Experimental researches on the influence exercised by atmospheric pressure upon the progression of the blood in the veins : upon that function called absorption, and upon the prevention and cure of the symptoms caused by the bites of rabid or venomous animals / With ... the original reports of Baron Cuvier and of Profs. Dumeril and Laennec. By David Barry.

  • Barry, David, Sir, 1780-1835
Date:
1826
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Credit: Experimental researches on the influence exercised by atmospheric pressure upon the progression of the blood in the veins : upon that function called absorption, and upon the prevention and cure of the symptoms caused by the bites of rabid or venomous animals / With ... the original reports of Baron Cuvier and of Profs. Dumeril and Laennec. By David Barry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xlll \ benevolence and integrity of ids character, than for his profound researches into the laws of life, says, in the preface to his great work on Physio- logy> Dissecanda ergo animalia, verum minime sufficerit cadavera dissecuisse, viva incidisse ne- cesse est. A cadavere motus abest, omnem ergo motum in vivo animate speculari oportet; sed in motu animati corporis interim et externo, tota physiologia versatur. Ergo ad sanguinis circui- tum, ad ejus subtiliores motus perspiciendos, ad respirationem, ad intestinorum reptatum, ad chyli iter intelligendum, absque vivorum animantium strage, nihil omnino profici potest.” - They who inveigh most loudly against experi¬ ments upon living animals, and who affect an excess of sensibility, have never made any expe¬ riments themselves. They are contented with the exposition of what they, in their wisdom, sup¬ pose nature ought to do, instead of investigating what she actually does. Others talk of needless cruelty. If any useful knowledge is to be obtained by an experiment, none of the means necessary to arrive at this knowledge can be needless, and none else can be adopted without defeating the purpose aimed at; therefore, in useful experiments, there never is needless cruelty, or, in other words, unnecessary pain inflicted. When medical men are praised at public meet- ings, and their letters there read with applause.