T. M. STRONG 



SECRETARY MASSACHUSETTS SURGICAL AND 

 GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Summary of Statement 



DEAR DR. ERNST,--! advanced nothing in the way of 

 arguments, as they had been presented, and were later, 

 in a much more forcible way than I could express them. 

 I wanted to impress upon the committee that I represented 

 a very large proportion of a school of medicine which 

 was opposed to these bills from start to finish, and that the 

 statements heard in the petitioners' appeal were those of 

 hardly a respectable minority. I could not give to Mr. 

 French (attorney for the bills) other action than that the 

 bill had been mentioned among others. I can now give you 

 quotations from the published minutes of the secretary: 



" Dr. Edwin B. Harvey, M.D., Secretary of the State 

 Board of Registration in Medicine, called the attention 

 of the society to several matters just introduced at the 

 General Court. . . . The bill pertaining to anti-vivisection, 

 if passed, will prevent medical schools making experi- 

 ments with animal life unless an agent of the M. S. P. C. 

 is present. It is the old matter which was rehearsed and 

 defeated at the State House a few years ago. 



" These several matters were referred to the Standing 

 Committee on Legislation with full power." 



Ex officio, as president, I presented the action of the 

 society as shown in the unanimous action of the com- 

 mittee as against the bill. 



