Wednesday, November 29, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Schwegler explains the hangover
By Rea Wilson Kansan Staff Reporter
The morning after the night before, W. C. Fields once sadly lamented, "I feel as though midgets with muddy feet have been walking over my tongue all night."
Your problem may not be midgets. It may simply be an invisible cymbal player awakening you or elastic limbs that refuse to function as they did the day before. Whatever the symptom, if it occurs on an abnormally bright morning following an unusually hazy evening, it is one of mankind's worst natural enemies: the hangover.
The only "positive cure" for this malady, according to Dr. Raymond Schwesler, health service director, is time.
"There are other suggested
remedies such as tomato juice," he said, "but they're really not effective."
Schweegler said a hangover is simply the recovery phase from having consumed too much alcohol. "Although I'm not sure, I believe it results from fluid retention in the nervous system," he said.
The hangover is a result of heavy consumption of alcohol, which acts on the human body as a dilute anesthetic. This anesthetic usually results in a loss of the normal inhibitions and controls exerted over the body.
When consumption is pressed to the extreme, it reaches the toxic level. The toxicity may cause changes in body chemistry. Schwegler said.
Under certain conditions, death could result, he added.
The level of toxicity varies with the size of the individual. small person is more likely to be affected by alcohol than a large person, Schwegler said.
Alcohol also distorts a person's judgment which can lead to accidents. Schwegler said.
"Some people become quiet, some ugly, and others become loud and boisterous," he said.
A person's reaction to alcohol is dictated by his personality, Schwegler said.
At KU, Schwegler has found that accidents due to alcohol occur in greater numbers on Friday nights.
"I don't know why there should be more petty accidents caused by alcohol on Friday nights than on Satdays, or Sundays, for that matter."
"Of course, there are no cases
McCarthy called a 'boomer'
Editor's note: Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota acknowledges there is practically no chance he can wrest the Democratic nomination from President Johnson next year. Furthermore, he says he does not want to be president. But he is expected to announce his candidacy Thursday in a direct challenge to the President's Vietnam policy. In the following dispatch, a veteran UPI correspondent examines some of his motives.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—It has been said of Eugene J. McCarthy that he is different, gentle, sincere, lazy, ambitious, cynical, vain, brooding, intellectual and studious.
By Arnold B. Sawislak
One of his top aides can reel
off a list from memory of all the adjectives that have been used to explain why the senator planned to challenge President Johnson for the Democratic nomination. The aide calls it a conspiracy of adjectives, and suggests newsmen try a few nouns and verbs for a change.
The noun that should be selected is "boomer." It is defined in the crescent dictionary of American politics as "one who takes long chances in politics."
McCarthy the boomer should know. He wrote the book.
Since he left school teaching for Congress 20 years ago, McCarthy has faced countless political risks. But nothing the 51-year-
McCarthy is expected to announce his candidacy Thursday and disclose which of the four or five state presidential primaries he plans to enter. His entry in a race he does not particularly want to win is designed, he says, to force basic changes in Johnson's Vietnam policy by proving that an important segment of the electorate is in dissent.
old Minnesota senator has done compares with his intention to oppose Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1968 presidential nomination.
The senator is not peddling a "McCarthy plan to end the war."
Force policy change
of alcoholism on this campus to my knowledge." Schweigler said. "The youngsters haven't had enough time yet."
See McCarthy, page 14
As author John Young once said, "The morning after may be hell, but the night before was usually worth it."
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