THE CONQUEST OF DISEASE 



favors animal research. With the exception 

 of one or two men, who were notoriously erratic 

 or in a decadent mental state, there has never 

 been a member of the regular medical profes- 

 sion who could be called an eminent or even a 

 prominent man who was opposed to animal 

 experiments. The entire scientific medical 

 profession is united in this important matter. 

 Medical men, who are found in the ranks of 

 "antivivisectionists," either are outside of the 

 pale of scientific medicine and belong to some 

 peculiar sect, or are examples of professional 

 derelicts, habitual opponents, or covetors of 

 notice. Happily there are but few of any of 

 these. The opposition to research is outside of 

 the biologic sciences. 



When the question of vivisection was receiv- 

 ing legislative consideration in England, 

 thirty-five years ago, Huxley declared that he 

 trusted u to the fox-hunting instincts of the 

 House of Commons rather than to any real 

 interest in science in that body for a moderate 

 treatment of the subject." In speaking his 

 protest against the enactment of a law restrict- 

 ing animal experimentation in Massachusetts, 

 President Eliot of Harvard, said: "The hu- 

 manity which would prevent human suffering 



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