Vivisection
Vivisection, viv'i-sek'shan, n. [< L. vivus, alive, and sectio, sectionis, a cutting.]
The dissection of, or otherwise experimenting on, a living animal, esp. for the purpose of ascertaining or demonstrating some
fact in physiology or pathology. -Websters Dictionary
"Experts say 98 million Americans who took polio shots in the 1950's and 1960's may get a deadly brain cancer from the inoculations. Researchers at the University of Chicago medical center say that a virus contaminated the polio vaccine and they have now found genetic material from the virus in a number of brain cancer victims..."
Article in Weekly World News (U.S.A.) May 28, 1985
"The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature---maternal love. In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research."
Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor of modern times
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