Show USE ANIMALS TO TEST DRUGS How Chemists Ascertain the Purity of Ingredients A lot of sorry looking chickens dogs and cats loafed In tho black 111 smelling smell-ing yard of tho great chemical plant We use these animals to test our drugs on said tho cVomlst They como In very handy They more than earn their board Ergotlno Is a drug wo test on chickens chick-ens It Is a simple test It a dose of ergotlno falls to turn a chickens comb I black we know that tho drug is for some reason or another worthless Hasheesh wo test on dogs Ha Bhoesh Is made of female hemp buds male hemp buds have no medicinal value yet some dishonest dealers put male buds on tho market and since they resemble female buds precisely it lo impossible to detect them save by actual test Dogs given hasheesh get drunk and happy if the stuff Is good Digitalis the heart stimulant Is tested on frogs Wo Inject a drop of it into a frogs stomach and in tho kymograph or lmeart recording machine ma-chine we study the changes that take place In the frogs heart action Thus we get a very accurate knowledge of I wlat our digitalis can doDo do-Do we over test drugs on ourselves Oh yes Indeed often Chemists have lost their lives chemists havo gone incurably in-curably Insane through too rash bravery In testing drugs on their own tJersonsLos Angeles Times |