Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon, Mr. Hill clapped his hands and rejoiced. In Washington he aims to belong to the best social clique; at home, he aims to satisfy a moist constituency. For four years, according to his own statement, he has been trying to obtain a ruling on the maximum percentage of alcohol which is allowable under the Volstead Act according to a section which permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices." He declared himself dissatisfied with the answers he received from the Prohibition Enforcement Unit. In September, a year ago, he notified Prohibition officials that he was about...
...Hurndall is, next to Luis Lacey, the strongest player on the visitors' side. During the War, Major Hurndall's ship was torpedoed off the Irish coast. He owes his life to a nun who, after doctors had declared him dead, rubbed his body for three hours with alcohol, restored...
...medicine opened the meeting of that section with a fierce invective against unscientific and unscrupulous prescribing by a limited number of physicians. "One of the most flagrant instances of irrational therapeutics," said Dr. Joseph A. Capps, Chicago, "is the abuse of the physician's license to prescribe alcohol. It is well-known that most of the liquor dispensed by druggists on physicians' prescriptions is not intended for the treatment of the sick. Whatever we, as individuals, may think of the Volstead Law, we are morally bound to restrict prescriptions to medicinal purposes. Selling one's prescription blanks...
President Eliot in his letter to the Citizens Committee, said that the great majority of our teachers and educators believe in bringing up children not to use alcohol in any form. In his opinion, prohibitory legislation is being better and better enforced, and that complete enforcement will follow the appointment of competent officers...
...about on a par with the total abstainers. The figures are calculated in the same manner as insurance life tables, and according to Dr. Pearl, the material is "the most critically adequate" in both quality and quantity that 'has ever been available for the study of the influence of alcohol on the duration of life...