Misstatements of antivivisectionists : correspondence with American humane association / [by] W.W. Keen.

  • William Williams Keen
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[1901]
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    is to say. the inoculation will not take if he is already a syphilitic. It was for the purpose of determining whether leprosy was a fourth stage of sj'philis that the attempt was made. Xone of those inoculated took the disease. 4. Sanarelli's Experiments on the Inoculation of Yellow Fever_, page 8: The references here are to the British Medical Journal for July 3, 1897, and the Xeu: England Medical Monthly, March, 1898. The extracts marked with quotation marks are from the New England Medical Monthly. Between the first and the second sentences of the quotation there should be some stars to note an omission, but none such appear. The omitted words state that not the germs of the disease, but the carefully filtered and sterilized germ-free fluid was used. Be- sides this and many other minor inaccuracies many of the scientific terms are changed into non-medical terms, which is not objectionable in itself. But .such changes and inaccuracies should exclude quotation marks, for when used they m.ean that the words quoted are the ipsissima verba of the author, if in the same language, or an exact translation if from a foreign language. But this is the least of all. The pamphlet says that the injection produced certain symptoms, among which are men- tioned ''the jaundice, the delirium, the final collapse, the last three words being in italics in the pamphlet to call special at- tention to them. In the British Medical Journal and in the Xeic England Medical Monthly the words the final are not to be found. We see not a few patients suflfering from jauii- dice. delirium and collapse who recover, but when the ex- pression is changed to 'the final collapse it means to every one that the patient died. Moreover, the end of the quotation is as follows: T have seen [the sjTnptoms of yellow fever] unrolled before my eyes thanks to the po'.ent influence of the yellow fever poison made in my laboratory. This entire sentence does not occur either in the British Medical Journal or in the yew England Medical Monthly. Whether it is quoted from some other source not indicated, or has been deliberately added. I leave you or A. Tracy' to explain. Moreover, immediately afterward, on the authority of the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript, it is stated: It is understood that some, if not all, of the persons inoculated died of the disease. and then seven times after- ward are repeated the final collapse. the unrolling before Ihe eyes, ''scientific assassination. death. and murder quoted from a public speech before the American Humane Association. Let us see if these were murders. In the two references siven there is no indication whether
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