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REVIEW OF “ THE VOICE OF HUMANITY.” 
there are many beautiful appeals to our interest, our reason, our 
feeling’, our moral responsibility, which few of our readers, we 
think, could resist.. 
If the matter is now and then carried a little too far, in the 
recommendation of pools of water in our streets for dogs, as a 
prevention of rabies; in the mistaken reprobation of the manner 
of converting those animals to a useful purpose in the drawing of 
trucks; and in the introduction, w 7 e are persuaded, of some exag¬ 
gerated accounts of experiments on living animals, a point, we 
acknowledge, in which some of our best physiologists nave been 
far too culpable ; yet there is so much that is good, and the cause 
is so good, that we cordially recommend this periodical to the 
notice of our readers. 
The following anecdote of Majendie we do not believe to be 
authentic:— 
“ A Blenheim spaniel was brought upon the table. The doctor 
patted it, when it put its paws upon his shoulder. ‘ You see,’ 
said M. ‘ that we are good friends .’ He began by cutting off 
the hair with scissars, close to the neck, while the dog made 
several attempts to lick the operator's face, and to play with the 
scissars: he then called two assistants to hold the dog. ‘ It is 
singular,’ said the doctor, ‘ that this breed never biteand he 
then began to dissect from the jaw-bone to the point of the 
shoulder, pausing at intervals to name the muscles, and to pat 
the agonized dog, who looked with supplication at his tormentor, 
and licked his hands!” 
But that which is found in No. II, page 65, we know to be 
true:— 
ic When we called at the house of Mr. S., we found him about 
to operate upon a young terrier dog. He told us he would prove 
that the bleeding of the largest artery could be stopped by twist¬ 
ing it, instead of making a ligature in the usual manner. He in¬ 
stantly muzzled the little victim, and then cut down towards the 
large artery of the thigh; which having divided, he stopped the 
bleeding of this bloodvessel by twisting it. The experiment hav¬ 
ing answered, I proposed to have the cut healed, and the dog 
taken care of. Mr. S. said he had much more to shew. After¬ 
wards this monster (for I cannot call him a man) cut off the thigh 
at the hip joint , and twisted the bloodvessels; he then cut off 
the entire shoulder from the ribs, observing that he had often 
removed both thighs and both shoulders, and that the dog had 
lived some hours; but he was sorry to say that he feared this dog 
would not survive to have the right shoulder taken off:—and he 
was right; for the dog died before he could be turned on his side 
for the operator to get at the opposite shoulder.” 
The account of “ White Veal,” we know to be in many cases 
