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...variously-named illnesses were the same disease, caused by Bacterium tularense. He named it tularemia. Periodically thinning out the rabbit population by thousands, tularemia also affects many another small animal. Its germ is carried from animal to animal by deer-flies, ticks, lice, fleas. Man may contract it from insect bites, or by direct contact with an infected animal. It usually begins with a small ulcer at the point of infection, followed by glandular swelling. Tularemia kills only about 4% of its human victims but illness is painful, convalescence slow. Up to 1924 only 15 human cases of tularemia...
...same time, clearly, the stories are only stories. They are related like tales over mulled ale, or over a shot of Scotch, depending on the reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that he is human...
...Critic's existence as a separate publication. If it is not to be more of a gadfly than this, it ought to merge with an older sheet and boost the advertising rates. I trust that it will not. Harvard can use some gadflies, but they are a peculiarly useless insect if they do not sting. The obvious thing, I should think, is to look up some barbs
...party," Author Ford had too much bounce in him ever to be cast down for good. Though for years his books brought him very little money he kept at them. "I have been accustomed to regard myself as of the family of the dung-beetle"-a stoical insect Sisyphus. With no audible repinings that he is an expatriate or not yet a best-seller he has settled down to live "in France where the Arts are held in great honor and as often as I can I go to the U. S. where the greatest curiosity as to the Arts...
...deceased birds, or bird skins. This he proceeded to do, consuming ten hours in the effort. When next he appeared at the scene of his labors, he was told that there was not as much poison as had been counted on, and that he was to remove all the insect deterrent that he had just put in the boxes. With a faint feeling of futility, he followed out these orders, devouring another ten hours, and being credited accordingly. Such things as these, we feel, take part of the glamour from the sense of-being engaged on a scientific work...