How to kill animals humanely / by D.D. Slade.

  • Slade, D. D. (Daniel Denison), 1823-1896
Date:
1879
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Credit: How to kill animals humanely / by D.D. Slade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    articulation leaves an opening. This is done by a variety of instruments. Although the animal drops immediately, life continues for some seconds and even minutes, the heart continues to beat and the brain to live and act. By the other method, a small spot situated in the lower and posterior portion of the brain is reached and broken up by the introduction of a narrow, sharp instrument. Death is almost instantaneous. No attempt is made at inspiration, there is no struggle, and no appearance of suffering. The animal dies simply by a want of aeration of the blood, which leads in a few moments to an arrest of the circulation. (Dalton's Physiology.) Both of these modes of slaughtering, especially the last, require an ana- tomical knowledge as well as a practical dexterity that but few would attain, and, if they are not properly and quickly executed, are undoubtedly attended by more suffering than other methods. SHOTTED BE DEPRIVED OF SENSIBILITY. Without entering further into the consideration of physiological questions of so much importance, we may with salety lay down the following proposition:— All animals, when slaughtered, should be de- prived of sensibility by iiiflicting sufficient injury to the brain, either by a sudden and violent blow of the axe or mallet, by the bullet, or by some other equally efficient means, and should then be immediately bled during the state of insensibility. SITUATION OP TIIE BRAIN. Fig. L It is important to know the exact situation of the brain in animals, so that the shock to this