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in the country if they can once get control o f legislation. The
time has passed when they ought to be treated leniently. They
ought to be roundly denounced as enemies o f the human race
and every person who cares for the welfare of his own species
should do his part to help thwart their wicked schemes.
The Sunday Oregonian of September 26th contained the
above editorial on the question of vivisection—experimenting
on living animals for experimental purposes. The Oregonian,
instead of citing the reader to some knowledge gained by tor
turing helpless dumb animals, used slanderous epithets, such
as fools, monsters, idiots, shrews, imbeciles, animal worshipers
and besotted females. It said that the lovers o f household pets
were silly, wicked, fetish worshipers; that the eminent George
Bernard Shaw, who has risen to the proud station among the
members of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection,
was the biggest fool; that he exhibits dense ignorance, preju
dice, mawkish conceit and states falsehoods and deliberate lies
in his speeches. Such vituperative argument is unbecoming.
Vivisection is supposed to be performed in the interest of
pathologic physiology, with a hope of discovering the cause of
abnormal metabolism, that the surgeon may learn somewhat re
garding biology—the science of life. Thousands and thousands
of helpless victims, unable to call down the vengeance of heaven
upon their cruel tormentors, have been slowly tortured until a
lingering death put an end to their misery, which latter was
devoted to the interest of science (? ) by vivisectors who try
to produce disease, functional derangement, instead of studying
more humane methods for the relief o f unfortunates. These
medical butchers have not disclosed the cause of functional de
rangement or the cause of any one disease, as evidenced by
pathologies and practice.
McFarland truthfully and conscientiously states in his text
book on “ Pathology for Practitioners and Students,” “ that a
knowledge of pathology forms the only rational foundation
upon which the art of medicine is perfected, medicine cannot
become an exact science.” The question arises, Is there any
science in the practice of medicine and has vivisection advanced
it along the lines of scientific investigation?
In a frank and honest manner McFarland states that the
nature of assimilation of digested foods is still undetermined.
The metabolic processes, while believed to be chemical, are as
yet inexplicable. Traumatic fever remains unexplained. What
becomes of the sugar (in diabetes) under normal conditions, is
a problem of great importance concerning which we are still
somewhat in the dark. The nature o f this probable secretion
(pancreatic juice) is unknown to us. The nature o f ferment is
unknown, of which we are yet in the dark. It is not yet posi
in the country if they can once get control o f legislation. The
time has passed when they ought to be treated leniently. They
ought to be roundly denounced as enemies o f the human race
and every person who cares for the welfare of his own species
should do his part to help thwart their wicked schemes.
The Sunday Oregonian of September 26th contained the
above editorial on the question of vivisection—experimenting
on living animals for experimental purposes. The Oregonian,
instead of citing the reader to some knowledge gained by tor
turing helpless dumb animals, used slanderous epithets, such
as fools, monsters, idiots, shrews, imbeciles, animal worshipers
and besotted females. It said that the lovers o f household pets
were silly, wicked, fetish worshipers; that the eminent George
Bernard Shaw, who has risen to the proud station among the
members of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection,
was the biggest fool; that he exhibits dense ignorance, preju
dice, mawkish conceit and states falsehoods and deliberate lies
in his speeches. Such vituperative argument is unbecoming.
Vivisection is supposed to be performed in the interest of
pathologic physiology, with a hope of discovering the cause of
abnormal metabolism, that the surgeon may learn somewhat re
garding biology—the science of life. Thousands and thousands
of helpless victims, unable to call down the vengeance of heaven
upon their cruel tormentors, have been slowly tortured until a
lingering death put an end to their misery, which latter was
devoted to the interest of science (? ) by vivisectors who try
to produce disease, functional derangement, instead of studying
more humane methods for the relief o f unfortunates. These
medical butchers have not disclosed the cause of functional de
rangement or the cause of any one disease, as evidenced by
pathologies and practice.
McFarland truthfully and conscientiously states in his text
book on “ Pathology for Practitioners and Students,” “ that a
knowledge of pathology forms the only rational foundation
upon which the art of medicine is perfected, medicine cannot
become an exact science.” The question arises, Is there any
science in the practice of medicine and has vivisection advanced
it along the lines of scientific investigation?
In a frank and honest manner McFarland states that the
nature of assimilation of digested foods is still undetermined.
The metabolic processes, while believed to be chemical, are as
yet inexplicable. Traumatic fever remains unexplained. What
becomes of the sugar (in diabetes) under normal conditions, is
a problem of great importance concerning which we are still
somewhat in the dark. The nature o f this probable secretion
(pancreatic juice) is unknown to us. The nature o f ferment is
unknown, of which we are yet in the dark. It is not yet posi
