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Chief stumbling-block so far has been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...
First they proved on guinea pigs, rabbits and themselves that the placental extracts were not poisonous and caused no sex derangements. Then on guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys they demonstrated that the extract neutralized diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch. By good fortune 15 children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles...
Last week Drs. Thomas James Glover of New York and Jacob Lenhert Engle of Philadelphia, after ten years' research, proposed a spore-bearing organism. They find the spore-bearing germ in human breast cancer, can grow the material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...
...Park used to take his test tubes of germs to bed with him to keep them warm. One of his early laboratories was in the Criminal Courts building. The judges disliked his guinea pigs, drove him out. He found a corner in a municipal disinfectant plant, eventually got a regular building and a staff, which now numbers...
...fifth floor is a temporary room for the housing of small mammals. It suffices for the colony of approximately 400 rats, 800 mice, sundry guinea pigs, rabbits, and cats required for investigations...