The Menace of Human Vivisection
In the Outlook of September 22 Dr. John Vedder says that “year by year the practice of human vivisection increases, not only in this country, but in England, until it has reached such proportions that it is a real menace to the existence of hospitals. . . . Instructors of medical students already tell the future physicians and surgeons of the world that disease may be regarded from two standpoints — that of the healing art, and that of experimental research. Already this is an open secret.” And he quotes the statement of a surgeon who made a dangerous experiment: “I considered myself justified in incurring some risk in order to settle the question of its danger”!