144 ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION 



" The dissection of an animal in a state of insensibility is 

 no more to be criticised than is the abrupt killing of it, 

 to which no one objects. The confounding of an ex- 

 periment which does not cause pain either because 

 the animal is under ether, or because the experiment 

 itself is painless, like those pertaining to the action of 

 most drugs, or because it is a trivial one and gives 

 little suffering-- has done great harm to the cause of 

 humanity, and has placed the opponent of vivisection 

 at a great disadvantage. A painless experiment upon 

 an animal is unobjectionable." 



Therefore counsel's assertion that Dr. Bigelow took 

 ground against the practice in toto is not true. 



Certain excerpts from Huxley's writings were intro- 

 duced, to show that that great biologist was opposed 

 to animal experimentation, but Huxley (" Method and Re- 

 sults, Essays; New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1897, 

 page 123) in his essay on The Progress of Science, de- 

 livered in 1887, speaks on the subject as follows: 



" Unless the fanaticism of philozoic sentiment over- 

 powers the voice of philanthropy, and the love of cats 

 and dogs supersedes that of one's neighbor, the prog- 

 ress of experimental physiology and pathology will, 

 indubitably, in course of time, place medicine and 

 hygiene upon a rational basis. Two centuries ago 

 England was devastated by the plague ; cleanliness 

 and common sense were enough to free us from its 

 ravages. One cen-tury ago smallpox was almost as 

 great a scourge ; science, though working empirically, 

 and almost in the dark, has reduced that evil to rela- 

 tive insignificance. At the present time science, work- 

 ing in the light of clear knowledge, has attacked splenic 

 fever and has beaten it; it is attacking hydrophobia 

 with no mean promise of success; sooner or later it 



