Word: demerol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malpractice. In Violence and the Brain, the doctors said that Thomas was wild and unmanageable when they suggested making destructive lesions in his brain. He first agreed to the operation while stimulated by electrodes in his brain which induced a hyper-relaxed state, as he described "a feeling like Demerol, like floating on a cloud...
...quarts of coffee-all the Levantine habits went public. He became to mental illness what Segovia is to the guitar. In clinical detail, Oscar replayed his repertoire of classical and flamenco hypochondria, apostrophized his nervous collapses ("chaos in search of frenzy") and multiple devotions to paraldehyde, Dexedrine, Thorazine, Demerol, Benadryl and insulin. Before he disappeared into a series of sanatoriums, he turned out a catalogue of malice...