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Draize-Test
This
test has been especially designed for the testing of medical, cosmetical and
chemical substances, but also for the testing of the end products, like creams,
lipsticks, mascaras, face-lotion, soap, shampoos, powder, hairspray, toothpaste,
lacquer, detergent and everything, which could perhaps touch one’s skin
someday somehow.
The
number of rabbits and other animals, which are killed by this procedure day by
day, must be some millions.
The
rabbits, which are immobilised, sit in long lines of cages for 72 hours. Their
eyes are kept open by metal- or plastic clamps, so that they’re not able
to twinkle. In short intervals chemicals, poisons, toxics and acids are dripped
into their eyes. The animals cannot lick or scratch themselves, and they do not
have the possibillity of diluting these aching substances either, because they
have no tear gland. (That’s one important reason for the use of rabbits
for these kinds ot tests.)
The
effects of these tests are evaluated by machines. Depending on the tested
substance the rabbits’ eyes get red, their cornea (this is the outer skin
of the eyeball) is injured, the tissues are destructed or they build abscesses.
The eyes are destroyed systematically in layers. If the eyes are only red, the
animals will be used again time after time till they die.
Neither
an anaesthetic nor a painkiller is given to the animals.
In
other tests the animals are sheared and the skin is cut open. Then the
substances are placed on these cuts till you can see open wounds or
swellings.
Cigarette
tests
Cigarettes
are also “tested“ by animals. Some years ago 86 dogs (race: beagle)
were forced to smoke 455 cigarettes every day. This procedure took about one and
a half year. After this time 12 of them got pulmonary cancer. Although this
test doesn’t say anything about the physical reaction of human smokers,
it’s still done with other animals.
Medicament
tests (for people who have kidney trouble)
A
special kind of tube is inserted into the sheeps’ neck-vein. Through this
tube the sheep are connected with the dialysis machine. Different doses of
test-medicaments are mixed into the blood. Then some blood-tests are performed.
Athough a lot of sheep have repellent reactions like falling blood-pressure,
difficulty of breathing, unrest, staggers and, of course, a lot of pain, the
experiments are repeated seven times with changed conditions.
The
sheep which didn’t die during the tests are killed after the last one,
because now they are useless for further research.
The
effect of a closed artery
In
this experiment the necks of the mice are cut open in the middle, so that the
blood-vessels of the neck lie open and now some are contracted with
loops.
A
clamp is fixed temporarily at the inner artery of the neck so that the blood
stream is stopped. After a cut into the other artery a tube is pushed forward to
the brain, towards shut the middle cerebral artery. Some mice are infused a
colouring substance into their hearts. A couple of minutes later they are
decapitated. The brains are cut out and then examined.
In
the case of some other mice the artery occlusion takes three hours. There some
other special products are examined and a radio-active substance is infused into
the belly.
The
experiments are finished by the freezing of the mice. Then the brains are cut
out and are examined.
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Freud (Broschiert)
von Anthony Storr | |
| Siehe auch: | |
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| Kant von Roger Scruton | |
| Platon von Michael Bordt | |
| Marx von Iring Fetscher | |
| Nietzsche von Michael Tanner | |
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