The modern rack; papers on vivisection.

  • Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
1889
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Credit: The modern rack; papers on vivisection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    logical Laboratory to be built in connection with our College of Science, and let it be placed in such a position that it cannot be overlooked, and also where good south and north light may be obtained. So far as my recollection goes, there has not hitherto been any edifice of the kind in Heaven, though there are several closely resembling it in an opposite locality. Then we shall furnish it suitably with tables, Bernard's gags, experiment troughs, forceps, saws, clamps, chisels, cannulae, knives and actual cauteries; a fur- nace or two, and an engine for maintaining artificial respiration when the subjects are curarised. When all is ready, Azrael will, I am sure, be so obliging as to run down and tell all the Physio- logists they are wanted up here; and we may then immediately set to work without further delay. All the Cherubim. An excellent plan ! So be it. Glory to Science in the highest! Amen. [Scene closes.,] Scene II. A celestial Laboratory, or lofty hall, filled with a variety of singular troughs and tables of sundry shapes. A formidable collectioJi of instruments is ranged along the wall. An engine works in the corner. Galvanic batteries, kymographions, hcemodromo- meters, and other philosophical machines, lie about the tables. Over the door is the inscription Licensed as the Act DIRECTS, FOR THE TORTURE OF VERTEBRATE ANIMALS, beneath which a boy-cherub has writtefi in chalk Mangling done here . Enter Raphael and the Cheribum. Eloa timidly following. Raphael. Our architect has done his work with his usual rapidity. Our Laboratory has risen like an exhalation . I hope, my friends, we shall soon be enabled to quench our noble thirst for knowledge at the fountains of life. Ha! here comes the ever-punctual Azrael and our subjects . [Enter Azrael (the Angel of Death), leading in a score of eminent Physiologists, who stand, pale and shivering, near the door.]