Henry Jacob Bigelow: Humanity

Henry Jacob Bigelow was American surgeon. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.

Henry Jacob Bigelow: 14 quotes0 likes

“The horrors of [Vivisection] have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium: perhaps to be confuted the next year, perhaps to remain as fixed truth of immediate value, — contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 309

“Anti-cruelty societies should be encouraged. The progress of science has suffered little by their existence, and humanity has gained much.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 372

“Watch the students at a vivisection. It is the blood and suffering, not the science, that rivet their breathless attention. If hospital service makes young students less tender of suffering, vivisection deadens their humanity, and begets indifference to it.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 310

“It should not for a moment be supposed that cultivation of the intellect leads a man to shrink from inflicting pain. Many educated men are no more humane, are in fact far less so, than many comparatively uneducated people.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 365