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THE question of the propriety of vivisection has ever and anon cropped up for the last two centuries, and learned and unlearned persons have not been found wanting to condemn the practice. Amongst the latter the term vivisection has been taken to mean the dissecting of animals alive, with no other motive than curiosity or a malignant desire to be cruel to animals.
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Vivisection . Nature 9, 177–178 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009177a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009177a0