Charles Horace Mayo

American physician (1865–1939)

Charles Horace Mayo (19 July 186526 May 1939) was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic.

Charles Horace Mayo

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  • I abhor vivisection. It should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
    • Heard, personally, in 1921 or 1922 by the interviewer William H. Hendrix, staff writer for the New York Daily News, and later reported by Hendrix in New York Daily News, 13 March 1961; see "Animal Experiments", in Los Angeles Times, 26 October 1991. Quoted in Hans Ruesch, Slaughter of the Innocent, Bantam Books, 1978, p. 235.
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