SUMMARY OF REPORTS, ETC. 



HESE Reports give a plain answer to some 



A false statements made by the opponents of 

 all experiments on animals. They show that 

 four-fifths of these experiments are "inoculations, 

 feeding-experiments, the administration of various 

 substances by the mouth, or the abstraction of a 

 minute quantity of blood for examination." That 

 is to say, four animals out of every five undergo 

 no sort or kind of operation beyond a hypodermic 

 injection or the lancing of a vein just under the 

 skin. It is in these cases, and in these cases only, 

 that no anaesthetic is given. The Report for 

 1901 (England and Scotland) is quite clear on 

 this point — In no case has a cutting operation more 

 severe than a stiperficial venesection been allowed 

 to be performed without anaesthetics. 



They show, also, that the results of inoculation 

 are, in a very large mimber of cases, entirely 

 painless. They do not deny that, in other cases, 

 there is the pain of disease. This pain cannot 

 be more than the pain of the same disease, come 

 in the course of Nature, in the same number of 

 animals bred for profit or kept for pleasure. A 

 pet rabbit, or guinea-pig, that dies of tuberculosis, 



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