A Catechism of vivisectionSwan Sonnenschien & Company, 1903 - 181 pages |
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Page 48 - ... unless the blood should somehow find its way from the arteries into the veins, and so return to the right side of the heart ; I began to think whether there might not be a A MOTION, AS IT WERE, IN A CIRCLE. Now this I afterwards found to be true...
Page 48 - I surveyed my mass of evidence, whether derived from vivisections, and my various reflections on them, or from the ventricles of the heart and the vessels that enter into and issue from them, the symmetry and size of these conduits — for nature, doing nothing in vain, would never have given them so large a relative size without a purpose — or from the arrangement and intimate structure of the valves...
Page 36 - 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 47 - I remember, that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him, (which was but a little while before he died,) what were the things which induced him to think of a circulation of the blood ? he answered me, that when he took notice, that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed, that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the...
Page 143 - You may take it from me that instead of vivisection having in any way advanced abdominal surgery, 'it has, on the contrary, had a uniform tendency to retard it . . .
Page 83 - A pure cultivation thus obtained must, when introduced into the body of a healthy animal, produce the disease in question.
Page 4 - A true physiologist, says Dr. Claude Bernard, "does not hear the animal's cries of pain. He is blind to the blood that flows. He sees nothing but his idea, and organisms which conceal from him the secret he is resolved to discover.
Page 47 - ... 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.
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Page 48 - I frequently and seriously bethought me, and long revolved in my mind, what might be the quantity of blood which was transmitted, in how short a time its passage might be effected, and the like; and not finding it possible that this could be supplied by the juices of the ingested aliment, without the veins on the one hand becoming drained and the arteries on the other...