Jacob Fine

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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,