THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



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lege of science to carry them on, it must be 

 regarded as its duty. 



The importance of this subject should 

 prompt some consideration of those deluded 

 persons who oppose these investigations. Most 

 are victims of ignorance. Others are not. The 

 psychology of their opposition is well under- 

 stood by students of sociology and of neurol- 

 ogy. There is no great work for human bet- 

 terment but has its "anti" movement. The 

 business interest also involved in this opposition 

 testifies to the possibilities of inhumanity to 

 man as a business enterprise. 



Those who call themselves "antivivisection- 

 ists" employ the term "vivisection" to designate 

 animal experimentation. These persons em- 

 ploy exaggerated statements, perversions of 

 facts, and misinterpretations of the object and 

 methods of scientific work to becloud this im- 

 portant subject. As an example, one of these 

 persons, recently published the statement that, 

 the physiologists demonstrating to their classes, 

 "cut out the eyes of living rabbits in order to 

 demonstrate their internal structure"! But 

 there are methods of misrepresentation besides 

 actual falsehoods. Some of the crude methods 

 of experimentation practiced many years ago, 



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