Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, General Cooke admits, was baffled by its NPs. Their officers tried discipline, closes of salts, a little psychiatry, but failed in most cases to salvage them; those who were returned to duty after treatment usually landed back in a hospital...
...night before, for the 14th time in six years, he had been arrested for drunkenness. Obsessed by the idea that he had killed his brother (who had caught pneumonia while looking after him), he was in a suicidal mood. Medical Director Dr. Giorgio Lolli skipped preliminaries and applied emergency treatment: relieving the patient's sense of guilt. Said Dr. Lolli, 15 minutes later: "He came in a bum and went out a person. I think he'll come back this afternoon-sober...
...five states (New Jersey, New Hampshire, Alabama, Oregon, Connecticut) and a dozen cities were studying or organizing similar clinics (Connecticut already had one in operation in Hartford). With the aid of Salvation Army workers, ministers, educators, and Alcoholics Anonymous (24,000 members), Yale was campaigning busily for free medical treatment for the nation's 750,000 chronic alcoholics...
...Treatment. The Yale Clinic offers no magic formula. Its only tools are 1) the ingenuity of the clinic's small staff of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and case workers; 2) a massive catalogue of facts about alcohol compiled by the University's Section on Alcohol Studies...
...Lolli's hangover treatment usually begins with sedatives, vitamins, a warm bath (to quiet the patient and help him sleep). The chief ingredient is psychotherapy, which starts almost at once, while the patient is most susceptible. First step: to relieve him of certain common misconceptions about his condition...