Charts, notes and correspondence on taste change and alcohol shift

• Reference:GB 250 120/2/16
• Dates of Creation:c. 1965
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
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• Scope and Content

  Set of charts, notes and related correspondence regarding patients referred to in Thurstan Brewin’s research on taste changes and alcohol shift. Divided into 19 bundles:

  1. BMJ series [i.e. patients referred to in the article rejected by the BMJ]

  2. Assessment of doubtful cases

  3. Alcohol dysphagia (new 1965-66 notes)

  4. Alcohol dysphagia (old records)

  5. Shift (summary up to 13/3/66)

  6. Group A

  7. 2A: Capsules experiments

  8. 2B: Ethics

  9. 3A: Alcohol pain

  10. 3B: Abnormal symptoms other than pain

  11. 4: Special features

  12. Group B

  13. 5B: Group B correspondence

  14. 7A: Attitudes to alcohol

  15. 7B: Failure of doctors to notice it

  16. 8: Incidence in reticulosis (lymphoid) and other neoplasms

  17. 9: Mechanism

  18. 10: What good is it?

  19. Oddities & rejects

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