Writing at the height of the anti-vivisection controversy, the surgeon Stephen Paget sets out what experiments on animals had taught medicine, beginning with Galen and Harvey on the blood and moving through physiology, pathology and therapeutics to inoculation against typhoid among British troops. Lord Lister contributes an introduction, and the book reprints the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act.
A frank historical document of Edwardian medical science, valuable to anyone studying the long debate over animal research. Download the free EPUB.