Word: alcoholics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said: "We've had a setback; we're going to have a comeback!" Dr. Russell and sad-eyed Dr. McBride, superintendent of the League, last week revealed to Philadelphia -first large city to see it in action-the technique of their comeback, a "mock trial of Beverage Alcohol...
...Temple, drew a crowd of 3,500. The jurists who presided were George A. Welsh of U. S. district court, Frank Smith of common pleas, Thomas Bluett of municipal court. As he does whenever possible, Dr. Russell played prosecuting attorney. Dr. Russell and his audience were content to have Alcohol defended by Dr. Virgil P. Brock, Dr. Russell's associate, an evangelist. Called by Dr. Russell "as strong a case as possible" for liquor. Dr. Brock's line was that everyone should have personal liberty and that liquor pays taxes. He also pleaded Alcohol's case with...
...summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous injections only. He decided to use diethylene glycol, a close relative of the alcohol used to keep motorcar radiators from freezing, never before put to this purpose. Whether diethylene glycol is poisonous by itself or in this solution was not made clear last week. The one indisputable fact was that S. E. Massengill Co. made up several 80-gal. batches of sulfanilamide solution. This...
...organs of healthy young dogs, like the organs of healthy young humans, are composed of cuboidal cells. These cells are vulnerable to alcohol, chloroform, uranium nitrate and other poisons. If the poisoning is slight, the destroyed cuboidal cells are promptly replaced. But if the poisoning is serious, peculiar flat cells repair the damage to liver and kidneys. Those flat cells withstand great amounts of intoxication, and possibly explain why mature men and women carry their liquor better than juveniles. "The mechanism which prevents poisons from injuring this type of cells is entirely unknown," said Dr. MacNider...
Calling beliefs the "tools of life," Tillotson declared that they did for one's emotional being what exercise did for one's body. He strongly disapproved of alcohol, tobacco and polygamy as emotional outlets; he recommended prayer in their place...