ADDRESSES 33 



mjurder scene of a melodrama. They like to picture the emi- 

 nent scientist as a hairy armed and bewhiskered individual in 

 a blood-stained white gown, gouging at a bound-down pup 

 wiith a hot poker for no higher reason than that of gratifying 

 his curiosity as to how burning human flesh may smell. 



Without detracting in the least from the glories of modern 

 war, it seems to me that, if a dog were consulted he would 

 gladly risk his life for the purpose of saving the lives of count- 

 less human beings. I believe this because his more intelligent 

 human brother gladly surrenders his life, in aeroplane and 

 submarine, for no more laudable purpose than that of depriv- 

 ing of life his fellows against whom he has no personal griev- 

 ance. 



Without experimental work with animals no scientific ad- 

 vance would have been possible, unless human subjects were 

 substituted for guinea pigs in experimental work. Bed-side 

 observations alone would not have accomplished appreciable 

 results. They would have left us at the period of crude guess 

 in medicine where "what's good for measles?" was the type 

 of scientific problem which puzzled doctor's heads. 



I am going to take this opportunity to criticise the people 

 who derive a lot of self-satisfied altruism by exaggerating the 

 discomforts of animals that are being studied. 



A pamphlet recently distributed by anti-vivisectionists, 

 calls the Rockefeller Institute, "Hell at Close Range." The 

 anti-vivisectionists disregard all pain save that which meets 

 with their opprobium and enables them to indulge in their 

 favorite epithets. They strongly condemn the one justifiable 

 pain in the world — the pain associated with the noblest of all 

 objects — the prevention of future pain and saving of human 

 lives. 



If a man has a right to kill animals for any purpose, he has 

 the right to perform vivisection, particularly since it is done 

 without pain. Who is more cruel ? Doctor Flexner, in devis- 

 ing life saving methods or the women who would shackle 

 him, shut up the Rockefeller institute and thrust all future de- 

 velopments into oblivion? 



These same people insist upon spaying animals by the thous- 

 ands in order that beef and mutton may be tender or have a 

 more pleasant flavor. 



Think of the ospreys and egrets in the hats of these same 

 women. 



