The Hunterian oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the 14th of February, 1905 / by John Tweedy.
- Tweedy, John
- Date:
- 1905
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Credit: The Hunterian oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the 14th of February, 1905 / by John Tweedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![VICAEIOUS SUFFEEING AND SACEIFICB. knowledge which he thereby acquired he transferred to the domain of Medicine and Surgery, and applied to the alleviation of sickness and suffering among animals no less than among men.^s I pretend not either impiously to affirm or not less impiously to deny all the purposes of Infinite Wisdom in giving Man dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth; but we do know that throughout historic time man has not hesitated to capture, to subjugate, and to slay, beast and bird and fish, for his pleasure, his sustenance and his service. Was the lordship over the animals given to man only for the satisfying of his physical and sensuous needs ? Is not the Life more than food 1 Was it only with reference to man's bodily well-being that the question was asked: Are ye not of much more value than the birds of the heaven ? Does the Mind need no aliment ] And is the veto to be applied only when animals are to be used for the purposes of elucidating the kindly functions of Physiology, or of disclosing the baneful secrets of Disease ■? ^9 The vicarious suffering and sacrifice of animals in the service and the salvation of Man have obtained throughout the Ages, and constituted the basis of the elaborate ceremonial system of the Ancient Israelites. In anticipation of the great Passover, Moses directed the Israelites each to kill a lamb according to their families, and to sprinkle its blood upon the lintel and the two side posts. « For the Loed will pass through](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21466257_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
