The futility of experiments with drugs on animals / by Edward Berdoe.

  • Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The futility of experiments with drugs on animals / by Edward Berdoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One of the regular arguments on behalf of vivisection is the claim that Professor Lister discovered the Carbolic Antiseptic system bj' experiments upon living animals. The plain truth is that perfect cleanliness on the surgeon's part, as Mr. Lawson Tait has laroved, -will achieve all Mr. Lister's results, especially when su]Dplemented by an antiseptic balsam such as Mr. Bryant uses. But then, as we are not bidden to do some great thing with a cart load of apparatus and paraiohernalia, we do not believe. Garaboge.—This to man is a drastic purgative, often causing vomiting and griping; in large doses it acts as a powerful irritant, at times causing inflammation and death. (Garrod.) Experiments upon animals with gamboge do not render its operation clear. It produces few symptoms of local irritation—and not uniformly either vomiting or purging.—{Stille, p. 670.) Gelsemium.—See Yellow Jasmine. Glycerine.—Even in so apparently innocent a drug as glycerine this diverse action between men and animals has been observed. When large doses are injected subcutaneously in dogs, death is produced with effects resembling those of alcoholic poisoning, in a period varying—according to the dose— from one hour to several days. {DujarcUn-Beaumetz, and Audije, Bull Thei-ap., xci., p. 62.) In man, says Wood {Therapeutics, p. 584), no symptoms of poisoning have ever been produced by glycerine. Euchsinger says [Pfluger's The experiments of Eckhard Archiv, xii., p. 501; Centralb. gave, however, a contrary result. Med.Wiss., 1877) that in rabbits —{Centralb. Med. Wissen, 1876, slightly poisoned with glycerine p. 273.) no sugar ajppears in the urine after the diabetic puncture. Its richness in carbon suggested its use as medicinal food, and especially as a substitute for cod-liver oil; but, as in so