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Show USE ANIMALS TO TEST DRUG6. 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. "Wo uso theso animals to test our drugs on," said the c'kemlst. "Thoy coma In vorv handv. Thev more than earn their board. "Ergotlne Is a drug wo test on chickens. chick-ens. It is a simple tost. If a doso of ergotlno falls to turn a chicken's comb black wo know that tho drug Is, for some reason or nnother, worthless. "Hasheesh wo test on dogs. Ha-shuesh Ha-shuesh is mado of femalo honip buds; male hemp buds havo no medicinal val do, yet somo dishonest dealers put malo buds on the markot, and slnco thoy resemble female buds precisely, it lo impossible to dotoct them savo by actual test Dogs given hasheesh got drunk and happy If tho stuff Is good. "Digitalis, tho heart stimulant, is tested on frogs. Wo Inject a drop of it into n frog's stomach, and In tho kymograph, or heart-recording machine, ma-chine, wo study tho changes that tako place In tho frog's heart action. Thus wo get n very accurate knowledgo of wVnt our digitalis can do. "Do we over test drugs on ourselves? Oh, yes, Indcod; often. Chemists havo lost their lives, chomlsts havo gono incurably in-curably Inrnno, through too rash bravery In testing drugs on thelr'own persona." Los Angoles Times. |