The Adrenal Cortex and Intersexuality
The Adrenal Cortex and Intersexuality
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肾上腺皮质和双性恋
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1938
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H. Weber
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为了支持他们的论点，他们断言动物实验是（1）残酷的，（2）无用的。为了证明第一点，他们假装相信法律的所有严格保障措施都只是一纸空文，尽管委员会一致认为相反，他们坚持认为用特殊饮食喂养动物是痛苦的“活体解剖”。“这个词本身当然是一个用词不当，并被用来偏见所有形式的动物实验。要证明第二个人会想象是困难的，鉴于防腐剂的胜利，抗毒素，内分泌疗法和许多其他的发现已经减轻了人类和动物的痛苦。他们对胰岛素的态度是典型的。糖尿病正在增加，因此归因于它的死亡总数并没有减少，这被用作胰岛素失败的论据。他们的期刊没有告诉读者的是，以前没有一个10岁以下的儿童感染糖尿病后两年内还活着，现在有相当多的人在1922年至1923年首次引入糖尿病时仍然活着。他们没有指出，无论死亡发生在什么年龄，也无论死亡原因是什么，糖尿病都会作为贡献出现在证书上。这是75岁以上糖尿病死亡人数增加的原因，而前几年的死亡人数明显减少。在其他社会阶层，对这类事实的隐瞒至少会被认为是不诚实的，但没有必要再对这几点做进一步的探讨。这篇评论的目的是提请注意伦纳德罗杰斯爵士在我们面前的这本书中对整个案件非常有价值和令人信服的陈述。伦纳德爵士本人为减轻痛苦所作的不懈努力已获得了最重要的发现，他是已故斯蒂芬·佩吉特先生创立的研究防御协会的财务主管，佩吉特先生遵循军事格言，即最好的防御是进攻。这一攻击在本书中精彩地继续下去，不仅构成了一系列的论点，而且揭露了他的对手站不住脚的立场。然而，任何阅读它的人都会意识到，如果反活体解剖的案件是基于合理的理由，那么它早就解决了。我们只能同意亚瑟基思爵士的结论，“反对活体解剖不是一个孤立的表现，而是一个伟大的现代问题的一部分。
To bolster up their case they assert that animal experiments are (1) cruel, (2) useless. To prove the first they affect to believe that all the stringent safeguards of the law are simply a dead letter, in spite of the unanimous findings of the Commission to the contrary, and they maintain that feeding animals on special diets are painful " vivisections." The term itself is of course a misnomer, and employed to prejudice all forms of animal experiment. To prove the second one would imagine was difficult in view of the triumphs of antiseptics, antitoxins, endocrine therapy and many other discoveries which have relieved the sufferings of both man and beast. Their attitude towards insulin is typical. Diabetes is increasing, so that the total number of deaths attributed to it is not diminishing, which is used as an argument for the failure of insulin. What their journals do not tell their readers is that whereas formerly no child contracting diabetes under the age of 10 was alive two years later, now quite a number of those treated when it was first introduced in 1922-23 are still alive and well. They do not point out that at whatever age death occurs, and from whatever cause, diabetes will appear on the certificate as contributory. This accounts for the increased number of deaths certified from diabetes over the age of 75, while the deaths in earlier years have markedly diminished. In other walks of life suppression of facts such as these would be regarded as disingenuous, to say the least of it. But it is unnecessary to labour these points any further. The purpose of this review is to call attention to Sir Leonard Rogers' very valuable and convincing statement of the whole case in this book before us. Sir Leonard, whose own unremitting labours for the relief of suffering have been crowned by discoveries of prime importance, is the Treasurer of the Research Defence Society founded by the late Mr. Stephen Paget, who followed the military maxim that the best defence is attack. The attack is brilliantly continued in this book which not only constitutes a battery of arguments, but unmasks the untenable position of his adversaries. Anyone reading it, however, will realise that if the case for anti-vivisection were based on reasonable grounds it would have been settled long ago. We can only conclude with Sir Arthur Keith "that the opposition to vivisection is not an isolated manifestation, but is part of a great modem issue.