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Before freezing the guinea pig last week, Dr. Wiliard injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from clotting after the heart ceased beating. Next he put the creature, a soft, brown handful, into an asphyxiating chamber which he pumped full of ether and oxygen. When the guinea pig was unconscious Dr. Willard replaced the etheroxygen with carbon dioxide, and with that atmosphere slowly cooled the guinea pig until it was ice-hard. In that dead state the hard, brown handful remained several hours...
...spectacles and harries the atom with an 85-ton electromagnet in a ramshackle old building on the University of California's campus. Dr. Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity. Lately the young physicist succeeded in inducing radioactivity in sodium. Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy. Few weeks ago Dr. Lawrence was appointed a research consultant of Columbia University's Crocker Institute for Cancer Research...
...This is the important thing. The colloid chemist now steps in where medical men leave off. Sodium rhodanate will minimize the effects of worry and will decrease the effects of nervous breakdowns not caused by pathological conditions. This drug increases the resistance of the living organism to infection by inducing better health. Drugs of this type will not cure progressive lesions and sclerotic conditions; but they will retard the aging of the colloids of the body...
...predict that if every human being of 45 or over would take sodium rhodanate, there would be a minimum increase of life of two years...
...jumped Dr. Torald Hermann Sollmann, 60, professor of pharmacology & materia medica and dean of Western Reserve University Medical School to sneer that Professor Bancroft's experiments on rabbits and chickens were not sound. "How many of your associates are taking sodium rhodanate?" bantered Professor Francis Gano Benedict, 64, Carnegie Institution nutritionist...