Word: vivisectionism
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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...
"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...