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...short for D-lysergic acid diethylamide), by far the most potent, is a chemical relative of the ergot drugs, synthesized in 1943 by Swiss Chemist Albert Hofmann. As Discoverer Hofmann found, and countless psychiatrists have since confirmed, a dose of LSD-25 can be so small as to be almost invisible and still destroy a man's mental equilibrium, at least temporarily. As little as four-millionths of an ounce is sometimes enough to throw an emotionally wobbly individual into a mental hospital. One victim, ill for months, was a psychologist who was trying out LSD himself...
...Spirited Ergot...
This blandness, Vidal maintained, creates "a spiritual ergot which causes young writers to abort early." He admitted that even his famous Visit was softened for general consumption...
...Ergot poison in their bread...
Your attention is invited to the erroneous statement that the above-mentioned disease is known as "St. Anthony's fire." In any medical dictionary you will discover that erysipelas, not ergot poisoning, is referred to by the lay term of "St. Anthony's fire." A pox on your researcher for that obvious error. MILDRED A. FISHER, R.N. Monmouth...