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Dr. Evans states that by making single incisions in 

 pigs they afterwards perished of abscess at the 

 seat of injury, and miliary tuberculosis in the various 

 organs. 



Guinea pigs are said to be one hundred times as sus- 

 ceptible to disease as man, hence it is plainly evident 

 that experiments upon such animals amount to nothing 

 unless it is to add to the false theories which bacteri- 

 ology is continually sending forth. Laboratory experi- 

 ments have nothing to do with disease in man. There 

 never was an animal inoculated or experimented upon 

 without having its powers of resistance or vitality 

 lowered through fear, and also by its unnatural sur- 

 roundings ; for now it is a prisoner, its spirit of freedom 

 is replaced by one of subjection. 



"The grey forest eagle Oh! where has he fled? 

 Does he shrink to his eyrie, shiv'ring with dread? 

 Does the lightning blind his eye? Has the terrible blast 

 O'er the wing of the Sky-king a fear-fetter cast? 

 Ah! No, No; the brave eagle thinks not of flight; 

 The wrath of the tempest but rouses delight. 

 To the flash of the lightning his eye casts a gleam; 

 To the shriek of the wild blast he echoes a scream. 

 With front like a warrior spread to the fray, 

 With clapping of pinions he's up and away. 

 Aye, Away! Away soars the fearless and free; 

 Reckless of sky-strife, its monarch is he. 

 The lightning darts round him undaunted his flight; 

 Still upward, high upward, he wheels, 'till his form 

 Is lost in the black, scowling gloom of the storm." 



Imprison this same bird and it may droop and die 

 in a few weeks without inoculation or experiment. 



