in some communities hideous tales of cruelty, and are leading people to believe that these horrors are typical of what is daily occurring in laboratories. Pictures are published tending to harrow the heart of any one who has in him a love for animals. Meanwhile, nothing is being done to counteract the falsity óf these impressions. That medical investigators are also men with tender sympathies and are sensitive to the infliction of pain, that they approach their work with reverence for the wonderful mysteries that every living body reveals, that with a keen sense of human suffering they are patiently searching for new truth in the spirit of far-' seeing huinanity-these facts are not made known.The time is approaching, 1 believe, for this education to be started. The movement should not be confined to the medical profession, but should be taken up as a duty by every intelligent person who believes that any restraint on medical research is a danger to human welfare. Already, in England, a Research Defence Society has been started with Lord Cromer as its president. The purpose of the society is to make known the facts, the facts as to the use of animals in experiments, and the immense importance of these experiments to the well-being of mankind. These facts the society intends to diffuse among the people by published articles and leaflets, by lectures, and by answers to inquiries. Although the society has existed only a few months, it already has hundreds of members, from all departments of public life, representing every class of educated Englishmen and Englishwomen, and including many who have been actively engaged in preventing cruelty to animals. Thus somewhat tardily in England, after research and teaching have been hampered by restrictive legislation for more than thirty years, it has seemed wise to appeal to the good sense of the people. In this country we have thus far refrained from open opposition to those who are hostile to animal experimentation. But a campaign of education will become imperative, if the attitude of the public continues to be shaped entirely by those who are opposed to medical research. The experience of England is before us. "In the mothercountry our hands are tied by an act which was defined by one of the highest legal authorities as a 'penal' act;and though with us, as with others, difficulties may have awakened activity, our science suffers from the action-of the state." These were the words of Sir Michael Foster at the Toronto meeting of the British Medical Association; and at the end of a review of biologic progress during the preceding thirteen years, he sounded this note of warning : "Some there are who would go still farther than the state has gone, though that is far, who would take from us even that which we have, and bid us make bricks wholly without straw. To go back is always a hard thing, and we, in England, can hardly look to any great betterment for at least many years to come. But unless what I have ventured to put before you to-day be a mocking phantasm, unworthy of thi...
