 Desbouvrie received international attention in the press for two unrelated reasons : the bird experiments , and also for a proposal he made to the Paris Academy of Medicine . The Academy published his paper , which declared chronic alcoholism to be a serious public health problem and offered a solution in the form of a claimed cure for hangovers . Desbouvrie hypothesized that the consumption of food which contained an appropriate balance of fat and albumen would prevent hangovers from occurring . He sent the Academy a selection of homemade chocolates along with his manuscript , with assurances that he had tested the concoction extensively upon himself . 
