Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is an alcoholic? "The individual who uses alcohol to excess harmful to him in any way," say the doctors. How does an alcoholic get that way? In childhood...
...Alcoholics Are Sick. "Fundamentally," writes Baltimore's Dr. Horace K. Richardson, "the alcoholic is sick in his ego." If the ego is weakened in childhood, a neurotic, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic or a drug addict may result. Because of ego weakness, the average alcoholic lacks feelings of independence and power. "In alcohol he has discovered an easy, temporary and always obtainable method of pulling down the shade between himself and the threatening world of cold, hard, painful facts about...
...Alcohol Hygiene, which is published bi-monthly by the National Committee on Alcohol Hygiene, Inc., a group of doctors and psychiatrists. *That some alcoholics cannot be cured is freely conceded by Alcohol Hygiene's expert contributors. Baltimore's Dr. Robert V. Seliger, the committee's executive director, points out that some alcoholics are psychotic and must live out their days in a mental hospital...
Best known of these industrial microorganisms is yeast, whose appetite for the carbohydrates in beets, sugar cane, wood, and other fibrous vegetable matter made possible the production in 1944 of about 638 million gallons of alcohol-grain and wood. But the yeasts are only one group of the microbic multitude able to perform specific jobs. Bacteria resembling the bacilli of human ailments and molds like mildew have also been put to work in industry...
...physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life is moving peacefully toward its close...