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quietly accept and pass on. The writer understands 

 that there are many bacteriologists who will laugh at 

 any statements made against their theories; against 

 their discoveries( ?), or against their experiments, which 

 are made upon guinea pigs, rabbits, Algerian rats, yel- 

 low dogs, etc., which have been deprived of their lib- 

 erty, cooped up in a cage, packed away in some garret, 

 foul-smelling laboratory, or half starved for the occa- 

 sion. After inoculating the animals just mentioned 

 the operators, more or less fatigued, sit manfully by 

 and watch the flickering pulse while life goes out. The 

 reader should remember that it is only after experi- 

 ments like these that bacteriologists are enabled tb fight 

 disease intelligently. The bacteriologists obtain all 

 their theories by experiments upon the lower animals, 

 yet such experiments amount to nothing, absolutely 

 nothing. 



In the Physician and Surgeon for June, 1900, page 

 272, it is shown that "guinea pigs can be rendered 

 tuberculous by inoculating them with pus from various 

 sources, pieces of thread charged with vaccine lymph, 

 putrid muscle, or after introducing a clean seton of 

 unbleached cotton; nay, even giving a guinea pig a 

 brisk pinch in the flank has been known to produce 

 the same results" tuberculosis. And yet the bacter- 

 iologist claims tuberculosis cannot be produced without 

 the tubercle bacilli. 



The article just mentioned is supported by many 

 leading authorities. Green's Pathology, page 363, 

 states that tuberculosis may be produced in animals by 

 the irritation of setons of vaccine, bits of cork or paper. 



