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Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL CRUELTY. 
To the Editor of the e Medical Times and Gazette / 
Sir,—I will thank you to insert in your next number, the 
following strange and unheard-of feat, performed by a zealous 
experimentalise!’ in the north of England. I cut the para¬ 
graph from a newspaper which I accidentally glanced at when 
visiting a patient; and I send it to you in the hope that it may 
meet the eyes of the officers of the Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals, for it strikes me they cannot have re- 
corded in their sad annals a more shocking case of senseless 
cruelty. 
Is it not sickening to hear this ingenious tormentor saying, 
u I had them fed regularly every four hours, though for the 
first day the crow ate nothing” ? 
I am, &c. 
March 13, I860. Misericordia. 
EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENT AND MEDICAL CRUELTY. 
M R. w ainde, surgeon, of Kirby Moorside, writes to the 
Scarhoro 9 Mercury :—Having noticed the rapidity with which 
wounds grow up and heal in the lower classes of animals, I 
have often revolved in my mind the possibility of uniting, by 
keeping in strict approximation the raw surfaces of two 
animals not only of different species, but of totally different 
genera. With this view I have, at various times, endeavoured 
to produce adhesive inflammation between two animals, by 
removing the whole of the true skin on a part of each, equal 
in extent, and then keeping the denuded parts in ap¬ 
proximation by means of bandages. In the last experiment 
of the kind that I made, I was eminently successful. Having 
had some time in my possession a rat, which had not quite 
attained its full growth, and which was to a great extent 
tamed, as it would permit any one to approach and caress it 
without any signs of fear, 1 determined upon making a final 
attempt, and 1 was confident of success. My next step was 
to procure another animal with which to unite it; and for 
this purpose 1 obtained a full-grown crow. Having removed 
the skin from the back of the rat, I with a scalpel removed a 
slice of the subcutaneous tissue, about two lines in thickness, 
so that the mouths of the minute blood-vessels might be 
opened. I then took off the feathers from the breast of the 
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