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Some Shinagawa patients were used as guinea pigs for incredible experimental injections by Captain Hisikichi Tokoda, a 29-year-old Japanese physician. Dr. Harold W. Keschner, an Army officer captured at Bataan, described Captain Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited...
...injections and pills are not needed by healthy people. Extra vitamin K is needed when disease cuts off bile flow and impairs intestinal absorption. It is also given to women a few days before childbirth and to newborn babies...
...Guide for the Bedevilled is written with ample hatred. Author Hecht's love for the Jews is expressed in phobic language suggestive of Nazi Julius Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...
...Harold Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, then buttered up Jeffers but dripped bile on Nelson and WPB. The priority which Nelson should not have granted had cost 4,413,000 barrels of 100-octane, had thrown the whole gasoline program out of balance, said Ickes. WPB had permitted vital parts to be hoarded while plants lay idle for their lack. WPB's new scheduling program was not working...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...