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Committee on Problems of Alcohol A Report of Its Activities From 1949 to 1955, the Research Work It Has Supported and the Place of This Work in the Field of Alcoholism (1956) / Chapter Skim
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V. PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL
Pages 12-13

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... He has been able, in a few individual wild rats only, to produce a large and eventually fatal appetite for alcohol solutions by making the rats drink a 20$ alcohol solution for a long period of time in order to get drinking water. .When again given access to straight water, a few of these animals continued drinking alcohol by preference, stopped eating, and eventually died.
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... He found some evidence of .Impecired adrenal function'in'about one-third of..'a large group of chronic alcoholics and evidences of pituitary malfunction in a.bout another third. In addition, he'felt that certain physical .:findings 'frequently; -found'"•'• ifl chronic alcoholics could be related to partial adrenal insufficiency '6r•:' '-: other hormonal imbalanoe; ' /' •'••••" ' •.
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