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Declared Dr. Wood: "Almost every known analine dye, many alkaloids, all metals, ground up tumor particles, filtrates from tumor cells, extracts from all the organs, serums from animals have been injected with cancer cells so as to produce an antibody. But all these have been tried and have failed with two exceptions." The exceptions: lead, which is dangerous; a powerful antiserum, which does not effect a tumor that has started to grow...
Greatest cancer discovery during the year-according to Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, British cancer expert who went to St. Louis to become an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons- was the discovery, by Dr. R. J. Lundferd of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, that a dye called trypan blue, frequently-used to treat malaria and African sleeping sickness, would stain healthy body cells, would not stain cancer cells. Trypan blue enables the pathologist to distinguish finely between healthy and cancerous tissue...
Ever since he used to dye his own tapes try woolens, Aristide Maillol has been very particular about his materials. He used to complain violently about every type of drawing paper on the market. Several years ago he chewed a big gob of drawing paper while working on a clay model and finally spat it out on the smooth tile floor. Some hours later he picked it up, discovered that the underside of his paper quid had acquired a beautiful fine grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process...
Though soon to become Dictator of Thalia, Hannibal, when Journalist Slocombe first encounters him in Switzerland, is an anarchist of the deepest dye. Though politically a heman, personally he has traits barely infantile. When a girl at his Swiss boarding house repulses his torrid advances, in a pet he plants a dummy bomb under his bed to terrify the boarders, decamps for England. From anarchist lair to lair he jumps. In Paris he meets Luciana, who recognizes the star of fortune burning over his beetling brow. She becomes his mistress, mothers him and his destiny with incomparable tact...
Here let me wash my spotted soul From crimes of deepest dye...