Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Anna King'sford was an iconoclast in 1880's England, an activist and independent spirit,

even one of the first women in the country to obtain her medical degree.

And she was also a spiritualist of sorts.

Once while on a fox hunt, Anna had a vision that allowed her to see the world through

the eyes of the fox.

Soon after, she became a fierce advocate for animal rights, as well as a vegetarian.

Her experience also influenced her opinion of the popular medical practice known as vivisection.

Teachers and medical researchers would often cut open living animals for research purposes.

They believed it was a necessary evil to advance medical progress.

And Anna hated it.

In fact, she didn't just hate it.

She fought against it.

She first encountered it in Paris, where physiologist Claude Bernard would operate on

live dogs in front of his students.

He wanted to better understand the inner workings of the body, and what better way to do it

than to look at it up close.

Despite the growing backlash against it from the public, vivisection was seen within the

medical community as the only way to truly understand how the body functioned, and though

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