The modern rack; papers on vivisection.

  • Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
1889
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Credit: The modern rack; papers on vivisection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    German Physiologist. Mein Gott! What is that for a place ! It mooch remind me of a well-known spot French Physiologist. Mais qu'est-ce que c'est done ? Un Laboratoire de physiologie ? But where are the dogs, and the cats, and the rabbits ? Mon Dieu ! serait-il possible que. . . . English Physiologist. Well! what do those tremendous swells of Angels over there want with us ? Can they intend to take some lessons out of our Handbook of the Physiological Laboratory, and do they mean to invite us to give them a course of lectures, like the students at the dear old Hospital ? Raphael (approaching, with a smile). Not so far wrong, most learned doctor. We mean to learn Physiology from you, only not perhaps quite in the way you expect. You have always loudly proclaimed that theory without experiment is of little worth, so we intend to try some of your own choice examples on yourself and your friends. All the Physiologists in Chorus. Oh ! oh ! oh ! No ! no ! no ! Oh, how shocking ! Oh, how cruel ! Oh, how in- sulting to Science ! Raphael {turning to the Cherubim). Did you ever hear any- thing so inconsistent ? Why, these are the very men who have been repeating again and again that only by actual Vivisection could Physiological Science be advanced, and that Science is an end so noble and glorious that it was not worth while considering the pain any creature might endure to advance it! I have really no patience with them ; but still I will condescend just to say a few words in explanation. [He beckons to the Physiologistsy a?id whistles, as if calling dogs.] Come hither, you poor little two- legged trembling creatures ! Don't growl and whine, but think yourselves very much honoured by what we Cherubim are going to do to you. Physiologists. Oh, my Lord ! Oh, your Saintship ! Oh, your Holiness ! Don't try your experiments on us ! We were not made to be experimented on—indeed we were not\ and we are quite certain the Unknown and Unknowable would not approve of it at all!