First of all, for those of you who don't know me, I am a former vivisector and I speak out against vivisection now. |
Croce reveals the clear contradiction in the attitude of the vivisector towards animals. |
A locked enclosure on a lonely island, a notorious vivisector, and these crippled and distorted men? |
The object of the sportsman is to kill, and the object of the vivisector is to keep his victim alive while he cuts it up. |
We are left with a caricature of the German doctor as a power crazed, human vivisector. |
It got a big boost in the 1800's with Claude Bernard, an enthusiastic vivisector, who argued that the animal laboratory is where real medical knowledge is derived. |