Harriet Ritvo, in BioScience (Nov. 1984), 1401 Wilson Blvd., Arling- ton, Va. 22209.
"The word vivisection has an old-fashioned ring, and antivivisectionist is even more suggestive of quixotic Victorian crusades," writes the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology's Ritvo. Yet, protests against the use of live animals in scientific research have been growing in recent years.
The origins of antivivisectionism actually predate the Victorian era. 1780, a number of Evangelical clergymen...