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Disunion in the Camp. 
enjoyed, and as is now possessed by the chemist and the 
physicist. If we take up any lower ground, — if we accept 
any compromise, any circumscribed liberty trammelled with 
the interference of an un-scientific or possibly anti-scientific 
Home Secretary, we open the gates to the enemy, and must 
not be surprised if he takes full advantage of our weakness. 
We must not forget that the hysterical party have lately 
boasted of apparent wavering among medical men as ominous 
of “ the beginning of the end.” It is accordingly with 
feelings of the most profound regret that we have read, in 
the “ Medical Press and Circular,” the report of a lecture 
delivered before the Halifax Literary and Philosophical 
Society, by Mr. T. M. Dolan, F.R.C.S. (Ed.) The subject 
of the ledture was “ The Practical Value of Recent Research 
on Micro-Organisms.” Referring, towards the close of his 
address, to the Vivisedtion question, the ledturer is reported 
as having said : — - 
“ I should like to take this opportunity of disabusing your 
minds about the pradtice, and to ask you to consider this 
question rationally. I shall not say a word to hurt the 
most ardent anti-vivisedtionist. (ist) Cruelty to animals is 
abhorred by medical men ; I need not tell you I allude to 
unnecessary cruelty. (2nd) Experiments on animals are 
only made by scientific skilled physiologists ; nearly all ani- 
mals experimented on are rendered insensible by curare. 
(3rd) All we ask for is that our tried and trusted physiolo- 
gists and surgeons should be allowed, under a certificate, to 
condudt those experiments which they may deem necessary, 
without the harassing and annoying conditions which are 
almost prohibitory, and which are fatal to the advance of 
physiology. I know we have English talent in the physiolo- 
gical department of medicine, equal to any foreign talent, 
undeveloped, however, owing to the discouragement it re- 
ceives. I would ask you to consider the present condition 
of the profession in England, and if you desire the advance 
of English medicine, to strengthen the hands of those who 
are advancing it, by your moral support. 
“ To torture a living animal, under the pretence of re- 
search, deserves condemnation : no language is too strong 
to use against such iniquity. Let the Adt stand in force 
against such dabblers in Science ; with a tenfold greater 
severity even than at present, let its punishment be in- 
creased, but let us discriminate. Pasteur, with all his 
honours thick upon him, loved, revered, with family ties, 
and everything that can bind him to life, goes calmly down 
to the foulsome Lazaretto, to try and find out the cause of 
