Experiments on human beings : vivisection up to date / by R.E. Dudgeon.

  • Robert Ellis Dudgeon
Date:
[1912?]
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Credit: Experiments on human beings : vivisection up to date / by R.E. Dudgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Experiments on Human Beings. VIVISECTION UP TO DATE. By R. E. DUDGEON, M.D. “A human life rs nothing compared with a new fact zn science. . . . The am of science rs the advancement of human knowledge at any sacrifice of human life. . . . If cats and guinea pigs can be put to any higher use than to advance science, we do not know what it 1s. We do not know of any higher use we can put a man to.” (Prof. Slossom, in the ‘* NEW YORK INDEPENDENT,”’ Dec. 12th, 1895.) HE only plausible justification or excuse for painful experiments on animals is that thereby we may acquire knowledge that shall enable us to allay the sufferings and save the lives of human beings, and this is the reason we constantly hear given by the apologists of vivisection. By this term I mean all painful experiments on animals ostensibly for scientific objects. But as no advantage to sick and suffering mankind has ever resulted from the countless tortures that have been inflicted on the brute creation by experimental physiologists, this apology for vivi- section is untenable. It must be confessed that the vivisectors themselves who, though mainly doctors, are seldom occupied with medical practice, do not perform their experiments from any idea that these can be of use to medicine. They are prompted to engage in this cruel pursuit by what has been happily denominated “scientific curiosity.” That the majority of medical men, though few of them have ever performed or even witnessed the vivisection of animals, are advocates of experiments on animals is undoubtedly true ; but the reason is that they are persuaded by able editors and authors of medical works and periodicals that such experiments are or may be useful for the cure of Aca IItZ oi f
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