Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10
Paper Read by Mrs. s. Estey at W. C. I. U
Institute at Edgewood.
[Continued from last Week. !

ed.
DR.. II. d. Didama, of Syracuse, said,
that although he used alcohol in his
practice formerly, he had not in the
past few years given the equivalent of
q teaspoonfull of alcohol to all of his
patients put together and he had been
thoroughly satisfied with the change.
DR.. w. S. Davis, man high among
the medical men of Chicago said, he
had never found in all his long practice
q case of disease, or an emergency aris-
ing from accident that he could not
treat more successfully without any
form of distilled or fermented liquors
than with them.
DR.. Willard said, when the people un-
derstand what alcohol is and what it
does they will put it out Of existence.
Alcohol vitiates the blood, inflames
the stomach, oyertaxes the heart, de-
stroys the kidneys, hardens the liver
and softens the brain,-Dr. Nurmar
Kerr.
Charles q. Davis, of Chicago, says.
let US medical men and women look
deeply into the scientific aspect of the
question. II the United States would
rule the world. il she would whiten the
seas with her ships of commerce, if she
would extend her intellectual realm till
her voice is law in the capitols of the
distant Orient then let her for two gen.
erations abandon the use of alcohol and
she can realize her ambition.
In their early knowledge of this sub.
Ject the medical fraternity are greatly
indebted to the bullet which entered
the stomach of Alex. st. Martin, the
French soldier, leaving an aperarture
when 1t healed through which the
workings of that organ could be stud
led both in normal condition and
when inflamed by the use of alcohol.
These testimonies as to the evil eff
fects of alcohol in medicine come from
England, Scotland, Ireland and the
great cities of our own land and If
time would permit like evidence could
be given from every civalized country
In the world.
The true method of treating disease,
and the one followed almost entire.
ly by the best sanitariums, is to give
the patient the most healthful surround
ings and only the food and drink, they
can digest and assimilate, that the
blood may be enriched and the germs
of disease expelled.
The use of alcohol defeats this meth
cd by in1aming the coating of the
stomach SO it cannot perform its legiti-
mate work and innutrition to a greater
or lesser degree follows.
A doctor said to me once, that all
drugs were good for, was to tide over
an emergency and that health must
come from the use of good food.
Warnings are constantly being sounded to
those who use liquor as beverage, but 1t
should be borne In mind when used as midi
cine Il is still more harmful, as the body when
weakened by diseaseis less able to throw of
Its bad effects.
Think OF the utter foolishness of giving 1t in
consumption and kindred diseases where the
pulse Is rapid and the temperature is much
above normal, its only effect is to Increase these
harmful tendencies. Our eldest daughter now
lives In Vermont on the banks Of Lake Cham
plain and last winter the icy breezes from the
lake together with the natural rigor of the ell
mate caused many cases of pneumonia In the
| town where she lived and every case term
| mated fatally. The main remedy used by the
doctors was liquor. AT her request, asked DR..
@. O. Parker, our old family physician, If he used
alcohol In that disease, and he said he did not
| give one drop of liquor in the treatment of pneu-
monia,
/ Not long ago he told me he did not prescribe
alcohol once now where he used to ten times
and thought he had to, and he believed the time
would come when Its use would be done away
| with entirely. DR.. G. d. Parnell, of West Union
expressed himself in almost the same words
while talking on the subject few years ago. II
is no longer necessary as menstrum as medi
cine can be better prepared in the form of tab
lets and triturations.
| The bottle of Jamaica ginger should never be
harbored In any house as 1t contains ninety pei
\ cent. Of acohol.
1t is common knowledge now that alcohol is /
narcotic instead of stimulant, that 1t does no
cure pain, but simply deadcns the nerves. or a.
DR.. ]. Edmunds, of London said: I'VE put ou
the danger signal which nature is showing us
we lull our patients ard their friends into
dangerous lethargy and give them hopes tina
the patient is recovering while In reality the dis
ease is rapidly advancing.
Knowing these facts. the safest way is neve
toemploy physician who prescribes alcohol
lest through the solcitude of friends or whel
weakened by disease one is tempted to do wha
they would not otherwise.
One of our white ribboners who had given he
whole life to the cause of temperance was sic
unto death, and after 1t was known she was bt
yond earthly help the doctor in charge gave he
brandy. and she died with the smell of it upo
her lips thus leaving her dying testimony in fl
yor of the cause she most hated.
Nothing has helped the cause of non-alcoholl
medication as the establishment of temperanc
hospitals showing to the world that muc
larger per cent. survive serious surgical opera
tions and recover from the worst forms of dis
ease than in hospitals where alcohol used. II
recent address before the American Medic;
Association, at Columbus, Ohio, DR.. I. Ale
ander Nicholl said: Taking three represent
wv AoSpAsoAs WIoio diCouOl WAS usCu Will iAOe
Grafton and comparing the records with thre
others doing similar work, but where aicoh'
was not used, we find striking contrast. Thos
using alcohol show an average mortallty.of 1874
per cent. while those not using 1t show only
mortality Of S7s per cent. or SIS per cent. In II
!, vor Of the later.
Never was wiser measure decided upon b
the VIC. 4. U, than the opening In 1888 Of
temperance hospital to demonstrate to the worl
in practical way that the theories advocate
are not visionary. In looking over late repor
of the hospitals we find there are only four bee
endowed where there might be twenty-five.
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