Osmond, Humphry Fortescue
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▪ 2005
British psychiatrist (b. July 1, 1917, Surrey, Eng.—d. Feb. 6, 2004, Appleton, Wis.), introduced writer Aldous Huxley to hallucinogenic drugs, commenting, “To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.” Huxley famously described the incident in his book The Doors of Perception (1954). Working primarily in North America, Osmond examined schizophrenia and pioneered drug studies that advocated the use of LSD to treat mental problems. His research was greatly curtailed in the 1960s following countercultural abuses of hallucinogenics.
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