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Letter to Arthur Helps March 1873
Author: G.H.Lewes
Recipient: Arthur Helps
Date: ??/03/1873
Collection: The Helps Letters
County Record Office Ref: CR3989/3/1/5
Nuneaton Library Facsimile: yes | | |
Description
G H Lewes in replying to Athur Helps would appear to be expanding on his own previous suggestions in the letter CR 3989/3/1/4 regarding modification of the vivisection argument. Written from The Priory, Regent's Park. Dated Thursday. The Nuneaton Library index gives a date of 6 March 1873. Signed G H L.
NB On the reverse in a different hand: 'Mr Helps, I Parliament 61.2 Sat' Pencil mark on front, '1873'.
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Transcript
The Priory
21 North Bank
Regents Park.
Thursday
My dear Helps
As the book undoubtedly will go to a second ed. I will tell you what modifications I should like to see in it.
Preserving the spirit of your remarks you might say that while energizing experiment are indispensable to the physiological inquirer (Vivisection being only one large branch of experiment) the humane & considerate man would never keep out of sight the fact the he was injuring or paining animals, and therefore would altogether refrain from Vivisection when teaching physiology to students unless his teaching were of some contested point and he wanted to prove his position. All established or uncontested results of Vivisection should be simply stated, not re-performed in presence of students.
Then too the inquirer himself should consider carefully what it is his experiment is going to prove & whether if successful it will do so. This would save a great mass of reckless inconsiderate experiment.
Finally since there are but few experiments which cannot better be performed on an animal rendered insensible by chloroform, ether, or chloral the inquirer should never dispense with that move whenever it is practicable.
The object of your remarks should be to lessen the injury to animals, by instilling more serious views into the operators.
I remember at one of the meetings of the Medical Association the Rev R. Haughton produced a striking "rational"(?) effect - Touching(?)
on Vivisection - (all present were alert) he said "I consider that I have a perfect right to subject my dog to any experiment however painful which I am willing for science to undergo myself."
In post haste, ever yours,
G.H.L.
If you send me a proof of your modification when ready I will annotate it.
Mr Phelps
1 Parliament
6 1/2 Sat
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