"The Music from Infinity" by Thorp McClusky

Published in 1941

1 quart = 0.95 liters. Just call it 1:1, close enough for government work.

6 fluid ounces = 177 milliliters

"Dancing in the Wind": Not the Anders Osborne song, that doesn't come along until 2012! There is a poem "To a child dancing in the wind" by William Butler Yeats, but it's a poem, not a song. If you know a song from the 1930s or earlier by this name, please leave a comment about who was the composer and who was most famous for playing it!

the judge sentenced him to burn: that would be execution by way of electric chair, not burning at the stake.

alienist: old time word for psychiatrist. Interesting that McClusky uses both words in the same text.

To follow along: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_36/Issue_1/The_Music_From_Infinity

The picture used is the main illustration for the story from the pulp magazine Weird Tales (September 1941, vol. 36, no. 1), by Boris Dolgov