. Animal experimentation; a series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science. Vivisection. ~f* [ f- *. THEODORE HOUGH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Present at the hearings and ready to speak.) IT is characteristic of the methods of anti-vivisection agi- tation that experiments upon animals are constantly spoken of as painful and cruel. The impression is thus produced upon those unfamiliar with the facts of the case that the painless experiments are few in number, and that experi- mentation upon animals, as a general thing, inv
. Animal experimentation; a series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science. Vivisection. ~f* [ f- *. THEODORE HOUGH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Present at the hearings and ready to speak.) IT is characteristic of the methods of anti-vivisection agi- tation that experiments upon animals are constantly spoken of as painful and cruel. The impression is thus produced upon those unfamiliar with the facts of the case that the painless experiments are few in number, and that experi- mentation upon animals, as a general thing, involves a large amount of suffering. I went to the hearings to give my own experience in the matter as a contribution to the facts of the case. I have been a student of physiology since 1889, a period of eleven years. From 1889 to 1893 inclusive, I worked in the physiological laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Since then I have had entire charge of the instruction in animal physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at Johns Hopkins, I conducted two pieces of research involving vivisection upon warm-blooded animals; for three years I saw, and for two years assisted at practi- cally every demonstration which was given to the students ; during these years I was present at practically every stu- dent laboratory exercise in physiology — for one year as student and for two years as assistant to the instructor in charge. This student laboratory course, so far as the animals used and the general methods employed is con-. 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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