Hormones: As We May Call Them
Chapter Two
Hormones…As We May Call Them
On November 20th, 1907, a group of British medical students headed to Battersea Park to smash a dog statue. It was a particularly foggy night, even by London standards, so they thought they could get away with it.
The statue, a seven-and-a-half-foot monument was a water fountain, with a high spout for people and a low one for pets. A bronzed brown terrier mutt perched on a granite base.
The inscription irked the students. A few lines in the belly of the dog’s plinth:
In Memory of the Brown Terrier Done to Death in the Laboratories of University College in February, 3, 1903 after having endured vivisection extending over more than two months and having been handed over from one vivisector to …show more content…
What raised the medical students’ hackles was that while the statue did not name names, they knew it was an attack on two doctors, their professors at University College London. Drs. William Bayliss and Ernest Starling had experimented on a dog that resembled the crowning canine.
Hundreds of classmates were supposed to show up for the demolition, but at the last minute most balked. Seven young men set out. They left their comfortable university grounds in a posh area of town not too far from Buckingham Palace to journey into Battersea, a working class neighborhood on the south side of the Thames. (Mason, p 42) (Grimm 2014) “A place to avoid if you could possibly help it,” noted one historian. (Mason 1997) p. 25 The park was an exception, a patch of green in the middle of gray.
As they neared their destination, they skulked to the statue, but the closer they got, the more they feared the mission. They worried that neighbors or the police would come after them. So when they got to The Brown Dog, they hid behind park benches and shrubs. Adolf MacGillicuddy, one of the medical students, leapt from the shrubbery, looked around to make sure no outsiders were watching, grabbed a crowbar, reached up as high as he could and swung at the dog’s paw. As soon as he had a toehold, MacGillicuddy heard footsteps. Cops! He raced out of
Hormones…As We May Call Them
On November 20th, 1907, a group of British medical students headed to Battersea Park to smash a dog statue. It was a particularly foggy night, even by London standards, so they thought they could get away with it.
The statue, a seven-and-a-half-foot monument was a water fountain, with a high spout for people and a low one for pets. A bronzed brown terrier mutt perched on a granite base.
The inscription irked the students. A few lines in the belly of the dog’s plinth:
In Memory of the Brown Terrier Done to Death in the Laboratories of University College in February, 3, 1903 after having endured vivisection extending over more than two months and having been handed over from one vivisector to …show more content…
What raised the medical students’ hackles was that while the statue did not name names, they knew it was an attack on two doctors, their professors at University College London. Drs. William Bayliss and Ernest Starling had experimented on a dog that resembled the crowning canine.
Hundreds of classmates were supposed to show up for the demolition, but at the last minute most balked. Seven young men set out. They left their comfortable university grounds in a posh area of town not too far from Buckingham Palace to journey into Battersea, a working class neighborhood on the south side of the Thames. (Mason, p 42) (Grimm 2014) “A place to avoid if you could possibly help it,” noted one historian. (Mason 1997) p. 25 The park was an exception, a patch of green in the middle of gray.
As they neared their destination, they skulked to the statue, but the closer they got, the more they feared the mission. They worried that neighbors or the police would come after them. So when they got to The Brown Dog, they hid behind park benches and shrubs. Adolf MacGillicuddy, one of the medical students, leapt from the shrubbery, looked around to make sure no outsiders were watching, grabbed a crowbar, reached up as high as he could and swung at the dog’s paw. As soon as he had a toehold, MacGillicuddy heard footsteps. Cops! He raced out of