The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-02

j Friends church at Guilford .colleg
Sunday evening at 8 0 clock, DR.. 1
IL Stamey, of Greensboro, made a
address ON Alcoholism From
!, Medical Standpoint" before tn
township Sunday school convention
board. The speaker who spoke a
length on the deadly affects of al
cohol was forceful in his condem
nation of the use of it for medicina
purposes and was very alternatives!
listened to by his hearers. Follow
ing is, in part, the address:
I'm what I wish to say to you to
day, | may frequently refer to my
work at the Kelley Institute, but
will do so for the sake of illustrating
my points, and not for the purpose
of advertising that institute.
A great deal has been said upon
the moral aspect of this subject.
| 1t has been discussed, and ably dis
cussed by ministers, religious teach
ers, and temperance workers from
the various pulpits and platforms OF
our land, but unit, recently COM
paratively little has been said or
written upon the medical or physi-
cal side of this question. 1t is sur
prising that it has been so neglected
in the various schools of our country
1t is strange that superintendent
of public instruction, that college
professors, superintendent and
teochers of schools, do not arrange
for at least one or two lectures each
year on the physical effects of al
cohol by competent lecturers. They
arrange for every other kind of a lee
ture, but neglect this which is of the
greatest Importance. If could get
the ear of the school child and teach
him or her the awful effects of al
cohol upon the human system. I
would soon arouse a sentiment so
great against the curse of liquor
that the moral results of temperance
so long and so rightfully advocated
would follow as a matter course:
In discussing this question today
| wish to call attention, 1, to the
ways in which alcohol is taken into
the system.
l.. The usual way, as in the forms
whiskey, brandy. wine champagne,
beer, ale. etc. These forms are so
familiar to all that it is not neces-
sary for me to take time to discuss
them here.
2. The unusual forms.
l. Patent medicines-Man Drunk
at the institute or Joe Pearson's
Remedy man drunk in a nearby
town on Hostetters Bitters. Pro-
minent physician ruined by Peruna,
a great many others might be men,
toned.
2. Various extracts. Man brought
to the institute by prominent physi-
clan drunk on extract of lemon,
young patient drunk at the institute
on lemon extract, recent patient had
been drunk on extract of vanilla.
CD Preparations of ginger-three
prominent men led astray by .un-
scrupulous doctor-man in drug
stsre drunk On ginger-many COM
ing under my observation drunk
ginger.
[4] Cold drinks-grape juice, root
beer, ginger ale, coca cola. This last
contains but little if any alcohol,
but l speak of it here as it seems
appropriate to do so and becauseit
contains caffeine and harmful prop
rieties which make it dangerous
drug, and it ought to be suppressed
by law.
Alcohol is a producer of disease.
There is no longer any question as
to this fact. 1t is established by the
statistics of the world.
Cd Statistics'of the United States.
90 Statistics of Switzerland.
&c The truth of this proposition
is established by the great life in
surance companies of the land.
(4) By the great hospitals of the.
land.
50 BY the physicians of the land.
1t is significant faci that the great
medical convention of the state of
North Carolina at their recent ses-
sion, passed resolutions indirectly,
if not directly. condemning the use
OF alcohol liquors in medical practice.
The effects of alcohol upon the
system.
Cd The heart, hypertrophy, dila-
talon, valvelar disease.
~ Kidneys, congestion, inflam-
nation, nephrits.
80 Liver, hypertrophy, degene-
ration, cirrhosis.
IA Spleen, enlargement, atrophy.
Isl Stomach, COMPOSITIONS, inf1am-
nation. ulcer. hemmOrha6e