Later (1903) the _dramatis personæ_ are a man in East Islington jumping on his wife, and a woman in West Islington stabbing her husband. But this argument, of course, will not hold. For it is the same men who denounce wounds made (under anæsthetics) for physiology, and who make wounds (without anæsthetics) in sport. 3. It says that the "object" of the sportsman is to kill; but the "object" of the experimenter is to torture:-- "There is a vast difference between the killing of animals and the torturing of them before killing them. The object of the sportsman is to kill his quarry; the object of the vivisector is to keep his victim alive while he dissects it."--Mr. Wood (1903). "The object of the sportsman is to kill, and the object of the vivisector is to keep his victim alive while he cuts it up."--Lord Llangattock (1901). "The vivisector is nothing if not a tormentor; the sportsman is not a true sportsman if he seeks to inflict pain on his quarry.... One (the pain of a horse falling on asphalt) is the result of an accident to be deplored, the other (the pain from an experiment) is done of devilish malice prepense."--Leader in the Society's official journal, (1899). "I am not so mentally and ethically confused as to be unable to distinguish between the entirely different moral acts of killing and torturing."--Mr. Coleridge (1901). Here are four statements. One is by Mr. Wood, the Society's lecturer; one by Lord Llangattock, its President; one is published in its official journal; and one is by Mr. Coleridge, its honorary secretary and treasurer. That is the sort of thing which seems good enough to the National Society to say to its friends in Parliament; this childish nonsense about the true sportsman and his quarry. III The attitude of these Societies toward the medical profession, and toward the Hospitals, must be studied. Let us look through some numbers of the official journal of the National Society, and see the attitude that it sometimes takes toward the medical profession:-- _June 1899._--"The charm of this sort of thing is that you are always sure of the _post-mortem_ if of nothing else." _July 1899._--"There is a disease, well known to the vestrymen of London, called 'the half-crown diphtheria.' This is common sore throat, notified as diphtheria because the vestry pays a fee of half-a-crown to the medical notifier." _December 1899._--"The patient died, made miserable by the effect of inoculations which even on bacteriological grounds gave no promise of success, but the scientific physician, nowadays, must inject something in the way of a serum."