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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, March 14, 1909 This was basically doctor Charles Loomis Dana’s rebuttal to anyone opposed to abuse, vivisection, or other experimentation on animals - if you feel sympathy for animals you’re “dippy”! Feel bad when...   High-res

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, March 14, 1909

This was basically doctor Charles Loomis Dana’s rebuttal to anyone opposed to abuse, vivisection, or other experimentation on animals - if you feel sympathy for animals you’re “dippy”! 

Feel bad when you see a badly treated dray horse being whipped on the street? You’re dippy! A skin and bones three legged stray dog makes you sad? Dippy! Sick cat makes your heart ache? Definitely dippy! He claimed that if you let these things affect you then the next thing you knew you’d be “weeping bitter tears over a wilted flower which has been snatched from it’s parent bush” and unable to feel compassion for fellow humans.

Evansville Press, Indiana, January 15, 1909 Mrs. Peter Henning of Edwardsville, who says she can’t watch a person eat a lemon without making a wry face, nor use a pair of scissors without chewing her tongue in sympathy with the movement of the blades...   High-res

Evansville Press, Indiana, January 15, 1909

Mrs. Peter Henning of Edwardsville, who says she can’t watch a person eat a lemon without making a wry face, nor use a pair of scissors without chewing her tongue in sympathy with the movement of the blades is suffering from a broken arm as a result of peculiar mental makeup. Yesterday when she saw a man slip on an icy sidewalk on the opposite side of the street she made a mental effort to save him by herself dipping suddenly to one side. She dipped too far and came down hard on her right arm.