Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alcohol in moderation does not harm the heart, tobacco does not cause heart disease, and aspirin is harmless, Paul D. White, lecturer on Medicine, said in a lecture Sunday at the Medical School...
Most psychiatrists' reports are woven around the tortured braggings of a paranoiac, the sullen stupors of a schizophrenic. Few ever bother with such broader problems as the relation of insanity to unemployment, to age, to sex, to alcohol. And no one has seriously answered the crucial questions: Is insanity in the U. S. increasing...
...Alcohol and Prohibition. More than a fifth of all U. S. mental patients are alcoholics. In 1920, the first bone-dry Prohibition year, the number of admissions to mental hospitals dropped from 85 per 100,000 of the population to an all-time low of 72. Prohibition did it, says Dr. Dayton. By 1921, when bootlegging had begun, admissions rose to 77; the following year they climbed to 82. Dr. Dayton, who firmly believes that liquor makes lunatics, accuses psychiatrists of neglecting this important problem...
...history professor labeled the notes "a variety of bootleg manufactures of wood alcohol, producing blindness in examination," and further declared, "They are a waste of money to buy and treacherous...
Died. Guy W. (for Warren) Ballard, 60, onetime mining engineer, more recently (with his priestess wife) the "Accredited Messenger of the Ascended Masters of the Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...