Article October 8, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

Carl F. Stillman

Bulletin of The National Anti-vivisection Society

Rear Admiral Carl F. Stillman (Ret.)
in the Bulletin of The National Anti-vivisection Society
Chicago, Illinois

There are those in the healing, biochemical and allied professions who believe that sickness and its cure in animals can be generally extrapolated into guidelines for the healing of human beings. If bodies of flesh and blood could be considered mechanical things, like automobiles, the above approach would have some logic. We have, however, the all-important psychosomatic factor in disease. . . .

There is a Biblical tract, attributed to the Christ, in which, after He had healed a man. He advised him, "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." This provides a clue that all practitioners of the healing art could well ponder: that sickness comes as a result of an act of commission or omission, and not as an accident; that disease origins are not primarily germs, . . . but stem from causes of a psychosomatic nature, set in motion by the individual himself. It is therefore folly to expect that experimentation on an animal . . . could significantly help mankind solve the problems of his own diseases. . . .

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