Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that lies behind all great careers from Shakespeare's to Lincoln's is the sense that life is a cheat and its conditions those of defeat." So wrote the novelist near the end of his life when he was poor, neglected and wasted by hack writing and alcohol. But these letters, most written then, contain some of his very best writing...
...found seriously ill next morning, doctors have a hard time deciding just what his trou- ble is, and an even harder time treating him. If he is dead, the coroner has difficulty deciding between accident and suicide. Medical researchers are still debating whether the effects of alcohol and barbiturates*are multiplied or simply added together. But now, in a report to the American Chemical Society, a biochemist and a physician suggest an explanation for the alky-pheno combo's deadly powers...
...Take It." Sooner or later, many business and professional people come to need the services of Dr. Chope's ultramodern public health department because they try to drown their tension in alcohol. Some, even among the highest paid, become welfare cases if they are too long between jobs, or have a catastrophic illness in the family. "San Mateo is a great place to live," says Dr. Chope, "if you can meet its exacting standards. But it's tough if you fall below the margin...
...aggressively pioneering professor of surgery, Owen H. Wangensteen, described a deceptively simple treatment for a notoriously stubborn illness. He and his colleagues get the patient to swallow a plastic tube with a balloon at the end. When the balloon is in the stomach, the doctors run frigid alcohol through it, at a temperature around -4° F. After an hour or so, the patient's stomach wall is presumably frozen. This freezing generally cuts down the stomach wall's ability to secrete hydrochloric acid, leaves less acid to spill into the duodenum and inflame any ulcers there. According...
...least one doctor of repute later told me that if I had then taken the proffered drink, I might not have experienced the heart attack. He believes that older persons-sixty and above-should take one drink, no more, each evening, because of the tendency of that amount of alcohol to dilate the arteries and aid circulation...