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In the Summer of 1965, some months after I first met Erwin Straus and his confidant and collaborator, the late Richard Griffith, I was privileged to participate and work in their research setting in Lexington, Kentucky, a city now celebrated as the home of the Lexington Conferences on Pure and Applied Phenomenology, the fifth of which convened in 1972.² On the occasion of my visit I began my own compilation and personal study of Professor Straus' complete writings,³ beginning with "Zur Pathogenese des chronischen Morphinismus' [10], his inaugural dissertation, published in 1919 upon attaining his doctorate in medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-6909-5_10

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