CONCLUSIONS 



make no protest because he is raising tender 

 meat for our stomachs. In the interest of sci- 

 ence it has become necessary in England 

 to organize a Research Defense Society. 

 Research, in the country which produced 

 Harvey, Hunter, Jenner, Darwin and Hux- 

 ley, now needs defense! At the inaugural 

 meeting of this society held in the building of 

 the Royal Society of Medicine, Lord Cromer, 

 the president of the society, delivered an 

 eloquent address upon the value to mankind 

 of animal experimentation, in which he stated 

 that nearly every discovery in medical science 

 since Harvey discovered the circulation of the 

 blood was either directly or indirectly the result 

 of experiments on animals. Professor Osier 

 said that the discovery of the transmission of 

 malaria by mosquitoes, the knowledge of which 

 was destined to make the tropics habitable, 

 never would have been made without animal 

 experiments. The men who made these exper- 

 iments had spent their lives in the research 

 laboratories, and their whole work had been 

 based upon such experiments. 



Every scientific medical man is opposed to 

 the efforts to restrict animal experimentation 

 and study. There is not a medical society but 

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