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Folk and football song will feature the program of the Instrumental Clubs in their Worcester concert at the Hotel Bancroft this evening...
Last week as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Professor Bancroft had the ears of the nation when that tight little body of scientists met in Cleveland. He shouted an angry tirade against medical scientists who had long scoffed at his chemical conclusions. His philippic delighted the multitudinous foes of organized medicine. It supplied quacks with specious arguments for years to come. And in sober essence it pitted the chemist mind, which elaborates theories from a few invariable facts, against the medical mind, which accepts healing principles only after painstaking weighing of forever varying human factors...
Ignoring Medicine's reasons, Professor Bancroft inveighed: "In the last 20 years, the probable length of human life has been materially increased, thanks to medical science, but the change is largely due to a decrease in deaths among infants and children. The average improvement for a man of 45 through medical advances is about two months...
...jumped Dr. Torald Hermann Sollmann, 60, professor of pharmacology & materia medica and dean of Western Reserve University Medical School to sneer that Professor Bancroft's experiments on rabbits and chickens were not sound. "How many of your associates are taking sodium rhodanate?" bantered Professor Francis Gano Benedict, 64, Carnegie Institution nutritionist...
Professor Bancroft: "There must be about 100 of us taking it for sleep. I have been taking it for two years, about a teaspoonful a week of a 10% solution. I now sleep quite normally, and my health and disposition are normal...