Animals dressed as doctors are about to vivisect a man in an operating theatre or anatomy theatre. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.

Date:
1910
Reference:
577237i
Part of:
Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.
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Description

The onlookers include rabbits, frogs, dogs and mice -- the animals most used as experimental subjects in physiology. They wear the costume of older men of the time, indicating professors and consultants.

Publication/Creation

1910

Physical description

1 print (album page 5) : lithograph, printed in colours ; image and text 27.4 x 20 cm

Lettering

Die Vivisektion des Menschen. Professor Karnickulus: Nur keine falsche Sentimentalitat! Das Prinzip der freien Forschung verlangt es, daß ich diesen Menschen viviseziere zum Heile der gesamten Tierwelt!

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Wellcome Collection 577237i

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