Remarks on the use of vivisection as a means of scientific research : in a letter addressed to the Earl of Caernarvon, President of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals / by Richard Jameson.

  • Jameson, Richard.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Remarks on the use of vivisection as a means of scientific research : in a letter addressed to the Earl of Caernarvon, President of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals / by Richard Jameson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on Dr. Styles, but, with less confidence of assertion than that gentleman, puts his accusation into the form of a question : Wherefore, he asks, are boys, who have just commenced the study of anatomy, to make upon living creatures their incipient efforts in this difficult art ? If Dr. Drummond had taken pains to inform himself on the subject of Medical Education in Great Britain, he would have learned that the incipient efforts of boys are directed to- wards acquiring the elements of human anatomy by attendance at Lectures, where the bones of the skele- ton are exhibited and explained to them, and afterwards in their due order the muscles, vessels, &c. In their second year of study they usually commence their dissection of the human body, in which they en- counter quite difficulties enough to deter them, even if they were so inclined, from entering upon a course of experiments on living animals. Indeed the notion of learning a difficult art by commencing with the most difficult portion of it is perfectly ludicrous. Did the Doctor begin his clerical education by preaching sermons ? It would however be unjust towards Dr. Drummond to place him on the same level with Dr. Styles : ' The Rights of Animals' contains much that does ho- nour both to the author's head and heart. He is evi- dently well acquainted with his subject, and he thus avoids all those zoological blunders and monstrous exaggerations which are so plentiful in Dr. Styles's strange Essay.
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