The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-26

They teach that this toxin is not only
Injurious to the healthy. but OF danger
Gus import given even as a drug. DR.
Charles Gilbert Davis of Chicago tells, ~
the Western Clinical Reporter. of $50
operations performed by him
self in three years ending 1899. III of
them being capital operations. There
was but one death: $40 We're discharged
improved or cured" Let me. sin. quote
words of this successful surgeon: I'VE
are struggling today in the mire of ig
norance and bearing upon our shoulders
the burdens of superstition We hold
tenaciously 10 the traditions of the past.
What is gray with years to man IS god
Ike and he insists on worshiping at the
feet of his idol Error has deep roots
and ii is with pain that il is torn away"
Speaking OF the use OF Intoxicating bev-
erages. DIR. Davis says! THE medical
profession was swept into the vortex of
popular opinion and without sense or rea-
son prescribed alcohol in thousand lur-
ing forms for every conceivable condition
and opposing symptom. But science is
the voice of God 1t shall be heard Thir-
ty years ago alcohol was the principal
agent in our materia medica. Now we
write OF the passing of alcohol. Even
twenty years ago IL was almost the uni
versal custom to see every medical and
surgical case well fortified with alcohol.
Now thousands OF physicians and sur
geons have reduced the amount admins
tered to their patients to a minimum.
and many eminent members OF the pro-
fession. after a careful survey of the
present status of the question. have
abandoned its use as an active medicinal
agent. . d" For more than fifteen years
/ have pursued my professional work III
hospital and private practice and have not
found IL necessary to administer alcohol
Since / abandoned alcohol in sur
gerry 1 have not had bad. prolonged or
&c. txs In NrsarN IL
ton a few years ago. it wassconsidered
the remedy par excellence. Now, in a
death from shock following a surgical
operation. where alcohol has been hber-
ally administered, / should consider IL
well to inquire whether the alcohol had
not been instrumental in causing the
death. '"s Let us as medical men. look
deeply into the scientific aspect OF the
question. II not only concerns the re-
covery OF our patients. but the eyes OF
the world upon us. The nations OF
the earth await our distum. We, the
medical profession. gave alcohol 10 the
world. our hands are still holding the
cup to the lips of humanity. Now let
US restrain it,
'Iurare in verba magistri' must not he
the rule OF any life that seeks to enlarge
its views and broaden its knowledge; but,
Mt Editor. I fear not TO say in presence
Of such teaching as the above, and well
conside ring its source. that any man. be
ne prelate or priest. VINO accuses the
Prohfbitionists OF doing devils work"
Is perilously near bearing false witness
against his neighbor.
After leaving st. Andrews Cathedral
this Sunday morning and hearing the
glorious service I met a man that / know
he's been battling against the craving Tor
drink AR quarter of n century he
wanted n meal and asked me to go with
l-r--- 70 a restaurant and order = dinner
2 rs-1. In answer 20 his stories OF men
-....- unwilling To give him work and
t :. cd 10 witness the truth Of his
r-.- Z roughly. own. stopped him ana
must blame himself, for he knew
-f kqew where the trouble lay But
4 IL was not my part 70 cry out
such IS h. but rather against
.r... -,~,.y who speak Of intoNicatnS
good creature Of God. 10 be
~ r7cdergtion. and against TOO
70 the medical profession. who III /
5s 81 DR. Davis. fare holding the
--. -. .-,e Inns or humanity"
-.--ds Ia win me-" Mr.. Editor. ii