A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.

Dogs with their keepers at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.

Ten members of staff studying and performing experiments on dogs in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

A basement (possibly the pre-operative room in the Physiology Department), Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg, with dogs, cages, and two animal-keepers. Photograph, 1904.

Five dogs undergoing experiments on gastric secretion in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

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1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 118.7 x 84 cm

A sinister hand stretched out towards a dog; representing the threat of animal experiment to animals used in laboratories. Colour lithograph by H. Fabigan, ca. 196- (?).

Five dogs used as experimental animals at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

<p>If at first the subject appears to be a man benignly considering a begging dog, its pathetic nature is increased when the surgical instruments and body of a bird identify the setting as a vivisector's laboratory. The man holds a bottle behind his back in an apparently playful manner, but the dog is not begging for this but rather for his life. The bottle may contain an anaesthetic so that the vivisector's experiment, if lethal, would not be painful. The issue of vivisection was a topical one in the late nineteenth century. The artist may have been directly inspired by a contemporary account by the anti-vivisectionist George Hoggan of the reaction of the dogs that were brought to the laboratory of the French vivisectionist, Claude Bernard: "They would make friendly advances to each of the three or four persons present, and as far as eyes, ears and tail could make a mute appeal for mercy eloquent, they tried it in vain." (Schupbach 1987, p. 351.)</p>

1 print : engraving ; image 48.6 x 34.3 cm

<p>Left to right: A.P. Sokolov, I.V. Shuvalov, I.P. Pavlov, J.A. Buchschtab</p>

I.P. Pavlov with three colleagues operating on a dog in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1902/1903.

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Five dogs undergoing experiments on gastric secretion in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

A sinister hand stretched out towards a dog; representing the threat of animal experiment to animals used in laboratories. Colour lithograph by H. Fabigan, ca. 196- (?).

Five dogs used as experimental animals at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.

I.P. Pavlov with three colleagues operating on a dog in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1902/1903.

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Dogs as laboratory animals

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Five dogs undergoing experiments on gastric secretion in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

A sinister hand stretched out towards a dog; representing the threat of animal experiment to animals used in laboratories. Colour lithograph by H. Fabigan, ca. 196- (?).

Five dogs used as experimental animals at the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.

A dog on a laboratory bench sits up and begs the prospective vivisector for mercy. Engraving by C.J. Tomkins, 1883, after a painting by J. McClure Hamilton.

I.P. Pavlov with three colleagues operating on a dog in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1902/1903.

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