Medicine: Cured

In Boston, Drs. T. F. Hunter and S. G. Mudd experimented with carbon dioxide gas. Properly administered, they said, it would sober drunkards. Various mild tests seemed to uphold their theory. Last week, they executed an experiment which, they believed, would prove conclusive. Three policemen procured for them from the streets of Boston a drunkard known as "Case 11." He offered terrific resistance to restraint, but was finally subdued, passed into a coma. Reported the physicians:

"At 3.14 A. M. there was no response to shaking or supraorbital pressure. Carbon dioxide administration...

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