Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of identifying the virus was simple: suspensions of brain tissue taken from fatal human cases were injected into the brains of young Swiss mice. Two days later the mice showed "ruffled fur, slowing of activity, alternating with convulsive twitchings," and other symptoms similar to those of equine encephalomyelitis...
Some were killed and samples of their brain tissue were injected into other healthy mice, which fell sick in two days and died. The virus also worked on monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits. Typical of eastern equine encephalomyelitis was the two-day incubation period, as well as the violent symptoms which are unique and completely different from those occurring in human beings. As a further check, however, they injected deadly doses of the virus into animals which had been immunized against eastern equine virus. All these remained "perfectly well...
...bones, and fusion of joint bones. The hypertrophic form, which usually occurs in older people as a result of wear & tear, is less severe, less painful. The ends of the bones grow thicker and their cartilage coverings slip off and work their way around joint cavities (joint mice), leaving the raw edges of the joint-bones to scrape together...
...performs an experiment he ponders the results with true scientific caution and does not commit himself until he knows exactly what he is talking about. Last week he revealed to reporters an astonishing secret he had guarded closely for three years. In 1935, he said, he castrated several male mice and planted ovaries in their transparent ears. He wanted to observe the activity of the borrowed organs but nothing happened. Disappointed, he went off on a three months' vacation, forgot all about the mice. When he returned he discovered that they had regained their sex. Although they were...
Prevalent femininity also demanded that bug sprays be issued for the dormitories, and that mouse traps be more abundant. One charming resident of Stoughton Hall set some traps and caught nine mice in one day, she said...