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JAMA. 1970;214(3):584-585.

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Time is a Great Healer, as everyone knows. Yet, one may ask, if this be so, does time-healing serve the individual only, or are there more generalized benefits? What careful insight might be drawn from a moment's peek at the evidence an interval provides as to shift in emphasis, change in belief, and reduction or expansion of medical interest or concern?

Seventy-five years ago, as today, writers expressed in THE JOURNAL concern about use of alcohol, population, hereditary "impressions," and the status of women in the work force.¹ The interim, although insufficient to overcome alcoholism, has placed us in hot pursuit of heredity-related problems and has provided new labels for other concerns (Women's Lib, Population Explosion).

The report that shrunken brain cells result from use of "alcoholic tonics" has apparently not affected the alcoholism problem markedly, despite the interval given for the broadcast of this intelligence. And today's cliché . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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