McCormick, Michael

To my husband, Michael McCormick, and to all who have learned to live creatively and compassionately with a loved one who has MCS... 

We thank the Royal Society (UK) for a postdoctoral fellowship (GRM) and the University of Otago for a research grant. We are grateful to Michael Crawford for production of biological artwork, Jesse Gale for technical advice on radio-iodination of proteins, Drs Sarah L. Heath and David S. Larsen for helpful discussions, Drs Sally P.A. McCormick, Stephen Faulkner, and Wolfgang Mohr for critically reading this manuscript, Tanya K. Ronson for her help with the references and Dr Katie Heslop for additional help with manuscript production. 

As late as 1897, the U. S. Government granted a patent—number 587,994—to one Michael McCormick of San Francisco, for a male chastity belt for fathers to put on their adolescent sons to prevent masturbation. (Playboy, Dec., 1967, P- 79-)... 

The author wishes to acknowledge the help and technical expertise of Alan L. Orvis, Ph.D., Radiation Control Office at the Mayo Clinic, and Michael V. McCormick, B.S., technical associate at the time of the study. The help of the Kevex Corporation in providing the fluorescence system used in this investigation is appreciated. Part of this material was presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Chicago, June 20-23, 1977. 

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