Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a pregnant woman, there grows out from the belly of the bitterling a long tubular appendage, called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon as one pregnancy test is over, the bitterling may be returned to an aquarium of fresh water where she quickly recovers her form and is again ready to serve curious womankind...
...weeks later, just before the case came to trial, Schoor decided to pay a $12.50 fine. Having summoned the jury, however, the presiding justice of the peace let the prosecution call its witnesses. From the New York Aquarium came an ichthyologist to testify that no pickerel in his experience had ever shrunk more than a quarter of an inch. Indignantly Emil Schoor changed his mind about dropping the case, asked for a change of venue. The court refused the petition, clapped the defendant in jail. Released on bail, Schoor went to the State Supreme Court, got his change of venue...
...that 60 tuna had been released in Lisbon on June 22, 1932 with metal tags on their tails inscribed "R. P. Aquario, Lisbon, Portugal." To the fisherman who sends in one of the tags with data on where and how the tuna was caught, its size and condition, the Aquarium Vasco da Gama in Lisbon will pay a reward, amount unstated. In previous experiments, Portugal's tagged tuna have been caught in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean. But the tuna is a world wanderer. One of this year's 60 might well turn up off Montauk...
From the intestinal contents of fish he prepared a concentrated solution of the bacteriophage. Then he deliberately set about getting his own hands infected. He dipped them repeatedly in his phage solution, soon saw them healing up. Word of his success brought other skin sufferers to the Aquarium. One man said his affliction had resisted treatment for 20 years. His hands were so sore and scaly that he could not close them. After plunging them in the phage solution several times a week for three months he could grip a golf club. Last week Researcher Coates had 18 other favorable...
...dermatologists to carry on and find out what it is." Chief fear of Researcher Coates last week was that news of his work might set skin sufferers everywhere to dipping themselves in convenient goldfish or guppy bowls. Bacteriophage may or may not be present in the water of an aquarium. But even if present it is too weak to be of any therapeutic value...