Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-12-15

to the truth of this statement. Now
isn't it rather ridiculous to recall that |
a remedy which Injuries perfectly
healthy man, should be considered nee
essary and beneficial to sick one?
The writer is informed through the
Herald that our own state board of
health is so up-to-date that they too
have Joined the big prohibition chorus
that will soon resound from ocean to /,
ocean.
That disease can be treated scientifi-
cally and successfully without alcoholic
dope, may be proved from the follow
ing: The Frances Willard hospital of
Chicago in 1884 opened it's doors to the
suffering public, announcing that no
ment Of disease. TIER experience OF
over 80 years has proved so satisfac-
tory that they have three times been
compelled to remove to enlarged quar-
tiers and their fame has gone out as
having remarkably low death rate,
and unusually rapid recoverles.
The American Red Cross use no alco-
hol in any form in their hospitals, nor
Do they in the great Battle Greek SAM
tarium OF Michigan, the latter publish
a magazine 'The Monitor of Health
which is devoted to flon-alcoholic treat
ment of disease.
Other large hospitals who have dis
continued the use of alcoholics in their
treatment of disease are:
TIE London Temperance hospital, the
Royal hospital of Edinburg, the Cork
Street hospital of Dublin, the German
hospital Of Brooklyn. the Baptist hos :
pital of Massachusetts,, the General
hospital of Massachusetts,. the Kane
hospital of Pennsylvania. The chain of
Liggett drug stores in 20 cities of the
United States and Canada refused TO
sell any kind of intoxicating liquor for
medicine or any habit forming drugs
and the we'll known firm of Sears &
Roebuck company, Of Chicago. the
largest mail order house in the world,
have had a housecleanirg and hence
forth will sell no alcoholic patent med
icine believing such to be worthless
and harmful. ano hence public evil.
The great brewing establishments rec
ommend ale as "an aid to digestion
Dr. Nor nan Kerr a world renowned
authority says, 'tThe feeling of ease
warmth and comfort which causes the
excessive eater to believe that ale, hol
has aided digestion, is deceptive feel
ng due to the benumbine influence of
Inc anaesthetic poison in deadening
the uneasiness and pain of iniiges-
tion.'
Sir Henry Thompson. said to be the
greatest authority in the world on the
subject, says, "Alcohol instead OF aid
ing digestion only obstrucis an / retards
it, the only safe way is to abstain alto
gether.'
DR. W. F. Waugh, editor of the AL
L~I A..
matter in a nutshell when he says,
There is today but one reason for the
continued use of alcohUl-men use il
because they love it. -
TheHerald thinks it is not significant
that the rev u. S. pharmacopoela has
omittet TO list alcoholic liquors as
medicines Would it not have been
published afar and wide as tremen-
douSIy significant to the liquor forces,
had it never been listed before. and
was now to go on the list for tn. first
time?
DR. Alexander MacNichols of New
York says, "Alcoh"l antagonizes every
NANTES alton of life. stamps every
tissue with the seal of disease, de.
nraves the morals and destroys the
Fountain of Immortal youth; it is the
essence of depravity, the grave of hope,
the advance agent of death -
Vermont is not proposing to take
leap in the dark nor is she advocating
an untried experiment The West
! Virginia State Medical society have
pledged against alcoholic medicine and
to discourage the use of the poison both
in and out of the sick room.
In Georgia the law forbids physicians
prescribing alcohol as a medicine
Alabama makes no provision for the
medical use Of alcohol; Oklahoma has
stringent law, no alcohol may be pur-
chased, even for medical purposes, but
why continue. the balance of proof is
against alcohol
All the most radical prohibitionst,
asks is that the whole truth concerning
this poisonous drug be brought to the
attention of thinking people.
Is this request unreasonable?
Annette w. Parmelee.