ced such violent nausea that very few could retain
it. If retained, it was healing; the best remedy then known. The
success of the Heiser treatment led physicians generally to adopt
injections as the best method of giving the oil, but it was thick
and not easily absorbed. This led Dr. Harry T. Hollman, a member
of the Government Medical Corps at Honolulu, to call for a more
diluted form of the oil, one freed from extraneous matter, an
ethyl ester, or the vital principle, if there was one. The
decomposition of the oil, he said, should be accomplished outside
the body.

"After securing the approval of his superiors, Drs. McCoy and
Currie, he asked the Chemistry Department of the University of
Hawaii to liberate this essence from the vegetable compound.
President Dean, himself an expert chemist, became greatly
interested. He assigned to the task Miss Alice Ball, a young
negro woman and an expert chemist, who found the task exceedingly
elusive. She gave it all her time and secured a light essence,
which Dr. Hollman administered with improved results; but he
still insisted it could be improved. Miss Ball's health failed,
possibly from chemical poisoning, and she went to California to
recuperate. On her return she again took up the task, aided by
Dr. Dean, but was again forced to give up the work entirely and
soon afterward died in California.

"President Dean then entered upon the task with redoubled
enthusiasm. He was encouraged from results obtained to give every
possible aid to the indomitable and optimistic Dr. Hollman. There
were months of persistent effort, the devising of expensive and
complicated apparatus, including a special furnace for intense
heat. At last the precise ethyl ester desired--with a number of
others--was secured. Injections were made as before into the hips
of patients--the large muscles were selected to avoid any
possible introduction of the medicine into the large veins or
arteries. The improvement following in every case was so marked
as to cause surprise and decided gratification."

On the 3rd and 4th of April, the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History will hold its spring conference in New York City.
This meeting will come as a climax of a nation-wide membership drive
now being conducted by the Association. The plans