1:34:11
Picked it up last night in a hockshop.
Thought you might get a kick out of it.
1:34:34
Why don't you look at somethin',
see if it works?
1:34:52
Mr Ransom, you sure are a darlin' man!
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keep both eyes open.
1:35:00
After a while, you'll see only
through the eye of the eyepiece.
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That's the ticket.
1:35:18
For Stroud, that microscope
was the lantern he had been waiting for
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to light his way into the marvellous
and exacting truth of scientific research.
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His object: the bird.
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His tools: curiosity, dedication,
and the nerve of a riverboat gambler,
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as he ripped into studies which read like
the curriculum of a medical university.
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Cytology, morphology, biochemistry.
1:35:45
Stroud decided he was
equipped to launch a project
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he had long dreamed about -
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a definitive work on the diseases of birds.
1:35:54
He had found cures for diseases
he could hardly pronounce,
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like haemorrhagic septicaemia, bird
diphtheria, aspergillosis, avian cholera.