USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 provided
by PORE -- last update (97may15) - orgone - usa
from court docket volumes ( Pore's item wr40505dk )
Applicants for Intervention
MICHAEL SILVERT April 29,1954
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE: SOUTHERN DIVISION
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - x
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
-against-
THE WILHEIM REICH FOUNDATION, a Maine corpor-
ation, WILHEIM REICH and ILSE-OLLENDORFF,
Defendants. Civil Action File No. 1056
ELSWORTH F. BAKER, K.M. BREMER, PHILIP GOLD,
SIDNEY HANDELMAN, MORTON HERSKOWITZ, CHARLES
I. OILER, CHESTER M. RAPHAEL, MICHAEL SILVERT,
VICTOR A. SOBEY, WILLIAM F. THORBURN, OSCAR
TROPP, SIMEON J. TROPP, EILEEN WALKENSTEIN,
JAMES A. WILLIE. and ALBERT I. DUVALL,
Applicants for Intervention.
- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - --- -- - - - - - - - - - - -x
STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF NEW YORK) SS:-
MICHAEL SILVERT, being duly sworn, says:
I am a physician duly admitted and licensed to practice as such in the states of New York, Kansas and Maine. I make this ffidavit in support of the application, in which I join, for leave to intervene.
I was graduated from the City College of the City of New York in 1927 with a Bachelor of Science degree. I was graduated cum laude and I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1931 I was graduated from N.Y.U. (Bellevue) Medical College with my degree as Doctor of Medicine. I then was on a two-year rotating interneship and residency in obstetrics at the Bronx Hospital, New York City, until 1933.
I was in general practice from 1933 to 1942 in Bronx County, in the city of New York, with the following hospital appointments: The Bronx Hospital, Assistant Adjunct in Obstetrics; Fordham Hospital, Clinical Assistant in Gynecology; Lebanon Volunteer Assistant in Opthalmology.
Thereafter, I entered the United States Air Force and served in the China-Burma-India theatre as a flight surgeon until 1946.
From 1946 to 1948 I completed 2-1/2 years of training as resident in psychiatry at Winter Veterans Administration Hospital and Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas. From then to 1950, I was full-time psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Mental Hospital Clinic in New York City.
Beginning with 1948 and coming down to date, I have been training with Wilhelm Reich and The Wilhelm Reich Foundation in orgonomy.
Today I specialize in obstetrics and use the orgone energy accumulator in all its forms.
The affidavit of Dr. Willie sets forth in general terms, the coneept of orgonomy and its use in therapy. There is no need for me to burden the Court with a repetition of these principles. In my practice, which is a general practice, and in which obstetrics is my specialty, I make full use of all my previous training and experience, including the application of orgone energy. In addition, I do research and experimentation in orgone energy.
The injunction in this case handicaps me and curtails me in the practice of my profession, just as it does the other applicants. It is impossible for a physician consciously to withhold from a patient a therapy which he knows and believes is beneficial. I, too, use orgonomy because as a scientist I am convinced of its validity. In addition to all of the reasons set forth in Dr. Willie's affidavit, I am faced with a special problem, which others may have as well. I have just completed years of research in obstetrical care with the application of the principles of orgonomy. I have completed an article on this topic which is ready for publication. The article is based on my observation, scientific studies and 20 years of practice and experience in obstetrics. This article is an important contribution to obstetrics and will be of value to the entire profession and anyone who cares about obstetrics. Certain of the observations made in this article concern themselves with the results of experiences with orgone energy accumulators. Under the terms of the injunction, as it now stands, I am prevented from publishing this article and disseminating this information about the accumulator. My rights have been curtailed by this injunction and apparently the only way I may protect these rights is by this application for leave to intervene to establish my right to practice medicine on a scientific basis.
I, therefore, pray the Court for the relief requested in the affidavit of Dr. Willie.
signed... Michael Silvert
Sworn to before me this
29 day of April, 1954
Signed Rose Lewis
ROSE LEWIS
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 03-7537550
Qualified in Bronx County
Cert. filed in New York County
Commission Expires March 30, 1956
Exchange Orgonomic Research and Information
Around The World 
Through
PORE