It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Bio: Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart known as Sir Robert Vansittart between 1929 and 1941, was a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War.