Medicine: Narcosan

". . . and I'd give my life for it."

As he pronounced these words, Frederick Alfred Wallis, New York Commissioner of Correction, crumpled a slip of paper in his hand and scowled earnestly at the reporters. It was rather a surprising speech, for Commissioner Wallis was moved to offer this dramatic sacrifice not for liberty, home or the flag, but merely for a mixture of lipoids, proteins and vitamins called "narcosan."

Narcosan may be a cure for drug addiction. Commissioner Wallis said that it had been tested on 366 prisoners in the Correctional Hospital...

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