Frances Power Cobbe
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Frances Power Cobbe was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advoca
Portrait from Life of Frances Power Cobbe, 1894
Hajjin was Frances Power Cobbe's canine companion and travelled with her and her partner, Mary Lloyd, to Wales after Cobbe and Lloyd moved there
Lower section of the Reformers’ memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery, featuring Cobbe's name
Portrait of Frances Power Cobbe
Vivisection
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Vivisection is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as
Frances Power Cobbe
…Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS…
An anesthetized pig used for training a surgeon
Pro-vivisection cartoon in 1911
Prior to vivisection for educational purposes, chloroform was administered as an anesthetic to this common sand frog.
Wistar rat