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Analyses of Books. 
[March, 
V iolationism ; or Sorcery in Science. By Mrs. Algernon 
Kingsford, M.D. In “ Light,” for Feb. 4th, 1882. 
Our readers will doubtless be perplexed with the term “ viola- 
tionism.” To save them the trouble of a vain search in the 
dictionary, we may at once say, that it is a cant name for 
experimentation on animals, invented by a leading anti-vivi- 
sedtionist. 
Mrs. Kingsford, who it appears, is one of the female M.D.’s of 
the present day, has taken it for the title of an ultra-sensational 
attack upon physiologists, whom, in a very far-fetched manner, 
she likens to the sorcerers of old. A few such sorcerers, it appears, 
used occasionally to torment animals in order to propitiate evil 
spirits. Hence, in the opinion of our worthy dodtress, they stand 
on the same level as our modern vivisedtors, from Harvey 
downwards ! This attempted identification of science with 
sorcery is, we presume, the retort courteous for the comparisons 
which have been made between spiritualists and necromancers. 
The good lady waxes very wroth, and gives us a few of the 
most sensational cases of vivisection she has been able to colledt, 
doubtless willing that her hearers should consider this a fair 
representation of experiments upon animals, She carefully 
avoids encountering the fundamental principlewhich we have so 
often put forward, viz., that if it be justifiable to inflidt pain and 
death upon animals for “ sport,” for food, for furs, and other 
produdts, for personal safety and comfort, and to force them 
against their will and convenience to serve us, it is at least 
equally permissible to inflidt pain and death in pursuit of know- 
ledge. The person who shrieks against vivisedtion, and who 
yet partakes of animal food, wears furs or feathers, employs 
horses for riding or travelling, &c., may not be a conscious 
hypocrite, but he is at least guilty of gross inconsistency. We 
profoundly regret that the “ British National Association of 
Spiritualists ” has allowed this ledture to be delivered at one of 
its regular meetings. By so doing, it has formally declared war 
against biologists of all grades, making no distinction between 
those who regard Spiritualism as jugglery and imposture, and 
those who, to say the least, considered it entitled to a candid 
hearing, and hoped that some of its claims might be substan- 
tiated. 
How to Use the Bromides. By George M. Beard, A.M., M.D. 
(Reprinted from the “Journal of Nervous and Mental 
Disease,” Vol. VIII., No. 3, July, 1881.) 
This pamphlet is the substance of a paper read by the author 
before the American Neurological Association on the medical 
uses of the metallic bromides. The value of these compounds, 
