Smith, who’s lived in Madison since 2009, first heard the story of Dr. William F. Lorenz from Lorenz’s grandson, William F. Lorenz III. Smith said that Lorenz’s grandfather, after whom Lorenz Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute is named, was the first person to observe, in 1916, that chemistry could treat the mentally ill. He was a professor of neuropsychiatry at UW-Madison and developed the school’s psychiatry department.
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