The Coward Science: Our Answer to Prof. Owen |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 14
Page 4
... torture of various kinds , and to which has been given by common con- sent , the etymologically inexact but prac- tically intelligible and recognized title , Vivisection . There is a class of opera- tions on the Stock Exchange to which ...
... torture of various kinds , and to which has been given by common con- sent , the etymologically inexact but prac- tically intelligible and recognized title , Vivisection . There is a class of opera- tions on the Stock Exchange to which ...
Page 35
... , staring at placards of coarse depictions , in flaring colours purporting to represent the tortures inflicted by medical experimentalists . Here was เ a knot pushing to get a sight of the D 2 THE PLACARD FICTION . 35.
... , staring at placards of coarse depictions , in flaring colours purporting to represent the tortures inflicted by medical experimentalists . Here was เ a knot pushing to get a sight of the D 2 THE PLACARD FICTION . 35.
Page 151
... torture on the helpless with that joyous eagerness and excitement which as we have seen marks the only true Master of the Coward Science . He was even weak enough to shrink sometimes from a cruelty of more than usual atrocity . But he ...
... torture on the helpless with that joyous eagerness and excitement which as we have seen marks the only true Master of the Coward Science . He was even weak enough to shrink sometimes from a cruelty of more than usual atrocity . But he ...
Page 159
... tortures , ' ' agonies , ' etc. , which he or she applies , in profusion , to shorter and minor sufferings of beasts , but simply beg a calm . and equal consideration of the question- at what cost to BELL , BERNARD , AND THE TOOTHACHE .
... tortures , ' ' agonies , ' etc. , which he or she applies , in profusion , to shorter and minor sufferings of beasts , but simply beg a calm . and equal consideration of the question- at what cost to BELL , BERNARD , AND THE TOOTHACHE .
Page 163
... torture was occasionally successful , there can be little doubt but that , as a rule , it failed and led the inquirers astray . So , I say , it has been with Vivi- section as a method of research . It has constantly led those who have ...
... torture was occasionally successful , there can be little doubt but that , as a rule , it failed and led the inquirers astray . So , I say , it has been with Vivi- section as a method of research . It has constantly led those who have ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abdominal absolutely Advancement of Medicine amputation Anel Anel's aneurism aneurismal sac answer argument assertion Bestiarian blood British Medical Journal carbolic acid century CHAPTER claim Claude Bernard collateral circulation College of Physicians conclusions course Coward Curare discovery diseased dogs Ernest Abraham Hart evidence Experimental Physiology express sanction fact femoral artery Folkestone Address Fortnightly Review Harvey's human Hunter and Harvey Hunterian John Hunter's Lawson Tait ligature limb Lister Listerian Lord Chief Justice matter Medicine by Research ments method Miss Cobbe Miss Cobbe's operation ovariotomy Owen's pain patients performed periosteum peritoneum plain popliteal aneurism popliteal artery practical precisely profession Professor Curnow Professor Ferrier Professor Gamgee Professor Owen Professor Rutherford Professor Yeo published question reply result Royal College Science scientific simple Sir William Gull spray Stag statement story success surgeon surgery surgical tion torture tumour ture Victoria Street Society vivi vivisectional experiments vivisector words Yeo's ZOOPHILIST
Popular passages
Page 197 - that HE would not command them to go out into the deep. And there was an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain and they besought HIM that HE would suffer them to enter into them. And HE suffered
Page 197 - all the devils besought HIM saying ' Send us into the swine that we may enter into them.' And forthwith JESUS gave them leave."—
Page 45 - Suppose, instead of amputating the man's limb I were to cut down and tie the femoral artery at some distance from the diseased part so as to diminish the risk of haemorrhage such as attends the meddling with the unsound artery near the tumour ? It might stop the flow of blood into the aneurismal sac,
Page 163 - There the a priori argument for Vivisection is put in the familiar illustration that ' it would be more reasonable to hope to make out the machinery of a watch by looking at it, than to hope to understand the mechanism of a living animal by mere contemplation.
Page 245 - for the time being ' of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Royal College of Surgeons of England, and
Page 119 - without the recognition of any new principle of treatment being involved in it, it attracted little attention at the time and does not appear to have been repeated by any of the surgeons of his day.' Miller—commonly trustworthy enough in the matter of dates—places the operation in
Page 197 - If Thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
Page 258 - of the members of the Congress two monkeys at King's College. Q. What two monkeys ? A. Two monkeys upon which an operation had been performed. Q. By whom ? A. By Professor Yeo. Lancet. " The interest attaching to the discussion was greatly enhanced by the fact that Professor Ferrier was willing to exhibit two monkeys which
Page 168 - The Influence of Vivisection on Human Surgery," by Mr. Sampson Gamgee, in which the proposition is set forth that without experiments on living animals "scientific surgery could not have been founded, and its present humane and safe practice would have been impossible." Mr. Gamgee supports this proposition by a series of instances
Page 168 - cases on record (collected by Dr. James Russell, British Medical Journal, 1865), and of these 44 recovered, the results being satisfactory in 39 of them. This paper of Dr. Russell's was published years before any of Ferrier's experiments were undertaken, and the results of trephining for epilepsy published since are not so good as those published by Dr. Russell.