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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most species breed out serious aberrations like hermaphroditism, but this is not happening in the case of Bothrops insularis. When Dr. Hoge examined pickled specimens collected before World War II, he found a much bigger proportion of normal individuals. Recently, Dr. Hoge went back and collected 68 fresh snakes on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Queer Vipers | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

In 1952 Dr. Hoge collected 164 Bothrops on the island. An assistant dissecting one of them showed him what he thought was a tumor. "That's no tumor," said Hoge. "That's an atrophied embryo." The assistant replied: "It can't be; it came from a male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Queer Vipers | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

In the forward torpedo room of Archerfish were Commander (Medical Corps) George Bond, 43, and Chief Engineman Cyril Tuckfield, 38. Dr. Bond wore nothing but swimming trunks, face mask, a Mae West life vest and a pressure gauge on his wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Up from the Bottom | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

As a disease detective in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf was called in on many a late-summer and early-fall epidemic of what seemed to be mild polio. Few victims suffered paralysis, and all recovered, often with startling rapidity. In a 1942 outbreak in White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio's Little Brother | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Dr. Dalldorf explained at the awards luncheon in Manhattan, the Coxsackie criminal has been shown to be an international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio's Little Brother | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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