An update on Robert Burns and pharmacy

A tenuous link but a parallel one nonetheless,but in terms of raising my spirits,I can say something in connection with my own health.I suffer from schizophrenia,and as Professor Robin Murray of the Institute of Psychiatry in London said in Your Voice,the magazine of Rethink,or the National Schizophrenia Fellowship as it may have been then,depression often accompanies the condition.As a family we have helped the professor,now Professor Sir Robin Murray,sending him blood samples and giving our time for tests and questions and so on.We've also sent them to the Schizophrenia Association in Bangor in North Wales and to the university in Cardiff.There has been a lot of unreciprocated matter and energy,letters and such,in my schizophrenia and it's always good to receive something in reply,eg from Andy Irvine in 2006 or 2007,when he was president of the Scottish Rugby Union.The town of Irvine is mentioned in the update and the university of California in Irvine is or was the place of work of Margot Norris,who wrote the Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake,considered to be the best criticism of the book by James Joyce.On the subject of letters from other rugby players I've received two from Rob Andrew,Alaistair Hignell and Ronan O'Gara.Maybe the names don't ring any bells with everyone.Once in the Pharmaceutical Journal in 1995 it was mentioned that Rob's wife Sara is a pharmacist,just before the rugby world cup.Alexander Pushkin and Tchaivovsky and the verse novel and opera Eugene Onegin provide the famous letter scene,with,"Courage!I must send the letter!" but the salutary effect of the letters from those people are great for me.Schizophrenia shattered my sense of reality and faith in people and so it is good to rebuild what I can.It's good to read a "friendly" name like Irvine in connection with the great Robert Burns.