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Preliminary Report on Chronic Alcoholics

Dorothy Wolff, PhD; Milton Gross, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1968;87(4):350-358.

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THE Psychiatric Department of the Downstate Medical Center of the State University Medical School at Brooklyn, NY, has instituted a project for the rehabilitation of alcoholics. Since 1959 there has been a clinical study of the nature of alcoholic psychoses, conducted within the Alcoholism Division of the Psychiatric Department.

The manifest loss of equilibrium in alcoholics is common knowledge. Intoxicated persons frequently complain of epistaxis. They also complain of "fullness of the ears." However, evidence gathered from the clinical study shows that during acute alcoholic intoxication, not only are there disturbances of gait but also disturbances of the auditory system, including auditory hallucinations. Several cases of reversible sensorineural hearing loss which appear to be related to toxicity have been observed. A high incidence of tinnitus has also been reported. This is transient and apparently associated with the peak of toxicity. There were indications that a specific toxic effect had occurred . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Otolaryngology Division of the Department of Surgery, and the Alcoholism Division of the Department of Psychiatry, the Downstate Medical Center, State University, Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Wolff is retired.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 21, 1967.

Read before the Central American Medical Congress, Panama, 1965, and presented as an exhibit at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Medical Society, 1964.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (Dr. Gross).

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