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Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
Professor Bancroft's thesis is that the thread-like nerve ends clot when exhausted by wakefulness or worry or poisoned by sedatives, hypnotics, narcotics, anesthetics or alcohol. He has indeed seen through microscopes drugged nerve ends turn dull, cloud and congeal like poached eggs. His contention is that sodium rhodanate dissolves the clots at the nerve ends, restores them to their natural consistency...
Professor Bancroft believed that the chemical also kept rabbits from contracting coccidiosis and chickens from contracting infectious leukemia...
...March 1933 the American Chemical Society, of which he was 1919 president, gave Dr. Bancroft its prized Nichols Medal "for his work on the application of colloid chemistry to physiological problems, particularly insanity, in which he has advanced scientific proof that dementia and drug addiction are curable chemically...
Died. Charles Bancroft Dillingham, 66, theatrical producer; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. In 36 years he produced more than 200 plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...