The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-10-04

DR.. n. s. Davis, president of the recent
International medical congress at Wash
mgton, and ex-president of the Ameri-
TAN Medical association, says: 81 deem
Alcohol most dangerous medicine--so
dangerous, in fact, that it should not be
given when a substitute can he found for
It. In 30 years | have not prescribed it,
tot because it cannot be prescribed at
Zines with advantage, but because it can
be substituted by other medicines which
IRE not so dangerous in their habit form
hg effects"
The London Lancet, a medical journal
Df the highest authority, the greatest
tmong the medical journals of England,
If not of the world, says in substance
that the use of alcohol is so fraught with
Hanger because of the liquor habit tLtt
may follow it's use that it should be pre-
scrbed byphysicians with great caution.
DR.. Benjamin Ward Richardson Of
London, fellow of the Royal College Of
Physicians and one of the most eminent
doctors throughout the world, says: II
prescribe alcohol purely as chemical,
medical substance, in its purest form,
In precise doses, in definite order of time,
| hs l have prescribed amyl nitric or
ehloroform or ether"
DIR. James O'Reilly, PAT West Forty
ninth street, New York, a graduate of
the University of Vermont, says that
whisky is safe remedy only in the
hands of the competent physician. 1t is
very rare case in which there is no
danger in administering alcohol to in
fants. 1t is a crime to trust the people
of crowded tenements with the admins
tration of Il poison so tempting to de-
PRAYED appetites. 1t should never be
administered by mother or nurse ex-
cept under medical advice There is al
ways danger of arousing an alcoholic
appetite in a child. AS there are safe
remedies to meet the cases in point, this
rule should be rescinded at once. This
Is his judgment after an extensive prac-
tice of 40 years among the working
classes.
DIR. j. West Roosevelt, 80 East Thirty
first street, New York, visiting physician
ut Bellevue hospital and attending ply
stefan at the Roosevelt hospital and
member of Medical Society of the
County of New York, says that whisky
Is a remedy, unquestionably, not to be
administered to an infant without medi-
ical knowledge, for there is too great
danger of injurious results.
DR.. Clarence Beebe says that whisky
Is not a safe remedy in the hands of the
ignorant, and that there is great and
positive danger that injurious effects
may be produced. 1t should never be
administered without medical training.
He thinks that there is danger of awak-
ening the appetite for liquor.
That eminent New York physician, DR..
Willard Parker, the authority of whose
utterances in his own sphere while liv-
ing few physicians would dare question,
in his Introduction to DR., Richardson's
Lectures on Alcohol, +" declares that sta
tistics show that 10 per cent of the an
hual number of deaths in this country
are due to alcohol this inclusive of
course, of hereditary effects, so fatal to
children. And DR.. Parker adds that IS
per cent of insanity is due to the same
cause, and that As per cent of idiots are
the offspring of parents vitiated by drink
How awful these figures! What pesti-
lence should be so feared and guarded
against as the cause of such awful in
juries to health? The death rate for a
year in New York city is 10000. Then,
according to DR.. Parker, 5000 deaths
are attributable to the germs of diseases
sown by the liquor habit.