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Research Defence Society

RDS Publications

RDS Occasional Publications and Printed Papers

'Evidence of Sir Frederick Treves': copy of his letter to The Times 14 April 1902

'Yellow fever and malaria' evidence before the Royal Commission by William Osler

'Evidence of Lord Justice Fletcher Moulton before the Royal Commission on Vivisection'. Wed July 24 1907. (3 copies)

'Some facts as to the administration of the Act (evidence before the Royal Commission)'

'The extinction of Malta fever' by Col. David Bruce 1908 (2 copies)

'An address on the nation and the tropics' by William Osler, given at the London School of Tropical Medicine, Oct 26 1909

'Recent Surgical Progress: A result chiefly of experimental research' by W.W. Keen. Reprinted from Harpers Magazine, April 1909

'Pasteur, Science and Medicine' by F.M. Sandwith. Reprinted from The Practitioner, December 1909

Correspondence from the Times concerning circular letter issued by Stephen Coleridge to RDS Vice President, 24 December 1908-12 January 1909

'Vivisection and Medicine: have experiments on animals advanced therapeutics?' by A.R. Cushny

The Truth about Vivisection: III. Experiments during 1908

The Brown Dog (form B.8)

Malta fever (form C.3)

Experiments on dogs (form C.4)

'The Helpfulness of Physiological experiments to the General Practitioner' by James Mackenzie

'Humanity and Science' by the Bishop of Ely (form C.5)

'Plague in India, Past and Present: A Contrast' by Lt. Col. W.B. Bannerman IMS.

Circular letter from Sydney Holland, Chairman RDS, re. action taken for libel and slander against S. Paget, Hon. Sec.

'The Rockefeller Institute' (form C10)

'Friends of Animals', an address delivered at North Berwick, East Lothian on 19 March 1910 by Maj. J.L. Marjoribanks (form D.2)

'Vivisection and Distemper'

'On the use of dogs in scientific experiments' E.H. Starling

'Sleeping Sickness' by F.M. Sandwith

'Pax Victrix' an address given to the Medical Club of Philadelphia, May 4 1911 by the President of the United States.  (form C.15)

'The Vivisection Report' (form C.16)

'The Facts of the Case' (form C.20)

'Antivivisection Shops': statement by the Home Secretary (form C25)

'Protection against typhoid fever' (form D.5)

French version of 'Protection against typhoid fever' (form D.5) (2 copies)

'Scientific Medicine and the Expeditionary Force' reprinted for Field April 8, 1916 (form D.10) May 1916 (3 copies)

Protection against typhoid fever (form D.5)

Diphtheria Antitoxin (form B.1)

Lister (form D.7)

'The prevention of tetanus during the Great War by the use of antitetanic serum' by Maj. Gen. Sir David Bruce (form D.2)

The value of experiments on animals: notes of personal experience by Sir Leonard Rogers (form D.6)

'Parliamentary return: experiments on animals' by Stephen Paget (form D.8)

'Science and practice' by Stephen Paget (form D.6)

Tuberculosis (form C.12)

Vaccination against smallpox

The Fight Against Disease Journal

Catalogue of the Society's Lantern Slides

The Fight Against Disease

Smallpox and Vaccination. Reprinted May 1927

'The work and responsibilities of the pathologist' by Bernard Spilsbury. 2nd Stephen Paget Memorial lecture delivered June 19, 1928

The Fight Against Disease. Quarterly Journal, Vol xxiv no. 4 1936.

Anti-Vivisection Money. Editorial reprinted from The Fight Against Disease Vol. xxiv, no. 1, 1936.

'Medical Research and the relief of animal and human suffering' by Leonard Rogers. Abstract of address given to Cambridge undergraduates Oct 29, 1935. Reprinted from The Fight Against Disease vol. xxiv, no. 1, 1936.

The Fight Against Disease vol. xxv, no. 1, 1937

The Fight Against Disease vol. xxviii, no. 1, 1940

'The Case against the anti-vivisectionists', by Sir Leonard Rogers. Reprinted from St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal April 1941.

'In the High Court of Justice, King's Division, Royal Courts of Justice. Reprinted from The Fight Against Disease, vol. xxxiii, 1945 (2 copies).

The Fight Against Disease vol. xxxiv, 1946.

The Fight Against Disease vol. xxxvi, no. 1, 1948

'Physiological Research and the Vivisection Act' by C. Lovatt Evans. The 18th Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture. Reprinted from The Fight Against Disease, vol. xxxvii, no. 2, 1949.

Notes on the law relating to experiments on animals in Great Britain (The Act of 1876)

'Humanity's Rising Debt to Medical Research' by Sir Henry Dale. Paget memorial lecture, 1955. (2 copies)

'Anti-Poliomyelitis Vaccination'. Conquest Pamphlet No. 1

'BCG Vaccination against tuberculosis'. Conquest Pamphlet No. 2

'The Research Defence Society.' Conquest Pamphlet No. 3. (2 copies)

'Some reflections on animal experiments' by Rt. Hon. the Lord Cohen of Birkenhead. Paget memorial lecture, 1957. Conquest Pamphlet No. 4 (2 copies)

'Diabetes' Conquest Pamphlet No. 5 Mar 1928 (2 copies)

'Smallpox and Vaccination'. Conquest Pamphlet No. 6 (2 copies)

'Surgery of the Heart and Circulation'. Conquest Pamphlet No. 7 (2 copies)

Facts about Canine Distemper.  Conquest Pamphlet No. 8 (2 copies)

The Truth about Vivisection.  Conquest Pamphlet No. 9. (2 copies)

The Use of Laboratory Animals in the Standardization of Drugs. Conquest Pamphlet No. 10. Reprinted May 1961. (2 copies)

Vaccination aginst Whooping Cough, Diphtheria and Tetanus. Conquest Pamphlet No. 11. (2 copies)

Animal experiments in the diagnosis of human disease. Conquest Pamphlet No. 12. (2 copies)

Animal experiments in the control of animal defence. Conquest Pamphlet No. 13. (2 copies)

Sound meat. Conquest Pamphlet No. 14. (2 copies)

The use of vaccines in controlling disease in domestic animals. Conquest Pamphlet no. 15. (2 copies)

The use of laboratory animals in assessing the safety of food additives. Conquest Pamphlet No. 16. (2 copies)

New drugs. Conquest Pamphlet No. 17

Smallpox and Vaccination. Conquest Pamphlet No. 18.

Experiments on animals and the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876. (2 copies)

Memorandum Prepared for the Department Committee of Inquiry into Experiments on Animals. (3 copies)

The Biologist and the Experimental Animal. (2 copies)

'Anti-cruelty laws and the scientific use of animals in the United States' by Norman A. Erbe. (2 copies)

Experiments on animals and the Littlewood Report: prepared by RDS for submission to Members of Parliament and others concerned. Reprinted from Conquest no. 160 (2 copies)

Guidance Notes on the Law Relating to Experiments on Animals Compiled with the collaboration of the Home Office Cruelty to Animals Act Inspectorate. Revised edition

'Some notes on experiments recently criticised' by W.D.M. Paton plus other reports. RDS Papers 1-3. (2 copies)

'The place of animal tests in assessing safety in the use of cosmetics and toiletries' by P.N. O'Donoghue and P.P. Scott. RDS paper no. 4 (2 copies)

'Notes on the law relating to experiments on animals in Great Britain'. 3rd ed.reprinted December 1976

'Statement by the Committee on safety of medicines' and other brief reports. RDS paper no. 5 (2 copies)

'Diabetes: Research Triumphs' leaflet

'Scientific research work on animals: some questions and answers.' [proof copy]

'Are animal experiments necessary for cosmetic products?'

'The use of experimental animals in pharmaceutical research'

'Medical research into muscles:  why it is done and how it is done' Biomedical Research Education Trust [BRET]

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Copy of letter published in newspapers, re establishment of RDS 24 Apr 1908

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