Cruelty to Animals Act 1876
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The Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which set limits on the practice of, and instituted a licensing system for animal experimentation, amending the Cruel
A perception that the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 was weak led to a libel suit, the erection of this monument to a vivisected "brown dog", and riots by medical students in 1907
Wistar rat
Animal testing
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Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals, as model organisms, in experiments that seek answers to scientific and medi
Cruelty to Animals Act 1876
…39 & 40 Vict. c. 77) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which set limits on the practice of, and instituted a licensing system for animal experimentation, amending the Cruelty to Animals Act 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 92). The act stipulated that researchers would be prosecuted for cruelty, unless they…
An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, from 1768, by Joseph Wright
One of Pavlov's dogs with a saliva-catch container and tube surgically implanted in his muzzle, Pavlov Museum, 2005
Fruit flies are an invertebrate commonly used in animal testing.