M0020237: Photograph of William Bayliss performing a vivisection experiment on a dog in front of medical students, Department of Physiology, University College London, 1903

Date:: c.1977-1985

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/180/86

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0020119-M0020251WT/D/1/20/1/180
        M0020237: Photograph of William Bayliss performing a vivisection experiment on a dog in front of medical students, Department of Physiology, University College London, 1903WT/D/1/20/1/180/86

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M0020237: Photograph of William Bayliss performing a vivisection experiment on a dog in front of medical students, Department of Physiology, University College London, 1903. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2022: An experiment; led to the "brown dog" vivisection dispute.

Description

Photograph, 2 February 1903, of William Bayliss (far right) conducting a vivisection experiment on a dog in front of medical students, an event which led to the "brown dog affair" vivisection. Two of the men standing behind the desk in the centre of the photograph are Henry Hallet Dale and E.H. Starling. From a set of photographs of physiologists, physicians and medical scientists presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Professor Kenneth J. Franklin

Publication/Creation

c.1977-1985

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negative; 8 x 12 cm photographic print; 8 x 12 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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