"It is not an appropriate occasion at lunch to go into detail," said Dr. John S. Codman, vice president, New England Anti-Vivisection Society, in Manhattan last week. Members of the International Conference of Societies for the Investigation of Vivisection were eating. Dr. Codman continued: "The cruelties of the laboratories are frightful and the practice [of vivisection] is being extended, with the approbation of the American Medical Association, to human beings."*
Anti-vivisectionists argued that the moral danger to man from experimenting on animals in laboratories was greater than any medical danger that vivisection...
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