The act of animal testing for biomedical research began as early as 500 BC. The known people who had started this were Aristotle and Erasistratus. They performed experiments on living animals. A Greek physician named Galen, who lived from 129-199/217 AD, conducted research on animals to understand studies such as anatomy and pharmacology. A man named Ibn Zuhr was an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain. He introduced animal testing as a way of practicing medical procedures before actually performing the surgery on humans. However, there has been a growing issue on these practices in our time. Animal testing is cruel and unnecessary, therefore it should be abolished. The growing argument of animal testing began with people uniting
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Animals are also very different than humans in some ways, such as a dog being able to digest things a human cannot and vice versa. Therefore, the testing of some medications on an animal may not prove benefitial to a human the same way it would benefit an animal. Those who are for animal testing argue that research on animals can benefit the expansion and productivity of medical and biological advances. The father of physiology, Claude Bernard, stated, “Experiments on animals are highly conclusive for the toxicology and hygiene of a man. The effects of these substances are the same on man as on animals, save for the differences on degree”. He feels that he established his method of animal experimentation to aid the development of scientific …show more content…
Dogs were used in the insulin research. They had their pancreas removed and this led to discovering insulin, which helps people with diabetes. Animals were infected with polio, and from that study, scientists discovered how to cure it; changing the number of occurrences from 350,000 in 1988 to 223 in 2012. Not only have animals helped in curing these diseases, but also breast cancer, brain injury, and even malaria. Chimpanzees were used in finding a vaccine for Hepatitis C, a disease that kills 15,000 people in the United States every
Animals are also very different than humans in some ways, such as a dog being able to digest things a human cannot and vice versa. Therefore, the testing of some medications on an animal may not prove benefitial to a human the same way it would benefit an animal. Those who are for animal testing argue that research on animals can benefit the expansion and productivity of medical and biological advances. The father of physiology, Claude Bernard, stated, “Experiments on animals are highly conclusive for the toxicology and hygiene of a man. The effects of these substances are the same on man as on animals, save for the differences on degree”. He feels that he established his method of animal experimentation to aid the development of scientific …show more content…
Dogs were used in the insulin research. They had their pancreas removed and this led to discovering insulin, which helps people with diabetes. Animals were infected with polio, and from that study, scientists discovered how to cure it; changing the number of occurrences from 350,000 in 1988 to 223 in 2012. Not only have animals helped in curing these diseases, but also breast cancer, brain injury, and even malaria. Chimpanzees were used in finding a vaccine for Hepatitis C, a disease that kills 15,000 people in the United States every