PHYSIOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1
SIR,—I participate thoroughly in the feeling of abhorrence expressed by your correspondent "E. V. B.," in your issue of the 15th inst., with reference to the brutality evinced by Pro- fessor Munk, of Berlin, in his experiment as to the absorption of rape-seed in the body of a starving dog, but I cannot join in his protest against these subjects "being brought forward in the once popular and important journals of natural history," or in any other journals ; on the contrary, it is, I think, exceed- ingly desirable, in the interests of humanity, that the greatest publicity should be given to such instances of the tender- mercies of Vivisectionists, and other physiologists of a kindred. spirit with Dr. Munk, for if such deeds of darkness are allowed to be done in secret, and to be passed over in silence, how is public opinion to be educated and roused, as, I hope, it soon will be aroused, until it demands, with a voice too imperative to- be unheeded by the Government of any professedly civilised country, that vivisection and diabolical experiments like the one- at Berlin shall no longer be tolerated P-1 am, Sir, &c.,
OsticRoN.
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