Experimental physiology, its benefits to mankind : with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881.

  • Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.
Date:
1882
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Experimental physiology, its benefits to mankind : with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    119/232 (page 107)
    rational methods of treatment Is, plainly, a study of the experimental results teaching such methods. In relation to those, the benefit of which to humanity Claude Bernard, with the modesty of a true philosopher and Christian gentleman, alludes as a small ' Instalment of the reward of his labours,' the responsible physician gratefully avails himself of every ray of light and guidance they impart. The healthy non-medical world, after its anti- vivisectlonal fervours have been heated by declamations against * mutilated cats, and gouged frogs, and nail-larded pigs,' is appealed to, in relation to Bernard's labours, as follows : 'If the baked dogs had resulted in any- thing worth hearing of, I should have heard of that too.' ^ In the popular Illustration of this stupid and ignorant insult to a gifted Experimenter, the blazing billets beneath the red-hot oven and the expiring howls of the ' baked dog' were coarsely and gaudily rendered. Lord Coleridge had a fitting coadjutor in the placarding caricaturist. The two bestlarlans worked harmoniously by pen ^ ForUiightly Review^ February i, 1.882, p. 229.