The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-05-09
GETS ILL ON PURPOSE
Boston Man Is Dog on Whom
Certain Medicines Are Tried.

tcot tue meaning powers OF the meal
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 studious. phlegmatic temper
aplent
His Office is one of the best OF all
az the headquarters of the company
that employs him, There are oil paint.
ings. soft carpets and Turkish rugs:
he has library of medical volumes,
windows filled with flowers, and pro-
fusion Of bottles, glasses and cruci5les
distributed in the apartment.
He has a variety OF duties. Accord
ing to ihe Boston Herald he sits in
dseught or wanders coatless to entice
a cold. ana then doses himself with
cold cures. Tie contracts a violent
headache in order to try the efficacy
Of 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 dose of tho
medicine that Is being experimental
with, and watches results carefully,
noting every effect In a book in or
der to make his report upon it.
Often he has to contract aches that
aren't headaches. 1t may be that a
new medicine is to be brought out
for indigestion OF the scores of dis
orders 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.
Il eat a lobster salad, then drink
milk, which is usually prohibited with
such a salad" he says, cheerily, in
telling about II. "To make it more
certain ! have vinegar mixed with the
milk, and follow ii all with Welsh
rabbit After. that, the only thing ]
have to do is wait for the results.
They are usually not long In com.
ing. Soon ! have violent pains in the
chest, feeling as of heavy weight
lying upon 1t, with sharp pains shoot
Ing across my body every second. OF
course 1T is agony while it endures,
but ! take dose of the remedy to re
lieve IT,
IF II gives me relief, note all the
circumstances Of my sensations to the
minutest detail. and II 1t doesn't ]
do the same. You have no conception
OF what a delightful feeling 1t is to
experience the contrast of intense
pain and quick relief know that
feeling we'll"
There are from rs to 100 drugs
mentioned in materia medica for dis
orders Of indigestion. and the German |
tester has tried them all.
For an eyewash, he has more than
once thrown sand into his eyes to |
produce Inflammation in order to test |
the wash as to its relief giving prop |
critics. He even imagines himself a
baby occasionally in order to try the |
infants medicines. He drugs himself |
by compounding sleeping potion OF
infants soothing syrup.
"you may say" he explains, that
because thing soothes me It does
not necessarily follow that it would |
soothe baby. Nevertheless, my re |
sul.s have invariably proved that |
what was good for me was good for
the infant; but of course in mildeI
doses.
You see. we cannot get a baby &c
experiment. on, even If we desired one |
which we don't A baby could not |
tell its sensations or Impressions after !
Il took the medicine. which Is neces |
sary to the success Of the expert
meRts"
The man who voluntarily submits
to trying II on the dog" is not at all |
a dense animal. so robust that moth |
Ing can harm him. and willing from |
Ignorance to sacrifice himself in this
oNi ahbt way ilc - hlluccll a Cubm |
LIST, skiliful one.
That makes him ali the more avail
able, as he can record with accuracy
the sensations before and after TAX
ing a medicine and the results OBJ
tanned. And Of course he knows quite
well the properties of each remedy
he takes, what its effect should be
how great a dose is required and how
violent his ailment Is.
How came such a man to embrace
an occupation that carries with It SO
many disagreeahle featuresg He will
tell you himself that before he got
bis present harth he was a wreck, q
victim of chronic indigestion, q
wasted shadow OF the man he had
been in early youth.
i have been In the manufacturing
drug business myself for 27 years.
be says But things went wrong; my
health gave out. my stomach was
gone and soon had not even employ
ment
1T was then that conceived the
plan OF offering myself as subject
for experiment 70 the manufacturers
NJ proprietal4 medicines The fraf