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After a while, you'll see only
through the eye of the eyepiece.
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That's the ticket.
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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.
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He had found cures for diseases
he could hardly pronounce,
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like haemorrhagic septicaemia, bird
diphtheria, aspergillosis, avian cholera.
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He even found a specific
for fowl paralysis,
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thereby saving poultry ranches
the lives of thousands of chickens.
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The title of his book was "Stroud's
Digest of the Diseases of Birds".
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Its contents established beyond doubt
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that the ageing prisoner was
the world's foremost authority in his field.
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The book took seven years to complete.
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I want your scientific opinion
about this book of Stroud's.
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Is it baloney or does it
amount to anything?
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Well, Doctor?
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It's hardly what you'd call baloney.
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It's a highly scientific study
of the pathology - diseases - of birds.
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You think Stroud's
quite a man, don't you?
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I think he's a genius.