VIVISECTION.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 4

VIVISECTION.

\ 1 \ 1 I 1 V*.N . LONDON, .'hino 20. Lecturing Imre yesterday. T?e:ipr*s!iid Bose. Indian botanist, predicted that the vivisection ol’ plants will ultimately supersede experiments on animals. Tn the case of animals, he said, there is the factor of fright whiil'i j completely upsets the normal rear.inn and destroys the value of the experiment. On a plant the reactions from drugs or any stimuli are as natural as possible. Declaring the complete similarity of the activity of plants and animals. Bose showed on a si reen liio normal pulsation of a carrot, and a slower movement of the same plant when chloroformed. Ho showed similar results with celery. which, he said was very prone to fatigue. MAN EI.ECTIHK I'TKD. VIENNA. May 30. Alter a quarrel with his wife, an electrician named Emil l.uder. aped 32. went to the great embankment which restrain the annual Danube Hoods opposite Vienna. Winding a wire round his body, he at tilt bed to the loose end a stone, which he Hung over the cable bringing electric current front the water-power w irks at Opponitz, 100 miles away, lotdistribution at Vienna. A group of schoolboys half a mile a wav saw what seemed to he a brilliant h ul lightning ami the fading body of a man. l.mier’s body was found almost completely t barred, his clothing being in lie had left, a letter for his wife in which he brqe.cathod to her all he had. and declared that his married life had been Imppy until she began to nag him.