Am  jour,  pharm.  |  Standardization  of  Medicinal  Products. 
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583 
Conclusions. — The  result  of  these  experiments  would  tend  to 
prove,  therefore,  that  we  are  without  a  reliable  chemical  means  of 
accurately  standardizing  Jamaica  dogwood  preparations  but  that 
they  can  be  accurately  standardized  by  physiological  means  as  out- 
lined in  this  paper. 
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Laboratories  of  the  H.  K.  Mulford  Company. 
THE  USE  OF  ANIMALS  IN  THE  DEVELOPMENT  AND 
STANDARDIZATION  OF  MEDICINAL  PRODUCTS.1 
By  Herbert  C.  Hamilton, 
DETROIT,  MICH. 
"  The  Meyers  bill,  just  introduced  in  Congress,  making  it  a 
crime  to  vivisect  the  dog,  carries  into  the  open  and  vociferous  forum 
of  public  debate  a  question  that  has  disturbed  the  friendly  relations 
of  doctors  and  dog-lovers  for  decades. 
"There  are  all  shades  and  degrees  of  opinion  on  the  subject,  all 
coming  at  last  to  the  prime  consideration  of  whether  it  is  right  under 
any  circumstances  to  endanger,  or  take  the  life  of  one  living  being 
for  the  sake  of  another. 
"  So  many  of  the  sound  principles  of  modern  surgery  have  been 
established  by  experimentation  on  dogs,  cats,  monkeys  and  other 
animals,  to  the  very  great  benefit  of  human  beings,  it  will  be  rather 
hard  for  the  anti-vivisectionists  to  hold  their  ground,  particularly  if 
they  are  still  eaters  of  chops  from  the  innocent  lamb  and  steaks 
from  the  cunning  calf."2 
In  searching  for  a  logical  reason  for  the  animus  against  vivisec- 
tion one  must  conclude  that  it  is  based  on  one  or  the  other  of  two 
ideas :  first  that  the  use  of  animals  in  colleges  and  research  labor- 
atories, is  unnecessary  and  avoidable ;  second,  that  such  use  of  an- 
imals is  needlessly  cruel  and  inhuman. 
1  From  the  Research  Laboratory,  Parke  Davis  &  Co.,  Detroit.  Mich. 
2  Editorial,  The  Detroit  Journal. 
