Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Publisher's Letter [May 23] you mentioned an interesting alcoholic concoction, a "Monkey Gland...
...Monkey Gland...
...moved into the Japanese capital, set up shop in backrooms above the Kyo-bunkwan bookstore and published its pony-size, adless Far Eastern edition. Last week some 400 Japanese and foreigners came to see our new quarters, and to sip, among other drinks, such an inscrutable concoction as the "Monkey Gland" (gin, orange juice, D.O.M. and grenadine...
...safe for human beings; it seems possible that the arm muscle of the young human animal is the most sensitive of all testing materials for polio virus. It looks as though a vaccine containing only a few stray particles of active virus-which might do no harm to a monkey or great ape when injected into the brain or spinal cord-may touch off paralytic disease when injected into a child...
...Samples of vaccine are mixed with cultures of monkey-kidney tissue. If the tissue cells go on growing normally, there is no active virus present. Also, as one of numerous further checks, vaccine is injected directly into the brains of monkeys, where any live virus would quickly cause paralysis...