Finding Sanity by Greg de Moore & Ann Westmore

Author:Greg de Moore & Ann Westmore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2016-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

John worked alone on his lithium experiments during the years from 1946 to 1949. No research assistant or medical colleague shared his shed and he certainly invited no one to help him.

Despite this isolation, on several occasions, word got out that he was working with lithium. We know that as early as 1948 John mentioned his fledgling work to fellow psychiatrists at medical meetings. What he said is unrecorded and, like so much of what he did in those years, we are left to speculate. All that is known for sure is that John Cade wanted to work without interference. But his manner and insistence on isolation set up a medical response that was both curious and suspicious as to his activities. It was not long before psychiatrists and administrators dropped in to Bundoora to find out what the elusive Dr Cade was up to, their visits severely irritating him.

Jean remembers the occasional visits from psychiatrists to Bundoora, nosing their way into the Cade household:

Dr Stoller was the representative of the Army . . . he used to come to visit . . . and John used to come home and say ‘Ah, that Stoller is pretty sneaky . . . he’s sniffing around, he knows there’s something on . . . he said the attendance book gives me away. He’d ask: ‘What are you on John? What are you doing John?’ And John said: ‘I’ll let you know when I know.’

Occasionally people had an idea he might be on to something and they’d use all sorts of methods of asking him: ‘I gather you’re doing so and so . . . do you want any help?’

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