Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lets his patients who like alcohol drink it moderately, for its soothing and relaxing effects. Dr. Brooks thinks that the tendency to suffer angina pectoris is hereditary. Said he: "It would not be wise to advise marrying among individuals with angina pectoris...
Some surgeons inject alcohol into those nerves. The alcohol paralyzes the nerves and makes them as useless as though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...
When Death ceased fingering the Mohawk-Valley last week seven women, 25 men, all drinkers of rubbing alcohol and radiator anti-freeze compound, were done...
...this connection he told a jolly comical tale of a fellow whose "denture" slipped when he was drunk, and imitated him in a very jolly manner. He did not however recommend any brand of denture or of alcohol to remedy this defect...
...Bank of the Manhattan Co. was founded 136 years ago to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." Not so well known is the fact that Manhattan's $575,000,000 Chemical Bank & Trust was originally chartered 112 years ago to manufacture "blue vitriol, alum, alcohol, tartar emetic, refined camphor, borax, copperas, drugs, medicines, paints and dyers' colors." Like its elder rival, Chemical got into banking by opening an office of ''Discount & Deposit...