Word: histologist
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...other years, to determine Clara's sex, a surgeon would have been obliged to cut her open and a histologist would have had to study microscopic snips of her internal organs. Now, however, all that was necessary was a test of her blood and urine on virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced...
...Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate, it was the good-looking young histologist, not the grizzled care-worn statesman, whose name was blazoned unexpectedly across column heads in the French press...
...Histologist Jean Painleve had been experimenting with the lower forms of plant and animal life. As they grew and unfolded in his test tubes, their unscientific intrinsic beauty seemed to him, to merit reproduction by the cinema. He called up a friend, the French cinema director, Rene Sti. M. Sti at once despatched a cameraman. The cameraman cranked, Jean Painleve fussed in and out of the pictures with his test tubes, then the extraordinary occurred...
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