Word: monkeyism
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...sexual side, the Midway offered such attractions as a "jungle show" with some lions, "Percilla" the Monkey Girl and John Dillinger's father. In a permanent Old Mill shy bumpkins could kiss their rustic belles in the dark...
Parents of the nation pestered Manhattan's nervous little Dr. Maurice Brodie for his much-publicized vaccine of which he has issued some 6,000 doses. But because he gets only ten doses out of each $15 rhesus monkey imported from India, he has had to deny vaccine requisitions right & left. Dr. Brodie does not claim that his vaccine is the definitive preventive of infantile paralysis and other physicians will not concede its validity until after some 50,000 children have been inoculated and their resistance to the disease adequately tested. On the other hand, the vaccine does...
...digestive system," whence it passes to the spine by way of sympathetic nerves. According to Dr. Toomey true infantile paralysis is caused by a virus which attacks nerves after a toxin created by the virus makes those nerves vulnerable. The paralysis which Dr. Brodie and other experimenters produce in monkeys, says Dr. Toomey, "is not the kind of poliomyelitis that is seen in the human being." One plain reason: the monkey's four legs become paralyzed; the human being's arms are much less frequently affected...
...weeks ago, Dr. Willard said, he took an ill-tempered, 20-lb. rhesus monkey named Jekal, asphyxiated it with ether, injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from coagulating. When the animal's breathing and circulation had stopped, a chiropractor pronounced it "dead." Then Dr. Willard popped Jekal into an icebox where the temperature was kept at - 30° C. ( - 22° F.). Five days later he removed the small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating...
...hormone from sheep. In an hour, Jekal sat up, fingered the adhesive tape on his belly, stared about vacantly. In a day or two the creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...