Bicycle Day Revisited (2018)

To begin with, the two versions run along similar lines: in fact, Hofmann’s 1979 memoir introduces the episode with a quote from the report he wrote on 22 April 1943 to his boss, Professor Arthur Stoll, director of the pharmaceutical department at Sandoz. In this four-page document, Hofmann begins the story three days earlier, on 16 April, when he became dizzy while working in the lab and went home to lie down in a darkened room, at which point he ‘sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition, characterised by an extremely stimulated imagination’. Werner Stoll took 60µg, only a quarter of the dose that had steamrollered Hofmann on Bicycle Day but twice as much as his subsequent experiments.

Source: mikejay.net