Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noguchi discovered that American yellow fever was caused by a tiny organism which he named Leptospira icteroides; was carried by a common lady mosquito, Stegomyia calopus; that guinea pigs could be infected with the organism; that the mosquito would carry the infection from one animal to another ; that a horse serum could be prepared that would cure the disease if administered shortly after the infection. These facts known, the disease was conquered. The same process must be applied to West Africa. For over two years a Com mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem...
Diagnosis of tuberculosis of the bones and joints cannot be accomplished by microscopic examination of fluid or tissue; it must be accomplished by injecting the fluid into guinea pigs. If the human from whom the fluid was extracted had tuberculosis, the guinea pig will get it and the human can be treated...
...came 1,500 chemists for the 75th meeting of the American Chemical Society; organic chemists, inorganic chemists, biological chemists, physical chemists, industrial chemists, engineering chemists; chemists who worked with spectroscope and vacuum tube to find out the structure of the atom, chemists who spent their days with rabbit and guinea pig to ferret out the secrets of growth, chemists who messed about with saps and sawdust to build up substitutes for rubber, sugar, silk. More than 300 scientific papers were read. More than a fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry...
...Dean Langdell was working with a small group of selected enthusiastic students who were willing to make themselves the guinea pigs for experiment in legal education. But classes have grown since then, incidentally being less carefully selected and the case system is poorly suited for giving large groups of students a practical legal education. Although with a few selected men the system of instruction makes little difference, the case method has limitations with a crowded schedule and crowded classrooms...
...During the last year, the Yale Law School has been trying to evolve a more satisfactory system. We are not seeking a panacea, and realize that a change must be rather gradual, since most students dislike being used as guinea pigs, with the possibility of wrecking their imminent careers by an unsuccessful experiment...