CHAPTER XXVIl 



HORSE S — T HEIR FINAL USES 



An extraordinary discovery is claimed lately by a California 

 physician, who calls it the 'Anti-Toxin of Sobriety,' and 

 claims that it will prevent hereditary drunkenness. The 

 means employed are decidedly novel. He finds a horse 

 suitable for his purpose, makes him gloriously drunk, and 

 keeps him in that condition for weeks, until his blood 

 is surcharged with alcohol. With a sort of anti-toxin 

 obtained from this inebriated horse, which Dr D'Evelyn 

 calls ' Equisine,' he inoculates the children who, according 

 to his theory, are born to be drunkards, and thereby renders 

 them proof against the power of alcoholic drinks. He 

 declares that results have proved the correctness of his 

 theory, that in the artificially alcoholised blood of the 

 horse, is a potent factor for the redemption of humanity 

 from one of its greatest curses. I wonder, do the horses 

 recover from their long spree, and cease to be the dissipated 

 wrecks he makes of them ? 



For the requirements of science, vivisection is still 

 practised secretly in England, else there would be no need 



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