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was delirious—prognosis pessima, said the famous
surgeon. On the third day brain-fever set in.
He did not die, he left the hospital a month later,
blind. The last I heard of him was that he was
in a lunatic asylum in Norway.
My own rôle in this lamentable affair was not
satisfactory. I did my best, but it was not
enough. If it had happened a couple of years
later, this man would not have shot himself. I
would have known how to master his fear, and
would have been the stronger of the two as I have
been in later years more than once, when I have
stayed a hand clutching a revolver in fear of life.
When will the anti-vivisectionists realize that
when they are asking for total prohibition of
experiments on living animals they are asking
for what it is impossible to grant them?
Pasteur’s vaccination against rabies has reduced the
mortality in this terrible disease to a minimum
and Behring’s anti-diphtheric serum saves the
lives of over a hundred thousand children every
year. Are not these two facts alone sufficient to
make these well-meaning lovers of animals
understand that discoverers of new worlds like Pasteur,
of new remedies against hitherto incurable
diseases like Koch, Ehrlich and Behring must be
left to pursue their researches unhampered by
restrictions and undisturbed by interference from
outsiders. Those to be left a free hand are
besides so few that they can be counted on one’s
fingers. For the rest no doubt most severe
restrictions should be insisted upon, perhaps
even total prohibition. But I go further. One
of the most weighty arguments against several of
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