Plea for mercy for animalsExcerpt from Plea for Mercy to Animals: I. Claims of the Lower Animals to Humane Treatment From Man; II. Various Forms of Needless Suffering Inflicted by Man; III. Means of Prevention, Legal and Educational; IV. Vivisection, and Other Experiments on Living Animals Prize essays of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Report of Committee of British Association for the Advancement of Science - Classes of experimental physiology in schools of medicine - Demonstrations of ascertained facts needless and cruel - Use of chloroform and other anaesthetics - Professor Schid', of Florence - Introduction to England of vivisection as practised in French schools - Prosecution of Norwich vivi sectors - Cruelties in London schools of physiology - Dr. Johnson on experiments on live animals - Testimony of teachers of physiology to the needless cruelty of such experiments - Examples of cruel operations - Bxami nation of alleged results of vivisection - Fallacies of this mode of research Testimony of Sir Charles Bell, Dr. Barclay, Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Elliotson, Dr. Carpenter, M. Legallois, Baron Cuvier, and others - Pmposed methods of checking needless cruelties-proposals of Dr. Bardsley, Professor Haughton, Sir Thomas Watson, and others - Proposal for special legislation - Appeal to the medical profession. 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. |
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... natural history to know that the very reverse of this is the case , and that God is the benevolent and impartial ... Nature has taken care to provide , and as carefully and bountifully as for man himself , organs and feelings for its ...
... nature to the life of His creatures . " He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle , and herb for the service of man . " " He sendeth the springs into the valleys , which run among the hills . They give drink to every beast of the ...
... nature is disgraced . A shrewd observer of human nature , the painter Hogarth , has illustrated the fact of " the boy being father of the man , " with great fidelity and force , in his pictures of " The Four Stages of Cruelty . " A boy ...
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