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Dogs as laboratory animals

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  • A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.
  • Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.
  • Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Ten members of staff studying and performing experiments on dogs in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
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    Five dogs undergoing experiments on gastric secretion in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

    | Date: [1904] | Reference: 11949i
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    A sinister hand stretched out towards a dog; representing the threat of animal experiment to animals used in laboratories. Colour lithograph by H. Fabigan, ca. 196- (?).

    Fabigan, Hans. | Date: [196?-?] | Reference: 676492i
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    Five dogs used as experimental animals at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

    | Date: [1904] | Reference: 11932i
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    A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.

    Hamilton, John McLure, 1853-1936. | Date: 23 June 1883 | Reference: 25933i
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    I.P. Pavlov with three colleagues operating on a dog in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1902/1903.

    | Date: [1904] | Reference: 11948i
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