"Hamilton Morris: This bouquet of flowers is for Victor Harold Maddox, the chemist who discovered PCP. It contains 25 white roses to signify the 25 hydrogen atoms, 17 black roses for the 17 carbon atoms, and one blue rose for the nitrogen atom.Vic Maddox made a scientific breakthrough when he accidentally discovered PCP, paving the way for the study of NMDA receptors and revolutionizing the history of anesthesia.E. F. Domino once said that humans, in their never-ending quest to explore and discover, may yet find a pot of therapeutic gold at the end of a spectacular and, at times, rather dismal PCP rainbow.On behalf of a world that has misunderstood your greatest discovery, I'm sorry, Dr. Maddox.I'm sorry."

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