Daring the past week there has been series of demonstrations by medical students—particularly those of University College Hospital—against the vivisectionist " brown dog memorial " at Battersea. It began with some students attempting to damage the memorial then other students burnt in effigy the magistrate who fined their comrades. Others who publicly demonstrated have *}been fined for obstruction and disorderly conduct; and now, for time, there is quietness. It will pro; bably break out again, however, for among the whole medical profession and indeed among all classes, except the anti-vivisectors, there is a good deal of sympathy with the students. The statue of the dog was erected by anti-vivisectors, and it bears an inscrip-*|tion in memory of a dog which is declared to have been "done to death" in University College. Hospital after having suffered weeks of torture under vivisections, It is regarded as a grossly slanderous aspersion on the medical profession, rendered more flagrant. by the fact that this very dog was the subject of an action for slander which resulted in heary damages against the
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