Henry Jacob Bigelow quotes
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“The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium ... -contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.”
-- Henry Jacob BigelowSource : "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". P. 309. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.
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“Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.”
-- Henry Jacob BigelowSource : "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.
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“Dying is nothing, but pain is a very serious matter.”
-- Henry Jacob Bigelow
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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