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EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALSii
Brain of an Anthropoid Ape, showing the position of the Motor Centres.
(From a paper by Sir Victor Horsley and Dr. Beevor. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1892.)iii
EXPERIMENTS
ON ANIMALS
BY
STEPHEN PAGET
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
LORD LISTER
THIRD AND REVISED EDITION
"Perhaps it is wrong to compare sin with sin, but Ideclare to you, the more I think of it, the more intimatelydoes this Prejudice seem to me to corrupt the soul, evenbeyond those sins which are commonly called moredeadly."—Cardinal Newman.
NEW YORK
WILLIAM WOOD AND COMPANY
MDCCCCVIIiv
TO
CHARLES ALFRED BALLANCE
M.S., F.R.C.S.
AND
WILLIAM HUNTER
M.D., F.R.C.P.vi
PREFACE
The first edition of this book was published in 1900.For twelve years it had been my business, as Secretaryto the Association for the Advancement of Medicine byResearch, to know something about experiments onanimals, and to follow the working of the Act of 1876;and to give facts and references to a very large numberof applicants. Believing that an account of these experiments,and of the conditions imposed on them bythe Act, might serve a useful purpose, I proposed tothe Council of the Association that I should write abook on the subject. The Council accepted this proposal;and decided that the book should be written forgeneral reading, that it should not be anonymous, andthat it should be published without reserve.
It was, of course, a doubtful and embarrassing task.But, from twelve years' experience of the things said bythe chief opponents of all experiments on animals, Iknew that there was only one way of doing it—to givethe original authorities, the plain facts, the very words,chapter and verse for everything.
Among those who kindly revised the proofs wereProf. Rose Bradford and Prof. Starling, who revisedPart I.; Mr. Shattock, who revised Part II.; and Prof.Schäfer. Valuable help was given by Mr. R. H. Clarke,Sir Victor Horsley, Dr. Beevor, Prof. Ronald Ross,and the late Dr. Washbourn; and I was allowed toviiimake free use of Mr. George Pernet's careful researchesinto the history of the subject. Lord Lister himselfdid me the honour to read and correct, with the utmostpatience, Parts I. and II.
In the second edition (1904) some mistakes werecorrected, and some facts were added.
The present edition has been thoroughly revised;and I have included in