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teaching, but also in the opinion of educators in other lines 

 of work, and in the opinion of those engaged in apply- 

 ing the results of laboratory experimentation to every-day 

 practice. 



This also we believe we have done, without unnecessarily 

 taking up the time of the committee, and at the same time 

 with not nearly the amount of detail that might easily have 

 been brought out. We rested our case with at least five 

 experts in different lines of investigation in the room and 

 ready to testify --not after being obliged to call upon un- 



answenng names. 



Our effort was to show the committee such varying lines 

 of weighty opinion that they could not feel that this bill 

 is opposed by men of one or very closely allied interests 

 only, even though some of those interests are so intimately 

 concerned with the human race as the care of the sick. 



This being so, it lies with the committee, not with coun- 

 sel, to determine whether or no the evidence has been 

 cumulative or unnecessary. Our effort from the begin- 

 ning has been to expedite matters, and to lay the facts in 

 the case plainly in evidence, not to obscure statements 

 of fact or expert opinion by the methods of the criminal 

 courts. 



GENERAL 



\Ve heard with interest counsel's declaration that before 

 he got through he would show that no advance or new dis- 

 covery had been made within the generation of those now 

 working, and we heard with the same amazement as in 

 times past the assertions that no good in the knowledge of 

 disease has come from these experiments, or " that more 

 harm than good has come from them." The only possible 

 explanation for such assertions is an ignorance of or an 

 incapacity for appreciating the facts. 



Some of these facts I will endeavor to give you. 



