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leaves it perfectly sentient. The fact is that 

 curare is an anesthetic, as testified by Boel- 

 endorff, 1865; Lange, '74; Romanes, '76; 

 Steiner, '77; Binz, '84, and Lauder Brunton, 

 '87, all of whom say that the sensory nerves 

 are depressed and paralyzed by curare. 

 Thus the curarized animal is rendered prac- 

 tically free of pain by the curare itself, but 

 as a matter of fact, morphia, chloral, etc., 

 are nearly always administered along with 

 it for the reason that pain materially inter- 

 feres with most vivisection experiments. 



There is, then, painless vivisection, which, 

 its painlessness being guaranteed, should be 

 permitted to all physicians and medical 

 students; and there is painful or sentient 

 vivisection, vivisection without anesthesia. 

 That this is sometimes allowable we cannot 

 doubt, but, as said, just when and under 

 what restrictions, laymen must leave medi- 

 cal men to say. Their verdict will probably 

 be somewhat as follows: 



Painful vivisection may be divided into 

 three classes or kinds : 



i. The Pathologic. The invasion of 



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