Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Research findings increasingly demonstrate that alcohol is involved in a large percentage of automobile crashes. While a number of the drivers involved are young persons and social drinkers, a very substantial proportion are, in fact, alcoholics. Traditional punitive measures can be expected to have little effect on behavior that arises from illness. The problem requires a massive federal program concentrating on the disease of alcoholism...
Garrett said he is drawing up new recommendations for the use of Class A fluids like methanol, ether, ethyl alcohol, and acetone...
...pint of whisky, with soda, on two successive days, and eight weeks later had a normal healthy boy. Dr. Fuchs then refined the method, so that he now takes doubly sterile (spore-free as well as germfree) alcohol and makes a solution about as strong as a tall highball. Instead of giving patients a swig, he drips it into their veins. Among 100 patients so far treated this way at New York Hospital, and at least 200 more at White Medical Center in Los Angeles, the alcohol cut short the contractions in about 70% and delayed birth for as long...
...case of Mrs. Cunningham, the respite was as long as any recorded. After the first alcohol treatment worked, Dr. Perell sent her home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back...
Many obstetricians still have reservations about the alcohol-infusion technique, but Dr. Fuchs insists that he has seen no ill effects. And Dr. Perell can point to a record of five live babies for the ten patients treated in his individual practice. "Perhaps only one of these five would have made it alone without the treatment," he says...