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...Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled by a "truth serum" (sodium pentothal). Bill insisted that he could neither rob nor murder. He blamed it all on a fellow named George Murman...
This recipe, with variations, seems to be the starting point of many a medical marvel-the transplantation of organs, resuscitation of the dead, the life-prolonging serum "ACS"-with which Russian physicians bemuse their foreign colleagues and astound the public (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944). Last week the discoverer of ACS ("anti-reticular cytotoxic serum") presented his notions and discoveries in the first English translation of his book The Prolongation of Life.* He also granted his first interview to the foreign press...
...laboratory amid the ruins of Kiev, reporters found Professor Alexander A. Bogomolets, the prophet of longevity, to be a thin, stooped, wizened and "incredibly wrinkled" man of 65. "Normally a man should live to the age of 150 years," twinkled Bogomolets. "That is, if he starts to use my serum when his connective tissues begin to deteriorate, and takes reasonable care of himself...
...Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...
Chief U.S. center of ACS research is Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where Dr. Harry Goldblatt has been making and testing the serum for more than two years. Although he has treated more than 3,500 patients (and been harassed by requests from thousands more), so far he has come to only one conclusion about ACS: "It is not a cure for anything." Nevertheless, Dr. Goldblatt says that he is "not encouraged to discontinue the experiments...