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VIVISECTION IN FRANCE. 
SMALL BREED. 
Class CXII .—To the owner of the best Boar, Sow, and their Litter of Pigs, 
not exceeding six months old. 
First prize, £10, to No. 1216, Titus Beuuett Stead, of 20, Upperhead 
Kow, Leeds, Yorkshire. 
Second prize, £5, to No. 1217} John Azanali Smith, of Bradford Peverell, 
Dorset. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals, 
VIVISECTION IN FRANCE. 
{From the ^ Times ^ Correspondent.) 
Paris, August 7, 1863. 
The vivisection of animals, carrierl to a great extent in 
France, professedly for the benefit of science, but in the 
majority' of cases by mere students and by persons whose 
knowdedge and acquirements are insufficient to guarantee 
any better result than the torture of the poor brutes subjected 
to their pitiless knives, has repeatedly attracted the attention 
and horror of scientific and humane men, and has been made 
the subject of their earnest remonstrances. The French 
Societv for the Protection of Animals is zealous in its endea- 
vours to obtain the restriction of such cruel practices to men 
competent to derive from them real advantages to humanity, 
and who, moreover, wdll pursue them only so far as such 
advantages are obtainable, and as their importance may be 
held to justify the sufferings inflicted. We find learned phy¬ 
sicians and anatomists and eminent veterinary surgeons up¬ 
lifting their voices and wielding their pens in opposition to 
the gross abuse of vivisection. Independently of its indis¬ 
putable barbarity, one great objection to the practice is that 
the operator is likely to be misled by the results obtained. 
The same operations frequently elicit the most conflicting 
phenomena. A distinguished medical man. Dr. Roche, w ho 
does not absolutely oppose all experiments on living animals, 
has vigorously combated those from which torture is insepa¬ 
rable. He urges, that the dissection of a live animal, the 
pitiless cutting into its flesh and shedding its blood, exciting 
it to the utmost fur}" or plunging it into the stupidity of 
profound anguish and terror, is a strange means of ascertain¬ 
ing in what manner the peaceful and regular functions of a 
