Vivisections and Painful Experiments on Living Animals: Their Unjustifiability

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Bradbury, Agnew, 1879 - 144 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 131 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
الصفحة 143 - This preservation photocopy was made and hand bound at BookLab, Inc., in compliance with copyright law. The paper is Weyerhaeuser Cougar Opaque Natural, which exceeds ANSI Standard Z39.48-1984.
الصفحة 6 - And sooth to say, when 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...
الصفحة 7 - 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 getting ruptured through the excessive charge of blood, unless the blood should somehow find its way from the arteries into the veins,...
الصفحة 23 - If we select the filament of a nerve, and if its office be to convey sensation, that power shall belong to it in all its course wherever it can be traced ; and wherever in the whole course of that filament, whether it be in the foot, leg, thigh, spine, or brain, it may be bruised, or pricked, or injured in any way, sensation and not motion will result; and perception arising from the impression will be referred to that part of the skin when the remote extremity of the filament is distributed.
الصفحة 8 - A certain person was affected with a large pulsating tumour on the right side of the neck, called an aneurism, just at that part where the artery descends into the axilla, produced by an erosion of the artery itself, and daily increasing in size; this tumour was visibly distended as it received the charge of blood brought to it by the artery, with each stroke of the heart: the connexion of parts was obvious when the body of the patient came to be opened after his death.
الصفحة 140 - When this feeling was carried to its height, so that the animal became furious as soon as it saw or heard me, I put out its eyes : I could then appear before it without its manifesting any aversion. I spoke, and immediately its barkings and furious movements proved the passion which animated it. I destroyed the drum of its ears, and...
الصفحة 75 - But we also find in animals various predispositions, which not only modify the action of medicines administered to them, but also render them liable to diseases entirely different, when suffering from causes entirely similar. Being about to perform certain experiments on animals kept fasting for a long space of time, I left some dogs without food for several days ; but during the late severe frosts, these animals died unexpectedly. In making the autopsy, we discovered pneumonia in one case, pleuritis...
الصفحة 139 - Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage of Pride ; Deduct what is but Vanity or dress, Or Learning's luxury, or Idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th...
الصفحة 94 - It ^as soon discovered that the appearance of this umbra was synchronous with the systole of the heart, so that he used often in my presence to count his pulse with the utmost precision by keeping his eye fixed on the ceiling, and numbering every appearance of the spectrum.

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