TESTING A “LOVE POTION”
MYSTERIOUS PLANT FROM CEYLON TRIED ON FROGS AND RATS (By Air Mail—From A Special Correspondent) LONDON, 29th August. A number of English scientists are at work making serious investigations of an Eastern “Love Potion.” Dr. P. E. Pieris, Ceylon Trade Commissioner in London is the man behind the experiments. “This search for a love potion is serious” he said this week. “I persuaded the Pharmaceutical Society to make experiments with a Ceylon plant which, according to legend, possesses all the elements of a love potion.
“After a long search we ha>3 got the bulbs of the plant and are waiting for them to flower. The Society tried experiments recently on rats, but they didn’t fall in love. They were the wrong bulbs. The new bulbs we have collected have been identified b. 4 the Kew Gardens authorities. Then we’ll see if there is such a thing as a love potion. “We feel that the people who get scientific training in England have not the desire for research as have those in, say, Germany, English doctors go to Ceylon and see miraculous cures. Yet they insist that it can t be done. We hope this experiment will only be the predecessor to many more that will prove the usefulness of socalled ‘magic’ practices.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 12
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