Who thought of cutting up frogs for reserch work?

Question

why? why did they have to kill the poor creatures?

Answer 1

I can't really answer who, because the practice has been going on for at least hundreds of years. In fact, one might argue that even the ancient Greeks trying to predict the future by reading sheep entrails were cutting up animals for research (that too, was once the forefront of human knowledge!) :-)

However, the "why" question is more important. One justification is that it provided a practical means to understand the internal anatomy of living things. It's more tangible and practical than reading it out of a book, and less expensive and disturbing than having everyone participate in a human dissection.

It's worth keeping a sense of historical context. In decades and centuries past, many folks were more comfortable with the idea of raising an animal just to kill it so that a child may use it as a classroom prop. Also, there were fewer technical alternatives available to provide such information. Dissection will always have its place (would you want to have as your surgeon someone who's never worked on a flesh-and-blood patient before?) but these days as far as general education goes we have more alternatives available to convey the same information and get the same educational value for large numbers of people without having to kill animals needlessly for it.

Answer 2

The same person who thought putting everything in formaldehyde was so cool. I really dislike the smell of formaldehyde. Once you smell it you never forget it, just like dissecting the poor frog in Sophomore Biology class.

Answer 3

Scientists thought that. Frogs' organs resemble human organs in a similar way.

In killing them, it's not that they're extinct. They reproduce fast, and there's many of them, so i guess there's no problem with that.