Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three drops of blood are taken from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked...
...Beverage alcohol (C 2 H 5 OH) does not cause cirrhosis of the liver, heart trouble, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, Bright's disease. It does not even cause d.t.s (the drunkard's deficiency in diet causes the illusion of snakes). It is only slightly habit-forming (smoking and overeating are far more...
...Alcohol is a sex depressant and not a stimulant" (as Shakespeare rightly noted when he wrote: "It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance...
...Users of alcohol produce better babies than teetotalers (alcohol kills the weaker sperm...
Concerned with the "average" drinker rather than dipsomaniacs (whose drinking is effect rather than cause), Authors Smith & Helwig, no apologists for drunks, know how to say when. They warn, for example, against alcohol for colds and snake bites, point out that many a death technically attributed to accidents, suicide, homicide, bullets and knives should properly be classed as due to booze. They could, but do not, point out that the world's outstanding teetotalers today are Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini...