MR SHAW AND THE DOCTORS.

Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 5

MR SHAW AND THE DOCTORS.

Speaking at tho Holborn Restaurant, London, at the annual meeting of tho Brit-L-h Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, Mr G. 15. Shaw said that the medical fession had been very busy during the last century owing to the spread of the newspaper Press, and the opportunity afforded of addressing letters to that Press in justification of vivisection. He was in favor of making vivisection a crime. Other characteristic remarks made by the author of ' Captain Brassbound's Conversion' were as follow.— " The Chinese system is much better; you pay the doctor so long as you are in good health, and stop payment when you are taken ill. " I do not think it. is good public policy for any person to have a pecuniary interest in mutilating his fellows. I do not say that a surgeon actually knows that the operation is not necessary; but if you give a man 60gs to believe a thing he will have a very strong disposition to beheve.it. " Why is it that surgical operations come into fashion and go out of fashion, like hats and collars? To me that is strongly suspicious."