Activity Listings
- Letter from Dasha Deraga de Rodriguez to LP RE: Invites him to come to Guadalajara to lecture to the doctors of the Cancer Society about a topic of his choice; notes that the date is LP's decision and that the Cancer Society would take care of all of his expenses. [Letter from LP to Deraga de Rodriguez, 6, 1969] [Letter from Deraga de Rodriguez to LP, 6, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1967-1973), Box #100, Folder #100.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Donald F. Parsons, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, RE: Informs him that he is unable to visit the State University of New York and Roswell Park Memorial Institute and give a lecture since his schedule is already very heavy. [Letter from LP to Parsons, 1969] [Letter from Parsons to LP, 6, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1964-1969), Box #315, Folder #315.6]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Otto L. Gericke, Superintendent and Medical Director, Patton State Hospital. [Letter from Gericke to LP, 6, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1966-1969), Box #143, Folder #143.4]
January 16, 1969
Dr. Otto L. Gericke
Superintendent and Medical Director
Patton State Hospital
Patton, California
Dear Dr. Gericke:
I have been interested in the molecular basis of mental disease for twelve years. From about 1955 to 1964 I was a consultant to Pacific State Hospital, and my coworkers and I carried out some investigations in collaboration with Pacific State Hospital, through the courtesy of Dr. George Tarjan.
During the last year Professor Arthur B, Robinson, of the University of California, San Diego, and I have been making some studies of the metabolism of vitamins by normal subjects and acute schizophrenics. We should like to include some chronic schizophrenic patients in this study. I asked Dr. Tarjan for advice, and he recommended that we get in touch with you, in order to see whether we could make an arrangement for carrying out some tests at Patton State Hospital.
What we have in mind is to collect samples of urine from patients, before and after they have ingested some ascorbic acid and nicotinamide. We then subject these urine samples to chemical analysis. The work is being done in connection with the arguments presented in my paper Orthomolecular Psychiatry, a copy of which is enclosed.
If you feel that there is some possibility that we could carry out this work at Patton State Hospital, Professor Robinson and I would be pleased to come to Patton State Hospital at a time that is convenient to you, to discuss the details of the proposed investigation.
I may mention also that my cousin, Richard Morgan, has also recommended to us that we approach you about collaboration along these lines. He sends his best regards to you - he said that it has been several years since he has visited Patton State Hospital.
Sincerely,
Linus Pauling
- Letter from LP to George and Bobbie Miller RE: Discusses the difficulties of finding a psychiatrist in the Pacific Northwest that will be willing to try megavitamin therapy on George & Bobbie's daughter, Linda; asks about current doses administered of vitamin C, B12, and niacin. [Letters from Miller to LP, 6, 1969, 4, 1969] [Filed under AHP's Siblings: (Genealogy, Biographical Information, and Correspondence), Box #3.024, Folder #24.4]
- Letter from Thomas Brennan, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, to LP RE: Requests information about how he should go about entering the field of orthomolecular psychiatry and asks for researchers with whom he could secure some type of position. [Letter from LP to Brennan, 6, 1969] [Letter from Brennan to LP, 4, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]
- Note from Mrs. R. D. Logan to LP RE: Describes how she has been in and out of the hospital getting tested and notes that she finally went to a neurosurgeon who discovered that the arteries on the right side of her head were not dilated enough to allow adequate blood flow. Asks LP about the value of lithium carbonate, along with Ritalin and Arlidin. [Letter from LP to Logan, 6, 1969] [Letter from Logan to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #234, Folder #234.3]
- Reprint: "Research into Peace" by Dr. R. H. Weight, New Scientist, pages 118-120. Includes handwritten note: "Greetings of the Season. Bob and Joan." [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Assorted Greeting Cards: B), Box #471, Folder #471.1]
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