Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the RemedyTowns, Charles Barnes
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Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy
Towns, Charles Barnes
Alcoholism; Opium abuse -- United States; Tobacco use
Well, one may suppose what he likes, but the truth is that I urge every
city and State to establish places that will drive me out of business. I
urge physicians to take up this treatment and cure their own colleagues. I
have no secrets. My methods have been published, and I am now devoting
most of my time to legislative work from which I do not profit a cent.
APPENDIX
THE RELATION OF ALCOHOL TO DISEASE
BY ALEXANDER LAMBERT, M.D.
Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital; Professor of Clinical
Medicine, Cornell University
Author of "Hope for the Victims of Narcotics"
In the simple heading of the subject-matter of this article there are
contained such possibilities of facts and fancies, truths and errors, and
wide differences of opinion, that it seems wise to define not only its
meaning, but some of the words themselves. What is disease? To many people
it is a definite, concrete thing which seizes one in its clutches, holds
one captive or possesses one for a second time, and then if overcome
releases its grip and one is free and in good health again. But disease is
not an entity, even though some agents, as bacteria, are living organisms.
It is the lack of some processes which these agents overcome, and others
which they set in motion, as manifested by disturbances of various
functions of different organs in the body that make up some of our
diseases. Our bodies are often in a state of delicate equilibrium, and if
some one gland fails to secrete, or secretes too abundantly, the resulting
condition may become a disease. As health is a harmonious relationship
between the various functions of different parts of the body, so disease
is a disturbance of this harmony. The question of the relation of alcohol
to disease becomes a question as to whether or not this narcotic if taken
into the body can react on the various tissues and organs of the body to
such a degree as to disturb the equilibrium of health. And, furthermore,
can this disturbance of healthy equilibrium be permanent and the body
acquire a lasting diseased condition?
HOW IT AFFECTS DIFFERENT MEN
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