No class in the community is more grievously wounded in
sentiment or more bitterly indignant that such cruelties should
be permitted than the doctors. As they drive at night, they frequently hear, as one of them said, the human-like cries of the animals caught in the steel jaws ; and, driven by outraged pity, they not seldom stop on -their journey to some suffering mortal, to make their way over the banks to the release of the trapped beast. Some of the doctors declare that the flesh of these agonized creatures makes a poisoned food ; that fear, the king of evils, distributes toxins about the body ; and that therefore no one can safely take as food an animal which dies from or after such prolonged terror. How much hard and definite proof of this there may be I do not know, but those most inclined to believe it are doctors ; and they should know. All who nourish any mystic sense of communion with the fellowship of the world must believe with the doctors that such food is spiritually and materially poisoned.
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