The Cairo bulletin., 1907-05-23
GETS I'LL ON PURPOSE.
Boston Man 10 Dog on Whom
Certain Medicines Are Tried.


which employs him.
Instead OF being shaky wreck
! from constant Indulgence in foods
! taken purposely to provoke disorders
/ this vindlcator of infants soothing
4 syrups, headache cures, Indigestion
medicines and cold cures is hale and
! hearty. stout German past middle
age. OF studious. phlegmatc temper
! ament
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 library OF medical volumes,
windows filled with flowers, and pro
fusion of bottles, glasses and crucibles
distributed in the apartment
He has variety of duties Accord.
ing 10 the Boston Herald he sits in a
dranght or wanders coatless TO entice
cold and then doses himself with
cold cures. He contracts a violent
headache in order 10 try the efficacy
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 a few
hours the nervous strain produces the
pains in the head he has set out to
obtain. Then he takes dose of the
medicine that Is being experimental
with. and watches results carefully.
noting every effect in a book In or
der to make his report upon il.
Often he has to contract aches that
aren't headaches. It may be that
new medicine is 10 be brought out
for indigestion or the scores Of dis
orders resulting from dyspepsia
The manufacturers desire 10 make
a practical test OF the formula for
their own satisfaction The German
tester goes 70 a restaurant late In the
evening and gives an order that makes
the walters eyes bulge
4 eat a lobster salad. then drink
milk, which is usually prohibited with
such a salad" he says. cheerily, in
telling about IT, To make it more
certain ! have vinegar mixed with the
milk. and follow It all with a 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, a feeling As OF a heavy weight
lying upon it. with sharp pains shoot
ing across my body every second. OF
course il is agony while il endures.
but | take a dose of the remedy TO re-
lieve it.
IF 1t gives me relief, I 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 it is TO
experience the contrast of intense
pain and quick relief. | know that
feeling well
There are from IS to 100 drugs
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 10
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 compromising d sleeping potion of
Infants soothing syrup.
You may say" he explains, that
because a thing soothes me it does
not necessarily follow that ii would
sOothe a baby Nevertheless. my re-
suits have invariably proved that /
What was good for me was good for
he infant, but Of course in milder
loses
You see We casnot get a baby to /
experiment. on. even if we desired one. /
shich We don't baby could not /
ell its sensations or impressions after 4
I TOOK the medicine, which is neces-
AIRY to the success OF the expert !
nents"
THE man who voluntarily submits
o trying it on the dog" is not al all /.
dense animal. so robust that moth
ng can harm him. and willing from
ignorance 10 sacrifice himself in this
TRANCE way. lie is himself a chem
g. skillful one
That makes him all the more avail
bic, as he can record with accuracy
he sensations before and after TAX
ng a medicine and the results OBJ
aimed. And of course he knows quite
yell the properties of each remedy
Q takes. what It's effect should be,
ow great a dose Is required and how
ioient his ailment Is.
How came such a man TO embrace
n occupation that carries with It 50
lany dissgreeabie features? He will
N you himself that before he got
Is present berth he was a wreck, a
ctim Of chronic indigestion. a
asted shadow Of the man he had =
zen in early youth.
Z have been in the manufacturing
-ug business myself for % years.
p saws But things went wrong; my
salth gave out, my stomach was
me and soon had not even employ
ent
1T was then that 7 conceived the
an ot offering myself as a subject
n experiment to the manufacturers
prnprietsry medicines. The first