Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tests on 12,000 laboratory mice, the new drug produced dramatic results. It cured mice in the early stages of polio; all mice in control groups not getting the drug died. The mice that survived were immune to reinfection. Mice getting a single dose of the drug by mouth did not develop the disease when injected with mouse polio virus...
...test. In its early stages, infantile paralysis is hard to diagnose, because the symptoms (fever, headache, upset stomach) may be those of half a dozen childhood ailments. A new drug may seem to work wonders when all the time the patient only had grippe. A new diagnostic test on mice was reported last week in Science by Dr. Pierre R. Lepine, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He injects fecal material from suspected polio patients into the brains of five mice. Two days later he gives them, and five other control mice, injections of active strains of a known polio...
Good news for the mice is bad news for the human patients. By the tenth or eleventh day, at least four out of five of the control mice should be paralyzed or dead. But if the patient had polio, at least three out of five of the first group of mice should be alive and scampering; the human material protects them from the virus. If it did not protect them, the patient did not have polio. Said one U.S. investigator: "It's very encouraging . . . but right now it's just a bright idea...
...have come several books. The most successful of these was Canary (1936). The most recent is Everyday Miracle (Harper; $2.75), published last week. Dr. Eckstein's books have a peculiar flavor. The professor is no mere animal lover. He feeds his canaries lemon pie, provides little ladders for mice, and is sad when a favorite cockroach named He-Who-Leaps is eaten (he fears) by a favorite mouse named Patsy. But when he writes about them and their peculiarities, he is generally pointing out in a graceful way some mystery of life...
...professor works in a cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...