The modern rack : papers on vivisection / by Frances Power Cobbe.

  • Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
1889
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    X. THE JANUS OF SCIENCE. The position in which we, _the opponents of Vivisection, find ourselves at present is this: We seek to stop certain practices which appear to us to involve gross cruelty, and to be contrary to the spirit of English law. Our knowledge of them is derived almost exclusively from the published reports and treatises prepared and issued by the actual individuals who carry out those practices; and our arguments are grounded upon verbatim citations from those published reports and treatises.* The persons whose practices we desire to stop, and their immediate associates, now meet our charges of cruelty by articles in the leading periodicals, wherein the proceedings in question are invested with a character not only diverse from, but opposite to, that which they wear in the scientific treatises and reports above- mentioned. I shall, in this paper, endeavour to indicate the outlines of these * E.^., the Handbook of the Physiological Laboratory, by Drs. Burdon Sanderson, Lauder-Brunton, Klein, and Foster, London, 1873; Bedard’s Traite Elementaire, Paris, i88o; Claude Bernard’s Physiologic Opiratoire, Traite sur le Diabete, and Sur la Chaleur Animale; Cyon’s Methodik, Giessen; Paul Bert’s La Pression Barometrique, Paris, 1878; Mantegazza’s Del Dolore, Florence, 1880; Lxvon’s Maiiuel de Vivisections, 1882; Archives de Physiologic, edited by Brown-Sequard, Charcot, and Vulpian ; Schiff’s Fisiologia Esperimentale, 1866; Pharmacology and Therapeutics, by Dr. Lauder-Brunton, i88o; Transactions of the Royal Society, 1875 ! yournal of Physiology, Michael Foster, 1882 ; Goltz’ Vcrrichtungen des Grosshirns, i88i.