How does a fly feel when sprayed with D.D.T.?
A laboratory worker (anonymous) who set out to answer this inhuman question reported the fly's feelings in the current British Medical Journal.
A year ago, experimenting to find out whether the potent insecticide would irritate human skin, the 30-year-old Briton painted his hands with D.D.T. dissolved in acetone. Then he kneaded some dough heavily impregnated with it. When his skin seemed none the worse, he considered the experiment complete, went on to other things. A few days later his arms and legs began to feel heavy. Soon they began to ache violently and "spasms...
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