USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 provided
by PORE -- last update (97may26) - orgone - usa
from court docket volumes ( Pore's item wr40505do )
Applicants for Intervention
WILLIAM F. THORBURN May 1, 1954
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE: SOUTHERN DIVISION
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
-against- AFFIDAVIT
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.
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF NEW YORK) SS:-
WILLIAM F. THORBURN, being duly sworn, says:
I am a physician duly licensed to
practice as such and one of the applicants in the proceeding for leave
to intervene.
I was born in New York City in 1899
and attended the New York City public schools and graduated from Morris
High School.
I entered the City College of the City
of New York and had to leave after three months because of my father's
death when I went to work. I volunteered for the Army in World War I and
was enlisted in the Student's Training Corps. I was honorably discharged
at the end of the war. I was graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathy
in 1922, after which I took and passed the New York State Medical Board
Examination and was licensed as an osteopathic physician.
I thereafter took special courses given
by the New York State Medical Board in endocrinology, narcotics, serums
and vaccines. I was thereafter passed and was certified by the state to
have the full medical privileges of the holder of the Degree of the Doctor
of Medicine.
For many years thereafter I was associated
with the New York Osteopathic Clinic, doing examinations and treatment.
I continued my studies and took special courses in tuberculosis and physio-therapy.
I am a member of the American Osteopathic
Association, the New York State Osteopathic Society and the Osteopathic
Society of the City of New York.
I practice medicine at 145 East 52nd
Street, New York City, New York.
I entered into personal work with Dr.
Wilhelm Reich in 1940 to learn the technic of therapy.
Since that time, in my practice of
medicine, I have applied the principles of orgonomy and the orgone energy
accumulator in the practice of my profession and I have continued my studies,
attending lectures, seminars and laboratory sessions in all phases of psycho-somatics.
As a physician and scientist, I attest to the scientific validity of the
principles of orgonomy and the therapeutic value of the orgone energy accumulator.
I employ them in my profession because it is my duty to employ such principles
as I believe will best serve my patients.
The injunction restricts and curtails
me in the practice of my profession, the earning of my livelihood and my
development and growth as a physician and scientist.
These rights of mine, personal and
legal, have not been adequately rcpresented in the main procceding and
I respectfully request the Court to grant this application of myself and
my co-applicants for leave to intervene on the same ground as more fully
set forth in the affiidavit of Dr. James A. Willie.
Signed..... William F. Thornburn D.O.
Sworn to before me this
1 day of May1954.
Signed... Jacob Shapiro
JACOB SHAPIRO
Notary Public, State of New York
Qualified in New York County
No. 31-3613177
Cert. filed in N. Y. Co. Clerk & Registrar
Commission Expires March 30, 1955
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