A look back at one of the classic studies about prevention of coprophagy in the rat: “Prevention of coprophagy in the rat,” Richard H. Barnes, Grace Fiala, Bette McGehee, and Ann Brown, Journal of Nutrition, vol. 63, no. 4 (1957): 489-498. The authors, at Cornell University, begin with the now-familiar words: “The contributions of coprophagy […]
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How kids should avoid colds, 1947-style [video]
“George jumps right into trouble, because he forgot his galoshes.” That’s just one insight from this 1947 American instructional video about “How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.” At the end, “they learn that Dutch people are clean.”