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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... ARGUMENTS ASSUMPTIONS ARE NOT PROOF1 Lyman Abbott Before the Legislature of New York there are two bills "To prevent cruelty, by regulating experiments on animals." Though one is more drastic than the other, both undertake to prescribe conditions under which such experiments shall be conducted. These measures con-5 cern the whole Nation. If either of them was to be passed, the researches conducted by some of the most eminent medical and surgical men in the country would be seriously affected. A correspondent, who announces his dissatisfaction 10 with the present laws on the subject, gives, from a nonmedical point of view, on another page, a resume' of some of the incalculable benefits that have flowed from vivisection. Those who question these benefits are either not informed or are beyond the reach of argument. The 15 real question is not as to the merits of vivisection, but as to the proper safeguards with which the law should surround it. At present the law of New York State applies to experiments upon animals the same principle that it 2o applies to surgical operations upon men, women, and 1 Reprinted by permission from The Outlook. children. It does not attempt to prescribe the conditions under which either experiments or operations should be conducted; but it does prescribe the standards of fitness which every person who may lawfully engage in surgery and which every person who may lawfully engage in 5 animal experimentation must meet. It penalizes with fine or imprisonment or both the unjustifiable injuring, mutilating, or killing of animals; and it confines to regularly incorporated medical colleges and universities of the State the authority under which animal ex-10 perimentation may be conducted. The burden of proof rests upon those who would ha...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150954787
- ISBN 13 9781150954788
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages86
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