Experiments on Animals

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Putnam, 1903 - Experiments, Animal - 387 pages

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Page 330 - An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 325 - The experiment must be performed with a view to the advancement by new discovery of physiological knowledge, or of knowledge which will be useful for saving or prolonging life or alleviating suffering...
Page 332 - Ireland, within the police district of Dublin metropolis, the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district; and elsewhere in Ireland, The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851...
Page 383 - Recent Theories of Evolution. By J. MARK BALDWIN, Princeton University. The Reproduction of Living Beings. By Professor MARCUS HARTOG, Queen's College, Cork. Man and the Higher Apes. By Dr. A. KEITH, FRCS Heredity. By J. ARTHUR THOMPSON, School of Medicine, Edinburgh.
Page 55 - Experiments have never been the means of discovery ; and a survey of what has been attempted of late years in physiology will prove that the opening of living animals has done more to perpetuate error than to confirm the just views taken from the study of anatomy and natural motions.
Page 356 - The animal must, if the pain is likely to continue after the effect of the anaesthetic has ceased, or if any serious injury has been inflicted on the animal, be killed before it recovers from the influence of the anaesthetic which has been administered...
Page 331 - ... for the time being empowered by law to do alone any act authorised to be done by more than one justice of the peace...
Page 382 - The author wields a pleasing pen and knows how to make the subject attractive. . . . The work is calculated to spread among its readers an attraction to the science of anthropology. The author's observations are exceedingly genuine and his descriptions are vivid.
Page 332 - ... with the opinion of the court of appeal thereon, or make such other order in the matter as the court thinks just...
Page 325 - Act out of a list (from time to time approved for the port or district by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in this Act referred to as a Secretary of State,) of wreck commissioners appointed under this Act, stipendiary or metropolitan police magistrates, judges...

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