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Hope Springs. . . . Young, white-haired Dr. Thomas A. C. Rennie of the Psychiatric Clinic at New York Hospital listed medicine's weapons against alcoholism: psychiatry, vitamins, sedatives, high carbohydrate diet and, to help bring a man out of delirium tremens, glucose and insulin. He told about the encouraging results of the conditioned reflex treatment, which makes a man nauseated at the sight or smell of alcohol: 76% of one series of patients were improved...
There were incredible marches, incredible hardships, equally incredible battles. Volunteers had almost no discipline. Early in the war, "the depots and bases filled with whores, sutlers, and gamblers, were already a continuous jamboree and vicious with crime." One Maryland regiment "suffered attrition from delirium tremens." A Kentucky regiment had to be "ordered to the rear in disgrace, for rape...
...meningitis (symptoms: stiff neck, headache, delirium, partial deafness and blindness, a rash) hits hardest in concentrations of young men, the Army is on the watch. At a California ordnance depot, three soldiers died almost before their trouble could be diagnosed. The doctors were waiting for the next 17 cases with sulfadiazine, saved them all. They made throat cultures of men in the barracks involved, dosed all who harbored the bacteria. Said a medical officer: "If you catch it early, it's a bad cold...
...line: In case of abdominal pain, laxatives should be avoided and if the pain lasts more than four hours, a doctor should be called; if a child sniffles, he probably has only a cold and it is nothing to worry about; if he has a sore throat, fever or delirium, a doctor should be summoned...
...York Herald Tribune and the Chicago Tribune suspected that caudal anesthesia would prove to have drawbacks similar to those of the long series of "painless" methods introduced since the century's turn-drawbacks to the mother such as delirium, narcosis, cyanosis, vomiting, short duration of anesthesia; drawbacks to the child such as narcosis and asphyxia-and asked obstetricians for opinions. The doctors' answers were all conservative...