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| Author: | Pratt, Fletcher and Lester, Irvin |
| Title: | The Roger Bacon formula |
| Journal: | Amazing Stories, Vol. 3, No. 10, 940-948 |
| Publisher: | Experimenter Publishing Company, New York |
| Date: | January 1929 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-expanders |
| Annotation:Medievalist rediscovers lost manuscript in which Roger Bacon provides the formula for mandragordeum, a drug that induces "transportation of the mind." Taking it, the experimenter finds himself freed from his body and journeying to Venus; a vivid vision of life on the second planet ends only when the drug wears off. Fearing addiction, he never tries the drug again, though he admits a temptation to more tripping. | |
| Author: | Harris, Clare Winger |
| Title: | The diabolical drug |
| Journal: | Amazing Stories, Vol. 4, No. 2, 156-161 |
| Publisher: | Experimenter Publishing Company, New York |
| Date: | May 1929 |
| Format: | Short story |
| Descriptor: | Drugs as mind-controllers |
| Annotation:Scientist develops a chemical which, by retarding the voltage of the brain's electrical activity, halts the aging process. An experiment on a human is performed, the subject being the scientist's beloved, who is six years older than he is; he intends to hold her at the same age until he has caught up. She sinks into a kind of stasis. Unable to perfect an antidote, he injects himself also, and the two of them enter a strange suspended animation in which extreme psychological effects of the metabolic slowdown manifest themselves. | |
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