HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 75 
I will skim over this and go directly to page 7 of my testimony, 
in an attempt to keep this material down, but I hope the committee 
will glance over those earlier pages. 
Dr. Bernstein just referred to the use of animals by high school 
students, and men who wish to indoctrinate untrained youths in use- 
less pain infliction cannot be expected to be concerned about un- 
planned and improperly conducted experiments inside scientific in- 
stitutions. Many such experiments are not even submitted for pub- 
lication, much less published. Such work involves none of the 
burdensome recordkeeping to which some opponents of H.R. 1937 
have so passionately objected. I am sorry I am so far away because 
I do have some material that I would like to hand up to the committee. 
You will find in my testimony references to abuse of student surgery 
in both medical and veterinary schools, and great cruelty inflicted. 
I would also like to put into the record a letter by a medical student 
who withdrew from a medical school partly because of the cruelty — and 
I do not know that he withdrew entirely for that reason — such things 
as the kicking around of a crippled dog by animal handlers, and 
students throwing dogs into a tank which were supposed to be dead 
but which later came to life. 
I have seen dogs in medical schools upon which a series of major 
operations have been done, pitiful, cringing, emaciated creatures, 
and the picture that I have given you in the Scientific Journal will 
gives you an idea of how they sometimes look. 
Opponents of H.R. 1937 will tell this committee that even larger 
amounts of money than they are now receiving from the Government 
is all that is needed. It is our experience that in visiting new 
laboratories it is common to find large amounts of money spent on 
stainless steel and shiny tile, but these are far from being a guarantee 
of decent treatment of the animals. In a medical school fitted out 
with long stretches of gleaming corridors we found cats being kept 
in cages with nothing but wide-spaced one-way wires for floors. There 
were two cats in each of these cages, and in every case, one of them 
was perched on the feeding bowl to keep off the wires that pressed 
into their sensitive paws. What of the dogs in this institution? 
One lay dead, not even noticed by anyone, despite the endless assur- 
ances by the National Society for Medical Research of winch I would 
like to give just one example, and you would perhaps like to again 
have the actual clipping. 
It says : 
Reseabch Dogs Are More Pampered Than Pets, Kid-Gloves in the Lab 
If a Texas millionaire wanted to give his pet hound the world’s finest care, 
he would be hard put to equal the kid-gloves treatment which thousands of dogs 
receive today in modern animal research laboratories throughout the Nation. 
This wildly untrue release was used, according to the NSMR, by 200 
publications. 
How does this jibe with a manual gotten out in the NSMR’s home 
State and recommended by one of its most active board members ? 
I would like to have the committee have these two pages. 
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