National Antivisection Society
Animal experiments: the shocking truth (2)
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Oxford University
Rabbit with an experimental wound on its neck at Oxford University.
Some rabbits in the lab had tubes protruding from their throats.
The legs of other rabbits had been deliberately broken.
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St Bart’s Hospital Medical School, London
Rats recovering from experimental surgery at St Bart’s Hospital Medical School, London.
Also in this lab we saw animals which had been irradiated, and others had been deliberately crippled with painful arthritis.
These experiments were funded by top charities.
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Institute of Neurology, London
Elisa was used in experiments at the Institute of Neurology, London. She had a steel head piece of tubes and electrodes fixed into her head. Elisa had been chosen because her species was described as having “a generally docile and friendly nature". For the experiments, Elisa was starved for 24 hours, then restrained by the headpiece, bolted to the sides of a small cage, to perform tasks for food for up to four hours at a time.
When the NAVS filmed and photographed Elisa, she sat in her tiny cage constantly picking at the skin around the metal protruding from her skull. In these experiments the researchers planned to use 61 monkeys, 25 rats, and 4 cats.
St Mary’s Hospital medical School, London
At St Mary’s Hospital medical School, London, tubes and screws were fitted directly into rats’ brains, and tetanus toxin injected to induce seizures. We observed how some rats clutched at the implants, their eyes closed in obvious distress.
