ical students in America know that similar outrages are
perpetrated in our medical colleges every winter. I have witnessed
vivisections SO CRUEL AND UNNECESSARY THAT I AM ASHAMED TO REMEMBER
THAT THEY WERE UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF MY ALMA MATER."
(From sermon preached at Portland, Oregon.)

Dr. Henry M. Field, Professor Emerituss of Therapeutics, Dartmouth
Medical School, Dartmouth College, writes:

"I well remember my experience as a student of medicine at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.... I well remember the poor
dogs, brought out from their dungeon, perhaps famished and tortured
with thirst, should the experiment require such condition; their
appealing eyes and trembling limbs, I shall never forget.... Indeed,
SOME FORM OF TORTURE AND ATROCITY WAS EXPECTED AT EVERY LECTURE, AND
SURE TO BE APPLAUDED.... The student who found entertainment in the
unnecessary torture of animals, learned something besides physiology;
his humane nature was perverted...."
(From letter to the Vivisection Reform Society,
dated April 28, 1905.)

APPENDIX IV

A LETTER OF DR. JOHN BASCOM,
LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

To the Editor of the "Springfield Republican."

SIR,--In the complexity of our many social problems, it does not quite
do to extemporize an opinion. In a recent issue the Republican came
very near falling into this fault. Taking as its text a striking
example of locating a clot of blood in the brain, and referring the
knowledge by which this was done to vivisection, it spoke lightly of
the limitation which many have sought to put upon this practise. It
is noot the assertion of the opponents of vivisection, that itis
always useless, but that it has been carried much beyond the demands
of any desirable and humane purpose. Even the example given is not so
striking if we remember that it has long been known that each half of
the body is governed not by the adjacent, but by the opposite, lobe of
the brain.

Considering the uncertainty, and the costly nature, of the knowledge
gained by vivisection, and the great abuse the practice has suffered,
its opponents demand that animals should not be subjected to this
suffering except in view of some definite and important question to be
answered; that the pain involved in such an investigation should be
reduced t