Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-07
NoNALcoHoLIc MEDITATION.
Results show That whisky Is Not
Necessary Drug.


Necessary Drug.
For several years there has been
large hospital in London in which no al
cohol was used, and the per cent. OF
cures is greater than where it's used.
The Chicago hospital has ponalcohohc
wards with similar records.
For hundreds and thousands Of years
the doctrine has been advanced that al
coholic beverages We're useful as food
and medicine. Owing TO this teaching,
II is evident to every intelligent mind
that the final and decisive battle against
intemperance must be fought IN the
medical profes sion.
Acknowledging the beneficial results
following the various efforts now being
made to suppress the use of alcohol, il is
believed that a still greater advance may
be made By actual demonstration in the
sickroom, proving that alcohol is not a
food. and that its use as an active medic
inal agent is not essential. Looking to
the demonstration Of this fact, the Ma
tional Temperance hospital has been Or
gained and established in the city OF
Chicago
The following may be recognized as
the basic principles upon which the IN
stitution is established and upon which
it expects to rest and win fame through
the coming years:
First Alcohol is poison.
Second When taken into the system
the greater portion of il is not com
busted. but eliminated in its normal con
dition through the various organs of ex-
erection.
Third-ln its passage through the
system it destroys the tissues Of various
organs by coagulating the albumen and
absorbing the water.
Fourth-It lowers the temperature by
disturbing the physiological and chem
zeal processes Of the body.
Fiftb-It lessons the amount Of carbon
dioxide czcreted By the lungs, thereby
loading the system with this poison and
giving rise to various pathological proc
esses.
Sixth--lt diininisies the power to with
stand extreme heat on cold.
Seventh-lt weakens the power of the
heart and paraly2es the entire vase
motor nervous system.
Eighth-By its interference with the
normal functions of the various organs
it lessons the power Of the human body
to withstand disease.
Ninth 1T does not strengthen orstim-
ulate, but depresses and diminishes the
capacity for mental and physical exer-
ton.
Tenth-There is no disease affecting
the human body but what may be more
successfully treated without the use Of
alcohol than with it.
Through daily observations made al
the bedside it is being satisfactorily dem
onstrated that all of the various diseases
for which alcohol has been considered
for many years the most important
therapeutic agent recover more readily
without it. In typhoid fever. typhus
fever, diphtheria and many other dis
eases in which the action of the heart
grows feeble we find the circulation
strengthened by such remedies as car
Donate of ammonia. aromatic spirits of
ammonia. digitalis, caffeine, cactus
grandiflora and other remedies far more
efficiently than by using alcohol.
The object of the National Temper
ance hospital is to elucidate these prin-
ciples and demonstrate to the world the
scientific fact that alcohol is not neces-
sary as food or medicine. Charles q.
Davis. II. d., Chairman STAFF of Allo-
pathic Physicians.