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Well, nobody will ever know that. The doctors would like to blame that, because...

They knew about it. You told them.

They knew I was taking it, but they didn't know anything about the medicine, and a large number of people had not tried it. They tried it on a few hundred people, but not on thousands and thousands, so there's no way to prove that it couldn't have hurt me because it has saved a lot of people's lives or people with high blood pressure had taken it and had not had any untold effects on them. There's no way to tell whether it had any effect on me. It was thought by the man who discovered it called Folkers, who had been the chief of research at Merck laboratory and had also discovered Vitamin B-12... you know, that's a very important vitamin...anti-anemia virus... so there's no way to know whether it played any role in it or not. I came home about ten days after this all happened with two nurses....

You mean came back to New York?

To New York, yes. And people had the idea that I shouldn't be in communication with anybody, and they cut me off from the phone entirely. My maid was much too zealous about carrying out these orders. She threw out all the medication I'd taken for anything of any kind -- sleeping medicine or anything. She threw it all out. The doctor looked at it and she threw everything out. Well, now, that was really dumb, because in the first place I