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(February, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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opinions expressed in Correspondence, or in Articles bearing the signature 
of their respective authors. 
DISUNION IN THE CAMP : VIVISECTION. 
“ The public must be educated. . . . The claims must be defi- 
nite. It must be clearly understood that the right we contend for 
is not that of free 1 vivisection ,’ free alike to the student and 
teacher, the tyro and skilled experimenter. Nor do we claim the 
right of vivisection for the mere purposes of demonstration. But 
we do claim that skilled experimenters — physiologists, patholo- 
gists, and pharmacologists — shall have perfedl freedom to con- 
duct experiments on living animals, where such are necessary 
to the elucidation of the problems of health, disease, and thera- 
peutics. . . . The only way of successfully contending against 
the agitation now on foot is to diffuse a knowledge of the truth.” 
- — Editor of Lancet , p. 343, August 20, 1881. 
“ The Adi apparently contemplates, as the chief subjects of 
its operation, an imaginary class of unqualified persons, who, 
with no legitimate relation to scientific research, would under 
pretence of such research torture, and it is supposed take plea- 
sure in torturing, living animals ; and against this devilish class 
of persons the Adi is very indulgently framed ; for instead of 
expressly refusing to license unqualified persons, and perhaps 
hinting to such of them as would do wilful cruelty, under pretence 
of study, that the cart and treadmill are for such scoundrels; in- 
stead of this, I say, the Adi virtually confounds together this 
imaginary class of unqualified and cruel persons, and, on the 
other hand, our professional class of bona fide scientific workers, 
. . . What is counted good for one class is counted good for the 
other.” — Simon, Address International Medical Congress, 1881 ; 
Lancet , p. 323, August 20, 1881. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
Sir, — I have placed two paragraphs at the head of this letter. 
My remarks on vivisedlion — or, as in my ledlure I called it, 
