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THEIR OWN RABBITS
Self-Sacrifice In Cause Of Science
By C.W.C.
A RECENT New York cable concerning Dr. Alan Blair’s self-imposed agony when he allowed a poisonous spider to bite his finger, draws attention to the fact that such acts of noble self-sacrifice in the cause of medical science are not rare.
Dr. Houston, of the Metropolitan Water Board of London, drank raw Thames water, which contained approximately 218 million typhoid bacilli, to test a theory. “Every week there are similar instances of self-sacrifice in the interests of science but, as a rule, we hear nothing about them,” Messrs. Bridges and Tiltman say.
The Advertiser, 1933
Rowland reached around and pulled off the gag. Nobody stopped him on this occasion and he was able to speak for the first time in hours.
“What?”
