Medicine: Monkey Mixture

At Philadelphia zealous Temple University's zealous Professor John Albert Kolmer injected into the brains of monkeys virus which had originally come from the spinal cord of children who had died of infantile paralysis. The monkeys promptly developed infantile paralysis. Professor Kolmer killed them, pulled out their spinal cords, ground them up with sodium ricinoleate. The resultant vaccine he injected into more monkeys, which thereupon withstood all efforts to infect them with infantile paralysis virus.

Last week Professor Kolmer publicly staked his professional reputation...

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