"There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science as they now do to burning at the stake in the name of religion."
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Henry Jacob Bigelow, Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1894, p. 370.
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