This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII For the nonce I will take leave of those tangled and difficult problems, which I am at a loss to solve, and in the face of which I must confess utter helplessness. I will now occupy myself with a question to which but one answer is possible, and that a perfectly straight one. It deals with gross and entirely conscious disregard for that consideration which is due to the human being. I approach the subject with regret, but it is impossible to pass it by. "A certain Dr Koch," we read in the Russian medical paper, Physician, "has published a pamphlet, entitled, ' Aerztliche Versuche an labenden Menschen' (' Medical Experiments on Living Man '), than which nothing were better calculated to further undermine the respect for, and confidence of the laity in, our profession. The author essays to prove that 'vivisection has long crossed the thresholds of our hospitals'--in other words, that experiments similar to those conducted upon the lower animals in the laboratory, are practised on living man in our infirmaries. As might have been expected, Koch's book was immediately seized upon by different feuilleton writers and newspapers chroniclers. It were highly desirable that our German colleagues should not leave a single one of Dr Koch's 'facts' without searching inquiry and explanation, as it is only possible by this means to nullify the effect of his book." (See The Physician, 1893, P-906.) 103 I have not read the above-mentioned pamphlet, and do not know how far the " facts" mentioned by Dr Koch merit the ironical inverted commas which the editor of the Physician had seen fit to place them in. But unfortunately there is much substantial truth even in the title of Dr Koch's booklet alone. In proof of the above it would be easy enough...

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