Show SCIENCE STUDIES ALCOHOL AS HIDDEN DEATH CAUSE few people realize how many persons die every year from rom alcohol or go into insane asylums never to come out agala again dr edward spencer cowles director ot of park avenue hospital in new york city told members of the american association for the advancement of science recently in session in atlantic city N J the actual mortality is as great in my belief it if not greater than irom from cancer he declared accurate statistics stati stis are not available tile the reason for this is that the disease is regarded as a disgrace and the alcoholic takes on some other symptom such as hemorrhage af 0 t the brain delusional insanity or infectious disorder under which his death is recorded nevertheless these patients have died from a diseased brain caused by alcohol d 3 the history of a chronic alcoholics holics case said dr cowles runs as a rule this way 1 I have been drinking to greater or less all tay my life I 1 stood my liquor perfectly until abouo I 1 v ve or ten years asa Re ginning tt at hat tini alcohol madr made me drunk aly whole personality changed I 1 bein began to go on oil ont one debauch after another in it spite of 0 my resolutions my personality would seem to change even a few days before I 1 started to drink I 1 noticed a cunning quality in myself I 1 was restless and excited I 1 felt now that one drink would not trouble me I 1 felt certain I 1 could control dt I 1 would resolve to mark the bottle and to take only two drinks but when I 1 had bad had the two drinks the bottle was not enough I 1 then became lord of all above the law spending my money recklessly ranging from one brothel to another I 1 was violently jealous of my wife suspecting her of this or that however good a woman she might be at first I 1 would go on a debauch only once in three months then every two months and now it Is every week or every other week I 1 have no power to stop it I 1 cannot attend to business regularly I 1 lose one job after another I 1 am losing all my decent friends I 1 am no longer to be depended upon dr di cowles well known tor for his bis research work in the field of psychiatry chi atry summed up his remarks before the association with this conclusion cl it if the medical profession can bo be made to understand that chronic alcoholism is not a moral disease but a brain dise diseases aes there will be less showing oft off in one individual vying with another as to who can drink more inore |