A SANE NEWSPAPER VIEW OF ANTIVIVISECTION

We recently called attention to the awakening of the lay press in regard to a sound and well-informed knowledge on medical matters of public interest, citing as an example the admirable comment of the Philadelphia North American² on the Tuberculosis campaign. We now welcome two sane editorials in recent issues of the St. Louis Republic in reference to the "antivivisection" outburst. "Dr." Still, of osteopathic fame, has recently urged a law for Missouri prohibiting all animal experimentation. To this the Republic replies by pointing out that not so long ago, Mr. Still—not then a "doctor of osteopathy"—"appeared as a humble suppliant before a committee of the Missouri legislature to plead for his right to follow the practice of healing according to the light of his own thought and theories, regardless of the opinions and presuppositions of others" —and got it. "This," says the Republic, "was hailed as a triumph