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...million five hundred thousand people (42% of the 6,000,000 sick every day) suffer from chronic diseases-heart disease, hardening of the arteries, rheumatism, nervous diseases...
Polyneuritis is a painful and sometimes paralyzing disease characterized by widespread inflammation of the nerves. It is frequently observed in persons who are chronic alcoholics. During the past five years Dr. Norman Hayhurst Jolliffe, psychiatrist for New York City's municipal hospitals, made a special study of 1,000 cases of alcoholism in the city's dingy old Bellevue Hospital. He found...
...doctors, we no longer look at most of the abnormal responses of the body as being solely due to specific infections agents or even to age alone. The role played by the stresses and strains of living in the initiation of various types, of acute and chronic illness is difficult of analysis, but it is nevertheless a factor in the lives of all who attempt to meet their responsibilities...
...disapproving "stooge"; in Los Angeles, two nights after he had been beaten up near the Hollywood Trocadero where he was celebrating the birth of a son. A coroner's autopsy found that death was caused by no thrashing, but by "acute toxic nephritis, induced by acute and chronic alcoholism...
Irene's husband, Supreme Court Justice Carter Hibbard (Walter Connolly), has reached the time of life when his chief interests are chronic indigestion and listening to the Whoops Family on the radio. But Lucy realizes that the only way to keep Irene from booming young Senator Keane (Victor Jory) into a Presidential threat is to inaugurate a rival boom for Irene's husband. Last-minute legerdemain with a previous marriage of Irene's cuts short the boomeranging boom by intimating that, as husband of a woman whose foreign divorce has no legal standing, Justice Hibbard has been...