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Show Surgery Owes Debt to Lowly Guinea Pig Instead of guinea pigs. In this, the knife must wait on time and circumstance, circum-stance, and go slowly, for there are tew voluntary guinea pigs among human hu-man creatures. If a guinea pig could live long enough, he might become something of a scientist himself. His constant association is with scientists and with (he most daring and advanced. He niiiiht himself solve the mystery of why he Is called guinea pig. being neither a pig nor originating In Guinea. Whi-n memorials are reared to those who have done the most for medical and biological science, shouldn't the guinea pig have one even a statue, Hoberl Collier, writing In the St. Louis Glnbe-lH.-mncrat. asks. This small an linal has suffered, bled and died for the Jtuninn race. We owe It honors. It Is a vicarious martyr, for surgery, now the wonder of the world, going so far as to rejuvenate man, coaid secure se-cure so much thorough and convincing convinc-ing results, If it cohld practice on man |