Ibn Zuhr

experiments. Also like Aristotle and Erasistratus, Galen, a Greek physician who practiced in Rome and was a giant in the history of medicine, conducted animal experiments to advance the understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain, introduced animal testing as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human…

Animal experimentation is an important necessity for the science community, but because it is a controversial topic, there are many who believe that it shouldn’t be continued. At the same time, there is also a group who have deemed it a necessity in the advancement in medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, there have been a great number of breakthroughs that have saved many lives; in most cases, it was an animal that had to have been tested on first. Even though, animal experimentation was…

A wise leader, Mohandas Gandhi, once said, “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitles to the protection by man from the cruelty of man”. Over the years, starting from as early as 200 AD, animals have been used for testing for the benefits of human beings. They are crammed into cages that are two times too small for them and forced to take samples that range from diseases, beauty products, and…

Animals have been used to aid biomedical research for centuries. Greek physician-scientists, such as Aristotle, (384 – 322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304 – 258 BC), performed experiments on living animals. An Arab physician in twelfth century Spain, Ibn Zuhr, introduced animal testing as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human patients (Hajar). Recently, however, the science and medical community has come under fire for these experiments. Many have…

Documents have stated that humans started testing on animals during early Greek to understand anatomy, pathology, physiology, and pharmacology reasons. In the twelfth century, Ibn Zuhr, an Arab physician introduced the idea of testing animals as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before they applied it to a human. Laws have been passed in many countries to make the testing on animals for biomedical research…

The use of animals in medical research and testing is widely debated topic that spans decades and covers both the ethics and economics of the issue. There are two main groups within the debate surrounding animal testing: those who are for it and those who are against it. Animal testing can be described as the use of non-human animals in an experimental context that pertains to some form of medical testing (cosmetic allergy testing, cancer research, etc). As Donna Yarri the author of The Ethics…

Animals all over the globe are sitting in a cage right now, scared, cold and alone waiting for the next experiment to be done to them. They sit in this cage longing for the day that they are able to free, if they survive the experiments or if they are of no longer need to the scientists. Every year there are millions of animals killed in laboratories from the tests and experiments done to them. These poor, defenseless animals are poisoned, shocked, and burned during these tests and are often…

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…