Excerpt from The Influence of Animal Experimentation on Medical Science From the beginning of history until the present century, medicine has been either absolutely denied a place among the Sciences or else branded as inexact, empyrical and laggard in its development and progress. Although dealing, as it does, with the most complex prob lems of human existence, where, as in no other science, every law of nature is controlled and modified by that unknown force we call vitality, Medicine has nevertheless, from the very first, been forced to meet the demand for complete knowledge. To it alone, the answer we do not yet know all has been denied. 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.