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IN this monograph, by the author of a series of papers on inherited abnormalities, especially of the retina, in the mouse, the early chapters deal with the systematic position and history of house and domesticated mice. There is much curious information: we learn, for example, that, according to the London Pharmacopoeia of 1667, “A flead mouse dried and beaten to powder, and given at a time, helps such as have Diabetes”; that a special word for the dominant spotted variety of mouse appears in the earliest Chinese lexicon, written 1100 B.C. and that “The clergy of the Middle Ages never ceased to comment upon the libidinous habits of mice. Indeed, mice were frequently raised by curious churchmen in order to observe their wicked actions”.
The Laboratory Mouse: its Origin, Heredity and Culture.
By Dr. Clyde E. Keeler. Pp. viii + 81. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1931.)
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W., G. The Laboratory Mouse: its Origin, Heredity and Culture . Nature 128, 431 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128431b0
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