. Animal experimentation; a series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science. Vivisection. CHARLES W. ELIOT 3 the calf, that we may have the milk intended for it. What infinite liberties we take with animals in depriving them not only of life but of their natural happiness ! Our liber- ties with animals in this way are so prodigious that this particular liberty to which your attention has been so urgently called seems infinitesimal. The progress which has been recently made in medical research is one of the most extraordinary achievements of the nineteenth century. S
. Animal experimentation; a series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science. Vivisection. CHARLES W. ELIOT 3 the calf, that we may have the milk intended for it. What infinite liberties we take with animals in depriving them not only of life but of their natural happiness ! Our liber- ties with animals in this way are so prodigious that this particular liberty to which your attention has been so urgently called seems infinitesimal. The progress which has been recently made in medical research is one of the most extraordinary achievements of the nineteenth century. Such research is absolutely the most humane of human occupations, because it has pre- vented human suffering and death on a great scale, and because it promises to achieve in the future still greater triumphs over pain and death. „ We know what has been done in regard to smallpox and diphtheria, and we have great hope beyond - - the hope of being able to deal with meningitis, pneumonia, cancer, yellow fever, consumption, and the plague. These enemies we have not yet learned how to defeat. The study of these problems is the most humane application that can be made of human skill, thought, and imaginative Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ernst, Harold C. (Harold Clarence), 1856-1922. Boston, Little, Brown
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