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ACT 39 AND 40 VIC. C. 77 



a.d. 1876. Provided as follows ; that is to say, 



(i.) Experiments may be performed under the foregoing 

 provisions as to the use of anaesthetics by a person 

 giving illustrations of lectures in medical schools, 

 hospitals, or colleges, or elsewhere, on such certifi- 

 cate being given as in this Act mentioned, that the 

 proposed experiments are absolutely necessary for 

 the due instruction of the persons to whom such 

 lectures are given with a view to their acquiring 

 physiological knowledge, or knowledge which will 

 be useful to them for saving or prolonging life, or 

 alleviating suffering ; and 



(2.) Experiments may be performed without anaesthetics 

 on such certificate being given as in this Act 

 mentioned, that insensibility cannot be produced 

 without necessarily frustrating the object of such 

 experiments ; and 



(3.) Experiments may be performed without the person 

 who performed such experiments being under an 

 obligation to cause the animal, on which any such 

 experiment is performed, to be killed before it 

 recovers from the influence of the anaesthetic on 

 such certificate being given as in this Act mentioned, 

 that the so killing the animal would necessarily frus- 

 trate the object of the experiment, and provided 

 that the animal be killed as soon as such object has 

 been attained ; and 



(4.) Experiments may be performed not directly for the 

 advancement by new discovery of physiological 

 knowledge, or of knowledge which will be useful 

 for saving or prolonging life, or alleviating suffer- 

 ing, but for the purpose of testing a particular 

 former discovery alleged to have been made for 

 the advancement of such knowledge as last afore- 

 said, on such certificate being given as is in this 

 Act mentioned that such testing is absolutely 

 necessary for the effectual advancement of such 

 knowledge. 



