OCT 12 1967,

SAN FRANCISCO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE

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October 11, 1967

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California 94304

Dear Doctor Lederberg:

I am sure that you understood last night the degree of
enthusiasm which our membership received from your challeng-
ing views and how delighted we were to have an opportunity
to exchange ideas on some of the problems you called to our
attention. I hope that you found it, in some way, worthy of
your time and that you might consider spending another evening
with us at some future date.

It. is very likely that the article which I am enclosing
for your attention is one with which you are familiar. How-
ever, since many of the thoughts we expressed were somewhat
prompted by the views of Freud expressed in it, I thought I
would call it to your attention on the small chance that you
may be unfamiliar with it.

After the meeting I thought of two other instances where-
by scientists were persecuted for views which they heralded
which later received rather general acceptance. One was the
case of John Elliott who was forced to resign his position as
Professor of Medicine in London because of his early involve-
ment with mesmerism and hypnosis, and his attempt to apply it
in his medical practice. The other is of Semmelweis whose
position in medicine in terms of the irradication of puerperal
fever is‘well known to you.

May I thank you again not only on behalf of myself, but
on behalf of our membership.

Very truly yours,

FW o——

Haskell F. Norman, M.D.
Chairman
HFN:c Committee on Postgraduate Education

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