Science: Cancer

The draft text of a law authorizing vivisection of humans in an effort to discover a cure for cancer was unanimously approved, last week, by the board of National Sanitation at Havana, Cuba, and sent to the Cuban Congress for debate, action.

Criminals condemned to Death would be offered, under the law, a free choice between execution and inoculation with cancer. Twelve years would be the legal period of vivisection, and if, at the end of that time, the patient survived and had been cured he or she would return to society purged of...

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