1808 STEARNS, John (1770 – 1848)
Accounts of the pulvis parturiens, a remedy for quickening child-birth.
The first use of ergot in the induction of labor in America. Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1935, pp. 21-23.
GMN 6164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7751
1906 DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968); BARGER, George (1878 – 1939); ET AL
An active alkaloid from ergot.
Isolation of ergotoxine. With F. H. Carr.
GMN 1895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2543
1914 EWINS, Arthur James (1882 – 1957)
Acetylcholine, a new active principle of ergot.
Isolation of acetylcholine in ergot.
GMN 1341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1470
1921 SPIRO, Karl (1867 – 1932); STOLL, Arthur (1887 – 1971)
Ueber die wirksamen Substanzen des Mutterkorns.
Isolation of ergotamine.
GMN 1910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2664
1935 DUDLEY, Harold Ward (1887 – 1935); MOIR, John Chassar (1900 – 1977)
The substance responsible for the traditional clinical effect of ergot.
Isolation and introduction of ergometrine.
GMN 6230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7859
1943 STOLL, Arthur (1887 – 1971); HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
Partialsynthese von Alkaloiden vom Typus des Ergobasins.
Synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
GMN 1928.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2727
1960 ABRAMSON, Harold Alexander (1899 – 1980)
The use of LSD in psychotherapy: Transactions of a conference of D-Lysergic Acid Diethymlamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23 and 24, 1959, Princeton, N. J. Edited by Harold A. Abramson.
GMN 13748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16032
1970 BOVÉ, Frank James (1917 – )
The story of ergot.
Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.
GMN 2068.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2432
1977 COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE
Project MKUltra, The CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Science Research of the Committee on Human Resources United States Senate Ninety-Fifth Congress First Session August 3, 1977.
Digital facsimile from Wikipedia at this link. "Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra) was the code name of an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2][…
GMN 13749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16033
