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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotless Basel laboratories of the Swiss drug company Sandoz A.G. a short, trim scientist of 52 performed a strange experiment. Research Director Albert Hofmann meticulously dissolved five milligrams of white crystals in a test tube of water. Then, while tense assistants looked on, he swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mushroom Madness | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...Sandoz will release psilocybin only to highly reputable medical investigators. To them, it means that they can now use a third chemically pure substance-in addition to LSD-25 and mescaline-to induce controllable symptoms like those of uncontrolled mental illness. From such studies they hope to find chemical cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mushroom Madness | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Amid a clutter of flasks and tubes, beakers and retorts in the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Researcher Dr. Albert Hoffman was doing a routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow, he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception of time and space, and the short bicycle ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Artificial Psychoses | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...most violent opponent in the area was Mrs. Charles Sandoz, who listed automobiles of the estimated 120 new families and the "desperately cheap houses for such a nice neighborhood" among her objections...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Residents Protest Plans For Shady Hill Housing | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

Although Hillel was stopped, Mrs. Sandoz said, "President Pusey looked determined. I don't know if we can stop...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Residents Protest Plans For Shady Hill Housing | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

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