Burroughs, William

Burroughs, William, and Allen Ginsberg. The Yage Letters. San Francisco City Lights,... 

Belladonna (deadly nightshade), 131-34 Benadryl, 146 Benzedrine, 48 Benzene, 126 Benzodiazepines, 74, 76 Betel, 54 Biorhythms, 37 Blood, Benjamin Paul, 790 "Blues," 147 "Blue velvet," 147 Bodybuilding, 148-49 Brecher, Edward M, 214 Brompheniramine (Dimetanc , 146 Broiichodilators, 150—51 "Burn-outs," 167 Burroughs, William S., 16 Butyl nitrite, 130, 131... 

My first intimation that La Chorrera was a place different from other places came when we arrived at Puerto Leguizamo, our proposed point of embarkation on the Rio Putumayo. It can be reached only by airplane, since no roads make their way through the jungle to it. It is as tired and oppressive a South American river town as you could ever hope to see. William Burroughs, who passed this way in his search for ayahuasca in the fifties, described it then as "looking like some place after a flood." By 1971 it had changed little. 

Writers like William S. Burroughs and Mark Pesce have suggested that language is actually a virus. Pesce writes ... 

Because a person can t live on advances like these, many famous authors also had other less-glamorous jobs before their books became major sellers. Henry Miller dug graves for a living. William Burroughs, author of the cult classic Naked Lunch, was an exterminator in Chicago and a bartender in New York. 

Seeburger (1993,50-51) endorses William Burroughs s remark that "junk... 

Gilmore, I.T., Burroughs, A., Murray-Lyon, I.M., Williams, R., Jenkins, D., Hopkins, A. Indications, methods, and outcomes of percutaneous liver biopsy in England and Wales an audit by the British Society of Gastroenterology and the Royal College of Physicians of London. Gut 1995 36 437-441... 

William Burroughs, in The Yage Letters, also mentions this phenomenon "That night I had a vivid dream... A composite city familiar to me but I could not quite place it. Part New York, part Mexico City and part Lima which I had not seen at this time... Incidentally you are supposed to see a city when you take Yage." ... 

It was quite clear that the scale of production in the William Dunn School could barely provide enough material for further clinical trials hence, Florey tried to elicit the help of drug companies. ICI, Burroughs Wellcome, Boots and a small London company, Kemball-Bishop, all showed interest but due to the exigencies of war-tom Britain, none had sufficient funds for speculative research. They were probably also worried that a chemical synthesis of penicillin would be devised once its structure had been elucidated thus, money spent on culture technology would be wasted. They were also probably worried about the patent situation. Florey had mentioned this issue to the Medical Research Council, which had provided a modest amount of research money. Apparently, the senior MRC officials were vehemently opposed to patenting on the grounds that it was unethical for medical researchers to benefit from their discoveries. The American pharmaceutical companies suffered no such qualms of conscience, and in due course the British companies had to pay royalties to their US counterparts before they could produce penicillins. 

U.S. District Court, People With AIDS Health Group, William Ceyrolles, and William Nei-thamer v. Burroughs Wellcome Company and the United States of America, Civil Action No. 91-574, March 19,1991. 

STRAUSBAUGH, J. andD. BLAISE (Eds.) 1991. The Drug User. Documents 1840—1960. Blast Books, New York. Foreword by William S. Burroughs. 

With the penetrating insight of the literary artist, William S. Burroughs has described just this process—that is, the manufacture of madness through a medical examination for the early detection of homosexuality. An episode in Naked Lunch, called "The Examination, begins with Carl Pederson finding "a postcard in his box requesting him to report for a ten o clock appointment... 

William Lever, Jr., Kwen-Jen Chang and John D. McDermed Wellcome Research Laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Co. Research Triangle Park, NC 27709... 

Calculator (William Seward Burroughs) Burroughs builds the hrst practical key-operated calculator it prints entries and results. 

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