infecting healthy rabbits with the disease. Even though a rabies epidemic had taken 79 English lives in 1877, revulsion against Pas- teur's method sparked a public outcry against use of his vaccine. Within 20 years, however, the role of animal experimentation in the conquest of such deadly diseases as diphtheria deprived antivivisec- tionism of broad popular support.
Today's most vocal animal-rights protesters in Britain and the United States, like their Victorian predecessors, doubt the value...