1885.] on Living Contagia. 167 



munching their food ; some drowsy and languid ; some mortally sick, 

 some in the last agony, and some in the rigor of death. It was 

 subsequent to these experiments that Pasteur operated on larger 

 animals, subjecting them to the " tortures " I have just described. 

 "What would a tender-hearted bishop * have said under these circum- 

 stances ? Were it in his power to do so, would he not have invoked 

 the arm of the law to stay such damning cruelty ? Most assuredly he 

 would. And yet, in doing so, he would have affixed the brand of 

 cruelty upon himself. In lieu of the few animals saved from the 

 operations of the man of science, he would have handed over tens ol 

 thousands of the same animals to the fearful ravages of splenic fever. 



[J. T.] 



* The Bishop of Oxford had been just writing to the Times on the cruelties 

 of experimental physiology. 



