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...group of New York City researchers have been looking for the answer in test tubes containing nerve fibers growing in a nutrient solution. At Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Murray B Bornstein and Dr. Stanley H. Appel found that if serum from MS patients, or from animals with a similar disease, was added to the solution, the myelin "insulation" was dissolved. Serum from healthy people or animals had no such effect. With Columbia University's Dr Stanley M. Crain, Dr. Bornstein then tested the electrical connections between cells within the nerve fiber. Serum from MS patients, the doctors found, inactivates...
...doctors report in Science that this electrical inactivation occurs before myelin destruction, is surprisingly rapid and, most important, is readily reversible-at least in the test tube. Washing with healthy serum or simple salt solution restores the normal electrical activity. This, the doctors suggest, may explain the early, unpredictable phase of multiple sclerosis...
Intertwined throughout the story line are "a small yet deadly forerunner of the atomsmasher" in the form of a radium ray gun, the New Order's extremely reliable truth serum, and a half-dozen patriotic Americans who refused to work for Dacquar and therefore were turned into zombies, being thus "deprived of their ability to think...
Died. Dr. William Bleckwenn, 69, University of Wisconsin neuropsychia-trist who, while experimenting with drugs in 1929, found that a common barbiturate, sodium amytal, if administered intravenously instead of in sleeping-pill capsule form, often acted as a "truth serum" that proved of value in the treatment of mental patients until supplanted recently by other drugs; in Winter Haven...
...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE inject Harold Pinter's special menace-and-dread serum directly into a playgoer's veins...