Cure for depression?

My PhD superbisor’s boss was ‘Regis Professor of Physiology’ (appoint by the queen) Professor Ian Boyd and his father set up the first homeopathic hospital in Scotland. Prof Boyd set up an institute to investigate homeopathy and a large team of scientists, technicians and PhD students did so for 15 years. They found absolutely no effect at all and Boyd’s foray into alternative medicine probably cost him his Fellowship to the Royal Society (FRS).

Funny you should mention that, my friend's dad's dad also had fellowship in the Royal Society, though for what I'm not sure.
 
It seems the myth suggests they ate Aminita muscaria or Fly agaric but the plant Hyoscyamus niger was the more likely type of mushroom.
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Fly agaric

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Hyoscyamus niger

It was unlikely psilocybin because that’d make them sit on the battlefield, waving their hands in front of the faces repeatedly, saying, “Whoa, look at the rainbow, dude”, or cry uncontrollably, sobbing, “My dad never really loved me!”.
 
Funny you should mention that, my friend's dad's dad also had fellowship in the Royal Society, though for what I'm not sure.
My cousin’s father’s friend regularly petted a cat who was owned by a woman who once walked past a Nobel Prize winner on Oxford Street during the Christmas shopping period. He says it might’ve been Dustin Diamond (RIP) from ‘Saved by the Bell’ but is pretty sure it was Victor Ambros.
 

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