Word: physiologist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is no moral objection, because we often expose those we love to some pain that they may gain from the results obtained. Why should animals so much duller be spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel as the sportsman. He takes every precaution to kill his victim with the least pain. Indeed, so painless are his methods that the death of an animal so killed is much pleasanter than that of the animal exposed to the vicissitudes of nature...
...went on to describe the workings and various departments of the laboratory of the practical physiologist. The methods by which pain in their experiments was reduced to the minimum was set forth, also the gains made to medical science. Our knowledge of the circulation of the blood and many other of the foundation stones of medical learning are due to the practice of vivisection. It is humanitarian, for by the sacrifice of the lower animals almost without pain the greatest benefits for the human race are obtained...
...Burdon Sanderson, the eminent physiologist and author, has been appointed Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, England. Professor Sanderson's experiments and vivisections have led to many important discoveries and have excited the interest of scientific men in all parts of Europe and America...