Medicine: Brain Juice

"I beg the New York Times to issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week.

Dr. Steinach, 67, at his summer home near Vienna, was indignant and excited because again one of his scientific...