HAROLD C. ERNST l6l 



43 (V) Every animal subjected to any such experi- 

 44.ment shall be killed immediately upon the con- 



45 elusion thereof and while under the influence of 



46 the anaesthetic. 



Paragraph e is most sweeping in its mandate, and pro- 

 hibits absolutely all classes of experiments that need time 

 for their completion and the study of their results. The 

 experiments upon the larynx (of Dr. Walton) furnish a 

 case in point. If they had not been done it would have 

 been impossible to apply their results to operations tend- 

 ing to save the lives of persons with malignant or other 

 disease of the larynx as has been done, and as has been 

 shown by testimony offered to you. 



1 SECTION 2. The inoculation of or administra- 



2 tion of drugs to any animal for any medical or 



3 scientific purpose, by any graduate described in 



4 section one hereof, shall not by itself be deemed 



5 an experiment to which the restrictions of said 



6 section apply. 



Section 2, if we accept the interpretation of counsel, 

 and if I am correct in stating that interpretation, exempts 

 from the restrictions of the bill such experiments upon 

 animals as are in the line of bacteriology. 



In the first place we cannot accept counsel's interpreta- 

 tion of what is intended by this bill, any more than, as has 

 been seen, can we accept his interpretation of much that 

 has been said by the remonstrants. 



Nor can we accept modifications in the way of punctua- 

 tion that may have suggested themselves as the hearings 

 have gone on. 



Of course the experience of the legislature with the 

 vagrant semicolon l is too recent to make necessary any- 

 thing but a reference to that illustration. 



1 In liquor law. 



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