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Show U8E 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 grent chomlcal plant. "Wo uso these anlmnls to test our drugs on," said tho c'lomlsL "Thoy como in vory hnndy. They moro than earn their board. "Ergotlno is a drug wo (est on chick-ens. chick-ens. It Is a Blmplo test. If a doso of ergotlno falls to turn a chicken's comb black wo know that tho drug Is, for some reason or another, worthless. "Hasheesh wo test on dogs. Ha-shocsh Ha-shocsh Is mado of femalo hemp buds; male homp buds have no medicinal value, yet somo dishonest dealers put raalo buds on tho market, and slnco thoy rcscmblo female buds precisely, it le impossible to detect thorn savo by actual test. Dogs given hnBhocBh got drunk and happy If tho stuff is good. "Digitalis, tho heart stimulant, la tostcd on frogs. Wo Inject a drop of it into a frog's stomach, and In tho kymograph, or heart-recording ma-ehlno, ma-ehlno, wo study tho changos that tako placo In tho frog's heart action. Thus wo got a vory nccurato knowledgo of wknt our digitalis can do. "Do wo over tost drugs on ourselves? Oh, yes, Indeed; often. Chemists havo lost tholr lives, chemists havo gono incurably in-curably Insnno, through too rash bravery In testing drugs on tholr own porsonB." Los Angeles Times. |