Abstract

IN all toxic states, the prompt removal of the toxic agent must be the prime consideration in therapy, with the counteracting of its toxic effects and the restoration of impaired organs and their functions as secondary although vital factors. In the treatment of acute alcoholism, rapid elimination of alcohol is important, not only from the point of view of the patient's physical well-being but also for the psychologic implications, in getting him as quickly as possible through the difficult period in which he has not enough alcohol to render him emotionally analgesic, yet too much to permit clear intellectual functioning . . .

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