Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-03-12
TEMPERANCE LAWS.
Relation Of The Medical Profession 10
Such legislation.
PAPER by DR.. AUSTIN ABBOTT
Recommendation TO Eutrust tho sale
Of Intoxicauls to Medical
Supervision.

NEW YoHE, March ia psper
was read last evening by Dr. Austin
Abbot,, before tho sJoloiy Uf medical
iuuspudence at the academy Of m1ii.
cino, On the rotation OF the medical
profession 70 temperance lcglslaIiou.
Neither society Or medical science,
b. Abbott sail, was agreed ~ t.
whether, Or not inoUroiy should be
treated NJ D diseAsr, but VA spite Of
these differences o. opinion Il was
generally admitted inebrioly could to
come extent 10 treated ~ tugh.
starting on this hypothesis, be said
that there were four things whluu
uOiu mvudrd themselves ~ the attou'
ton o. tuo public ami 81 islhturb'
Flui--Ino entire administration OF
law regulating tue sale OF iHIox .cants
should DO committed JIrsci'y % mcdl.
cal care. Muu arfeit.1 fOr drunken.
ness should, instead % urlug punished
! al oucc, IRA, DO turned over o. medical
caro- 90 4ulrfmluo whether hts ease was
one calling i0f treatment as disvadg
ur uOD
Stclus-rhu whole tram OF iutaxl.
cans ought 90 be- submitted 90 medical
suYsfvHiol, chat ndultcgsilUu aud flls.-
hcau4n might be- prevented.
IhtTd-Iuu education % tue people
In The proper uas Ui iutJAieau,B should
| DO auhul .tDl % medical guidance.
Fourth ahs method 90 GALS ought
| 10 be- sldu1 by whatever Information
medical science Was Ab.o 10 give on the
| subject.
Dr.. Abbott saii ho dlI not propo,o 10
| 90 into thu question i.Um attmIgfaurU
VI "a moral standpoint, but BIO believed
| VA HuumlB lou 90 medical science uu
| the lii 60 sinus submitted opened up "a
| now field Tor medical attention, Moral
| aud legal suuaiun uai been tried HJ
| often anu repeatedly that thsir tiiuCi
| was July uudOfttoul. IL was admitted
| that much treatment TO remedy the
| evil OF iuuUr.oly was NECESSARY and 10
was but fair 10 give medical tuasi0n a
| chance.
Tho ifst step which might Do taken,
/ 10 the stopping OF oil aluiloNtOus, AuJ
/ the prevention OF the sale OF patent
medicines That afo but adullufatod IN.
| tOElsnutu. IL was In the Interest OF
lau0flng people 10 promote m Iteration
In the ute Of liquor, but thelr grcal
! jim 1uliy WAS tue tendency Of the
wUtEingtolasaes like 0thrrt 10 over
| Indulgence. Tho Gauss which made a
mao a dtunkard, ho said, called tor
sclent iic investigation anu 10 was the
| Opiuiou that both crime aud iuubnuty
would bret be submitted 10 science 10
| determine 10 they, Ia individual cafol,
Ut least, were not really diseased.
Medical science, he added, ought q
| determine when OF this four principal
methods Of regulating the traffic Of
liquor was preferable, lioBusing, tax
without further restrictions, prohibit.
ton Or government monopoly.
He thought however, ho might
venture u say that muuiCal super
vislUn would not loai 10 Prohibition.
By c0nsunliug TO tho regulation Of
the liquor sale on these lines he tald
tue irhnio would be laRrn 0ut OF uoI-
tics anu a moro wholusOmc method
| substituted aud II was tho cuurbnEus Of
medical opinion that the traffic would
/ DO conducted iu such a way D. would
DO 10 Iho best iuterc't gf the public.