The Antivivisection Bill.

Antivivisection Antics

ended in a verdict against him to the tune of ?2,000 for damages and the payment of costs for a special jury. In his summing up the Judge stated that " a person who undertook to advocate a cause was not entitled to do so by charging other people with criminal offences unless he wras able to substantiate such charges," and again, that "no man had anj' right to import into the public discussion o...

Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society

However, it appears somewhat unsatisfactory to the medically oriented microbiologist, in spite of the first four chapters. There are no articles on ecology, isolation and identification in the routine laboratory, antigenic structure, and pathogenicity (the latter is treated only in the second chapter for P. aeruginosa). Maybe this was not the intention of the editors; however, in view of the fi...

Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society

One of the most fascinating aspects of nineteenth-century experimental medicine is the role of so-called vivisection in securing advances and, at the same time, earning vehement criticism. Dr. French deals with the latter in his scholarly and comprehensive study, and he traces the anti-vivisection movement in the last three decades of the ninteenth century. Objectors to animal experiments had, ...

The Drug Control Bill

The Senate Bill

As the crafting of new legislation becomes a drawn-out process, compromises eventually e m e rge, and the resulting proposals often appear to be portions of various proposals spliced together. Such is the case with a farm bill proposal approved Sept. 28 in the Senate Committee on A g r i c u l t u re, Nutrition, and Forestry. As of this writing, the specific language of the bill was being devel...