1627 ASELLI, Gaspare (1581 – 1626)
De lactibus sive lacteis venis.
Records the discovery of the lacteal vessels. While performing vivisection on a dog that had recently fed, Aselli noticed a network of vessels in the mesentery and along the peritoneal surface of the intestine. The ve…
GMN 1094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/916
1756 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)
Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang, et sur les effets de la saignée, fondés sur des experiences faites sur des animaux.
In these memoirs Haller described the results of 235 vivisections. Haller has been called "the founder of modern haemodynamics." "The myogenic theory of the heartbeat can be traced to Haller, who concluded on the basi…
GMN 11607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13807
1827 JAMESON, Horatio Gates (1788 – 1855)
Observations upon traumatic haemorrhage, illustrated by experiments upon living animals.
Jameson was surgeon to Baltimore Hospital for 20 years. This essay described some of the earliest multiple animal experiments used in American medical research.
GMN 5589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7041
1875 DALTON, John Call (1825 – 1889)
Experimentation on animals, as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13025
1876 CARDWELL, Edward, First Viscount Cardwell (1813 – 1886)
Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: With minutes and evidence and appendix.
This commission, or others with a similar name, seems to have continued intermittently in England for several decades, with the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection issued as late as 1908. Digital facs…
GMN 10839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13035
1876 CYON, Elias von (Elie de Cyon; Ilya Fadeyevich Tsion) (1842 – 1912)
Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.
"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…
GMN 11574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13773
1882 DALTON, John Call (1825 – 1889)
The experimental method in medical science.
Dalton, Professor of Physiology at the universities of Buffalo and Vermont, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, was the first American to devote his time exclusively to that subject. He was present a…
GMN 1571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1297
1882 LIVON, Charles
Manuel de vivisections.
Extensively illustrated study of methods of conducting experiments involving vivisection.
GMN 11683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13884
1884 BRYAN, Benjamin; COBBE, Frances Power (1822 – 1904)
The vivisectors' directory; being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom; together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories. Compiled from authentic sources. Edited by Benjamin Bryan, with a preface by Frances Power Cobbe.
A remarkably detailed listing of scientific and medical researchers conducting research involving vivisection with address information and details of their research. This information was published in order to supply d…
GMN 11682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13883
1896 RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
Biological experimentation: Its function and limits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13032
1901 LEFFINGWELL, Albert (1845 – 1916)
The vivisection question.
Leffingwell sought a middle ground between the anti-vivisectionists, who callled for the abolition of all experimentation, and vivisectionists who rejected any restraint. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at…
GMN 10833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13029
1902 ERNST, Harold Clarence (1856 – 1922)
Animal experimentation: A series of statements indicating its value to biological and medical science.
Contributors included Charles Elliot, G. Stanley Hall, William T. Sedgwick, James J. Putnam, Henry P. Bowditch, William T. Porter, William T. Councilman, Theobald Smith, and members of the religious community. Digital…
GMN 10830 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13026
1910 MCCREA, Roswell Cheney (1876 – 1951)
The humane movement: A descriptive survey.
Concerns the origins and evolution of the humane movement that played a significant role in the emergence and growth of the antivivisection movement in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13031
1914 KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932)
Animal experimentation and medical progress.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13028
1924 COLEMAN, Sydney H.
Humane society leaders in America. With a sketch of the early history of the humane movement in England.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13024
1935 FLIEGEL, Ludwig (1865 – 1947)
1000 Ärzte gegen die Vivisektion (wissenschaftliche Tierfolter) wegen ihrer Grausamkeit und Nutzlosigkeit.
Considered a classic of the anti-vivisection movement.
GMN 10831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13027
1975 FRENCH, Richard D.
Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society.
GMN 10263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12454
1981 MAGEL, Charles R. (1920 – 2014)
A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.
"... restricted to literature in the English language, with over 3200 entries; it is also confined to the thought and practices of the Western world, from Biblical times to 1980." Concerns much on animal experimentati…
GMN 10834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13030
1987 RUPKE, Nicolaas Adrianus (1944 – )
Vivisection in historical perspective. Edited by Nicholaas A. Rupke.
GMN 10264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12455
2001 RUDACILLE, Deborah (1958 – )
The scalpel and the butterfly: The war between animal research and animal protection.
GMN 10838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13034
2003 GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )
Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.
GMN 9898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12086
2017 BATES, A. W. H.
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain: A social history.
GMN 10231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12421
