Transcriber's note: Minor spelling and punctuation inconsistencies been harmonized. Obvious printer errors have been repaired. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. Please see the end of this book for further notes. EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS [Illustration: BRAIN OF AN ANTHROPOID APE, SHOWING THE POSITION OF THE MOTOR CENTRES. (From a paper by Sir Victor Horsley and Dr. Beevor. _Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc._, 1892.)] EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS BY STEPHEN PAGET WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LORD LISTER THIRD AND REVISED EDITION "_Perhaps it is wrong to compare sin with sin, but I declare to you, the more I think of it, the more intimately does this Prejudice seem to me to corrupt the soul, even beyond those sins which are commonly called more deadly._"--CARDINAL NEWMAN. NEW YORK WILLIAM WOOD AND COMPANY MDCCCCVII TO CHARLES ALFRED BALLANCE M.S., F.R.C.S. AND WILLIAM HUNTER M.D., F.R.C.P. PREFACE The first edition of this book was published in 1900. For twelve years it had been my business, as Secretary to the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research, to know something about experiments on animals, and to follow the working of the Act of 1876; and to give facts and references to a very large number of applicants. Believing that an account of these experiments, and of the conditions imposed on them by the Act, might serve a useful purpose, I proposed to the Council of the Association that I should write a book on the subject. The Council accepted this proposal; and decided that the book should be written for general reading, that it should not be anonymous, and that it should be published without reserve. It was, of course, a doubtful and embarrassing task. But, from twelve years' experience of the things said by the chief opponents of all experiments on animals, I knew that there was only one way of doing it--to give the original authorities, the plain facts, the very words, chapter and verse for everything. Among those who kindly revised the proofs were Prof. Rose Bradford and Prof. Starling, who revised Part I.; Mr. Shattock, who revised Part II.; and Prof. Schäfer. Valuable help was given by Mr. R. H. Clarke, Sir Victor Horsley, Dr. Beevor, Prof. Ronald Ross, and the late Dr. Washbourn; and I was allowed to make free use of Mr. George Pernet's careful researches into the history of the subject. Lord Lister himself did me the honour to read and correct, with the utmost patience, Parts I. and II. In the second edition (1904) some mistakes were corrected, and some facts were added. The present edition has been thoroughly revised; and I have included in it a reprint, with some changes and omissions, of a pamphlet, _The Case against Anti-vivisection_, which I wrote in 1904. 1906. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION