One hundred years ago
An action brought in Paris by a lady, Madame Gelyot, of the Rue de la Sorbonne, against M. Paul Bert, the celebrated physiologist and vivisectionist — who spoke, as we observed the other day, with so much horror in the Assembly of the immoralities of the Jesuits —for the nuisance caused by the miserable dogs of his laboratory, has just been lost by Madame Gelyot; but it is pretty certain that an appeal will be brought. and more effectively prosecuted than the ofiginal action itself. Madame Gelyot, and indeed the greater number of the residents in her street, have been distracted now for two years and a half by the howlings of these miserable creatures; she has had literary men among her lodgers, who could neither read nor write for the howlings of the dogs. and the pain which the knowledge of the cause gave them. One left her on this account, who had resided with her for nine years. Madame Gelyot asserts, we believe, that there are fifteen dogs at one time kept in M. Paul Bert's laboratory for the purpose of vivisection. And we can believe it, for this is the physiologist whose own account of one of his own experiments was translated in the evidence brought before the late English Commission on Vivisection, and excited horror, we know, even amongst the warmest friends of that stony-hearted practice.
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