Abstract
The literary works of William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) mirrored his lifestyle—countercultural, fragmentary, dedicated to fulfilment rather than control of impulses. He did not particularly like doctors and is a strange medical alterego. He was also a relentless explorer of the plant kingdom's chemical effects on the human brain through his addictive self-experiments. This is his chief role in Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment , Andrew Lees'1 artfully written neurologic memoir. It contains an eyewitness account of how various botanical substances, some of which Burroughs had tried on himself, were transformed into proven therapies for Parkinson disease.
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