Vivisection

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Excerpt from Vivisection: Is It Justifiable?Vivisection, you will find an experiment on an animal under curara (the most cruel of all poisons, and which, although it paralyzes motion, only heightens sensation), is recorded. The subject was a small docile dog, which, a few minutes after the drug was injected under the skin, staggered on its fore paws, walking on the tips of its toes until it fell over, frothing at the mouth and weeping abundantly. Its windpipe was then slit open and the nozzle of a bellows connected with a gas engine used for artificial respiration inserted. The side of the neck, the side of the face, the side of the foreleg, and interior of the belly were then dissected out, and the sciatic and other nerves exposed and irritated with galvanic shocks. No anaesthetic was used, and the agony the poor creature endured must have been awful, yet it was continued for ten hours, at the end of which time the operators left for their homes, but they did not release the subject of the experiment, or end its sufferings by death. It was purposely left helpless and mutilated as it was, in order that they might resume their investigations next day without prelimi nary delay. When the next day came the poor dog was dead, the machine was at work (as it is, I am told, in these laboratories Often night and day), but it was pumping air into and out of a dead body.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.