List of illustrations -- Foreword / Adrian R. Morrison -- Introduction / Regina Botting -- I. Treatment of infectious diseases -- 1. Smallpox and After: An Early History of the Treatment and Prevention of Infections -- 2. Rabies -- 3. Lockjaw: Prevalent but Preventable -- 4. Pertussis Vaccine, Unfairly Maligned – At What Cost? -- 5. Vaccination: The Present and Future -- 6. The Conquest of Polio and the Contribution of Animal Experiments -- 7. Diphtheria: Understanding, Treatment and Prevention -- II. Development of Life-saving Procedures -- 8. Development of Dialysis to Treat Loss of Kidney Function -- 9. The Contribution of Animal Experiments to Kidney Transplantation -- 10. Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Making Surgery on the Heart Possibe -- 11. Artificial Heart Valves: From Caged Ball to Bioprosthesis -- 12. Animals and Blood Transfusion -- III. Drugs for Organic Diseases -- 13. Animal Experiments and the Production of Insulin -- 14. Animals and Humans: Remarkably Similar -- 15. Early Animal Experiments in Anaesthesia -- 16. The Control of Malignant Hypertension -- 17. Penicillin and Laboratory Animals: The Animal Rights Myth -- 18. The History of Thalidomide -- 19. Misleading Research or Misleading Statistics: Animal Experiments and Cancer Research -- Index.