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WHEN a Bill to prohibit experiments on dogs was before the House of Commons in 1914, a memorial signed by more than three hundred eminent physicians, surgeons, and other representatives of medical science, protesting against the measure, was addressed to the Home Secretary. The strong conviction was then expressed that the Bill would inflict very severe injury, not only on medicine and surgery, but also on the study of the diseases of animals; and the memorialists added: “We think that we have some right to ask you to oppose this attack on the advancement of medical science and practice, especially as the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection does not advise the prohibition of experiments on dogs. We are absolutely certain that such experiments are necessary for the complete study of many problems of physiology, pharmacology, and pathology.”
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The Use of Animals in Medical Research . Nature 103, 108–109 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103108a0
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