A reprint from July 1948’s Hygea Magazine, published by the AMA. A Chicago pamphlet. “To some of us the word “alcoholic” presented a problem almost as great as our abnormal drinking. Our picture of the alcoholic: The stumbling creature of the skid roads of our bigger cities; the town drunkard, half clown, half bogy man, of our smaller communities; or the hapless, hopeless, desperate “repeater” of the state and private hospitals, the “cures”, the workhouses.”