'The shambles of science': early physiology teaching at UCL & The Brown Dog Affair. On 2 February 1903, William Bayliss, Assistant Professor of Physiology at UCL, gave a lecture on the process of secretion, which included a demonstration using an anaesthetised dog. Present were two students of the London School of Medicine for Women, whose account of proceedings led to allegations of law-breaking, questions in Parliament, and a libel trial. When a statue commemorating the dog was installed in a recreation ground in Battersea, serious public disorder on the streets of London followed, bringing medical students into conflict with anti-vivisectionists, the working people of Battersea, and campaigners for women’s suffrage. Consequences included the removal of the statue under cover of darkness, and ultimately a new Royal Commission on Vivisection.

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2/24/2023

'The shambles of science': early physiology teaching at UCL & the Brown Dog Affair. The shambles of science On 2 February 1903, William Bayliss, Assistant Professor of Physiology at UCL, gave a lecture on the process of secretion, which included a demonstration using an anaesthetised dog. Present were two students of the London School of Medicine for Women, whose account of proceedings led to allegations of law-breaking, questions in Parliament, and a libel trial. When a statue commemorating the dog was installed in a recreation ground in Battersea, serious public disorder on the streets of London followed, bringing medical students into conflict with anti-vivisectionists, the working people of Battersea, and campaigners for women’s suffrage. Consequences included the removal of the statue under cover of darkness, and ultimately a new Royal Commission on Vivisection.

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2/24/2023

'The shambles of science': early physiology teaching at UCL & The Brown Dog Affair On 2 February 1903, William Bayliss, Assistant Professor of Physiology at UCL, gave a lecture on the process of secretion, which included a demonstration using an anaesthetised dog. Present were two students of the London School of Medicine for Women, whose account of proceedings led to allegations of law-breaking, questions in Parliament, and a libel trial. When a statue commemorating the dog was installed in a recreation ground in Battersea, serious public disorder on the streets of London followed, bringing medical students into conflict with anti-vivisectionists, the working people of Battersea, and campaigners for women’s suffrage. Consequences included the removal of the statue under cover of darkness, and ultimately a new Royal Commission on Vivisection. This event uses drama, music, talks, archives and museum exhibits to explore the original lecture and the issues arising from it.

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2/24/2023

'The shambles of science': early physiology teaching at UCL & The Brown Dog Affair. On 2 February 1903, William Bayliss, Assistant Professor of Physiology at UCL, gave a lecture on the process of secretion, which included a demonstration using an anaesthetised dog. Present were two students of the London School of Medicine for Women, whose account of proceedings led to allegations of law-breaking, questions in Parliament, and a libel trial. When a statue commemorating the dog was installed in a recreation ground in Battersea, serious public disorder on the streets of London followed, bringing medical students into conflict with anti-vivisectionists, the working people of Battersea, and campaigners for women’s suffrage. Consequences included the removal of the statue under cover of darkness, and ultimately a new Royal Commission on Vivisection. This event uses drama, music, talks, archives and museum exhibits to explore the original lecture and the issues arising from it.

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2/24/2023

This is the second episode of a podcast mini series to accompany FLOP 13 Stories of Failure, a free exhibition at the UCL Octagon Gallery open from 21 October 2019 to 10 April 2020. The exhibition has been commissioned by UCL Culture and curated by Thomas Kador (UCL Arts & Sciences). It shines a spotlight on a topic that most of us rather avoid and not talk about and investigates (through 13 stories) what happens when things go wrong. The FLOPCAST series comprises 15 different voices, all experts in their fields, discussing some of the objects on display at the exhibition to tell these stories of failure. The intention is that the podcasts can be accessed both while people are looking at the exhibits and independently without having visited the exhibition. In this second episode Professor Joe Cain tells the story of the brow dog affair.

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10/19/2019