Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-01-26
ALCOHOL, PARALYSIS, GRIP AND
''JOKERS'

OF remarkable recovery MADE by
victim of infantile paralysis in that
town. boy IA years of age. A part of
the treatment consists In rubbing the
boys body with pure grain alcohol, of
which the Herald and News says no
less than eight gallons have been used
thus far. This shows that alcohol still
has place in the sick room, advocates
of PelryiSm to the contrary notWith-
standing. Enterprise.
The above appears to have melted
the Morrisville Messenger to the
following:
Alcohol is almost a specific for infan-
tile paralysis not taken internally,
but rubbed on the affected parts.
These are fair samples of the bun.
combe foisted upon the public by near
advocates of Clementism who prefer to
hide behind some plausible excuse in
urging the continuance of the present
law with its saloons.
In the fail of 1914 the young daugh-
ter of the writer had infantiIe par9Iy-
sis. Not an extremely severe case,
but probably fair average. Some two
quarts Of alcohol was used in massag-
ing the affected limbs Of the child Gn
contrast to eight gallons) when sub
stitute for alcohol was suggested by
physician. Improvement was noted in
both instances. but after TIE alcohol
was omitted continual progress was
noted until in the summer of 1915 one
of the specialists brought into the
state by our board of health pronounced
the case Completely recovered and
added that of all the cases observed
this was the second case only IN the
entire state Of Vermont that he could
report completely recovered. This
case is matter of record.
Now the writer does not condemn
alcohol as useless in the treatment Of
infantile paralysis or other ailments
and the Monitor has said it believed
the mistake of the Perry bill is its
omission to provide for legal method
of obtaining alcohol for strictly medi-
cinal purposes, and use in the art.
But the Monitor sees no comparison
between this mistake, which can be
remedied in few months. and the
mistake of continuing a law which
allows a few Vermont-licensed rum
shops to spread their stencil and ruin
over the whole state of Vermont al
the will of few voters in a dczer
towns, with little chance to remedy such
things until 1927.
The Bennington Banner is alarmed
over the possible i'll fate Of grik
patients who might be deprived O.
obtaining legal Vermont alcohol sboui(
the Perry bill become law and a phys
clan prescribe its use The Ranne1
says, however, that "sOme' physician,
prescribe its use, and does not cjaiu
but that those who do not preacrij {
it have equal success with their sicl
ones, while the Bellows Fails Time!
crimps the Bennington contemporary
argument ny citing that there are N
druggists licenses there largely be
cause the physicians oppose it, and
claims sick ones in Bellows Fills far,
as We'll as Bennington folk.
Still the Monitor does not believ.
that alcohol has absolutely no use il
medicine. The writer's own life we
perhaps saved at one time ny its u.s.
as prescribed by physician-but tn
fact remains that its use is less ans
less in medicine. The reflection tina
ba ppiIo of Crrir1 n, Wy
lent in this country started in tn
great saloon centers where everyt thin,
in the alcoholic line can be prescribe,
and obtained. and has ragged Wors
there than in some "dry' sections
shows up another .tommy-rot brgu
ment being thrown before the peopI
in an effort to gain their support fn
Clementisn and the open saloon Be-
cause the Perry law Goes not provld
one thing which the Banner and tn
Monitor and the probable great major
lty of the peoI le Of the state want an
can easily remedy. must we support
law which makes Vermont join hand
with AMI stamp as legal, saloons whr
10 TeptstaDio MUSICIAN ever SoOCS
patient and no artisan ever goes fo
materials for his profession?
The Randolph Herald somewha
laboriously finds several "jokers'' j
the Perry ACT. dictionaries so far q
the Monitor consulted them define
"joker" in legislative parlance a
something '1inserted' in a hill to mis-
lead or gain votes for it. Frankly tn
M .nitor knows little of the history @
bills leading up to the Perry act, hu
obviously nothing was inserted in
Whatever, because the law was realI
not made, built up, or added to.