Literature Network » Ambrose Bierce

Man's best friend: sniffing out cancer: recent research is demonstrating that dogs can tell the difference between people who have cancer and those who don't.

Content courtesy of

From: Saturday Evening Post
Date: 20060701
Author:Neal, Andrea

DOG, n.--A kind of additional or subsidiary deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

They cheer us up when we're feeling blue. Medical studies confirm they bring down our blood pressure. They can serve as eyes for the blind, ears for the deaf, detectors of explosives, and drug cops. Now, an extraordinary area of scientific research suggests that dogs can detect cancer in humans, perhaps earlier than can be spotted by standard tools in the doctor's office.

Put simply, that is the potentially ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.



Other Articles on Ambrose Bierce

  • LONELINESS LURKED BEHIND BIERCE'S BARBED WIT.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
  • AMBROSE BIERCE AND HIS WICKED ONE-LINERS
  • Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  • Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company
  • Of the people, by the people ...(Ambrose Bierce )
  • Essential Bierce.(Essential Bierce: Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce)(Brief article)(Book review)
  • War Without Glory - Ambrose Bierce's bitter, venomous stories look unflinchingly at war's hellish brutality and cruel ironies, contradicting traditional views.(Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce)(Book Review)
  • WAR TRANSFORMED WRITER'S IDEALISM INTO DISILLUSIONMENT.(Spotlight)(Review)
  • AMBROSE BIERCE: A SOLE SURVIVOR, BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.(Review)
  • Find More Articles

    • About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.



    - 1G1-148279168
    Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily
    In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time.
    Email:
    		Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter
    Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time.
    Email: