Bibliograph

Gauntlet in the gulf, the 1925 marine log and Mexican prison journal of William F. Lorenz, MD, edited with a foreword by Claude Clayton Smith

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Gauntlet in the gulf, the 1925 marine log and Mexican prison journal of William F. Lorenz, MD, edited with a foreword by Claude Clayton Smith

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gauntlet in the gulf

Oclc number

1374088818

Responsibility statement

edited with a foreword by Claude Clayton Smith

Sub title

the 1925 marine log and Mexican prison journal of William F. Lorenz, MD

Summary

"Lorenz Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, is named for William F. Lorenz, the man who first observed, in 1916, that chemistry could treat the mentally ill. Professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Lorenz developed the fledgling Psychiatry Department while engaged in his ground-breaking research. In 1925, seeking a much-needed respite, he signed on with the Ruth, a fishing smack out of Pensacola, Florida, for a working vacation in the Gulf of Mexico. The Ruth struck a reef, the ship was abandoned, and the crew was rescued from perilous seas by a Mexican Navy vessel, only to be imprisoned as spies, smugglers, gun-runners, and for fishing in illegal waters. Dr. Lorenz's diary details their ordeal."--Page [4] of cover

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