Article June 1, 1899 Issue

Human Vivisection

People of normal sensibilities are beginning to question the righteousness of the atrocious experiments that are now being carried on so extensively by doctors of medicine, in the name of science. It is quite generally conceded that the cruel murder of men, women, and little children cannot be necessary to any science that God has anything to do with, if He is longer to be adored as a loving Father.

The American Humane Association, of which Rev. Francis H. Rowley, D.D., of Fall River, Mass., is secretary, has just issued and sent broadcast over the country, a pamphlet, with the startling title: "Human Vivisection." It is an earnest protest against the growing practice of subjecting helpless human beings and animals to torturing experiments, which often prove fatal.

In the introduction to the pamphlet readers are asked to record their opinion of Human Vivisection by writing to the secretary. Then follow seventeen pages, in part reprinted from United States Senate Document No. 78, showing the results of doctors' and surgeons' experiments. Following are a few extracts :—

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