Word: podophyllin
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Manhattan's Memorial had podophyllin (an extract of mandrake root) on its research list; but through a laboratory accident some of the stuff prematurely got into test-tube cultures of cancerous and normal cells. It stopped the growth of the cancer cells, had no effect on the normal cells. Meanwhile, National Cancer Institute researchers tried podophyllin on mouse cancers, got comparable results...
...reported Drs. Richard Ormsbee and Ivor Cornman, podophyllin cannot be used on cancer patients until someone isolates its cancer-killing element and separates that from the rest. In any sizable quantity, the root is poisonous...
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