cruel and so heartless that they are utterly unfit to be
trusted with a human life. They innoculate animals with a virus
of disease; they put poison in their eyes until rottenness destroys
the sight; until the poor brutes become insane. They given them
a disease that resembles hydrophobia, that is accompanied by the
most frightful convulsions and spasms. They put them in ovens to
see what degree of heat it is that kills. They also try the effect
of cold; they slowly drown them; they poison them with the venom
of snakes; they force foreign substances into their blood, and, by
inoculation, into their eyes; and then watch and record their
agonies; their sufferings.

_Question_. Don't you think that some good has been accomplished,
some valuable information obtained, by vivisection?

_Answer_. I don't think any valuable information has been obtained
by the vivisection of animals without chloroform that could not
have been obtained with chloroform. And to answer the question
broadly as to whether any good has been accomplished by vivisection,
I say no.

According to the best information that I can obtain, the vivisectors
have hindered instead of helped. Lawson Tait, who stands at the
head of his profession in England, the best surgeon in Great Britain,
says that all this cutting and roasting and freezing and torturing
of animals has done harm instead of good. He says publicly that
the vivisectors have hindered the progress of surgery. He declares
that they have not only done no good, but asserts that they have
done only harm. The same views according to Doctor Tait, are
entertained by Bell, Syme and Fergusson.

Many have spoken of Darwin as though he were a vivisector. This
is not true. All that has been accomplished by these torturers of
dumb and helpless animals amounts to nothing. We have obtained
from these gentlemen Koch's cure for consumption, Pasteur's factory
of hydrophobia and Brown-Sequard's elixir of life. These three
failures, gigantic, absurd, ludicrous, are the great accomplishment
of vivisection.

Surgery has advanced, not by the heartless tormentors of animals,
but by the use of anesthetics--that is to say, chloroform, ether
and cocaine. The cruel wretches, the scientific assassins, have
accomplished nothing. Hundreds of thousands of animals have suffered
every pain that nerves can feel, and all for nothing--nothing except
to harden the heart and to make criminals of men.

They have