Word: vivisectionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It is not an appropriate occasion at lunch to go into detail," said Dr. John S. Codman, vice president, New England Anti-Vivisection Society, in Manhattan last week. Members of the International Conference of Societies for the Investigation of Vivisection were eating. Dr. Codman continued: "The cruelties of the laboratories...
Anti-vivisectionists argued that the moral danger to man from experimenting on animals in laboratories was greater than any medical danger that vivisection might avert.
J. B. S. Haldane, lecturer in biochemistry at Cambridge University, England, last week let be known the name of the man upon whom Professor Fraser of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, recently performed an experiment that required vivisection. Viscount Haldane, uncle of J. B. S. Haldane, had described the...
Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and...
¶Lords Banbury and Lambourne sought to introduce a bill to prevent vivisection of living dogs. The bill was defeated by 77 votes to 8 on the ground that vivisection experiments were of the greatest value to science and therefore to the human race.