The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-31
WHlSKEY AND BRANDY NOT TO
APPEAR IN THE NEXT EDITION
OF THE u. S. PHARMACOPEIA

10 say he considered hot water = bet
ter-and far Safer-stlmulant
GaQsed by former standards. s8ch
statements naturally have been greet
ed IS highly treasonable-b the hq-
uor Interests. For not many years
have passed since booze's chief badge
Of respecta billty was lis widespread
sanction as a first-ald requisite Just
now many millions Of gallons have
been mISused under this prctcNt never
can be known. But every one knows
now comforting il was 70 diStillcrs,
bottlers and bartenders TO remember
the scientific and humanitarian side
| Of their business
AS medicine booze has been rec
commended and taken-oftcn ty those
who could not get il in any other way.
and not infreQuently by those who
| thus We're led into the drink habit
AND always, when any one questioned
| its right to be SO regarded. the booze
| bunch proudly opened the huge vol
ume Of the United States Pharma-
| copeia and pointed 10 "Whiskey" and
| Brandy catalogued with nuX Vom-
lea, digitalis, sodium phosphate and
| the multitude Of other standard drugs
While this pharmaCopela is not in
| strict sense a government publication,
throughout the land il is accepted as
| the last word concerning any medical
preparation, and the board OF physi-
clans ar1 chemists which has charge
OF 1t is aCtuated by only one aim-to
scientifically serve humanity.
Just now this book is undergoing
one of its periodical revisions 10y this
board, and it has been decided to re-
move whiskey and brandy from the
!, next edition.
So the accepted guide book III med-
cal preparations no longer will include
booze among its lengthy list Of pos
sible remedies. And the distilers
: bottlers and barkeepers-also the in
genious authors of Facts and Fal-
/ lacies"-must in the future have
f care when they tune up to sing the
t praises of John Barleycorn as a 'stim-
: ulant,' tonic" 'rejuVenator' or
e general utility incidence.
: For the pharmacopeial revision
e committee has amputated this leg.
t and left the bottle only a cork sub
stitute in the form OF what Franklin,
,, Jefferson and Adams, and other no
y tables Of an age that is past, had TO
Q say concerning a matter noWise paral-
l. leled by present-day conditions.
l. Yet these seekers after character
IL witnesses need not trouble to 90 50
,e far back. Without the labor of del
4, wing into the past and the embarrasss-
n ment of being compelled to omit GER
l. tain statements from what really was
said by these notable citizens of ear
: her days, they can obtain from nearly
y any reputable physician a signed
le statement as to the effects of booze
e. AS a sample of what might thus be
y got, We quote the following from A
p bulletin lately issued by DR.. S. 5. Gold
* water, commissioner Of health for
Id New York City:
or A diminution in the consump-
lg ton Of alcohol by the community,
Is according to those who are in a
le position to know and to Judge
would mean less tuberculosis. less
fS poverty, less dependency, and less
~ pressure on our hospitals. asy
III 1ums and jailS.
~ Incorporate drinking cuts into
the support of the family. The
Ut drinking of parents Weakens the
% vitality of children. Drinking
~ mothers lose twice as many ba
lo beS do sober mothers. More
er alcoholism is found in the parents
&, of feeble minded children than IN
wv the parents Of normal children.
ur The children OF drinkers devel-
GU op more slowly and do poorer
school work than do the children
of abStainerS. Alcohol impalrs
the tone of the muscles, lessons
the product of laborers. depre-'
ul ciates the skill and endurance Of
artisans, impalrS memory, multi
plies industrial accidents. causes
or chronic disease Of the heart. liv-
NO er, stomach and kidneys, n
re creases the death rate from pneu-
ey mOnia, and lessons natural I'M
lie rnunity to infectious diseases.
IN Or this from DR.. j. y Hurry. of Ir
ale dianapols, former president Of tn
Hn American Public Health Association
a Alcohol is opposed TO the public
to health, for it hurts any animal or
till Ganism into which il is taken. II
nd is not a food; it does not aid 1i-
lr- SestlOn, II does not 1urther the
nd good OF the body: on the con-
are frary., 1t hurts. Its use As beH-
erage not only opposes personal
nd health, but also the public phys-
ell cal and moral health, and also the
it'll public economic health Alcohol
He is dope. For every dollar OF reEe-
are nue. derived from alcOAo!it 3t*-
ere erages 50 Of public cost for crime,
is insanity and Delinquency is en-