Charms of Alcohol

I have finished this book. It will appear in Amazon's books.
This is an introduction to my book on alcohol. 

It is too early for such an endeavor and since I am not going to write a book about our dog Zimba, this would entertain the changes that Zimba has inculcated in me while he was alive and long after its departure.

I say he deserved to be in heaven and little reflection of my life in brief for posterity.

This coincided with, when I decided to not to register as a medically qualified man in the Ceylon Medical Council for over two decades. The reason of that decision has no bearing to this little book.

An autobiography written after the demise of the subject has many missing points and add a lot of exaggerations and delete bad things.

This book does not entertain the type of exception and poshumous examination.

This include all.

Good, Bad and the Ugly.

I tried to find a Clinical Pharmacology book by Lawrence et all, from which I got the basic knowledge of clinical effects of alcohol but could not find a single copy published in late nineteen sixties.

Then I found a book on Clinical Chemistry by Calbreath and that gave a real scientific introduction, including its manufacture and adulteration. I gave up drinking local alcohol due to its adulteration since independence and went for only imported alcohol and very lately to wine. I never enjoyed beer but local Gin and Tonic was my favorite before a billiard or snooker game. I never realized I was getting addicted to even in small doses, including alcohol inside chocolates.

I have weaned myself off, after a decade of trial and effort. 

I never had the insight, I am becoming addicted and the that is the first critical faculty I lost. 

I have never been able to cure any person from alcohol addiction and since I am writing this as a non medical person, I took the liberty use the the title "Charms of Alcohol" not to entice a person who has never tried alcohol but to make it readable like a novel.

I was heavy smoker and I could stop it abruptly, since it affected my physical performance and activities in sports. That effort made me to realize one day, I can stop my addiction clinically not obvious to even my close ones.

Simply, I was a nice guy after alcohol.

I would not have realized bad habits, I have acquired as an adult including violent temper, if not for the reason of enjoying a bit of alcohol.

I do not believe that it brings worse on anybody, it only exposes one's hidden genetic tendencies.

Please do not blame alcohol.

It is the second discovery of man in evolution, after honey.

The fundamental biological agent, the yeast was the starter for the bread industry but it branched much bigger to alcohol industry.

Even Buddhist monks consume it, in Dasa Mula (ten root causes) Aristaya and the Fifth Precept in Buddhism is Mujja Pama Dhattna.

It means little bit is OK and I have not fathomed how little is little bit!