Alcohol intolerance and taste change

Scope and Content

Reprints and offprints of publications on alcohol intolerance and taste/appetite changes by Thurstan Brewin, and articles by others about Brewin’s work.

1. ‘Alcohol Intolerance in Neoplastic Disease’. BMJ, 20 August 1966, 2, 437-441.

2. ‘Alcohol-induced pain in malignant disease’. BMJ, 17 September 1966, 2, 657.

3. ‘Pain and Alcohol’. Letter in the BMJ, 26 November 1966, 2, 1322.

4. ‘Alcohol shift and alcohol dysphagia in Hodgkin’s disease, carcinoma of cervix and other neoplasms’. British Journal of Cancer, 1966, Vol. 20, 688-702.

5. ‘The incidence of alcohol intolerance in women with tumours of the uterus, ovary or breast (Summary)’. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, December 1967, Vol. 60, No. 12, 1308-1309.

6. ‘Annotations: Alcohol shift’. The Lancet, 13 May 1967, 1042.

7. ‘Can a tumour cause the same appetite perversion or taste change as a pregnancy?’. The Lancet, 25 October 1980, 907-908.

8. ‘Appetite perversions and taste changes triggered or abolished by radiotherapy’. Clinical Radiology, 1982, Vol. 33, 471-475.

9. ‘Alkoholintoleranz als möglicher Karzinomhinweis’ [‘Alcohol intolerance as a possible indication of carcinoma’]. Article in German from Medical Tribune with English translation attached.

10. ‘Alcohol linked to pain in cancer patients’. Article from Medical World News, 14 October 1966.

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