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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING., DECEMBER 23. 1W5.
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Canal Authorities Say Only
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penedAll Is Well.
week's conference eacn summer on prob
lems related to the home, under the
name of the Lake Placid Conference of
Home Economics. Last summer by In
vitation the conference net at Chautau
qua and at that. time the conference
voted that the time had come for a eoun.
try wide organisation. . It is to take the
Initial steps toward forming this or-
r animation that the conference will meet
n Washington during the coming week.
The proposed organisation will Include
primarily those engaged in educational
subjects connected with home, whether
in lower or higher schools or collegiate
Institutions, and. also those engaged In
household ' and Institutional manage
ment and in social and municipal work
for home betterment. . . '
The organisation will aim to arouse
public interest in the importance of such
subjects as food and nutrition, , hygiene
In Its personal, home and public aspects,
a more' enlightened care of children, the
intelligent financing of the . home
through atention to standards, budgets
ths ships of the navy, now using coal.
The Wyoming will cruise along the
eoast and if the tests are satisfactory
will later go to- Honolulu
: Eclipse Not Visible Here. -
(Special Dlapateb U lbs J aortal.)
Washington, Dec IS. The last eclipse
to be recorded for the year 1(0 takes
place today, but it will not be vlslhle In
North America. It is a central eclipse
of the sun, annular at the beginning and
end, and total In the middle. The path
of the eclipse crosses the southern part
of South America, the South Atlantic,
South Africa and the southern, portion
of the Indian ocean. v '
TO LOADED GUN
and accounting ana such municipal top
ics as clean streets and markets.
Wyoming Off on OO TestT""
'- . (Doited . Press teased Wire. ;
Y Vallejo. Cal., Deo. 2 S. 'Bound for Ban
Deputy Marshal Faulkner
Diego, the' monitor Wyoming left the
OPEN EVENINGS
Mare Island navy yard yesterday for
her first cruise since she was fitted
of Juneau Too .Wary
for Assassins.
with oil burnlna enxlnes. The Wvom
Inr la beinar used as an exnerlmental
ship to determine the advisability of
using oil to supply ' motive power, for
TRACED
Presentation of the View
That Scientific Experi
mentation Has Been Vita
to Modern 3Iedicine and
Surgery.
Br FREDERIC J. HASKIX.
rvTvria-ht. 1&08. bv Frederic J. HasJrin.)
' Washington. Dec. 23. The crusaders
fcjrainst vivlfiecton In the United States
havo bem very active during the past
year and it la probable they will try
to secure legislation by congress for-blddina-
vivisection In the future. They
. talra h vrnnnri that It la a cruel Drac
tice, which causes more suffering than
it prevents and which does more harm
man gooa. iney ininic u nas a muw
lainar eftert on those who practice it,
and that on the whole, the game is not
worth the csndle. This extreme view
1a nr.t ahared hv all anti-vivisectionlats.
liowevr. Some of them admit its value
and its necesoitv In the hands of solen
tiflo men. but lecry It as practiced In
mhoola and In the hands of irresponsi
v ble investigators. But these liberal
Rnti-vivlsectionists are in the minority,
The great majority would blot out the
practice entirely and forever.
The victories of science over-disease
' offer reading; matter more fascinating
than fiction. And when one comes to
listen to the scientist as he names
these victories, he is Impressed by the
large proportion of them that rest upon
the foundation of vivisection. There
are three' great fundamental discoveries
made within the time of living; men that
have- entirely revolutionised the art of
healing anesthesia, antisepsis, and the
germ theory. With these discoveries
... as the , foundation, - the . magnificent
superstructure of modern medicine has
been reared. Without anesthesia the
wonderful surgical operations that have
reauoed tne aestn rate so materially
in peace and war, would have been 1m
possible, sine the bumaa trams can
stand only a given degree of pain.
without antisepsis . those operations
could have been performed only to re'
suit tu blood poisoning, gangrene, or
. other equally fatal malady. And with
out tne germ theory medical men would
till, be treating tuberculosis, typhoid,
yellow fever, cholera, scarlet fever,
diphtheria every contagious and In
feetious disease In the category with
out Knowing its source or its causa.
. Sties to Save Human Xlrss.
Yet the scientist has gtvfen all these
great discoveries to men solely through
experiments on animals. The state of
the public 'mind has not yet reached
the point where It will warrant a doe-
tors trying new and unproved theories
on mankind. His only recourse Is to
try them on animals first and thereby
, ueveiop ana prove nis meories. 1 ne
guinea Dig. the rabbit, the mouse, and
the dog are his favorite subjects for
experimentation. In 1865 two water
companies in London experimented on
a hair million people, with the result
that there were 847C deaths from
cholera. The same year Thelrch of
leipsic, experimented on 68 mice. Had
me lessons ne learned rrom nis ex
periments on s hslf hundred mice Ween
heeded, the cholera epidemic in London
. would have been averted.
The Dwindling Death Bats.
Since the advent of modern medicine
the death rate for the whole world has
shown a remarkable fallinar of f. The
death rate from tuberculosis, for in
stance, has been reduced practically
one half in nearly all civilised countries
since the discovery of. the germ that
causes it. The death rate from diph
theria In Baltimore has been cut down
to ono tenth its former proportions,
and tin -Chicago to one third what it
used to be. , Typhoid fever, scarlet
fever, yellow fever,- cholera, bubonic
plague and other epidemical diseases
nave oeea lorcea out or meir strongholds.
Kvery time tne world's death rate Is
lowered one per thousand, it means the
saving ox a, million ana a nail lives
every year, and It has been so lowered
more than once.
In the United States the taking of
viim pnr uiuuwiuu away irom me total
death rate means the saving of 80,000
II ves year. Mortality statisticians
nnaeri mni more man one per thousand
has been substracted from the total
drain rai. in laci, me total death
rate in 190 was 28.1 per thousand, as
compared with 19 in 1890. Comparing
the mean rate between the two periods
with the 1890 rate it Is found that some
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Colon, Panama, Dec JJ. To answer
the stories that serious errors in the
construction of the Gatun dam have
caused a collapse of a portion of the
wall and have caused a serious slide
under the trestle of the re-located Pan
ama railroad at Gatun and that the site
of the Gatun dam had been Inadvertently
placed over a subterranean lake, an of
ficial statement has been issued by the
authorities in charge of the construc
tion of the blar ditch.
The collapse of the dam wall Is de
scribed as a minor happening, which.
itead of ruining previous work, only
oes to insure the future permanency
of the wall, inasmuch as It means that
the rock fill will keep sinking until it
reaches firm bottom. The slide under
neath the trestle, it is said, has been
emected and others will follow. These
slips also are Interpreted as only minor
happenings in the natural settling of
earth fills.
Tne story that an underground lako
lies beneath the Gatun dam is pro
nounced absurd, although it Is admitted
that In boring close to the dam slto
water under pressure was found in
most of the holes. The engineers as
sert that the dam Is being built on a
very firm foundation of Impervious
Clay and that there is no doubt about
the satisfactory character of the whole
task.
Caitt4 Press LsastB Wlra.l ,
Tacoma, Dec IS. Deputy United
States Marshal Burt Faulkner of Ju
neau narrowly escaped assassination at
that place last Sunday night, accord
ing to dispatches Just received in this
City. Some enemy tied e, oocked re
volver to the fence in front or his
house and attached a string to the trig
ger in such a way that on Faulkner s
opening the gate the weapon would be
discharged Into his abdomen. Faulk
ner had been visiting friends In the
evening and on his return noticed the
string dangling at the gate. He sup
posed it to oe evidence or some prac
tical Joke and traced the string to the
pistol before he threw the gate open.
He Is at a loss to explain the motive
for the murderous plot.
CONVENTION OF HOME
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of forming a national organisation for
the study of home economics a conven
tion has been called to meet In this city
next week. For 10 years a group of de
voted workers has been meeting for a
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1,006,000 lives have been saved by Im
proved medical methods.
Tins, tnen, is tne answer or science
to the anti-vlvisectlonlst.
Tuberculosis and Quints Pigs.
It Is interesting to note with what
rare the scientist proves his case be
fore he tries his theory on a human
being. i)r. Koch, who discovered the
bacillus of tuberculosis, first took
sputum and stained it, so as to over
come the transluscence of the little
elly like rods which he suspected of
einar resconsiDie lor sne disease. These
he Introduced under "the skin of v
firraea pig. After a, certain time It
was killed, and he found tubercles in
its body when he held his cost mortem
examination, and the germs were also )
yieuBnu xo me ordinary mina mat
would be conclusive proof. But not to
the scientist. To complete the proof
he Inoculated another guinea pig with
the virus of the one killed, and it In
turn showed tubercles and bacilli. So
his theory was proved. The world
would have regarded such experiments
on human beings as criminal.
Men Used to act on the thenrv that
lockjaw was caused by treading on a
rusty nan. in 1S84 Nlcalaier announced
that it came from a germ, and that this
germ originated in the soil. Evan ih
medical world looked askance at such
a proposition, but the discoverer tried
the germ on some rats he had and
roved the correctness of his theory.
eaths from lockjaw used to be fre
quent, even from surgical operations:
now lockjaw so contracted is a curios
ity to the medical fraternltv. The,
is largely true of other diseases
which used to follow surgical operations.
Uster and tlx Horse.
In 1867 Lord Lister, then linknnmn
to fame, tied the irrai nrntM artr
of a horse with a piece of pure silk,
saturated in a solution of carbolic acid.
He found that It worked aa.ttafai.tni.llv
and did not produce a secondary hem
orrhage. In 1868 he tried the same
principle on a woman. Hha iftamn
died from another cause, and he made
Dost mortem examination ahinh
showed that his operation had been en
tirely successful and nrna nnt nl Inna
by the secondary hemorrhage. He then 1
tied tne carotid artery of a calf -with
catgut, and when the calf was killed
it was found that it .had been entimlv
assimilated. These experiments laid the
foundation of all modern antiseptic sur
gery. Without the animal experiments
surgeons might still be unaware of that
great principle that has saved thous
ands of Uvea. Before Lister's introduc
tion ef these catgut antlseptio ligatures,
thousands of people who had undergone
surgical operations bled to death from
secondary hemorrhage. Now such a
thing Is unheard of.
ZJomtftlo animals.
Through animal experimentation the
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medical value of hundreds of Important
drugs has been established. Cocaine
was introduced in this way and proper
use or aigitaiis was round. But these i
experiments are not limited to tne sav
ing of human life and the alleviation
of human suffering. They are of as
great value to bogs, dogs, cattle, chick
ens, and other animals as they are , to
humankind. The principles of veterinary
medicine and surgery are as fully
founded on the studies of vivisection
and animal experimentation as are hu
man medicine and surgery. Leaving en
tirely out of the question the direct
benefits derived by mankind from the
suffer Ins: caused by vivisection unA
animal experimentation, anv vetarf.
narian will declare that the benefits to
animais aione mors man justify it.
Trlnhinasls asd TeUew Fever.
Then there are man v Indirect bene
fits derived from it. Through careful
mlcroscoDio examinations scientists have
located the little germ pest and have
mastered him. In doina- so thev hava
done a service of Immense commerciil
value. Foreign countries had laid an
embargo on American meats because of
the presence of trichina. The vlvlaeo.
tlonlst showed the American meat grow
er how to get rid of li. and millions of
dollars were saved to the people. But
ror we successful crusade against yel
low fever, the Panama canal could never
be built without the sacrifice of moro
lives than the world would be willing
to give to that cause. Yet that cru
sade was based on lessons learned from
vivisection, experiments on animals es
tablishing the fact that the s-ertn was
non-communicable until it had passed
"liuuau ws mosquito.
Certain SnoomaiaTtenolsa,
It is argued that many of the anti
vlvisectlonlsta ars not conalatant rheii
very hearts will bleed at the woes of
me rai wnicn la oeing experimented on
in a scientist's laboratory; yet they set
traps of a most cruel mechanism for
rata, or iney win put out rat poison.
wmch will oroduce as horrlhle rieeth
as can be Imagined. Women antl-vlvi-sectlonlsts
will denounce tfie child that
Tvom ine Dira 01 us eggs, yet on their
hats they will wear feathers and wings
which may have caused a brood of
iit-siiinga to aie 01 pitiless starvation
ir tney happen to be men they will
often denounce the . vlvisectlnnist today
ni ivmviiuw pruceea 10 taxe a Hunt
ing trip that spells more suffering and
sorrow than that Inflicted hv the, vti.
sectlonlst, and in a cause not nearly so
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ture. Not all vivisection Is done in any
real - Interest of science, and not a'l
miii-viviaeciioniBis are Bicmy sentlmet
uuists, unconsciously cruel and heart.
less themselves. Those antl-vlvlsectlon-lots
who seek to limit the, practice to
m ieiiuBn, ana 10 eliminate it rrom girls'
schools and such places where it Is prac
ticed for naught bat the gratification
of a misguided curiosity, will have the
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