254 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
clinical investigation and application of diagnostic procedures for the care 
and treatment of the sick and the injured. I can scarcely believe that the pro- 
ponents of these bills have any conception of the effects, the restraints, and the 
increased costs that could be imposed as a result of these bills. 
Laboratory animals are essential for the diagnosis and treatment of many 
diseases. They are necessary for the bioassay of hormones in various glandular 
conditions ; in the detection, diagnosis, and isolation of various viral and fungal 
diseases, as well as in the refined diagnosis of tuberculosis and other infections. 
Laboratory animals are essential for the preparation of certain vaccines and 
antiserums and for refinements in the diagnosis of syphilis. Even some of the 
tests for pregnancy could conceivably come under restrictive surveillance with 
this type of legislation. 
Enactment of these two bills in our opinion would load our research and 
diagnostic laboratories with harassing redtape and burdensome paperwork 
that would necessitate an appreciable increase in laboratory personnel. It 
would probably require a large staff of Federal inspectors to investigate that 
portion of the more than 8,000 hospitals and diagnostic laboratories that are 
affected. In our opinion, this is totally unnecessary. Furthermore, this legisla- 
tion would almost certainly delay the acquisition of diagnostic information on 
patients involved in clinical research. 
Many of the directors of hospital and clinical laboratories in this country are 
members of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and the Association 
of Clinical Scientists. As a past president of both of these organizations, I am 
certain that most of my colleagues would concur in our position to this legisla- 
tion and would deplore the increase in the cost of medical care and research 
that might ensue as a consequence. 
Medical science has been aided substantially in recent years by governmental 
support. However, the ultimate benefits from governmental support depend in 
large measure upon the avoidance of bureaucratic pressures and upon the safe- 
guarding of freedom in scientific pursuits. 
If anyone has any questions, I shall be pleased to attempt to answer them. 
Mr. Roberts. Dr. Robert A. Moore, president, Downstate Medical 
Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y., 
STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT A. MOORE, PRESIDENT, DOWNSTATE 
MEDICAL CENTER, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BROOK- 
LYN, N.Y. 
Dr. Moore. Mr. Chairman, I think most of the points that I had 
hoped to make in discussing these two bills with you have been made. 
I will save your time, with your permission, by asking if I may place 
my statement in the record, which I have here, together with a 
“Principles of Laboratory Animal Care,” which is a publication of 
the National Society for Medical Research, in which we ask each 
laboratory that has animals to place this in a conspicuous place. 
If I may, at the same time, Mr. Chairman, I would request your 
permission to introduce into the record the statements which I have 
here, from Dr. I. S. Radvin, professor of surgery and vice president 
of the University of Pennsylvania. 
Finally, I would ask your permission to introduce into the record 
the statement which I do not have, but which will be sent to the 
clerk of the committee, from Dr. Stanley Bennett, the dean of the 
College of Medicine of the University of Chicago, who had hoped to 
appear, but cannot be here, representing the Association of American 
Medical Colleges. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you, Dr. Moore. Your statement and the 
statements you have appended to your statement — the statement of 
Dr. Radvin, who of course is well known to this committee — will be 
placed in the record. 
