Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why: What Medical Writers SayAllen, Martha Meir
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Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why: What Medical Writers Say
Allen, Martha Meir
Alcohol -- Physiological effect; Temperance
"I do not think you will meet with very many physicians who
favor alcohol and its use. I believe the trend of the teaching
in the Albany Medical College is that alcohol is not a food or
stimulant."--DR. A. VANDER VEER, Albany, N. Y., Medical School.
"I think the medical profession could get along perfectly well
without the use of alcohol, except as it is needed in the
manufacture of drugs. As a therapeutic agent, it has very little
value. I do not suppose I have used a pint of alcohol in the
last ten years. I think the tendency of the medical profession
throughout the country is to give up alcohol in the treatment of
disease."--DR. MATTHEW D. MANN, Dean of the Medical Department
of the University of Buffalo, N. Y.
"I very seldom prescribe alcohol as a medicine, and think its
effects are positively harmful in the vast majority of medical
cases."--DR. ALLEN A. JONES, Adjunct Professor of Medicine,
Buffalo, N. Y.
"At the Baptist Hospital I have not ordered alcohol for a
patient in several years. At the Massachusetts General Hospital,
in the out-patient department, I never prescribe it."--DR.
RICHARD BADGER, of Harvard Medical School, Boston.
"Alcohol is used much too freely in the treatment of the sick,
especially in such conditions as mild typhoid fever,
neurasthenia and early tuberculosis. It should be prescribed
only when there is definite indication for it, and then in
definite dose for a limited period in the same manner as any
other powerful and potentially harmful drug."--DR. S. S. COHEN,
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
"It is seldom necessary to prescribe alcohol as a
medicine."--DR. JAMES B. HERRICK, Professor of Medicine in Rush
Medical College, Chicago.
"As I have said but little about the use of medicine in the
treatment of typhoid fever, save for one symptom, I may add, for
the purpose of definiteness, that I use none except for special
symptoms. The rare exceptions are stimulants such as strychnia,
in less marked indications coffee. Alcohol as a routine drug I
have entirely abandoned, having found that the doses formerly
given before or after the bath are altogether unnecessary. Hot
milk internally, or hot water bags externally, more than replace
spirits according to my experience."--DR. GEORGE DOCK, New
Orleans.
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