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    #14502959 - 05/24/11 05:39 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

  • 1896:  Weir Mitchell take peyote




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A similar dispatch, originating in Washington, D.C., ended up in the hands of Weir Mitchell,
a Philadelphia physician-novelist who specialized in nervous disorders (Injuries of the
Nerves and Their Consequences, 1872) and historical romances {Hugh Wynne, Free
Quaker, 1896). Having read of peyote in the Therapeutic Gazette, Mitchell obtained a small
supply of buttons from the article's author, a Doctor Prentiss. He tried them on May 24,
1896.


At first Mitchell experienced a surge of energy, closely followed by a feeling of intense
mental acuity. Selecting a psychology paper that had resisted improvement all week, he
sought to test this newfound brilliance. But the paper proved as resistant as ever. Next he
tried a quick lyric, then a complicated math problem. Neither validated his feeling of
expanded intellect. Fatigued, Mitchell retired to his bedroom for a nap. It was then that the
visions came. Writing about his self-experiment in the austere pages of the British Medical
Journal, Mitchell told how thousands of galactic suns had streamed across his vision, how a
gothic tower gleaming with jewels had shot up to an immense height. It was a dreamy
landscape, somewhat reminiscent of the American painter Maxfield Parrish, and it was read
with interest by men like Havelock Ellis and William James.


(Storming Heaven: LSD And The American Dream)[.pdf file]













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Chemist guilty of 'ecstasy'

He made the designer drug at his Bryn Mawr home. He was acquitted of making amphetamine. By Julia C. Martinez INQUIRER STAFF WRITER A Lower Merion man labeled brilliant by friends and a menace by federal prosecutors was found guilty yesterday of making the illegal hallucinogen "ecstasy" in a home laboratory in Bryn Mawr and. selling it to customers from New York to California.

But Frank L. Baird, a 48-year-old trained chemist, was found not guilty of manufacturing amphetamine, a charge that carries stiffer penalties. Baird sat quietly as the guilty verdicts were read on seven counts of making commonly known as MDMA or "ecstasy." He sighed and nodded as the not guilty verdict was read. He then turned and smiled at his mother, Shirley Baird, who sat alone in the paneled 13th-floor courtroom. Baird, a slight man with a long brown ponytail, faces up to 11 years in prison on the MDMA charges when sentenced on Sept.


(The Philadelphia Inquirer  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania •  Sat, May 25, 1996 Page 16)













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    #14505370 - 05/24/11 04:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #14505471 - 05/24/11 04:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Thats pretty rad


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Learyfan]
    #16277022 - 05/24/12 05:35 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

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Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer.

He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell (1798–1858), and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology. In this field Weir Mitchell's name became prominently associated with his introduction of the rest cure, subsequently taken up by the medical world, for nervous diseases, particularly hysteria; the treatment consisting primarily in isolation, confinement to bed, dieting and massage. His medical texts include Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences (1872) and Fat and Blood (1877). Mitchell's disease (erythromelalgia) is named after him.

In 1863 he wrote a clever short story, combining physiological and psychological problems, entitled "The Case of George Dedlow", in the Atlantic Monthly. Thenceforward, Mitchell, as a writer, divided his attention between professional and literary pursuits. In the former field, he produced monographs on rattlesnake poison, on intellectual hygiene, on injuries to the nerves, on neurasthenia, on nervous diseases of women, on the effects of gunshot wounds upon the nervous system, and on the relations between nurse, physician, and patient; while in the latter, he wrote juvenile stories, several volumes of respectable verse, and prose fiction of varying merit, which, however, gave him a leading place among the American authors of the close of the 19th century. His historical novels, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker (1897), The Adventures of François (1898) and The Red City (1909), take high rank in this branch of fiction.

He was also Charlotte Perkins Gilman's doctor and his use of a rest cure on her provided the idea for "The Yellow Wallpaper", a short story in which the narrator is driven insane by her rest cure.

Art Patron

He was a friend and patron of the artist Thomas Eakins. Following Eakins's 1886 firing from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he may have suggested the artist's trip to the Badlands of North Dakota . The Philadelphia Chippendale chair seen in several Eakins paintings—such as William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of Schuylkill River (1877) and the bas-relief Knitting (1883) -- was owned by Mitchell.

The artist John Singer Sargent painted two portraits of Mitchell, one is in the collection of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the other, commissioned by the Mutual Assurance Company of Philadelphia in 1902, was recently sold (see External Links, below).

In memory of his daughter Maria, Mitchell commissioned a monument from the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, The Angel of Purity (a white marble version of Amor Caritas), now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  In addition to commissioning August Saint-Gaudens works, he was commemorated in two identical brass reliefs sculpted by Saint-Gaudens himself.

Honors and recognition

Dr. Mitchell's eminence in science and letters was recognized by honorary degrees conferred upon him by several universities at home and abroad and by membership, honorary or active, in many American and foreign learned societies. In 1887 he was president of the Association of American Physicians and in 1908–09 president of the American Neurological Association. New International Encyclopedia

The American Academy of Neurology award for young researchers is named for Dr. Mitchell.

Terms

    Weir Mitchell skin — a red, glossy, perspiring skin seen in cases of incomplete irritative lesion of a nerve.
    Weir Mitchell treatment — a method of treating neurasthenia, hysteria, etc., by absolute rest in bed, frequent and abundant feeding, and the systematic use of massage and electricity.
    Mitchell's disease — erythromelalgia.

    Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #16277032 - 05/24/12 05:40 AM (11 years, 10 months ago)

Hey I remember reading yellow wallpaper in school it freaked me out.

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Dest]
    #18312969 - 05/24/13 05:09 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah?  I had never heard of it before.  Glad you recognized it. 















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    #20033663 - 05/24/14 07:58 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Learyfan]
    #21717008 - 05/24/15 10:09 AM (8 years, 10 months ago)

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Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's 1896 Essay on Mescaline Intoxication

My first vivid show of mescal colour effects came quickly. I saw the stars, and then of a sudden, here and there delicate floating films of colour—usually delightful neutral purples and pinks. These came and went—now here, now there. Then an abrupt rush of countless points of white light swept across the field of view, as if the unseen millions of the Milky way were to flow a sparkling river before the eye. In a minute this was over and the field was dark. Then I began to see zigzag lines of very bright colours, like those seen in some megrims....
When I opened my eyes all was gone at once. Closing them I began after a long interval to see for the first time definite objects associated with colours. The stars sparkled and passed away. A white spear of grey stone grew up to huge height, and became a tall, richly finished Gothic tower of very elaborate and definite design, with many rather worn statues standing in the doorways or on stone brackets. As I gazed every projecting angle, cornice, and even the faces of the stones at their joinings were by degrees covered or hung with clusters of what seemed to be huge precious stones, but uncut, some being more like masses of transparent fruit. These were green, purple, red, and orange; never clear yellow and never blue. All seemed to possess an interior light, and to give the faintest idea of the perfectly satisfying intensity and purity of these gorgeous colour-fruits is quiet beyond my power. All the colours I have ever beheld are dull as compared to these....
After an endless display of less beautiful marvels I saw that which deeply impressed me. An edge of a huge cliff seemed to project over a gulf of unseen depth. My viewless enchanter set on the brink a huge bird claw of stone. Above, from the stem or leg, hung a fragment of some stuff. This began to unroll and float out to a distance which seemed to me to represent Time as well as immensity of Space. Here were miles of rippled purples, half transparent, and of ineffable beauty. Now and then soft golden clouds floated from these folds, or a great shimmer went over the whole of the rolling purples, and things, like green birds, fell from it, fluttering down into the gulf below. Next, I saw clusters of stones hanging in masses from the claw toes, as it seemed to me miles of them, down far below into the underworld of the black gulf....
But it were in vain to find in words what will describe these colours. Either they seemed strangely solid, or to possess vitality. They still linger visibly in my memory, and left the feeling that I had seen among them colours unknown to my experience....
I was at last conscious of the fact that I was at moments almost asleep, and then wide awake. In one of these magic moments I saw my last vision and the strangest. I heard what appeared to be approaching rhythmical sounds, and then saw a beach, which I knew to be that of Newport. On this, with a great noise, which lasted but a moment, rolled in out of darkness wave on wave. These as they came were liquid splendors huge and threatening, of wonderfully pure green or red and deep purple, once only deep orange, and with no trace of foam. These water hills of colour broke on the beach with myriads of of lights of the same tint as the wave. This lasted some time, terror of these huge mounds of colour would continue....
For the psychologist this agent should have value. To be able with a whole mind to experiment mentally upon such phenomena as I have described is an unusual privilege. Here is unlocked a storehouse of glorified memorial treasures of one kind....
I predict a perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes attainable. The temptation to call again the enchanting magic will, I am sure, be too much for some men to resist after they have once set foot in this land of fairy colours, where there seems to be so much to charm and so little to excite horror or disgust. (Mitchell 1896, pp. 1626-1628)

pp. 96, 97 Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar (1996)


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Learyfan]
    #23264956 - 05/24/16 06:19 AM (7 years, 10 months ago)

Hey, it's the 120th anniversary of this today.














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    #26693468 - 05/24/20 07:07 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Great read. I like how he pretty much says we should trip out and have peace.


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    #27320793 - 05/24/21 04:09 AM (2 years, 9 months ago)

I don't know if he said we should. He certainly had a great time though.









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    #27790837 - 05/24/22 04:15 PM (1 year, 9 months ago)

That guy's a badass.

I've always wanted to be an old timey doctor around the turn of the 1900s.  Like all the cocaine and opium and psychedelics you want, and treating people is easy because the amount of knowledge we had back then was so low compared to being a doctor now.

My dream alternate lives would be to be born in the 50s in the Bay Area in California, an old timey doctor on the east coast in the 1900s...

but I'm stuck here as a young adult in a capitalist dystopia.

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (05/24) [Re: Typerwritermonky]
    #28332061 - 05/24/23 04:20 AM (9 months, 30 days ago)

I hear what you're saying, but for the first time in my life, I'm happy to have been born when I was. I love the internet so much that I wouldn't trade it for the experience of growing up in any other time. The mid to late 60's / early 70's would have been amazing in many ways, but only if you're a white male and only if you didn't get drafted and only if you're living in some liberal leaning city.

I'm not sure how life was in the early 1900's, but it probably sucked other than the fact that you could get whatever drug you wanted. So many inventions that we take for granted weren't invented. Hell, LSD and MDMA weren't even invented. I'll take 2023 thank you. :grin:








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