The Vivisectors' Directory: Being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom, together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories
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The Vivisectors' Directory: Being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom, together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories
Vivisection
“In startling contrast to the dog were two monkeys exhibited by Professor
Ferrier. One of them had been operated upon in the middle of January,
the left motor area having been destroyed. There had resulted from the
operation right sided hemiplegia, with conjugate deviation of eyes and
of head. Facial paralysis was at first well marked, but ceased after a
fortnight. From the first there had been paralysis of the right leg,
though the animal was able to lift it up. The arm it had never been
able to use. Lately, rigidity of the muscles of the paralysed limbs had
been coming on. The other monkey, as a consequence of paralysis of its
auditory centres, was apparently entirely unaffected by loud noises, as
by the firing of percussion caps in close proximity to its head.”
COUNSEL’S STATEMENT. 17th November, 1881.
Dr. WAKLEY, _sworn, examined by Mr. Waddy_:--
Q. Are you the editor of the _Lancet_?
A. I am.
Q. Can you tell me who it was furnished his Report?
A. I have the permission of the gentleman to give his name, Professor
Gamgee, of Owen’s College, Manchester.
Mr. WADDY: What I should ask is that one might have an opportunity of
calling Professor Gamgee.
Mr. GULLY: I have my reasons for objecting to this. We have communicated
with Professor Gamgee and I know very well that he will say precisely
what was said by Dr. Roy.
“At a meeting of the Physiological Section of the International Medical
Congress held in London in 1881, Professor Goltz exhibited a dog, and
Professors Ferrier and Yeo a monkey; from the brain of the dog a large
area of the cortex had been removed without producing any such effect as,
according to Professor Goltz, would necessarily result if the theory, as
usually held, of the localisation of function of the cortex were true;
from the brain of the monkey a definite part of the so-called motor area
had been removed, and a localised paralysis produced--a paralysis which,
according to Professors Ferrier and Yeo, could not result if that theory
were not true.”--“_On the Cortical Areas removed from the Brain of a Dog
and from the Brain of a Monkey_” _a Report by Dr. Klein, Mr. Langley, and
Professor Schäfer, Journal of Physiology_, Vol. IV., 1884, p. 231.
=Yule, C. J. F.= M.A.; Lecturer on Exper. Physiol., Magdalen Coll. Oxford.
_Held a License for Vivisection at University Oxford Laboratory, Magdalen
College in 1878 and 1882. Certificates for Illustrations of Lectures,
1878 and 1882._
=Zander, Richard.= M.D.; Prosect. Anatom. Inst., Königsberg, Prussia.
Contrib. to Centralblatt f. d. Med. Wissenchaften, 1879.
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