Excerpt from Clinical Studies, Vol. 2: Illustrated by Cases Observed in Hospital and Private Practice
The amount of physiological knowledge derived from experiments on the inferior animals would unquestionably have been more extended and accurate than it really is, had experimenters been more desirous to give exact accounts of what they saw, and less anxious to form ingenious hypotheses and hasty generalizations of facts. It is to be lamented that this itching after novelty has led some most distinguished men to commit another and a much more serious error than that to which reference has now been made - I allude to a practice with which the French in particular are chargeable, viz. that of describing their experiments in inflated language, using fanciful and exaggerated expressions in recording the effects of the various physiological agents they have employed - thus rendering their observations in a great measure useless - indeed in some cases it may be, worse than useless.
Much unnecessary slaughter of animals might certainly be avoided, were experimenters more careful to record their observations in that plain unvarnished language which alone is suited to scientific details. This observation has been naturally suggested by the consideration of the subject of the following essay.
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