THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



race, the lower creatures are lending their 

 help. Let science go on with its holy mission 

 of helpfulness. If it has not kindness, it is not 

 science. 



There should be no misconception of the 

 meaning of animal experimentation. Let it be 

 remembered that it does not mean animal 

 cruelty. The experiments in which pain- 

 ful operations without anesthesia are prac- 

 ticed are comparatively few. These are ex- 

 periments upon the nervous system in which 

 anesthesia would nullify the results, just as 

 operations sometimes have to be done upon 

 man without anesthesia. Such experiments are 

 made by men who go about their task with 

 every humane consideration for the animals 

 under observation. There have been experi- 

 ments that could be denominated as cruel. 

 That such things have occurred is due to the 

 defects of human judgment which are found in 

 all professions, and which are keenly regretted 

 by students of the biologic sciences. I offer no 

 defense for cruelty to animals. But to talk of 

 the "cutting up" of living animals, popularly 

 spoken of by those unfortunate persons who 

 speak in ignorance of these things, is as absurd 

 as it is malicious. 



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