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Re: Floatation Tanks...John Lilly (NPC)
- To: rslovacek <rslovacek>
- Subject: Re: Floatation Tanks...John Lilly (NPC)
- From: Karen Hansen <bipola>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:47:09 -0500
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>Oh, and wasn't Eli Lilly who Dr. Hoffman was working for in Switzerland in the
>early '50's when he was playing with ergot for a migraine cure and after
>accidentally licking some of his new stuff off his fingers, took his famous
>bicycle ride home? <VBG>
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>--Bob
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I don't know if it was Eli Lilly's lab, but it was Sandoz Laboratories.
And the famous bike ride home didn't occur until 5 years after he licked
the lysergic acid off of his fingers, and he had synthesized it and
*purposely* ingested it.
Karen