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...picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people, were so terrified by science that they confessed enthusiastically to everything. But the public indignantly protested the newfangled lie-detector. The defense got an injunction, mother and son were finally sentenced only for stealing Bassett's car, which, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case Solved | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...filtrate during the past two-and-a-half years "with remarkable success and with no previous ill effects." He announced his belief that one bottle had become contaminated, and when he tested another bottle in his stock on guinea pigs, the pigs died like the patients unless tetanus serum was administered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Accident | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Biochemical Foundation produced thousands of doses of Dr. Connell's cancer serum, and dispensed them under the name of "Rex." But Dr. McDonald last week declared: "Investigation in the laboratories here shows that our bacterial filtrate has no contamination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Accident | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

From Rochester, N. Y. the newly elected president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Surgeon John Jamieson Morton Jr. of the University of Rochester, generally a soft-spoken man, exclaimed: "As far as the medical profession knows, serum in the treatment of cancer is of no value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Accident | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...confused with the pneumonia serums now given to help victims of pneumonia recover. The cost of these serums and of preliminary tests necessary to determine which of 32 types of pneumonia a patient may have, is comparatively high, so that as yet only the rich can afford them, or the very poor, to whom several States this winter have supplied serum free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumonia Vaccine | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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