Show USE ANIMALS TO TEST DRUGS how chemists ascertain the purity of ingredients A lot of borry looting chickens dogs and cats loafed in the black III smelling yard ot the great chemical plant we use these animals to test our drugs on said the they come in very handy they more than earn their board Ergot lne Is a drug we test on chickens it Is a simple test if dose of ergot lne falls to turn a chicken a comb black we know that the drug Is tor come reason or another worthless Has heesh we test on dogs ha Is made of female hemp buds male hemp buds have no medicinal value yet some dishonest dealers put male buds on the market and since they resemble female buds precisely it la impossible to detect them save by actual test dogs given has heesh get drunk and happy if the stuff Is good digitalis the heart stimulant Is tested on frogs we inject a drop of it into a frogs stomach and in the kymograph or heart recording ma chine we study the changes that take place in the frogs heart action thus we get a very accurate knowledge of what our digitalis can do do we ever test drugs on ourselves oh yes indeed often chemists have lost their lives chemists have gone in curably insane through too rash bravery in testing drugs on their own persons los angeles times |