Show USE ANIMALS TO TEST DRUGS how chemists ascertain the purity of ingredients A lot of sorry looking chickens dogs and cats loafed in the black 1 smell ing yard of the great chemical plant we use these animals to test our drugs on said the demist they come in very handy they more than earn their board Ergot lne Is a drug we est on chick ens it Is a simple test a dose of ergot lne falls to turn eken a comb black we know that jhb drug la tor some reason or another worthless Has heesh we test on dogs ha cheesh 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 ts impossible to detect them save by actual test dogs given has heesh get drunk and happy it the stuff Is good digitalis the heart stimulant I 1 tested on frogs we inject a drop of it into a frog s stomach and in the kymograph or heart recording ma chine we study the changes that take place in the frog s heart action thus we get a very accurate knowledge of abat 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 |