Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-12-15
NO ALCOHOL In THE SICKROOM.

takes issue with the writer's statement
that "alcohol is worthless in the sick
room as food or stimulant.
The gentleman in question asserts that
medical authority will not support
such assertion, on the contrary, alcohol
is used as stimulant and accelerates
the action of the heart" He also sug
gests that "Mrs. Parmel ee should be
more sure of her facts, or Perryism
will decline in favor more rapidly by
virtue of just such assertions 1t is
plainly evident that Editor Hindley's
line of study and research has not been
extended to medical temperance else
he would not have made some Of the
statements contained in his editorial
The writer is most happy to submit a
reasonable amount Of proof at this
time, for her seeming strong "asser-
tions," and as much more as the
Herald may wish to publish. AS
graduate nurse, and therefore associat-
ed nl.re or less for several years with
eminent physicians and SUI geons Ii
hospital and private nursing, the writer
feels justified in her radical opinions
and statements upon this subject.
TheBible was the first book to declare
alcoholic liqours a poison and modern
medical research has now come to the
same conclusion.
Prof. Won Bunge, the greatest
physiological chemist of Europe says.
my studies in the workings of
alcohol have made me thorough
going prohibitionlst.
Forty five years ago the Amer,
lean Society for the Study of
Alcohol a, d Other Narcotics was
formed for the purpose of deter
mining whether alcohol was an actual
necessity in the treatment of disease
This was the first society in the worG
to take up such scientific study and
tabulate its results. At their 43rd
convention. DIR. Lewis D. NJ ason of
Brooklyn, N. ] says: "Alcohol has
no longer any place in materia medlca
and the popular falIacy of the use of
wine, beer ani alcohol. in any form
should be denount ed. 1t is very notice
able that the physician of today who
does not pres@tibe alcohol, mas a
marked advantage over one VINO does
The late DR.. S N. Davis. world
recognized authority, and eX-presljent
man who had very large clinic
and pri waite practice said. "For over
80 years have tested the medical use
case OF disease or an emergency arising
from accident. that ] could not treat
more successfully without any form of
fefmented OR distilled Iiquo:, than
with .
DR.. F. d. Crothers of Hartford.
Conn, a recognized authority upon
alcohol and its effect upon the human
body says. "Break up the deIusion of
,,,to
a tonic. and new age will come in"
DR.. Crothers has written many
articles for papers and Meg azires
giving his experiences with non
alcoholic experiments and treatment.
Dr. Lee w. Thomas. formerly a
Swanton boy but now physician in
New York City, says. "Alcohol is a
useless luxury which brings disease,
degradation and death to the user, and
poverty, grief and misery to the COM
munity. This | believe is the true
economic and social definition of alco-
hoJ."
United States Senator Owen of
Oklahoma, a physician of over 40
years experience said at the last SEES
sion of Congress "There is no good
in the USE Of alcohol and there is no ar
gument which can be made in It's behalf
so far as any benefit to be derived
from il by human kind. 1t is an out
law, it is curse. and there is no good
word which can truthfuily be SAID in
! behalf of the use of alcohol"
! TheBoston Journal OF Chemistry said,
eff all the alcohol in the world were
annihilated, and the art OF making il
were forever lost. it would be ID decided
gain to the medical profession
DR.. Wiley took practically the same
ground. He was offered $500 by the
! I.quOr inter ests to retract similar state
ments This he refused to DO, be ne
he spoke the truth. What Was Tx
penalty? BY their subtle statement:
a I'd acts, it is claimed upon gool
au hority that the liquor men unseatet
him from his government position
Truth is often on he scaffoid and erfoI
on the throne
| The Herald maintains that "Alcoho
| is us+d As a stinulant and ceiefate;
the heart S aciiop." We admit alcohol
ic remedies are still used by som,
physicians, because, perhaps of ignoi
ance, or desire 10 prolong the case
especially if the pat eat is finaneial J..
able and because alcoholic Treatment
will definitely manufacture disease 70
future treatment.
Just how alcohol accelerate.
the heart" is best described r,
| DR.. Frank Overton of New Yor.
who says. "Alcoho is not
s'imuIant, it is a heart paralyzar O
the nerves, which control the flow o
blood through the heart, aid whe,,
these inhibitory nerves suffer tempo
rary paralysis. the heart beats faster
but less blood is pumped than j
natural; the effect is exactly the SAM
as removing the pendulum from you
clock, the periods of rest for the hear
are thus shortened and exhaustion re
suits. If repeated, the muscular tissu
is partially CT anged TO fat, thus III
heart becomes f1abby and weak ard it
walls thinner The very reme1y Whic
people nave supposed was helping Il
keep the heart going. was in realit
responsible for it's difficulties. Thi
fact alone ought to Danish whiskey
brandy. alcohol and all the rest, fror