Vivisection : a speech delivered by Professor Humphry at the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Ryde, August 1881.

  • Humphry, George Murray, Sir, 1820-1896.
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[1881]
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Credit: Vivisection : a speech delivered by Professor Humphry at the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Ryde, August 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. VIVISECTION. ^ A SPEECH DELIVERED BY Professor HUMPHRY, RR.S. AT THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING,- RYDE, August 1881. [Printed and Cirailated by the Association?^ At a numerously attended General Meeting of Members, held in the Town Hall, Ryde, on Thursday, August nth, i88i, BENJAMIN BARROW, Esq., F.R.C.S., President, in the Chair, Vivisection.—Professor HUMPHRY, F.R.S. (Cambridge) moved ; “ That this Association desires to express its deep sense of the importance of Vivisection to the advancement of Medical Science, and the belief that the further prohibition of it would be attended with serious injury to the community, by prevent- ing investigations which are calculated to promote the better knowledge and the better treatment of disease in animals as well as in man.” He said: Before venturing to propose this resolution, I thought long and seriously upon the subject. I mentioned it to a considerable number of the other members of the Association ; and they all, every one to whom I spoke, agreed with me that, whereas there is so much of misrepresentation and exaggeration, to say the least of it, placed before the public on this subject, which is tending to bring the minds of many persons, and, I am sorry to say, of our legislators, to wrong opinions on this matter, it was the duty of us, as mem- bers of the profession and of the Association, who know what is actually done, who know what is the real position of the