PUBLICATIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE OF NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY

Year after year the efforts are renewed by those one-ideaed sentimentalists, the antivivisectionists, to secure the passage of some measure which shall place all forms of experimentation on animals under special restrictions, on the assumption that the already existing legislation against cruelty to animals fails to meet actual or possible wrong doings by the experimenters. As in the case of all people who have fanatically surrendered themselves to an obsessing idea, it is hardly to be hoped that any argument, however cogent, based on whatever array of facts, however overwhelming, will tend to shake their adhesion to the idea which has become to them a fetish. There are, however, many followers at a distance accepting unquestioned the threadbare stock arguments of the professional fanatics, who might perchance realize the truth if it were once placed before them. Again there are others to whom these specious arguments and pleas are being