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"Vivisection" Quotes from Famous Books

... I shall be cut up! The weekly papers especially would lose half their readers did they not go in for vivisection! But mamma shouldn't have ...

— Home Again • George MacDonald

... souls, that covers both. The plan proposed would, at least to the eye, disentangle all complications. It would lay out the work in the Year-Book with clean-cut precision. But vital things are not always improved by vivisection. It would doubtless simplify our apprehension of the organs of a man to lay the lungs on one side of the table, the heart on another, the liver on a third, and the brains on a fourth. But how far it would enhance the vitality and usefulness of the man is another question. There is an organism ...

— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 • Various

... would regard a ghost in the light of evidence?—I had to obey. I found out, however, from a medical friend that No. 90 was tenanted by Mr. K——, an Anglo-German who was deemed a very clever fellow at a certain London hospital, where he was often occupied in vivisection. ...

— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

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