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...Unfounded rumors about consciousness-expanding drugs have been at fever pitch for the last two years. One cause of the hysteria is the rarity of these poweful substances. They are not sold. Physicians cannot obtain them for therapeutic use. They are released only to qualified researchers. Locally and nationally there seems to be intense interest in consciousness-expansion, but little access to the drugs. One dose seems to create a thonsand rumors...
...statement issued last night in response to qustions asked by the CRIMSON, Timothy Leary discounted reports of widespread undergraduate use of psilocybin and similar drugs. "Unfounded rumors about consciousness-expanding drugs have been at fever pitch for the last two years. . .Locally and nationally there seems to be intense interest in consciousness expansion, but little access to the drugs...
...that different components became more distinguishable. That same year Dr. Woodward took the first microscope photographs, using the sun as his light source. Major Walter Reed was the pathology museum's curator when he went to Havana as head of the team that convicted mosquitoes of carrying yellow fever, making possible control of the disease-and completion of the Panama Canal. Institute pathologists developed the first typhoid vaccines, using themselves as guinea pigs...
...fever persisted; but only on the promise that it would be a short stay was Mrs. Roosevelt persuaded to go into Manhattan's famed Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, a specimen of Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow-the body's main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought...
About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...