Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the blood of schizophrenics. When injected into monkeys or prison volunteers, the protein caused schizophrenia-like symptoms. Now, in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. Heath reports that he has succeeded in further purifying this substance, taraxein. It works like an antibody, he says, in effect sensitizing a person against certain parts of his own brain. If this can be confirmed, schizophrenia would be classed as one of the autoimmune diseases, in which the body makes antibody against one of its own parts...
...that time the court ruled that a convicted person could not be incarcerated for a time longer than his sentence merely because a physician certifies him "violent and dangerous." Under the Cutler-Cawley bill a person in a mental institution whose sentence has expired would be entitled to a discharge hearing in court...
Should the hearing find the person still "mentally ill" he could be retained in an institution but the Commonwealth would be required to review the commitment within six months and once a year thereafter...
...person had not yet been tried he could also be entitled to a hearing on his competency to stand trial. Should he be found competent and then found guilty any time previously spent in a mental institution would be subtracted from his sentence...
...religion. Money is the thing most thought of by American students because it is the key to enjoyment. As a means of making money, "knocking other people down to step into their shoes" has been fostered since their childhood as a kind of philosophy of life. To seek personal advancement, they may, with a dagger, pierce the back of the person who "obstructs" them, be that person one of their best friends! In Chicago there was the conspiracy of two university students to kill a baby. Their motive was very simple: to do a shocking thing like that would make...