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...prosperous French couple brought their seven-year-old son Pierre to the Paris office of plump, greying Child Psychiatrist Suzanne Serin, 56. Pierre, they told Dr. Serin, was a bright, healthy boy, but he often flew into inexplicable rages. Pierre himself told Dr. Serin that he often had strange visions: "Wings, not hands, white things which dance on the bureau . . . It is awful." Despite 26 years of practice, Dr. Serin was scarcely able to believe her own diagnosis: acute alcoholism...
...questioned Pierre's parents, learned that the boy drank a liter (1.0567 qts.) of wine each day, and at night often got port "because he was a little nervous." Alarmed by Pierre's case, Psychiatrist Serin alerted Paris' clinics, soon uncovered three more cases of child alcoholism...
Certain that Lucien, Yvonne and Maurice were only three of a host of alcoholic French children, Psychiatrist Serin persuaded the Ministry of Public Health to investigate in other areas of France. The results were shocking...
...Paris last week, Dr. Serin reported the findings to the Academy of Medicine. Its staid members listened with dismay, promptly began to lay plans for a big anti-alcoholism campaign in French schools. It will be a difficult and a delicate job, for, as any French peasant will confidently insist, a little wine never hurt anybody...
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