ANIMAL VIVISECTION.
DOCTORS DEFEND PRACTICE. PROTESTS AT RESTRICTION. LONDON. April 5. " We say, with a full sense of responsibility, that without experimentation on animals, the medical profession cannot carry on," declared Lord Dawson, the King's physician, at the British Medical Association Conference, called to protest against further restriction of vivisection. If, he said, it was wrong to use dogs in search of knowledge, it followed logically that it was wrong to use any higher animal. Thousands of lives had been saved by the discovery of insulin, which had crowned years of experimentation with dogs. The dangers of childbirth, he added, had been diminished by the use of a new drug tested on animals. " Should human beings have been used ?" he asked. Dr. R. G. Hogarth, president of the association, said that he was amazed at the fluent tears and hysterical emotion of those people who harassed doctors in this matter, when they considered how low and at what a cheap rate human life was commonly valued.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19612, 14 April 1927, Page 13
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