Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time for Treatment. "Overt alcoholism," the last good chance for recovery, spans roughly 5.9 years. The patient becomes a liquor hoarder, buys large quantities, worries whether he has enough to last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally...
Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale...
Under the Jug. For two nights and a day the hostages huddled under the naphtha jugs. Around them, convicts hopped up on dispensary narcotics and kitchen-made "pruno" alcohol brandished their meat axes and jittered wildly. Rawboned Sociologist Jones, 24, was twice sent out to tell Powell that any move would mean death to the hostages, and to report convict grievances (bucket toilets, young prisoners mixed with older men, a hated state parole commissioner). "It's tighter than hell," he said. "They're shook." Once he went back, as he had promised, to sit under the jugs...
...Congeners. Experts have long known that some of the unpleasant results of drinking hard liquor are caused by infinitesimal amounts of contaminants technically known as "congeners." The hangover victim who argued, "It isn't the alcohol, it's the congeners," was largely right, but chemists did not know which congeners were to blame. A new technique for separating minute amounts of congeners, said Consultant Robert Carroll, working with Connecticut's Perkin-Elmer Corp., has made it possible to identify eight congeners already, with more to come. Definitely harmful among those identified are acetaldehyde and isoamyl alcohol...
...another occasion a professor was alert enough to douse sudden flames in a wastebasket in his office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. If he had not been there, gallons of inflammable alcohol would have caught fire and destroyed the building...