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

  • Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916.
Date:
1889
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    j)odopliyllin was not a cliolagogae, that is to say, it did not increase the secretion of bile. Rohrig performed more experiments, the results of which were opposed to the state- ments of Anstie, and then Professor Rutherford began his long series of awful vivisections upon dogs for the Edinburgh Committee, endeavouring to reconcile the conflicting results of other experimenters. These experiments, says Dr. Stille (p. 1124), have led to diametrically opposite resiilts. Poison Oak.—{Rhus Toxicodendron.)—The medicinal virtues of this plant are too uncertain to inspire any con- fidence.—{Stille, p. 1464.) Dogs have died after being merely exposed to the emanations of this plant, and they are poisoned by its juice, yet herbivorous animals devour its leaves with impunity, and it is recorded that two children who between them had eaten a pint of the berries were not killed by them, though they became delirious and convulsed. Prussia Acid.—{Hydrocijanic Acid, P. B.)—This, as every- body knows, is one of the most deadly poisons to human beings, yet on horses and hyaenas it has little or no effect. The elephant, however, is destroyed by a relatively small dose. Clande Bernard and others Bischoff aud other German said that after poisoning by investigators say that they found prussic acid the venous blood of nothing but darh venous hlood the animals exjDerimented upon either in man or animals so was of a bright arterial hue poisoned.— {Wood, p. 182.) at the post mortem, — {Wood, p. 182.) Boehm and Knil {Archiv fiir Preyer performed the same Exper. Pathol, und Therap. kind of experiments on rabbits Sd. ii., p. 137) experimented and obtained quite different on cats with this poison and results. obtained certain results. Kossbach and others found Wahl found that it increased it. that it lowered the frequency of •. ^ the pulse. -^hen in]