Word: vivisectionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The draft text of a law authorizing vivisection of humans in an effort to discover a cure for cancer was unanimously approved, last week, by the board of National Sanitation at Havana, Cuba, and sent to the Cuban Congress for debate, action.
Criminals condemned to Death would be offered, under the law, a free choice between execution and inoculation with cancer. Twelve years would be the legal period of vivisection, and if, at the end of that time, the patient survived and had been cured he or she would return to society...
In Manhattan last week twenty antivivisection, anti-inoculation, animal humane societies of the United States and Canada gathered at the semi-annual meeting of the International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection to flay the medical profession. They inveighed against the practice of cutting open innocent little animals or filling...
Only six per cent of animal experimentation is true vivisection, i.e., dissection of living creatures; practically all of this dissection is performed with the aid of anaesthetics; over one-half of such animals are killed before they regain consciousness.
Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick...