Word: rhesuses
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...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...
...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...