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I removed from them. As their nails never touched ground — they lived their 
lives in small cages — their nails grew freely. About 60 percent of them had 
the nails grown completely around and into the foot. The animals could not 
walk more than a few steps. This is not necessary. This is not part of an “ex- 
periment.” 
This Is just one detail in the complete lack of proper kennel care. Please note 
that I have not condemned medical experiments, except certain phases of the 
transquilizer job ; but I am protesting violently against the ignorance, indiffer- 
ence, and downright cruelty with which these animals are handled. God knows 
how they suffer in most of this work, but why should they suffer in their cages? 
Because the people in charge are too indifferent to instruct the help to clip toe- 
nails once a week — even once a month. 
Again I remind you that this is an eyewitness story. I shall leave you with a 
parting picture to think about — a picture of a basement room of the building, 
down where no ears can hear. There is a V-shaped board on the floor upon which 
is firmly tied, on her back, a fully conscious frightened bitch. She is to have 
compounds injected into her femoral vein (large vein on the inside of her thigh) 
at timed intervals, to note the effect upon her. I am not certain what the purpose 
was, as I was asked only to accompany the technician who was performing the 
injections. I was asked to “bind her mouth because her screams bothered the 
technician.” 
The technician was a girl of 20 or 21, with no college training, no training for 
this work at all ; she had only on-the-job training. She had “an idea” where lay 
the femoral vessels. She knew that they lie deep in the leg, not superficially like 
the front leg vein (cephalic) of the dog. She also knew (after I told her) that 
the femoral nerve lies close to the vein and artery of the same name — a “func- 
tional triad” — and that if she missed the vein she easily could hit the nerve and 
cause great pain. 
But the dog was in the basement so only we could hear, and I was there to suf- 
focate the screams. Both the dog’s legs were literally covered with hematomas 
(small blood-filled swellings marking the irritations resulting from unskilled 
jabbing at that vein) . 
The dog visibly resisted crying out — until she could no longer bear the pain. 
In skilled hands, those injections can be made quickly and with little discomfort 
to an animal. In unskilled hands, this is sadism and barbarism. It goes on 
for hours. Laboratory animals, especially dogs, are well conditioned to pain 
and do not cry out, generally, unless and until they are very badly hurt. 
Maybe you — or you — can listen to a dog scream her heart out in a basement 
room but if you can, your morals, sensitivity and principles have rotted like the 
flesh of those wounds and there can be no God in your world. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you very much, Mrs. Wagner, for your appear- 
ance. 
Is Dr. F. William Sunderman, of Jefferson Medical College here? 
I am informed that he had to leave. His statement will be sub- 
mitted for the record. 
(The statement of Dr. Sunderman follows :) 
Statement of Dr. F. William Sunderman 
My name is F. William Sunderman. I am a physician and am director of the 
division of metabolic research and clinical professor of medicine at Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia. I am appearing before your committee in behalf 
of the Pennsylvania Medical Society as chairman of the commission on medical 
research. 
The position of the Pennsylvania Medical Society in opposing the Griffiths 
and Moulder bills has been expressed in my recent editorial published in the 
Pennsylvania Medical Journal. Two of my similar editorials were published 
in the Bulletin of the College of American Pathologists and in Philadelphia 
Medicine. May I kindly request permission to have these editorials made a 
part of my official testimony ? 
We are convinced that enactment of the type of legislation proposed by the 
Griffiths and Moulder bills would seriously impede the progress of scientific 
medicine in this country and, in addition, would impose a severe handicap on 
clinical investigators and physicians responsible for the diagnosis of disease. 
Throughout my scientific career I have been intimately concerned with the 
