The Journal of Advanced Therapeutics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and in extreme cases, a certain amount of physical exercise taken night and morning. PSYCHO-THERAPY. EDITED BY LESLIE MEACHAM, M. D. Remarks on the Psychic Effects of Inebriety. By J. Madison Taylor, in The Monthly Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine. The conditions of inebriety which are met by the physician...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and in extreme cases, a certain amount of physical exercise taken night and morning. PSYCHO-THERAPY. EDITED BY LESLIE MEACHAM, M. D. Remarks on the Psychic Effects of Inebriety. By J. Madison Taylor, in The Monthly Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine. The conditions of inebriety which are met by the physician are direct and indirect. The direct are of two kinds, the effects of steady drunkenness, and occasional excessive use. The indirect are of even greater importance and where the disastrous effects are only fully recognized after a cure is effected. The handling of these latter cases is always problematical. Eternal vigilance and long continued persuasive efforts are necessary. Often the individual does not aid, but even resists advice and treatment. The physician is discouraged because he does not see prospects commensurate with the trouble, labor, and annoyance to himself. There are in some of these cases instances of exceptional mental powers. One case cited is that of an extremely brilliant woman, who had become addicted first to cigarettism, then to morphine, and finally to alcohol. Morphine increased her mental and creative power. Alcohol completely destroyed it. Though entirely freed for three months from all drugs, she deliberately resumed the use of morphine, because she was unable to shine intellectually without it. Another case is that of a lawyer of exceptional qualities who became depressed from the effects of continued use of alcohol, though his general health was unimpaired. He would not admit that this resulted from alcohol and only gave up its use when assured that his liver would be affected. There followed an extraordinary change in mentality. He found himself eager to undertake new and difficult problems. He acquired almost instantly, a wider...