1824.J 



On Cruelly to Animals. 



mounted, a numerous and brave garri- 

 son, witli provisions sufficient for seve- 

 ral years, capitulated without firing a 

 shot. The commander of the town 

 obtained permission to remove se- 

 cretly out of the town, and introduce 

 into France a tilted waggon, which was 

 to pass unvisited and unexamined. 

 The impregnable city of Figuieres fol- 

 lowed the same example, and was imi- 

 tated in its turn by several otlier 

 strong forts. The troops, everywhere 

 betrayed by their chiefs, fled before the 

 enemy; and gold, whicii preceded 

 their march into every province, gained 

 overall hearts, and removed every ob- 

 stacle that lay in their waj'. 



The period has not yet arrived to 

 ascertain the share that corruption 

 exercised in the fall of Cadiz, a city 

 whicli was enabled Id resist, for seve- 

 ral years, a formidable army of warlike 

 troops ; but it is known for a fact, that 

 a <-lerk to a noted Jew banker of 

 London established himself at Seville, 

 where he had'received several millions 

 from that firui which has performed so 

 active a part in political transactions- 



To the Editor of the Monthly 31agazine. 



SIR, 



HAVING been requested by an 

 anonymous correspondent to 

 give publicity to the enclosed memorial 

 of the humanity of character of the 

 late Dr. Bailey, I submit it for the 

 Monthly Magazine, as being the best 

 vehicle for all humane and liberal ex- 

 pression of opinion. Hi'Mamtcs. 



" Doctor Matthew Buillie died Sept. 

 2.3d, 1823. To the notice of his 

 death already recorded, we beg to 

 submit the following memorial. 



Dr. Daillie was a man of sound 

 judgment, extensive knov\ledge in 

 medicine, and a liberal and humane 

 character. His life was devoted to 

 his profession, and was not tainted by 

 any of those acts of experimental 

 cruelty which disgrace the characters 

 of many second-rate surgeons and 

 physicians; we allude principally to 

 the disgusting and brutal i)ractice of 

 making cruel ex|)eriments on living 

 animals, a practice wholly inconsistent 

 with what ought to be the character of 

 a physician, and wlii<h we take this 

 Opportunity to hold uj)to public repro- 

 bation- It seems that the brutal, as 

 well as ridicubius, practice, of wound- 

 ing the spinal marrow and brains of 

 living dogs, rabbits, and eats, was 

 m common in his time as at prcsciit ; 



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and provCvS, therefore, the futility of 

 these cruel attempts to attain to a 

 knowledge of the source of the ner- 

 vous powers, and the cause of life, — 

 placed by the author of our existence 

 on the other side the curtain of mys- 

 tery, on which the origin of all tilings 

 is veiled and hid from our view. 



The truth is, that Mr. Hunter, and 

 a few other eminent surgeons of the 

 last age, having been carried by their 

 physiological zeal too far in their pur- 

 suit of the causes of animal life, and 

 having instituted some inhuman expe- 

 riments in order to confirm their own 

 theories by experiment, the practice 

 has been tbllowed by inferior persons 

 less capable of deriving any advan- 

 tage from such enquiries. And now- 

 a-days, many young surgeons, with no 

 pretensions to merit or professional 

 character whatever, have sought to 

 draw themselves into notice by mak- 

 ing cruel experiments, such as wound- 

 ing the intestines of living dogs, hogs, 

 cats, and rats, or dividing tlie back 

 bones of rabbits, or poisoning them bj 

 the application of noxious drugs to 

 their tongues. These experiments 

 professing to be for the good of medi- 

 cine, are vaunted forth in books and 

 public journals as if their authors 

 were doing something meritorious ia 

 maiming living beings without any 

 ostensible object; and the unthinking 

 public are gulled into a belief, that 

 any useful knowledge can be obtained 

 by such revolting means. We have 

 heard Mr. Abernethy, who, for emi- 

 nence in surgical knowledge, honour 

 and humanity of character, justlj 

 stands at the head of his profession, 

 loudly reprobating such idle and 

 vicious practices, which tend to mis- 

 lead the judgment of the perpetrator 

 as a physiologist, and brutalize his 

 character as a man. 



It is questionable liow Hir a man can 

 safely be entrusted with the medical 

 care of a patient, who is capable, in 

 cold blood, of connnitting such abomi- 

 jiable acts of cruelty. Since no axiom 

 in morals is more true, than that fami- 

 liarity with scenes of blood and of 

 cruelty to animals lays the foundation 

 of barbarity and injustice towards the 

 human species. The child begins by 

 wantonly torturing a fly, and ends his 

 life on the scaffold for murder. 



Various works have from time \o 

 time been written agjiinst cruelly to 

 animals. Dr. \ouiig on Cruelty to 

 Animals : Dr. Daubeny's Sermon on 



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