Subject: Re: eggheads
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 18:33:20 EDT
'... I thought LSD came in with the 60s ...'
Ah.
In the autumn of 1955, Dr Ronald Sandison
of the Powick Mental Hospital, Worcester
(where Edward Elgar used to practise the
patients' choir) in collaboration with Sandoz
Laboratories of Switzerland began using LSD
in what was then a pioneering venture to abreact
a group of young neurotic patients. Sandison
was a little nervous about taking the stuff himself
but his two young registrars Brendan McCarthy
(later President of the Institute of Psychoanalysis
in London) & Robert Bowman (modesty forbids)
one drunken night dared each other who would
go first.
Guess who won.
Scottie B.
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