Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rinkel, the first doctor in North America to work with LSD, said in the Sunday Boston Globe that several students currently at Harvard have been under his treatment during the past year for the aftereffects of LSD...
...doctor explained that the effects of LSD are not felt until after the drug has left the brain. One hypothesis is that LSD sets off an unidentified chemical reaction in the brain which may continue months after the actual use of the drug. Although research is in progress to discover such a chemical reaction, the hypothesis has not been verified...
Each of the students told Dr. Rinkel that they had taken LSD only once, one immediately before he saw Dr. Rinkel, one three days before, and one three weeks before. The symptoms--anxiety and panio--recurred in waves over varying periods of time...
...Rinkel said that the danger of taking LSD outside a hospital was that the size of the dosage and the purity of the drug are uncertain and the reaction of any individual is somewhat uncertain. He cited the case of a woman who, after taking the drug under his supervision, tore off her clothes and knelt before a thermostat which she believed was a crucifix. The experiment was then terminated...
...savory truffle is a fungus, and so is the unsavory trifle that causes athlete's foot. Life-saving penicillin comes from one fungus (Penicillium notatum); from another comes the lichen that is slowly devouring the Parthenon. Yet another yields the drug LSD, which has been used experimentally in the treatment of schizophrenic children and alcoholics. Knowledge of the complex, infinitely various, unbelievably hardy fungus kingdom has multiplied immeasurably in the past century. In this fascinating, ambitious book by Lucy Kavaler, its villains, heroes and hopefuls are fully explained to the nonscientific reader...