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little known, no visitors being suffered to enter the theatre 
while the proceedings are going on. 
“ I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, 
“Alfred Perry. 
' “ Camden Terrace West, Nov. 1860.” 
In The Medical Times also, of the same date, we find, under 
the head of Useless Vivisections, the subjoined pointed 
remarks on this question by the editor, accompanied by the 
extracts to which he refers: 
l 
cc The Moniteur des Sciences Medicates makes the following 
lame reply to charges which have been made of the wanton 
cruelty in practising operations on living animals at the 
French veterinary schools :— c Our learned friend [the editor 
of the Cosmos , who had reproduced the English charges] 
must know, belter than we can tell him, that exaggeration is 
a defect in anything, and it is a pity that he did not declare 
to his London and Dublin correspondents that their zeal 
carries them too far. Personally, we deplore, as much as any 
one can, useless cruelties, whether exercised on man or 
beast; but we cannot admit that our excellent friends at 
Alfort and elsewhere are transformed into Caboches or 
Caligula?, merely because they practise their pupils on living 
animals, which is, however , unfortunately true. But we 
cannot allow ourselves to decide that they are able to do with¬ 
out this procedure of instruction, and must confine ourselves 
to expressing a wish that they may be able to do so. and we 
beg our learned friend to transmit our statement to his 
honorable zoophitist correspondents!’” 
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