I have been a student of physiology since 1889, a period 

 of eleven years. From 1889 to 1893 inclusive, I worked 

 in the physiological laboratory of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Md. Since then I have had entire 

 charge of the instruction in animal physiology at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



While at Johns Hopkins, I conducted two pieces of 

 research involving vivisection upon warm-blooded animals ; 

 for three years I saw, and for two years assisted at practi- 

 cally every demonstration which was given to the students ; 

 during these years I was present at practically every stu- 

 dent laboratory exercise in physiology for one year as 

 student and for two years as assistant to the instructor in 

 charge. This student laboratory course, so far as the 

 animals used and the general methods employed is con- 



