THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



strictive law has never been shown." Sir 

 Lauder Brunton said, "The passage of the 

 anti vivisection act in this country has inter- 

 fered to an enormous extent with physiologic 

 work. In order to make some of my investi- 

 gations, the object of which was to find put the 

 action of certain medicines, that one might 

 apply them to the relief of suffering mankind, 

 I have been obliged to go to Paris to carry on 

 my research in a foreign laboratory." 



Were I to enumerate all of the pains in- 

 flicted on animals in the name of science, I 

 would then say, these are but a drop in the ocean 

 of pain which man visits upon the brutes ; and 

 were I to combine these two, and enumerate all 

 of the pains both in the interest of science and 

 humanity and in ruthless cruelty in sport and 

 commerce which man visits upon animals, 

 I would then say, these are but a drop in 

 the ocean of pain which is visited upon the 

 children of man in one single block in any 

 great city. Let us give every aid to those who 

 are endeavoring to mitigate some of this suf- 

 fering. 



Man's thirst for knowledge is his saving 

 grace. It lifted him out of the world of mysti- 

 cism and superstition in which he once lived. 



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