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...Maher did not claim that his cocci would cleanse a human body of its tubercle bacilli. He frankly admitted that, as yet, they had had no effect, either preventive or curative, on guinea pigs and rabbits. But he did think that he was at least on the right track, urged other researchers to join him in the search for "the greatest prize in the world," a specific cure for tuberculosis...
...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...
...indirectly gave her the idea for a layman's school. He wanted her to teach his daughter Elizabeth enough music so that she would be interested when she went with him to the opera. Later Mme Samaroff experimented with her friends, Mrs. Theodore Steinway and Mrs. Otto Kahn-"guinea pigs" she calls them-who with Lawyer Cravath and the Junior League girls are booming the new school...
...Physiology department experiments almost entirely with rodents and keeps about 2000 mice and half as many rats besides seven rabbits, three cats, and seven guinea pigs...
...this zoo there are regularly 25 monkeys, 250 mice, 150 rats, six alligators, 45 frogs, three pigeons, a dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles, and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of opossums, woodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield...