INFLUENZA COMMUNICATED TO CATS AND HUMAN BEINGS BY HORSES.

Opioids in horses and cats

Over the last few years we have investigated the effects of opioids in different species using the reduction of MAC as a tool. This does not prove that the drugs are or are not analgesics but the information generated has been interesting and appears to be similar to data generated by other methods. In horses Dr. E.P. Steffey looked at morphine given as a bolus injection and found that MAC was ...

Antibody Response of Human Beings following Vaccination with Influenza Viruses

Eleven different preparations of influenza virus were used to vaccinate large groups of human beings. The antibody response to these vaccines was measured by means of the in vitro agglutination inhibition test, and the geometric mean titers of sera taken 2 weeks after vaccination were compared. From these comparisons the following conclusions were drawn: 1. There was a wide individual variation...

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

Calcium orthophosphates and human beings

The historical development of a scientific knowledge on calcium orthophosphates from the 1770s until 1940 is described. Many forgotten and poorly known historical facts and approaches have been extracted from old publications and then they have been analyzed, systematized and reconsidered from the modern point of view. The chosen time scale starts with the earliest available studies of 1770s (t...

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...