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WE desire to draw the most marked attention to this little book. The author says that his “aim has been to place in the hands both of professional and unprofessional readers a sort of compendium of the principal facts and most obvious reasonings on the question of experiment on living animals.” Such being his “aim,” he has hit his mark with singular force and precision. For our own part, after having read the literature on both sides of the vivisection question ad nauseam, we feel that no essay which has yet appeared upon the subject is better worthy of perusal both by lay and professional readers, and therefore we can have no doubt that, again to quote the words of its preface, “such a work may prove useful to medical men who have not time to consult books of reference, and examine into the details of the subject for themselves, without its being too technical to interest those of the general public who are willing to give thought and attention to a most important matter.”
Physiological Cruelty, or Fact versus Fancy; an Inquiry into the Vivisection Question.
By Philanthropes. (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1883.)
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ROMANES, G. Physiological Cruelty, or Fact versus Fancy; an Inquiry into the Vivisection Question . Nature 28, 537–538 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028537a0
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