Acid test in tom wolfe's book?

on pg. 40 in tom wolfe's book the electric kool-aid acit test it says 鈥淭hey were paying volunteers $75 a day. Kesey volunteered. It was all nicely calcimined and clinical. They would put him on a bed in a white room and give him a series of capsules without saying what they were,鈥?. i was just wondering if anybody knew where i could find out more info on these types of acid tests? iv found info on other kinds like the watts acid test and other ones that were put on by ken kesey (like where he would just invite people over adn they'd all just chill n do acid or whatev) but this one in the book seemed far more clinical (considering how it was in a hospital and all, in berkely i'm thinking?)...so i'm assuming that it's not the same as the one's later put on by kesey though i'm sure that that's where he got the idea. hmm. any help would be really amazing!

"At the suggestion of Vic Lovell, a friend on Perry Lane who was studying psychology, Kesey volunteered to participate in a series of "psychotomimetic" drug experiments at the local VA hospital. Participants in the VA hospital experiments met one evening a week, and were paid $20 a session. "
http://www.ulster.net/~shady/thesis.html

"In 1958, he attended Stanford University's graduate writing program on a creative-writing fellowship, and his teachers included Wallace Stegner and Malcolm Cowley (the latter had been William Faulkner's editor and also had edited Jack Kerouac's On the Road). Kesey and his wife, Faye (the two had been high school sweethearts and married in 1956), settled into an area in Palo Alto, California, known as Perry Lane, famed as a bohemian neighborhood. Many of the hip sophisticates on Perry Lane took Kesey for an Oregon hayseed - a young man with farm-bred ways and rough table manners - even though he was a perceptive student of literature. But another Perry Lane resident - a psychology student, Vic Lovell -thought Kesey possessed a keen and curious mind. Lovell told Kesey about a series of experiments under way at the Veterans Hospital in nearby Menlo Park: Psychologists and clinicians were paying volunteers seventy-five dollars a session to take "psychomimetic" drugs, which induced short-term but powerful shifts in consciousness -everything from hallucinations to what the doctors termed "temporary psychosis." Kesey volunteered for the program in ~959, and that was when his life began to change. Kesey immediately realized two things as he began taking the drugs (which included LSD and peyote, a cactus bud used in American-Indian religious rites). For one, the drugs that he was taking had wild and ecstatic effects - maybe close to madness, but also full of insights that could alter one's fundamental Understandings of life and mind. The other thing was, the doctors who were administering these drugs - who were trying to measure mental states by checking blood pressure, taking temperatures and making detached observations - didn't really grasp the significance of their own experiments and surely didn't grasp the potential socio-psychological impact of a drug like LS D. The clinicians were on the outside of the experience, and Kesey was on the inside: He was observing more valuable truths about these drugs, he believed, than the doctors were. Kesey also believed that these experiences were too good to be ' kept secret. They should be shared outside of the setting of hospitals and free of the controls and surveys of psychologists and medical students. Somehow, the drugs - which soon became generically known as psychedelics - began to find their way out of the Veterans Hospital and into the bodies, minds and lives of Kesey's friends and his neighbors on Perry Lane. After that, nobody thought of Ken Kesey as a hayseed. They thought of him as the most daring guy around, with keys to an unimaginably rich new kingdom. They began to think of him as a pioneer"
http://campus.queens.edu/depts/english/k...

"Kesey had first come across LSD when as a graduate student at Stanford he wanted to earn some extra money on the side (he was married and the father of a boy, with another child on the way). He volunteered at Menlo Park VA Hospital in a government-sponsored program, participating in experiments conducted to study the effects of hallucinogenics. The experiences gained with "the best LSD he ever had . . ., sponsored by the government" (so he has liked to claim), were vital in the conception of Cuckoo's Nest."
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyri...