John Call Dalton

John Call Dalton (February 2, 1825 – February 12, 1889) was an American professor of physiology and microscopal anatomy, vivisection activist, and surgeon who served for the Union during the American Civil War. He was elected in 1864 a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Quotes The student who has commenced his career during the last few years, can but form a faint idea of what it was to do or even to witness a severe surgical operation previous to 1847. Then the Operating theater operating theatre, from the commencement to the end of the surgeon's performances, was a scene of pain and terror. The spectator's mind was half occupied in preserving an exterior of pretended indifference, and the air was filled with the patient's screams of suffering or apprehension. Now the operating theatre is a quiet and noiseless room. Introductory address delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; October 16, 1855 1855 New York John J. Schroeder, medical bookseller https://archive.org/details/introductoryadd00daltgoog 9 It was an important discovery when it was found, ten years ago, that bacteria might be developed in the interior of the living animal organism. In 1863 and 1864, Casimir Davaine Davaine ... showed that in the disease of sheep, known in France as Anthrax “ charbon " or " sang de rate," and called by the Germans " milz-brand,” the blood of the affected animal, during life, contained bacteria. He showed that the disease might be communicated by inoculation to other animals, always with a fatal result, and always with the development of bacteria in the blood previous to death. He afterward ... extended the same observation to cases of malignant pustule, which he declared to be one form of the " sang de rate " disease. The origin and propagation of disease: An address delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine, November 20, 1873 New York D. Appleton & Company 1874 25 https://archive.org/details/originpropagatio00dalt It is a universal conviction that animal life is properly to be sacrificed whenever it may be necessary for the welfare of mankind. Nothing is more essential to this welfare, than the preservation of health and the relief or cure of disease. Experimentation on Animals as a Means of Knowledge in Physiology, Pathology, and Practical Medicine F. W. Christern 1875 https://books.google.com/books/about/Experimentation_on_Animals_as_a_Means_of.html?id=52sMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 10 (71 pages) External links S. Weir Mitchell, Memoir of John Call Dalton, 1825–1889’’. In: National Academy of Sciences : Biographical Memoirs. – Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1895, Vol. III, pp. 177–185. Category:1825 births Category:1889 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Biochemists Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Physiologists Category:Science authors from the United States Category:Scientists from Massachusetts