Krebiozen—and Common Sense Robert J. Needles,

Krebiozen—and Common Sense

“This is the day,” said the Alchemist, “when I am to perfect for him that power of which he has talk’d as if posses’d.” Such a prediction of the power of a potion is more rare today than in Ben Jonson’s day. Mere proclamation is not enough; insulin, vitamins, sulfonamides, antibiotics and hormones—all these had to meet and overcome that skepticism without which we are disarmed by rhetoric alone. Such stubborn orthodoxy outrages Herbert Bailey, in A Matter of Life or Death (Putnam, $4.95).

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Krebiozen—and Common Sense

“This is the day,” said the Alchemist, “when I am to perfect for him that power of which he has talk’d as if posses’d.” Such a prediction of the power of a potion is more rare today than in Ben Jonson’s day. Mere proclamation is not enough; insulin, vitamins, sulfonamides, antibiotics and hormones—all these had to meet and overcome that skepticism without which we are disarmed by rhetoric alone. Such stubborn orthodoxy outrages Herbert Bailey, in A Matter of Life or Death (Putnam, $4.95).