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240 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL • March, 1946 BULLETIN BOARD CONTINUED FROM PAGE 235 The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol Despite an increasing realization that alcoholism is an illness, rather than a moral offense, and that it ranks among our greatest public health problems, "in most local communities, the only public institution willing to accept an alcoholic is the jail." This and other facts are revealed by The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol in a report just published, "The Scientific Approach to Chronic Alcoholism." The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and located at 60 East 42 Street, New York City, is headed by Dr. Anton J. Carlson, President and Scientific Director. The report just issued deals (1) with the problem of alcoholism and the remedy, (2) with the Council's program, its progress and resources, and (3) with general progress being made throughout the United States. In analyzing the problem, the Council states that of the 50,000,000 persons in the United States who use alcoholic beverages, approximately six per cent become excessive drinkers and of this number 25 per cent become alcoholics. This makes a total of one and a half per cent of all drinkers, or some 750,000 who become alcoholics. Ignorance regarding the problem of alcoholism and lack of funds hinder the development of remedial measures. While annual contributions per case to voluntary health agencies for research, treatment and education total but 37 cents for alcoholism, $94 per case has been given for infantile paralysis and $22 for tuberculosis. Annual appropriations and contributions to official and voluntary agencies for work with alcoholics (not including emergency care in city hospitals and jails) totals about $500,000 compared with $130,000,000 to $160,000,000 for tuberculosis and $16,000,000 to $19,000,000 for infantile paralysis. As to the remedy, the Council proposes greatly expanded research on the nature and treatment of alcoholism, the personality of the alcoholic and related subjects. It also recommends the development of more adequate hospital facilities, increased education, together with industrial and legal controls. Various reports on the Council's research program are available to doctors, scientists, and other interested persons. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Dental care for 1,300,000 displaced persons in camps in Germany, Austria and the Middle East is now available, according to a statement issued in Vienna by Lt. Col. George A. Nevitt, chief dental consultant at United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's London Headquarters. This basic treatment consists of extraction, fillings, treatment of diseases of the mouth and replacement of missing teeth. Colonel Nevitt expressed surprise at finding a better average dental condition among victims of concentration camps and former slave labour than among the general German population. He attributes this to the absence of sugar in the diet. Landmark in Public Health June 30 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in the United States, the first of its kind in the world, a landmark in the history of public health. Wild Ginger Being Studied as Bactericidal Agent Wild ginger (Asarum Canadense), a plant abundant in woods from New Brunswick to Manitoba in Canada and as far south as North Carolina, Missouri and Kansas, produces bactericidal agents "as active as penicillin on some organisms," according to studies being made in the research laboratories of the Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc. Dr. C. J. Cavallito and Dr. John Hays Bailey reported on the physical properties and antibacterial substances of the plant in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (March, 1946). The experiments are continuing, since only small quantities of the plant have as yet been obtained and the actual therapeutic value is yet to be determined. Lederle Laboratories Announces the Availability of Limited Amounts of Folvite* (folic acid) Limited amounts of FOLVITE (folic acid), newest member of the vitamin B complex group, have been made available to the general medical profession by Lederle Laboratories, Inc., Pearl River, N. Y., following a series of clinical trials which proved the material to have a dramatic anti-anemic effect in nutritional macrocytic anemia, and the macrocytic anemias of sprue, pellagra, and pregnancy. ♦Trademark "Studies in Human Fertility—Methods for the Control of Conception," is the title of a sound film which is available without charge to medical groups. The running time is 45 minutes. Interest in the film is evidenced by the fact that it has had 1,700 request showings and been viewed by 70,000 doctors, nurses and medical students. According to the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, arrangements can be made to have "Studies in Human Fertility" shown, without charge, to any size audience, providing it is an accredited medical group. Requests should be addressed to the Film Division, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Linden, N. J. ^^ For Skj, Nervous, Retarded Ckildren Year round private home and school for girls and boys of any age on pleasant 160 acre farm near Charlottesville. Individual training and care, expert teachers. Limited enrollment, amusements, special diets, medical care if necessary. Entrance made at any time. Write for Booklet. Mrs. J. B<3 scorn Thompson, Principal THE THOMPSON HOMESTEAD SCHOOL Free Union, Virginia £^
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-17: North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1946 |
Identifier | NCHH-17-007 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 7 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1946 |
Identifier | NCHH-17-007-0250 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; all images; advertisement; organizational news |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 7 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 240 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 240 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL • March, 1946 BULLETIN BOARD CONTINUED FROM PAGE 235 The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol Despite an increasing realization that alcoholism is an illness, rather than a moral offense, and that it ranks among our greatest public health problems, "in most local communities, the only public institution willing to accept an alcoholic is the jail." This and other facts are revealed by The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol in a report just published, "The Scientific Approach to Chronic Alcoholism." The Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and located at 60 East 42 Street, New York City, is headed by Dr. Anton J. Carlson, President and Scientific Director. The report just issued deals (1) with the problem of alcoholism and the remedy, (2) with the Council's program, its progress and resources, and (3) with general progress being made throughout the United States. In analyzing the problem, the Council states that of the 50,000,000 persons in the United States who use alcoholic beverages, approximately six per cent become excessive drinkers and of this number 25 per cent become alcoholics. This makes a total of one and a half per cent of all drinkers, or some 750,000 who become alcoholics. Ignorance regarding the problem of alcoholism and lack of funds hinder the development of remedial measures. While annual contributions per case to voluntary health agencies for research, treatment and education total but 37 cents for alcoholism, $94 per case has been given for infantile paralysis and $22 for tuberculosis. Annual appropriations and contributions to official and voluntary agencies for work with alcoholics (not including emergency care in city hospitals and jails) totals about $500,000 compared with $130,000,000 to $160,000,000 for tuberculosis and $16,000,000 to $19,000,000 for infantile paralysis. As to the remedy, the Council proposes greatly expanded research on the nature and treatment of alcoholism, the personality of the alcoholic and related subjects. It also recommends the development of more adequate hospital facilities, increased education, together with industrial and legal controls. Various reports on the Council's research program are available to doctors, scientists, and other interested persons. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Dental care for 1,300,000 displaced persons in camps in Germany, Austria and the Middle East is now available, according to a statement issued in Vienna by Lt. Col. George A. Nevitt, chief dental consultant at United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's London Headquarters. This basic treatment consists of extraction, fillings, treatment of diseases of the mouth and replacement of missing teeth. Colonel Nevitt expressed surprise at finding a better average dental condition among victims of concentration camps and former slave labour than among the general German population. He attributes this to the absence of sugar in the diet. Landmark in Public Health June 30 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in the United States, the first of its kind in the world, a landmark in the history of public health. Wild Ginger Being Studied as Bactericidal Agent Wild ginger (Asarum Canadense), a plant abundant in woods from New Brunswick to Manitoba in Canada and as far south as North Carolina, Missouri and Kansas, produces bactericidal agents "as active as penicillin on some organisms" according to studies being made in the research laboratories of the Winthrop Chemical Company, Inc. Dr. C. J. Cavallito and Dr. John Hays Bailey reported on the physical properties and antibacterial substances of the plant in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (March, 1946). The experiments are continuing, since only small quantities of the plant have as yet been obtained and the actual therapeutic value is yet to be determined. Lederle Laboratories Announces the Availability of Limited Amounts of Folvite* (folic acid) Limited amounts of FOLVITE (folic acid), newest member of the vitamin B complex group, have been made available to the general medical profession by Lederle Laboratories, Inc., Pearl River, N. Y., following a series of clinical trials which proved the material to have a dramatic anti-anemic effect in nutritional macrocytic anemia, and the macrocytic anemias of sprue, pellagra, and pregnancy. ♦Trademark "Studies in Human Fertility—Methods for the Control of Conception" is the title of a sound film which is available without charge to medical groups. The running time is 45 minutes. Interest in the film is evidenced by the fact that it has had 1,700 request showings and been viewed by 70,000 doctors, nurses and medical students. According to the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, arrangements can be made to have "Studies in Human Fertility" shown, without charge, to any size audience, providing it is an accredited medical group. Requests should be addressed to the Film Division, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Linden, N. J. ^^ For Skj, Nervous, Retarded Ckildren Year round private home and school for girls and boys of any age on pleasant 160 acre farm near Charlottesville. Individual training and care, expert teachers. Limited enrollment, amusements, special diets, medical care if necessary. Entrance made at any time. Write for Booklet. Mrs. J. B<3 scorn Thompson, Principal THE THOMPSON HOMESTEAD SCHOOL Free Union, Virginia £^ |
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