Low Alcoholic Beers

Clifford Beers

A great reformer has passed on. Clifford Whittingham Beers died on July 9th, 1943, at Providence, U.S.A., but his fine enthusiastic and farseeing spirit has left behind it work which persists and grows. At a time when such ideas as his were regarded as almost too progressive, and, in some quarters indeed, as subversive and revolutionary, he, a recovered patient, demonstrated the value of indivi...

2012 Beers Criteria.

Low dose amiodarone causing pseudo-alcoholic cirrhosis.

Amiodarone is a commonly used anti-arrhythmic in elderly patients. Abnormal liver function is frequently reported with its use but clinically symptomatic disease is rare. Hepatomegaly, cholestasis, acute hepatitis and rarely fulminant liver failure have been recorded [1, 2], however amiodarone toxicity presenting with cirrhosis is exceedingly rare. Toxic effects of amiodarone are well described...

Some Country Beers of India

savage have made use of intoxicating drinks of some kind from time immemorial. Modern research has established the fact that alcoholic beverages were prepared from cereals by the Babylonians about 4,000 B.C. and ancient explorers have dilated upon the wonderful skill ?f man which enabled him to turn barley into wine. Primitive man in his progress towards civilization first developed the art of ...

Sinking Bubbles in Stout Beers

9 A surprising phenomenon witnessed by many is the sinking bubbles seen in a settling pint of 10 stout beer. Bubbles are less dense than the surrounding fluid so how does this happen? Previous 11 work has shown that the explanation lies in a circulation of fluid promoted by the tilted sides of the 12 glass. However, this work has relied heavily on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations....