Animals' rights considered in relation to social progress / With a bibliographical appendix, by Henry S. Salt. Also an essay on vivisection in America. By Albert Leffingwell.

  • Henry Stephens Salt
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1894
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    consult Flint's ''Physiology, pp. 269, 282, 403, 489,, 585-589, 639,674, 710, 738. Journal of Physiology] vol. ii., p. 63, and vol. vii., p. 416. ''Vivisection is grossly abused in the United States. . . . We^ would add our condemnation of the ruthless barbaritj which is every winter perpetrated in the medical school of this couiTUgin '' II therapeutic Gazette, August, 1880. Would it not be entirely practicable for students of physiology to reniejnber the functions of the spinal cord, for instance, by means of diagrams, without the use of torture as an illustt^ation ? How do they remem- ber such facts in Great Britain, where torture can- not thus be used ? No answer has thus far been given to this query by the advocates of vivisection without restraint. ^Sr^ g. Are medical discoveries of any value ever made with- out vivisection, or by its opponents ? Time was, says a writer in the New York Medical Record, ^' when in certain forms of peritonitis, opium was the chief remedy; to-day, Lawson Tait's teaching that this is da^tgerous, and that the opposite treatment by salines is more useful, is most successfully followed. ^ Who is this Lawson Tait ? One of the most eminent surgeons of Great Britain. Yet he says: '' Like every member of my profession I was brought up in the belief that many of our most valued * N. Y. Medical Record, November 4, 1893, p. 577.
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