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This paradoxical change in a man whose earlier work dealt exhaustively with harlots, drunkards and rat infested cellars, is partially explained by the enthusiastic recognition which the Soviet State has given him as an oldtime enemy of Tsarism...
...with the idea of causing rat bite fever to shake some of the paralysis out of the Illinois paretics that the Hershfield group infected them. Only ten patients died during the treatment, and of those only two deaths could be directly attributed to the infection. Of the others, Dr. Hershfield reported last week, half were more or less physically improved and 20% showed some mental improvement...
...value of the Illinois experiment lies in the fact that therapeutic rat bite fever is easier to cure than malaria, which has a similar good effect on paretics...
...Rats are merely large mice. There are about 200 species widespread on every continent including Australia. But Madagascar has no native mice. Amateurs distinguish a mouse with 210 or more scales on its tail as a rat. Most mice have 180 scales. Rats follow the migrations...
...Honduras or any other tropical country, army ants might have been used for the rat eradication. These insects travel in regular columns and with horrifying voracity eat every living thing in their paths−insects, mice, rats, snakes, even humans. Natives welcome the ants' arrival to their homes, merely moving out until the ants eat up all the household pests and march...