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THE recent remarkable discoveries in connection with Myxœdema conclusively prove the value of vivisection as a means whereby human suffering may be alleviated, and only those who are blinded by ignorance or prejudice would dare deny that hundreds of sufferers from goître, and other distressing symptoms of cretinism, have obtained relief solely through experimental research upon animals. Inconsistency is closely linked to prejudice, and the greatest anomaly is the Anti-Vivi-sectionist who, while objecting to the alleviation of human suffering on the score of “cruelty to animals,” enjoys and countenances, for the gratification of his or her own individual pleasures, the most horrible cruelty and torture to helpless creatures; Only a few of such cases now occur to me, and these I herewith append, but there are many others as disgustingly cruel.
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CARUS-WILSON, C. Vivisection. Nature 48, 317 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048317b0
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