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had better be prepared. There is no better safeguard against the excesses

of our own inventiveness than an informed public. In our zeal to Do

you must not forget to Listen. We must Listen as we Do and train Doers

who will also Listen. For ours is a peculiarly personal biology; and we

will always encounter our humanity in the deepest recesses of our

molecular search.

It is this rare comprehending comprehensiveness which is Psycho­

pharmacology’s unique gift to Medicine and Psychiatry. The Pharmacol­

ogy without will slowly lead to the pharmacy within–to an understanding

of the nature of Healing and Self-Healing, putting Psychiatry and the

Sciences of the Mind at the very heart of Medicine where they right­

fully belong.

So, if I thank you from a full and greatful heart, do you wonder? As we

celebrate our common past we join in sending our fondest good wishes

for a speedy recovery to our dear Richard and to Kay. Let us meet again

from time to time. Let us go on doing what our field does so supremely

well. Let us continue to connect.

Fondly,

Joel Elkes

Notes

1. Charles S. Sherrington, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (New
   Haven: Yale University Press, 1911).


2. Joel Elkes, Alastair C. Frazer, and Harold C. Stewart, “The Composition of
   Particles Seen in Normal Human Blood Under Dark Ground Illumination,”
   Journal of Physiology 95 (1939): 68.


3. Francis O. Schmitt, “X-Ray Diffraction Studies on Nerve,” Radiology 25
   (1935): 131; Francis O. Schmitt, “X-Ray Diffraction Studies on Structure
   of Nerve Myelin Sheath,” Journal of Cell Physiology 18 (1941): 31.


4. Joel Elkes and J. Bryan Finean, “The Effect of Drying Upon the Structure
   of Myelin in the Sciatic Nerve of the Frog,” in Discussion of the Faraday
   Society (Lipoproteins) (London, 1949), 134; Joel Elkes and J. Bryan Finean
   (1953a): “X-Ray Diffraction Studies on the Effects of Temperature on
   the Structure of Myelin in the Sciatic Nerve of the Frog,” Experimental Cell
   Research 4 (1953a): 69; Joel Elkes and J. Bryan Finean, “Effects of Solvents
   on the Structure of Myelin in the Sciatic Nerve of the Frog,” Experimental
   Cell Research 4 (1953b): 82.


5. F. A. Pickworth, “Occurrence and Significance of Small Vascular Lesions in
   Brain,” Journal of Mental Science 87 (1941): 50-76.