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Animal testing has brought an innumerable number of advances to medicine. Several aesthetic products and advances in neurophysiologyhave come from vivisections. The treatment of rabies and anthrax can be traced back to animals. Other medical advancements include the treatment of arthritis, whooping cough, leprosy, diphtheria, rubella, and measles.
The medical field has been greatly impacted by the use of animals. Experimentation withthe use of animals has been dubbed as vivisections. One such famous vivisection was conducted by F. G. Banting and J.J R. Macleod. The two Canadian physiologists took diabetic dogs and removed their pancreases. Then they discovered a cure for diabetes through the use of insulin. This experiment won them a Nobel Prize in 1923. This also led to further experiments of the same type. Scientists would purposely produce diabetes in rabbits so as to create laser treatments for certain retinal disease that diabetes induces.
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Just a small sample of the good things that have happened through animal testing. Certainly there have been failures of which Thalidomide was one and a biggie and the most famous. there are others including Clioquinol.
But nobody can claim that the bad outweighs the good in these cases. Not only has that testing helped medical advances in humans occur...it has also helped in the medical treatment of animals!!