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Degkwitz reported that he had already tried his injection method against tuberculosis, with promising results. Using two aniline dyes that seem to be lethal to tuberculosis bacilli, he gave daily injections to T.B.-infected guinea pigs. In six weeks, he said, he had cured 98% of them...
...Food & Drug Administration, recognizing an emergency when it sees one, swiftly collected 4,000 samples of gum-in all flavors-and started chewing. Seventy-five human guinea pigs, including 25 children, chomped bubble gum for periods up to eight hours. The test wads were anything from one to six sticks. For comparison, paraffin wax was also chewed...
...laboratory, investigators analyzed the gum ingredients, fed bubble gum to monkeys, implanted it in the skins of guinea pigs, attached wads of chewed gum to shaved rabbits. F.D.A.'s pharmacology chief tried some...
...Guinea-pig Freshmen will take a six-hour aptitude test next week which the Department of Tests hopes will eventually become a standard examination for determining academic ability...
What finally happened to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? As the first guinea pigs of atomic warfare, they are still being watched closely-and will be for many a year to come-by U.S. and Japanese doctors...