Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since they began sharing the same cave, dogs have been giving diseases to men. Last fortnight, a doctor reported a disease that human beings give to dogs. Dr. Leon F. Whitney of Orange, Conn. says in Veterinary Medicine that in the last two years he has seen 800 cases of the new disease compared with eight of distemper...
...cold. The illness begins with a sore throat, mouth and bronchial infection with a little fever. Most dogs recover in a week, but some go on to a frequently fatal encephalitis with convulsions, tics, paralysis, dizziness, forgetfulness or blindness. Of 309 cases of house dog disease Dr. Whitney reports in detail, 58 died of encephalitis...
Unable to find any bacterial cause for the disease, Dr. Whitney blames some unknown virus. The only treatment that seems to do any good is injection of serum from a recovered dog, but this works only in the early stages...
...Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
...Like Eli Whitney, Paul Revere is famed for the wrong thing: he never completed his gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...