This presentation to accompany The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells focuses on the erasure of the boundary between the human and the animal and on the anti-vivisectionist controversy of the late nineteenth century.

1. The Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells, 1896

2. Blood Transfusion:
Breaking Down the Boundary
Between Humans and Animals

3. Human Veins
William Harvey, 1628

4. Richard Lower Transfusing Lamb’s
Blood to a Man (17th c.)

5. Lamb’s Blood Transfusion, 1874

6. Transfusion of a Goat’s Blood
Jules Adler, 1890

8. Charles Vacanti Mouse, 1997

9. Vivisection

10. Galen Vivisecting a Pig in Rome, 2nd c.
1541 Print
History Of Vivisection art

11. The Natural History of Native Frogs
August Johan Rösel von Rosenhof, 1758

12. A Physiological Demonstration with Vivisection of a Dog
Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832

14. Dr. Claude Bernard

15. The Lesson of Claude Bernard, or Session at the
Vivisection Laboratory
Léon Augustin Lhermitte, 1889

17. Vivisection: The Last Appeal
John McClure Hamilton, 1883

18. Anti-Vivisectionist Illustration, 19th c.

19. The Four Stages of Cruelty
William Hogarth, 1751

24. Ivan Pavlov
1904 Nobel Prize Winner

28. The Anti-Vivisection Movement
Today

32. The New England Anti-Vivisection Society