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...Virginia. Dr. Maxcy knew that U. S. inhabitants are seldom lousy, suspected that some other blood-sucking insect might be the vector of mild U. S. typhus. Dr. Dyer, who in his career had dealt with rat-borne bubonic plague, suspected rat fleas, proved his hypothesis correct-first on guinea pigs, next (by accident) on two assistants, Martin Joseph Mannix and Dr. Elmer Theodore Ceder, lastly upon himself. "Where," he demanded as he wobbled home from the Naval Hospital, "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff...
...collection of rare and curious stuffed birds has just been received by the University Museum at Harvard from Dutch New Guinea and the Moluccas...
...roosters, which Freshen living in Grays Hall claimed had been continually disturbing them at all hours of the early morning with their crowings, were being accommodated on the top floor of Boylston Hall, where Dr. M. H. Elliott, instructor of Physiology keeps a small menagerie of guinea pigs, rats, and squirrels for physiological observation. No statement was made as to how the corpses were to be disposed...
...Dyer & associates, having determined that the flea as well as the louse is a carrier of typhus, concentrated on treatments. They pulverized infected fleas, rubbed the mash into scratches which they made on the bodies of monkeys and guinea pigs. When Dr. Dyer's staff let typhus fleas bite the vaccinated animals, typhus fever developed in only half the animals. Whereupon the investigators prepared a more potent vaccine with which they will inoculate themselves. They are confident that at last they have the treatment and preventive of typhus as it appears...
...Stavsky, tutor in Animal Psychology is conducting an experiment in an attempt to investigate the orientation of different animal forms in a field of gravitational force. A rat or a guinea pig is placed upon an inclined plane in a position parallel to the base of the plane. The animal is negatively geotropic, that is, it naturally tends to climb up when placed upon a sloping surface...