The uselessness of vivisection upon animals as a method of scientific research / by Lawson Tait.
- Tait, Lawson, 1845-1899.
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The uselessness of vivisection upon animals as a method of scientific research / by Lawson Tait. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[REPRINTED FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 'BIRMINGHAM PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. VOL. II., Page 121, etc.] YII,^ On the Ihelessness of Vivisection upon Aniynab as a Method of Scientific Research. By Lawson Tait, F.E.C.S., kc. [Read before the Society, April 20th, 1882.] I NKEB make no apology for adopting the same title for this paper as that of Mrs. Kingsford's article in the Nineteenth Centuri/ for January last, because I had advanced this plea against Vivisection some time previous to the appearance of her conjiri- bution, and the more I know of the question, the more fully convinced do I become of the verdict which will ultimately be passed upon it, both by the public and by the medical profession. I need not go into the general history of Vivisection, for it hardly bears upon the question to which I desire to limit myself; but I think it advisable to formulate a few preliminary conclusions before T come to my immediate subject, in order that I may clear the way for discussion, and show at once the grounds upon which I stand, for I find myself in a position adverse to the view adopted by the great majority of my professional brethren. I dismiss at once the employment of experiments on living animals for the purpose of mere instruction as absolutely mi- necessary, and to be put an end to by legislation without any kind of reserve whatever. In my own education I went through the most complete course of instruction in the University of Edmburgh without ever witnessing a single experiment on a living animal. It has been my duty as a teacher to keep](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22280911_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
