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the Act, had hardly made a beginning. Therefore 

 the Act made no special provision for inoculations, 

 injections, and the whole study of immunisation of 

 animals and men against disease. Experiments 

 of this kind have to be scheduled under one of 

 the existing certificates, to bring them under an 

 Act that was drafted without foreknowledge of 

 them. Certificate A or Certificate B has to be 

 used for this purpose : — 



Certificate A. 



"We hereby certify that, in our opinion, 

 insensibility in the animal on which any such 

 experiment may be performed cannot be produced 

 by anaesthetics without necessarily frustrating the 

 object of such experiment." 



Certificate B. 



" We hereby certify that, in our opinion, the 

 killing of the animal on which any such experiment 

 is performed before it recovers from the influence 

 of the anaesthetic administered to it, would neces- 

 sarily frustrate the object of such experiment." 



Under one or other of these certificates must 

 be scheduled all inoculations, injections, feeding- 

 experiments, transplantations of particles of disease, 

 immunisations, and the like. They must be 

 scheduled somehow ; and that is the only way of 

 doing it. Where the act of inducing the disease 

 would itself give any pain, if an anaesthetic were 

 not administered — as in the subdural inoculation of 



