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On the whole it may be said that psychotherapy can gain its easiest triumphs in the field of alcoholism and a wide propagation of psychotherapeutic methods and of a thorough understanding of psychotherapy would be fully justified, even if no other field were accessible but that of the desire for alcoholic intemperance.
The proportion of alcoholism is peremptorily determined by climate that is, the comparative ratio of sun and rain. In Europe, for instance, light wines cannot be produced without 'liquor, as the trade calls aqua pura, by latitudes lower than Germany and Southern France.
In the case of Burroughs, it is perhaps a little worse, for the other side of his ancestry is not free from the taint of alcoholism." "And Edith Atherton?" "The same way. They both carry it. I won't go into the Mendelian law on the subject. We are clearing up much that is obscure. But as to Burroughs, he should marry, if at all, some one without that particular taint.
Our concern in the present volume is not with children but women; and in dealing with the effects of maternal alcoholism upon childhood, the main intention is being kept in view. As regards the giving of alcohol to the nursing mother, there is no doubt that the child is more seriously in danger than she is.
He knew some who had dragged along for twenty years in the pursuit of a fame which always escaped them till they sunk into sordidness and alcoholism. Fanny's suicide had aroused memories, and Philip heard ghastly stories of the way in which one person or another had escaped from despair.
It is well established that very many persons, while not actually tainted with such diseases as tuberculosis and alcoholism, are predisposed to yield to their attack. For this reason the scope of eugenic legislation is likely to be extended.
The psychotherapeutic treatment of such drug habits demands much patience and much skillful adjustment to the psychological conditions. Its general difference from the treatment of alcoholism is given by the circumstance that any too rapid withdrawing of the drug is certainly dangerous, if the organism is adjusted to a relatively strong dose.
"While the wound bled profusely it was superficial and did not cause death." His words created a sensation. Men and women looked at each other, then sat forward in their chairs, the better to view the deputy coroner and his chart. "Were there indications of death from extreme alcoholism, then?" questioned the coroner, and his voice sounded unusually loud in the deep silence which prevailed. "No.
My doctor called loudly to a waitress to bring some phosphoglycerate of lime hash, dog-bread, bromo-seltzer pancakes, and nux vomica tea for my repast. Then a sound arose like a sudden wind storm among pine trees. It was produced by every guest in the room whispering loudly, "Neurasthenia!" except one man with a nose, whom I distinctly heard say, "Chronic alcoholism." I hope to meet him again.
You are ignorant about syphilis, just as you probably are ignorant about alcoholism and tuberculosis." "No," exclaimed the other, quickly. "Very well," said the doctor, "I will leave you out, if you wish. I am talking of the others, the five hundred, and I don't know how many more, who are there in the Chamber of Deputies, and who call themselves representatives of the people.
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