HAROLD C. ERNST, M.D. 



PROFESSOR OF BACTERIOLOGY, HARVARD MEDICAL 



SCHOOL 



(Closing for the Remonstrants. 1 ) 



OPENING AND INTRODUCTORY 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee on Probate 



and Chancery : 



FOR the second time in a little over a year it has fallen to 

 me to address this committee upon the subject of proposed 

 legislation on experimentation on animals ; legislation that, 

 as we believe, is unnecessary so far as the general subject is 

 concerned, and that is ill-considered and onerous in the 

 case of the bills before you. Before entering upon a con- 

 sideration of what has been presented to you upon the sub- 

 ject of these bills, two things are to be made clear: First, 

 that I represent much more than the Harvard Medical 

 School, as of course you know from the position and char- 

 acter of the gentlemen who have appeared here as remon- 

 strants. Second, and emphatically, that none of those whom 

 I represent nor do I myself appear here as favoring 

 unrestricted experimentation upon animals, meaning by 

 that liberty to man, woman, or child to mutilate the lower 

 animals in any way they see fit; we resent such an impu- 

 tation most strenuously. 



We believe two things firmly, however that animal ex- 

 perimentation is already restricted by the laws upon cruelty 

 to animals, and by the statute prohibiting vivisection in the 



1 As delivered. 



