THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



This human weakness is responsible for put- 

 ting in the way of animal experimentation 

 obstacles which have been of decided hindrance 

 to scientific advancement. Ignorance, super- 

 infected refuse and waste material! One of the travesties 

 of this exhibition is the misrepresenting pictures, drawn from 

 the cruel imagination of morbid artists. There is a collec- 

 tion of these which are maliciously false. There are plates 

 from scientific books showing dissections, but labelled with 

 false legends such as, "This agonizing and hideous mutila- 

 tion is performed without anesthetics.' 



Concerning this exhibition, the Journal of the American Med- 

 ical Association, Dec. 18, 1909, makes the following comments: 



1 ' Such is the travesty on medical research presented to the 

 public by the antivivisectionists. The untruth of the details 

 has been stated, but the wickedly suggestive implicatons which 

 make the very atmosphere of the display cannot be adequately 

 described. The fundamental evil of the exhibition is the pre- 

 sentation of a false alternative. The picture of a dog bring- 

 ing succor, and of another dog bound to a holder, entitled, 

 'The Way They Treat Us' and 'The Way We Treat Them', 

 sums up the situation. If that were all, nobody would hesitate 

 on which side to stand. It is no wonder that nearly fifty 

 portraits of poets, novelists, statesmen, artists and clergymen, 

 whose words express their objections to cruelty, have been 

 collected to adorn the walls of this exhibition. Every decent 

 man is opposed to cruelty. But that is not the question. It 

 would be as fair to set up a picture of Grenfell stabbing his 

 faithful dogs to death, labelled 'Is This the Way to Treat 

 Your Pets,' as it is to represent medical research as this 

 grotesque show represents it. Grenfell killed his dogs to save 

 his life, and every man with common sense commends his 

 bravery, resourcefulness and proper sense of values. 



"The high purpose of medical research and its beneficent 

 results for human welfare the compelling motives of that 

 investigation which utilizes animals, and the care taken for 

 the comfort and health of the animals, in laboratories these 

 conditions, which alone give meaning and possibility to medical 

 investigation, are kept carefully in the dark. 



' ' The visitors at the exhibition are mainly women, though 

 many children, some quite young, have been seen gazing at the 

 horrifying sights. The attendants are women women who 

 have never seen the inside of a laboratory of medical research, 



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