Some are active free-living animals, as the planarians (figs.
The biography of Reid thus refers to this very point: "Allusion has been made to the infliction of suffering on living animals.
It is possible that not more than half a dozen English physiologists at that time were making experiments on living animals.
On the other hand, I know that physiology cannot possibly progress except by means of experiments on living animals, and I feel the deepest conviction that he who retards the progress of physiology commits a crime against mankind.
Let it be remembered how many lives, and what a fearful amount of suffering have been saved by the knowledge gained of parasitic worms through the experiments of Virchow and others on living animals.
DEAR SIR,--In answer to your courteous letter of April 7, I have no objection to express my opinion with respect to the right of experimenting on living animals.
Once found in living animals, they could be injected and dissected in the dead body; but they had been overlooked by Vesalius and the men of his time.
Let it be remembered how many lives and what a fearful amount of suffering have been saved by the knowledge gained of parasitic worms through the experiments of Virchow and others on living animals.
Magendie was a French physiologist who became notorious some half century ago for his cruel experiments on living animals.
This science groups the forms of living animals in such a way that we seem to have the same gradual divergence of types from simple common ancestors.
This truth, indeed, presents itself obviously before us when we consider what happens in the dissection of living animals.
In living animals, however, though not always, yet more frequently than in the dead, they prevent the chyle from returning.
Here the new aliment becomes mixed with certain animal fluids, and undergoes a chemical process, termed digestion; which however chemistry has not yet learnt to imitate out of the bodies of living animals or vegetables.
The falcon family includes over three hundred predacious birds, feeding for the most part on living animals, hunting by day, and living usually on exposed rocky places.
The Zoological Gardens contain the largest collection ofliving animals of all kinds in the world.
Cautiously at first, for fear of offending orthodox opinions, but afterwards more boldly, he proclaimed his conviction that those objects had once been part of living animals, and that they threw light on some of the past history of the earth.
He had no hesitation in affirming that, even if no shells had ever been found living in the sea, the internal structure of these fossils would demonstrate that they once formed parts of living animals.
Dear Sir, I am of the opinion that the practice of performing experiments on living animals is not only reconcilable with true humanity, but under certain circumstances is imperatively demanded by it.
Fossils have too often been left to the attention of geologists not always well acquainted with the structures of living animals.
It is true the old and absurd notion that fossils were mere "sports of Nature," sometimes bearing more or less resemblance to living animals, but still only an accidental (!
But while motion is the thing we look for in living animals we know perfectly well that it would be foolish to assert that anything that moves is alive.
Power development in living animals as in locomotives depends on fuel and oxygen; evidently continuous supplies of these must be provided if life is to go on.
The animal electricity resides only in the imperfect conductors forming the organs of living animals, and its object in the economy of nature is to act on living animals.
The discovery by Oersted of the effects of Voltaic electricity on the magnetic needle induced Davy to examine whether the electricity of living animals possessed a similar power.
They feed for the most part on living animals; there are, however, some which, when other means of sustenance fail, devour putrefied flesh.
Most of the Snakes feed on living animals, only a few on birds' eggs.
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