Show Mice and Men l Are mice vermin That depends on where they are arc In your pantry they rate as first-class first pests but there Is one place at least where they are mans man's friend and that is in the laboratories that do research on human diseases In cancer and andIn andIn andin in pneumonia and yellow fever says Dr C. C C C. Little head of the Roscoe B. B Jack Jackson n Memorial l Laboratory Laboratory Lab Lab- oratory oraton for Cancer Research mice are the troops which literally b by tens of thousands occupy posts on the firing line of investigation Taking cancer as an nn example Dr Little writing in Scientific American Amer Amen ican lean points out that the cancers formed by mice do not differ in their chief characteristics from those of oC humans There are so o many other parallels between the physiological functioning of the two organisms man and mice that the research biologists' biologists experiments ments meats on mice are transferable to humans Mice he says frequently die of inflammation of the lungs or of the kidneys just as humans humans hu hu- mans do Animal experimenters who use mice keep them In clean an order orderly places and scarcely more confined than han human beings They live in warmth and plenty Their treatment treat ment merit is humane human Humans sometimes find mice ti smell smell but mice find humans smelly too Dr Little tells how a bab baby mouse after being handled by bya a human being Ls Is made unwelcome by the mother mouse until sh she has carefully washed it or it-or or she may desert or even kill it To fool the mother her nostrils are arc filled with vaseline The removal al of this so occupies her attention that by the time it is accomplished the young mouse has resumed the smell of the nest and d is s gain g lin received into the b bosom om of the family I |