You see what I had recovered
was far from the real thing. They did not seem at first to produce
any very appreciable results other than to cause some dizziness,
slight vertigo, a considerable degree of lassitude, and an
extremely painful headache of rather unusual duration."
"Good night!" I exclaimed. "Didn't that satisfy you?"
"Five centigrams considerably improved on it," he continued,
paying no attention to me. "It caused a degree of lassitude and
vertigo that was most distressing, and six centigrams, the whole
amount which I had recovered from the samples of blood, gave me
the fright of my life right here in this laboratory a few minutes
before you came in."
Leslie and I looked at each other and shook our heads.
"Perhaps I was not wise in giving myself so large an injection on
a day when I was overheated and below par otherwise, because of
the strain I have been under in handling this case, as well as
other work. However that may be, the added centigram produced so
much more on top of the five centigrams I had previously taken
that for a time I had reason to fear that that additional
centigram was just the amount needed to bring my experiments to a
permanent close.
"Within three minutes of the time of injection the dizziness and
vertigo had become so great as to make walking seem impossible.
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