Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells, F.R.C.S. ... on ovariotomy.

  • Jesse, George R. (George Richard)
Date:
1882
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Credit: Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells, F.R.C.S. ... on ovariotomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the Morning Post and the Times, the revolting placards exhibited in the streets of the Metropolis, and inserted in the Police News. We are obliged by the reference to the British Medical Journal, and your statement made at the College of Surgeons— and hope to discuss the subject fully at a future day. I remain, Sir, Y our obedient Servant. GEORGE R. JESSE. T. Spencer Wells, Esq., 3, Upper Grosvenor Street, London. W. Honorary Secretary, <fcc. [* From the Morning Post of the 30th April, 1877, and the Times of May 7th and 14th, 1877.] SOCIETY FOR THE TOTAL ABOLITION AND UTTER SUPPRESSION OF VIVISECTION. This Society disavows any approval of the sensational and revolting illustrated placards which have been put up in the streets and public places of the Metropolis, and inserted in a Penny Weekly Newspaper,+ addressed to a certain class. This Society is of opinion that the attempt to excite the public in this manner is ill advised, and will injure the cause. Such a course of action is unnecessary and impolitic, as it would be for a General Accident Assurance Company to placard with delineations of the horrors of Railway Collisions. The Society’s object is—having now amply proved and substan- tiated the existence and cruelties of Vivisection, to which its mem- bers directed attention above two years past, and continuously down to the present time—to demonstrate the uselessness and unphiloso- pliical nature of the practice. Ever open to argue the question with Physiologists, it reprobates any morbid exhibitions or attempts to inflame the minds of the uneducated. GEORGE R. JESSE. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. Ilenbury, Macclesfield, Cheshire. t “THE POLICE NEWS.”