Medicine: Monkey-&-Man Serum

Sick monkeys squatted in their cages at the Harvard Medical School laboratories last week and languidly, fruitlessly scratched at their flealess bodies. By & by a man, monstrously big to them and brightly white in his laboratory gown, loomed before their cages. They stared at him, unblinking. He reached into a cage; a monkey side-hopped away; but the man caught him. He tried to bite the huge, imprisoning hand; the man fubbed his face away. Then there was the prick of a hollow needle through the monkey's skin; the monkey squeaked and hissed, his mouth wide open; blood ran out through...

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