Word: rhesus
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...stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black bear, three monkeys...
...baby was Cheryl Lynn Labrenz, seven days old. Her red blood cells were being destroyed because her blood, like her father's, contained the mysterious Rh (for rhesus) factor and her mother's did not. From her mother, Cheryl's blood had picked up an antibody which was attacking her own Rh-positive cells. These could win the battle only if reinforced by a transfusion...
...called because it was first found in the blood of rhesus monkeys...
This theory turned out to be true. The doctors proved it conclusively by exposing cut nerve ends of Rhesus monkeys to the virus of human polio. They then separated the slender neurotubules a little way up the nerve and examined them under the electron microscope. Some of them were full of tiny round specks not present in healthy nerves. By extracting the nerve samples at different times, the doctors proved that the particles crept slowly up the nerve from the point of entry. They moved about 2 mm. (1/12 inch) an hour-roughly the rate that polio infection is known...
...believer in hunches, Dr. Shortt tackled the puzzle with conventional research methods. In a laboratory near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, he shut a rhesus monkey into a cage with 500 malaria-carrying mosquitoes (previous experiments had used 20 to 100). Just to make sure that the monkey would hatch a really bad case, he killed the mosquitoes, made a solution out of them, and injected it into the monkey's muscles and chest. No other monkey had ever been so swamped with malaria. After seven days Dr. Shortt performed a careful autopsy. Said he: "I went over every conceivable piece...