Heart and Science

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Luke Fildes, William Powell Frith and George Richmond. A girl is worn down by her aunt for the sake of her inheritance, and the one doctor who understands her illness is a physiologist who would rather watch it run its course for his research. Collins wrote this in 1883 as a frontal attack on vivisection — he researched the laboratories, put a r...