Memorandum from Linus Pauling to Kenneth Shaw. May 3, 1960. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Arnold's Hardware for $1.02.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]
• Check from AHP to Committee to Preserve American Freedoms for $25.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]
• Check from AHP to FDR Club for $7.60.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]
• Check from AHP to Mayacamas Co for $1.25.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Mayacamas Vineyards for $18.88.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Mayacamas Vineyards for $200.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Ostis' for $17.87.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Richfield Oil Corporation for $13.40.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, 1960-December 1961), Box#4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Roess Market for $50.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]
• Letter from A. Boas, Manufactures Associates, to LP. RE: Submits a teaching aide in hopes that it will interest him. [Letter from LP May 24, 1960]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1960) # 258.2]
• Letter from Arthur Roe to LP RE: Asks LP to evaluate a proposal from the Chemical Bond Approach Project which has already received four grants from the National Science Foundation to develop a textbook and laboratory manual for high school chemistry classes. Roe encloses the preliminary drafts of the text, teacher's guide, and lab manual and explains that they are asking for more money to undertake further testing of the materials in schools. Informs LP that Glenn Seaborg is working on another approach to high school chemistry and that both groups are aware of the other's existence and goals. [Letter from LP to Roe May 23, 1960] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1959-1989), Box #14.029, Folder #29.55]
• Letter from Charles Lauber, to LP.  RE: Would like to receive a copy of his lecture from Englewood Junior High School. [Letter from LP May 10, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: ( L: Correspondence, 1960) # 231.6]
• Letter from Fred Okrand to LP RE: Encloses a copy of the letter from the Publisher of the Arcadia Tribune. [Letter from Roach to Okrand May 3, 1960] [Filed under LP Biographical: Assorted Legal Disputes, 1950-1962: Box #3.057, Folder #57.6]
• Letter from J. and M. Heyrovsky, to LP. RE: Is looking forward to his visit. [Letter from LP March 28, 1960, May 10, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Heyrovsky, J.) Box # 156 Folder 156.12]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, to Joseph Felshin, Mainstream. RE: Asks about the date of availability of the reprints of his article in Mainstream. [Letter from Felshin May 5, 1960] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1960a.2]
• Letter from LP to Harry Svenson, Karolinska Institutet. RE: Please to receive his letter. Finds his work interesting. [Letter from Svenson April 28, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence, (S: Correspondence, 1960) #381.1]
• Letter from LP to Kenneth Shaw. [Filed under LP Science: (Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials concerning the orthomolecular treatment of mental disease, 1954-1982), Box #11.080, Folder #80.2]

  3 May 1960

  To: Dr. Shaw

  From: Linus Pauling

  Subject: Schizophrenic Odor

  I have seen a reference to a paper by K. Smith and J. O. Sines, A. M. A. Archives General Psychiatry 2, 1984, February 1960, in which it is said that it has been proved that there is a peculiar and unique body odor associated with schizophrenics. It is said that over the past ninety years this peculiar and unpleasant odor has been found in the back wards of mental hospitals, and not found in other hospitals treating chronic disease. Trained white rats, as well as human odor testers, can detect the ether-extracted odor from the sweat of schizophrenic patients, as compared with a control group of chronically ill patients with non-schizophrenic syndromes.

  The odorous substance is soluble in ether, and stable for three months. Washing the skin with germicidal soap to exclude bacterial action in the sweat did not affect the odor. So far the substance has not been identified.

  Identification of this substance might well be a significant step toward obtaining an understanding of schizophrenia. Perhaps you would be interested in this job.

  Linus Pauling:lh

• Letter from LP to Laurence E. Strong, Earlham College. RE: Thanks him for the letter. Is interested in the attention paid to sigma and pi bonds. [Filed under LP Correspondence, (S: Correspondence, 1960) #381.1]
• Letter from LP to Marian Orans, RE: LP is enclosing a copy of his letter to the New York Times about Strontium-90.  LP's colleague, Dr. Perry, thinks that some children drink more milk than is needed and that their milk intake could be reduced.  LP does not advocate the removal of milk from the diet.  LP also suggests that some children add dicalcium phosphate to their diets.   [Orans' letter April 30, 1960] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: Strontium-90, 1960), Box #7.013, Folder #13.19]
• Letter from LP to National Institute of Health. RE: Gives a reference for John R. Cann. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1960) #75.3]
• Letter from LP to Patricia Kepler, RE: LP tells Kepler that Merck and Company has assured LP's colleague, Dr. Perry, that their calcium preparations are free of Strontium-90  [Kepler's letter April 29, 1960]                     
• Letter from Linda Hopkins, Secretary to LP, to Chuck Lapine, Cleveland Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. RE: Encloses a biographical sketch and a photograph of LP. Will mail LP's speech once it has been prepared.  [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Box # 1960s2 Folder #1960s2.3]
• Letter from Linda Hopkins, Secretary to LP, to Gene Gladstone, Cleveland Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. RE: Encloses a biographical sketch and a photograph of LP as requested. [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Box # 1960s2 Folder #1960s2.3]
• Letter from R. E. Gibson to LP RE: Asks LP to review the enclosed research proposal from Walter Dannhauser. Asks that the report be returned within the week. [Letter from LP to Gibson May 6, 1960] [Filed under LP Science: (National Research Council, 1950-1992), Box #14.028, Folder #28.4]
• Letter from Robert H. Cole, Brown University, to LP. RE: Would be glad to help him in his study of anesthetized and unanesthetized brain tissue. Discusses the issue. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Catchpool, John Francis, 1960) #62.2]
• Letter from Sir Robert Watson-Watt, to LP. RE: Informs him that his address has changed. Encloses materials. [Letter from LP May 25, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960) #445.1]
• Line Graph: "1941 Mortality Tables", from R. M. Sutton, May 3, 1960. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.608]
• Memorandum from LP to Mrs. Harris. RE: Asks her to write to Linnett and tell him that the paper on the boron hydrides has been held up by Professor Kamb's departure for Europe. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1960) # 231.6]
• Program: "Jane Addams Centennial: James P. Warburg, The West in Crisis" [Filed under LP Peace: Pauling Peace Research Notes: Box #6.012, Folder #12.3]