882.] 
Disunion in the Camp. 
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s the wanton and needless infliction of pain and death, and 
specially the taking pleasure in such infliction, the very 
lotion of “ unnecessary cruelty” disappears. That which 
s necessary is not cruel. No one has yet had the impu- 
ence to contend that viviseCtionists, whether they be 
nedical practitioners or not, derive any gratification from 
heir operations. To give pain for mere amusement, or for 
he exercise and display of skill, is something we leave to 
he sportsman ! 
Again, we read — “ Experiments are only made by scien- 
ific* skilled physiologists.” This is a mere truism ; persons 
ther than scientific physiologists have no inducements to 
fiake such experiments. But we can scarcely see the rele- 
ance of this contention as against the Anti- ViviseCtionists. 
?his, however, is a matter of small moment. 
We pass on to Mr. Dolan’s demands, which are most 
insatisfaCtory. “ All we ask for is that our tried and trusted 
ihysiologists and surgeons should be allowed, under a certi- 
icate, to conduCt those experiments which they may deem 
lecessary, without the harassing and annoying conditions 
vhich are almost prohibitory, and which are fatal to the 
.dvance of Physiology.” Mr. Dolan, therefore, if faithfully 
eported, accepts the principle of the Vivisection ACt, inter- 
acted perhaps in a somewhat more liberal spirit than is now 
he case. He consents that experimentation upon animals 
hould be restricted to “ tried and trusty physiologists and 
urgeons,” under the further limitation of a “ certificate.” 
^et us see what these admissions involve. We submit 
hat — 
1st. He places the medical profession in an exceptional 
ind humiliating position. Both law and public opinion 
dlow persons, often ignorant, coarse, and brutal, to perform 
lainful operations upon animal?, so long as those operations 
.re not to promote the advance of Science. Those who take 
.nimal life for the purposes of food, those who castrate young 
mimals, those who massacre seals in the ArCtic regions to 
>rovide jackets for lady Anti-ViviseCtionists, &c., do not 
equire any certificate from the Home Office, nor does any 
>ne ask if their skill and experience are such as to minimise 
he suffering inflicted. Yet we venture to assert that the 
,eal-hunt in a single season occasions a greater amount of 
orture to unoffending animals than ViviseCtionists have 
nfliCted for a century. Or, if a man applies to the Revenue 
)fficials for a gun- and a sporting-license, no question is 
* Are there any non-scientific physiologists ? 
