The Uselessness Of Vivisection Upon Animals As A Method Of Scientific Research

Author : Lawson Tait
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ISBN 13 : 9781332244423
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book The Uselessness of Vivisection as a Method of Scientific Research (Classic Reprint) written by Lawson Tait and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Uselessness of Vivisection as a Method of Scientific Research I need not go into the general history of Vivisection, for it hardly bears upon the question to which I desire to limit myself; but I think it advisable to formulate a few preliminary conclusions before I come to my immediate subject, in order that I may clear the way for discussion, and show at once the grounds upon which I stand, for I find myself in a position adverse to the view adopted by the great majority of my professional brethren. I dismiss at once the employment of experiments on living animals for the purpose of mere instruction, as absolutely unnecessary, and to be put an end to by legislation without any kind of reserve whatever. In my own education I went through the most complete course of instruction in the University of Edinburgh without ever witnessing a single experiment on a living animal. It has been my duty as a teacher to keep myself closely conversant with the progress of physiology until within the last four years, and up to that date I remained perfectly ignorant of any necessity for vivisection as a means of instructing pupils, and I can find no reason whatever for its introduction into English schools, save a desire for imitating what has been witnessed on the Continent by some of our most recent additions to physiological teaching. In Trinity College, Dublin, the practice has been wholly prevented, and on a recent visit to that institution I could not find, after much careful inquiry, the slightest reason to believe that any detriment was being inflicted upon the teaching or upon those taught. Claims of Vivisection Denied. The position of vivisection as a method of scientific research stands alone amongst the infinite variety of roads for the discovery of Natures secrets as being open to strong prima facie objection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.