Light in dark places / by Frances Power Cobbe.

  • Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904.
Date:
[1883]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Light in dark places / by Frances Power Cobbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The following pages are intended to convey, in the briefest and simplest form, ocular illustration of the meaning of the much disputed word Vivisection. Some of the tools and some of the furniture of the physiological laboratory, various modes of fastening the victims, and a selection of instances of divers experiments, have been arranged with the view of affording the reader by a few moments’ inspection a truer idea of the work of the “ torture- chambers of science” than can be obtained by the perusal of a vast quantity of letter-press description. Every one of the illustrations is a reproduction, in most cases of reduced size, by photo-zincography, of the engravings and wood-cuts in the standard works of the most eminent physiologists. In every case the reference to the original work is given, and the perfect accuracy of the reproduction guaranteed. Nothing has been added and nothing has been taken away, except somewhat of the strength and vividness of the larger originals, which have been lost in the reproduction. Thus every illustration in this pamphlet may be taken with certainty to be a VivisectoVs own picture of his own work, such as he himself has chosen to publish it. Further, it must be borne in mind that the experiments here exhibited, with the exception of two or three peculiar ones at the end, are not, as might be supposed, single instances of severe operations performed once or twice in a way by one particular