Abstract
A BOOK which reaches a second edition in two years can do so only in response to some distinct demand, and such a demand is in itself no little recommendation as to its merits. The author of the book, Mr. Stephen Paget, was for twelve years secretary to the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research, and it was therefore his business βto know something about experiments on animals, and to follow the working of the (Vivisection) Act of 1876.β He is therefore to a peculiar degree competent to write a book dealing with these subjects, and it is a matter for congratulation that the council of the Association above mentioned decided that the book should be written with a view to general reading. Though in this present edition all references to anti-vivisection societies and their methods are very wisely omitted, yet the obvious purpose of the book is to combat the misleading statements which these societies have disseminated broadcast amongst the unin-structed public, and to afford information concerning the results achieved by such experiments on animals, whereby the public may be enabled to judge for themselves as to the claims of the anti-vivisectors. To quote Lord Lister, who writes an introduction to this volume,
Experiments on Animals.
By Stephen Paget. Pp. xvi + 387. New and revised edition. (London: Murray, 1903.) Price 6s.
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V., H. Experiments on Animals . Nature 68, 74β75 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068074a0
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