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...Colchicine - an extract of the autumn crocus, useful in gout - has been tried in some half-dozen cases of leukemia, the dread blood disease. No one has been saved from leukemia by colchicine, which slows down the division of living cells, but Dr. W. Harding Kneedler of Philadelphia thinks that colchicine helps and that "further trial . . . seems justified...
...Subtilin, an extract of the bacillus sub-tilis (the hay bacillus found in every open field) will kill tubercle bacilli in test tubes. This announcement, by the University of California's Dr. Anthony J. Salle, may mean very little. Test-tube results are only a preliminary step and subtilin has a long way to go to prove itself; like many another potential "cure," it may be no good in the human body...
Always willing to try something new, I purchased one of the above-mentioned tools and, with a light heart, set out to show the local clamdiggers how we moderns extract the lowly mollusc from his lair...
Inquisition. For "recalcitrant" prisoners, and airmen from whom the Japanese hoped to extract information, there was special treatment. At Ofuna, a camp for unregistered prisoners, they endured months of solitary confinement and tortures. Husky guards took pride in breaking jaws and eardrums. At a Japanese prison camp, Marine Lieut. William Harris, veteran of Corregidor was battered for half an hour with a baseball bat. He lived, but others, after similar treatment, died. There were also more refined methods: metal bits were fastened into soldiers' mouths with thread which gradually drew tighter & tighter;match slivers were thrust under...
Since then he has been a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I, a chemist in the U.S. Bureau of Mines (where he helped develop a new way to extract radium), research director of both Standard Oil of Indiana and General Printing Ink Corporation, a professor at the University of Chicago, dean at Penn State, and Director of Science and Education for the New York World's Fair...