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The guinea-pig first achieved fame as an experimental animal in the eighteenth century, when Lavoisier used it for his fundamental experiments on respiration (Lavoisier Seguin they thus opened up scurvy to an experimental attack. The guinea-pig, however, has never approached the rat in popularity for general nutritional work, and this is unfortunate, in that the guinea-pig has many points of resemblance to man in its rate of growth and reproductive performance
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