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...collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased his joshing when he said, "They're fleas from a wild rat and I'm trying to see if they'll kill me." He was experimenting with flea transmission of typhus fever...
...Institute to become professor of public health and hygiene at the University of 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...
...linud de bear I'm liund de volf Sometams I'm hund de rat...
Swedes awaited eagerly last week the opening by King Gustaf V in his Royal Palace of an Exhibition of Relics & Curiosities, including "deformed bullets extracted from the wounds of Swedish kings" and a royal Swedish watch charm in the shape of a gold rat trap...
...legs at peace conferences, do us in the eye in disarmament treaties and help Europe cheat us out of War Debt billions; they can call us dollar-chasers, jazz maniacs and Prohibition hypocrites, but they can't call our robin not a robin and our grey squirrel a rat...