Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maher did not claim that his cocci would cleanse a human body of its tubercle bacilli. He frankly admitted that, as yet, they had had no effect, either preventive or curative, on guinea pigs and rabbits. But he did think that he was at least on the right track, urged other researchers to join him in the search for "the greatest prize in the world," a specific cure for tuberculosis...
...indirectly gave her the idea for a layman's school. He wanted her to teach his daughter Elizabeth enough music so that she would be interested when she went with him to the opera. Later Mme Samaroff experimented with her friends, Mrs. Theodore Steinway and Mrs. Otto Kahn-"guinea pigs" she calls them-who with Lawyer Cravath and the Junior League girls are booming the new school...
...Physiology department experiments almost entirely with rodents and keeps about 2000 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, six 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 opossums, woodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield...
Chief stumbling-block so far has been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...