The Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol published several early writings on alcoholism with comments by prominent scholars of the field from 1941 to 1946. Collected in a single, currently hard-to-find volume entitled Classics of the Alcohol Literature, it is the primary source of many seminal articles related to Alcohol Studies. According to the introduction to the reprints:
There are some "firsts" in the alcohol literature which are known to many students of alcoholism only by a few sentences handed down from one textbook to another. A few early descriptions of the complications of chronic alcoholism, first attempts at experimental solutions, first allusions to seemingly modern theories, may be read even today with definite profit. If nothing else, their perusal will show how little or how much we have progressed in certain fields of research in alcoholism.
In order to facilitate access to these writings, of which, in some instances, only one copy exists in this country, the quarterly journal of studies on alcohol, beginning with this issue, will reprint a selection of the most interesting "firsts.” Brief papers will be reprinted in extenso, while larger ones will be culled for their most pertinent parts. The various selections will be annotated by authorities in the relevant field. Should interest warrant, the reprints will later be gathered into a small volume.
Source: Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 2, No. 1, June, 1941.