1914

Indictment and trial of University of Pennsylvania professor of “surgical research,” J. Edwin Sweet, and five professors of the “animal house committee” by Phila. Anti-Cruelty Society; hung jury discharged without a verdict and defendants never retried: “Justice Bregy startled the defense attorneys . . . by ruling that any physician whose experiments caused pain or discomfort to an animal, no matter how beneficent his aim, was guilty of a crime – an interpretation that would have made criminals out of medical investigators all over the continent” (Corner, 242-244).