• the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?

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John R. Oughton House

• the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?

Dwight, Illinois

• Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?

Alcohol

• Charles S. Lieber's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused by alcohol, not malnutrition?
• Grunge Lit is an Australian literary genre which features gritty depictions of urban and suburban life revolving around a nihilistic pursuit of sex, drugs and alcohol?
• tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing, along with alcohol, and is banned in many countries?
• Vodka Belt, an informal term for the territory where vodka is the most popular alcoholic beverage, wages a vodka war in support for vodka's traditional ingredients?
• from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?
• the Common Inkcap (pictured), an edible mushroom, contains an Antabuse-like substance which renders it poisonous when consumed with alcohol?

Brooklyn

• physical chemist Jerome Karle won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him the third alumnus of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School to win a Nobel?
• Yale's two-time All-American "Bo" Bomeisler, called "King of the Hard Luck Players," had his foot crushed by a trolley car on Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue in 1914?
• Nkiru Books, the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn, was saved from being closed down by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli in 2000?
• Paul Kodish, best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum, performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini?
• after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?
• an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens?
• before starting her modeling career and appearing on America's Next Top Model, Celia Ammerman lived across from a chicken slaughterhouse in Brooklyn?
• in 1919, Brooklyn's Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, founded by Edward P. Morse, built the world's largest floating dry dock (section pictured)?
• in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant, in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York?
• many works by "Brooklyn's greatest architect", Frank Freeman, have been destroyed, including the Hotel Margaret, Germania Club House, Brooklyn Waterworks, Bushwick Democratic Club House, Brooklyn Savings Bank and Thomas Jefferson Building (pictured)?