MEDICINE AND MORALS 



men whose nature or regular work gives 

 them the necessary nerve. 



That vivisection under anesthesia is 

 legitimate and useful seems to me no longer 

 subject to discussion, it being perfectly clear 

 that vivisection in that form accomplishes 

 vast net good. We are given to understand 

 that the sciences of anatomy and physiology 

 cannot, by the study of the cadaver, be ad- 

 vanced a single point beyond their present 

 position, but that both can be immensely 

 promoted by the examination of living 

 tissue. The improvements in surgical and 

 medical practice which have been made 

 possible by vivisection are an all but demon- 

 strative indication that other gains of equal 

 importance are in store by the use of similar 

 means. 



A physician in Chicago has shown by ex- 

 periments on dogs the great value of hot 

 water in the stomach in cases of nervous 

 shock. He takes out the intestines and 

 whips them, producing total shock, so that 

 the animal seems as good as dead after the 

 ether influence is gone. He then, through 



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