Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — Vivisection Not an Aid to Science [ARTICLE]

Vivisection Not an Aid to Science

By Dr. RICHARD COWEN of Royal College of Surgeons, London VIVISECTION OF ANIMALS AS A METHOD OF RESEARCH IS WRONG AND MISLEADING. THIS MUTILATION AND TORTURE HAVE LED MANY EARNEST MEN ALONG THE WRONG ROAD OF RESEARCH. FOR MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY I HAVE PRACTICED SURGERY. I HAVE PERFORMED THOUSANDS OF OPERATIONS, YET CANNOT RECALL A SINGLE INSTANCE IN WHICH I OWE ANYTHING TO PUBLIC REPORTS OF VIVISECTION EXPERIMENTS. It is my deliberate opinioiNhat vivisection as a method of research is wrong and misleading. It is a TERRIBLE MISTAKE to think that disease in animals and in man is the same. ■ In an effort to find the cause of cancer ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND ANIMALS HAVE BEEN TORTURED in the List two years, with no resulting diseoverv. If the time used along thv BL(M)i) STAINED PATHS OF ANIMAL VIVISECTION hail been spent in studying the disease from a clinical point of view and its natural history in man it would not be necessary now to announce the disease incurable except by the knife.