158 ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION 



17 person or corporation having control thereof, for 



1 8 the practice of vivisection. Such registration shall 



19 be made and a certificate thereof issued in such 



20 manner as the secretary of the Commonwealth 



2 1 may, from time to time, by any special or general 



22 order, direct: provided, that every legally char- 



23 tered college or university in this Commonwealth 



24 having power to confer degrees in medicine shall 



25 be entitled to a registration under this act. 



We object to paragraph b, because it exercises what 

 appears to us to be an unjust discrimination, and shuts out 

 at once from any research in biology those who do not 

 possess a degree in medicine. 



As has been shown to you, this would effectually dispose 

 of such work as has been done by Professor Sedgwick and 

 many of the gentlemen associated with him at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, and of other biologists 

 throughout the Commonwealth ; it would put an end to 

 such a place of study and research as the Wood's Hole 

 Biological Laboratory; and it would have, if in force, 

 arrested all that brilliant series of researches of Pasteur, 

 that add so much to the sum of human knowledge and 

 take so much from the suffering of mankind. 



As a specific case in point, this section would prevent 

 the performance of the experimental diagnosis of rabies, 

 officially carried on in my laboratory by a gentleman thor- 

 oughly competent, but not a graduate in medicine. It 

 would also seriously cripple the work of the laboratories 

 of the Massachusetts General and of the Boston City Hos- 

 pitals in this city, and of others elsewhere, in the experi- 

 mental diagnosis of disease --work often carried on by 

 non-graduates in medicine, but never by incompetent 

 persons. 



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