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agony, his beak closed, his eye dim, his purple comb 

 drooping limply. Other chickens, respited till the next 

 day, come near the dying and the dead, picking here and 

 there grains soiled with excreta containing the deadly 

 germs; it is chicken cholera." 1 



Imagine the suffering caused by hog cholera. " No 

 State is exempt from hog cholera, and in some com- 

 munities it amounts to a calamity. It has been estimated 

 that in Iowa alone the value of the animals lost by cholera 

 was from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 in one year, and 

 some have placed the losses of the entire country at $100,- 

 000,000. These astounding figures are certainly not ex- 

 aggerated." 2 



The inoculations which protect animals against anthrax, 

 chicken cholera, and swine plague were discovered by 

 Pasteur by means of experimentation upon living animals. 

 No wonder that the researches of this extraordinary man 

 moved Huxley to declare in a public lecture to the Royal 

 Society: "Pasteur's discoveries alone would suffice to 

 cover the war indemnity of five milliards paid by France 

 to Germany in 1870." 



A petitioner for the first bill against animal experimenta- 

 tion introduced himself to the committee as Justice of the 

 Peace and Friend of Dumb Animals. It is pleasant to be 

 known as a friend of dumb animals, but which is the true 

 friend he who would hinder animal experimentation, or 

 he who would sacrifice a few, or even many hundred 

 animals, to diminish the suffering and prolong the lives of 

 innumerable thousands? 



1 Life of Pasteur, vol. ii., p. 97. 



2 Report of U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, 1898, p. 249. 



