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...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...
Inherit the Wind (by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee) flashes back across history to 1925 and the celebrated "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. The locale, to be sure, is unspecified in the play and the names are fictitious, but there is never for a moment any pretense of fiction. John T. Scopes, the young schoolmaster who violated Tennessee law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is called Bertram Gates; Henry Drummond, the lawyer who defends him, is clearly Clarence Darrow; and by whatever name, the archdefender of fundamentalism would be William Jennings Bryan...
...paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength -in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate...