Wilhelm Feldberg

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Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg

physiologist and biologist
.

Biography

Feldberg was born in

Commander of the Order of the British Empire
in 1963.

Wilhelm Feldberg assisted many research workers who came to England as a part of their Commonwealth Medical Fellowship and Wellcome Research Fellowship. Under this Fellowships, Professor PN Saxena[2] and Prof. KP Gupta of the Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, during the 1970s got many papers published together with Wilhelm Feldberg while their vocation at National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill.[3]

Controversy

Feldberg's career was ended in 1990 when two

ISBN 1-897766-05-X
).

Feldberg became infamous, as MacDonald puts it, for his severe cruelty during animal research experiments. In the year of 1990, an investigation by the animal welfare group

Advocates for Animals
revealed experiments in which rabbits were regularly burned and operated on without adequate anaesthesia, or even at all, and sometimes even without being covered by a licence.

These revelations came when Feldberg was 89 years old. These experiments took place at the National Institute for Medical Research laboratories, Mill Hill, in London, which relate to the functions and decisions of the

Home Department
. These experiments took place between 1989 and 1990.

Along with Feldberg's technician Mr. Stean, the

Medical Research Council
Inquiry found that he caused both unnecessary suffering to animals.

MacDonald reports that Feldberg experimented by pouring various chemicals into the brains of cats while alive and fully conscious. However, as MacDonald and the inquiry found, it was his experiments on rabbits that brought about his downfall and subsequent sacking in 1990. This was just four months after he was awarded the Wellcome Gold Medal in Pharmacology by the British Pharmacological Society.[4][5][6]

On 26 May 1994 the book Caught in the Act: The Feldberg Investigation by Melody MacDonald exposed his alleged malpractice to the world.[7]

References

  1. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0009
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  2. PMID 21350620
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  3. ^ Syed Ziaur Rahman (July–September 2010). "Wilhelm Feldberg and Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh (India)". Newsletter of Ibn Sina Academy. 10 (3): 11–13.
  4. ^ Stop 2. Animalliberationfront.com. Retrieved on 23 June 2014.
  5. ^ House of Commons Hansard Debates for 11 Mar 1991. Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved on 23 June 2014.
  6. ^ Tierschutz Dortmund. Vivisection-absurd.org.uk. Retrieved on 23 June 2014.
  7. ISBN 189776605X
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External links
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