Antivivisection

mid1880s: advent of removal of brain tumors (1884) based on David Ferrier’s and others work on cerebral localization in animals; used of thyroid tissue from animals to treat myxedema (cretinous condition in middle-aged women); 1901: availability of adrenalin in crystalline form, which dramatically saved victims of heart failure; 1922: Banting’s isolation of insulin to treat diabetes (Turner, 115-116). “The control of tuberculosis, the virtual eradication of yellow fever in the southern United States and of Malta fever in the British armed forces, serum treatment for ‘spotted fiver’ (epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis), public health measures to eliminate typhoid and cholera: All owed much to experiments on animals” (116).