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...doctors had to find the exact spot on the neck where the device could be applied with the greatest success. Sarnoff's wife, also his laboratory assistant, served as a human guinea pig, and the doctors spent hours probing her neck with the electrode before they were successful...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: University Contributes to Fight Against Polio; Doctors Develop New Electric Breathing Aid | 3/2/1951 | See Source »

Mount Lamington is a 5,534-ft. volcano in the Owen-Stanley range, New Guinea. White residents call it the "Marx Brothers," because it has four cones; natives know it as "Spirit Mountain," from a legend that it once breathed fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: Spirit of Bikini | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...hospital will publish a report on its findings "as soon as we get a few more guinea pigs," a spokesman said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drug Habit Lures Guinea Pigs From College for Tests | 1/27/1951 | See Source »

Persons in good physical health who are interested in applying for the guinea pig job may do so at the Employment Office in Weld Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drug Habit Lures Guinea Pigs From College for Tests | 1/27/1951 | See Source »

...persuading a female SS supervisor to spare the lives of two crippled "guinea pigs," Author Buber was thrown into freezing solitary confinement for more than two months; the first week she was without light or food. But Margarete Buber survived. Siberia had made her tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Who Survived | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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