Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Galen, born at Pergamos, 131 A.D., proved by experiments on animals that the brain is as warm as the heart, against the Aristotelian doctrine that the office of the brain is to keep the heart cool. He also proved that the arteries during life contain blood, not [Greek: pneuma]...
Pathology, the study of the causes and products of diseases, is a younger science than physiology: the use of the microscope was the beginning of pathology; and the microscope,...
11. PART IV[The following pages are taken, with a few changes and omissions, from a pamphlet which I published in 1904. I am glad to say that the tone of the Anti-Vivisection Societies is...
7. Volume II. _Statical Essays, containing Hæmostatics, or anAccount of some Hydraulic and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-vessels of Animals; also, an Account of some Experiments on Stones in the Kidneys and Bladder...
10. ACT 39 AND 40 VIC. c. 77The Royal Commission "On the Practice of subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes," was appointed on 22nd June 1875. Its members were--Lord Cardwell (chair...
12. Act 39 & 40 Vict. c. 77, 267-293Anti-vivisection Societies, 297 _sqq._; dissensions, 299-302; expenditure, 304-306, 334, 367; acceptance of all advantages from past discoveries, 307; attitude toward sport, 308...
5. PART IGalen, born at Pergamos, 131 A.D., proved by experiments on animals that the brain is as warm as the heart, against the Aristotelian doctrine that the office of the brain is to...
2. PART II6. Volume I. _Statical Essays, containing Vegetable Statics, or anAccount of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables, being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation; also, a Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air, by a gr...
1. PART I3. PART III4. PART IV9. PART III