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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1882. Owen, Richard (1804-98). Experimental physiology: Its benefits to mankind with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881. vi, [2], 216pp. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1882. 188 x 122 mm. Original cloth, light wear at extremities and corners, front cover a bit bubbled. Minor foxing but very good. First Edition of an atypical historical medical work by Richard Owen, who, like Thomas Huxley, was trained in medicine. Besides his contributions to paleontology, Owen was the leading comparative anatomist of his time. Owen's Experimental Physiology, an expanded version of his address delivered to commemorate the tercentenary of William Harvey's birth, formed part of the heated debate over vivisection that erupted after the passage in 1876 of the Cruelty to Animals Act. The anti-vivisection forces in Britain condemned animal experimentation as both immoral and scientifically useless, and their many attacks against physiological… Read More