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Page 184 - When I first gave my mind to vivisections, as a means of discovering the motions and uses of the heart, and sought to discover these from actual inspection, and not from the writings of others, I found the task so truly arduous, so full of difficulties, that I was almost tempted to think, with Fracastorius, that the motion of the heart was only to be comprehended by God.
Page 185 - ... reason of the rapidity of the motion, which in many animals is accomplished in the twinkling of an eye, coming and going like a flash of lightning ; so that the systole presented itself to me now from this point, now from that ; the diastole the same ; and then everything was reversed, the motions occurring, as it seemed, variously and confusedly together. My mind was therefore greatly unsettled, nor did I know what I should myself conclude, nor what believe from others ; I was not surprised...
Page xlv - Act directed to be recovered in a summary manner, or the recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, may be prosecuted and recovered in manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts before a court of summary jurisdiction.
Page 113 - Experiments have never been the means of discovery — and a survey of what has been attempted of late years in physiology, will prove that the opening of living animals has done more to perpetuate error than to confirm the just views taken from the study of anatomy and natural motions.
Page xlv - Act out of a list (from time to time approved for the port or district by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in this Act referred to as a Secretary of State,) of wreck commissioners appointed under this Act, stipendiary or metropolitan police magistrates, judges...
Page 200 - Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the • action of natural and moral forces.
Page xliv - That an instrument of disentail under this Act may be in the form or as nearly as may be in the form set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and it shall be the duty of the keeper of the register of tailzies for the time being to record such instrument, when duly presented, under authority of the Court for that purpose, in the register of tailzies along with the decree of Court on which it proceeds, upon...
Page xxxix - The Queen hears and reads with horror of the sufferings which the brute creation often undergo from the thoughtlessness of the ignorant, and she fears also sometimes from experiments in the pursuit of science. For the removal of the former the Queen trusts much to the progress of education, and in regard to the pursuit of science she hopes that the entire advantage of those anesthetic discoveries from which man has derived so much benefit himself in the alleviation of suffering may be fully extended...
Page 197 - It is not to be doubted that inhumanity may be found in persons of very high position as physiologists...
Page xlvi - Every penalty recoverable on summary conviction under this act may be prosecuted and recovered in the manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts before a Court of summary jurisdiction.