350 



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Table III. shows the number and the nature of the experi- 

 ments performed by each licensee mentioned in Table I., 

 specifying whether these experiments were done under the 

 license alone or under any special certificate, so that the 

 reader may judge which experiments (if any) were of a painful 

 nature. 



Table III. is divided into two parts, A. and B., for the 

 purpose of separating experiments which are performed with- 

 out anaesthetics from experiments in which anaesthetics are 

 used. The only experiments performed without anaesthetics 

 are inoculations, hypodermic injections, vaccinations, and 

 similar proceedings, in which the pain inflicted is not 

 greater than the prick of a needle. No experiments requiring 

 anything of the nature of a surgical operation, or that would 

 cause the infliction of an appreciable amount of pain, are 

 allowed to be performed without an anaesthetic. 



The total number of experiments included in Table III. 

 (A.) is 1656. 



Of these there were performed, — 



Under License alone . . . 820 



,, Certificate C . . .182 



„ Certificate B ... 449 



„ Certificate B + EE . . -205 



In experiments performed under the license alone, or 

 under Certificate C, the animal suffers no pain, because it is 

 kept under the influence of an anaesthetic from the beginning 

 of the experiment until it is killed. 



In experiments performed under Certificate B (or EE or 

 F linked with B) the animal is anaesthetised during the 

 operation, but is allowed to recover. These operations, in 

 order to ensure success, are necessarily done with as much 

 care as are similar operations upon the human subject, and 

 the operations being performed aseptically, the process of 

 healing takes place without pain. 



Inoculations made (upon rodents) with the object of 

 diagnosing rabies in dogs have been placed, together with 



