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...Republicans can hardly be criticized for agreeing to take part in a television press conference supposedly under the aegis of Cornell. Their truth serum ballyhoo is good politics. But it is most unfortunate that Cornell has allowed herself to be duped into appearing as the sponsor of any political party...
Krebiozen is a whitish powder prepared from the serum of horses that have been injected with material from an abscess (known as "lumpy jaw") occurring in cattle. Its effect, according to Yugoslav-born Dr. Stevan Durovic, its discoverer, is to provide the body with a regulatory hormone that it needs to control the multiplication of cells...
...Worries. Handicapping is no job for a man trying to make friends. Whenever horsemen gather and the flasks of truth serum circulate, someone is sure to get exercised about harsh treatment at the hands of the racing secretary...
...paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling with a call from Salt Lake...
Since monkeys cannot talk, and schizophrenia is described in psychological terms dependent on patients' reporting, Heath and co-workers decided to take the next step and test the serum extract on human volunteers. Two were found at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Carefully examined by psychiatrists, they showed no trace of latent mental illness. Given only the same tiny dose as a seven-pound monkey, the men developed similar symptoms within five minutes, reaching a peak after about half an hour...