ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION 



intimate human standpoint, is meant the ex- 

 amination of living animals for the purpose of 

 observing and discovering the functions of or- 

 gans ; determining the effects of operations, in- 

 juries, or diseases; discovering the reaction of 

 the body to medical substances; making diag- 

 noses by injecting suspected materials; discov- 

 ering the disease-carrying nature of the ani- 

 mal; manufacturing prophylactic, curative, or 

 diagnostic sera ; discovering antidotal remedies ; 

 practising surgical operations; experimenting 

 with the view of finding means of accomplish- 

 ing the extermination of harmful animals ; and 

 studying the nature of diseases which are com- 

 mon to both man and animals. 



There is a general notion current that animal Errors 

 experimentation means vivisection and that current, 

 vivisection means the painful mutilation of 

 animals. I was recently asked by a woman if 

 I believed in "cutting up dogs alive." This 

 question is about the same as asking if one be- 

 lieves in cutting up people alive. It implies 

 gross mutilation, and even though a public exe- 

 cutioner could be secured to engage in such a 

 practice no useful knowledge could be ob- 

 tained, excepting, perhaps, the revealing of the 

 amount of disorganization, which an animal can 



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