Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blonde Donna Wingenroth was no beatnik "acid head" looking for a trip into the fantastic with LSD. Still, she ate a sugar cube laced with the hallucinogenic drug and had to be taken to the hospital, alternately laughing and screaming hysterically. After a stomach pumping and a few days on intravenous feedings, she recovered. Last week she went home, and her doctors are confident that she has suffered no permanent brain damage. Only five years old, Donna was an innocent victim of the dangerous LSD craze (TIME, March 11); she had found the "candy" cube in the refrigerator...
...such recognized LSD experts as Los Angeles' Dr. Sidney Cohen, author of The Beyond Within (TIME, Dec. 18, 1964), the "acid head" who is "taking a trip" is more likely to become passively fascinated by the glories or horrors of contemplating his own navel than to react violently against others. Suicide is a more probable result than murder. But Dr. Cohen concedes that any man who stays on LSD for three days would require repeated, increasing doses, and might have reactions not previously seen by psychiatrists. Equally important is the basic personality of the LSD user: on college campuses...
Isovaleric acid is produced from auamino acid called leucine which is found in many proteins. If most of the protein can be removed from the diet the problem of the blocked chemical chain can be indirectly solved by eliminating the chain entirely...
...damage. If the reaction "A goes to B" breaks down, the brain may be affected by the accumulation of A in the bloodstream, or the lack of B, or by some chemical which is produced by the surfeit of A. It is believed that in this particular case, the acid itself causes brain damage...
...clue which led to the understanding of the disease was an odor quite similar to the odor of cheese or sweaty feet which accompanied the attacks in the children. Chemical tests led to the identification of isovaleric acid, in doses up to 100 times normal...