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skin to cutting out the piece of bone with a fine 

 trephine and passing a needle under the dura mater, 

 may be done without once causing the animal to 

 withdraw its attention from the important business 

 of munching a bit of cabbage-leaf or a scrap of 

 succulent carrot." (Woodhead, Medical Magazine^ 

 June 1898.) 



It may be well put here — (1) the full text of the 

 Act, and of the License and Certificates granted in 

 accordance with the Act ; (2) an account of the 

 anaesthetics used for animals ; (3) the Reports of 

 Government Inspectors appointed under the Act, 

 for the last three years, 1899 to 1901. 



I. — An Act to amend the Law relating to 

 Cruelty to Animals. 



i$tk August 1876. 



a.d. 1876. Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to cruelty 

 to animals by extending it to the cases of animals which for 

 medical, physiological, or other scientific purposes are subjected 

 when alive to experiments calculated to inflict pain : 



Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and 

 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 

 and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Cruelty 

 to Animals Act, 1876." 



2. A person shall not perform on a living animal any 

 experiment calculated to give pain, except subject to the 

 restrictions imposed by this Act. Any person performing or 

 taking part in performing any experiment calculated to give 

 pain, in contravention of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence 



Short title. 



Prohibition of 

 painful experi- 

 ments on ani- 

 mals. 



