MEDICINE AND MORALS 



In Philadelphia ah eminent surgeon 

 wished to transplant a very important nerve 

 from the thigh of a dog into the thigh of a 

 man whom a serious lesion had deprived of 

 this nerve for a considerable distance. In 

 seeking his animal for the experiment, he 

 naturally turned to the dog pound. The 

 president of the society for the prevention 

 of cruelty to animals, a lady of the highest 

 character, having charge of this institution, 

 refused to permit a single brute to go out of 

 the pound for the surgeon's purpose. We 

 deem the lady's refusal a most cruel act. It 

 can hardly be doubted that any temporary 

 pain caused the animal by the excision 

 would be incomparably less than that which 

 the human being would suffer from the 

 permanent disability which threatened him. 

 Our sentence in this case would be the same 

 whether the dog has to take the knife with 

 or without anesthesia. 



Anti-vivisectionists cry out quite too 

 much against experimentation with curare. 

 The common idea is that curare, affecting 

 only the motor nerves, quiets the subject, but 



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