guinea pigs
- plural of guinea pig.
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Might it not be possible that the Martians, if they exist, are using these cosmic rays patiently, experimentally on us human guinea-pigs, gradually evolving a type a little nearer the Martian heart's or mind's desire?
From Time Magazine Archive
The most interesting med-cal news of the week was the, announcement by Dr. Georges Dreyer, professor of pathology at Oxford University, of a successful method of inoculation in tuberculous guinea-pigs and other animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dreyer inoculated three tuberculous guinea-pigs with his defatted dead bacilli.
From Time Magazine Archive
Does not this show, it is asked, that the epileptic condition of guinea-pigs is due to a generally unstable condition of the whole nervous system and is not associated with any particular part thereof?
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
It was furthermore met with in the cheesy lymphatic glands of swine, in the tubercular nodules of a fowl, and in the tubercles of guinea-pigs, rabbits, and monkeys.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
