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...life conies when his figures begin to run amok. Figures can bristle like barbed-wire barriers between his data and his conclusions. He -finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...
...life conies when his figures begin to run amok. Figures can bristle like barbed-wire barriers between his data and his conclusions. He finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...
Stomach Specialist Sandweiss, working with Surgeon Harry C. Saltzstein, decided to call the unknown factor "anthelone" (from the Greek words for anti-ulcer). They could not isolate it, but they got encouraging results from experimental injections of a urine extract in both animal and human ulcer victims...
Last year an improved extract was made from the urine of pregnant mares. In capsule form it can be taken orally. In a recent Harper Hospital Bulletin, Dr. Sandweiss reported that he began testing equine anthelone on 50 patients nine months ago. He will not announce findings until he can be sure whether the ulcers will recur. But his ultimate hope is to correct one of nature's ironies-the irony of making men especially subject to ulcers, then providing the possible cure in the glands of women...
Another method is tissue culture. Bits of cancer tissue are stuck to the side of a test tube. A nutrient solution (made of such unlikely ingredients as extract of human placentas) is added. The tube is sealed and put on a vertical merry-go-round in an incubator. As the merry-go-round revolves slowly, the solution washes over the cancer tissue, which grows vigorously just as if it were in a living body. Drugs can be tested against it simply by adding them to the solution...