Search Details

Word: rhesus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Agramonte's letter concluded: "In July, 1927, in West Africa, infection of a rhesus monkey was obtained with the blood of a native suffering from yellow fever, and soon after, other monkeys were infected with blood and by the bites of infected mosquitoes, from monkey to monkey and from man to monkey. Inasmuch as Dr. Noguchi did not go to West Africa until later (he was in New York during August), he could not have furnished the blood for the monkey inoculation, as reported; in fact, he had nothing to do with them, and you may add to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Agramonte v. Noguchi | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...went to Accra on the West coast of Africa to experiment, was there taken to the hospital with yellow fever. On the fifth day when his high temperature was reluctantly dropping and the second stage of the disease had set in, he had a monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected blood. The monkey died twelve days later from a severe case of yellow fever. Fifty more monkeys were inoculated and succumbed. Finally serum from the blood of Patient Noguchi, recovering from the yellow fever, was administered and the protective antibodies pre vented animals from contracting yellow fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yellow Fever | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Dramatic Association has announced that it will present at the Commencement exercises on June 16 Shakespeare's "King Lear", undertaking the project not only because of the artistic merit of the play, but also because of the general revival of interest in Shakespearian work. Last June, the association gave "Rhesus" of Euripides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Association to Act "King Lear" | 4/11/1923 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next