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Correspondence . 
[October, 
THE DEFENCE OF VIVISECTION. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
Sir —I fear that the greatest peril to vivisection arises from the 
want of unity among its defenders. Medical practitioners are 
too apt to view it as an exclusively professional question. Hence 
as a body they refuse to co-operate with non-medical biologists, 
naturalists, &c., and to ignore the aCtion of non-medical journals 
like your own. If they would consider the number of ^atics 
who are being enlisted by the “ suppression societies, and the 
unscientific journals who give in their adhesion to the party of 
ignorance, they would, I think, welcome all allies.— I am, &c., 
Graduate. 
“ DR.” TANNER’S FAST. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
S IR I am perfectly amazed to find that certain papers, supposed 
to address a class of readers not wholly devoid of culture, seem 
to believe that Dr. Tanner’s success in his sensational experi- 
ment really proves, as he supposes, that the majority of mankind 
take too much food. Now, whether the fast was bona fide or 
not, and whether the conclusion is in itself true or false, its 
truth does not in the least follow from the successful issue of the 
experiment.-! am, &c„ Scrutator. 
