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cer of the Massachusetts Society testified they were likely 

 to be --may enter at any time, with the privilege of 

 interpreting the experiments as he sees fit. 



Of course the further objection holds, that this discrimi- 

 nates, and allows some of our students to be present at 

 operations and others not, placing legal restrictions upon 

 the facilities which we are permitted to offer to a portion 

 of our students. 



36 (X) The animal shall, before the beginning and 



37 thenceforth during the whole course of such ex- 



38 periment, be sufficiently under the influence of a 



39 general anaesthetic to prevent the animal from 



40 feeling pain. The substance known as urari or 



41 curare shall not, for the purposes of this act, be 



42 deemed an anaesthetic. 



Paragraph d is, as it appears to us, as unwarranted as 

 the others. It requires the use of a general anesthetic at 

 all times, and by that very fact may require the inflic- 

 tion of unnecessary suffering. For it is well known that 

 general anesthetics, like ether or chloroform, are not at 

 all times necessary ; that local anesthetics, like cocaine or 

 the application of cold, may easily be all that is necessary 

 for preventing the perception of pain, and the recovery 

 from their use is surely attended with much less discom- 

 fort than from the general anesthetics. Merely a mention 

 need be made of the fact that the paragraph prevents any 

 attempt at the discovery of new anesthetics, and an- 

 nounces that the world's progress in this direction must 

 stop. 



As to curare the wording prohibits an attempt to verify 

 the evidence adduced to show that after all it may be a 

 true anesthetic, and that therefore the feeling against its 

 use has been unduly aroused. 



