Excerpt from Defence of Vivisection: Resolutions Adopted by the American Medical Association, May 6th, 1896 Experimentation 'upon animals is an absolutely indis pensable and the most important method of investigation of the properties of living organisms, and of the influences which modify these properties. The science and the art Of medicine are based upon the knowledge of the structure and the functions of living matter, and consequently in large, part upon knowledge which has been obtained by experiments upon animals and which could have been gained in no other way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.