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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh v. Powdered. Dr. Niehans experimented (often on himself) with cell extracts from various organs and glands of several young animals, eventually hit on the unborn Iamb (from a ewe slaughtered just before it is due to deliver) as the best source for most purposes. To ensure a steady supply of fresh, uncontaminated material, he has a veterinarian choose the animals and supervise slaughtering. Of his $120 minimum fee for a single injection, most goes for the raw material, he says, leaving him $30. For aged or debilitated patients, and for doctors elsewhere who want to use the method, Rhein...
...Niehans modestly denies that he has ever treated (as often reported) the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, or his near neighbor, the aging (70) Charlie Chaplin. Nor, he says, has he personally treated Chancellor Konrad Adenauer or Sir Winston Churchill, but both have had Niehans' cellular injections from other physicians. In the isolation of his palatial home, Dr. Niehans admits that besides the criterion of "individual prominence," he chooses patients who are "most likely to give good response to treatment." This selection may go far to explain why so many are satisfied...
Side Show. In Istanbul, Turkey, beaten with a cane once too often by his gypsy master Arif Arat, a dancing bear named Karaoglan broke his chains, grabbed the cane, gave his master a sound drubbing, ambled...
...architecture. Now, with 61 years and as many books behind him", he moves into an area where he is about as much at home as a caveman with a shelf full of Sitwelliana. Journey to the Ends of Time (a second volume to come) is a long, discursive and often boring attempt to decide whether man has a soul...
...Journey is short on the supports of religion and the structure of philosophy, it is an often fascinating excursion into the literary riches of a sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...