You have ceased to be an object of interest to me." He returned to his reading.

Lemuel watched him--still confidently waiting for results.
The letter proceeded in these terms: "Your employer may perhaps be inclined to publish my work, if I can satisfy him that it will address itself to the general reader.
"We all know what are the false pretences, under which English physiologists practice their cruelties.

I want to expose those false pretences in the simplest and plainest way, by appealing to my own experience as an ordinary working member of the medical profession.
"Take the pretence of increasing our knowledge of the curative action of poisons, by trying them on animals.

The very poisons, the action of which dogs and cats have been needlessly tortured to demonstrate, I have successfully used on my human patients in the practice of a lifetime.
"I should also like to ask what proof there is that the effect of a poison on an animal may be trusted to inform us, with certainty, of the effect of the same poison on a man.

To quote two instances only which justify doubt--and to take birds this time, by way of a change--a pigeon will swallow opium enough to kill a man, and will not be in the least affected by it; and parsley, which is an innocent herb in the stomach of a human being, is deadly poison to a parrot.
"I should deal in the same way, with the other pretence, of improving our practice of surgery by experiment on living animals.
"Not long since, I saw the diseased leg of a dog cut off at the hip joint.