Vivisection

VIvisection

• Dissecting a living human or animal
• Mostly dogs
•  examine the function of organs.
• no anesthetic

who?

• Robert Hooke 
• Magendie 
• Many people opposed

Why is this important?

• Around time period of Frankenstein
• Important discoveries in Science
• End of natural philosophy 
• Start of animal experimentation
• Rationalism 

Frankenstein

• Frankenstein collected body parts
• Monster
• Authors made connections
• Time period
• theme of nature

The End