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...Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow, to show the effect of the drugs...
...Michalek gave100-milligram injections to Jack Clifford, 30, a lab technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearson, 26, a secretary. As he reached for the methadon bottle to give the much smaller injections to another secretary and himself, the physician drew back in shock. He had used that bottle the first time. He looked quickly at Mrs. Pearson; she was already in deep distress. Dr. Michalek called for antidotes. Then he picked up the phone and told the dean: "I think that maybe I might have made a mistake on the dosage, perhaps...