Such an outcome of the deliberations of the Royal Commission must have seemed to American vivisectors almost a certainty.
The means taken to depress the vital powers were as varied as the ingenuity of the vivisectors could devise.
In many cases its operations involve little or no pain; in many cases there seems to be the same absolute indifference to the agony inflicted that was manifested by the vivisectors of a hundred years since.
But after about an hour's intermission the young vivisectors would seem again to have begun their observations concerning the effect produced by stimulating the sciatic nerve.
One may not be inclined to dispute this opinion, and yet be quite certain that some very eminent vivisectors in Europe and America would question its accuracy so far as their own work is concerned.
In watching the phenomena elicited by experiments upon animals, there have been vivisectors who forget what was felt "at the other end of the knife," and so became utterly oblivious to the suffering they caused.
There are vivisectors who would declare that "anaesthetics are always used" when ether or chloroform has been given in quantity and in time absolutely insufficient to secure for the vivisected animal immunity from pain.
Such are some of the reasons which induce doubt of the theory that all of the experiments of these vivisectors were conducted upon animals wholly insensible to painful impressions.
I think the phrenologists have always been able to do that, and whether they or the vivisectors do it best does not much matter.
A revised edition has been issued, which is a stronger indictment against the vivisectors than the original work.
Johnson's philippic which I now reproduce below, and the dejected and deflated aspect of the vivisectors on the commission when I had finished it caused that moment to be one of those I shall always recall with exhilaration!
Sir, I know not what vivisectorsdeem to be the best interests of the community.
Now, what do English physiologists and vivisectors of the present day think of the repetition of this experiment solely as a class demonstration?
He says publicly that the vivisectors have hindered the progress of surgery.
According to the best information that I can obtain, the vivisectors have hindered instead of helped.
But instead of proposing such an investigation, our vivisectors offer us all the pious protestations and all the huffy recriminations that any common unscientific mortal offers when he is accused of unworthy conduct.
Public support of vivisection is founded almost wholly on the assurances of the vivisectors that great public benefits may be expected from the practice.
These, if any were present, must have smiled sardonically at such inhuman humanitarians, whose daily habits and fashionable amusements cause more suffering in England in a week than all thevivisectors of Europe do in a year.
Those who accuse vivisectors of indulging the well-known passion of cruelty under the cloak of research are therefore putting forward a strictly scientific psychological hypothesis, which is also simple, human, obvious, and probable.
But that does not prevent the vivisectors from freely using the "youre another" retort, and using it with justice.
In the second volume I propose to show in detail how much the pathologists and vivisectors have done to illustrate and corroborate the new Anthropology.
But experience of the way in which this law works shows quite clearly that very inadequate inspection takes place, because in so many cases inspectors and vivisectors play into each other's hands.
Morality, founded purely on sentiment, has inspired the attacks on vivisectorswhich in all confidence spread evil amongst men.
It is easy to prove the high utility of the work of vivisectors and of those who are seeking means of preventing syphilis, whilst their adversaries have nothing to invoke but their feelings.
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