The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-13
GETS I'LL ON PURPOSE.
Boston Man is the Dog on Whom Ger
 tain Medicines Are Tried.

suburb who makes himself sick in a variety of ways in order that he may test the healing powers of the medi- cines manufactured by the company which employs him.
 Instead of being a shaky wreck from constant indulgence in foods taken purposely to provoke disorders, this vindicator of infants soothing syrups, headache cures, indigestion medicines and cold cures is hale and hearty, a stout German past middle age, of a studious, phlegmatic temperament. His office is one of the best of all at the headquarters of the company that employs him. There are oil paint | ings, soft carpets and Turkish rugs, he has a library of medical volumes, windows filled with flowers, and a pro- fusion of bottles, glasses and crucibles distributed in the apartment. He has variety of duties. Accord | ing to the Boston Herald he sits in a draught or wanders about coatless to entice cold, and then doses himself with cold cures. He contracts vio- lent headache in order to try the effi- cacy of a headache cure which is to be put on the market
 He acquires the headache by con centrating his mind so closely upon one subject that at the end of few hours the nervous strain produces the pains in the head he has set out to obtain. Then he takes a dose of the medicine that is being experimented with, and watches results carefully, noting every effect in a book in order to make his report upon 1t.
 Often he has to contract aches that aren't headaches. It may be that a new medicine is to be brought out for indigestion or the scores of disor- ders resulting from dyspepsia
 The manufacturers desire to make a practical test of the formula for their own satisfaction. The German tester goes to a restaurant late In the evening and gives an order that makes the walters eyes bulge.
 T eat lobster salad, then drink milk, which Is usually prohibited with such salad" he says cheerily, in telling about 1t. ITO make 1t more certain have vinegar mixed with the milk, and follow it all with Welch rabbit After that, the only thing have to do is wait for results.
 "They are usually not long in coming. Soon l have violent pains in the chest, feeling of heavy weight lying upon 1t, with sharp pains shooting across my body every second. Of course 1t Is agony while it endures, but take a dose of the remedy to relieve 1t.
 If 1t gives me relief, note all the circumstances of my sensations to the minutest detail, and if it doesn't do the same You have no conception of what delightful feeling 1t is to ex- perlence the contrast of intense pain and quick relief. I know that feeling well.
 There are from seventy-fve to a hundred drugs mentioned in materia medca for disorders of indigestion, and the German tester has tried all of them. Some of the things he has to do would make an ordinary courageous man look about for the cyclone cellar,
 For an eyewash, he has more than once thrown sand into his eyes to pro- duce inflammation in order to test the wash as to it's relief giving properties He even imagines himself baby oe- cassonly in order to try the infants medicines. He drugs himeslf by com pounding a sleeping potion of infants soothing syrup.
 You may say" he explains, "that because thing soothes me it does not necessarily follow that 1t would soothe baby. Nevertheless, my results have invariably proved that what was good for me was good for the infant; but of course in milder doses
 You see, we cannot get a baby to experiment or even if we desired one, which we don't. A baby could not tell it's sensations or impressions after 1t took the medicine, which is neces- sary to the success of the experl- ments"
 The man who voluntarily submits fo trying it on the dog" is not at all a dense animal, so robust that nothing can harm him, and willing from ig- norance to sacrifice himself in this strange way. He is himself a chemist, skilful one.
 That makes him all the more val uable, as he can record with accuracy the sensations before and after talk ing a medicine and the results obtain ed And of course, he knows well the properties of each remedy he takes what its effect should be, how great a dose is required and how violent his ailnnnt is.
 How Game such man to embrace an occupation that carries with it so many disagreeable features? He will tell you himself that before he got his present berth, he was wreck, a victim of chronic indigestion, wasted shadow of the man he had been in early youth.
 T have been in the manufacturing drug business myself for twenty-seven years he says. But things went wrong, my health gave out, my stomach was gone and soon had not even em- ployment.
 Tt was then that I conceived the plan of offering myself as a subject for the manufacturers of proprietary medicines. The first to whom I ap- piled said htat he would be glad to obtain such a man who had a knowl- edge of chemistry, and that it was great difficulty to find him.
 q at once offered myself an dhave been with the firm ever since That c 1roorC No,, oa,-