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WE have recently received the new edition of a pamphlet entitled “The Metropolitan Hospitals and Vivisection, a Guide for the Charitable in the Disposition of their Gifts and Bequests,” by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. The pamphlet begins with a pro logue which consists of a short phrase snatched without any context from a speech delivered by the Home Secre tary. Owing to the shorn character of this phrase, which stands out grotesquely framed with interpolations, we are unable to say what the Home Secretary really meant. The author, however, draws an inference which certainly is not justifiable, viz. that serious operations without anaesthetics necessarily involve the torture of animals. Whether this is so or not depends entirely upon what is meant by a serious operation and what is meant by torture, concerning neither of which is a word said. By torture we certainly do not mean mere momentary pain.
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The Metropolitan Hospitals and Vivisection . Nature 65, 417–418 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065417a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/065417a0