COMMON HANGOVER UNDER SURVEY

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 3

COMMON HANGOVER UNDER SURVEY

NEW YORK. A scientific study of the after-effects cvf alcoholic iptoxication — or hangovers — is reported in the quarterly Journal of Alcohol by Giorgi Lolli, M.D., of Yale University. His cases v/ere men and women wlio drank to excess on oceasion to escape from their worries, but who had lost the power to resist this f orm of escape. Dr. Lolli is an assistant professor of anplied physiology and medical director of the Arale Plan Clinic for Alcoholics. jle foun l that during the so-ealled hangover period, when they felt very uncomfortable, these persons were apt to tell facts tthey ordinatily kept secret and which were helpful in aiding their condition. Oue man, Dr. Lolli reported, had a craving for milk after bbcomLig sober. This, the doctor said, seems to be the expression o£ a persistent and unsatisfie.l lqnging for maternal atfection. Dr. Lolli said thethirst aceompanying hangovers seems to be caused mainly liy a shift of water within tissue cells. Water leaves the insides cf the cells and goes int0 the spaces batwen these tiny bits of tissue. The causes of headaches he deelared are uncertain. Livers probably are one eause. Loss of scif-esteem was common in all the hangover patients. Fatigue, sleepiness and stomach disorders were • frequent. Hangovers sometimes caused fiare-ups in illnesses which had become quiescent. ' Dr. Lolli qsserted that tapering otf in diinking is no cure for the troubles >of alcholoism, antl not a good.-way' to -javoid' future intoxicati^i. .*. But he said that, careful 'treatment. of hangover ills is a useful' way to nave alcoholics.