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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Research in the physical sciences is readily visualized in terms of guinea pigs, steam shovels, microscopes. Legal research means cloistered cerebration. To understand the parallel between legal research at Harvard and research in pure science as projected, for instance, by Secretary Hoover and his colleagues in the 20-million-dollar Research Endowment Fund lately undertaken (TIME, March 15), one must know about the Harvard staff that will conduct it-Dean Roscoe Pound and associates...
...years the undergraduate has provided the pedagogic mind with a sort of psychological guinea pig. Anything and everything has been tried on the students of the various colleges, from hypnotism to straw votes on the solemn issues of the League of Nations, the prohibition law and the Presidential elections...
...Berlin, in the Circus Busch, one Labero, hypnotist, made passes at a python. Unentranced, the python grasped Labero's hand so firmly in its jaws that it broke off a tooth. Dismissing the python, Labero put to sleep crocodiles, hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, a boa constrictor. Came an eagle. The eagle fastened its beak deeply into the hand gnawed by the python, but toppled over unconscious at the same moment that Labero fainted from loss of blood. The next subject on the bill was a lion. Said critics: "It's lucky Labero fainted...
Skillful journalese hooks headlines to the following researchers, popularizes them: Antony Leeuwenhoek, "First of the Microbe Hunters"; Lazzaro Spallanzani," "Microbes Must Have Parents"; Louis Pasteur, "Microbes Are a Menace!"; Robert Koch, "The Death Fighter"; Louis Pasteur, "And the Mad Dog"; Emile Roux and Emil August Behring "Massacre the Guinea Pigs"; Elie Metchnikoff, "The Nice Phagocytes"; Theobald Smith, "Ticks and Texas Fever"; David Bruce, "Trail of the Tsetse"; Ronald Ross and Battista Grassi, "Malaria"; Walter Reed, "In the Interest of Science?and for Humanity!"; and Paul Ehrlich, "The Magic Bullet...
Animals Spared. "Although potatoes and cabbages do not actually have chicken pox and scarlet fever, they have diseases which correspond to them to some extent. Hence plants can be and are used in place of rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, for years martyred in the cause of discovering sources of human disease?Dr. James Johnson, University of Wisconsin...