Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legal medicine it is occasionally necessary to know just how drunk, or nearly drunk, a person was at the moment of accident or crime. For comparison purposes, Dr. Villedent of Paris has collated a table from French and German research. Conclusions depend on the fact that alcohol quickly permeates the human body and is carried by the blood. In the following table figures are transcalculated to U. S. measurements, for a 150-pound man: ALCOHOL-EFFECT...
...afternoon last week the friends met in Philosopher Buermeyer's apartment and settled themselves to drink a bottle of grain alcohol. They mixed the fiery fluid with water, pursued recondite subjects. With each drink, a more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed...
Drunks. At Utrecht, orderly Netherlandish city, P. M. v. Wulff-ten Palthe found that pure oxygen is a powerful antidote against the effects of alcohol. He gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk...
Straub of Munich, with good knowledge of cool München Brau, remarked: "Alcohol is the oldest pleasure poison known to man. . . . It is the taking of wrong amounts of alcohol by those whose systems are not properly adjusted which has caused all the trouble with drink since Noah...
...incessant smoker of cigarets, M. Fonck drinks no alcohol. To health, technical experience and adroitness he lays his war feats (126 enemy planes) and safety in civilian aviation. Last week. Pilot Callizo, altitude champion (TIME, Sept. 6), declared that while training for his heart-taxing ascents he cuts out tobacco as well as liquor, but includes "good red wine...