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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Physiology Department experiments almost entirely with rodents and keeps about 3000 mice and half as many rats besides seven rabbits, three cats and seven guinea pigs...
...this zoo there are regularly 25 monkeys, 250 mice, 150 rats, 6 alligators, 45 frogs, three pigeons, a dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of oppossums, wodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, raccoons, crayfish and sheep. Each winter the farmers of Wake-field and Reading, donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
Scurvy was not brought into the laboratory until 1907 when Hoist and Frolich inflicted it on guinea pigs, tested the curative potency of vegetables. In 1932 Professor A. Szent-Gyorgyi found that hexuronic acid from adrenal glands had powerful antiscorbutic properties, and soon thereafter the name was changed to ascorbic acid and identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter...
Announcement has just been made of the recent return of a Harvard-Yale expedition from the Bahamas, where they were pursuing a small guinea-pig-like redent. The expedition was headed by Dr. Thomas Barbour, director of the muscum of comparative zoology and professor of zoology. He was accompanied by his family and by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Greenway of the museum staff; Mr. Froelich Rainey of Yale was the archeologist...
...twelve greatest U. S. industries. In 1929 it did a two-billion dollar business. Like most other U. S. industries, advertising since 1929 has had many a hard knock. Your Money's Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising took a shrewd blow to the midriff from a onetime hireling. Onetime Adman Rorty is no reformed copywriter, for his heart was never...