Dr. Walter Robert Hadwen's works.

Walter Hadwen

Date:: 1896-1908

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side by side with the prosecution of sanitary laws. The microbic theories of Koch based upon animal experimentation have turned out a fiasco. The recognised remedy for consumption is fresh air. It cannot even be definitely proved that the tubercle bacillus is the fons et origo of the disease. Finally, Sir 'Victor Horsley asserts, in the same bold way that he adopts throughout, that the value of narcotic drugs has been determined by experiments on animals. These particular drugs are so contrary in their action in numerous instances in animals and man that this closing statement is, perhaps, the rashest of all the rash assertions in your correspondent's long letter. Again I ask for proof. WALTER R. HAD WEN, M.D., Hon. Secretary British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, 32, Charing-cross, S.W. [The above letter only appeared in certain editions of The Daily Mail.] [From The Daily Mail. September 15.] SIR VICTOR HORSLEY. Respecting the discovery of the parasite causing tuberculosis and of those producing other infectious diseases, I notice that the secretary of the society for the total abolition of experiments on animals (N.B., man excluded), signing himself Walter R. Hadwen, M.D., declares himself ignorant of any scientific method whereby a malady can be found to have a parasitic origin. The Daily Mail cannot be exploited as a means of fining up all the hiatuses in Dr. Hadwen's medical education, but we may take this central point, since the postulates laid down by Dr. Koch more than a quarter of a century ago, and by following which

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