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July 1972

A History of Horrors

Since the days of the Deluge man has recorded his treatments and his 'cures' for the disease of alcoholism

WITH EXTENDED PALMS and without hope for an answer, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, asked a question: "Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?" The shadows from the oil lamp danced on the dirt floor. In the corner of the cell, the drunk lay in his own vomit. In six hours, he would be in the snake pit. The place was Greece. The time was 400 BC.

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