Word: mice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the U. S. Public Health Reports published the results of her experiments. In a typical experiment she divided 25 mice into five groups. Four groups were fed minute amounts of sulfapyridine, varying from one to eight milligrams. The fifth group got no medicine at all. Half an hour after the drug was given, each mouse was inoculated with enough Hemophili to kill him 100 times over. Results: 1) all the unprotected mice died; 2) "no mouse died which received eight milligrams of the drug"; 3) the number of hours the other mice lived "was directly proportional...
Several years ago, with Dr. Ralph Edward Otten, Dr. Bernstine prepared a vaccine from germs found in the vaginal tract of puerperal fever victims. He tried the vaccine out on hundreds of mice, then on a large group of nonpregnant women, to make sure it was not dangerous. "Aside from an occasional complaint such as slight soreness at the site of injection, or mild malaise," said the doctors, "no untoward reactions were observed. Several women volunteered the information that they . . . felt better following the vaccinations...
...alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
...believed that somehow the growth of cancer was related to vitamin deficiency. According to standard laboratory methods, he produced cancers in young mice by coating them with tar for several weeks. The offspring of these mice were fed a diet rich in vitamins A, B, C, D and E. One day, Dr. Davidson found to his surprise that they were no longer susceptible to cancer when tarred. From the tissues of "newly dropped young" of these resistant mice, Dr. Davidson made a boiled filtrate. Injections of this filtrate, plus a high vitamin diet, produced strong cancer resistance in ordinary mice...
...along the line from primary producer to consumer would result in an average saving of no more than three cents out of every dollar paid by consumers for finished goods." The research done, ten economic bigwigs were asked to confer, formulate a "program of action." They nibbled like scared mice at the big cheese of distribution, recommended: strict accuracy in labeling and advertising, consumer education, commodity research, careful cost analysis of distribution industries. To meet increasingly costly conveniences offered by retailers (credit, free delivery, Smith girls behind the counter, swank salesrooms, return privileges), they suggested "differential pricing," by which...