PICTORIAL HISTORY of VIVISECTION

  
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2nd C:
    c160: anatomy and physiology - Galen

                                     
17th C:
   1667: lactreals - Aselli
   1628: blood circulation - Harvey
   1647: thoracic duct - Pecquet
   1659: function of lungs and airpump - Boyle
   1665: blood transfusion - Lawler; Denys

                                      
18th C:
  
1703: abdominal surgery - Shipton
   1733: measurement of blood pressure - Hales
   1758: aneurysm treatment - Hunter
   1778: hip joint amputation
   1780: animal electricity - Galvani

                                   
19th C: [1804-47]
  
1804: skin grafts
   1811: motor and sensory nerves - Bell
   1822: brain localisation - Flourens
   1838: cornea grafts - Kissen
   1844: Claude Bernard
   1846: ether - Morton
   1847: chloroform - Wakley

                                   
19th C: [1850-98]
   1850: ovariotomy - Spencer Wells
   1856: thyroidectomy - Schiff, Horsley
   1857: antisepsis - Lister
   1871: brain mapping - Fritsch, and others
   1872: germ theory - Pasteur
   1881: anthrax vaccine - Pasteur
   1884: rabies vaccine - Pasteur
   1882: tuberculosis - tuberculin - Koch
   1887: electrical activity of the heart - Waller
   1895: digestion - Pavlov
   1898: calf lymph for smallpox vaccine

                                     
16th C:
  
1543: anatomy - Vesalius
   1543: circulation thru lungs - Colombo

                                   
20th C: 1900s:
   1902: kidney transplant - Ullman
   1904: diphtheria vaccine - horse serum
   1905: heart transplant - Carrel
   1906: Horsley-Clarke stereotaxic device
   1906: ECG - Einthoven
   1910: poliovirus - route of infection - Flexner

                                 
20th C: 1920s:
  
1921: tar and cancer - Passey
   1922: insulin - Banting and Best
   1927: LD50 test introduced

                              
20th C: 1930s:
  
1930: high blood pressure - Heymans
   1931: heart-lung machine - Gibbon
   1937: "Skinner box"
   1930s: penicillin - Florey
   1930s: heart catheter - Cournard, Rogers

                              
20th C: 1940s:
  
1940: traumatic shock - Best
   1940: Rh factor in blood - Landsteiner
   1940s: pyrogen test introduced
   1940s: tobacco smoking and cancer - Berenblum
   1940s: "tail flick"; "hot plate" tests introduced
   1942: Nobel-Collip drum
   1944: Draize eye test introduced
   1940s: Draize skin irritancy test introduced
   1946: Bikini Atoll - atomic bomb test
   1948: heart bypass surgery

                              
20th C: 1950s:
  
1950s: heart pacemaker
   1950s: kidney transplants - Lawler; Murray
   1952: "Zeigler chair" introduced
   1953: heart valves
   1955: elevated plus maze test introduced
   1957: space launch - "Laika"

                              
20th C: 1960s:
  
1962: "nude" mice for cancer research  
   1962: brain isolated - White
   1964: head transplant - White
   1960s: depression - Harlow
   1965: sodium cromoglycate for asthma
   1967: heart transplants - Barnard; Shumway

                              
20th C: 1970s:
  
1970: artificial heart
   1974: atherosclerosis - rabbit "model"

  
1975: "smoking beagles"
   1975: anti-cancer drug tests
   1978: leprosy - armadillo "model"
   1970s: radiation experiments
   1970s: CAT scanner - Houndsfield
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20th C: 1980s:
  
1984: Porton Down - ballistic tests
   1984: mdx for muscular dystrophy
   1987: "scid-hu" mouse for cancer research
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20th C: 1990s: 
   1992: pigs for xenotransplants 

  
1993: cf mice for cystic fibrosis
   1995: "mouse`s ear"

  
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