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today, we feel that we have lost our perspective in regard to these 
poor helpless creatures. 
The laboratories must bear their fair share of this indictment for 
many of the experiments they do are not necessary or useful, exceed 
the bounds of licitness, and degenerate into mere torturing of ani- 
mals. I know whereof I speak for I have read many of the accounts 
written by the experimenters themselves. 
When the Federal hearings were held a few years ago on humane 
slaughtering, one woman remarked that if our present slaughter- 
houses had glass walls, we would have humane slaughter the next day 
all over the land. 
In a similar vein I venture to say that if Mr. and Mrs. Q. Public 
knew what is being done today in many laboratories, such an ava- 
lanche of shocked and public opinion would arise as to make the con- 
tinuance of such things impossible. No, God should not be mocked. 
A great reform is needed, a betterment, an improvement so that 
this holocaust of millions of animals in laboratories will no longer 
be. Certainly such misuse of God’s creatures, is bringing us no bless- 
ings but may be the cause of much of our woes. We would do well 
to remember what Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, late professor of surgery 
at Harvard Medical School, once said : 
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection 
in the name of science as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of 
religion. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you, Monsignor. 
You certainly deserve the thanks of this subcommittee for a wonder- 
ful statement which shows you have done a lot of research and we 
feel complimented that you would appear here and give us the benefit 
of your evidently long study of tins question. 
We appreciate it very much. 
Monsignor McWilliams. Thank you. 
Mr. Roberts. Any questions, gentlemen ? 
Thank you, sir. 
Monsignor McWilliams. We are in favor of the Moulder bill as 
amended. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you, sir. 
Dr. Paul Kiernan of the Washington Clinic? 
Dr. Kiernan, it is a pleasure to welcome you to our subcommittee. 
I might say that I have used your clinic, my children have been 
patients of yours. I do not know if you know that or not, but it is 
certainly a psleasure to hear from you today. 
You may proceed with your statement. 
STATEMENT OF PAUL C. KIERNAN, M.D., WASHINGTON CLINIC, 
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Dr. Kiernan. Thank you. 
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee : I am pleased to ap- 
pear as a witness in favor of the proposed bill, H.R. 1937. I appear 
as an individual representing no group. My practice is surgery, as 
consultant in surgery, at the Washington Clinic, Washington, D.C., 
and associate professor of surgery, Georgetown University Medical 
School. 
