 Why was Macklin's wife hysterical when she called to speak with Ferris and Mitchell?
But Macklin is exactly what we need for a quick, dramatic test. "When we prove our results that should be of enough practical value for anyone. Our reputations don't go outside our own fields," Mitchell said. "But now Macklin—" Elliot Macklin had inherited the reputation of the late Albert Einstein in the popular mind. No one knew whether his Theory of Spatium was correct or not because no one had yet been able to frame an argument with it. For the past seven years Macklin—who was the Advanced Studies Department of Firestone University—had been involved in devising a faster-than-light drive to help the Army reach Pluto and eventually the nearer stars. Mitchell had overheard two coeds talking and so knew that the project was nearing completion. "He's always treated me like dirt," Ferris said heatedly. Elliot Macklin entered in a cloud of pipe smoke and a tweed jacket. Macklin threw a big arm across Ferris' shoulders. "Actually, Doctor, we haven't the right to ask this of a man of your importance. "Doctor, we understand you have severe headaches," Mitchell said. "No, Harold, it isn't," Macklin admitted. "Doctor," Mitchell said, "what would you say the most common complaint of man is?" "I would have said the common cold," Macklin replied, "but I suppose from what you have said you mean headaches." "But think," Ferris interjected, "what a boon it would be if everyone could be cured of headaches forever by one simple injection." "Aspirins would still be used to reduce fever and relieve muscular pains," Mitchell said. "There are a number of different causes for headaches—nervous strain, fatigue, physical diseases from kidney complaints to tumors, over-indulgence—but there is one effect of all of this, the one real cause of headaches," Mitchell announced. "We have definitely established this for this first time," Ferris added. "The pressure effect caused by pituitrin in the brain," Mitchell said eagerly. "That is, the constriction of blood vessels in the telencephalon section of the frontal lobes. "The virus," Ferris explained, "can easily be localized and stabilized. A colony of virus in the brain cells will relax the cerebral vessels—and only the cerebral vessels—so that the cerebrospinal fluid doesn't create pressure in the cavities of the brain."
 She thought they had given her husband heroin.
 Her husband was very ill from the virus  Her husband was still having headaches  She thought they had given her husband heroin.  Her husband's blood pressure had dropped extremely low.