Usage Note: Native American is now fully established in American English as an equivalent of Indian, being acceptable in all contemporary contexts and preferred in many. It is especially appropriate as a term of respect used by outsiders, who may have concerns that Indian could cause offense by its association with longstanding cultural stereotypes.
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds.
Chapter 46. LSD is discovered. On the afternoon of April 16, 1943, Dr. Albert Hofmann, a chemist working at Sandoz Laboratoriesââ a pharmaceutical firm in Basel, Switzerlandââ fell ill; and a few days later he recorded the curious nature of his illness in his notebook: Last Friday ...