Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drunken Rats. Dr. Williams' theory is that the craving for alcohol is one such disorder. (He does not explain why a need for vitamins should produce a craving for alcohol which contains no vitamins, and actually increases the need for them.) He tried the theory on rats, turning them into drunkards by deficient diets and curing them with walloping doses of vitamins...
Then along came a heavy drinker for whom psychiatry and group therapy had done no good. No physician, Biochemist Williams suggested that he be treated with massive doses of 15 vitamins-A, C, D and E, and eleven of the B complex. The patient shunned alcohol for a while. Williams and his colleagues thought that the patient should remain a total abstainer. The patient went them one better. He showed that he could drink two or three bottles of beer, then quit...
...gamble on simplicity (about $30,000 to build and race his car) paid off. Getting better than six miles a gallon out of the special fuel (40% alcohol, 40% gasoline, 20% benzol), Belanger's racer had to make only one pit stop (for a cracked exhaust pipe, fuel and two tires). Oil-smeared Driver Lee Wallard, grinning happily from ear to ear, had a modest explanation for his part of the winning gamble: "I just tried to keep moving and stay out of trouble...
...scientists maintain, however, that drinking in a fume-filled room will lead to intoxication more quickly than imbibing one's alcohol in the fresh...
Even when a man is breathing hard and under great physical exertion, the amount of vapor he could inhale wouldn't get him drunk. As much as 62 percent of the alcohol inhaled is absorbed into the blood stream. The remaining 38 percent is lost through exhalation...