Word: rhesus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same opinion was expressed independently by Dr. John W. Olney, assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Olney gave infant mice and a rhesus monkey a highly concentrated dosage of MSG and found cell damage in the hypothalamus...
...tragedy could not have been foreseen because the combination effect had not been observed previously, or even suspected. Wuest insisted, however, that "the tools are now available" to prevent the repetition of such a disaster, if drug researchers take care to test their compounds in animals such as the rhesus monkey...
...cannot be proved by statistics. They insisted that so long as no one knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism that is not applicable to medicine. Despite the statistical methods...
...Rhesus J. Portfolio III '28, who is generally given credit for Harvard's return to prominence two decades ago, has quit his post at Southwest Texas State College and is reportedly returning to Cambridge...
...following the contest, former varsity coach Rhesus J. Portfolio commented, "This is the best Harvard team I've seen in 31 years. And that day I think I was drunk...