“REVOLTING PRACTICE"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 7

“REVOLTING PRACTICE"

VORONOFF’S THEORY Anti-Vivisectionists’ Vigorous Protest “A WORLD OF DEVILS.” I By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright ] L Australian Press Assn, j Received June 8, 11 p.m. LONDON, June 8. A meeting organised by the Anti-Vivisection Society crowded C ax ton Hall and overflowed next door. Speakers vigorously protested against Doctor Voronoff’s experiments. Dean Inge, among others wrote describing them as monstrous and deprecating England’s welcome to their originator. Miss Lindaf Hagcby, presiding, said that Sir William Joynson Hicks who welcomed Dr Voronoff, was speaking on the Prayer Book. If Britain became a race of semi-monkeys, the result of the Prayer Book conti oversy .would not matter. Mr George Arliss, actor, declared that if Dr Voronoff’s ideas were carried out this would be a world of devils skulking about devouring people to prolong their own lives. “Let us

keep clean the bodies God gave us, and not dip into the mess brewed in Voronoff’s filthy kitchens,” he said. The Duchess of Hamilton said that the Anglican Church had failed on this terrible question, pleading it could not be involved in medical matters. Resolutions included a protest against “the revolting practice of grafting live monkey sex glands into men, women and children as being offensive against morality, hygiene and decency. ”