Currently voted the best answer. Vote for this answer. Batters. Unfortunately, it has happened. In 1920, Ray Chapman was hit in the head by a pitched ball from Carl Mays. He was struck with a pitch by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, in a game against the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
Animals are sometimes used in the testing of drugs, vaccines and other biologics, and medical devices, mainly to determine the safety of the medical product. For drugs and biologics, the focus of animal testing is on the drugâs nature, chemistry, and effects (pharmacology) and on its potential damage to the body (toxicology).
1 It's the law! 2  All drugs have to be tested on animals before they can be tested on humans. 3  To make sure human patients are given a safe dose of a drug. 4  Patients feel safe and are more likely to trust medicines if they know they have been tested on animals first.erhaps the law could be changed so that animal testing was optional, rather than compulsory. Scientists could decide not to test drugs on animals if they knew that it was safe to do so. We would need alternatives to animal testing, which could safely test drugs without harmful consequences for humans.