Dr. Barry Marshall of Australia certainly deserves the Nobel prize in medicine (January/February issue).
In the same issue is a short piece about Australian psychiatrist John Cade discovering the effect of lithium on mental illness in 1948.
For those affected by mental illnesses in their family, this event was on par with the discovery (and Nobel prizes) of insulin by Dr. Banting and the discovery of penicillin by Dr. Fleming of Scotland in 1928. It opened up a whole new world in the treatment of mental illnesses and brought much hope to those affected by this involuntary condition (see Jane Pauley's testimony in the same article). Therefore, in all fairness and logic, John Cade should also get the Nobel prize for improving so many people's lives all over the world.
Garrett Boorman
Scottsdale, Arizona
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