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the dissecting-room, but in no case is vivisection of 

 any practical value whatever. 



I hold a diploma from one of the largest and 

 best-equipped medical colleges in the United States, 

 and I have never known nor heard of a single case 

 of vivisection ever having been practiced within its 

 grand old walls. 



The practice of vivisection is not done for the 

 good of humanity, but simply to keep up with 

 a useless fad which has been recently intro- 

 duced into the curriculum of college laboratory 

 work. The desire to have the most extensive 

 course has been at the bottom of it ail, and yet 

 there are very few of our most talented and use- 

 ful teachers and physicians who approve of such a 

 course. 



With all our national sins, so many and so 

 varied, the neglect to protect animals against suf- 

 fering and wanton cruelty is the worst and the 

 least excusable. 



AVe look to moral influences and an enlightened 

 education to overcome prejudices and prevailing 

 errors. By far the greater number of opinions on 

 which we act in life are adopted upon the authority 

 of others, and in this way a system of education 



