Obituary: Humphry Osmond

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Humphry Osmond was a British psychiatrist and psychedelic researcher who coined the word "psychedelic" in a letter to Aldous Huxley in 1956.

In 1952, Osmond began working with psychedelics (particularly mescaline & LSD) while looking for a cure for schizophrenia at Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada. During this time, he suggested that mescaline allowed a normal person to see through the eyes of a schizophrenic and suggested that it be used to train doctors and nurses to better understand their patients. His research attracted the attention of Aldous Huxley, who volunteered to be a subject. In May 1953, Osmond introduced Huxley to mescaline for the first time, an experience described in Huxley's Doors of Perception.

http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/osmond_humphry/osmond_humphry.shtml

"To fathom hell or soar angelic Just take a pinch of psychedelic."

http://mail.psychedelic-library.org/show.cfm?postid=5151&row=39

Dr. Osmond entered the history of the counterculture by supplying hallucinogenic drugs to Huxley, who ascribed mystical significance to them in his playfully thoughtful, widely read book "The Doors of Perception," from which the rock group the Doors took its name.

Dr. Osmond was most important for inspiring researchers who saw drugs like L.S.D. and mescaline as potential treatments for psychological ailments. By the mid-1960's, medical journals had published more than 1,000 papers on the subject, and Dr. Osmond's work using L.S.D. to treat alcoholics drew particular interest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/national/22OSMO.html

[MrScorpio]

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