"She stared through the faint reflection of herself in the window, stared past the pouring sky, looked into the backward-reaching vista of over a hundred years of research that had sought to discover the secret of the precious liquid. Men and women had died in that quest, killed by those who would take the balm for themselves, not knowing or caring for the psychological hemlock that, for the aveage person, lurked in each drop. And othe men and women killed just as dead by experiments made upon themselves."

From "Act of God"

By Richard Asby

1951.