Record of a Friendship

folder. After fifteen minutes or so I get so very hot that I take it as a

warning to get out.

Organon

Rangeley, Maine

Dear Neill:

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November 14, 195 I

It is always quite impossible to answer medical inquiries with­

out having seen the patient. I have no experience with orgone therapy

in Basedow's Disease, which is the name for what you describe. The

only thing that could be done eventually is to use the orgone accumu­

lator under medical supervision carefully in small doses, and to see how

the patient reacts. If she reacts with improvement, then it could be

continued. Should severe anxiety attacks of any kind increase badly

with the use of the accumulator, then it should not be used, except under

highly skilled supervision. Of course, no cure can be promised in any

case.

I am in bed with a heart trouble which broke out after I put an

oranur funnel on my heart. I am in bed the 4th week, and was nearly

passing away twice. It seems as if Oranur has not left untouched a single

latent reason to die. We are still collecting the medical experiences

which came up with the tremendous upheaval in Oranur. Thank you for

your kind remarks on it. I had 2 Oranur books sent to you without

charge as a Christmas present.

Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk

My dear Reich,

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November 19, 1951

Tut, tut, we can't have the ship's captain trying to navigate

when he needs a rest. I told you in a letter months ago that you are

the sort of man who drives the somatic car all out, and I make the

layman's guess that the heart engine will recover when you slow up a

bit. You always strike me as working against time, trying to do the work

of centuries in a lifetime. Naturally when you have discovered so much.