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Appendix A: 1896 Report of the National Academy of Sciences
Appendix A: 1896 Report of the National Academy of Sciences
Pages 89-92
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Washington, D.C., April 24, 1896. Sir: Referring to Senate bid 1552, we respectfully invite your attention to the fact that the National Academy of Sciences is now in session in this city, and that this body is generally recognized as the highest scientific tribunal in the United States; also that the act incorporating it contains the forgoing clause: hand the Academy shall, whenever caned upon by any Department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art." (Act approved March 3, 1863~.
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Tryon, Surgeon General United States Navy; George M Sternberg, Surgeon General United States Army; and Walter Wyman, Surgeon United States Marine Hospital Service, asking that the National Academy of Sciences be called upon to express an opinion as to the scientific value of experiments upon the lower animals and as to the probable effect of restrictive legislation upon the advancement of biological science.
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That animals must suffer and die for the benefit of mankind is a law of nature, from which we can not escape if we would, and as long as man claims dominion over the brute creation and asserts his right to kill and mutilate animals in order to obtain food and clothing, and even for purposes of amusement and adornment, it is surely unreasonable to wage a humanitarian warfare against the only kind of pa~n-giv~ng practice that has for its object the relief of pain. The death of an animal in a physiological laboratory is usually attended with less suffering than is associated with so cawed natural deaths, for the discovery of anaesthetics hap extended its beneficent influence over the lower animals as well as over the human race, and In modern laboratories anaesthetics are always employed, except when the operation involves less suffering to the animal than the administration of the anaesthetic (as In the case of inoculations)
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I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, WOLCOTT GIBBS, President of the National Academy of Sciences.
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