Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1916 — EXPERIMENTS WITH WHITE RATS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXPERIMENTS WITH WHITE RATS

t _____ V . _ ■ : Philadelphians were perturbed recently over the publication of the results of a series of experiments with white rats which are being made by Helen Dean King at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology of the University of Pennsylvania. Shorn of its sensationalism and half truths, the story of the experiments with white rats now going on at the institute is still interesting. By means of careful selection and mating of brother and sister rats from the same litters, which is "the closest form of inbreeding possible," there is being developed a race bigger, heavier and better in every way than the ordinary ’•at. '“And," says Doctor King, “theoretically what can be done with rats can be done with other animals. Give me ten years longer and 1 may have found out something." By following out her experiments it “might be pos-

sible to revolutionize the whole system of stock raising" and thereby increase the supply,of meat and reduce the cost of liying. ~ Doctor King is the only woman in America who holds a professorship in research work, the only other woman in the world who has that honor being Mme. Curie of Paris.