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...Announcing the isolation of viomycin (named for the violet color of the Cuban soil mold in which it was found), Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn reported that it had already shown promise in treating tuberculous mice and guinea pigs. Tests on humans are just beginning. Viomycin seems to work against tubercle bacilli which are resistant to streptomycin...
Builders will finish the room next week, then the architects and experimenters take over. The wood-and-plaster guinea pig is located on the second floor of Building A, at the northern end of the Jarvis Field Graduate Center...
Near Buna, in New Guinea, there is a large cemetery which wartime outfits named "Eichelberger Square" in honor of the General's tactical proficiency. If he works at it, General Eichelberger may be able to inspire similar memorials all over the Pacific...
...purpose of the test, which was taken by 30 student guinea pigs, is to help determine if such a thing as clairvoyance actually exists, and if it has any correlation with personality...
Among the more bizarre requests which have been received in recent weeks was one from Massachusetts General Hospital. The doctors were in search of a student who would submit to a series of tests after being kept awake for 48 straight hours. The obliging guinea pig pocketed $20 for his sleepless nights. Another freshman allowed his intestinal tract to be explored by means of a series of tubes through his nose and down his throat...