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MID-STREAM 48. I hope you will view these bills as not needed. They appear to be the result of the perennial efforts of antivivisectionists to stop animal research. The propaganda that has led sponsors of these bills to believe that investigators arc not to be trusted can and has been refuted. The irony of the whole business is that dog and cat lovers have far more and far healthier dogs and cats to love for the very reason that good research has provided them. Sincerely yours, Jacob Fine, M.D. A duplicate of this letter was sent to: Represenatative Laurence Curtiss House Office Building Washington, D.C, The resolution of the American Surgical Association added that the Federal government provide funds for safe and sanitary animal quarters with competent personnel to care for them. In 1963 Mr. Cleveland Amory, a popular columnist, repeated the old canard in the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review of Literature, especially with reference to research in the 1940's at Harvard Medical School on pulmonary burns. I sent the following letter to Professor Warfied Firor of Johns Hopkins Medical School. August 14, 1963 Warfield Firor, M.D. 1 East 31st Street Baltimore, Maryland Dear Dr. Firor: Some of us in Boston have been exercised over the storm created by Cleveland Amory's publications in the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review of Literature, wherein he has attacked cruelty in animal research. He referred in particular to the production of pulmonary burns in a study at the Harvard Medical School during the 1940's. This was carried out at the request of the United States Army. Dean Berry explained this in a letter of rejoinder, to which Mr. Amory replied by suggesting that Dr. Berry had not read the bills before Congress. Since the New England Jouranl of Medicine published data that demonstrates that Dr. Berry has read the bills,
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Collection Name | Jacob Fine |
Collection Number | P-638 |
Box Number | 01 |
Folder Number | 05 |
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Physicians Beth Israel Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Nantucket, Massachusetts Memoirs |
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Language | English |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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Collection Name | Jacob Fine |
Collection Number | P-638 |
Box Number | 01 |
Folder Number | 05 |
Subjects |
Physicians Beth Israel Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Nantucket, Massachusetts Memoirs |
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Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Language | English |
Transcript | MID-STREAM 48. I hope you will view these bills as not needed. They appear to be the result of the perennial efforts of antivivisectionists to stop animal research. The propaganda that has led sponsors of these bills to believe that investigators arc not to be trusted can and has been refuted. The irony of the whole business is that dog and cat lovers have far more and far healthier dogs and cats to love for the very reason that good research has provided them. Sincerely yours, Jacob Fine, M.D. A duplicate of this letter was sent to: Represenatative Laurence Curtiss House Office Building Washington, D.C, The resolution of the American Surgical Association added that the Federal government provide funds for safe and sanitary animal quarters with competent personnel to care for them. In 1963 Mr. Cleveland Amory, a popular columnist, repeated the old canard in the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review of Literature, especially with reference to research in the 1940's at Harvard Medical School on pulmonary burns. I sent the following letter to Professor Warfied Firor of Johns Hopkins Medical School. August 14, 1963 Warfield Firor, M.D. 1 East 31st Street Baltimore, Maryland Dear Dr. Firor: Some of us in Boston have been exercised over the storm created by Cleveland Amory's publications in the Saturday Evening Post and the Saturday Review of Literature, wherein he has attacked cruelty in animal research. He referred in particular to the production of pulmonary burns in a study at the Harvard Medical School during the 1940's. This was carried out at the request of the United States Army. Dean Berry explained this in a letter of rejoinder, to which Mr. Amory replied by suggesting that Dr. Berry had not read the bills before Congress. Since the New England Jouranl of Medicine published data that demonstrates that Dr. Berry has read the bills, |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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