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 of dogs, so that the fumes could not reach the lungs, and then, fixing the head through a hole in a wainscot, he proceeded to the most wanton of experiments. The miserable creatures foamed at the mouth, roared hideously, or died in excruciating torture. This author, in the winding up of one part of his work, talks of the, variety, and usefulness of his experiments! In this manner these privileged tyrants sport away the lives and revel in the agonies and tortures of creatures, whose sensations are as delicate, and whose natural right to an unpainful enjoyment of life is as great as that of man.

The monthly reviewers, after examining a new physiological theory, contained in "Experiments on the Cause of Heat in living Animals, &c. by John Caverhill, M. D. M. R. C. P. F. R. S." add, we claim no small degree of merit, with our readers, in having, for their information, read the numerous and cruel experiments related in this pamphlet through out; the perusal of which was attended with a continual shudder at the repeated recital of such a number of instances of the  and  cruelty, exercised on several scores of rabbits, in order to ascertain the truth of a strange and extravagant hypothesis. At every page, we read of awls stuck between the vertebra;, [joints of the back bone] and into the spinal marrow of living rabbits, who exhibit, at the time, every symptom of exquisite pain, and live ten, twelve, and even nineteen days afterwards; their bladders sometimes bursting, in consequence of their losing the power of expelling the urine accumulated in them, unless when the unfeeling operator, not out of tendernesi, but to protract the miserable life of the suffering animal, as long as possible, in order to render the experiment more