Show I I Englishwomen Take Drugs i Help Science Study Results I I I LO LONDON DO Nov ov 2 27 By Universal Service Ser Ser- vice Over vice Over remarkable drug tests have been undertaken by a woman sel- sel scientist Miss May Smith and and her colleague William McDougall at the psychological laboratory laborato Oxford They have taken by byway byway byway way o of experiment opium alcohol strychnine and tea and have reported the results to the medical research council Miss Smith had never before these tests taken alcohol in any ny shape or form 1 and in order to foreknowledge of what drug was being taken and so possibly possibly pos pos- sibly obscuring the true effects by suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- the drugs were disguised and I control mixtures employed Three special forms of test were used I One was a dotting machine red Jed circles cir clr- cir cir- I cles cbs being marked and blue circles missed as the they passed before the drugged subI subjects subject's subjects subject's sub sub- eyes on a mechanically propelled tape I Another was a memory test for related words forty words with a connection be between between be- be I tween each two i i. i e c mountain plain ugly beauty etc being beinS' read to the subject who afterward tried verbal re re- re production r c.- c. v But th the most delicate ate test teat was called the windmill illusion Laboratory windmill with four brass rod arms driven I by a a. a water oater motor at three revolutions per second was used and arid tho the apparent nt alternation of the phases in the subjects subject's I vision recorded The subjective effects of opium are I thus described scribed by the lady scientist Sly Mv limbs felt as if recovering from cramp I felt nervy as If about to Undergo un undergo undergo un- un dergo an ordeal but without the attendant attendant attendant attend attend- I ant organic sensations a feeling o of ex ex- ex I felt tired tingling 5 sensation the pen n felt very N sel small so o that the dotting u seemed d neat I and dainty the time of the experiment seemed short my head felt fel as if it were beginning to ache but in a way too Undefined undefined undefined un un- I defined to be actual pain S S A feeling or restless activity not unlike the first stage of excessive fa fatigue a- a I tigue followed by a feeling of drowsiness drowsiness I fa-I ness neS combined with mental alertness I a S S a feeling as if something were going goins to happen a vague reeling o of the unknown n sometimes pleasurable sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times painful determined b by factors actors I o could not Isolate Although most tasks were improved by opium yet et the the- success always alwa's ap appeared appeared to be uncontrollable and therefore therefore therefore there there- fore surprising Familiar though the with lIth these opium e effects yet surprise was always experienced at atthe atthe atthe o the resulting improvements These ef effects effects effects effects' ef- ef o b became came less marked In time 11 A feeling feeling feel feel- celIng ing of drowsiness sometimes lasted several several several sev sev- eral hours liours afterward The two scientists suggest as the re result result re- re sult suit of their experience that alcohol and chloroform rm fall into one group In their effects on the nervous nervous system and strychnine opium and tea into another group I |