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I'astfur Mini Listrr jiml llirir t'ollowcr-. |u lir ;ili;iiiilniic(l iiiid mii- xtldici-,^ left to 



I kiinw il lt\ |icrMin;il cxiicrii'iicc ju^l piTi-li w lini wf imii mivc tlicir lives? 



;is vou know llu' lii,<:li cosl of li\inL^ tin- I <iiii s\ iii|iiillii/r with the il('f|t fccl- 



shortiiL'f "I" siiLrnr, Jiml tin- >c;irrily of in,i.^s of tliosf who wish to s|t;ir(' pain to 



cual. aiiiiiiMis, hill i> il not a hiiihrranil more 



The l>a<'lfriolo_<:y which tlir aiiti\i\i- iin|>t'iMl i\f. a liolin- syiii|iath\ that has 



scctioiiists scorn ami reject I know i> s|>ai-c(l ami will spare pain c\entiially 



the ( ui;\i:i;-siom: of nidtlern snr^rery. to Innnaii liein<.f> ami also to uihn- ani- 



Hefore !.i>ter*s ila\ out of HMl cases of mats in uneonnted nnniher>y 



conipoiiml fractnre liii ilied from infec- I >o yon wcnidn- that after nunc than 



tion. Now the percentap' of deaths is foiMy years of steatly |»raclice, teaching; 



Irss llnin oiii' o\[\ ()\' ]in). Uefore l>ister and wi'itin,<: I assert, eonseions of the 



ni\ old nia.'>ter in snri:er\. Di-. \\'a-h- i:i-iat ropoiisihility of my wnrd>. that 



inirton I.. Alice, one id' the pioneer> in "I i-e,L;ard evperiniental rc-eai-ch in 



practising:' ovariotoniv. lost ".' ont <d" medicine as a medical, a moral and a 



everv .'{ patients — now oidy ".' or :! in Christian diili/ toward animals, toward 



KMl die. Bid'ore Lister we never dai-cd my fellow men. and toward (o)d."' 



to (ipcn the head, the cliot or the alulo- There i> >o mnch yet to he learned. 



men nnless thev were already openetl chielly hy experimental roeareh! So 



h\ the knife, the hullet or otlier wonnd- many de\otcd lives to lie >aved to onr 



inir hodv. Now we oju'ii all id' the.-e conntry and to mankind if we only 



irreal cavities freelv and do operations knew how! 1 )o yon vvondei- that I am 



of which the ixreat siirp'oii> id' the past in dead earnest r 



never dreamed in the wildest lli.^lits of I'inallv. What have the ant i vivi,-ec- 



tlieir imagination. Could they return tioiii>i> theniM'lvo done to diminish 



to earth thi'V would think us stark era/.y sickness and >ave lifer 



until they found tliat tlie mortality was .1. In animaU? Ahsohitely nothin>r. 



almost ne^diirihle and the lives saved In spite of the enormous ravairos of 



numltered hundreds of thousands. animal diseases causin,^ enormous suf- 



I have iriven hut a few instances of ferin*,Mo animals and costin<:this eoun- 



the many wonderful henefits which have try $2i:).n(Mi.(Mi(i every year, not a 



resulted from medical research in every sin«ile disease has had its rava^res dimin- 



departinent of medicine. But I Ix-lieve ished or aholished as a iv.-iilt of aiiy- 



they are sutficiently eonvinein<:. 1 tiling llwi/ have dtme. They have not 



-hould have heen glad to tell the story even tried. But medical research is sav- 



of tuhereulosis. syphilis, the huhonic ing every year thousands of animals 



jilagut'. yellow fever, malaria, the liook- from anthrax, hog cholera, ohieken 



worm disease, diphtheria. ty])hus fever. cholera. Texas fever, and other diseases, 



cerehrospinal meningitis. Malta fever. />'. In human heings? Ah.^olutely 



leprosv. and many other diseases, every Jiothing. T do not know a single disease 



one of which has had its ]irogress of human heing> which has had its rav- 



staved. its victims rescued, its toll of ages checked, ahated or aholished hy any 



human lives cut down enormously. work ever done hy the ant iviviseetion- 



Mimetimes to one half or less, hy re- ists. Again, they have not even tried, 



searches similar to those which will he The oidy thing they lutrr done has 



conducteil in France, ^[ost important heen to throw as many ohstaeles as ])os- 



and life-saving researches on surgieal sihle in the path of those who are striv- 



>hock already have heen made hy Tor- iiig to henelit hotli animals and men. 



ler. Cannon, and others. Ought these Tlii- prcMiit -nit is characteristic. 



