GUINEA PIGS AND SCIENCE
What are the uses of the guinea pig? In the genera] scheme of mundane things it plays no very essential pari, but still the insignificant little animal La.- its use-, the principal of which is in connection with medical research work i. says the Melbourne .. \.,p--,. Recently it was announced that a sample of tuilk was injected into a "uinea pig and it contracted tuberculosis. Before the experiment was completed presumably before the guinea pig received further injections of genu laden fluid and was killed, inquiries were made by the Victorian Department of Agriculture. The herd from which the milk had been taken was examined and one of the cows was destroyed because it was affected with the disease in the udder. But for the experiment with the guinea pig, suspicion regarding the cow may not have been aroused until its milk had spread tuberculosis amongst consumers.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 May 1920, Page 4
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