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Our Ernest Bell Library copy of – The Shambles of Science.

An extremely rare book.

Most copies were destroyed after the ‘Brown Dog Trial’.

~ The Times declared itself satisfied with the verdict, though it criticized the rowdy behaviour of medical students during the trial, accusing them of “medical hooliganism,” while the Sun, Star and Daily News backed Coleridge, calling the decision a miscarriage of justice. Ernest Bell, publisher and printer of The Shambles of Science, apologized to Bayliss on 25 November, and pledged to withdraw the diary and pass its remaining copies to Bayliss’s solicitors. ~

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair

They kept a diary, calling it 'Eye-Witnesses', and later 'The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology' (shambles was a name for a slaughterhouse). The women were present when the brown dog was vivisected, and wrote a chapter about it called "Fun," referring to the laughter they said they heard in the lecture room during the procedure.… (mehr)