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Alexander is struck by how the mustard-oil mixture obliterated his patients\' white blood cells (There are uncomfortable parallels with the flurry of uninterpretable observational studies and uncontrolled clinical trials during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic ) Alexander had seen similar effects of such agents in animal studies before the war Cancer treatment, Conant reminds us, had changed little since Hippocrates (460-370 BC) named the disease and proclaimed \'what drugs will not cure, the knife will\'
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