Watch the students at a vivisection. It is the blood and su… - Henry Jacob Bigelow

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Watch the students at a vivisection. It is the blood and suffering, not the science, that rivet their breathless attention. If hospital service makes young students less tender of suffering, vivisection deadens their humanity, and begets indifference to it.

Henry Jacob Bigelow

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Henry Jacob Bigelow (11 March 1818 – 30 October 1890) was an American surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard University. He is remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, a technique for treatment of kidney stones, and other innovations. He was instrumental in bringing the anesthetic possibilities of ether to the attention of medical men, and rescuing the case of Phineas Gage from relative obscurity.

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There can be no question that the practice of vivisection hardens the sensibility of the operator and begets indifference to the infliction of pain, as well as great carelessness in judging of its severity.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science as they now do to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

It should not for a moment be supposed that cultivation of the intellect leads a man to shrink from inflicting pain. Many educated men are no more humane, are in fact far less so, than many comparatively uneducated people.

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