280 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. 



PSYCHOPATHIC PATIENTS. 



SUBJECT XI. 



Date. March 24, 1914. 



Family history. Father and mother, English; date of marriage unknown. 

 Three brothers, four sisters. 



Father heavy drinker, often intoxicated; probably drank ale. Mother, 

 moderate drinker; takes ale and porter; never intoxicated. Brothers, mod- 

 erate drinkers; three or four drinks a year. Sisters, very moderate drinkers. 

 Never heard of an habitual use of drugs by any member of the family. No 

 nervous or mental disease or the excessive use of alcohol in the family history 

 was reported. 



Personal data. Age, 51 years; height, 161.3 cm. ; weight, 55.8 kilos. Occu- 

 pation, grocery clerk. Sport, none. 



Education. Common schools from 5 to 11 years. No high school or college 

 education. 



Memory. Excellent for long poetic citations; not good for proper names; 

 indifferent for figures. 



Non-abstainer. Last use, November 1913, drank to excess 7 to 10 days, 

 this leading him to go to the Psychopathic Hospital. At present abstainer, 

 under hospital supervision. Previously took perhaps 2 glasses of whisky and 

 7 glasses of ale a day. Very little affects him very quickly. One glass of ale 

 makes his head dull; feels the effect of one glass of whisky for whole day. 

 When he once begins drinking, continues until intoxicated. 



First noticeable effects: Head dull with ale; whisky makes him talkative. 

 Piequires 3 or 4 glasses of ale to produce a feeling of happiness, but only I 

 glass of whisky. Is not conscious that he is becoming intoxicated until he has 

 reached that state. Drinking causes a flow of ideas; " could make a speech," 

 as words come easily. Does not make him quarrelsome. Does not drink to 

 dull mental or physical pain. Drinking incapacitates him for work; he can 

 not reason, and makes blunders. Produces a feeling of independence, but does 

 not affect morals. Has no appetite after a day's drinking. Ale increases the 

 flow of urine. 



Tea and coffee. Drinks coffee only on Sunday, strong. Tea freely, strong; 

 6 cups a day with no effect. 



Life insurance. Examined, 1912; John Hancock Life Insurance Company; 

 accepted. Examined, also, at the Psychopathic Hospital, to which he has 

 been admitted twice for delirium tremens. 



Physical defects. Left eye has scar on cornea; vision impaired; right eye, 

 ordinary vision. Front teeth bad, preventing clear utterance of words in 

 reaction experiments. 



SUBJECT XII. 



Date. March 31, 1914. 



Family history. Both father and mother mulatto; date of marriage un- 

 known, probably 1849. 



Three brothers, 54, 52, and 37 years; two sisters, 58 and 46 years. 



Father drinks considerable of any kind of liquor, when his work permits; 

 makes him somewhat ugly. Mother total abstainer. Only one brother drinks 

 occasionally, but not affected by it. Sisters, abstainers. No habitual use of 

 drugs by any member of the family or nervous or mental disease in the family 

 history ; no knowledge of excessive use of alcohol in the family history. 



Personal data. Age, 40 years; height, 169.1 cm.; weight, 68.1 kilos. Occu- 

 pation, night watchman, railroad station. Same place for 4 years. Sleeps 

 6 p. m. to 12 midnight; works midnight to 10 a. m. Has worked nights all of 

 his life on Pullman cars. 



