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...huge, ornate beer mug as the official gift of the Norwegian Parliament. Sniffed Folket, temperance paper: "One would believe that it was a union of brewers and not the Norwegian Parliament that presented such a gift to the Prince. This vulgar object is a gift suitable for a drunkard...
...They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream...
...Boston City Hospital Dr. Blotner secured the stomach contents of eight drunkards who had been drinking one to two pints of whiskey a day for more than a week. Their digestive juices had no effect on hard-boiled eggs, "direct evidence," stated Dr. Blotner, "that large quantities of liquor taken over a long period of time destroy digestive enzymes and thus prevent the proper digestion and assimilation of food. Consequently a deficiency disease is produced." The disease: polyneuritis, which may progress so far that the drunkard continually walks as though stepping over obstacles, continuously talks of places and people...
...Ohio River off Huntington, W. Va., Wharf master George McClaskey's wharfboat was jammed in drift ice so dangerous that rivermen refused to work on it to free the boat. A drunkard reeled and staggered safely across it, knocked on McClaskey's cabin to ask him to call a cab. McClaskey rowed him back to shore...
Abide With Me, which provided Manhattan's most gilded opening of the week, produced a character to challenge Vance for sheer orneriness. He was a psychopathic drunkard called Marsden (Earle Larimore). He did not keep mice in his bedroom but he killed bugs when a boy. He, too, terrified the inhabitants of a gloomy Manhattan mansion. Marsden had been abused by an equally liquorish father when a child, which accounted for the fiendish campaign he put on to terrify his wife (Barbara Robbins) into giving him a son of his own to torture. Since Marsden makes no effort...