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VI VISECTIONS 



ON March 28 last a meeting was held at the Royal 

 College of Physicians, in London, attended by many of 

 the most distinguished medical men of the day, the 

 object being to ' bring the legitimate influence of the 

 medical profession more effectually to bear on the pro- 

 motion of those exact researches in physiology, 

 pathology, and therapeutics, which are essential to 

 sound progress in the healing art.' The Master of the 

 Rolls remarked on that occasion, that ' it would be 

 most desirable that the public should be informed upon 

 the matters contemplated by the Association.' The 

 book before us has been written in response to this 

 wish. 



It will probably be useless to commend the careful 

 study of this little book (full of most interesting 

 matter outside its special purpose) to the more senti- 

 mental of the anti-vivisectionists, for whom, by-the-way, 

 Professor Owen adopts the title of Bestiarians. But 

 for those anti-vivisectionists who are not prepared to 

 allow a regard (very just in itself) for inferior animals 

 to overrule all other feelings, the study of this treatise 

 will be useful and instructive. They will see how 

 much of the humanity of modern medical and surgical 

 practice is due to the practice which the Bestiarians 



1 Experimental Physiology its Benefits to Mankind ; vrith an Ad- 

 drets on Unveiling the Statue of William Harvey at Folkestone. By 

 Richard Owen, F.R.S., &c. London : Longmans & Co. 



