HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 219 
in “Principles of Research in Biology and Medicine,” published by Lippincott in 
1958, says on page 86 : 
Make an immediate, intelligible record of all that is done and observed ; 
memory is fallible. * * * The recording of procedures need not be time consum- 
ing if the experimenter develops suitable data sheets and symbols of results. 
Page 87 — At least once each year, the experimenter should write a concise report 
on his research. This is an aid to the establishment of perspective for the 
experimenter himself and for others interested in his research. 
With a better exchange of data among scientists, duplication could be pre- 
vented, waste of money, and unnecessary suffering vastly cut down. Considering 
the large sums poured into medical research by the Federal Government, legisla- 
tion relating thereto is of major importance. It is the responsibility of the 
taxpayer to insist that such funds be not spent in a way that violates decent, 
humane principles. For whatever reason we defend our use of animals — superior 
force or God-given right — justice demands that we mitigate as far as possible 
the suffering inherent in their service to mankind. 
On behalf of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation and all those who 
have supported us in our work, I beg for your prompt and favorable action on 
H.R. 1937. 
Mr. Roberts. Dr. Pfeiffer, I believe you’re next. 
STATEMENT OF CARL C. PFEIFFER, PAST PRESIDENT, AMERICAN 
SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERA- 
PEUTICS, AND DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF RESEARCH, NEW 
JERSEY NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE, REPRESENTING THE 
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL 
BIOLOGY 
Dr. Pfeiffer. Thank you, Mr. Roberts. 
I am Dr. Pfeiffer, the past president of the American Society for 
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. We have 1,000 
members in the United States. I am also on the executive committee 
of the federation, which is more popularly known as the Federated 
Societies of Experimental Biology. This has a membership of 8,000 
in the United States. 
My present job is director of the bureau of research of the State of 
New Jersey. And I am engaged in research on new drugs which may 
help the mentally ill. I am here to speak against House bills 1937 and 
3556. 
In the first place, I have for the first time seen what the previous 
speaker called a common bit of laboratory equipment, namely, the 
Noble-Collip drum and the Blalock press. These are devices which 
were used in only a few laboratories during the war. I was in the 
Naval Medical Research Laboratory during the war, and we did not 
use either of these devices. But in the case of the Blalock press, doc- 
tors found in Britain after the bombing of buildings that people 
would be crushed with no bones broken, and that they would die ap- 
proximately 5 to 7 days later, and they would die as a result of pro- 
tein coming from the muscle to occlude the kidneys. Therefore 
Blalock at that time devised this instrument, presumably, or a fac- 
simile of it, in order to crush the muscle of an anesthetized dog with- 
out breaking any, bones. These individuals in Britain had no bones 
broken, yet they died. And from that they found various methods of 
increasing the excretion of protein in the urine so that the protein of 
the muscle would not block the kidneys. In the case of the Noble- 
Collip drum, this may be used in the occasional laboratory, but it is 
