THE CALL OF THE LAND 



pie's feelings? Certain vivisectional prac- 

 tices seem to be carried on with this end 

 almost solely in view. A daily paper has 

 the statement that the experimenters at cer- 

 tain hospitals practice such atrocious cruel- 

 ties as laying bare a dog's spinal column and 

 then applying to it powerful electric cur- 

 rents, pouring hot lead into the creature's 

 stomach, removing portions of its body and 

 grafting parts of other animals on, tearing 

 out its entrails and inserting others, divid- 

 ing the brain, dipping half the body in 

 boiling water, singeing the hair from its 

 back, and so on, the brute being, to begin 

 with, rendered by the removal of its wind- 

 pipe unable to appeal to its tormentors by 

 the faintest cry. Although the article did 

 not allege that the animal suffered all this 

 without anesthesia, such was the inevitable 

 inference. We are convinced that there is 

 no need of practices like these for the sake 

 of steeling people's sensibility or for any 

 other purpose. All the sentient vivisection 

 ever needed, if any, can be performed by 



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