Interview with Joseph Koepfli. April 14, 1992. Interview by Thomas Hager for use in "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling,"
(Simon & Schuster, 1995).
Joseph Koepfli: Linus went back to deliver a lecture at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
in, I believe, '39. And Linus got ill back there and it was diagnosed in New York
at the Rockefeller Hospital as nephritis - and you had a five year expectancy with
no exceptions at that time. And how he got to Addis, I don't know, probably the Rockefeller
people sent him to Addis. But Addis just devoted himself for a year to coming down
every week on the train for the day and back that night on the train.
Thomas Hager: He was up in San Francisco Bay Area, is that right?
Joseph Koepfli: Yeah. He was U.C. Medical. And, I don't know, this is my understanding of it, he
varied his eating program from week to week. He just devoted himself and pulled him
through. I don't think there were very many exceptions to well diagnosed nephritis,
surviving five years in those days. So, I think Linus would certainly lay his life
to Addis.
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Creator: Thomas Hager, Joseph Koepfli Associated: Linus Pauling, Thomas Addis, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Clip ID: hager2.002.5-nephritis
