Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerably hampered because the only animal they could infect was the expensive rhesus monkey. Last year Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health Service finally succeeded in giving polio to ordinary cotton rats. That hurdle passed, he was able to pass the infection from cotton rats to mice...
...frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them. But when the mouse brain, containing the powerful "murine" (mouse) virus, was given to a monkey, nothing happened. And when the monkey was given a stiff dose of the original deadly virus, shortly afterward, he developed a fever, but did not become paralyzed. Seven out of ten monkeys were thus...
...slept in shelters with their masters. Women rescued pups & kittens from bomb holes. A litter of rabbits was born in one hole, in the shadow of a delayed-action bomb. Many wild birds were killed. On one balcony were found a score of dead sparrows, huddled together with two mice in their midst...
...high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance of 15 ft., falling off to only 10 lb. at 50 ft. Dr. Zuckerman exploded uniform 70-lb. charges of H. E. in paper containers on the ground, tested the effect on mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, monkeys and pigeons at distances ranging from 70 to 13 ft. At 50 ft. lung damage began to occur, and at less than 18 ft. almost all the animals were killed. He printed a photograph of a pair of concussed rabbit lungs so deeply suffused with hemorrhagic...
Called by Mr. Coulter, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent an ambulance around and carried off the mice in a box, to be delivered into the painless grip of a lethal gas chamber...