 What was the name that came to mind when people thought of 
 mathematician or scientist in the passage?
Why, having a head, of course! [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, September 1962. "When we prove our results that should be of enough practical value for anyone. "But now Macklin—" Elliot Macklin had inherited the reputation of the late Albert Einstein in the popular mind. He was the man people thought of when the word "mathematician" or even "scientist" was mentioned. 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. The government took up a lot of his time using him as the symbol of the Ideal Scientist to help recruit Science and Engineering Cadets. 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. "Actually, Doctor, we haven't the right to ask this of a man of your importance. "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." "Everybody has them at some time in his life. "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. "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. "If this really works, I could stop using that damned gynergen, couldn't I? "On rats, on chimps...." Unless we can produce quick, conclusive and dramatic proof of our studies we can get no more financial backing. When I start making slips like that it means another attack of migraine. "When your heart stops, your blood pressure goes to its lowest point," Mitchell said.
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