Medical science in tibese days seems to be leading its devotees into the strangest fields of research and it is often a matter for speculation whether anything really beneficial to humanity is likely to accrue from their fantasy tic studies. Not long ago the monkey gland theory and the possibility of renewing youth indefinitely startled the world. It never seemed to occur to the enthusiasts that the indefinite prolongation of life on a (large scale might be a positive disservice to humanity. Now comes the story from America of a new drug known as "kaapi'' the reaction of which is reputed "to unchain the fierce impulses of the sub-conscious mind and transform its user into a savage."' The drug is said to be obtained from tribes inhabiting the jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon. When used by the Amazonian tribes its effect is to "issue them with a desire to beat and maim their fellows" and at the same time to deprive the drug users of their sense of pain. A certain Dr. Schneider, Jecturer at the University of California, has declared that he intends to take some of it after bis.return to his home in Portland, Ore. and later to publish his sensations while under its.influence. We hope the learned professor is not married
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