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Technical report series (World Health Organization)

Technical report series, World Health Organization

Health aspects of the supply and use of non-human primates for biomedical purposes : report of a WHO Scientific Group.

Leaflet stating company policy on animal testing with reference to their cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Front page is solid blue with white type reversed out of it.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Animal welfare. Box 2

The Boots Company and animal testing / Boots Company.

Postcard asking for information about "cruel or negligent practices in animal research laboratories" to be used as part of Animal Aid's "peaceful campaigning". The front has an illustration of a whistle in the middle of the text. The other side is addressed to Animal Aid in Tonbridge asking for further information. Printed in black on thin white card.

Time to blow the whistle on animal experiments? / Animal Aid.

Vivisection unveiled : an exposé of the medical futility of animal experimentation / Tony Page.

Animal activists argue that their unlawful actions in support of their cause are justified by the ineffectiveness of legal measures to defend animals from the cruelty of scientific and medical experiments and from hunting and the fur trade. The legal complexities involved in the prosecution of activists are explained and the programme traces a propaganda war between LYNX (the anti-fur campaign) and the fur trade. Contributors include the Rev. Prof. Andrew Linzey (University of Oxford), Robin Webb (Animal Liberation Front), John Wadham (Liberty) and Dr. Mark Matfield (Reserch Defence Society.)

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Animal acts.

Leaflet asking people to carry organ donor cards to create "an adequate flow of human tissue for research", thereby helping to eliminate experimenting on animals. Printed in black on white paper with the title reversed white out of a blue box in the upper left corner. The picture shows six white mice in the palms of somebody's hands. Main text is on the reverse.

Their life is in your hands : carry the humane research donor card / Animal Aid.

A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, and pathological performed on living animals / by James Turner.

Box file containing 25 items of ephemera in acid free sleeves.

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Veterinary medical ephemera : Animal welfare. Box 4.

Programme to "an exhibition and sale of "cruelty free" products, arts and crafts" with talks and video presentations. Printed in dark blue on white paper.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Animal welfare. Box 3

The "cruelty free" weekend : programme of events : Saturday 7 November & Sunday 8 November 1992, Regent's College, Regent's Park, London NW1 : all proceeds to the RSPCA / RSPCA, Tesco.

This small group of papers was received by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1996 along with a number of other collections transferred from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford. The papers had apparently been received in the Unit in or around September 1991 but there is no information about who presented them.
	Rudolph Albert Peters (later Sir Rudolph Peters) was a distinguished medical scientist and Professor of Biochemistry, Oxford University. In both World Wars he was involved in research on the effects of gas warfare, and these files deal with his involvement in research into defence against chemical warfare agents, in particular mustard gas and Lewisite. He and his co-workers were able to develop an effective antidote to the latter, 2:3-dimercaptopropanol (British Anti-Lewisite or BAL). This substance also proved of clinical use in treating dermatitis arising from arsenotherapy (then still in use principally as a treatment for syphilis). A couple of files here deal with the related problem of arsenaphine jaundice and its treatment by methionine. The files include reports and correspondence and other material concerning the development of BAL ointment including its extensive testing on animals, beginning with guinea pigs and rabbits,  monkeys and horses and eventually human volunteers, and the interest from the United States, which was concurrently developing the similar DHT.

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Health aspects of the supply and use of non-human primates for biomedical purposes : report of a WHO Scientific Group.

The Boots Company and animal testing / Boots Company.

Time to blow the whistle on animal experiments? / Animal Aid.

Vivisection unveiled : an exposé of the medical futility of animal experimentation / Tony Page.

Animal acts.

Their life is in your hands : carry the humane research donor card / Animal Aid.

A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, and pathological performed on living animals / by James Turner.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Animal welfare. Box 4.

The "cruelty free" weekend : programme of events : Saturday 7 November & Sunday 8 November 1992, Regent's College, Regent's Park, London NW1 : all proceeds to the RSPCA / RSPCA, Tesco.

Professor R A Peters (1889-1982): British Anti-Lewisite (BAL) and treatment of post-arsphenamine jaundice

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Health aspects of the supply and use of non-human primates for biomedical purposes : report of a WHO Scientific Group.

The Boots Company and animal testing / Boots Company.

Time to blow the whistle on animal experiments? / Animal Aid.

Vivisection unveiled : an exposé of the medical futility of animal experimentation / Tony Page.

Animal acts.

Their life is in your hands : carry the humane research donor card / Animal Aid.

A register of experiments anatomical, physiological, and pathological performed on living animals / by James Turner.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Animal welfare. Box 4.

The "cruelty free" weekend : programme of events : Saturday 7 November & Sunday 8 November 1992, Regent's College, Regent's Park, London NW1 : all proceeds to the RSPCA / RSPCA, Tesco.

Professor R A Peters (1889-1982): British Anti-Lewisite (BAL) and treatment of post-arsphenamine jaundice

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